Given that the waking candlestick can bend without fatiguing the metal of his form to the point of breaking, it’s safe to say there is an active component to the magic that is sustaining their forms.
Given that the feather duster maid was seen to have her feathers forcibly removed, we can also assume they can be damaged and have parts removed.
The question is if they retain their soul, the abstract idea of who they are, in the individual parts of their body or in the collection of the whole.
Depending on the answer, he would either transfer his soul to the new part and assimilate it, fail to integrate the foreign and non-magical part, or grow a replacement part and force the foreign object out of his body.
Given that the waking candlestick can bend without fatiguing the metal of his form to the point of breaking, it’s safe to say there is an active component to the magic that is sustaining their forms.
Given that the feather duster maid was seen to have her feathers forcibly removed, we can also assume they can be damaged and have parts removed.
The question is if they retain their soul, the abstract idea of who they are, in the individual parts of their body or in the collection of the whole.
Depending on the answer, he would either transfer his soul to the new part and assimilate it, fail to integrate the foreign and non-magical part, or grow a replacement part and force the foreign object out of his body.
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What if I disassemble Cogsworth completely, set the parts out on a table, come back in ten years, and then put him back together?
What if the curse was broken before the reassembly? Would it stay clock parts or would you end up with a mess on your table?