This is essentially one* of the Kingdom Hearts plot threads. Sora sacrifices himself and becomes a Heartless (ghost) in KH1, but since he has such a strong heart, the husk he leaves behind becomes the Nobody Roxas (zombie).
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Young American woman goes to London and gets invited to a wild party a a huge mansion. The first level is music, celebs, drugs, and sex. Slowly she realizes two things; she used to live in this mansion, and that her hostess is a vampire. She's the reincarnation of the soul that used to inhabit the vampire's body.
Duuuuuuuuuude. I want this movie.
A good short story keeps you amused for about a half hour.
A great one lingers in your mind forever.
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I like Pratchett's zombies. Where the force of will of the soul of the person is so strong that they refuse to dis-inhabit their body. But since the subconscious did so many things on autopilot, they now are forced to do every function of their body deliberately. That's why they move so stiffly and strangely.
You know what? Go read Reaper Man. It's great. And Windle Poons was never so alive until after he died
Any recommendations for a Pratchett audiobook? Iβve got like 6 audible credits I need to use.
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I love this idea.
Just make sure at least one member of the party is in a compromised position when they bite it. Example: not wearing any pants.
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Kingdom Hearts kinda had this with the Heartless (from a personβs heart) and the Nobodies (from a personβs body).
OG Nier took a slightly different twist on that. Mild spoilers ahead!
Somewhen in our lifetime the plague-like white virus destroyed human bodies turning them into ash, so there was a project of dividing the soul, the Gestalt, from the body, and then joining it with an autonomous Replicant android.
This project failed, and we, as a player, discover a curious consequence: Replicants conserved\built themselves a human-like society, the one we find ourself many replicant generations ago, not even knowing or caring if they are humans.
But at the same time these replicants are utterly afraid of catching a black scrawl - that's when Gestalts-souls, traversing the ground as black spectral beings, sometimes even agressive, consume the replicant as it was designed to, covering them in dark patterns, and slowly turning them under control of these stray souls, some of them even vile and powerful like demons.
You as Nier and the Shadowlord, your arch nemesis, are a Replicant and a Gestalt of one person, fighting to keep your transforming sister on your own side, while two of your worlds inescapably collide and destroy each other.
That's not the most dramatic reveal there, so you'd be fine playing it even after that.
Don't understand.
They're taking souls and putting them into androids.
You're one of those androids
Your body got left behind and is still alive.
One of the villains (I'm assuming, I haven't played Nier) is your soulless body
Not exactly.
A body is dying of a plague, so we pick the soul out and plan to put it into an android. We failed to put it, and now souls and androids are two different kins fighting each other. Androids are scared of souls overtaking them.
MC and MV are an android and a soul of one person.
Well I hope they can come to an understanding of some sort.
It was pretty confusing even when I explained it in my own language to my peers, so I won't blame them or anyone if they can't get the idea from my B1-tier English.
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I'm going to say yes, they can.
I'm putting this in my next D&D campaign
Aw man this would be a great quest! My table would love it lol
Only if the person had multiple-personality disorder. You need at least one consciousness per entity.
Depends on the zombie type - if it's raw instinct only, there is no higher level of consciousness required, right?
So your generic shambling, biting, non-speaking but still groaning zombie would work in this scenario I'd think.
Is a zombie considered conscious?
If we're going by What We Do in the Shadows the show rules, I guess so.
Literally just watched that episode yesterday.
The I, Zombie comic was so much weirder than the tv show.
Could a ghost possess a zombie created from its own body? Could this ghost-zombie hybrid, hypothetically, continue their career in law?
Szeth-son-son-Vallano, truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to become a magical flying ghost cop possessing his own corpse
It's called a Lich, isn't it?
I knew lawyers had to be into some dark magic
In at least two campaigns I've been in, the wizards college's law department was always on fire and smelled of burning sulfur. Apparently they just like it that way?
Both times we ended up down there to summon an Arch devil so they could properly word a Wish for us.
But lawyers have no soul
Devils are LE, and work with lawyers frequently enough that they manage to buy their souls rather frequently. They had souls, they just have probably sold their soul. The lawyer one should be terrified of isn't the LE lawyer, it's the CG lawyer
Depends entirely on the limitations of the ghost's possession ability, but if the ghost can possess a living person and control them, then an animated corpse should work as well. The problem with continuing the career is that the body would continue to decay until the ghost wouldn't be able to move it any more.
The problem with continuing the career is that the body would continue to decay until the ghost wouldnβt be able to move it any more.
Just like a living body π
Indeed, but much faster.
Dying is no excuse to stop working, after all.
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