Could a ghost possess a zombie created from its own body? Could this ghost-zombie hybrid, hypothetically, continue their career in law?
Depends entirely on the limitations of the ghost’s possession ability, but if the ghost can possess a living person and control them, then an animated corpse should work as well. The problem with continuing the career is that the body would continue to decay until the ghost wouldn’t be able to move it any more.
The problem with continuing the career is that the body would continue to decay until the ghost wouldn’t be able to move it any more.
Just like a living body 🙁
Indeed, but much faster.
But lawyers have no soul
Devils are LE, and work with lawyers frequently enough that they manage to buy their souls rather frequently. They had souls, they just have probably sold their soul. The lawyer one should be terrified of isn’t the LE lawyer, it’s the CG lawyer
It’s called a Lich, isn’t it?
I knew lawyers had to be into some dark magic
In at least two campaigns I’ve been in, the wizards college’s law department was always on fire and smelled of burning sulfur. Apparently they just like it that way?
Both times we ended up down there to summon an Arch devil so they could properly word a Wish for us.
I’d watch it.
Dying is no excuse to stop working, after all.
Szeth-son-son-Vallano, truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to become a magical flying ghost cop possessing his own corpse
I want an anime of this. haha.
“The Unwanted Undead Adventurer” is a pretty close approximation of this.
It’d be great; the main plot will be the ghost possessing his zombie body, so now he’s the only intelligent, reasonable zombie in a zombie apocalypse world. Obviously the living are going to be skeptical, and there’ll be issues with him occasionally losing control of the body…this has the makings of a great anime
Then eventually the original zombie body is too decayed and he’s pissed he has to start switching bodies, probably because it takes so long to get used to each and get control
I’m putting this in my next D&D campaign
The I, Zombie comic was so much weirder than the tv show.
For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without the spirit hath walked. And it is attested of those encountering who have lived to speak thereon that a lich so raised up hath no natural affection, nor remembrance thereof, but only hate. Also, it is known that some spirits which in life were benign become by death evil altogether.
- Hali, the Philosopher, from “Can Such Things Be?” By Ambrose Bierce in “The Death of Halpin Frayser”
For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remaineth; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit. This commonly occurreth only in solitude (such is God’s will) and, none seeing the end, we say that man is lost, or gone on a long journey—which indeed he hath; but sometimes it hath happened in the sight of many, as abundant testimony showeth. In one kind of death the spirit also dieth, and this it hath been known to do while yet the body was in vigor for many years. Sometimes, as is veritably attested, it dieth with the body, but after a season is raised up again in that place where the body did decay.woops, wrong Hali QouteThere’s a Wattpad Novel, “Running with Scissor”, where the mc’s body and soul are separated by some sort of spell and he has to recover his body before midnight or the spell becomes permanent. It’s pretty good absurdist humour reminescent of The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
I love this idea.
Just make sure at least one member of the party is in a compromised position when they bite it. Example: not wearing any pants.
Orel! Think of the decency issue!
“ooooveerrruuuulllleeeed”
/eats brains
mc chris has an album about this
I’m going to say yes, they can.
I saw a short horror film about this exact scenario a few months ago.
I just spent some time on the festival site trying to find it but I don’t remember what it was called. The festival organizer is a friend, I’ll send him a message.
Did the friend respond?
Yes. Depending on the fiction, if the ghost isn’t a soul but instead a psychic/spiritual remnant, both can happen and the soul can have gone to the afterlife too. You can do a lot with fiction.
Story pitch: Soul gets to leave hell for one night to convince someone to put down their zombie corpse so their ghost will demanifest and they can finally go to a better afterlife.
Love this idea.
If the zombie’s body still has some link to the soul such that it could see and react to the ghost, they could make an extremely awkward yet dangerous team.
“Come over this way, buddy! Brains over here!”
“Brainsh?” Shuffle, shuffle.
“Yup, see?” The ghost points triumphantly at a hamster cage. “Lots of juicy little brains to eat!”
“Awww… Tired of mowsh brainsh! WANT HOOMAN BRAINSH!”
Zombie takes another vicious swipe at the ghost but finds only air.
“Why can no eat you brainsh again?”
“As I’ve explained all evening, I’m ethereal, not really here, sorry, friend. It’s mouse or nothing.”
The zombie’s shoulders slump in disappointment, but he turns to the hamster cage. The hamsters peer back, vaguely uneasy.
“C’mere cute liddle mowshes…”
Clang, squeak, munch, munch, munch.
Kingdom Hearts kinda had this with the Heartless (from a person’s heart) and the Nobodies (from a person’s body).
Kingdom Hearts
Edit: looking at the other comments I’m glad I’m not the only one with that brainrot.
