text; un: redwine

[judgementor]

I have a question for everyone here. That is, multiple questions relating to the same topic, if you'd indulge me.

On Tierra, the world I come from, humans were granted form and souls by the creator long ago. What they didn't know at that time was that the creator had also placed souls in other things. Souls that could not be seen or felt but were present nonetheless.

Over time, the humans realised the presence of these souls and discovered how to summon them into physical form. They did this because of an enemy that they couldn't fight on their own - they needed beings with more power, that would not be so easily killed. They found the weapons that they needed in their new creations, which would eventually come to be called 'Food Souls'. They could hold incredible magical ability and strength, and the humans still didn't fully understand where they came from.

Food Souls could be summoned and bound to the summoner, tied to their will, following their orders, and wishing to please them even through mistreatment. After the death of their master, the Food Soul would be left in the world without them.

My question then, is this. Should such beings exist in your world, how do you think they would be treated? How do you think that you would treat such a being? Would they be treated well, or discarded when they had outlived their usefulness?

I'm already aware through previous travels that my world is not entirely unique in this regard. I'm curious, too, how other summoned individuals would describe their experiences.





((any format is fine for reply - he'll answer like for like. text was just easier, given the amount of information he was putting across.))

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text; un: didnot

[morns]

( welp, there's a bunch of information you don't get on a shitload of tequila. )

they'd be soldiers.

( given the way her world responded to someone finding a way to give humans powers, she's pretty certain of that. it's easy to imagine governments hoarding the ability to bring them into the world, only interested in their original purpose. equally easy to imagine the people who'd be doing anything to bring that power to the masses, too.

it'd be a mess. )

[judgementor]

That isn't surprising.

[Much as they were during the height of the fight against the Fallen Angels. Not so much now, when they are used more as status symbols than anything else.]

[morns]

dunno how people would treat you individually. government wouldn't let it get that far. legally, at least.

first thing they do when they see something they can use for war is start one.

( someone may or may not be bitter about things that aren't specifically related to food souls. )

[judgementor]

We might have been lucky that the war had already started, then.

[morns]

if you want to call it that.

sounds shit either way.

[judgementor]

It certainly is for some.

[morns]

and for you?

[judgementor]

I was lucky enough to be summoned by a woman who cared for me like a brother. I've had a good life, for the most part.

[morns]

that's good.

( that sounds like a nothing sort of response, but she does mean it. it's good to hear something like that, because it's all too easy to imagine the ways it could go wrong, and she genuinely quite enjoys Red Wine's company and would rather not know that he's one of the people this whole thing fucked up. )

[judgementor]

It was. I miss her dearly.