Crap, what'd I miss? Was writing this thing down here:
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That's... not wrong. I mean, it's just that we now see their Inner Lights in a simpler way, I guess that's kinda what makes it easier to understand now? I guess you could say they are in fact their souls. I don't know, I said that because of Zero's scene in UZF.
But, what if we look at it differently? In Saga, we see this strange ethereal scene of Zero taking back what seems to be Taiga's spirit. We know that they usually just merge with their hosts, and whenever the Ultra appears, the host is usually in this strange light-filled place (Which is the Inner Light) that seems to share the same visual style as that ethereal scene I mentioned earlier. Would that mean that whoever is not present at the time, takes over as the soul of whoever is present? I'm sorry if this is a bit hard to understand. But now that I think again, this same thing seems to happen with Geed as well, we see that in the mindscape of Belial, a corrupted Geed is the one fighting against Zero while Belial takes a backseat and talks to him.
Now, how do we know that was Geed's soul? Well, Belial and by extension Geed's mindscape shares some things with Zero's own, a strange representation of what state they are currently in. And, going further back with UZF again, we know that when Belial talks to Zero, or rather, mocks him for "killing" the Ultimate Force, we see this dark space with heavy rain, almost like it's representing Zero's mental state. Anyway, back to topic, when that happened we know it's their souls that we are seeing because it was explicitly shown not too long ago that Belial's spirit had overtaken Zero's soul.
Tl;dr, whenever we see an Ultra's Inner Light, and we see someone present, does that mean it's their soul that we're seeing?
Didn't think I'd be writing a mini-essay of questions and speculations.
After that, let's take a break for a moment and I'll just ask, what do you guys think of R/B? In overall, and what do you hope they do with it? I've already talked with Vel about this a while back so I guess this is more directed towards you, Akre.