Honestly, I'm not too certain. It feels like I'm talking about different thing when I speak of it in English than if I speak it in Chinese or understand it in a Japanese context. Or just my lack of context. I grew up with Asian culture, after all.
That's probably something to write about for another time.
The idea of spiritual creature, youkai and the like, or the idea of asian dragons who are occasionally some sort of divine, that does resonate with me on some level. Specifically my various draconic identities.
If I say my various non-draconic type (except Mew) are "down to earth", because they are, literally, my draconic types are "up in the sky". Well, I tried to make word parallel.
My kardiatype, the Japanese ocean dragon was a local guardian, hailed as a guardian, a deity, a divine entity. It's this sense of, grandness, but also protectiveness, sense of great responsibility, which arguably can probably just be regular "being a guardian" thing. The sense of awe and reverence towards my kardiatype is a interesting one. Noemata tells me that's how the villager treats him. But I myself feel like that towards him too.
Aurelion Sol exudes immense power. Awe inspiring and a literal cosmic being, one of the very synonym with divinity. There isn't much to say about this vaguetype.
Flammie can be seen as a divine beast of sort. On the Wiki of Mana, Flammie is described as
shy, though otherwise joyful and friendly creatures. They sometimes are special creatures created by the Mana Goddess or Tree to help protect the world, and other times just a normal, if somewhat rare, creature.
- From Flammie, Wiki of Mana
It really draw a connection, a resonance, with what Mew paratrope is for me. Perhaps there's a more complete way I can call these common theme?
My own sense of divinity is a bit tricky to say. Would I call myself deific? Hard to say. It's going back to the whole "RPG monster" thing. I'm a sort of spiritual entity. I would categorize myself as celestial being but not quite. I mean, I am embodiment of dream in a way. Or more like those river that took the form of a dragon or serpent? I'm not sure. Morikai (my kardiatype) was definitely the other way around, a dragon first and then tied to the element which he governs. I think I am so too, a dragon before a dreamling. Calling myself using words like "deity" "kami" "youkai" are all incorrect. Once again I'm looking towards my paratrope with Mew, the mythical category of pokemon. That's my sort of divinity, mythical, folkloric. I do utilize the label folcintera for myself.
Side note a bit, some folks dislike being referred to as entity or being. I think I like being called that way due to my own relation with my own form of divinity. Just like how I see myself as a category: monster, instead of as a animal, because I am not a animal.
