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Posted: 18 October 2016 2:29 AM
From: Anonymous

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Do we have any ideas yet on how the soulless shinki end up the way they are? Any information at all would be appreciated.

Also, has anyone been assigned a soulless shinki that looks like someone they know?

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Nothing on face or hands, and I'm afraid I wasn't closely enough acquainted with that person to recognize any other tattoos. The resemblance is exceptionally close, though. I believe it convinced at least one god who knew the person in life much better than I did.

Sadly, that god is no longer here to ask.

It might be a useful question. Some of our abilities as gods are quite unusual.

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I see. That's too bad. Information like that will be hard to come by.

I'll keep that in mind if the opportunity arises.

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It seems no one else has mentioned recognizing a soulless shinki to you so far. Perhaps it's rarer than I had thought.

Well, there is no shortage of lost souls.

One would think, though, that if soulless shinki were meant to convince us that they truly were the individuals they resembled, physical details wouldn't differ. Tattoos, scars, all of that.

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I know of another soulless shinki that looks like someone familiar. They do have several markings they would've received much later in life, but I wanted to find another example for comparison.

On the surface they appear to be identical, but [... explaining this without giving away his identity is hard] there was a certain object implanted inside their body at the same time as one of those markings. That object is missing, and I couldn't find any traces of it having been removed. Based on what I've seen of other gods and shinki here, it's not something that should be missing like that.

There are a few possible explanations, but I'm starting to think that analyzing the "soul" might be the only way to get any solid answers. There are too many uncertainties about our existence here, even without taking soulless shinki into account.

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Indeed there are. Are any shinki in their original bodies, though?

To begin with, shinki can transform into objects, and don't seem to grow full or need to eliminate anything. I've always assumed that the body of a shinki is based off their subconscious expectations of self.

In which case, if a "soulless" shinki is truly a soul, but was damaged by being brought here, changes to their physical appearance might be expected.

On the other hand, if it's true they have no souls, perhaps they're only echoing our memories, or the memories of others, in the case of soulless shinki who don't resemble someone their god knew.