Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
Can’t believe I have to explain myself, but if you’re dead and you’re able to watch events play out or even interact with things, you’re a ghost. You’re not in the Lifestream. There’s plenty of examples in the game already.

If you’re in the Lifestream, your soul is in the process of being washed away but it’s explained there that those with strong wills can maintain their sense of self for a time. But considering the whole point is to wash the soul for reuse, I highly doubt there’s an “afterlife tv” where they can watch things and there’s no concrete evidence of such.

Considering Asahi is extremely intact unlike his Garlean compatriots we encounter who EE3 describes as soul fragments, Asahi probably was haunting Fandaniel the whole time and chased him into the Lifestream and that’s how I understood it at the time as well. Emet-Selch himself only actually went to the Lifestream to take a soul cleanse at the very end of EW and we know he’s been hovering around.
... That's not how souls work.

You do realize the "ghosts" you are referring to are wraiths - effectively souls that can manipulate the surrounding aether to generate a body for themselves. Those who neither have the Echo or have a technique/art applied on them will have their souls directly sent to the Aetherial Sea. Souls don't randomly hang out in the living world. There has to be specific conditions for them to stay in the living world - all of which Asahi does not fulfill. Ascians are beings who have the Echo - and thus can manifest themselves even just as a soul in the living world. Asahi is not an Ascian. He does not have the ability to remain conscious as a soul in the living world.