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How about if children aren't necessarily more sensitive to spirits in any way, but spirits nevertheless often seek them out for a different reason?That's a good explanation. Thanks Baldman, you're the real MVP.
A child, as I see it, is like any other human, but A) less learned in the ways of the world, B) used to putting implicit trust in others (parents, teachers, friends), C) less attached to conventional models of morality, D) usually not very clever. A spirit may feel much more comfortable approaching a child, especially if it has a plan that most humans would be hesitant being an accomplice to, or even if they're just afraid a more mature human is going to screw them over at some point. The relationship is easier to form, and so more than a few spirits have attained hosts in this manner - a fact that has not helped their publicity among humans in any way, especially given that spirits who gravitate toward children tend to be the more unstable, fundamentally alien types (not always in a bad way, mind you - one can be fundamentally alien and altruistic at the same time).Instead of making physicality gross, why don't you make it feel unnerving? These are non-physical beings becoming at least partially physical so it's definitely going to feel unnatural and possibly eldritch.
A possible interpretation is that spirits who jump into humans see them for what they are - 37.2 trillion little units of life, blind and helpless individually, communicating almost purely through strategic discharges of minute amounts of an astounding variety of chemicals, integrated into a strange semblance of a spirit's intelligence. To them, we are like a mixture of The Worm That Walks and a Rube Goldberg device, while they comprise only one indivisible functional unit, being adapted incarnations of homogenous chaos.
The fuck is the bunny man?Also, since persona seem to be based on legendary entities, does this mean that since it's the future, the amount of viable persona has increased to include urban legends such as the Bunny Man or the Blackbird of Chernobyl?How many times will a persona evolve?Once.
Why are they less resistant to magical influence?Why are certain people (I.e. the player characters) more able speak with spirits? Because they perhaps, noticed something that couldn't happen without spirits, or they made a realization about the world(s). Maybe they just never stopped being able to see spirits.
We're designing solid reasons as to why things are as they are. Why are children arbitrarily more capable in hearing spirits?
Why would kids be able to talk to spirits more?They're less resistant to magical influence than adults. So when a spirit is talking to them they're more likely to hear it.
It doesn't matter if there's a reason why kids can talk to spirits, we can't have it in. If we did, then we'd either have to make our protagonist a child or come up with some complex and totally unnecessary reason why our protagonist can talk to spirits even though she's not a child.Not true, the player characters simply found a way to make themselves more in tune with the spirit world and thus they're able to interact with spirits past childhood.
"Prolly not."
"Ket, that was abusive. No good parent would let their child go without food."
"Well, at least it was voluntary. Other people don't have much of a choice choir boy."
Because Kawtari would have presumably already seen what she wears or does not on her feet. You can't really climb trees in a habit or long skirt very well, so I'm assuming she's wearing trousers.I'll tell you this, Akira definitely isn't natural.
Randomly asking "What is on your feet young rogue" would just be strange and out of character.Why would I if they look like every other Kenku's
That's the kind of thing I am asking. Do the feet look like Kenkus? Does her hood or whatever have the telltale shape of ears? Does she have a small beak or just a malformed face, because the shape would show through a veil. Logically, if her hands were human her feet should be too. I'm willing to roll with it if it isn't, but...
I'm asking her because I'm interesting in knowing what's right or not. Kawtari doesn't care too much herself.
