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[yasei]

From: Anonymous
Date: September 7th

So this is just a hypothetical question (really, I swear on my shinki status) but what if a shinki gets named by someone they don't want to be named by, or if they change their mind later and the god doesn't want to let them go, do we have to go talk to some higher up god or can we just murder the god in question and get rid of the name we want to be rid of that way?

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Text, Hachiman

[koukai_kirai]

Hypothetically? If they feel strongly enough about the matter for murder to be an option under serious consideration, the god's at a high risk of getting blighted by those negative feelings, and it would probably be in their best interest to cut ties with the shinki anyway.

The Heavens themselves don't seem very inclined to do much about bad or forced matches, but there are definitely people here -- gods and shinki -- who are willing to do what we can for a shinki in that situation.

[yasei]

So blight will always be a problem? Maybe I could feel guilty on purpose then, even though I don’t think I would feel any guilt about it.

So the Heavens are useless.

[koukai_kirai]

Feeling guilty on purpose seems likely to have some logistical issues. If you felt justified in whatever you did to make yourself feel guilty because it was to serve something greater, do you think it would actually work?

I wouldn't go with "useless". Amaterasu is well-intentioned, and has been doing her best. That said, they're bound by long traditions, and slow to change. The new gods and shinki don't exist by the same rules that they do, and the new circumstances seem to have been difficult for them to adapt to. Going to other newcomers has advantages in that regard.