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[explosivecombat]

With matters of one's heart and soul so close in mind, due to the recent holiday and all the romantic connotations therein, I ask that you forgive the possibly morbid nature of the question I have for you tonight:

The state or condition of one's soul is often brought into question when their deeds are brought to light or held up for scrutiny; the concept of the damned and those destined for salvation aren't new concepts by far. However, I have to ask what that means for all of you - do you accept your soul as existing only as a metaphysical concept, a matter of faith, something unproven and intangible? Or is it something undeniable where you come from, not a matter of faith but rather proven to exist? Does it fail to exist for you at all?

Or, perhaps, is it something else entirely - something that was rendered from one of the above options into another?

I suppose I should apologize for such heavy subject matter; I imagine some will find it rude to attempt to quantify such a thing. However, it's been something I've had reason to consider lately, so no apology is forthcoming.

Comments

[islandshore]

I don't see the harm in them, but I've always found otherworldly stuff like that fascinating. Guessing you wouldn't be too keen on something like a talking Weavile either, though.

[Heh. Even he's still baffled by Slash's weird ambitions.]

But I definitely wouldn't mind seeing those aliens in their real forms. Better them than that raving turtle guy.

[explosivecombat]

I wouldn't be as bothered by the talking Weavile, actually, simply because this world is full of strange things in general, and there's evidence that the Pokémon here can, at the very least, comprehend human speech and the Psychic ones can communicate in a way that we can understand. If they're capable of vocalizing, I don't see why they wouldn't be capable of being trained into speech; it wouldn't be much different than teaching a very small child, really. I just don't have the patience to do it myself.

The ponies, on the other hand, are things that are just familiar enough to be bizarre; we have horses in my world, but they don't...do any of that. I vaguely remember a pink one shooting party favors out of cannons; that's pushing my suspension of disbelief just a bit.

Although I admit that they don't usually do things like breathe fire, either, and I seem to have adapted to that well enough; at the same time, it's decidedly easier to talk to people on an even level when they appear to be...well, people. I don't know how to describe that very well, but my world isn't one with many fantastical creatures and the like. Those that are generally have a human form that makes it far easier to talk to them; animals are...exactly that, where I come from, and even if they have human characteristics they're assumed to be less intelligent and possessing of less of an emotional range. I don't think that's something I could move past easily.

Although this "raving turtle guy" sounds interesting, I must admit, simply because those that show up on the network with...ah, memorable enough posts for it to be considered "raving" tend to be. For example, Cobra Commander is likewise a very interesting person; I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a good sort of interesting, but he is undeniably interesting.