Memories and The Soul
"Memories...they make up a soul. You can take the soul, and you leave the memories, the soul stays intact. If you touch the memories, the soul will fall apart, and distangate. You can corrupt the soul, and it turns into a shell, a shell of what once it used to be. That was experiment number 1067. The soul was successfully corrupted, but the subject, had disappeared. It was a success, and a win for our team, and now that we know we can corrupt the soul, without shattering it, we can do so much more!"
The Human Soul.
A very valuable item, and powerful, strong enough to not shatter under a Dhakira's power, but not strong enough to resist a Dhakira's power, but when corrupted, it shatters. The Human, can survive without a soul, when A Dhakira disintegrates without the soul. A Kinz soul is to fragile, will shatter under any pressure, a Human Soul is perfect, the perfect way to experiment. We can extract the soul, and then put it back, and see how the human reacts.
The Final Experiment.
We now have the ability to extract the Realm Power from a Dhakira, but when the Realm Power, and certain memories are extracted, the Dhakira soul, turns into a basic human soul. If you could take the Human Soul, and add Realm Power and memories, could the soul, turn into one of us? The Souls, are really what make us different. The Body may evolve, but the soul, and our memories is what makes us stand out. We shall conduct, the Final Experiment. Just in case one day, we start to go extinct, we can rebuild, and continue our reign...
A flash of yellow pupils, and an evil laugh. A scratching on paper, and a flash of the lights. The sounds of machinery, and the flash of bright yellow smoke. The Final Experiment begins.
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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