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- Feb 25, 2021
It's funny, because Stephanie's gods 'n' ghosts are all so nice to her. They're up for whatever she wants to do; they tell her special secrets or just tell her how hot her body is. Being married to a bunch of murderers and spiritual embodiments of darkness, you'd think someone would at least make her kneel on rice for five minutes.
I was reading a book about Santeria (mostly anthropological) and one thing that struck me was believers getting ridden by their orisha, who goes on to tell everyone around them what that person needs to do better, once they have their body back. "Stop cheating his customers" or "stop cheating on his wife" or "throw out that creepy palo mayombe cauldron he got from his late uncle." The orishas would also have handy advice for other people at the ceremony/party, exactly the kind of thing the santero might have known in day-to-day life but not wanted to say out loud. Eleggua, wearing your body like a meat suit, is bulletproof as far as party fouls.
...Anyway, I think the difference is in the supernatural being you imagine when you have the ability to assess yourself objectively. When Loki "possesses" Stephanie, she just DMs harassment to people she knows.
If the LARP held or this were somehow real, I'd expect Baba Yaga to manifest, look at the NEETcave, and decide the best use of her time on earth was to educate Stephanie on how to scrub and sweep. Baba Yaga's deal is making humans do chores for her (or else eat them); there's no way she'd initiate Stephanie into the Mysteries while surrounded by skin pickings and dirty dishes.
