Heart and Mind both insist on not celebrating Wholes birthday [It’s senseless, we’re only getting older] (Just another year closer to dying) which Soul can’t fathom and gets very upset. When the day comes around Soul sits alone at their kitchen table with a single cupcake with a sparkler on top
Soul Hates Heart and Mind: A Message To The Chonny Jash Fandom (which dives into theory territory near the end)
Sorry guys, but I don’t see enough people talking about this, or enough fics that acknowledge this, so just in case I have to remind you:
You do remember that Soul… doesn’t like Heart or Mind, right?
No, seriously. He calls them parasites in The Soul Eclectic, is borderline forcing them to try and become Whole again (that one part of The Bidding), and he’s clearly only giving them the time of day because they’re the key to making him Whole: something that’s only important to him because it would basically kill them.
Not to mention, he also fucking sends death threats to them on a daily basis- death threats that he would absolutely carry out if doing so wouldn’t also kill him. Hell, at the end of The Soul Eclectic he plans to do it knowing it would also kill him.
If Heart’s problem is that he’s too emotional for his own good, and Mind’s is that he’s an arrogant jackass who bottles up all his emotions and judges people, then Soul’s is that he’s too obsessed with the past.
He doesn’t like what’s happened to his head, he wants things to go back to the way they used to, and he takes that anger out on Heart and Mind because it’s easy for him.
Hell, I’d say it’s not a bad theory that the only reason why Heart and Mind want to be Whole again is because Soul keeps telling them they have to.
And when Vol. 2 comes out… I think it’d be a pretty good plot twist that that obsession is what started the fighting in the first place.
So with that said… out of all three of them, who deserves it most?
Who must pay the toll?
Heart and Mind both insist on not celebrating Wholes birthday [It’s senseless, we’re only getting older] (Just another year closer to dying) which Soul can’t fathom and gets very upset. When the day comes around Soul sits alone at their kitchen table with a single cupcake with a sparkler on top