Round 2: Ikigai (Japan)
Field Value Edition Crab 3 Round Round 2: Ikigai (Japan) Discipline Shinto Shrine Location Japan Entrants Dylan Lucas Mostynn (Odyssey) vs Cassidy (Monomyth) Result Dylan won
Dylan vs Cassidy was a Round 2 (Ikigai) match of Crab 3, discipline: Shinto Shrine.
Entries
Dylan (won)
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Cassidy (lost)
Hosted on Cubari (archived copy).
Recap
From the wiki page Dylan Lucas Mostynn:
In Japan, Dylan had accidentally taken the Yellow Potion, causing him to receive a familiar’s powers and Tomoe’s fox fire from Kamisama Kiss while also bearing the shrine’s blessing. Cassidy drank the kemono potion, giving her cat ears, tails, and reflexes.
In Cassidy’s reality, she decided to visit a shrine in Japan as a part of her Japanese experience. She noted how old the shrine looks. Dylan appears behind her saying his gratitude over the donation. Dylan says he was assigned to the shrine but expected more people to come, however, Cassidy disappeared and was spirited away by the shrine. Cassidy appears in a school, seemingly unaware that she was in a trance or dream when Dylan goes to rescue her. While on the way out, Cassidy trips and she was bleeding, her ears won’t work which made her realize that she is not in reality. As soon as she realizes this, she falls through a row of Toriis and into a water, with Dylan shouting that she needs to realize why she was in this false reality and what her purpose is. She pauses, stating her purpose now is to get home. Back in the reality, Dylan as a fox asks her again what her purpose in joining the tournament was. Cassidy shrewdly answers about being a housecleaner and going home again. After more prodding of Dylan, Cassidy admits that she was going to study medicine but fell through, she also stated she just wants to help people but she hasn’t done anything yet. Dylan suddenly transforms back to his Monkey-Fox yokai form, tripping Cassidy who then noted how cliché the ending was.
In Dylan’s canon reality, Cassidy visits the shrine despite being dilapidated and forgotten. She makes a donation and prays when Dylan, being the familiar hears and records her prayer, he then jumps off of excitement, scaring Cassidy. Dylan invites her for a dinner. While eating, Dylan tells the story of how the Kami of the Shrine has long left the shrine and the shrine is being kept by him because of sentimentality and empathy for it being forgotten. Cassidy then decides to help Dylan restore and fix the decrepit shrine, when suddenly a miasmic curse arrives. Cassidy’s presence as a human had attracted the miasma which could potentially spirit her away or worse, consume her soul. Dylan tries to use his fire fox powers to protect Cassidy as the curse rendered Cassidy immobile and her ears cannot protect her from spiritual attacks or curses. As the miasma closes in and Dylan’s nerfed powers fail him, Cassidy asks for a solution. Dylan reveals that a Kami could purify the miasma and he has the mark of the kami but has to be given with a kiss. In desperation, Cassidy kisses Dylan without thinking, granting her the mark and making Dylan her familiar. The two then drive the miasma curse away. The next day, to solidify the shrine’s revitalization, Cassidy performed the Kagura. Attracting the spirits and people alike and reviving the old shrine once again as its new kami.
After the Shrine’s revival, Cassidy has kept her now godlike status similar to how Dylan ascended. While Dylan is no longer her familiar, the two are in contact with each other and are very good friends. She also got the two shrine Liondogs back. Meanwhile, Dylan and Frankie encountered Tenebris in their airship, who asked them why are they fighting. Dylan warned Tenebris about how gods would fall like flies in his world and it’s mortals like him who have to pick up their slack. Dylan also had been around, creating a tenuous friendship with Z, believing he is a good memento candidate but Z promptly denied it, however, Z had created copies of mementos for Dylan’s convenience and has copied the Memento of Selflessness for himself.
From the wiki page Cassidy:
In Japan, Dylan had accidentally taken the Yellow Potion, causing him to receive a familiar’s powers and Tomoe’s fox fire from Kamisama Kiss while also bearing the shrine’s blessing. Cassidy drank the kemono potion, giving her cat ears, tails, and reflexes.
In Cassidy’s reality, she decided to visit a shrine in Japan as a part of her Japanese experience. She noted how old the shrine looks. Dylan appears behind her saying his gratitude over the donation. Dylan says he was assigned to the shrine but expected more people to come, however, Cassidy disappeared and was spirited away by the shrine. Cassidy appears in a school, seemingly unaware that she was in a trance or dream when Dylan goes to rescue her. While on the way out, Cassidy trips and she was bleeding, her ears won’t work which made her realize that she is not in reality. As soon as she realizes this, she falls through a row of Toriis and into a water, with Dylan shouting that she needs to realize why she was in this false reality and what her purpose is. She pauses, stating her purpose now is to get home. Back in the reality, Dylan as a fox asks her again what her purpose in joining the tournament was. Cassidy shrewdly answers about being a house-cleaner and going home again. After more prodding of Dylan, Cassidy admits that she was going to study medicine but fell through, she also stated she just wants to help people but she hasn’t done anything yet. Dylan suddenly transforms back to his Monkey-Fox yokai form, tripping Cassidy who then noted how cliché the ending was.
In Dylan’s canon reality, Cassidy visits the shrine despite being dilapidated and forgotten. She makes a donation and prays when Dylan, being the familiar hears and records her prayer, he then jumps off of excitement, scaring Cassidy. Dylan invites her for a dinner. While eating, Dylan tells the story of how the Kami of the Shrine has long left the shrine and the shrine is being kept by him because of sentimentality and empathy for it being forgotten. Cassidy then decides to help Dylan restore and fix the decrepit shrine, when suddenly a miasmic curse arrives. Cassidy’s presence as a human had attracted the miasma which could potentially spirit her away or worse, consume her soul. Dylan tries to use his fire fox powers to protect Cassidy as the curse rendered Cassidy immobile and her ears cannot protect her from spiritual attacks or curses. As the miasma closes in and Dylan’s nerfed powers fail him, Cassidy asks for a solution. Dylan reveals that a Kami could purify the miasma and he has the mark of the kami but has to be given with a kiss. In desperation, Cassidy kisses Dylan without thinking, granting her the mark and making Dylan her familiar. The two then drive the miasma curse away. The next day, to solidify the shrine’s revitalization, Cassidy performed the Kagura. Attracting the spirits and people alike and reviving the old shrine once again as its new kami.
Source
Text: CRAB WIKI, Dylan Lucas Mostynn (revision 1990, 2025-03-17; by Fresbi, Sgt Keroro); Cassidy (revision 1706, 2025-02-07; by Fresbi)
Edited by: G
Licence: text CC BY-SA 4.0; characters, comics and art belong to their creators
