[i'm sorry to lu bixing who has to talk to someone with no empathy]
The idea isn't wholly new. In my universe, sinners are turned into preta, so that they can be made to suffer physically for the duration of their sentence before reverting back to soul state.
However, that means they can technically be "killed" again, which amounts to returning them to soul form.
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Though we don't seem to be preta, so the exact concept doesn't apply here.
huh. well... there are other questions he wants to ask about like, literally all of that, but he chews the information over for a moment, shifting where he's standing and fussing with his sleeves. ]
So... as preta, then, they are 'killed', and that's how they revert back? When their sentence is done?
[ i read this tag several times and my brain went ? sweats profusely i hope i read this right ]
... That's almost a little heartening, if that is the case. [ a little. ]
[it's fine tbh i'm going off like two lines of canon so heck if i know what's going on]
"Heartening" isn't a word most would use to describe any of Hell's proceedings, although Yama might've actually liked hearing that—if only given how thankless the job is.
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...No, I guess not.
[ ... ]
You might have an interesting perspective on this, Chandra. What do you make of it, the idea that you can die after you die?
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The idea isn't wholly new. In my universe, sinners are turned into preta, so that they can be made to suffer physically for the duration of their sentence before reverting back to soul state.
However, that means they can technically be "killed" again, which amounts to returning them to soul form.
[...]
Though we don't seem to be preta, so the exact concept doesn't apply here.
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huh. well... there are other questions he wants to ask about like, literally all of that, but he chews the information over for a moment, shifting where he's standing and fussing with his sleeves. ]
So... as preta, then, they are 'killed', and that's how they revert back? When their sentence is done?
[ i read this tag several times and my brain went ? sweats profusely i hope i read this right ]
... That's almost a little heartening, if that is the case. [ a little. ]
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"Heartening" isn't a word most would use to describe any of Hell's proceedings, although Yama might've actually liked hearing that—if only given how thankless the job is.
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I can only imagine. Maybe that's why Satan here's trying to throw parties. [ this is a joke. ]