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This is the story-based description of the Unbound. For their official character rules, go here.

Earth is no stranger to warped souls. The undead, the immortal, the fused Namekian, and many other circumstances have shown the world's people that their fates could be far stranger. The newest addition to this mix has the propensity to cause confusion and insecurity in a society that revolves around identity. The Unbound are not brand new to the universe, but their kind has been extremely isolated and far removed from Earth's territory. They are living souls that have been mutated to reject true death. Like an immortal, they may never depart the realm of the living. Unlike them, however, an Unbound's body CAN die. When it does, the soul seeks a new home, very commonly not a newborn person as normal souls are predestined to take. Instead, they bully other souls into submission and commandeer their bodies. Over the course of a few months, slowly integrate the host's soul into their own being.

Reading this, it's easy to judge the Unbound as wicked, despicable things, and many who know about them believe this very way, since a life is essentially, permanently lost and denied an afterlife, if you look at the situation in one particular way. However, the Unbound do not (usually) choose to be the way they are, nor are they conscious of which body they choose to dominate. They do not have any control over whether the original soul is consumed, or how quickly it is consumed. Their demeanor is entirely independent of their spiritual existence, and can be saintly, monstrous, or anything in between.

Unbound on Earth

Almost all Unbound on Earth were formed (with only extremely rare exceptions) during the Undoing the Godslaying Sword saga, when Isaak Zell interrupted the natural process of the souls of the dead returning to the afterlife. He gathered a billion souls and passed them into the Kami's body before slaying him and using his powers to form the Godslaying Sword, Kusanagi. Though Zell was eventually defeated and his weapon undone by the power of the Dragonballs, some of the souls utilized were twisted by the dark power involved in the weapon's creation. These souls became Unbound.

Thusfar, the world has gone largely without noticing the advent of these beings. The reason for this was that after modification, the newly Unbound have been little more than restless souls. For the first few months following Kusanagi's destruction, most attempted to enter the afterlife, time and time again, only to be repelled. Eventually, these souls would forsake the pursuit and begin wandering the Earth. Some were able to garner enough strength to be seen by the eyes of the living, but these were usually cast aside as hallucinations of the superstitious, or dealt with with ineffectual exorcisms that only made the mortals feel better, while the Unbound soul simply no longer had the strength to manifest. Some were taken advantage of by dark magic and made into terrible abominations. Most would simply continue to wander on.

Now that considerable time has passed since their liberation, the souls are beginning to complete their transformation. They are beginning to feel the attraction to the bodies of the living, and cannot help but leap into the ones that seem somehow more favorable. They spearhead straight through the existing soul within, merging with it and enslaving it without even being conscious of the process. Their first conscious thought is that they are alive, despite their very last thought being death. Their next thoughts are rife with confusion, as one personality tries to understand why it has the thoughts, memories, and even the secondary personality of an entire other person. They are forced to try to come to some understanding of who they really are.

Then, one day, through violence, illness, or natural causes, death claims them again, and just when they had come to terms with their new life, they are thrust into another, consuming another personality, stealing another life, becoming a permanent impostor for yet another person, while the previous lives the Unbound lived still thrive in its mind. Such is the existence of an Unbound soul.