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[swordedpast]

We've seen, or heard of, what the administrators have done to our souls. Materialized them. Liquefied them. Maybe even put them into our collars, or something absurd like that.

Where does that leave their victims whose souls were materialized/liquefied at the wrong time? Let's say: during a state of possession. Might there be a way to filter out the foreign influence? What of those of us who are physically ill and fragile no matter how many times we die and are resurrected? Shouldn't there be a way to tweak this materialized soul to fix that?

What a sloppy system. It seems to me the administrators are lazy.

For the record, Jason, if you are reading this: yes. I am questioning your professionalism. I am calling you lazy. If you're offended, track me down and punish me all you like, but fix the souls you materialized wrong.

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[beknightedheroine]

Yo, anon-kun-or-chan. Gonna verify now that they're definitely not in our collars, just to stop any misinformation.

I'm pretty sure from certain experience that our souls are froze at whatever state they grabbed us at - I mean, you can mess with it while you're alive, but once you die and get revived it's going to be the same. You're right that if anyone can change that it'll be him, but... （；¬＿¬)

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[swordedpast]

First of all, "anon-kun-or-chan"? Seriously? There's no need to be cute when we're exchanging messages over the network in a cursed tower at the end of all worlds, you know.

Second, what's your source on that? I'm curious. Any information is useful, after all.

[beknightedheroine]

There's no need to be boring either, anon-chan! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

_{[Why, yes, she's going with the cutesy-er appellation just because of the protest.]}

Most of it's first-hand. I'm not gonna explain it in public because it's complicated and because souls are kind of a ~super personal~ thing. But if you're smart and if it really matters that much you can figure out usernames and try to bug me about it sometime.

My theory is it's like, they have something like a file saved, you know? It's like with a video game, you can continue on from that point and mess up massively, but you reset it and you're back. I know a soul can get destroyed here but then you come back anyway, and that's why I think of it like a file.

_{[That's what Roxas had described it like, when his collar was removed - like his soul was getting torn up. And Sayaka's went through her fair amount of broken soul gems.]}

[swordedpast]

It's anon-kun!

[...dammit. Did he really just send that? He frantically stabs at the "delete" button a few times, but it's too late. With a sigh, he moves on.]

I see. In that case, they don't need to understand anything about the contents of the souls in order to keep bringing them back. It's like the difference between a skilled programmer and someone playing around with savestates on an emulator. That'd make sense, if everything we've heard about them having taken over the tower from its original administrators is true. They don't even truly know what they're working with.

What a pain...

[fionnuisce]

Interesting. That isn't something I had yet given proper thought myself. Though the idea of Jason being something of a hack did indeed cross my mind.

I was told a account of someone's seventh death and revival being different than the others prior. As though there was a mistake made in the process, they were just slightly more aware of whatever went on in between the two. Had you been aware of accounts such as that?

[swordedpast]

I hadn't heard anything about that. Wow, that makes their process seem really sloppy, if it degrades the soul or something.

[fionnuisce]

It's a concerning idea, at the bare minimum. If Jason really is incompetent, then the system is a flawed one from the start.

Which is obviously problematic, dealing with an abstract matter like this.

[swordedpast]

You're going to call it something so mild as "problematic"? It's not problematic, it's disastrous.

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[great_king_of_evil]

You are mistaking laziness for incompetence.

They may be lazy (and probably are) but the core of the issue is their absolute lack of competence. They're children pretending to be gods and this gives birth to the situation you have described, amongst other things.

Even if he wanted, he could not fix these souls. You give him too much credit.

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[swordedpast]

You sound certain of that.

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[great_king_of_evil]

Indeed. Their incompetence has been obvious enough these last months that one could reach that conclusion.

[swordedpast]

They're incompetent at running this place, and the one in charge is a madwoman, but that doesn't mean they have no skill with souls. They could be "idiot savants."

...but it's a stretch.

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[puppy_lancer]

yeah this does sound a little odd
maybe it has something to do with the way he makes new bodies

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[swordedpast]

Perhaps. Do we know anything about that process?

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[puppy_lancer]

it involves recycling the old bodies
so i'd say his raw material might be limited
like somehow he made a bunch of bodies from the same source

[swordedpast]

Wonderful. He's incompetent and he's working with trash.

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[idkworldruler]

Souls can be a tricky business.

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[swordedpast]

I've noticed.

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[idkworldruler]

The you should know that they are not easy to, or should be, fooled around with on such trivial matters.

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[cullscuttlefish]

I speak from personal experience when I say that you wouldn't want him to. A friend of mine asked Jason to change something about him that he thought needed fixing. My friend came back wrong - it's like he came back with a piece of his emotions broken. He can't actually get angry; when he gets even anywhere close, it...thinking about it makes me feel sick.

I know you want to help your friend, but please believe me when I say that this isn't the way to do it.

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[swordedpast]

Then it's probably a matter of Jason being incompetent.

What a worrying thought.

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[cullscuttlefish]

No. It's not that. I've been here a year now, and it's not a matter of incompetence.

It's a matter of using his skill to set an example. I've been on the wrong end of his scalpels too many times and always come back in one piece. If he wanted to fix someone and have it look elegant, he could.

Here's the thing - he doesn't actually want to fix anyone for any kind of altruistic purposes. He doesn't give a shit about that. He cares more about making people afraid of him. He did what he did to my friend on purpose just to advance his own reputation, I'm absolutely convinced.

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[semantating]

Or you simply do not wish to believe some souls cannot be fixed.

[anonymous]

[swordedpast]

Don't be ridiculous. Of course some souls cannot be fixed, I don't have any trouble admitting that.

But some can.

[anonymous]

[semantating]

You're running a fool's errand with that man, you know. It isn't that I doubt they could do it, but more that I doubt they are able to, or allowed.