Okay, we've established that everyone has a death mark. Now, how do the ghost council characters feel about their death marks? Do any of them really hate them, or are they all pretty neutral about it?
Also what do death marks feel like? Is it just a color difference or is it raised or warm or what? Also how aware of the death marks are characters? Do they ever cause discomfort? Do characters ever judge others on how they died if the mark is visible?
I’ve broken up the death mark feelings into 3 categories of hate, moderately dislike, and neutral. Hate means they REALLY do not like their death mark, moderately dislike is they wish they didn’t have it but it’s not the end of the world, and neutral is eh I don’t care.
Moderately dislike: Hibiki, Yrjö, Taro
Neutral: Eloise, Raymond, Jaya, Sophia, Santiago
Sun does not like her death mark because it takes away from her happy and cute aesthetic. It’s almost like a constant reminder of what her life used to be like. For this reason she covers it up with a choker. Jökull has never specified why he hates his death mark so much but he does make it known to the others. He calls it ugly, his only flaw, a disease, etc. Nobody has ever seen his death mark though so they don’t typically comment on it.
Hibiki is not fond of his death mark because he doesn’t like the fact that it’s visible to everyone. When he first died, he tried to hide it by wearing a shirt with a turtleneck-type collar. It was eventually seen by another member and he gave up the act. It makes him feel weak, especially since he is not the one who was killed. Yrjö is annoyed by how large his death mark is. It practically spreads over his whole body. If it was on just one part of his body he wouldn’t really mind that much; the sheer size of the mark makes him less fond of it. Taro does not like their death mark because of its association with their ex-boyfriend. Considering how much ptsd they already have surrounding their death, it’s just a painful reminder of who killed them.
To address the other part of your question, death marks don’t really feel like anything. They’re mainly just a different color and they also sink into the skin slightly. I would say that the most important thing to know about death marks is that if you were trying to double kill a ghost, striking over the death mark is most fatal (which is unfortunate for those like Yrjö with larger death marks because it makes them more vulnerable). For example, if you wanted Hibiki dead you would need to hit him with a weapon in the neck. Also to add to that, hitting a ghost over their death mark with a weapon laced in level 10 double is like…instant death.
And for the last part about judging others, it’s honestly not that common. Everybody died somehow and everybody has a death mark so it’s not really something to bully people over. And that’s not to say it never happens because it does, it just isn’t common.
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