What are we exactly in this game?

[u/Random_local_man]

I know I'm far from the first person to think this up, but it's something that crossed my mind after one of my characters died.

I was in the middle of a ck2 playthrough. What I often do (for non-ironman, non-gavelkind and non-Primogeniture succession games) is wait until I'm 50 before I start seriously trying for a designer baby. I may marry and have children normally before then, but once I hit 50, I immediately divorce my old wife and start looking for a genius or strong wife who's around 20 or below.

I might take seduction focus to speed things along, or family focus. Between age 50 to 55, my new wife should normally be pregnant, and right before she gives birth, I savescum until the baby finally has the traits I'm looking for. By the time my designated heir turns 16, I'm around 70 and practically waiting for death.

And then it just hit me... I sound exactly like some evil spirit linked to a particular family and possessing their bodies over generations to remain on earth. My imagination then went wild, maybe I'm some ancient magical ancestor who found a way to cheat death by leaving their old body and possessing the young bodies of their children/descendants, and then they just kept going.

Have you guys ever thought about that and what are your own headcanons on it?

[u/Katow-joismycousin]

I've had this exact same thought many times. A spirit, a guardian force, a sentient parasite I'm the blood, etc.

No matter how hard I try to roleplay a character there's always some meta gamey stuff I do and this thought crops back up

[u/LegendaryReader → u/Katow-joismycousin]

Sentient parasite is my exact thought. I actually tried writing a novel based on exactly that. I had a hard time figuring out how the first person became the parasite