Onigami

This article must be read after the following one: Demons.

Onigami (鬼神, Kishin/Onigami lit. Demon Deity), generally referred to as Celestials, are a variant of Yôkai. As their quite rare counterpart, they are present on every universe composing the Sunflower-verse, to the exception, of course, of the original one and of Vilous. Their numbers, on each one of those, can be counted on two hands.

In details, Onigami come into existence whenever a yôkai, for a reason or another, gets purged of the feelings that have originally caused them to change, in a way that lets them transcend their very nature as a demon. Usually, this is a turn of events that follows some sort of personal revelation to the yôkai, where they understand that everything they felt and did so far was wrong, resulting in a twist in their logic that switches over their current malevolent nature to a fundamentally better one. The ensuing change is just as mental as it is physical: while ascending into an Onigami, their body will usually turn back into something more human-like, but will retain most of their previous demonic features nonetheless. Even though most of them adopt a neutral stance towards others, more so than a truly positive one (and mainly towards humans), it could be said that Onigami are "good demons".

Naturally speaking, in a context other than causing this to happen to themselves, this situation would be counted as an exorcism and kill the yôkai, as those feelings define them and precisely represent what they are. Without them, they would have never become yôkai to begin with and it is the reason why Onigami are so rare, their very existence being contrary to their previous selves.

(The more you know... Take a look at another species from the Sunflower Fields?)