#dude you got me so happy to talk about this. it’s basically speculative biology but with magic

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Do u think animals have like, souls? Like, an actual cat existing in the UT/DR universe. Would it have a soul??

Okay actually 👀 surprisingly I have huge Biological/Evolutionary theory that would make a lot of sense in context 👀 (I really like this type of science too)

The theory is in this world, all matter has magic. Monsters and humans both evolved from animals, but store magic in a different way from most organisms, through concentrating much of their magic through a central vessel called a “soul”. With a theory like this, animals (and possibly plants), despite not having the technical definition of a “soul”, can still retain magic elements. They can be sentient and emotive despite this lack of a soul, which they do not need in order to survive, unlike Humans and Monsters.