people do evil after they lose their soul, so they get a free pass, sort of, at least until they die cause their soul's already whisked off without them. But if you choose to get your soul BACK after doing, er, naughty soulless things, then it's like Spike's image of having been mugged and all the charges coming due to you anyway. Or did I get it totally wrong?
No, you're on it. The idea is that the human who became a vampire did die after all, so if there's an afterlife they were meant to go to, their soul's already gone to it. The vampire that's left behind is a cosmic freebie - without a soul to keep accounts on, there's no blame assigned, so when they're dusted, they just disappear. Complete zero sum.
So your average vampire has nothing to fear from a dusting (my wank for why they all seem so blase about it) in terms of final judgement. The ONLY two vampires in the world with this accountabilty problem, having gotten their souls back and thus the accounts payable tab, are Angel and Spike. Which sucks to be them, I guess, although the whole where-you-go-after-you-die in this universe is still a bit of an open issue.
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Date: 2004-04-29 11:59 pm (UTC)No, you're on it. The idea is that the human who became a vampire did die after all, so if there's an afterlife they were meant to go to, their soul's already gone to it. The vampire that's left behind is a cosmic freebie - without a soul to keep accounts on, there's no blame assigned, so when they're dusted, they just disappear. Complete zero sum.
So your average vampire has nothing to fear from a dusting (my wank for why they all seem so blase about it) in terms of final judgement. The ONLY two vampires in the world with this accountabilty problem, having gotten their souls back and thus the accounts payable tab, are Angel and Spike. Which sucks to be them, I guess, although the whole where-you-go-after-you-die in this universe is still a bit of an open issue.