I can take you in;; wash away your sin

An order that can trace it’s existence back for millennia, The Templars exist to serve mankind by vanquishing demons from the mortal plain. They are a small, specially trained force that works to serve its one singular purpose, members that haven’t been stationed often remaining cutoff from the outside world until they are given an assignment.

The the path of a Templar is one paved with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, the entire process takes almost three years, and the greater portion of those selected to take part in the training don’t make it past the initial two. The trainees are first divided into a number of small groups, each assigned a veteran to train them. Most squires drop out collectively, so very often it is whittled down to one Templar-in-training and their instructor. From then on, it is simply them, training together every day for two years. Due to this, it is common to see incredibly strong bonds built between each veteran and their assigned charge, seemingly lasting until death.

Every Templar comes out of their initial training looking like a battle-worn soldier, the apparent veteran of a thousand skirmishes. After a small window of recovery is allotted, each trainers charge is sent off into solitude, spending months in exalted ruins and holy sites, where they fast and meditate over the course of a year. They return from this pilgrimage as enlightened Templars, gaining increased physical and mental attributes, and supernatural abilities.

the mind vs. the soul

it’s not hard to imagine that the mind and soul (alternatively called the “heart”) are two important components that make up every living creature. you’re probably already familiar with the concept.

the mind is quite obvious and what most people are aware of; it’s what’s in charge of decisions and the defining feature to the autonomy of an individual. one could say it’s the ability to think and the vessel of someone’s experience, knowledge, philosophy, etc. this is the part of someone that allows them to act and react. the soul, on the other hand, is something that can’t be explained as nicely. the easiest way to explain it is that the soul is what defines one person to another; what makes you you and not someone else. it’s the memories, personality, friendships, and emotions that a person can carry, and the culmination of stories that helped shaped a person to who they are now. it’s an energy that gives life to a person and fills out their persona with character and self-awareness. this is the part of someone that allows them to learn and observe.

let’s just say it would be difficult to live without one or the other. there haven’t been cases where someone has done so, but despite that, it’s possible in theory. a person without a soul lives in an empty husk of a body, unable to feel connections to other people and rendered incapable of experiencing or understanding emotions such as sympathy, along with being unable to reflect upon themselves and learn from mistakes or know their sense of self. alternatively, someone without a mind would know emotions, have all their memories, and have an unfiltered range of emotions towards everyone around them, but would lose their sense of purpose. they would endanger themselves and possibly the people around them as they act based on emotion alone and try to feel “something” as much as possible. that could be in thrill rides, hurting someone else, or doing something to themselves to see their own reaction.

thankfully, when a person dies, their mind goes along with it. the soul is left behind, and that’s usually when a daemon (or other supernatural creatures that can culminate the soul into something tangible) can gather it for whatever use they see fit.

the mind + the soul

souls are valued in the underworld for being sustenance, sure, as they’re an energy of life and daemons can feed off of that, and damning a soul to an eternity of hell is the greatest punishment that one can imagine for the afterlife, so it’s not hard to have a purpose for souls by themselves. minds however, are a fickle thing and don’t really serve any use by themselves. as mentioned before, they’re what defines autonomy for a living creature, and that’s a bit of a hassle to constantly control them when someone has to interact with them frequently. since minds die off when a person does, there haven’t been many cases of this except for those who are chosen to be tortured and forced to be made aware of it in the afterlife.

if someone willingly gives their soul to hell, their mind is still attached. this is still a person - not just a soul - going into hell. it’s not uncommon to see those in this case turned into daemons because of the implied desire to be irredeemable by wanting to go there in the first place.

incubi and succubi

it’s difficult to have a regular human go through their life uninterrupted and end up willing to be sent to hell for whatever reason - thus comes the introduction of incubi and succibi, daemons of temptations and lust. their jobs are to seduce and prey upon whoever they wish in order to gain and send souls down under. it’s never really required to have the mind attached and there are a plethora of ways to do this, though most people are aware of having continuous sexual encounters with these demons to be their favored method. daemons feed, but it depends upon the daemon if they feed on the flesh or the life energy (soul) of the person they’ve targeted.

i don’t support that at all.

so basically, if you don’t mind that your partner may drop threads or not reply/maybe forget to reply to a starter, please reblog this? its so unhealthy for someone like myself who gets afraid to drop threads on the chance that my partners may think i don’t want to write with them, or worse BECAUSE i dropped it they won’t want to write with me.