Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.38.193.5-20140417061758/@comment-108.38.193.5-20140418072210

MattK974 wrote: Well, I didn't mean "billions" as in the people that are alive on Remnant currently. I meant all the people who have lived and died on Remnant throughout it's entire history (ie. the number of souls in the world, since semblance seems to originate from the soul). That being said, I wonder if people can use their aura/semblance in their "soul form", or what even happens to a person's soul when they die. Bleach and Soul Eater, for example, show two different ways of interpreting this, I wonder how RWBY will explain it, if it does. Idk, maybe I'm looking into it too much. I think I remember reading a fanfic about a character with that semblance, their soul could detach from their body for a limited time and possess Grimm since they have no soul or scour someone's memory, but they could be sealed away. That could also be a point, what happens to a person's soul? Is there an afterlife? Do they go nowhere? Are there ghost in RWBY? If there is, then is there an character whose semblance is interacting with those souls and could talk to the "dead".