Soul Debate!

[Annadesu]

I've seen mixed opinions on the following topic, so I would like to know what everyone else thinks!

When a human transfers their soul into a stitchpunk... Is it parts of their personality being injected into new beings (like soul genetics, almost XD)? Does the soul reflect memories of other people, shaping the personality of the recipient? Or is it simply energy, a blank slate, from which any personality type can emerge?

(note: please, please try and keep it movie related. It's cool that we all have fanfic ideas, but we do have a fanworks area )

Personally, I like to think it's the last one. To me, a soul is just energy, and life. The personality, and gender, can be anything from that. A roulette, if you will.

[dirkuus]

^ Last bit: agreed.

As fun as the personality thing could be, the second option sounds much more plausible.~

[Sock]

I think it's a little bit of the first, and the last. XD;; If that makes any sense at all...

[redwhistle]

Well actually... the way I interpret it is that it's both. :D

When 9 awakens, his mind isn't completely blank (OR IS IT? :P). He knows how to walk and talk, understands things like dishonesty and loyalty, and knows what things like light bulbs are even if he doesn't know what they're called. I interpret that knowledge as coming from the soul.

So I think the soul fragments do carry memories and aspects of personality. But I also think that when a ragdoll is created from a soul fragment, they become a whole being unto themselves. So, though part of their personality will come from "soul memory," there's that "roulette" aspect as well.

The best comparison I can come up with is identical twins, who carry the exact same genetic material as one another, yet have different personalities.

[--[Evayo-∞-Infinity]--]

Personally, I'm with redwhistle on this one. But since I'm not allowed to discuss Infinite 9, there's no way for me to explain my incredibly extensive theory as to why. *has a massive sad because of this* X,D

[Castoro Chiaro]

The way the scientist described each of them almost made it seem like little facets of his own psyche were being transferred into each of the dolls. I think it's an interesting idea to play with, the idea each one reflects some part of the original creator.

I could go either way on this idea, really, as both are plausible.

[Mel]

I think it can be either of the three, depending on the person. Everyone's soul is different, so they might represent themselves in different ways through the human's stitchpunk bodies as well. Like redwhistle, I think that they do get unconscious memory from their previous host, and that's why they can be so similar to their past lives, but they also develop abilities and a lot of their personality from the life of their own that they take on. I kind of like to think of it the same way they did in Red vs. Blue. The memories are the importance and the structure of the stitchpunk, but how they turn out greatly differs.

It's a very interesting subject to think about, really.

[Rattlecat]

Listen to the Commentary. Shane himself has stated that it's based on experiences from people the Scientist has known, and his own experience. They're not blank slates by any means. 9 knows how to do things that could only be converted over from previous knowledge, and 1 shows it the most as his ability to suddenly know the right thing to do in a war-based scenario, when he's never actually been in one, shows another case of it.

The soul transfers instigate that the soul is a combination of the overall experience of the person giving over the soul, energy that has been transferred from one human to another, be it through communication, experience, and all together emotional closeness, as well as the personality set up. Each of the characters of 9 share a generation through which the Scientist has experienced. He has experienced war time, in which 1 connects to. He has experience the curiosity as a child for 9, the creativity and open-mindedness of 2, the desire and knowing of the importance of 3 and 4, the doubt and inner fears of 5, the psychosis ideals and possibles of 6, the feminine of the spirit and the necessity for nuturing and protecting of 7, and the strength and willingness of brute force through 8. All of the characters derive directly from what the Scientist himself has experienced, or those who have experienced with him. In the Russian Version, they made it clear it was a case of each being a piece of a person he knew, and in the American version, it was a piece of his own lifetimes merging together.