screechfox
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7/21/2016
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I haven't seen any threads on this, and I've always been really curious: if your character has lost their soul, how do you think it affects/affected them? IE. do you play them differently in-game, or is it just a change to the way you view them?
For example, pre-soul loss, Ten spent a lot of time... enjoying the company of others. Quite a narcissist, really. But after she lost her soul to the Quiet Deviless (always risking it in case an outright rejection would cause the devils to dislike her), she's stopped doing that as much. She was a very bohemian type, a great appreciator of beauty, but now she doesn't really participate. She may need to look for a career change at some point.
I imagine that she still feels similar emotions to when she had a soul, but more echoes: habits that it's too much trouble to try and get out of. Except in dreams. She feels perfectly normally in dreams. (She also doesn't really care that she lost her soul - she finds it quite freeing, in all honesty.)
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Kukapetal
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7/21/2016
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Flesh-Stick stopped talking in all caps and became very mopey.
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Pnakotic
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7/21/2016
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Since losing my soul, I don't drink any more. (I don't drink any less, either.)
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plasmid
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7/21/2016
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key P. wasn't ashamed for selling his soul, despite his hatred of devils in all kinds. he was a shepered of soul already, but he always wandered if there is a truth in what they devils say about a soul being a burden, so he got the highest price he could and went through the process. the results weren't pretty, if the chain of robbed ships he left behind him were any indication. he still knew right and wrong, but he figured that the good he does back in london balances his pillaging at zee.
even back in london, he still did the same things, but they lacked the heat and force he used to have- he always punched with the same strength at the ring, his interactions with the rubbery men always used the same movements instead of trying to figure something new, and he even stopped his correspondance studies deeming it 'unsafe' and 'unprofitable'. by the time he decided to take back his soul, he already was living his life as an endless carousel he constantly loop through as if he is sleepwalking.
needless to say, once he found his soul he swore to never do that again. and then he went to channel his anger at a goat-demon
edited by plasmid on 7/21/2016
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Grenem
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7/21/2016
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Pre-soul loss, My character had moments of extreme vice for no real reason- thefts for no better reason than because he could, causing trouble when he could make much better money normally.
When he lost it, there was a day of... well, let's just say vomiting, in more ways than normal. Lots of dirty secrets, lots of stabbing, lots of babbling mindlessly to someone who was doubtless writing it all down. it was expensive day. So many secrets lost, so much rostygold spent on cleanup, and more.
Since the loss of it, he's found himself behaving more ethically, caring more, choosing efficiency over vice. a dulling of hatred and an increased potency of empathy. Of course, he's not... he's still not moral, but he actually can care about others more than he used to, and now he actually prefers to behave ethically, if it's equal, which wasn't true before. He actually has moments of impractical morality, and cares about being on good terms with the factions enough to give it a non-zero value.
Whether this is a side effect from soul-loss or simply a reaction to the negative emotions remains to be seen.
He blames this change on the loss of his soul, and plans to see what other types of soul tampering can do once he gets it back. What if you stain it? Will a removed-and-destroyed soul do something different then just a removed soul? will different kinds of destruction have different results? can you destroy a master's soul? Since that point, he's been socializing like mad, and seeking lacre, since it's one of a very low number of items that interact with souls. He also has a new hatred for souls, and has, more than once, given a tirade for removing your soul in a street corner in spite. Not selling it, just putting it on your dresser in a bottle so that you don't have to deal with the celestial parasite.
That said, he's done some research- a few people in london have actually died of grief- or, rather, soul explosion with no visible cause, as if their soul was dipped in "snow", while still inside their body. sometimes this happens in summer, and there's no signs of [bazaar's sorrow] in the area. there are dangers to having a soul, or perhaps they had consumed it. it's known you shouldn't, but people are idiots.
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My character would become furious and disappointed in herself. She extremely distrusting of the Devils which is why she voted for the Bishop. As such, she would do everything in her power to reclaim her "stolen" soul.
That being said, the soulless are said to become more melancholic? Less passionate? Is that the right way to put it? So Blaine may end up just becoming depressed and somewhat cranky instead of shaking down every devil she encounters.
Mine doesn't trust devils, but that's less because he thinks souls are highly valuable to have inside you, and more because he thinks they know something about "souls" that they aren't telling.
{OOC: That's mostly found either from the church or the 'common knowledge' sidebar, which is something like 20% verified misinformation. it's quite likely a placebo effect, or from the common misconception that souls are, you know, souls. they shouldn't be the ticket to the christian afterlife, because any afterlife that can be lost by another human's doing is not a good god's design, and an omnipotent one would stop that. never-mind that they can be destroyed in lacre. The only person a non-fate player sees with that trait and no soul is entwined with the church enough that it could well be "I did something wrong"/"I'll be tormented eternally when i die" depression. Unless I'm forgetting someone.}
EDIT: mysterious -2 is gone now, but if this is offensive or inaccurate, feel free to PM me or have a forum debate on it.
edited by Grenem on 7/21/2016
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hesperidia
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7/22/2016
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My soulless character has more difficulty telling emotions apart from each other - she still knows full well when she is having emotions, and can still reason which one is which from the surroundings, but she no longer knows intuitively whether her heart is beating from love or fear.
To be fair, physiologically, there isn't much difference. Arguably, this lack of differentiation is closer to the truth.
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A Dimness
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7/21/2016
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I don't think I really changed my playstyle. I was already roleplaying a solemn and introvertive Tomb-Colonist, so it isn't that far of a stretch that he wasn't really affected by the loss of a soul.
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