When a body dies, the soul is pushed out into an in-between place. There, they can see all of their previous incarnations and reflect on them. When they are reborn, they forget all of it. Simple.
But sometimes, when the soul has a strong magical connection, they will be able to "feel" or sense where they should be.
How they should be.
While souls may have several base traits that they will always have, everything else is up to chance. Their personality will change depending on their upbringing and their morals.
And when they are a part of something as powerful as the Cipher Wheel, they tend to find each other.
Bleeding Heart is a girl this next time. Much more cheerful, too. His-no, her love of black is still the same, and she has several gothic-inspired tattoos. But they are far smarter than they ever were before.
Oddly enough, she works with Glasses. Glasses himself is far less insane than he was in his past life, and has a successful writing career along with his regular job.
Fez, strangely, is a hero. Not like a policeman, but an actual hero. One who can run faster than the speed of sound. But he still has his love of pranks, and his intelligence-which could probably rival that of Six Fingers at this point.
Ah, Six Fingers. He's a girl too. This one with magic running through her veins and rather know-it-all personality. But she has several close companions, including one who might just turn out to be more.
Ice Bag has a powerful best friend. One whose very existence manages to defy the laws of death. Another hero, actually. She's rich in this life, compared to her more simple living conditions when she was a lumberjack.
Pentagram is vastly different. He's not nearly as spoiled in this life compared to the last one, and he looks less like a living ventriloquist dummy and more like an actual human. Pretty smart, too.
Shooting Star, in an incredibly strange happenstance, ends up in another dimension. One where she is born into magical royalty. But she retains her love of glitter, puppies, and making other people happy. And somehow, she becomes friends with Pine Tree.
Pine Tree isn't as different as expected. He is far safer than he was before, and with a rather peculiar upbringing, but he is still mostly the same. Pine Tree dislikes Shooting Star at first, but it's impossible for a soul mate (platonic or otherwise) to hate its match.
Question Mark is small and chubby. He tries to be friends with everyone, and somehow finds a Prendergast. A medium from a long line of mediums. Oh, this should be very interesting.
Llama is maybe the most unlike her former life. In fact, the only thing that is the same is her blond hair and blue eyes. This Llama can trick and fight and scream, a powerful force for the fight of good. She's almost unrecognizable in her helpfulness and stark lack of evil. Llama is a therapist, for Satan's sake. That high level of change in between reincarnations is almost unheard of.
And then, of course, they all throw a massive magical wrench in Bill's carefully-laid plans.
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