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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.

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[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.