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Well, I appreciate the response man, but I wasn’t exactly asking about the mechanics of it. I think I have a good grasp of how Anima bands work, though your explanation is quite good. I’ve read the storyline where Frank and Joe wear anima bands of Will more than any other part of the interactive, I absolutely love the way Will goes through the book in that storyline. When I said I didn’t like to reread anima storylines, I meant the ones where Will wears them.

For this particular question though, I’m curious about Seuzz’s authorial intentions in making the band work that way. Though reading your explanation does make it occur to me that, as you note, if changes were permanent, then the altered copy could end up quite different from the original, and given the finite number of times Anima could be divided, that would somewhat limit its usefulness.

And it’s an interesting philosophical question on its own. At what level of divergence could you truly say that two pieces of the same soul who started identically and still answer to the same name aren’t the same soul anymore? I wonder if radically different evolutions of two pieces of the same anima might cause form kind of stability issues when implanted totally as with the Fane device or Will’s operating table that would otherwise be avoided by using the system that the band does, where the band creates a shadow of the original anima in the victim and leaving the original intact and unaltered.

Thanks Nostrum, now I’m working myself up with philosophical questions and technical libra questions again lol.