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How do Exos eat/drink? Do they still have all internal organs since you technically only need a heart and brain to live? Do they even have a digestive system? Where do consumed nutrients go if not? Do Exos produce waste? Do Exos have bones and tendons and muscles? How do they command their bodies without them? Do Exos have blood/blood vessels to cary nutrients through their bodies? If Exos have a heart, what supplies it with oxygen and nutrients supposing the have no stomach and it seems rather difficult to transfer lungs to a mechanical frame without contamination? How do Exos see supposing their Eyes are mechanical and cannot be controlled by the brain? Do the Exo manufacturers still exist and how would the thing where you have to kill everyone you ever knew apply to a newly rezed Guardian who remembers nothing about their past life? Does your Ghost chose to reanimate you as the race you come back as (supposing we have no control over it). How are awoken created? Do Guardians carry out normal human functions like breathing or sleeping? Can Guardians tire of an activity (become physically exhausted)? Can Guardians develop physical disabilities or suffer from conditions like joint pain or experience fractures or dislocations in their bones? Is an Exo reanimated as an Exo or are we to assume the character became an Exo in their past life and died? Can a non-guardian become an Exo or would they die in the process and have to way to come back? Since you Ghost can heal you, can it heal other people/Guardians? Suppose a guardian dies along with it's ghost, can another Ghost who sees that dead Guardian fit to be a Guardian rez them again? How can Ghosts not be repaired unless they have a direct confrontation with the light (as seen in Spark mission)? Since the Traveler is back to normal(?) can it carry out functions as it was before like bringing life to the planets in our solar system? Can it create new Ghosts? How many Ghosts were created and what if we ran out? Does the Traveler need to heal to become fully operational? How does the Traveler heal? The traveler appears to be a ball of space magic encased in some stony material with a metal frame for protection/support, why must the space magic be contained in this sphere structure? How can a ball of space magic die? What exactly is the darkness? An anti-space-magic sort of suppression field that negates the magic powers of the Traveler? What if a Guardian directly contacts the darkness? Will they lose their powers? Die? Or conform to the darkness? Do the enemies we fight "work" for the darkness? Does a Guardian have a limit on the number of times it can be resurrected? If not, how can a small flying drone have enough power to infinitely resurrect a Guardian? Does it feed directly from the Traveler's light?

Would need to be non baseline psyche in the first place. What normal psyche would tolerate becoming immortal and the ability to resurrect from death repeatedly?

Yes, there’s lore about Guardians suffering from madness and the old Risen from the Dark Ages are known to suffer from the effects of extreme stress https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/whether-windmills-or-cranes#book-ghost-stories

ive seen a guardian kill themselves like 10 times on purpose

They cured all that stuff years ago. :)

Will If they are annoying like their real life handlers they all have FOMO

[quote]So, canonically, is it possible for Guardians to go insane or have mental illnesses (autism, asperbergers, schizophrenia)?[/quote] Banshee clearly has PTSD

I think we all have a bit of mental illness for playing this game.

I think Xur might have some issues lol

Literally Banshee.

<To go insane? Definitely.>

Not all can be Rich, Asian, and Crazy: https://youtu.be/-M4HNvkPtlg

one of the lore tabs in the ghost stories book talks about a gaurdian who would treat inanimate objects like cranes and boulders as fierce adverseries and fight them. he eventually died and his ghost chose not to resurrect him because they knew he was mentally ill. i'm not big on the classifications but i think this is an example of schizophrenia or dementia, so yes, gaurdians can certainly have menal problems. i suppose ghosts can heal the brain, but not the mind.