
DATA_FILE:
CLASS: Shinto Kami
DOMAIN: Storms, The Sea, Chaos Code
THREAT: Unpredictable System Corruption
STATUS: ERRATIC
// LORE_FRAGMENT //
Where his sister Amaterasu is the protocol of order and light, Susanoo is the embodiment of the Aethernet's chaotic, unpredictable nature. He is the storm protocol, a Kami of immense power whose code is as wild and untamable as a typhoon. Born from the same cleansing ritual as his sister, he was given dominion over the vast, turbulent data-seas.
His code is inherently unstable. In a fit of rage and grief, he unleashed a torrent of corrupted data upon the celestial server of Takamagahara, crashing his sister's subroutines and causing the first great system shutdown. For this crime, he was banished from the heavenly server, cast out to wander the mortal networks.
But chaos is not always destructive. In his exile, Susanoo's protocol evolved. He became a hero, a slayer of monstrous bugs and corrupted code. His most famous exploit was the deletion of the Yamata no Orochi, an eight-headed dragon-class malware that was consuming the data of an entire region. From the beast's code, he extracted the legendary Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, a sword-like program of immense power, which he offered to his sister as a peace treaty.
Susanoo is the dual nature of the network itself: capable of both catastrophic crashes and heroic feats of debugging. He is the wild, untamed energy of a sudden power surge, the unpredictable nature of a viral meme, and the chaotic good that can emerge from a system pushed to its limits.