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NAME: Rinne.
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CHARACTER(S): None.
INVITED BY: Kit.
NAME: Natori Shuuichi.
AGE: 23.
CANON: Natsume Yuujinchou.
CANON POINT: post chapter 119.
CRAU: N/A
OTHER: N/A
SUITABILITY: Natori is no stranger to absolutely batshit weird behavior from the supernatural, including things taking control of his body and mind. He was possessed for the first time when he was 16 years old and has had an unknown creature living on his body for as long as he can remember, so he's very used to struggling with things infringing on his bodily autonomy. He's also a professional romance actor so he spends his day job getting intimate with near-strangers in front of other near-strangers for the entertainment of total strangers. The two of those elements going together is new, but he'll cope.
HISTORY: Natori was born with the ability to see youkai/spirits (usually referred to as "ayakashi") to a defunct exorcist family of now-normies that lived in fear of ayakashi coming to take revenge for the things their ancestors had done. Natori's ability to engage with the things his family most feared did not go over well, and he was blamed for anything that went wrong in his house, including his mother's death. While as a child he could be sympathetic to ayakashi, including one who was tied up in his neighborhood who told him that humans couldn't bring bad luck no matter what his family said, he quickly grew to resent them and his ability to see them. The worst was a lizard-shaped ayakashi that crawled around on his skin as if it owned the place, which became a point of obsession for him.
As a teenager, he taught himself exorcism out of the materials left behind in the family storehouse and found his way to the local exorcist meetups. Rather than finding community there, he learned that the Natori name is a running joke because they "ran away" from the business rather than join up with a stronger clan for protection once they lost their abilities. He also meets local menace Matoba Seiji, the heir apparent to the strongest clan in the region. This baby Matoba is a year younger than Natori but both far more powerful and far more knowledgeable in the field than Natori is. This starts off an #itscomplicated relationship that continues on into their young adulthood. Natori attempts to forge his own path in the community, but by the time we meet him in canon he's a depressed, cynical weenie who's still stuck on the edges of the exorcist community. But also he's picked up acting as a day job and is a wildly successful romance movie star, so at least there's that.
ABILITIES:
Spiritual perception: Natori was born with the ability to see ayakashi. His "sight" is fairly good by normal exorcist standards, but dwarfed by most of the other characters in the series. He often uses a pair of non-prescription glasses to improve his sight, since it's easier to perceive ayakashi through panes of glass.
Exorcist spells: Natori taught himself exorcism techniques from his family records. He can set up wards around buildings or block off paths to prevent harmful ayakashi from passing through. He can use his spiritual energy to injure, exorcise, or seal ayakashi, typically by reciting a spell and either hitting them with a paper ofuda (a Shinto talisman with, in Natsume-verse, illegible mystical characters written on them) or by drawing complicated arrays with the same mystical characters on the ground and luring ayakashi into the circle. Canonically, the prettier your handwriting is, the stronger the resulting spell. (Natori's handwriting is very pretty.) To seal a spirit, he needs to have a vessel to hold it, and typically uses special pots for this. The method of drawing the circle doesn't matter; he can use ink or chalk, or trace them out on the ground with a stick.
Contracts: He can form contracts with spirits that are capable of understanding speech; these ayakashi agree to work for him until the contract dissolves. He currently has three ayakashi servants ('shiki') who have contracts with him, but they will not be coming with. They appear when Natori calls their names unless prevented by a ward/protection spell/etc that blocks outside spirits from coming in (aka, like in the game setting). Natori often uses his shiki to scout the surrounding area for danger, talk to other spirits to get information they wouldn't give to a human, and orders them to accompany and protect other characters. The ayakashi can talk back to him, are not automatically compelled to obey his orders, and are capable of moving and acting on their own, but he definitely exerts a large degree of control over them; other exorcists use their servants as bait for larger ayakashi, bind their servants to objects and abandon them when they've decided to move on, or force unwilling spirits into contracts through trickery. The benefits for this sort of arrangement on the ayakashi's side is that contracts are known to strengthen both parties; the longer their working relationship lasts, the stronger the connection between the two of them grow, and they each grow stronger alongside that connection. Youkai could also agree to join with an exorcist for protection (less likely to get attacked by other ayakashi if you're tied to an exorcist!) or out of their own moral desires to stop dangerous ayakashi from attacking humans. Theoretically, Natori could try to contract with NPC spirits in the hotel if they're capable of bargaining with him, but it would need to be a mutual decision to partner up (and he's attached to his monster girls and is unlikely to cheat on them).
Paper dolls: The Natori clan specializes in paper magic. Natori makes frequent use of magically-animated paper dolls, which can fly, track targets, serve as lookouts, and deliver fairly weak defensive strikes when far from Natori's range (they seem to have no problem operating across the city from him). He often writes messages on them to send to other people and can receive messages back the same way even if the person he's replying to has no spiritual abilities of their own. He can control them to some degree when they're out of sight and get some information back from them, but only when the plot needs him to. I've decided to handle this by saying they have some limited independent scouting abilities/automatic programming and they relay any information that they've learned back to him when they return to his hand. If they're intercepted or destroyed along the way, he doesn't get to know what they know. They have spoken in the past but it was literally 20 years ago and it seems nuts, so I'm going to say they relay impressions/sight/sound but aren't conscious.
Individually, they are still normal pieces of paper -- they become useless in the rain and they're prone to catching fire if they come into contact with too much power. Natori can chain them together to serve as a rope, binding, or for spells; for this, they have to be in close proximity to Natori, but they're stronger than they would be alone. They're usually small (the size of slips of paper) but he can make them human-sized, which he uses for ambushing people/mummifying them (kinky). He can also make specialty paper dolls that serve a protective function by absorbing the brunt of a harmful spell in place of the person whose name is written on them. Natori is capable of making use of any type of paper in a pinch, but washi paper works best.
The Lizard: It's more of a supernatural birthmark than an ability, but there's a black gecko-shaped ayakashi that lives on his skin like a moving tattoo. It's normally only visible and audible to people who have some sort of ability to see spirits, but in canon the supernatural becomes visible to normies if they enter an explicitly supernatural realm so I'm going to say it's visible to everyone here. It can't be communicated with, controlled, or interacted with in any way. If you were to put a hand on it it would feel like any other part of Natori's skin. It roams freely around his body (and makes a gross slithering noise when it moves) with the exception that it's never gone on his left leg; another exorcist guesses this may be a sign that Natori will lose that leg in the future. He loathes this ayakashi. He's concerned that there's a curse associated with it, though as far as we know it contributes no benefits or drawbacks to him and is purely aesthetic.
Sorry for sparkling: On the non-magical front, Natori is also an up-and-coming popular actor as his day job and is movie-star tier attractive. He mostly appears in romances as the leading man and is genuinely pretty good at acting (thanks in part to faking being normal for his entire life). He sometimes flippantly turns on his "sparkle mode" where he turns his "effortless" romantic charm up to 11 to the squeals of the adoring crowd that unfailingly manifests when he does it in public. In other words, he's good at hiding his emotions, deflecting conversations with his stupid heartthrob act, and playing a role.
VICES:
The ends justify the means: Exorcism is serious, dangerous business, and that means that sometimes you have to steal a child's mail so he can't make a business relationship that you disapprove of, or snoop around in his private possessions to see if he has something that you think he shouldn't have. It also means holding your nose and working with some unpleasant, backstabbing people for the good of the community. While Natori's character development during the series has made him more willing to consider letting someone make a bad decision even if he's positive that it won't work out well for them, it's very easy for him to backslide, particularly when "the ends" are someone's safety.
Noncommittal: As the head of a clan of one that isn't taken seriously by anyone, Natori can dip in and out of the community as he pleases, and boy does he waver. He'll take impulsive actions and then hold back on following through with them, or second guess his decisions after making them and beat himself up for not having the strength of character to commit to the course. For example, he saw a spectral hand possessing his classmate and immediately reached out to grab it, transferring the possession to himself, then later received an offer from an ayakashi to teach him how to exorcise it if he'd exorcise her in exchange. He turned her down because he couldn't commit to exorcising someone who hadn't done anything wrong-- and then later, kept awake by the thing possessing him, ran through all of the things he could have done differently: lie to the ayakashi to learn what she knew and then not hold up his side of the bargain, find the strength to put her out of her misery, or even ignore his classmate's possession in the first place and avoid getting involved at all. He's someone who's haunted by might-have-beens and missed opportunities, ranging from those entirely within his control ("what if I had been nicer to that girl when I abruptly shut down her attempts to confess to me") to complete fantasies ("what if I had never been able to see ayakashi at all, and then I could be a kinder person").
Lonely: my god he's so lonely, and though the deep craving for connection and acceptance came from his childhood, in the modern day it's all self-imposed. Natori's family feared his abilities so much that they collectively decided to stop having children in case they got another one who could see ayakashi like he could. He found the exorcist community and then realized that everyone there also looked down on him; they just smiled while they did it and sent him the shit work that no one else wanted to do, and he did it anyway. He's so desperate for some sort of human connection that in his teen years he would spend his free time riding around on public transportation hoping that someone would spot the lizard and come talk to him about it, which is a quick leap to "maybe if I'm a movie star more people might see the lizard, and/or will hang out with me anyway because I'm famous." That said, he also repeatedly pushed people away if they didn't ~get~ him and his deal immediately, so as a result he lives alone in a sterile three bedroom apartment that looks like it was staged for a magazine shoot, has no real conversations with anyone, and insists through gritted teeth that he's living his best life. Natori was in extreme self-denial about just how lonely he was until very recently in canon (he now has 1 friend, excluding his crazy ex, and that friend is a 16 year old whose house he broke into the night they met because Natori suspected that the kid could see weird things and he wanted to connect). This is a weakness that gets used against him in canon often, including his immediate canonpoint: an ayakashi trapped him in an illusion where she disguised herself as the younger cousin he never had so they could play house together, where he spent a day attacking his shiki (and 1 friend) with a sword and getting drawn deeper into her spell. It's an easy one for the house to use against him.
VIRTUES:
Protective: He wants to protect people, even if they don't want him to! He sees that as both his duty and a way to feel useful, and it's served as a guiding light to keep him going with his exorcism work despite every single person wanting him to give it up. He regularly throws himself in front of people when there's danger, both literally (he jumps in front of not just the reckless teens and normies in the series, but also physically protects Matoba several times even though Matoba has an entire clan of people whose job it is to protect him) and figuratively (he wants to protect Natsume from the burden imposed by the titular Book of Friends, an item Natsume inherited from his grandmother that will bring violent ayakashi to his door until he dies, and so Natori throws himself into researching potential solutions).
Kind: This is a weird one because he struggles with it, in that he often wishes he were less kind so he could more effectively do the things he (thinks he) needs to do. Kindness is not a trait that does well in the exorcist community (where it's often synonymous with "foolishness"), but Natori persists in it anyway. We know the backstories of two of his three shiki servants, and they both passively chose their own deaths at the hands of exorcists as a way of escaping their unpleasant confinements before Natori stepped in and offered to partner with them instead. He gets criticism for this from other exorcists (Matoba) who thinks that he could get stronger familiars and should have moved on by now, but instead he keeps collecting his wayward misfits. He often sees kindness as something that's in conflict with doing the "right" thing; he repeatedly insists that Natsume shouldn't have the Book of Friends because it's actively dangerous to him and thinks the right thing to do would be to destroy it, but it's precious to Natsume and so he can't bring himself to do it even when he's left alone with it. His character development through the series hasn't been becoming a kinder person, but rather becoming more comfortable with his kinder instincts instead of automatically choking them down.
SUIT REQUESTS:
Spades: Natori's main character motivation is wanting to be a good person, so I'd be interested in giving him a suit that would actively try to undermine that goal for him to struggle against! Natori has a very carefully calculated public persona and already tries to shut down his more unpleasant urges, so there's a lot of material for the suit to take advantage of. Because Natori is already inclined towards dwelling over his negative traits and what could have gone differently, he'll still struggle with the existence of the urges that the Spade suit awoke in him (especially if he gives in to them) long after the suit flare has abated. Natori will also be better motivated to participate in the game if he has the threat of a "dark" suit activation hanging over him. This one would be my first choice because of how well it matches with his character arc and the themes of the series.
Hearts: Complete opposite side of the coin: as far as the exorcist community (and to an extent, Natori himself) is concerned, giving in to his emotions is Natori's biggest weakness, so of course it would be natural to take that to the extreme and prove all of the haters right. While Natori has a very flirty public persona that he puts on at will, it's in no way his real personality; he would be extremely disoriented and alarmed to find himself genuinely experiencing those emotions, and he would likely take it as a targeted perversion of a tool he uses to obfuscate and deflect in social situations. His self-deprecating hopeless romantic act is a lot less safe to indulge in after he starts experiencing it for real!
RANK REQUESTS: All I ask is that he's higher than Matoba so he can be smug about it.
SAMPLES:
Sample one: TDM toplevel
Sample two: TDM thread (log)
Sample three: TDM thread (network)
OOC
NAME: Rinne.
AGE: 30s.
CONTACT:
CHARACTER(S): None.
INVITED BY: Kit.
IC
NAME: Natori Shuuichi.
AGE: 23.
CANON: Natsume Yuujinchou.
CANON POINT: post chapter 119.
CRAU: N/A
OTHER: N/A
SUITABILITY: Natori is no stranger to absolutely batshit weird behavior from the supernatural, including things taking control of his body and mind. He was possessed for the first time when he was 16 years old and has had an unknown creature living on his body for as long as he can remember, so he's very used to struggling with things infringing on his bodily autonomy. He's also a professional romance actor so he spends his day job getting intimate with near-strangers in front of other near-strangers for the entertainment of total strangers. The two of those elements going together is new, but he'll cope.
HISTORY: Natori was born with the ability to see youkai/spirits (usually referred to as "ayakashi") to a defunct exorcist family of now-normies that lived in fear of ayakashi coming to take revenge for the things their ancestors had done. Natori's ability to engage with the things his family most feared did not go over well, and he was blamed for anything that went wrong in his house, including his mother's death. While as a child he could be sympathetic to ayakashi, including one who was tied up in his neighborhood who told him that humans couldn't bring bad luck no matter what his family said, he quickly grew to resent them and his ability to see them. The worst was a lizard-shaped ayakashi that crawled around on his skin as if it owned the place, which became a point of obsession for him.
As a teenager, he taught himself exorcism out of the materials left behind in the family storehouse and found his way to the local exorcist meetups. Rather than finding community there, he learned that the Natori name is a running joke because they "ran away" from the business rather than join up with a stronger clan for protection once they lost their abilities. He also meets local menace Matoba Seiji, the heir apparent to the strongest clan in the region. This baby Matoba is a year younger than Natori but both far more powerful and far more knowledgeable in the field than Natori is. This starts off an #itscomplicated relationship that continues on into their young adulthood. Natori attempts to forge his own path in the community, but by the time we meet him in canon he's a depressed, cynical weenie who's still stuck on the edges of the exorcist community. But also he's picked up acting as a day job and is a wildly successful romance movie star, so at least there's that.
ABILITIES:
Spiritual perception: Natori was born with the ability to see ayakashi. His "sight" is fairly good by normal exorcist standards, but dwarfed by most of the other characters in the series. He often uses a pair of non-prescription glasses to improve his sight, since it's easier to perceive ayakashi through panes of glass.
Exorcist spells: Natori taught himself exorcism techniques from his family records. He can set up wards around buildings or block off paths to prevent harmful ayakashi from passing through. He can use his spiritual energy to injure, exorcise, or seal ayakashi, typically by reciting a spell and either hitting them with a paper ofuda (a Shinto talisman with, in Natsume-verse, illegible mystical characters written on them) or by drawing complicated arrays with the same mystical characters on the ground and luring ayakashi into the circle. Canonically, the prettier your handwriting is, the stronger the resulting spell. (Natori's handwriting is very pretty.) To seal a spirit, he needs to have a vessel to hold it, and typically uses special pots for this. The method of drawing the circle doesn't matter; he can use ink or chalk, or trace them out on the ground with a stick.
Contracts: He can form contracts with spirits that are capable of understanding speech; these ayakashi agree to work for him until the contract dissolves. He currently has three ayakashi servants ('shiki') who have contracts with him, but they will not be coming with. They appear when Natori calls their names unless prevented by a ward/protection spell/etc that blocks outside spirits from coming in (aka, like in the game setting). Natori often uses his shiki to scout the surrounding area for danger, talk to other spirits to get information they wouldn't give to a human, and orders them to accompany and protect other characters. The ayakashi can talk back to him, are not automatically compelled to obey his orders, and are capable of moving and acting on their own, but he definitely exerts a large degree of control over them; other exorcists use their servants as bait for larger ayakashi, bind their servants to objects and abandon them when they've decided to move on, or force unwilling spirits into contracts through trickery. The benefits for this sort of arrangement on the ayakashi's side is that contracts are known to strengthen both parties; the longer their working relationship lasts, the stronger the connection between the two of them grow, and they each grow stronger alongside that connection. Youkai could also agree to join with an exorcist for protection (less likely to get attacked by other ayakashi if you're tied to an exorcist!) or out of their own moral desires to stop dangerous ayakashi from attacking humans. Theoretically, Natori could try to contract with NPC spirits in the hotel if they're capable of bargaining with him, but it would need to be a mutual decision to partner up (and he's attached to his monster girls and is unlikely to cheat on them).
Paper dolls: The Natori clan specializes in paper magic. Natori makes frequent use of magically-animated paper dolls, which can fly, track targets, serve as lookouts, and deliver fairly weak defensive strikes when far from Natori's range (they seem to have no problem operating across the city from him). He often writes messages on them to send to other people and can receive messages back the same way even if the person he's replying to has no spiritual abilities of their own. He can control them to some degree when they're out of sight and get some information back from them, but only when the plot needs him to. I've decided to handle this by saying they have some limited independent scouting abilities/automatic programming and they relay any information that they've learned back to him when they return to his hand. If they're intercepted or destroyed along the way, he doesn't get to know what they know. They have spoken in the past but it was literally 20 years ago and it seems nuts, so I'm going to say they relay impressions/sight/sound but aren't conscious.
Individually, they are still normal pieces of paper -- they become useless in the rain and they're prone to catching fire if they come into contact with too much power. Natori can chain them together to serve as a rope, binding, or for spells; for this, they have to be in close proximity to Natori, but they're stronger than they would be alone. They're usually small (the size of slips of paper) but he can make them human-sized, which he uses for ambushing people/mummifying them (kinky). He can also make specialty paper dolls that serve a protective function by absorbing the brunt of a harmful spell in place of the person whose name is written on them. Natori is capable of making use of any type of paper in a pinch, but washi paper works best.
The Lizard: It's more of a supernatural birthmark than an ability, but there's a black gecko-shaped ayakashi that lives on his skin like a moving tattoo. It's normally only visible and audible to people who have some sort of ability to see spirits, but in canon the supernatural becomes visible to normies if they enter an explicitly supernatural realm so I'm going to say it's visible to everyone here. It can't be communicated with, controlled, or interacted with in any way. If you were to put a hand on it it would feel like any other part of Natori's skin. It roams freely around his body (and makes a gross slithering noise when it moves) with the exception that it's never gone on his left leg; another exorcist guesses this may be a sign that Natori will lose that leg in the future. He loathes this ayakashi. He's concerned that there's a curse associated with it, though as far as we know it contributes no benefits or drawbacks to him and is purely aesthetic.
Sorry for sparkling: On the non-magical front, Natori is also an up-and-coming popular actor as his day job and is movie-star tier attractive. He mostly appears in romances as the leading man and is genuinely pretty good at acting (thanks in part to faking being normal for his entire life). He sometimes flippantly turns on his "sparkle mode" where he turns his "effortless" romantic charm up to 11 to the squeals of the adoring crowd that unfailingly manifests when he does it in public. In other words, he's good at hiding his emotions, deflecting conversations with his stupid heartthrob act, and playing a role.
VICES:
The ends justify the means: Exorcism is serious, dangerous business, and that means that sometimes you have to steal a child's mail so he can't make a business relationship that you disapprove of, or snoop around in his private possessions to see if he has something that you think he shouldn't have. It also means holding your nose and working with some unpleasant, backstabbing people for the good of the community. While Natori's character development during the series has made him more willing to consider letting someone make a bad decision even if he's positive that it won't work out well for them, it's very easy for him to backslide, particularly when "the ends" are someone's safety.
Noncommittal: As the head of a clan of one that isn't taken seriously by anyone, Natori can dip in and out of the community as he pleases, and boy does he waver. He'll take impulsive actions and then hold back on following through with them, or second guess his decisions after making them and beat himself up for not having the strength of character to commit to the course. For example, he saw a spectral hand possessing his classmate and immediately reached out to grab it, transferring the possession to himself, then later received an offer from an ayakashi to teach him how to exorcise it if he'd exorcise her in exchange. He turned her down because he couldn't commit to exorcising someone who hadn't done anything wrong-- and then later, kept awake by the thing possessing him, ran through all of the things he could have done differently: lie to the ayakashi to learn what she knew and then not hold up his side of the bargain, find the strength to put her out of her misery, or even ignore his classmate's possession in the first place and avoid getting involved at all. He's someone who's haunted by might-have-beens and missed opportunities, ranging from those entirely within his control ("what if I had been nicer to that girl when I abruptly shut down her attempts to confess to me") to complete fantasies ("what if I had never been able to see ayakashi at all, and then I could be a kinder person").
Lonely: my god he's so lonely, and though the deep craving for connection and acceptance came from his childhood, in the modern day it's all self-imposed. Natori's family feared his abilities so much that they collectively decided to stop having children in case they got another one who could see ayakashi like he could. He found the exorcist community and then realized that everyone there also looked down on him; they just smiled while they did it and sent him the shit work that no one else wanted to do, and he did it anyway. He's so desperate for some sort of human connection that in his teen years he would spend his free time riding around on public transportation hoping that someone would spot the lizard and come talk to him about it, which is a quick leap to "maybe if I'm a movie star more people might see the lizard, and/or will hang out with me anyway because I'm famous." That said, he also repeatedly pushed people away if they didn't ~get~ him and his deal immediately, so as a result he lives alone in a sterile three bedroom apartment that looks like it was staged for a magazine shoot, has no real conversations with anyone, and insists through gritted teeth that he's living his best life. Natori was in extreme self-denial about just how lonely he was until very recently in canon (he now has 1 friend, excluding his crazy ex, and that friend is a 16 year old whose house he broke into the night they met because Natori suspected that the kid could see weird things and he wanted to connect). This is a weakness that gets used against him in canon often, including his immediate canonpoint: an ayakashi trapped him in an illusion where she disguised herself as the younger cousin he never had so they could play house together, where he spent a day attacking his shiki (and 1 friend) with a sword and getting drawn deeper into her spell. It's an easy one for the house to use against him.
VIRTUES:
Protective: He wants to protect people, even if they don't want him to! He sees that as both his duty and a way to feel useful, and it's served as a guiding light to keep him going with his exorcism work despite every single person wanting him to give it up. He regularly throws himself in front of people when there's danger, both literally (he jumps in front of not just the reckless teens and normies in the series, but also physically protects Matoba several times even though Matoba has an entire clan of people whose job it is to protect him) and figuratively (he wants to protect Natsume from the burden imposed by the titular Book of Friends, an item Natsume inherited from his grandmother that will bring violent ayakashi to his door until he dies, and so Natori throws himself into researching potential solutions).
Kind: This is a weird one because he struggles with it, in that he often wishes he were less kind so he could more effectively do the things he (thinks he) needs to do. Kindness is not a trait that does well in the exorcist community (where it's often synonymous with "foolishness"), but Natori persists in it anyway. We know the backstories of two of his three shiki servants, and they both passively chose their own deaths at the hands of exorcists as a way of escaping their unpleasant confinements before Natori stepped in and offered to partner with them instead. He gets criticism for this from other exorcists (Matoba) who thinks that he could get stronger familiars and should have moved on by now, but instead he keeps collecting his wayward misfits. He often sees kindness as something that's in conflict with doing the "right" thing; he repeatedly insists that Natsume shouldn't have the Book of Friends because it's actively dangerous to him and thinks the right thing to do would be to destroy it, but it's precious to Natsume and so he can't bring himself to do it even when he's left alone with it. His character development through the series hasn't been becoming a kinder person, but rather becoming more comfortable with his kinder instincts instead of automatically choking them down.
SUIT REQUESTS:
Spades: Natori's main character motivation is wanting to be a good person, so I'd be interested in giving him a suit that would actively try to undermine that goal for him to struggle against! Natori has a very carefully calculated public persona and already tries to shut down his more unpleasant urges, so there's a lot of material for the suit to take advantage of. Because Natori is already inclined towards dwelling over his negative traits and what could have gone differently, he'll still struggle with the existence of the urges that the Spade suit awoke in him (especially if he gives in to them) long after the suit flare has abated. Natori will also be better motivated to participate in the game if he has the threat of a "dark" suit activation hanging over him. This one would be my first choice because of how well it matches with his character arc and the themes of the series.
Hearts: Complete opposite side of the coin: as far as the exorcist community (and to an extent, Natori himself) is concerned, giving in to his emotions is Natori's biggest weakness, so of course it would be natural to take that to the extreme and prove all of the haters right. While Natori has a very flirty public persona that he puts on at will, it's in no way his real personality; he would be extremely disoriented and alarmed to find himself genuinely experiencing those emotions, and he would likely take it as a targeted perversion of a tool he uses to obfuscate and deflect in social situations. His self-deprecating hopeless romantic act is a lot less safe to indulge in after he starts experiencing it for real!
RANK REQUESTS: All I ask is that he's higher than Matoba so he can be smug about it.
SAMPLES:
Sample one: TDM toplevel
Sample two: TDM thread (log)
Sample three: TDM thread (network)