In the instance where a soul is forcefully removed, if it is released from whatever is binding it it will return to its body.Īfter losing his soul, Donatello Redfield remained mostly the same by using 'what would Mr. Additionally, Amara's soulless victims tended to quickly become homicidal and one noted that it felt like something dark was hatching inside of him. As this was different from Soulless Sam, Sam suggests that different people have different reactions to losing their soul. When souls were stolen by Abaddon's demons, they appeared to act on basic instinct with the littlest thing setting them off. On other occasions that people have lost their souls, they have had different reactions. While he continued to have physical needs for food and sex, he didn't require sleep, and had a high tolerance for pain. However, he was not evil, but rather lacked any moral compass, and was willing to resort to more questionable actions, such as allowing Dean to become a vampire to help them find an Alpha, albeit also knowing that there was a cure for vampirism, than he might consider when normal. Without his soul, Sam felt no empathy, guilt or compassion. When Castiel rescues Sam from Lucifer's Cage, his soul remained trapped in the Cage until Death retrieved it for him. Amara - the manifestation of the Darkness also consumed souls, which helped to accelerate her growth and strength. When ghosts are put to rest, their souls are not destroyed they are simply ferried by a reaper to their final destination, though it had been believed by many hunters to be 'death' for them with oblivion waiting for them afterwards. The Grigori find human souls to be a delicacy and have fed on them since their expulsion from Heaven thousands of years ago.ĭeath revealed to Dean that souls are so powerful that even he can't break them.

Souls also provide sustenance for certain supernatural creatures like the crocotta and the shtriga. Souls are also a powerful energy source, Famine was able to consume them to strengthen himself, and demons bargain for them, and even angels have traded in them. Sam releases a soul, allowing it to return to its body. Angels can determine whether or not someone has a soul, or the taste of it, via a painful procedure in which the angel reaches inside a person to touch the soul. Death and Famine have transported souls in a doctor's bag and briefcase respectively.

In Supernatural, a soul separate from its body is visualized as a blinding white light. Known destinations of souls are Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The reaper Tessa refused to tell Dean, on more than one occasion, where she takes the souls. In the natural order, souls are transported to the afterlife by reapers, and with the supervision of Death. 100 suns?Ī soul is a person's essence, and what persists after death. Well, what about souls? They fuel your demon deals.

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