Certain places are more spirit prone… Possibly because for thousands of years here people saw spirits in everything spirits became a thing in everything! That reminds me, maybe I should do an arc based on the Mothman or American cryptids made real… XD
They’ve scarpered! Probably lucky they did, or she’d have to take them by the ear and have a stern word.
I thought Inari was a dude.
As for the Exorcist, the contract with the Kitsune are probably his most important relationship. So he’s doing everything in his power to keep that relationship. False spirit or no, if he was able to do a lot of the work by being self taught. Then there is some explanation to being arrogant. It takes a lot of effort to teach yourself and being able to actually do it correctly.
I believe Sage mentioned it before, but Inari is I believe genderfluid, just male-presenting because of how ingrained it is into that society that men are given more respect, and it’s not without merit considering how the exorcist treated Kate.
Ah, but the Exorcist wasn’t self taught. He abandoned his training part-way through because he didn’t have the power to advance and wasn’t developing the skill needed to compensate. Treating the Exorcist like he was self-taught in exorcism is like treating someone who dropped out of school in Grade 7 like they taught themselves how to read because they managed to download a text-to-speech.
Not necessarily that he didn’t have the power. His wording alledges the general need for exorcists was too great to wait.
While he does admit impatience amd foolishness on his end. It’s somewhat understandable that he did what he did.
Depending on how many people were getting hurt by spirits intentionally or otherwise. It makes sense he’d get frustrated and want to cut corners and help. Stupid. But understandable.
Realistically if it had been an item and not a sapient entity he might have got off scott free. Well other than having absolutely trash fundamentals.
Unfortunately, while it was clever of him to leverage the spirit to amass resources. Specifically knowledge. It sounds like the spirit preyed on his learned helplessness and manipulated him into neglecting practicing his skills.
I think his arrogance was something the spirit exacerbated though. To prevent him from gaining independance. How much of his training he completed before dropping out is hard to say though. Appearently it was enough to see the warning signs at least. Or should have been rather.
Was incapable of handling things without the aid of that spirit, alright. What if he get’s sent overseas, to the States to train under the tutelage of someone who has made a trip to the Celestial Realm?
Inari at the very least is getting a stern talking to! One of the worst things you can do: make a parent look for you!
And now I’m imagining the Celestial Realm equivalent of Yuki standing out on the front porch of her home, yelling out Inari’s name, telling them to come home right now. And it’s in that tone of voice you know as a kid you’d better listen!
Oooh. You know what this means? We’re going to hear Inari’s full name.
Nothing strikes fear into offspring more than when their mother calls out their full name.
probably went off to get into a more comfortable form..
“Don’t you hide from me, child, or it’s a trip to the woodshed for you!”
Honestly, I wouldn’t be overly surprised if half the American-Cryptids-Made-Real end up just being Goblin Variants. Mothman is a good example, though I know almost nothing about American Cryptids and am basing this off a quick google search. Flying Winged Cryptid that is a prophetic figure & terrifying omen of disaster. Just add in that it tends to initiate the disasters to hunt and you can call that a Nightmare Figure, aka a Goblin.
It could work, especially if you add in a few of the more robust goblin variants, but it also feels like a bit of a waste to sweep them into that bucket. Mothman maybe feels a bit more like an unseelie fae and that’s something we haven’t touched much on. It also makes a bit of sense that they may have followed given that there is a significant Irish population in West Virginia with a smaller Scottish-Irish population that when combined pushes numbers to about 17% of the population.
Jersey devil is probably a goblin or something similar and bigfoot feels like it’s probably either some sort of therianthrope with controlled transformations or a nature spirit of some sort but I kinda feel like the former of those two options would build the world out more and could be an interesting angle to explore the differences between them and chimera in setting. Perhaps some portion of the therianthrope trait is mystically recessive and that’s what was awakened when Fire tried to unlock his powers and failed the first time which influenced what type of chimera they became (this would tie in with Axel technically being a Chimera with demon traits despite passing as human).
Then again that’s me getting off into the weeds again as my brain spins and sparks so I’ll drop it here. Definitely would like to see Phil and Kate get into a few adventures closer to home, especially since Mothman in particular is pretty close to their neighborhood.