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[envy_the_sinners]

[Scar's been lying low in Olivine ever since the hurricane, and he's starting to go a little stir-crazy. Being left bored with his thoughts can only end in one thing. Anon questions.]

In my time here, I have come to find that there are a great many "worlds" that are home to people who wouldn't be considered human, but experience the same depth of thought and range of emotion.

[Even he can make that conclusion, now.]

In that case, what is humanity? A measure of physical traits? A state of mind? Something into which one must be born?

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[envy_the_sinners]

[...That is so wrong on so many levels and he doesn't know what to say to any of this. Scar's answer comes a little bit later.]

You are saying that it is your job to fight these human remnants?

[Okay, Hollows, but whatever. This is just freaky. Souls that deserve it are brought back with their humanity stripped away?]

Is this a simple truth of your universe? Or does someone DO this? Strip them of their humanity, I mean.

[bookslap]

{That sure is an ominous pause. During it, she keeps checking her 'gear every so often - the rules that bind her world can seem cruel to others (humans), but it's all she's known for a very long time.}

To prevent them from hurting others and to cleanse them, yes.

It is a core part of our world - when a soul dies, if it was an unrepentant person, it degenerates into a Hollow. If they were not, they remain a Plus, and passed onto Soul Society without difficulty.

Hollows can be cleansed of their sins, and their humanity gifted back to them - but it is not a guarenteed process.

{She's going to try to avoid mentioning the facts that there are multiple dimensions layered over the Living World, because that's probably not going to help.}

[envy_the_sinners]

Like a process of repentance?

[bookslap]

...sort of.

We purify them with our zanpakutou - our swords. Break the mask, and the Hollow is cleansed of the actions they committed while they were a Hollow.

[envy_the_sinners]

That hardly sounds like a just system.

[Leave it to Scar to be contrary and disagree with everything.]

A literal carrying out of the innocent being forced to suffer the sins of others by 'cleansing' them once they have become a danger.

[bookslap]

If we did not carry out this duty, then more innocent souls would be damaged and eaten. As I see it, it is simply a case of the greater good being more important than the life of the one.

It may not be a just system, but it is - in my eyes - a just cause.

[envy_the_sinners]

Your cause is just, there is no arguing that.

But the burdens of the sinful always have a way of falling onto the shoulders of the righteous.

[bookslap]

I would not consider my duty a burden. I have lived far longer as a Shinigami than I would as a human, and I have seen the world change in ways I would not have even contemplated when I was but flesh and blood.

But I would not consider myself righteous.

[envy_the_sinners]

And why is that?

[bookslap]

There are things I have done, things I have participated in which would render me unworthy of such a status.

[envy_the_sinners]

I see.

And yet you continue this mission of cleansing these lost souls.

[bookslap]

It's my job to do so. It would be treason for me to not perform this duty.

[envy_the_sinners]

Treason? Then it is a governmental obligation?

[bookslap]

Military duty. All Shinigami are part of the Gotei 13. Our duty is to cleanse Hollows and protect all souls. To refuse this after we have been chosen... is unthinkable.

{wow nanao way to make this sound super dramatic}

[envy_the_sinners]

That does not sound like the kind of obligation to be left to the military.

[Military forces just kill people, duuuhhh]

[bookslap]

If we were an ordinary military force, perhaps I too would be skeptical of this. As we are not, I see no problem with this.

{Human militaries can kill each other. Shinigami militaries merely kill what has already died.}

[envy_the_sinners]

I suppose you are right.

I have never known a military to be good for anything but slaughter.

[bookslap]

...then I am sorry for your past negative experiences.

{nanao wat r u doing}