Mind resistance for Shiraori (Kumoko)

[DontTalkDT]

Wanted to do this for a while. So, the suggestion is the add Mind Manipulation resistance to Kumoko's second key (and other gods). The basic line of reasoning is that this version resists soul manipulation and mind attacks are soul attacks in Kumo desu ga (i.e. the mind is part of the soul).

For the first piece of evidence we will look at the Heresy attribute of magic.

Heresy Magic is magic that directly acts upon the opponent’s soul.

So yeah, Heresy magic is the magic that deals with the soul. Let's look at a few spells that attribute includes.

Phantom Insanity: Plants insanity directly in the soul.

Hypnosis: Forces the target to temporarily obey the user.

Phantasm: Induces hallucinations in the target.

All of these clearly are mental effects, and the heresy attribute resistance, i.e. the resistance to soul attacks, is able to resist these effects. So it makes sense that usual soul manipulation resistance is able to do so as well, which would mean mind attack resistance.

Another showing is that skills are parts of the soul

Therefore, a skill is equivalent to being a part of the soul, and the more Skills you gain the greater the amount of the soul becomes usable.

and some skills can affect the users personality by having them

Because the Ruler Skills transform the inner region of the soul, a comparison can be made to the effects that other Skills have on the owner. One, the effects of the skill itself are powerful. Two, each skill also has an impact on the owner’s personality.

The soul also has an area that is supposed to be particularly related to the self.

Divinity Area: The deep field of a living thing's soul. The basis of all life, as well as the self's final field of dependence.

Another argument is that transferring souls also transfers the mind, like in Shiraori's soul transferal technique. For that matter, there is also the fact that Shiraori is stated to be more soul than physical being, so her mind at least is definitely not physical.

Even a god can’t survive their soul being broken. Or rather, the soul is like the main body of a god anyway.

In the light novel it is made even more clear that mind stuff is related to the soul. For example:

In the process, I noticed something that was stuck to my soul. It was in my divinity field, my foundation. In fact, it had swallowed me up entirely and become my very existence. It was Hiiro Wakaba’s memories.

Shows that memories are definitely a soul business.


So yeah, due to all of that Shiraori's resistance to having her soul messed with should also protect her mind to an extent.
What do you think, everyone?

 

[Celestial_Pegasus]

Seems fine.

 

[Yar_R_agi_7k]

I agree

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Seems okay