Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-31536324-20180622032232

Do you always just pick out a sentence of a wall of text and go on a tangent on the subject matter of that sentence? That's not even the full sentence, just the first half! If your going to respond to my wall of text with a wall of text, at least respond completely to my wall of text rather than a part of one sentence. At least state your thoughts on the other parts, or ask me to clarify what I mean, or something!

But to respond, the abridged version of my wall of text is that what I think is meant by "expressing oneself" through Magic is the white coloring of the Monsters SOULS, which represents Magic. SOULS are the culmination of ones very being, it is everything that makes a person that person. A SOULS color is just a representation of what the most prominent trait of the person is; neither it nor the SOUL Modes ARE the traits, just representation and extension respectively. And as I said before, my speculation is that these seven are the only traits that allow Humans to use Magic, not the only traits period. A follow up is that the reason no more than these seven are mentioned in the game, is because they aren't important to the story. The magic of these seven is what made the barrier keeping the Monsters in the Underground, so these seven are the only traits that matter.

It's like how Nintendo and Mario are represented by the color Red. Or how SEGA and Sonic are represented by the color Blue. Or how a sports team is differentiated from another sports team in a game.

The intro states that the Humans greatest magicians made the barrier, and it's outright and heavily implied throughout the game that seven HUMAN SOULS (or at least an equivalent power) are needed to break the barrier, further validating the idea that humans CAN use magic. BUT, here is something else that proves that humans CAN use magic: the SOUL Modes, which are clearly magic and useable by humans. How do you exactly explain away them, even with the fact that they're enforced upon you by Monsters? If humans couldn't use magic, period, then how can they use the clearly magic SOUL Modes?