#deattached from source

[rxttenslutcemeterysys]

✡⤷ chris(sy)

he ` him ` himself + 16-19yrs old + gay(mlm) + trans ftm + mono

< ??/??/???? 3 single and looking

— introj. / fictive , bpd hldr , ed hldr , trauma hldr , anxiety hldr , paranoia inducer , insomnia inducer

— signoff is -chris(sy)

— age + pet regressor , involuntarily mainly but occasionally voluntarily

— therian (puppy)

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prefers chris over chrissy but is still attached to deadname

is a chrissy (stranger things) introject but does not want to constantly be reminded I am one or constantly reminded of source.

looking for sourcemates /p robin buckley and nancy wheeler specifically

eddie munson introjects/irls that have /r mems of me please DNI, I have /fam and /p mems of you only

touch ; yes/no/ask

flirting ; yes/no/ask

petnames ; yes/no/ask

[argent-sz]

hiii hii omg hii im gonna go on one of me late night delirious rambles! read at your own discretion or not, whatever fuck ! you(endearinggly and maybe some sort of innuendo idk im tired im not in tune with my emotions as for every night im emotionally vulnerable after 7:30pm to the poitn where i could be head over heels for any sort of confident flirt or tease directly pointed wat me but you shouldnt worry about knowing that)

:readmore:

some days i wish i could.. disassociate from certain people by publicly saying it, like, "heyy this guy isnt my friend anymore bc we dont talk ever its not drama i just dont have any middle ground to even talk about of something we clearly do not have in common" and well its not like im dropping hints either, .

somedays i just... want to shed my entire online prescense to be vborn again but keep the relationships with friends intact, like changing names, which im not gonna do.

it doesnt helps that i had struggles with my online being, and the ideas of "starting over" or burning social bridges were ever present back then as they are todday, its not good, but i'd like to be able to really deattach from the notion that im friends with everyone, its hard to maintiain that status even if i didnt rightfully attributed it, i dont wanna start over, but i also dont want people to egg me about me cutting off someone who i only talked to exactly ONCE.. ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for as far as i remember i dont have a personality of my own, i have my own interest and tyoping quirks, but all ive heard about me being spoken about is mostly, the same, and somehow my "reputation" precedes me, there are random furries that know me, the kind that have like a billion followers, and we dont have anything in common, i know why and whats the source but i dont. i shouldnt, do the thing im thinking about, it wouldnt be nice for Anyone , but popufurs???? know about me??? not exactly scary but unnerving to some degree, these are the kind of people that get into those weekly "furry dramas" and ugh its a matter of time that im forced to pikc a side AGAIN, for like, the 5th time.

and i just think of the "what could've been" with people i used to talk about often, before we were forced to pick a side or end on the opposite's callout post, good thing ive never been featured in one, and idgaf if someone blocked me bc of me being a follower of random furry artist #128732187812973 but cmon , iim just tired, im tired of being noticed by people that i cant even look in the eyes, bc were simply so many levels apart!!! its not undair, but its. undeserved for them to speak my name, any of my names, any of my gamer tags, any semblance of Me.

someday, i want to create petty furry drama (bc its easily manufactured apparently) where i make something that resonates with a Lot of furries, and a popufur reblogs it and i just comment on it "oops popufur reblog" and delete the original post, w who was it that reblogged it??? idk, did i even knoe them? no and i dont wanna, they got like more than idk 2k followers, they can get to know one of them 2k followers, theres probably a guy with a monochromatic fcanine fursona with long haur in there, i can guarantee it, fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you dont know me!! i you cant control me!!!! ic cant even controll my seklf!!!! YEAOW

also if someone says to me irl "i like your shoelaces" im gonna say kill yourslef!! jk tho, you dont know me you don t know me you dont know me you dont wknow me you dont know me you dont know me your jkndont know me you do NOT know me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lovevalley45]

like maybe my resentment towards ‘mr. parker’s cul-de-sac’ and ‘romeo v juliet: dawn of justness isn’t so much as the quality as the BTS stuff

sure ray’s goodbye was a lil bloated and i’ve discussed my issues with the avalance plot in 5x06, but they’re not awful episodes on their own. the premises are well executed, they’re entertaining, and all in all, they’re not episodes i would have problems with if it was just that

but all the shit with brandon in particular, all the interviews n everyone crying more tears for ray leaving than literally any other (usually nonwhite) legend leaving, plus still having a sour taste in my mouth from how badly ramona young got treated by both the writers and the fandom really ruined shit for me. BR was going to every fucking news source possible to complain abt how much getting fired hurt, in addition to reading five articles a week abt what a shame it was to lose ray n his optimism (from ppl who called mona annoying for being bright n bubbly as well) n it was just tiring. 

so then when i watch those episodes, i just think, why did ray get this grand goodbye (where nora barely got any focus, although she was the loss i was sadder abt) when they were glad to dismiss mona the way they did? and now, in retrospect, why did we put so much fucking focus on ray’s exit when they KNEW it was maisie’s last season, n when she was leaving on her own terms and not getting fired?

it’s just like those episodes are tainted by their circumstances

[thisdreamplace]

https://at.tumblr.com/thisdreamplace/could-u-speak-more-on-the-process-of-deattachment/2ltmmer55fmx

I'm not this anon, but you couldn't have said it better. Sometimes I cling to things to a point where the lack of it really hurts and I put life on pause because I'm waiting for something external to make me feel happy. I have worked on contemplating the possibility of not achieving some of my goals and ask myself: do I deserve to be unhappy and rot in my bed just because xyz is not happening? And the answer is always no. I deserve to be kind to myself right now, I deserve joy right where I am right now. Everyone does. It's sad that when getting into the law many of us become control freaks and we throw tantrums when we don't get what we want overnight, that is not so ✨️God on Earth, master manifestor, reality bender✨️ of us.

When I get those epiphany moments where I understand that nothing external will make me feel something, nothing external will be the eternal source of love for me, I feel so at ease. All I need is myself. All I need is to reconnect to my own self to be able to feel the love that I can offer. The joy that I bring. The value that I have. No one/nothing can do that for me, even if the illusion makes me think the contrary.

And those moments when I choose myself over the illusion are the best. When I can say "you know what? I'm happy right now. I don't care about what my human eyes can see or what my human reasoning thinks. I won't condition my happiness to that." I choose to radically accept myself and my circumstances, and decide that, that won't stop me from continuing to grow and evolve.

After all, we're the ones assigning meanings to things, and life suddenly stops being so shitty when we stop resisting it and become more flexible, and intentionally choose to give it another meaning. When we intentionally choose to stop hating where we're at, and blaming the external for our disgrace.

I got corny, sorry, but I loved what you wrote, and I'm happy you're back...

thiiiiiiiis. this is all so beautiful to me and you elaborated so well on this topic, bringing more understanding into what it all really means to let go and just be. 💕

you make so many good points that i’ve just read it over n over again ! like yes ! yes ! you get it. you understand and i hope your explanation helps others understand this concept deeper as well.

life is so beautiful when you allow it to freely flow, and you flow along with it. anchored within yourself and who you want to be and express yourself as. 🥰 not relying on anything else. lol tbh, reading your reply made me feel so warm and full of light. its such a beautiful reminder of why living this way is like sunshine.

anyway. loved that, love u. n thank u 💓 reminded me why i’m glad to be back, i love these kinds of conversations that can take place on this blog ! 💘

[nabesthetics]

How long can they cuddle until one becomes uncomfortable?

Who gives the most kisses?

What is their favourite non-sexual activity?

Who snores?

If both do, who snores the loudest?

Who talks in their sleep?

Who hogs the sheets?

Who’s the grumpiest when they wake up? 

I'm sorry if this is a lot but i really like Alastor/Lucio 🥺 if you feel it's too much you're free to exclude some :3

Friend, I will likely go off and just try and answer 50% of the whole list at some point, this is 10/10, I just had the shortest 2-hour train ride of my life because I spent it typing this out + staring into the void, contemplating details. 

So here are some hcs for Lucio, Alastor, and the Dragoat ship :v

How long can they cuddle until one becomes uncomfortable?

Well...

You heard the man.

Okay, so I won't count that labyrinth scene, because one of them was sleeping. So if we're talking mutual, full-attention snuggles, then they're more of a "multiple short cuddle sessions throughout the day" kind of couple, a few minutes to recharge the affection gauge and keep doing… whatever they were doing. Comfort cuddles are one of the most common exceptions, those can last 10-15 minutes depending on the reason (often it's nightmares on either side).

The "sitting on partner's lap while doing something else" kind of cuddles though... well, it depends. Alastor isn't a fan of cuddles while he's working on something, like doing research or drawing. While it can work with Muriel or Asra, Lucio can't NOT be a distraction and talk if he's close and/or isn't busy with something else; this does become a source of arguments sometimes.

What does work, however, is settling like that in front of a campfire/in bed and Alastor reading out loud. Yes, the mad lizard is determined, and tracks down a book Lucio isn’t bored by… it's probably an adventure novel of some sorts - more importantly, it has spicy elements in it, so if anything, he enjoys the way his magician starts blushing and stuttering when reading the saucy parts. THOSE cuddle sessions can last for a while, but eventually end with Lucio getting, uh, affectionate :'B

Who gives the most kisses?

uh

......yeah I think it’s safe to say that Lucio wins this one, lbr he probably does the Gomez Addams thing, with the trail of kisses leading from fingers all the way to the shoulder.

Oh don't get me wrong, Alastor initiates kisses as well, but nowhere near the same amount, and he's way less likely to do it in public. Al's more of a "gentle touches and nuzzles" person though. Unless it's dragon kisses, you know how it is.

What is their favourite non-sexual activity?

Honestly, I'm having troubles settling on just one. The list includes: exploring, playing with M&M, baking (oh it's chaos, but it's fun chaos); later they definitely get a specially designed dragon saddle, and you can add flying into the list.

Who snores?  If both do, who snores the loudest?

It’s both, and Lucio is louder - not super loud, he doesn't attract all the predators in the nearest vicinity while they're camping or anything, but it's there.

Alastor snores softly & not every time, but weirdly enough, only does it in human form: the half-dragon is quiet, and full dragon breathes accordingly to his size, but doesn't snore. It's a mystery.

Who talks in their sleep?

Lucio likely talks when having nightmares. It's rarely very coherent, but the distress is obvious enough, especially with the "no"s and "please"s clearly thrown in there. Thrashes, too, so it's real hard to miss. Alastor, however, is quiet, even with the nightmares: he just clenches his jaw, eyebrows furrowed, nearly curls into a ball, shaking a bit if it's especially bad. Which isn’t great news, because he often ends up going through the whole nightmare, jerking awake, and then being met with the dilemma of waking Lucio up or dealing with things by himself. Sometimes M&M notice though, and wake one or both of them up. They get better at it over time, too :з

Aside from those bad night, both can mutter something incoherent in their sleep sometimes, but not much beyond that.

Who hogs the sheets?

Lucio hogs the sheets, then throws them off the bed ghcbhvmh Honestly, with all the tossing, he's a bit of a nightmare to sleep next to (pun intended) until he gets used to sleeping with a partner, and both bad dreams and general moving around gradually subside.

Which... might be a faster process with Alastor, actually? He doesn't hog the sheets. He clings to his partner, and sometimes gets on top of them right in his sleep, too - thankfully he’s not very heavy, so that just grounds the Goatman a bit. Most often Al just clings to the partner’s arm, though - and there has been a couple of cases when Lucio had to get out of bed in the middle of the night, so he just kinda. deattached the arm, if he fell asleep with it and the dragon “seized” it.

Who’s the grumpiest when they wake up?

Alastor is one of those weird-ass people who can just hop out of bed in the morning (or evening, or 2am, sleeping schedules are for the weak) and operate normally after a few minutes from waking up. So, assuming that he got enough sleep, he’s not grumpy at all.

Lucio, on the other hand, doesn’t exactly strike me as a morning person. The epilogue pretty much had the evidence that he’d much rather stay in bed for a while longer (that’s another scenario of long cuddles, by the way, haaaa), so I’m guessing he can get pretty grumpy, especially if someone just gets out of bed at 7 am on a day off, Alastor.

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

Gio, can you tell us a little more about general Dark please? He really does interest me!

ah, yes. this motherfucker.

dark happens to be one of the first and strongest Nightmares, dreamt but a few days after Jano. a being made of pure black flames and shadows, leader of Jano’s army back when the Glade was nothing but a work in progress and Polokus just recently went to sleep, leading his people proudly with nothing but the desire of destruction.

And then, Jano fell for the first time and the Nightmares were all shoved into the Cave, giving them a world all for their own in exchange of their freedom.defeated and weakened, the General didn’t want to become nothing but a prisoned in the hands of those weak dreams and looked for refuge.         And he found it in an alchemist of the Arcane Forest, in the ValleyA man who was ready to make a pact with such an abomination, connecting their souls. One gave up his humanity in search of knowledge, the other gave up his so desired freedom in search of power.

And welp. Both of them found what they wanted, and Mr.Dark was born.

in a sense, we can say that the General is the most “sadistic” and “dangerous” part of the two. While Mr.Dark is indeed powerful, rational and sometimes straight up evil, if the General takes control you can be sure that you’re not only going to die by his hands, but that you will fall slowly and painfully, while the human he once was is at least merciful enough to give you a quick end.while Spes Dark is already quite a powerful magician by himself, the General gives him the darkness necessary to properly use shadow manipulations and pyromancy - and even if he hates the idea of having to deal with a man so full of himself and full of emotions, he knows that if they broke the deal he’d be a goner.Jano wouldn’t let him get in the Cave after his betryal, no no, he’d destroy him right where he stands - and connecting his soul with a human made him still weak alone.he can deattach himself from the body, but only for a very short amount of time - and he knows it’s better to stay close to his organic source of power.

[zenmister]

Dear Zenmister. I've been battling too many painful moments in life. I finally recovered but I feel too drained and too careless. I've been like this since may. Not willing to do anything. I dont have depression or anything but its like that sort of fighting created a deattachment in me so I no longer am motivated. I'm looking for a job now because of my bad economy but I dont feel like working.

Feeling drained, apathetic and unmotivated are all symptoms of depression even if you don’t feel depressed, you are not feeling your best. Fighting all those painful moments is having a lingering affect on you. Even though you have recovered, in some sense you are still fighting.

The war may be over, but it has left its mark and now it is time for you to rebuild. Finding a job and improving your economy is one step in the rebuilding process. As you rebuild, you also have to grieve the losses you suffered in those painful moments. Grieving has its many stages and depression is one that can linger. In the early stages of the grief the depression is hot and urgent. Then, as time passes, it cools and drags on. In your situation, life has lost some of the meaning that it used to have. As you rebuild, you find new meaning.

When life loses a familiar meaning, it feels meaningless, but if it hurts or feels numb, there is some kind of meaning getting in the way of feeling good. Under normal circumstances, people feel good and bad. All the meaning we bring to life, motivates us to do all the things we need to do to support that life like work, study, and relate to people. Those life-sustaining activities bring with them a sense of satisfaction, which brings relief from existential pain. When those activities don’t bring relief and feel like pointless chores, the problem is not that there isn’t a point, it’s that you don’t know what the point is.

As you rebuild, not knowing what the point is, try to reduce suffering as you go. To reduce suffering be present and compassionate with yourself. When you are in a job interview, be present with the interviewer. Listen to the questions and try to get the job. The point of an interview is to get a job. If pain comes up for you, fear of being judged, fear of not getting the job, fear of getting the job, meet that pain with compassion. Notice its source and imagine what will make it better. Do what you can to make it better. Then let it go and be present with what comes next.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

“Walkaway” Author Cory Doctorow on Gift Economies & Privacy - Voices of VR Podcast

Cory Doctorow’s new sci-fi book “Walkaway” is a optimistic disaster novel that imagines what society might look like if people walked away from competitive market-driven laws, norms, and technological infrastructure and into an open-source inspired, collaborative gift economy. He’s a co-founder of Boing Boing, and he uses the daily transom of tech culture and innovation as inspiration for world building fodder for his potential utopian futures. Privacy is also a recurring theme as the cyberpunks of the future have a number of different tactics for going dark and protecting their private data from being exploited.

I had a chance to catch up with Doctorow on his book tour stop in Portland, and we talked about gift economy economic paradigms, theoretical self-provisioning Spimeobjects that instantiate when you need them and disintegrate into elemental form when complete, the extent to which market forces continue to infiltrate all dimensions of our lives, and how we’re reaching a “peak of indifference about surveillance.”

LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST

At his core, Doctorow identifies as a pulp writer who puts zeppelin rail guns battling mech warriors at the forefront of his incredibly well-specified sci-fi worlds. He’s crafted an engaging drama that’s creatively exploring new cooperative economic paradigms. He isn’t trying to present a viable hybrid synthesis of the old and the new worlds, but rather creatively explore building a greenfield world from scratch that’s based upon a post-scarcity mindset and fueled by open-source principles. It’s a world where it’s inhabitants exhibit an enlightened Buddhist level of deattachment to physical objects to the point where concepts of personal property have vanished.

Virtual Reality may prove to an experimental sandbox environment to prototype greenfield environments that could foster this type of post-scarcity gift economies. I’m already starting to see this type of gift economy exchange in virtual worlds that would be much more difficult given the constraints of real reality. You can find examples of cooperative asset sharing in Anyland, Tilt Brush worlds can be remixed, and you can mash-up A-Frame WebVR code with one-liners.

If the technical infrastructure moves to a model of distributed file storage, then this will invert the inverse relationship between supply and demand in that “the more popular something is, then the more available it becomes.” In other words, it’ll be kind of like a Bitorrent peer-to-peer network in that popular files have more seeds and are generally more available and faster to download. In other words, the more valuable an asset is, the easier it is to get ahold of it within these digital peer-to-peer sharing networks.

This is the opposite for how physical reality usually works, and so online virtual worlds will likely be the proving grounds to explore new cooperative models of yin currencies. It will also enable self-provisioning “spime” resources to arrive at the moment of need and then gracefully bow out back into the material stream of “feedstock.” Doctorow calls this the “Zip Car version of fully-automated, luxury communism.”

In this day and age, it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to come up with a variety of potential dystopian futures that could be episodes of Black Mirror. What’s harder is to come up with a number of potential utopian White Mirror futures that extrapolate current technological metaphors into the future. Doctorow is one of the most sophisticated and nuanced sci-fi world builders out there today, and he’s constructed an inspiring vision of a potential gift culture paradigm. It may be a while before the full realization is possible to achieve in real reality, but this type of world and cultural norms can start to be prototyped and built in VR today.

[transinformed-blog]

TW: Gender Dysphoria Since I was little I never felt like I was a girl... fully. My assigned sex is female, but I never felt like I was female. I often feel male-ish, I get dysphoric about having breasts, and I wish to remove them. I am comfy with my sex organs though? I shave my head and wear mostly men’s clothing, but I feel safe being she/her... but I wouldn’t mind being called they/them or he/his either?? I just am so confused and idk I feel lost idk if there is a word for how I feel.

I’m not a gender therapist, obviously. Therefore everything I say is just my simple opinion on the few information I got and pretty far from any kind of diagnosis.I won’t really get into the “feeling” male/female thing, since it’s might able to give a few hints about ones gender identity, but doesn’t really mean anything when it comes to actual gender dysphoria. That being said a lot of FtMs don’t experience bottom dysphoria or only start to experience it later in life, since most focuss what is right in front of them, even if they wear clothes (of course it’s not all about appereance, just because something isn’t visible to those around you doesn’t mean you can’t feel dysphoric about it, but I think you get what I’m trying to say). Also, even if more uncommon, some FtMs aren’t too uncomfortable with female pronouns or a female name because they somehow manage to deattache themselves from it.On the other hand you could also be FtN since you only experience really specific dysphoria and seem to be okay with being not seen as a man by society.I’d really recommend going to a specialized therapist to talk about your experiences with gender dysphoria and to keep an eye on how you experience dysphoria and what you want to be seen as by society, also later in life. I can try to find more helpful sources and attach them to this post.

[whining-ego]

Blog update: first post

tw: abuse

music in my earphones is too distracting for me to write the greeting

this blog is deficated to me, wholely, solely, purely to me, my ego, and my whining. and i know it might get negativity. i do. but honestly will i even remember this blog in a week or so

but hey, babbling bout oneself is totes fine, innit? there are ton of blogs out there. nothing special. and i dont claim myself to be neither special nor ordinary. because either option is egoistic as fuck, (only in relation to me dont worry). with this much build-up, take that: i think im mentally ill/neurodivergent, and the diagnoses change day to day, and thats what i base my life on

hooray yer so special!!! congratz!!!

and i dont wanna change. like if i ever got diagnozed with anything, (even not on list), id be 'ooohhhh yuuuhhhh!' and. done. ima not gonna change my life for better. meds? cool. talk therapy? awesome. actually getting up yer ass up? understandable have a nice day

i dont know where it comes frome. perhaps its child abuse i experienced, something along the 'if im sick then people like and care for me' lines, yet honestly i cant remember most of the stuff or i feel great deattachement from the memories. either way, as i said, im not willing to change my lifestyle in any way.

thats why it might hurt people with actual diagnoses. because they struggle day to day to live their lives, theu fight for rights and understandement, then here i am with wild fantasias and 'please be patient im xxx' cap

(to be honest, i really see myself being called out. having drama. and it gets me excited and immersed into these scenarios. what would i answer, how to hide in case of total failure. i crave attention no matter the source apparently)

thats kinda why im making this blog. because i know my friends and relatives have their own problems; my whining is not worth their time. like when two people at the same day cried by my side (both in reality and in the internet) and i felt so. overwhelmed. like dayum bitch how do i comfort them??? never was my strong ability. so wasnt empathy. not tryna be an edgy kiddo here, but yea. egoism.

i wanted to do a listing of different diagnoses ive ever thought of having; most likely it will not be complete, since i dont remember vast majority of anything that was three days before.

currently, most suspicious of: inbetween adhd/autism, additionaly dissociation/depersonalization-derealization (the first one would explain both my childhood and present day, the latter is just something i have started to experience about half a year ago)

honorable mentions: depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, dysthymya, cyclothymia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, hoarding disorder, panic disorder, hypochondriacal disorder, dyslexia, schizophrenia, maladaptive daydreaming, and so on and so on and so on (like whole dsm list)

forgive me god for spamming in those peoples feed who will be looking for mentions of these above on tumblr

oh and also i want to become deaf. i know well that it would affect greatly my life, to the point i will suffer and suffer greatly, but everybody deserves a small guilty pleasure eh?

at different moment of my life i have immersed in these conditions soooooo much. researching information, projecting those disorders on my favourite characters in all sorts of ways (remember madd?), acting out real situations. it becomes my whole life. and then it shuts down and im not interested anymore. kinda like with everything else interesting, hence adhd.

and this blog will be a place where i can let myself out all i want. be as much of attention whore as i want. talk illogicaly and shitty and whatelse. heck yeah freedom

im not willing to change because i dont see a point. i love my comfort zone (fucking hate this phrase), i love being a stick in everybodys else bikes. and thats not a self-hate talk. i genuinely understand that i lack motivation or interest in changing, therefore i wont. if people leave me i just find different ones

(but i still believe it is not acceptable to talk this egoistically, to act this childlishly, not for me not for me. had really bad times because of this way of thinking)

enjoy this paradize of selfishness and laziness! i love feedback

just dont me dicks youselves

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ive been meaning to write this post since like 3pm and its 11pm now even though everything i had on my mind this whole time was "write this post!!!" but then i decided to reinstall os on my computer and it took three hours and after that i was too exhausted to do anything. so around time i started writing this i was surfing youtube and stuck on one particular video. i found it interesting but at the same time i needed to write! this! post! so i kept nervously watching the red line of time and simultaniouly wanting to turn on some music even though the video had audio and agggrhh. here we go. by the way i started writing This Post with this paragraph, not the main part, despite the fact that i dreamed so much about writing it. yay

[audi-enid]

RWBY Theory: What is a semblance?

If you are like most of the RWBY fans I have come across, then you believe aura is the power of the soul, even though people aren’t born with it and don’t show any difference after obtaining it. You also believe semblance is a power made from the aura and reflecting the user’s personality.

However, if you are one of a selected few who possess the incredible power of critical thinking, you know none of this is true. And if you come to the same conclusion me and my friends did... Then you’re probably a genius.

I am not a genius. Or at least, that isn’t what I am saying. This theory isn’t made by mine alone. It is a collabrication with my partner in law, which doesn’t have Tumblr. Her theories are published in RWBY Amino, and you can find her here. Reading her theories will make a few things clearer to you, but keep in mind some of them may be outdated.

So according to her, which I agree on, souls don’t exist in the world of RWBY. Aura is made of the same matter - or rather energy - which consists the “bodies” of the creatures of Grimm. Unlocking aura involves inserting your own aura (or an artificially created aura) inside another’s body, and from that moment on, the latter will generate the energy independently. Not all things can have aura, of course; most biological organisms and very few robots are able to efficiently generate it. Penny Polendina, as well as the combat robots seen in Grimm Eclipse, appear to consist of a special alloy made deliberately to be able to generate aura.

So to sum it up, aura is a parasitic type of Grimm that develops symbiosis with its host and replicates by causing another host to generate it. Its consciousness is the same as its host’s, and it can rarely tear itself from the host and take its consciousness with it, as seen with Ozpin.

That complicated, yet scientifically plausible explanation has a big hole in it: the semblance. A semblance is one or more special abilities which humans and faunus are able to wield via their aura. They often reflect the user’s personality, but in other occasions they seem to not have this connection at all.

Ironically, this thing many use as another proof of souls, might very well be a proof of aura originating from the Grimm. You see, there’s a thin line between certain semblances we see and the abilities of several high-class Grimm, especially in volume 4.

In chapter 3, “Of Runaways and Stowaways”, we are introduced to the Leviathan, one of the largest Grimm in the series. It’s strong, it’s fast, it’s tough, it can swim, it can fly, but the trait I want to mention is its ability to fire a concentrated beam of lightning from its mouth - not unlike Nora Valkyrie, whose semblance involves the absorption of electricity. It’s not limited just to strengthening her muscles; in Grimm Eclipse, we see Nora is able to fire actual beams of lightning at her victims as her team attack, and many upgrades for her involve chain lightning enmating from her attacks.

Another example we see comes from volume 4′s final boss. Nuckelavee, Harbinger, Cavalry, whatever you call it - we knew its roar before we knew how it looked like. This Grimm was famous for its roar, which along with its appearance made it one of the creepiest Grimm yet. Its roar appears to be more than just a roar - it seems like it has an incapacitating quality on whoever hears it. It appears to inflict a mental state of terror, unease and despair, which in turn reduces morale and willpower. This seems like an offensive variation of Jaune’s semblance seen only in Grimm Eclipse, his battlecry that raises his allies’ morale and pushes them to fight harder.

Perhaps the most prominent example is the Geist, the first new Grimm introduced in volume 4 (unless you count the Beringel). This ghostly creature seems to be very weak in its normal form, but its true power is its ability to possess objects, from boulders to a statue. The Geist functions as an aura to these objects, making them stronger and more durable, to the level of making a dead tree fire-proof. If it sounds familiar, that is because Ozpin’s semblance allows him to deattach his aura from his body along with his consciousness, and then transfer it into the body of a person who doesn’t have aura. Ozpin’s aura applies itself to that person as their own aura, and from that moment on, Ozpin’s thoughts, emotions and memories begin to gradually replace theirs, until nothing is left from the host other than their body, which is now Ozpin’s.

Other than these examples, Grimm appear to have other abilities which don’t directly correspond with a specific character’s semblance. Grimm of different species are able to communicate with one another. Cinder and Raven, both individuals with an association with Grimm, were shown to open portals. An unnamed Grimm featured only in the manga was able to merge four King Taijitu into one cluster; my guess is that the creature is able to bring its allies into perfect harmony via its tentacles.

All of these abilities, along with semblances, share a source. In science fiction, this source is called “Psionic”. As it appears, Grimm possess psionic abilities, and by merging Grimm flesh into their bodies, humans and faunus are able to wield psionic powers as well, which these powers known as semblances.

And if we’re already at it, there’s still something we left out: magic. The special power that the Seasonal Maidens and the Silver-Eyed Reapers use. What is it and where does it come from? Again I attempt to answer. Magic is an artificial human attempt to create an equivalent to psionic powers, created by humans long ago. Like psionic powers, it has several variations. The Seasonal Maidens’ magic has a set of rules showing it how to find a new user once its current one dies. The Silver-Eyed Reapers’ magic dies with its host, but if the user has a child, the child might possess this power as well. Even objects, such as dust (and possibly the Relics), can contain magic, though appearantly not every object can.

And there you have it: a full explanation to what semblances are, how they work and where they come from. Is it perfectly scientific and corresponding with real-world science? No. Is it certainly true and proved with complete evidence? No. But is it much more plausible and makes far more sense than the traditional explanations we see so often? HELL. FUCKING. YES.