My character, Lukous, has the ability to see one's soul and see the 'sins' , negative actions, on their soul. I've already decided on how he would deal with Daedra and Aedra, that is not the issue. The matter of the fact he would be seeing their souls, which would be a representation of themselves. I had wished to choose human as a blanket effect until Matthias had brought up the fact that not all would say that is what their character is deep down. So, please advise me here so I don't make a really terrible mistake; I do not want to insult anyone's belief.
Forgive me for not quite understanding, but is the question about how Keepers see themselves now that they have become cursed? Whether they still think of themselves as adult humans of their original sex, or identify themselves as whatever they were cursed to be, or even something else?
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear beforehand. The question is that since Lukous can see a person's soul, I'd like to know what the feeling of the community to what that entails, be it their old human form, their current form or what Leo M Pather suggested. I do hope this made things a bit better.
For story purposes it would probably be more convenient to be very vague about the shape that Lukous sees. Unless you have plot hinging on knowing the shape of a person's inner selves, it sounds more like flavour text.
By not outright stating the shape you'll empower the readers to make up the shape in question for themselves.
Otherwise you'll need to pick the brains of character-controllers for information on their characters, assuming that you're not talking about just the characters you created.
For example: Lukous just stared at "placeholder" and seeing right through the façade noticing the blemishes of pride, dishonesty, faith, greed and wilful ignorance on "placeholder"'s soul.
It's an interesting challenge nonetheless, though overall I'm in favour of not making it too difficult for yourself.
You did bring up some interesting points and have given me an idea of how to really expand on it in a way that might be unique and not that terrible difficult to do. I do believe I will have it fleshed out in the next story and once I do get to the point of controlled characters, I will ask said writer about the specifics.
Thank you very much,
Evilhumour
Interesting question! Im not sure what Misha would see himself as deep down.
My idea is Misha would have a bright outer shell, with a tired, old, scared person inside.
George would look to be old, tired and bored.