For centuries afterwards local legend told of a mysterious spirit that guarded the ancient village against any intruders. The people who lived in the area called her Hisako which meant “Everlasting Child” because she always appeared in the shape of a teenage girl with muddy feet and a torn kimono.
chiharu wasn’t aware of the name hisako. it is a name that belongs to her post-death spirit.
it is not canon for the resurrected self (body and spirit) of chiharu to be named as shin hisako. shin hisako is (and should be) hisako we know.
the resurrected body and spirit of chiharu should be called shin chiharu (in contradiction to hisako’s lore) or just chiharu.
It’s not soulless. If you read the tweets and the response Rukari gave my post, it’s more implying that Shin Hisako is the reunion of body and soul. This is what happens when Hisako’s spirit is freed from her anger.
“When the ghost saw her beloved father, she wept with joy, and the centuries of hate and anger burned away from her soul like iron ore (in a tatana kiln). The bonds tying her to her to the grave where her corporeal form was buried have been severed. The moment she took hold of the two-handed sword, the guardian inside the blade called out her new name: Shin-Hisako.”
What Hisako really is then? An Ermac, A legion? An Illusion? Because they coexist in the same game. The soul is your essence, your shin, your true self.
We asked the same thing about Jago and Shadow Jago, and of Fulgore and Eagle. Perhaps the Hisako we know so like Shago: Her spirit has been cleansed of her wrath, but her hatred was too powerful to be destroyed: so strong that her anger continued to manifest as a separate being, even if the original spirit had discarded it. Hence why the new character is Shin Hisako: This is the true Hisako; body, mind, and soul. The onryo is the monstrous entity that the world still knows as Hisako.
We’ll learn more at KIWC, but that that seems pretty viable to me.
Just to make sure we’re clear, we are calling the Spirit of Chiharu “Hisako”, right? We are acknowledging the lore’s heavy implication that it was Chiharu’s vengeful spirit that carried on and protected her village, earning the attention of the higher ups, right?
