- "To live without a soul is to live with something lost...Empty in both head and heart."
- â Dr. Occult (DC Comics)
- "What soul? Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? Nothing. That's what I found in the boy. No conscience, no fear, no humanity. Just a black void. I couldn't control him, I couldn't get out, I had never even manifested until you brought me forth. I just sat there and watched as he destroyed everything around him. Not from a belief in evil, not for any reason at all"
- â Ethros Demon describing Ryan Anderson (Angel)
The ability to possess no soul or spirit within one's body or physical form. Variation to Paradox Existence.
Also Called
- Soulless Being Physiology
- Soulless Existence
Capabilities
User possesses no soul or spiritual tether to the world, essentially making the user emotionless and immortal, as a person needs a soul to have a degree of mortality in the first place. A soulless person does not possess emotions or feelings to cloud their ambition making them excellent killers and assassins and they cannot be tracked in mystical ways due to a lack of spiritual essence.
User can not be influenced by the powers of Heaven or Hell and is immune to the effects of Soul Manipulation, Necromancy, Soul Absorption, Soul Removal, Contract Bestowal or Penance Stare.
Applications
Associations
- Absolute Immortality
- Alpha Physiology
- Amortality
- Aura Awareness
- Enhanced Assassination
- Freedom
- Grim Reaper Physiology
- Heartlessness
- Fear Masking
- Immortality
- Lifeless Body Creation
- Mecha Physiology
- Nonexistence (personal soul/emotions)
- Pain Suppression
- Paradox Existence
- Perfection
- Sealed Form
- Soul Manipulation
- Soul Sealing (Other beings' souls)
- Supernatural Condition
- Undead Physiology
- Unpredictability
Limitations
- If user's soul was taken then Soul Restoration can counter this.
- If users soul was destroyed then Soul Recreation can counter this.
- May not be able to manipulate life force.
- May be vulnerable to Possession.
- Being soulless does not affect users of Eternal Bond.
- Soul Creation
- Not immune to Oblivion and Nonexistence.
Known Users
- Ryan Anderson (Angel)
- Patry (Black Clover); after becoming a Dark Elf
- Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin (Dark Souls II)
- Galvatron (Transformers cinema)
- Nekron (DC Comics)
- Solomon Grundy (DC Comics)
- Stalker (DC Comics)
- Vampires (Romanian Mythology)
- Vampires (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
- Leviathans (Supernatural)
- Soulless Humans (Supernatural)
- Sam Winchester; formerly
- Donatello Redfield
- Angels (Supernatural)
- Chuck Shurley/God (Supernatural)
- Amara/The Darkness (Supernatural)
- Death (Supernatural)
- Jack (Supernatural): Formerly
- Centurious (Marvel Comics)
- Blackheart (Marvel Comics)
- Count Abyss (Marvel Comics)
- Galactus (Marvel Comics)
- Genomes (Final Fantasy IX)
- Homunculus (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Dementors (Harry Potter)
- Heartless (Kingdom Hearts)
- Hunson Abadeer (Adventure Time)
- Alice (Pandora Hearts)
- Oz Vessalius (Pandora Hearts): body possessed by the amnesic Jack Vessalius
- Soulgutter (Romancing Saga)
- Xayide (The Neverending Story)
- Kyouka Amamiya (Not Lives); temporarily
- Alexia Tarabotti (The Parasol Protectorate)
- Creatures of Grimm (RWBY)
- Vector (Sword Art Online)
- Adam (I,Frankenstien"); Formerly
- Iron Maiden (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Enforcer (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Flowey (Undertale)
- Angor Rot (Trollhunters)
- Mazikeen (Lucifer)
- Replicants (NieR)