headcanon

[sonneliht]

☼ he sounds an awful lot like Tomokazu Sugita

• example: various characters (slightly full of gay towards the end)
• example 2: with some repeats from the first!

☼ some theologists and mythologists believe that Amaterasu was male; it's highly unlikely that the translation team for Okamiden decided to play with that idea - however, it is what I'll basically be going by for the reason why Shiranui (despite being Amaterasu) is male. (well...besides the fact that it's hard to translate ambiguous / gender neutrality to English.)

☼ Shiranui is the third tallest of the brush gods; Gekigami and Bakugami beat him in the height department

☼ he doesn't really use honorifics much, if  at all, since he tends to be friendly with just about everyone

☼ unlike his next incarnation, Shiranui does not have wolf ears or a tail when he's parading about as a human

☼ Shiranui has no labeled sexuality for himself (he really doesn't know what the terms mean, to be quite honest)

•  he has a weak spot for women; especially ones with large breasts
•  but he doesn't discriminate when it comes to men and he'll accept all of their affections; after all, he's got the weirdest boner going on for Waka
• he might also have a bit of a thing for Ishaku, if only because of mixed feelings and accidentally taking his admiration and thinking that it might be something more when it really isn't. he's a dumbass like that
• i will be playing him as pansexual with heavy female leanings

☼ prior to Yami going batshit fuck insane, stowing away in the Ark of Yamato with a bunch of demons, and trying to kill Shiranui...they actually had a pretty good relationship.

☼ debating on the canon point, he will either be referred to as Shiranui or as Amaterasu - if he is pre-game/pre-descent of the Ark, he will be called Amaterasu; after winding up in Kamiki village or post-death, he will be called Shiranui
 
☼ he has no adversity towards water and will actually, willingly, bathe himself and plop on comfortably down in a hot spring to soothe his old spirit.

☼ he's still a lazy sack of crap, though, and will be more than happy to find a nice, quiet place to doze off and nap.

☼ he's been to Nippon/Japan prior to the Ark's crashing in Kamui

• when he was younger - still under Yomigami's care and learning the brush techniques - Shiranui ran off to see what the world below the Celestial Plain was all about
• he continued to pay it a visit - in various forms, to suit the need to blend in - over the years
• during his visits, he started up a relationship with a merchant's pretty daughter; it was just supposed to be a fling, on Shiranui's part, but...things kind of evolved into something more and it pained him to watch her grow old as he... well, as he stayed the same.

☼ (re: the above relationship) Shiranui has a habit of skirting about the issue of "well, did you love that girl?" because he'd rather convince himself that, no, he didn't love her -- if only because it makes the ache a bit more dull.

☼ there are two people that Shiranui has put unwavering trust in: Ushiwaka and Ishaku. he would ultimately give up his life for both of them - they are his bros and his best buds 5ever

• that isn't to say, however, that Shiranui does not trust his family. he trusts them with his life. but his relationship with both Waka and Ishaku are something different from that of what he has with the other brush gods.

☼ he loves everyone

• and i do mean everyone
• but he doesn't love the demons from Nippon - nope, he'll just tolerate them sorry guys