Except that this world keeps shifting things, and ... the people who are here don't live by the same expectations. But what you said? Is about right back home. Centuries. Changes over time. My veneration wasn't some overnight thing after all. It started more as an appeasement.

Yeah... it's the thought of 'if I oversee separations and divorces, why not also the protection of fidelity.' Positive and negative aspects. That's the easiest, most believable shift. Possessiveness instead of jealousy. Closely related.

[She shrugged.]

But that's fucking hypothetical. It's drawn out of the notion of Chikon. Purification rites used to purify spirits and avoid them becoming wrathful youkai. Positive and negative. Yin and Yang. Opposite sides of a coin or dichotomy of some variety. And even then? I have no idea if, or when such a thing could happen. Youkai live in morbid terror of this shit.

Because sometimes, losing your reason to exist means you. just. don't.