That part is definitely unique. But the basics of it... are familiar.

[ another pause, realizing how many ways there are to misinterpret that into something more helpful than it actually is. ]

Not from a game. Just from—before. Ghosts soaking into hosts to hurt people.

The basics of the possession thing in general, you mean, or like you had cases where two ghosts were in one person at the same time?

Kind of both, but... More than two. It was 97 ghosts at a time. It had been so long. Their individual identities were kind of... faded.

Holy shit.

They'd make it easier to lean in to negative emotions. Anger and resentment would take over and the possessed would lash out.

Though—they usually hurt the person they were possessing, if anyone.

Jeez... That does sound sort of similar though, yeah.

[ at least he thinks it does?? he's kind of just making inferences and assumptions since it never happened to him personally. ]

I don't know if it's a hard rule of possession. Maybe just a frequent commonality.

Yeah, I figure there are some cases where it's just like, a straight-up one-to-one thing where whoever or whatever is doing the possessing completely replaces the personality of the host.

[ like when maya channels people, though he has no idea that's actually a thing! anyway i feel like this must have happened at some point in his old 60s/80s anime in a stupid way ]

But it does seem like just influencing rather than overwriting is more common as far as these things go.

I've seen moments of one-to-one. But I'm a lot more familiar with it being more of a nudge.

I don't know if that's any better, though.

Probably worse that way, since you can't be sure how much of it was really you.

Yeah. That's true.

It's nicer to have something to blame besides yourself. And given that we know people in these situations just go somewhere else to deal with the aftermath alone...

Yeah... better to have less to feel guilty about.

Guilt never does anyone any favors.