999 is a thought provoking game. There's a segment where they talk about cultures believing either the head or the heart to be the place where a person's identity resides. I started to think, what if they both held half and came up with this little speech by picturing it as a scene in my head the writing it down. I imagine it being read by Sean Connery, but that's just me. I thought I'd share it with you because it resonates with me. It's something I pulled straight out of my ass yet it has a 'right' sort of feeling. The old 'bullshit powers' activating again? Or is there something deeper here? You be the judge.
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It doesn't matter if your body is all patches. You don't reside in the whole of your body, you reside here, in your head, and here in your heart.
The heart is the house of your soul it contains your emotions and personality, and it dictates how you react to the world around you.
The head is the house of your mind it contains your knowledge and memories, and dictates how your past shapes your identity.
If either of these two are missing your identity is shattered.
If the heart remains without the head your identity still remains on some level since you still react the same to the world around you but without your knowledge and memories as a foundation for those reactions they become meaningless to the person you have become because you could not understand those reactions.
If the head remains then your knowledge and memories remain the same but in the end knowledge is meaningless if it has no bearing on how you react to the world.
Of the two, however, it is easier to mend one's identity if the heart is what is lost. Since your memories and knowledge, your heabits, would exert dominance over your actions. To forever lose yourself with your heart would require an extreme act of will on the part of you or another.
It is harder on the psyche to rebuild itself from the heart up since knowledge and memory are the foundations upon which identity is built. A person is only meant to build their Identity once in a lifetime and even then they are aided by not being fully conscious of the process. A matured person would be forced to live with the knowledge that they had a life before their current existence and that knowledge would forever tarnish the way their heart reacted to the world. The sorrow of the loss could, in the end, destroy the person before their Identity could be rebuilt, whether or not that Identity was the same as their former one.
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