Talk:Chara/@comment-33949897-20171213021920/@comment-1191892-20171214103733

I think you're overcomplicating this. The body is the thing that can die, souls don't die, they shatter. So Chara was killed (the part of them that can die died) and their soul, a thing that is not in the strictest sense alive, persisted because Determination is a workable substitute for life.