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[bloodyroses]

Okay, I'm not gonna be going around making any zombies or anything since apparently that's ILLEGAL and I'll respect it, but I really fucking hate that everyone I asked about that just looked at me like I ate someone's baby or something like that.

Real talk.

I can understand why it's ethically sketchy and disrespectful if someone didn't SAY they wanted to be a zombie, but this isn't the first time I've found other people treat necromancy like the worst thing you could do, magic-wise.

Someone please help me understand what the big fucking deal is because I think I'm gonna scream.

Comments

UN: SleepyAsh

[neetvampire]

You said the reason yourself, actually. Though I guess vampires are different from zombies.

It's wrong to raise the dead without their consent. They themselves might not have wanted that sort of twisted existence. It's impossible to tell what someone might have wanted once they are dead, and cruel to assume.

[bloodyroses]

So like, do you assume all necromancy is non-consensual?

Because I got people judging me when I said people actually sign up for this willingly all the damn time where I'm from.

[neetvampire]

Well I have to say it's fairly hard to imagine, yeah.

I've met people who were grateful, sure, but most humans who think becoming undead is a cool idea tend to have no idea what they're talking about.

How can you really consent to something that extreme without really knowing what it's like?

[bloodyroses]

1) traditional Vanthian necromancy only works with the body, the soul just goes to the afterlife.

2) you are really underestimating how much undead we've got all over the place.

[neetvampire]

Wait.

How can a body move without a soul?

[Everything he's heard makes it sound like that's kind of important?]

[bloodyroses]

So might be different in other worlds, but the simple answer is:

The animating force behind what we'd call the "spark of life" is different from the wibbly wobbly soulsy wolsy bits that's an actual person.

If you're in a coma and you're probably never gonna wake up, you got one but not the other. Same goes for unborn babies, though in that case you just haven't gotten your person soul piece just yet instead of it having already left the building.

If you want to animate a zombie, you just have those lingering bits of animating force do their thing with the help of magic.