Tag: mod talk

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I swear how do you explain a fic your reading in this au, “it a gravity falls fan fic that isn’t in gravity falls, 500 or so years in the future, has only original characters many made by different people, in a plot that is wholly unrelated to the cannon, and will only make perfect sense if you read this other fic with much the same traits.”

see, joke’s on you…. we hijacked an existing fandom just so you’d care about all our OCs…. you have been thoroughly BAMBOOZLED

(please let me know when you figure out how to explain it to someone, bc I have an easier time explaining string theory)

Questions about souls: How does the preference for reincarnating into a single species work on an evolutionary time-frame? Are there just, way, way more souls then living organisms and they reincarnate in waves as a species they like develops and then go back to not incarnating as their species dies out? Do they stick with a species as it changes, and if so how do they decide which branch to follow (As in: did the souls that were incarnated into the first mammals decide that they were going to follow the path that would eventually be a cat or did they reincarnate aimlessly.)?

What happens when a species dies out suddenly? Do they reincarnate into similar species or just stop reincarnating all together? What if there is a mass extinction and there aren’t any similar species left?

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Hi Mod V here! I had been thinking about this for a bit but I think it comes back to sapience of a species. For instance, a human soul can get reincarnated as let’s say…a centaur or an elf. A soul doesn’t necessarily follow an evolution of the body as much of the mind.

When a soul goes to reincarnate it isn’t completely aware of what it is reincarnating as, and reincarnation can or can not happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes its just the luck of the draw. But more often than not, a soul will be sure to follow a path of similar sapience, so humans are more likely to follow a human-level of intellect line. cats and dogs for instance, will probably follow a reincarnation line of similar animals, be them mundane or magical. So if a species dies out that isn’t as much concern as long as there’ll always be creatures similar enough. It was mentioned before but, souls follow the path of least resistance so they will continue to follow paths they are familiar with. 

Evolution takes a LONG time to have any significant effects that completely change a species. Souls would be able to adapt to the changes as they form easily because they would take so long. If evolutionary paths diverge, it’s more just the luck of whatever souls were inhabiting the bodies go one way, and the others go the other way. But until really, really significant changes were seen, I don’t think it’d have that big of an effect on the reincarnation cycle. 

Of course, there’s never any binding rules. I do believe there was a Mizar that was a cat once. And there’s a higher chance that a soul will reincarnate into the same species more often than not. Things happen, nothing makes sense, sometimes people reincarnate as cats; but as a majority rule…I think that’s what’s more likely. 

((Also I have been a bit out of touch with my TAU lore so if I got something wrong pls tell me))