⏪︎ 『 overview 』 ⏩︎

ASTRAL HEARTS are the lifeforce of cosmi. Everyone has them, and many things have them too. They are made of stardust, magic, and lots of love, among other things. (that last part isn't true, is it?)

When a HEART enters a vessel, they are infused with everything that makes that vessel them: memories, interests, relationships and such. This doesn't mean that a HEART represents who someone is destined to be, but rather who they are at the moment. HEARTS aren't necessarily a cosmi's mind, either. Picture this:

You, the HEART, are riding in a taxi, the BODY, driven by some other cosmi, the MIND. Incidentally, you two are wearing your birthday suits, which is to say no suit at all. While driving around, the driver decides to pick up a paint job and some clothes they like. They get you the same set of clothes, and you wear them, because you are cold, and you probably shouldn't be out in the open without any clothes on, but really, who cares if there's someone nude outside, it's not like they haven't seen a naked body before.

...where was I going with this...?

Point is, the HEART is not the mind or the body, but rather a magical third force beyond the unconscious. Because it is made up of mostly magic, it has difficulty interacting with the carnal world, which is where having a physical body comes in handy. The mind serves as a bridge between the carnal and the spiritual (cardiac?) worlds. And the HEART just sits in the back most of the time, indulging in the tragicomedy of life and eating proverbial popcorn. So, cardiac controls cerebral controls carnal. There's probably a lot more to it than that, but that's the basic gist.

Usually, your conscious lies in the mind. But when you go to sleep, your consciousness transfers from the mind to the HEART. Then, the HEART enters a special space called a psychosphere. This is essentially the HEART turned into a physical realm. (well, more physical than some abstract conscious, anyhow.) There, you are free to dance and play and do whatever you please until the mind tells the body to yank you back into reality. Dreaming is the most common means of entering the psychosphere, but some can enter at will, while others may be forced in for various reasons. For instance, extreme distress. Like dying.

For most cosmi, death is a one-way ticket to your psychosphere. You can hang around and, well, probably be bored for the rest of eternity, death is a sleepless dream after all. However, you can probably figure out a way to reincarnate yourself and start the cycle over, if the carnal realm really calls to your HEART that much.

⏪︎ 『 heartmates 』 ⏩︎

Have you ever met a stranger and felt an intimate connection to them? In the QUILT, that's a sure sign you two are HEARTMATES. This is a special kind of relationship where two or more HEARTS are linked together, and it can span worlds, universes, and even time!

It's hard to tell how heartmates become heartmates. Often times they are connected via shared experiences, interests, or personalities. Other times they are so different from each other that they become heartmates. As the saying goes, "opposites attract." Heartmates almost always share a psychosphere, made up of their individual psychospheres, like a milkshake of dreams. This is usually how they meet!

That's generally how it works spatially, but heartmates can also exist temporally. Surprisingly, those are a little bit simpler. In fact, it boils down to: past lives = temporal heartmates! When transmigrating to new bodies, and they tend to carry some "residue" from their past lives, such as memories. Naturally you won't get to meet a temporal heartmate outside of your psychosphere, though if you mess around with chronoturgy you could probably meet them in person. But, I wouldn't recommend doing that...

⏪︎ 『 sanguine strings 』 ⏩︎

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⏪︎ 『 mixing 』 ⏩︎

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⏪︎ 『 trivia 』 ⏩︎

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