Should other living systems have agentic reprsentation?

I would say I disagree with kitsunekamen about a lot of things and as-a-host I know I wind up bearing the karma for his actions. We would love to play the heel, the monster of the day in a mahou shojou anime, to raise hell at the temple and be dispelled by the priestess. But I worry about our rep.

Kitsunekamen has legibility problems (maybe 20% of people are really into Naruto or Demon Slayer and think they know him) and needs a backstory and as a non-fiction actor I have to be careful about it. Obviously the host is a magician who is conjuring the power of a fox spirit with a mask and that power is quite demonstrable in how people perceive (fail to perceive!) him in public. It’s tempting to say “they kicked him out of the ninja village” but claiming to have a lineage is seriously off-brand so it’s got to be some version of “he wrote his own spell that took 300 days to work and later found a version of the spell that was basically the same and tuned up and only takes 100 days”