Stares at my hands first of all, I'm sorry for this explanation I have to give because Exalted subscribes to a somewhat atypical notion of how the soul works and lord knows how Kuja will perceive it.
So in Exalted's setting, people have two souls! One is a "higher soul" that basically encompasses everything that makes a person themselves—it's where all the higher thinking and emotions, consciousness, reason, spirituality etc. are. When a person dies, this soul is basically disconnected from the body and can become a ghost if they don't pass on. The other is the "lower soul" which basically contains all the animal brain instincts and base desires, like hunger, aggression, etc. It normally stays in the body and "decomposes" over time.
Sunrise…is basically a new higher soul that got shoved into a vacant body. Her lower soul is technically inherited from the original, but it's very weak, which is why she doesn't feel hunger and seems to be thoroughly lacking a fight-or-flight instinct, among other things. Idk my bff Kuja this is probably of some kind of scholarly interest to you
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Date: 2023-02-16 10:58 pm (UTC)So in Exalted's setting, people have two souls! One is a "higher soul" that basically encompasses everything that makes a person themselves—it's where all the higher thinking and emotions, consciousness, reason, spirituality etc. are. When a person dies, this soul is basically disconnected from the body and can become a ghost if they don't pass on. The other is the "lower soul" which basically contains all the animal brain instincts and base desires, like hunger, aggression, etc. It normally stays in the body and "decomposes" over time.
Sunrise…is basically a new higher soul that got shoved into a vacant body. Her lower soul is technically inherited from the original, but it's very weak, which is why she doesn't feel hunger and seems to be thoroughly lacking a fight-or-flight instinct, among other things. Idk my bff Kuja this is probably of some kind of scholarly interest to you