wait, theres a way to bring Assimilated people back to life?
Shouldn't be any physical problem doing so. Recreate a clone body based on previous records or close-enough guesses; reduce the construct to a bodiless mind running on an emulated brain with the same structure as the physical one; overlay the orange mind-structure on the clone brain until they're running in sync, have the emulation gradually fade out and let the clone brain take over the job of running the mind full-time.
Theoretically, of course, all that could be bypassed just by saying "Ring, hold construct [person] in stasis for a moment. Now replace all their construct parts with the equivalent in normal matter (plus any necessary arcane or non-normal-matter components)." And you're done.
The concepts of 'self' and 'individual' are central to human psychology, mostly because evolution favors beings which can tell whether a grasping appendage is 'theirs' or not, but that doesn't mean they actually apply from the perspective of physics. Even the concept of 'soul' in this fic (or the greater DC universe) doesn't necessarily imply individuality - for all we know, souls can be xeroxed indefinitely. Or perhaps it's related to the Graven problem, whereby duplicating a metaphysical structure sufficiently closely makes the duplicates effectively start experiencing quantum entanglement, up to the point where they are
exact duplicates and (from the perspective of the universe) the actual same item.
Which is another perspective issue. As noted in the interesting
Methods of Rationality fic (hpmor.com if you want to read it), the universe does not believe in macroscopic
objects or
items - it has particles and fields. Magic-users in that story cast spells or effects which often target real-world items, because that's how humans think and interact with the world, particularly when they haven't had a scientific education. One of the great breakthroughs which occurs during the story is the ability to cast a spell on
part of an object by mentally getting past the human perception of the object as a single item.
So from the perspective of our universe, at least, there is no such thing as Life, or a mind, or a person, except as a macroscopic pattern of particles and fields, which can be replicated to infinity without any special effort involved. Physically, we could build a machine which popped out as many replicas of any person as you might care to want. Whether this applies in the DC/WtR universe is a tad murkier, given the existence of such things as souls, the Source, gods of various power levels and abilities (some of whom are linked to specific domains or concepts), white power rings, effective incarnations of concepts, and all sorts of other weirdness.