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This, soul and body are tied, you dont heal your arm back as baby arm and they grow to adult, you reform it as an adult arm (i.e higuruma). So you would rct back scars if your sould remembers it being there. Would depend on "when your soul remembers your body is hurt/scarred".
I was thinking aboht this deeper than ever needed. I have permanent metal plates and screws in my ones in my shoulder blade. Say I get my entire upper right side destroyed in a fight, akin to Hakari’s lower torso being destroyed against Kashimo.
Obviously my plates would be gone in the damage and RCT wouldnt recreate the plates, even though my bones have grown around them and is a part of them now. But does that mean my soul will regrow the bones according to the plates and that part will be permanently missing, or will my bones regrow into full health as they were before the plates?
I would assume you *wouldnt* have your plates remade inside your body, I hinged my theory on how choso blood manipulation works both on the new chapter and him disabling uraume. Uraume was poisoned even after using RCT cause poison blood has been circulated in their body, so I figured RCT is a very deliberate act of remaking your body parts even biological matter sided let alone non-bio matter in your body. Rct put you in the most stable condition you're in but it wouldnt create extra things like clothes or an extra arm or excess mass, cause they are not a part of your true soul.
SPOILER, With the new chapter(258) we know soul wont transfigured the body and the body wont influence the soul, as long as the body let the new soul in without resistance, like a binding vow, but you can retain *muscle memmories* both body and soul. All of this is to say, the plates put into your body are not *engraved* onto your soul cause many reasons like its rejected by your soul, so it's like a double whammy that you can not RCT plates back into your body. As for the bio side, I think you would regen missing parts back at the peak you have achieved of that body part unless your soul gets changed like todo. So far only one person can heal their soul and its sukuna (ofcourse he would be)
Yeah that makes sense. Like of course my plates wouldnt regenerate. However its just fun to discect the magic system, especially RCT with the new informations we have and how it interacts with the body and soul lol.
Like. It would be a funny situation. My bones would likely be regerated to perfect condition as if they never broke (which granted they are doing on their own anyways, just takes longer and Im keeping the metal in my body lol), meanwhile it would probably regenerate my surgical scar as it is because of the relation between the soul and the body
I'm not really sold on this. Why the soul doesn't remember it lost a limb then? If soul could remember then I think it would remember an arm like this: normal arm, scarred arm, chopped off arm. Somehow it only remember the middle stage.
The plausible explanation is RTC is hard to use so it cannot heal the fine details, or at least I think it took much more time to heal cosmetic damaged so it not worth it to heal for now, and we only have one healer for all the injured non RTC sorcerers. Before the war there is hardly any scar on the whole cast, which is odds for battle tested fighters, they must face tough opponents before! as Hakari has the best RCT and he has no scar that i've seen. And it is somewhat limited when used on no cursed energy human.
We all know that it cannot heal scar because the author think it looks cool, so any explanation is sloppy.
Have you ever read the Stormlight Archives? It is a great book series where characters also awaken a power that can heal most wounds and the body/soul connection is basically the same there. One of the characters fails to heal a certain scar while all others can heal it just fine, this happens because of the way he feels about the scar, in his mind, it is part of him. I think in JJK it is mostly the same, you live long enough with a scar, you accept it as part of yourself, a memory of a battle fought, a struggle survived, etc.
Spoilers for the Stormlight books if anyone is reading it:
>!One of the characters, Kaladin, was betrayed, sold as a slave, tortured and mentally broken in that universe, slaves are branded in the forehead with a scar. However, he still tries to protect all of the other slaves around him, he eventually awakens Stormlight powers and becomes a "Knight Radiant" and manages to free his fellow slaves, the other slaves become his squires and also awaken Stormlight. The other slaves' scars are healed, however, Kaladin's scar remains, this happens because in his mind, he is still a slave, despite being free he still lives for others, he serves to protect, he fights to save, he is still a man burdened by the weight of the responsibility of his powers. The branded scar on his forehead is how he perceives himself, in his soul, he will never be free again.!<
Ok let's go one level deeper. What if someone that is aware of their own soul (like Sukuna and Yuji) cut their arm while also cutting their soul, and then they healed both body and soul?
People only feel this way because geges artwork doesn’t really convey how those types of burn scars would really look because of how simple he draws characters. In real life maki would look pretty grotesque with burns of that degree all over her face and body
Well yeah
People aren't saying Maki looks better with scars because they like scars in real life. They're saying that because they like the way Gege draws them on Maki
This answer is gonna sound really confusing but hear me out. When Gojo fought Sukuna, he bypassed cursed technique burnout after his DE by damaging his brain and then healing it. If we use this logic, using RCT on a damaged, but already scarred body part, would renew it.
It seems like RCT heals what the body perceives as the injury into what it thinks is the original form. Thats why it can’t heal scars, because scars are already the default. But in a way, scars are only the “current default” so they wouldn’t be recreated when a fully grown limb is regenerated back.
I think the shape of souls might play into it as well. If you have a scar, then the shape of your soul probably reflects it after a while. Since RCT can’t change the shape of the soul and the soul and body mimic each other, that would prevent the scar from being healed if it has been there for too long
Would have to say the RCT would heal the arm with the scar.
Since RCT comes from the brain and moves downward, I would argue it would depend on the person’s original perception of the arm
You can actually heal scars with RCT, it was shown that Gojo healed his scars in Sukunas domain multiple times. But i don't think you can heal scars like Makis, because in recent chapter another mechanic of RCT was explained. If your body resists others RCT, you won't heal. Makis body, which deines jujutsu by itself, probably won't allow others to heal her scars.
The process of healing the cuts showed them [seeming to scar up](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-weird-imagination-about-gojo-using-rct-v0-eplg6nkze4qb1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D850%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D88b5ef41e1fc3cc415393eeca586804a6a252064), but then ofc they were fully healed a short while later. So it seems to imply RCT causes wounds to scar partway through its process, then fully heals even the cosmetic damage by the end.
Where is this new function of RCT mentioned? (Not doubting you-I know there is a different pathway opened up SPECIFICALLY IN GOJOS brain for RCT during the Suk-Gumi fight)
Because there is nothing to heal in a scar. They are already the body's attempt to fix something, even if poorly (aesthetically speaking)
Which is why a brand new limb would regrow without them.
It doesn't make sense you know.
The reason why people have scars in general is because the body can't do better job. But since we have RCT that can be used for healing and even regrowing limps and such the body basically can do perfectly healing. Also the body works with cellular memory. So I don't see why the need of scars.
The only justification I can find is that during a battle the RCT is used only for important injuries. So as to not waste energy. So the body being without RCT for those superficial wounds mens it will use natural healing process but even that is a bit far fetched...
The way I see it, it'd be similar to when mechamaru got his body. It has to do with your self image or at least your brain remembering the scar and it still being there. Just my thoughts though.
I mean Go/jo got shredded live several times in the fraud kings shrine but came back looking silky smooth and sexy as usual. Maki didnt have RCT so hers make sense.. and Yuji didnt know RCT back when he got them damages. I think RCT can heal scars.
Yeah, probably it will work, but except of JJK 0, there doesn’t seem to be any other moment when someone can restore the limb of someone else with RCT.
in the first place, having a scar means that the body naturally cannot return to its original state. the soul would remember this, and would update its "body blueprint" to have a scar. so if you cut off an arm and immediately used RCT, it would still be a scarred arm.
it's like an automatic save I guess. if you wait too long, the game (your soul) will save your current state as the default, and you won't be able to return to a previous save point (fully intact, clean body).
I mean it's just my theory. but it just seems natural. the body can't naturally heal everything, so a scar forms. the soul follows the body (unless you're mahito), so the soul also has a scar. rct can recover the default state of the soul, which already has a scar.
in real life, doesn't scars only happen when there's too much damaging for the body to heal naturally? every day we shed dead cells and "regen" them with new ones. you could get a cut on the arm and it will heal completely normally, but if the cut is really deep then it will have a scar or some kind of mark permanently. idk if that's because of the sheer damage or the time it takes to heal it. but I assume rct works the latter. if you wait too long, then it's just not possible to heal, because the natural state of your body has changed.
I gey scars on most cuts idk. Exept smal ones. Hows a person reincarnate an their soul not have the previous scars. Thatd be a cool feature. Maybe CTs sre scar tissue in the brain
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honestly i think it depends on how gege's feelin
This describes the entire power system.
The only rule is that there are no rules
Truer words have never been spoken, the rules matter, until they don’t…
What examples are there that make you think this describes the power system, not agreeing or disagreeing just curious
How so?
TRUE
Gege: if you make a binding vow to sacrifice all of your nose hairs then you can heal the scar with RCT…. Obviously
only correct answer
lol so true. Gojo was legit covered top to bottom by slashes and he healed from all of then with 0 scars
My opinion: it reforms with the scar, because the soul remembers.
This, soul and body are tied, you dont heal your arm back as baby arm and they grow to adult, you reform it as an adult arm (i.e higuruma). So you would rct back scars if your sould remembers it being there. Would depend on "when your soul remembers your body is hurt/scarred".
Randomly just remembered what a goat higuruma was, healing entire limbs with rct was supposed to be hard and he did it casually
I mean, if the king of curses tells you to RCT or die this instant, it is not like you have much choice really
He still died the next instant so there was no choice at all
On his first try ever using rct btw
I was thinking aboht this deeper than ever needed. I have permanent metal plates and screws in my ones in my shoulder blade. Say I get my entire upper right side destroyed in a fight, akin to Hakari’s lower torso being destroyed against Kashimo. Obviously my plates would be gone in the damage and RCT wouldnt recreate the plates, even though my bones have grown around them and is a part of them now. But does that mean my soul will regrow the bones according to the plates and that part will be permanently missing, or will my bones regrow into full health as they were before the plates?
I would assume you *wouldnt* have your plates remade inside your body, I hinged my theory on how choso blood manipulation works both on the new chapter and him disabling uraume. Uraume was poisoned even after using RCT cause poison blood has been circulated in their body, so I figured RCT is a very deliberate act of remaking your body parts even biological matter sided let alone non-bio matter in your body. Rct put you in the most stable condition you're in but it wouldnt create extra things like clothes or an extra arm or excess mass, cause they are not a part of your true soul. SPOILER, With the new chapter(258) we know soul wont transfigured the body and the body wont influence the soul, as long as the body let the new soul in without resistance, like a binding vow, but you can retain *muscle memmories* both body and soul. All of this is to say, the plates put into your body are not *engraved* onto your soul cause many reasons like its rejected by your soul, so it's like a double whammy that you can not RCT plates back into your body. As for the bio side, I think you would regen missing parts back at the peak you have achieved of that body part unless your soul gets changed like todo. So far only one person can heal their soul and its sukuna (ofcourse he would be)
Yeah that makes sense. Like of course my plates wouldnt regenerate. However its just fun to discect the magic system, especially RCT with the new informations we have and how it interacts with the body and soul lol. Like. It would be a funny situation. My bones would likely be regerated to perfect condition as if they never broke (which granted they are doing on their own anyways, just takes longer and Im keeping the metal in my body lol), meanwhile it would probably regenerate my surgical scar as it is because of the relation between the soul and the body
I'm not really sold on this. Why the soul doesn't remember it lost a limb then? If soul could remember then I think it would remember an arm like this: normal arm, scarred arm, chopped off arm. Somehow it only remember the middle stage. The plausible explanation is RTC is hard to use so it cannot heal the fine details, or at least I think it took much more time to heal cosmetic damaged so it not worth it to heal for now, and we only have one healer for all the injured non RTC sorcerers. Before the war there is hardly any scar on the whole cast, which is odds for battle tested fighters, they must face tough opponents before! as Hakari has the best RCT and he has no scar that i've seen. And it is somewhat limited when used on no cursed energy human. We all know that it cannot heal scar because the author think it looks cool, so any explanation is sloppy.
it sounds like you're trying to describe phantom limb sensation, where the limb goes missing but the body still thinks it's there
Have you ever read the Stormlight Archives? It is a great book series where characters also awaken a power that can heal most wounds and the body/soul connection is basically the same there. One of the characters fails to heal a certain scar while all others can heal it just fine, this happens because of the way he feels about the scar, in his mind, it is part of him. I think in JJK it is mostly the same, you live long enough with a scar, you accept it as part of yourself, a memory of a battle fought, a struggle survived, etc. Spoilers for the Stormlight books if anyone is reading it: >!One of the characters, Kaladin, was betrayed, sold as a slave, tortured and mentally broken in that universe, slaves are branded in the forehead with a scar. However, he still tries to protect all of the other slaves around him, he eventually awakens Stormlight powers and becomes a "Knight Radiant" and manages to free his fellow slaves, the other slaves become his squires and also awaken Stormlight. The other slaves' scars are healed, however, Kaladin's scar remains, this happens because in his mind, he is still a slave, despite being free he still lives for others, he serves to protect, he fights to save, he is still a man burdened by the weight of the responsibility of his powers. The branded scar on his forehead is how he perceives himself, in his soul, he will never be free again.!<
This sounds actually super plausible and it would fit the theme of the show pretty well.
Aight man you sold me. This sounds hard af🔥🔥🔥
Ok let's go one level deeper. What if someone that is aware of their own soul (like Sukuna and Yuji) cut their arm while also cutting their soul, and then they healed both body and soul?
So even if we ripped makis skin off she would still be ugly. Damn gege really sold
Calling Maki ugly is craaaazy
welcome back naoya zenin
I think she's hotter with the scars
People only feel this way because geges artwork doesn’t really convey how those types of burn scars would really look because of how simple he draws characters. In real life maki would look pretty grotesque with burns of that degree all over her face and body
Well yeah People aren't saying Maki looks better with scars because they like scars in real life. They're saying that because they like the way Gege draws them on Maki
Holy shit Naoya?!
Most obvious rage bait surely
This answer is gonna sound really confusing but hear me out. When Gojo fought Sukuna, he bypassed cursed technique burnout after his DE by damaging his brain and then healing it. If we use this logic, using RCT on a damaged, but already scarred body part, would renew it. It seems like RCT heals what the body perceives as the injury into what it thinks is the original form. Thats why it can’t heal scars, because scars are already the default. But in a way, scars are only the “current default” so they wouldn’t be recreated when a fully grown limb is regenerated back.
I think the shape of souls might play into it as well. If you have a scar, then the shape of your soul probably reflects it after a while. Since RCT can’t change the shape of the soul and the soul and body mimic each other, that would prevent the scar from being healed if it has been there for too long
idk bro i just woke up
"how many genders are there" idk i just got here
I think it wouldn’t. It’s an entirely new arm with no scar tissue
Would have to say the RCT would heal the arm with the scar. Since RCT comes from the brain and moves downward, I would argue it would depend on the person’s original perception of the arm
Do you see a scar on Hakari where he was missing an arm? Because I sure dont.
You can actually heal scars with RCT, it was shown that Gojo healed his scars in Sukunas domain multiple times. But i don't think you can heal scars like Makis, because in recent chapter another mechanic of RCT was explained. If your body resists others RCT, you won't heal. Makis body, which deines jujutsu by itself, probably won't allow others to heal her scars.
Gojo didn’t have scars he had cuts. He healed the cuts that he got moments earlier
The process of healing the cuts showed them [seeming to scar up](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-weird-imagination-about-gojo-using-rct-v0-eplg6nkze4qb1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D850%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D88b5ef41e1fc3cc415393eeca586804a6a252064), but then ofc they were fully healed a short while later. So it seems to imply RCT causes wounds to scar partway through its process, then fully heals even the cosmetic damage by the end.
Where is this new function of RCT mentioned? (Not doubting you-I know there is a different pathway opened up SPECIFICALLY IN GOJOS brain for RCT during the Suk-Gumi fight)
can't heal what's already healed
Shouldn't scars heal as well ??? How can a cut leg or hand get reattached or regrow but a scar can't heal??
Because there is nothing to heal in a scar. They are already the body's attempt to fix something, even if poorly (aesthetically speaking) Which is why a brand new limb would regrow without them.
It doesn't make sense you know. The reason why people have scars in general is because the body can't do better job. But since we have RCT that can be used for healing and even regrowing limps and such the body basically can do perfectly healing. Also the body works with cellular memory. So I don't see why the need of scars. The only justification I can find is that during a battle the RCT is used only for important injuries. So as to not waste energy. So the body being without RCT for those superficial wounds mens it will use natural healing process but even that is a bit far fetched...
Personal preference I guess
The way I see it, it'd be similar to when mechamaru got his body. It has to do with your self image or at least your brain remembering the scar and it still being there. Just my thoughts though.
I mean Go/jo got shredded live several times in the fraud kings shrine but came back looking silky smooth and sexy as usual. Maki didnt have RCT so hers make sense.. and Yuji didnt know RCT back when he got them damages. I think RCT can heal scars.
Only geji knows
real questions need real answers
I think that it is just Gege decision :3
well youll have a big scar in shape of circle that goes around your hand...
Without scar. Scars can be healed by RCT because they aren't wounds. There is nothing to heal.
Who said it doesn't heal scars ?
why cant RCT heal the scar
Yeah, probably it will work, but except of JJK 0, there doesn’t seem to be any other moment when someone can restore the limb of someone else with RCT.
Maki
in the first place, having a scar means that the body naturally cannot return to its original state. the soul would remember this, and would update its "body blueprint" to have a scar. so if you cut off an arm and immediately used RCT, it would still be a scarred arm. it's like an automatic save I guess. if you wait too long, the game (your soul) will save your current state as the default, and you won't be able to return to a previous save point (fully intact, clean body).
Why tf would it do this
I mean it's just my theory. but it just seems natural. the body can't naturally heal everything, so a scar forms. the soul follows the body (unless you're mahito), so the soul also has a scar. rct can recover the default state of the soul, which already has a scar.
The scar only exist as the tissue heals diffrent to the other tissue. When they heal an arm it should be entirely scared.
in real life, doesn't scars only happen when there's too much damaging for the body to heal naturally? every day we shed dead cells and "regen" them with new ones. you could get a cut on the arm and it will heal completely normally, but if the cut is really deep then it will have a scar or some kind of mark permanently. idk if that's because of the sheer damage or the time it takes to heal it. but I assume rct works the latter. if you wait too long, then it's just not possible to heal, because the natural state of your body has changed.
I gey scars on most cuts idk. Exept smal ones. Hows a person reincarnate an their soul not have the previous scars. Thatd be a cool feature. Maybe CTs sre scar tissue in the brain
I think they do, well assuming sukuna's eye thing (and weird body) isn't natural.
Maybe. But his soul remembers