So the Kingdom Hearts series has an interesting setting concept where the heart and the soul are two separate components of a sapient being. (Possibly ‘of a sentient being’, although I don't think we've seen any evidence that nonsapients generate Nobodies.)
This is actually taken almost directly from Chinese mythology, in which people have two souls: the "lower" or yin soul, called the p'o, and the "upper" or yang soul, called the hun. The p'o is the animal nature; hopping vampires and hungry ghosts are the manifestation of loose, unplacated p'o. The upper soul is the intelligent nature; it proceeds on to heaven. (Players of Exalted will be familiar with this, as it was taken wholesale into the Exalted setting.)`{::}^1`
Curiously, I can't find anyone else in the English-speaking portion of the Internet who's noticed the parallel. I'm not just seeing things here, am I?
`{::}^1`You could probably run a decent KH game in Exalted, in fact: hungry ghosts as Heartless, regular ghosts as Nobodies, the Deathlords as Organization XIII (there are already thirteen of them!)... Gummispace is the Wyld, the worlds are stabilized pockets of Creation, and Keyblade manifestation is Glorious Solar Saber. Hmm.
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