Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-32182236-20180820010510

"I am calling this the magnal chord. The thing connecting the brain with the essence. The essence communicates with the brain - exchanges information and energy with it."

Yes, do present this. There has to be SOME way that your essence, your mental self tells the brain and body what to do-Allowing you to execute your free will, rather than just watching and observing as your body does its own thing, acting like a p-zombie.

"The chord itself is partitioned into 20 parallel segments. 19 of them could die and nothing would happen. But it would make the exchange of information more difficult. And if all of them snap, the roots of the chord would fatally damage the brain as they would get annihilated, due to the lack of support from the soul, which keeps them alive."

And healing items repair them, correct?

You may be wondering why I didn't ask where you got the idea of the SOUL keeping them alive from.. Well, seeing how Omega Flowey taking everyone's SOULs gave him the ability to SAVE and LOAD, we can conclude that DT is stored within one's SOUL-Thus, the SOUL holds the determination, and HAS to be what's keeping the human alive with it! So.. That part's actually practically a fact.

"This is also the only type of magic a soul is always casting by default."

Indeed. Just like the only thing a human body does autonomously are the vital things keeping you alive (breathing, heart beat, etc.). For the same reasons, too.

"Now, if a soul gets attacked, there is really only one target the attack can damage. The essence."

True, that's the only physical part of it:Everything else is just pure magic. You would need to cast some kind of spell, not a general attack. If this wasn't true, and that everything had hit points, the monsters could just attack the magical barrier, and watch it slowly lose its hit points and get destroyed.

"The essence is like a replica of the brain, hence why a human consciousness can survive after death."

Actually, there's no proof it can. In fact, it's almost certain that it CAN'T. When Flowey died, from his perspective, he immediately awakened as Flowey. When Chara died, from their perspective, we just awakened them from death, meaning they were "asleep" the whole time. While your mental identity can survive, you're unconscious until you (your essence) find(s) a new host. The essence is no replica of the brain, which is nothing but physical particles, acting based off of your essence. The essence is no replica of the brain, but rather, what makes you, well.. you.

"But if it were to get damaged, the signal it would start sending out would fry the brain from inside out. Better to redirect the attack into the parallel chords then, right?"

Right.

"I suspect there is some sort of a protective shell maintained by the DT of the soul, the one that also triggers the INV effect, which effectively makes all attacks absolutely useless for about a single second."

Something that KR finds a way to bypass. And is enhanced by a certain item.. (Cloudy Glasses)

"So, here's what I theorize: the parallel chords are enveloping the soul. When the soul is attacked, a proportionate amount of them is destroyed, which releases their energy. This energy redirects the attack, so that it doesn't damage any other chords, for the following time of 1 second (or however long the INV effect lasts)."

Fitting.

"I actually have a much more detailed explanation of souls and soul mechanics (chromagodynamics I'm calling it) written down in my personal notes, but this should be enough for today."

Where'd you get that name from? "Chromo" means color.

"Now, how do you get more HP, you ask? By further partitioning the magnal chord."

By making more paths, yes.

"How does one further partition the magnal chord? How does one split their soul?"

How does that imply splitting your SOUL?

"Killing rips the soul apart."

Yes, the monsters' SOULs shatter when you kill them. But wouldn't their chords be useless, being designed for monsters, and not humans? And even if they aren't, you don't gain HP EVERY time you do that-Only after reaching a certain amount, in which case your HP jumps up by 4, or, in the case of LV20, by 7.