Soul Splitting

Soul Splitting
Death (Darksiders 2) is able to use this power
Power/Ability to:	Split one's own soul or the souls of others.

The power to split one's own soul or the souls of others. Sub-power of Soul Manipulation. Opposite to Soul Merging. Not to be confused with Soul Genesis.

Also Called

• Essence Division
• Soul Separation
• Spirit Dividing/Splitting/Separation

Capabilities

The user can split or divide their own soul or the souls of others to create new beings, including basing the division on personalities and emotions to become separate beings, as well as having the divided portions possess other people. They can even achieve immortality by sealing a fraction of their soul in certain objects and having them anchor the "main" soul onto the earth should the body be destroyed.

Applications

• Life Creation
• Reincarnation
• Self-Puppetry

Techniques

• Immortality - using Self-Puppetry, they anchor themselves onto the earth should their body be destroyed

Associations

• Aspect Expulsion
• Genesis Creation
• Hybrid Soul
• Morality Manipulation: creating a spiritual splits of Yin and Yang.
• Possession
• Replication
• Soul Manipulation
• Soul Sealing
• Spirit Physiology
• Yin & Yang Separation

Limitations

• The number of splittings may be limited by the soul's strength.
• Too many splittings may cause the soul to weaken/degenerate/self-destruct.
• Earthbound souls from the destruction of the body may be in a state worse than death.
• The act of splitting the soul may require the supreme act of evil to achieve: murder.
• To repair the split may require a painful reconciliation that could be fatal.
• The split beings may still share a lifeline.
• May cause physical, mental and spiritual instability or pain of the individual.

Known Users

• The Scientist (9), via Talisman.
• Ars Magnus "Existential Division" (Anima Beyond Fantasy)
• Coyote Starrk & Lilynette Gingerbuck (Bleach)
• Nemu Kurotsuchi (Bleach)
• Oko Yushima (Bleach)
• Szayelaporro Granz (Bleach)
• Yhwach (Bleach)
• Schala Zeal/Kid (Chrono Cross)
• Death (Darksiders 2)

• Belial Aensland (Darkstalkers)
• Yamai (Date A Live)
• Perpetua (DC Comics)
• Vergil (Devil May Cry)
• Users of Spirit Control (Dragon Ball series)
  • Pybara
  • Vegeta
• Ashunera (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)
• Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Focalors (Genshin Impact)
• Ichinomiya Shingo (Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!)
• Horcrux creators (Harry Potter)
  • Lord Voldemort
• Jyoka (Houshin Engi)
• Naraku (InuYasha)
• Users of the Tiger Talisman (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Master Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)
• Ahura Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
• Minato Namikaze (Naruto)
• Carmel (One Piece); via the Soru Soru no Mi
• Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece); via the Soru Soru no Mi
• Happosai (Ranma 1/2)
• Pietro Polendina (RWBY)
• Lisa Oakwood (The Sacred Blacksmith)
• Rouge (Saga Frontier)
• Dark Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Known Objects

• The Talisman (9)
• Yamato (Devil May Cry)
• Soul Gem (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

Coyote Starrk/Lilynette Gingerbuck (Bleach) can split their soul apart for companionship and wolf-based attacks.

Szayelaporro Granz (Bleach) split his soul off to create his brother Ilfort Granz via experimentation, thus devolving from a Vasto Lorde back into an Adjuchas.

Nemu Kurotsuchi (Bleach) can use Konpaku Sessaku to split off certain percentages of her soul in order to fire them off as highly destructive attacks, Gikon Jūrinjū.

In order to help her control her immense power, Belial Aensland (Darkstalkers) split Morrigan's soul into three fragments, sealing one portion of it in himself...

...while the second portion eventually gained its own body and conscious mind, becoming Lilith.

With the power of the Totality, Perpetua (DC Comics) splintered the soul of Chay-ara causing her to reincarnate as both Kendra Saunders on Earth after the death of Shiera Hall and as Shayera Hol of Thanagar.

Vergil (Devil May Cry) used Yamato to split his soul into two...

...V representing the human half...

...and Urizen the demon one.

Due to his soul's instability after having his body changed so many times, Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist 2003) gained the ability to split his soul into pieces and insert them into inanimate objects to act as golems.

Voldemort (Harry Potter) split his soul into eight fragments and placed seven of them into special Horcruxes to achieve a form of immortality but at the cost of his mental, physical and spiritual stability.

Master Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts) split his heart and essence into fragments and implanted them into twelve different individuals to convert them into his clones.

Kain (Legacy of Kain) revived his six lieutenants as vampires by splitting off portions of his soul and breathing them into their corpses.

Minato Namikaze (Naruto) use the Reaper Death Seal to split Kurama/Nine-Tails' spirit into yin and yang, sealing the yin half into himself and the yang half into his son, Naruto Uzumaki.

Carmel (One Piece) separates a piece of her soul...

...and infuses it into an inferno to create Sun Homie Pandora.

Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece) used fragments of her own soul to create her three personal homies, Prometheus, Zeus and Napoleon.

Pietro Polendina (RWBY) split off portions of his own Aura in order to give life and soul to his creation, Penny Polendina, at the cost of creating permanent holes in it.

Ryō Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!) splitting a portion of his soul and implanting them into his dice, ensuring he will roll a super critical.