SOUL SENSING BULLSHIT PERMISSIONS since i realized i . need this

[finalbows]

So! Through the course of RPing in Austice it has become evident I'm in need of this!!

Tell me about anything out of the ordinary about your character's soul, and what Kuja might be able to understand of it by interacting with them. I'll let you know if it's something he can pick up on -- in the end I try to play his soul senses as not TERRIFICALLY extensive. It's like... what you would know by interacting with the surface of an object, rather than being able to see inside it, you know?

In general I'm gonna assume people aren't gonna ping him as weird. But they could. If you got other guys in there with you he would definitely know.

This is OPT IN!

So like, he won't know anything's out of the ordinary if you're not opted in.

Comments

[hadean_tides]

albedo's got some mercury on his soul

...he may have experimentally ingested a little of his brother's purified life essence and It Certainly Shows in soul sight. There is another perspective peeking over his shoulder. Imagine Dragons — Radioactive

[mirristry]

SO. Phil's soul (or anima, if you want to use the Rays term) is... very damaged, actually! He was born with an innate anima deficiency, which renders him sickly and in need of regular medicine to manage the condition, and then ON TOP OF THAT this idiot's research and experiments involving anima gave him anima contamination as well. To quote canon itself, "The contaminated cells age, and at the same time attack the surrounding normal cells. This sickens the soul as well."

It's stated in canon that exoflecting Phantom damaged him in both body and soul, too. SO YEAH, HE'S A LITTLE BIT BROKEN IN MULTIPLE WAYS, enough so that it would most definitely be noticeable. He himself states he's only got around ten years left, to give an idea of just how bad it is.

[tigrisfang]

(high pitched "I need to check all my references for Rays mechanics" noises)

Marcus is essentially... a manifestation of soul and energy, among other things? He's corporeal and all but technically if Phil ran out of energy that would not be the case. And while he's made up of a lot of different elements, he's still connected to Phil and parts of his soul are probably Phil-flavored.

[prayererror]

UHHHHhhh,

dimos has a tiny little soul that grows just a tiny bit more with every positive interaction and free choice he gets to have and make. distinctly tinny, sharp around the edges, but warm.

[ribticklers]

Sans's soul feels more fragile than a human's. It also feels highly magical.

[unfriendliest]

local tsukumogami checking in, feel free to sense this guy as a non-human spirit type! technically he's the spirit of the sword he carries, so he's pretty dang old, but idk how much of the details kuja would get beyond vague spirit-ness

[brokethefirst]

Luna does not have a soul whatsoever; Feel free to have her ping as either an empty vessel or one that just can't be read.

[atthefarshore]

we already know im opting in to this- aoi is entirely soul, and damaged from Void (the void damage has recently gotten worse in an investigation)- i just want a cool metaphor too :D

belatedly...

[worldbent]

Matoba's soul/aura is quite human, but feels like a white flame contained in an iron cask. Very powerful, but well contained through practice. Perceiving emotions or thoughts from his soul/heart/mind is very difficult, part of that well maintained practice. Big spiritual walls up on this one.

While not his soul per se, his overall aura is affected by this- idk if Kuja can sense stuff like curses but I'll mention it anyway- his right eye has the 'pull' of something very powerful that feels like Very Bad Juju. It isn't contained within the eye itself, it just feels as though there's a little red string of destiny tying it to that Bad Something.... somewhere.

opt in

[belfire]

who even KNOWS what's going on with Kaz's soul right now /stares at all the Bels now stuck in there

so feel free to bullshit whatever you like dhshsa

[cleansewithfire]

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

[fishfearme]

looks at byleth so hey how good is kuja at sensing goddesses.

[eidxiety]

Oh this is fun,

Ain is an angel, but like. he Is a soul walking, his physical form is more of a "shell" if I had to describe it. He's technically, legally-speaking, a ball of light. Because... angels from Elrios.......... are just balls of light made up of a metric fuckton of raw magic.