[PaulHoule]

Well I did run into a game designer as “Mr. Fox” and kitsunekamen on two days of a comic book convention and he seemed to think I was a dark magician or at the very least too willing to work with demonic forces. In fact he seemed reluctant to sell me a copy of his game because I might use it to curse him or something.

Now thēríon is Greek for “wild animal” and I think it a definite slur to say they have anything to do with evil or the devil, they are beleaguered enough on this planet and don’t need insult on top of injury. I am learning to censor my speech and be careful of phrases such as “release the beast” as kitsunekamen and his host would believe that’s a beautiful thing, not a threatening thing.

[oliculipolicula]

Right, right. I remain somewhat unsure of whether "evil twin" indicated anticorrelation (not "value-judgement" :)

>"his host would believe"

I spy a 2-month-old Sz host who thinks like me and acts like "you":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952359

>I can see fragments of knowledge that he cannot hide

[PaulHoule]

I would say I agree with the foxographer about just about everything, in fact his backstory is my backstory and I don’t make any effort at all to compartmentalize.

I would say I disagree with kitsunekamen about a lot of things and as-a-host I know I wind up bearing the karma for his actions. We would love to play the heel, the monster of the day in a mahou shojou anime, to raise hell at the temple and be dispelled by the priestess. But I worry about our rep.

Kitsunekamen has legibility problems (maybe 20% of people are really into Naruto or Demon Slayer and think they know him) and needs a backstory and as a non-fiction actor I have to be careful about it. Obviously the host is a magician who is conjuring the power of a fox spirit with a mask and that power is quite demonstrable in how people perceive (fail to perceive!) him in public. It’s tempting to say “they kicked him out of the ninja village” but claiming to have a lineage is seriously off-brand so it’s got to be some version of “he wrote his own spell that took 300 days to work and later found a version of the spell that was basically the same and tuned up and only takes 100 days”

[oliculipolicula]

I "hedge against myself" too if this is what I think it is. But your backstory stub already sounds more systematic-specific than what I have.

While in the shower I came up with the following refinement:

Stochastic hubris=best preemptive defence against the gods

(And then what does Kelly say ;)