Quote Originally Posted by shadowclasper View Post
Not until one or both of them died in exactly the right circumstances and ended up rejoining their partner, likely would take both entering the lofestream, which might be why the ascians deliberately kill a fuckton of people on the source when triggering a rejoining, so that folks meet their soul buddy and fuse in the lifestream.

Remember, we got fused with our soul buddy on the transition to the first.
I'm like 90% sure that's now how it works at all, actually. Because first of all, if the mass death was required for a Rejoining the Ascians wouldn't be calling the Seventh Calamity a Rejoining, they'd be calling it a failure. I don't think the Ascians 'deliberately killed a fuckton of people on the Source' in the Calamities so much as they just willingly caused cataclysms so large they had an inevitably huge bodycount, and then just... didn't bother to lessen said bodycount. So not 'deliberately killing' a lot of people so much as deliberately deciding not to bother saving them; on this scale, morally not much of a difference, but I think logistically it matters. (Granted, I also feel like worldwide floods are pretty hard to ensure large amounts of survivors in.)

And... uhm, that's not what Ardbert's situation was. At all. I'll grant that we have very little in the way of scientific facts on what his situation was, but he verifiably didn't 'fuse with us' on the transition to the First. it took A WHILE, and only happened when he basically willed it to.