#there’s procedures for ridding prayer beads that belonged to someone who has passed

[akkivee]

it caught my eye that kuukou has two sets of prayer beads in this card and learned that in buddhism you have two different kinds of prayer beads: formal and informal!!!!

formal beads are crafted for specifically one sect, so prayer beads from shingon buddhism would differ from zen buddhism, for example!!! informal beads are typically for personal use and don’t follow the more strict construct rules that differentiates formal beads. since they’re for personal use, why a person may have a personal set of beads varies from person to person, but they’re usually used either for meditation or for protection

we’ve seen kuukou meditate, and he doesn’t use beads so i wonder if his beads are more of a protection charm for him more than anything 🤔

#this is vee speaking #i cycled thru other options too lol #like i think i read beads can be used for a general sense of guidance??? which is is plausible for kuukou lol #like maybe they belong to someone else!!!! it is considered pretty rude tho to use someone else’s prayer beads #like unless they were given to him (which is a possibility!!!!) then prayer beads don’t change hands regardless if they’re alive or not #there’s procedures for ridding prayer beads that belonged to someone who has passed #uh then there’s also the fact kuukou’s beads may have changed from his nb era fit to now #looking thru kuukou’s arb cards they aren’t consistent with how they look lol (unsurprisingly lol) #but in the SINGULAR official nb kuukou art we have kuukou’s beads don’t have those two red beads his current era beads have #i’ve talked about them before but whether or not i went back and tagged it for future reference is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol #but that’s also reason they should be kuukou’s lol #hhhhh i’m not done lol so if it’s a protection thing it does fit in with his themes of protection #but fits in the VERY niche part of self protection details his character design has #like his ring likely has onyx which is a self protection gem and his ability to seal stems from warding charms #so is it a charm to protect himself against something??? who tf knows and if we’ll ever fcking know lmao #c: kuukou👑