Question About Shadows Lore
So obviously shadows are reflections of their real world counterpart’s desires/traumas/insecurities/distortions/etc., and if you kill them, a cognitive collapse is triggered in the real person.
I was wondering if there was any canon explanation for what happens when a Wild Card like Joker absorbs/acquires/recruits a shadow and turns them into a usable persona. Like, does the real person also shutdown? Do they gain a sudden affection for the Phantom Thieves? Does anything happen to them?
Adding onto that, what about fusion, since you sacrifice two personas to gain a more powerful one. Do the two actual people collapse? Do they meld into some kind of hive mind?
But then what about summoning from the compendium? Does some poor sucker who just lost a cosmic enlistment lottery get their shadow taken?
If you have any canon answers or headcannons/theories, I’d love to hear them!