Kind of really puts into perspective of how much humans want companions. Or to justify their furry behaviour with transformable fuck buddies. Or to evade the fact that humans are animals when they go feral and start to eat two legged lambs, which by the way, does not just refer to children.
Well, there's another way, how an animal can be seen as a Jin. It's your household pets. Zoo animals are included.
Livestock also counts if raised as pets too, but foods don't talk, and most humans don't hear them.
Animals that live around humans and gain human behaviors + intelligence can turn into a Jin because it acts more like a human than its owner or any other feral does.
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It's also another way that human create a label for "Bizarre" marked for immediate extermination, when they find things too close to uncanny valley that make thing uncomfortable.
Most of those Jin that are recognized as Demons or Familiars will be killed on the spot. People suspected to be Fox Youkai were burned alive. Witch's Familiars were exterminated to the extreme like black cats, dogs, and etc.
If seen as Fairies/Divine, then considered Sacred or Gods to be worshipped. Ex. Dragon gods, Inari, and etc.
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Also got me wondering, why do humans need wood or stone coffins? Are our bodies that toxic or just radioactive?
And really, why is cremation equal to hel punishment or destruction of souls, when yer just freeing up soul and space and killing most of germs?
