Not sure where this goes but...

I'm still waiting on Soulless enemies to appear. The whole Heart, Body, Soul trinity thing got kinda ruined though with the unversed and the dream eaters being introduce though. Even if they are one shots. The Dream eaters aren't really one shots so long as worlds are falling asleep though, but really. I know Nobodies are given life from having a soul , and form because of their body. Heartless are given life through the darkness of the heart, and form from the darkness surrounding the heart. So I guess a souless would be given life from the heart, and form from a body, or perhaps no heart at all. Like a body being possessed by darkness, or something like that. I'm thinking they would probably act alot like zombies, and be even baser then the heartless. Since they possess no heart or soul. Perhaps If a nobody is destroyed and he's not reformed into his original self. His soul merely leaves his body, and the body is left behind, and becomes possessed by a surge of darkness rushing in to fill the void.

It's role would be as a vessel for darkness that had yet to capture a heart. If it captured the heart, it would then discard the body and become a heartless.

What's your opinion on it? Do you think there will be soulless enemies in one form or another, and what kind of function do you think they would serve?

 

"Soul" = "heart." It's incredibly difficult to imagine what is meant by one that is not meant by the other, and in fact they're used interchangeably in many other works. How that distinction was to be made in the first place is a mystery. I doubt that the next enemy to be introduced will have anything to do with the soul. In fact, I have a feeling either Nomura or the translators are going to redact their use of it—whoever first got the ball rolling. Judging by the content of their last few games, they either didn't think it through and regretted bringing it up, or lost interest altogether in exploring that aspect.

That, or perhaps you could say the "soul" is what binds the errant pieces of a person together when they're separated, suspended in stasis, or wherever else they may end up, in which case it seems less of a material thing and more of a preserved state-of-being, a back-up file of sorts. If that's true, there wouldn't be any kind of sinister offshoot off of which to base a new enemy type.