I need to know, please! Is CJ's ghost "tied" to baby CJ? Or can it wander around independently?
What I'm asking, is can Casey see the effect baby CJ's words had on his sensei? Is he able to be there for Leo right now, even if Leo doesn't know it?
Also how do you portray so much emotion in your comics it's killing me you're seriously amazing 😭
Okay, first of all thank you so much! Emotion has always been important to me so I’m glad I’m able to get it across how I hoped!
As for Junior and CJ, it has a lot to do with how I perceive ninpo to work, some of my own personal headcanons on the matter.
While Junior did die, his spirit continued to live on thanks to his own mystics he developed from spending so much time with the Hamatos (it kinda rubbed off on him to put it simply, especially since Leo basically adopted the kid.)
The spirit plane is no respecter of timeline branches, and when his and Leo’s timeline linked up with Mikey’s, Junior’s spirit was able to latch onto CJ’s when he was born. It’s what keeps him around in the physical realm.
HOWEVER. He can’t wander very far from CJ, as much as he would want to spend more time with his sensei. On top of that, CJ is the only one who can interact with him in this realm.
As of the moment, he’s just an imaginary friend <:)