Talk:Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome/@comment-216.226.127.180-20180116130948/@comment-2602:301:77AD:9270:C0F3:5236:1E6E:40E6-20180117192347

The actual terminology used compares it to "formatting" a hard drive. Which means erasing everything on it and then setting it up for a new purpose. Ergo, Re_Birthday erases everything on the soul to repurpose it. It doesn't matter how it's incidentally phrased in the info-mine (I, being the info-miner, said "personality and memories" for simplicity's sake, not that it specifically only targets those two things), that is what the actual word means (I'm pretty sure I pointed that out when it came up in the BlackBox chapter).

HERS is not "the state of the soul" it is likened to a genetic virus that has some bearing or origin in the soul. So it is, yes, very much something that you can erase and still have the soul be usable. Again--it's not like a piece of code, it's like a hard drive. HERS is not a type of hard drive, it's something on the hard drive.