#pansexual shinimagi

[brightlotusmoon]

Headcanon: Shinigami’s Craft

 Notice how Nick 2012 TMNT′s Shinigami is known as a Mystic Witch ninja, yet so far all we’ve seen are her ninja skills, feline reflexes, and hypnotizing power? I’d love to know what fans think she can really do, like spells, castings, and rituals. My thought is that she’s a hedge witch, like me. It’s been my calling since I was six but I didn’t realize it until I was 19. (See: http://www.spellsofmagic.com/coven_ritual.html?ritual=2902&coven=6 and http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=caon&c=words&id=11899)

Now, a Mystic is, by most definitions:  “a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.” The Foot Mystics, of which the original Mirage Shingami was part, similar to IDW Kitsune - also an actual kitsune - could be defined as this. 2012 Shini, who knows. She’s named after the concept of a Japanese Death God. She carries around a stone that creates illusions. She’s a kickass ninja who wields one of the most powerful and dangerous weapons in martial arts, the kusarigama. She’s also a video game warrior, she likes shiny things, she’s wild, she’s got a sense of humor, she’s friends with and possibly bi for Mikey of all people (hey, just because she and Karai are canon girlfriends doesn’t mean there needs to be bi erasure, than you). Any part of that could be used in a ritual incantation. Sometimes I use movie quotes. My main point is...what do you think Shini does for her craft? How does she work her magic beyond the hypno stone? What sort of spells would she cast? I call healing, naturally, which has its own flip side of harming, if we can heal a wound we can pull it apart. Let’s see, clairvoyance and remote viewing, sensing spirits and mystical energies. Potential telempathy, meaning that she can use emotions to psychically receive and project, to communicate via emotions, which can be translated to thought. She uses stones, herbs and brews in her spells. Possible use of nature, say, moonlight work. Ooh! Plant powders. Kava, kratom, certain edible fungi. See, I am asking for a story. My biggest “Mikey The Lifegiver” story, which features a poly triad between Karai, Shinigami, and Michelangelo*, has several moments between Shini and Mikey doing healing work. Maybe Karai and Leo breaking out that fucking "what was the point Dad” Healing Hands thing. Look, Peter DiCicco himself called the two of them Ninja Girlfriends at last, and I am stoked for that as if I’ve got a girlfriend myself...but I am bisexual/pansexual, and I will headcanon Shini as bi/pan until the sun burns out. We are queer and here too. I’m a queer witch. I’m also technically studying physics. Magery, witchcraft, and sorcery altogether is its own branch of physics, probably quantum. Magic is what you call the unknown. Science and Art is what we call Shit You Don’t Believe In. Keep not believing, it makes me feel safer. *stims with gemstone jewelry* *malachite in orgonite is amazing* (*Fun fact: Peter Laird has said often that all the turtles are asexual. However, aces can have and enjoy sex, they just do not experience sexual desire. Now, he may have only been talking about the Mirage characters, but I’ll be honest, even 2012 Donnie only had fumbling first crush semi-romantic stalker feelings for April, I don’t know if they can feel sexual desire, and this is coming from a demisexual human.)