Yatagarasu

Myriad Reality

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Like you did?

@Legend

That's right. I was lucky enough to know about it pretty early, but I think that's what's going on here. It makes me wonder if it's somehow hereditary, and if so, whether the rest of you kids have something similar. Your elder siblings had the ability to change forms, but they didn't have alternative personalities to them.

Myriad Reality

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Where does it go when she goes back to normal, then?

@Legend

It's probably suppressed. Theoretically, anyone could have a suppressed aspect in them, psychological or spiritual, and never know.

Myriad Reality

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So what? Shion is really a suppressed lunatic? Her soul grows to fit the body?

@Legend

A partial soul can still maintain a full body, and I don't know that I'd call it that, but in a sense, yes. My hypothesis is that this is a metaphysical phenomenon similar to your mother's, but also psychologically similar to my own splitting, back when I was whole. Even though my soul was... essentially nothing, as it grew back, so did the parts that were "other" to me. I'm thinking this is a similar thing. There's a lot of things we can search for to confirm that, though.

Myriad Reality

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Even if they're not, then they'd both come from one original soul.

@Legend

I believe that's the case.

Myriad Reality

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That’s an unknown. Either her soul needs to already be there, be from somewhere else, or get created on the spot. There’s no real other option.

@Legend

If you assume that they're both full souls, yes.

Myriad Reality

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If Shion only had one soul and split her body, that’d leave an empty husk for any soul to take over.

@Legend

But why would it be the same one each time?

Myriad Reality

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Could it be another soul harboring her body?

@Legend

It could, but why would it only show up when they split? Why would there not be evidence of it in her normal state?

Myriad Reality

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Is it possible that one got most of Shion’s soul and the other is defective?

@Legend

I doubt that's the case, but it is possible.
*Looks at the pad*
It doesn't seem to fit with the results, though.

Myriad Reality

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Shion could always have multiple souls. If your bodies were barely compatible, maybe your souls weren’t. Or the souls could have come from somewhere else.

@Legend

*Nods*
Correct. I believe that's close to the answer, so the question is... Why the major difference between them? If it's a mixture of, well, not quite physical per se, but close to it, from your mother, and Shion's soul being unstable, then why does splitting bring out the other version when there's no trace of her in their combined state?

Myriad Reality

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Hmmm...
*Rubs my eyes*
Are you sure there’s nothing special about that body that you don’t already know about? Or maybe something about your and mom’s souls?
*Pauses, glancing upward*
Does she have a soul?

@Legend

*Smiles*
Now we're on the same track. If it's not biological in nature, then it probably has a metaphysical component. So if you add that to the equation, what ideas come to mind as possibilities? And for the record, yes, we've been able to detect something similar to a soul in all four of you kids, but that's a conversation that can wait for another time.