Legend

Myriad Reality

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They did not. I'm unsure if that's a coincidence for Shion or not.

@Yatagarasu

How does electricity cause a transformation for her? What about it?

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Yatagarasu

Did our older siblings also need electricity to transform?

Myriad Reality

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

@Yatagarasu

Like you did?

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Yatagarasu

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

Myriad Reality

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I believe that's the case.

@Yatagarasu

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

Myriad Reality

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

@Yatagarasu

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

Myriad Reality

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But why would it be the same one each time?

@Yatagarasu

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.

Myriad Reality

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

@Yatagarasu

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

Myriad Reality

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

@Yatagarasu

Could it be another soul harboring her body?

Myriad Reality

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*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?

@Yatagarasu

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