#are gf's prophecies usually open ended? eg the zodiac creating a power either

[nenoname]

since i love same coin theory but get why folks dislike it, sometimes i muse on what makes a person and how souls and reincarnations are portrayed in media

sometimes souls are depicted as the entirety of what makes someone, sometimes its just an aspect that you can live without, and the amount of variation of how much a previous incarnation has an impact on the current self ranging from 'you're literally your past self' or the more horrifying 'your previous incarnation's memories can take over and sublimate the current self completely' to literally no impact

and then i think about how you see stan and ford change drastically over their single lifetime (eg just the sheer difference between their teen+adult+old man selves) and how amnesiac!stan is him at his core but everyone agreeing that it's not him at the same time

there's also the question of how reincarnation works in the gf universe in the first place, with the axolotl's domain being different from the 'reincarnation processing center', and how invoking + making a deal with the axolotl is described as a rare rule of the universe to 'live again', which just turned out to be reincarnation with conditions, but what exactly causes reincarnation/soulmates in a normal situation anyway.....

but in the end, the first thing my brain sprouts out when trying to explain my take on reincarnation is "kagome is not kikyo!!!!" despite only reading like 20 chapters of inuyasha and then stopping forever