Triple Trouble of Tsubasa

After careful rereading of previous chapters, which made me stayed up until two o'clock in the morning, I finally managed to somewhat grasp a few confusing aspects of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. And here they are:

Body
A person's shell, which gives him/her his/her outward appearance.

Feather
In TRC, feathers are representations of Sakura's soul. Actually, it was Fei Wong Reed that converted her soul to feathers so that they could scatter to different dimensions.

Heart/Soul
An aspect of a person where his/her feelings, memories, and consciousness lie. (Do not confuse it with our conventional understanding about heart/soul.) Thus, someone who was without heart, like C!Syaoran, couldn't feel any physical or mental pain and could easily kill people without flinching. Souls/hearts (Sakura's feathers included) are the things that Fei Wong Reed collects in order to fulfill his wish.

Heart/soul can be given, lent, and copied. However, it doesn't mean that the receiver would have the same heart as the heart/soul's real owner. Meaning, the one receiving the heart would be a different person from the one giving/lending/providing it.

Example 1: C!Sakura still ended up liking C!Syaoran despite not having a portion of past memory about him.

Example 2: It took some time for C!Syaoran to warm up to others, even though he had received a part of R!Syaoran's heart. Having R!Syaoran's heart didn't make him identical to Syaoran; he neither had R!Syaoran's memories nor temperaments.

Example 3: Before C!Sakura's soul perished, she gave it to C!Syaoran. Receiving clearly didn't turn C!Syaoran into Sakura. It just made him being able to feel again (bringing back the old C!Syaoran, perhaps?!).


I could go on and on about this forever, but alas, it's late already (at least it's late when I'm writing this). Buh-bye!

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