#boshishi

Stealing is not a nice thing to do and Boshi doesn't condone it, but if that's what Odoke has to do to get by then he can't hold it against him. In Boshi's mind stealing food from a human is at least better than straight up EATING him.

Since Boshishi is basically "one of them" and since there's really no bad blood between him and any of the other yokai, he doesn't have much to fear from them. Some yokai rub him the wrong way though and he'll try to avoid interacting with them if possible due to conflicting moral codes and the fact that conversations between the two types always tend to take a turn for the awkward. This applies to the more violent yokai who are given to attacking or killing humans (e.g. wanyudo, gashadokuro) but even then he acknowledges that it's their nature and does his best not to judge them for it.

1) The big city and all that isn't really "off-limits" per say, but he doesn't enjoy going there or having to interact with anything that was made less than a century ago. The only time Boshi will go to the city of his own free will is to sit and play the biwa on a corner of Alien Street, partially to make a little extra money since the shrine sees so few offerings, and partially because he just likes doing so. He feels more comfortable on Alien Street since it's a lot more tame compared to the hustle and bustle of the actual streets of Tokyo. Otherwise he has to go into the city in order to buy rice, and once in a while his business with the dead takes him there as well (someone will want him to deliver a message to a surviving family member, etc).

Unfortunately Boshi is the opposite of interested in the modern world - he doesn't want anything to do with it, mostly because of the loss of tradition, yes. Which is kind of a shame because it's made him timid and way more of a recluse than he used to be. He just needs to be nudged out of his comfort zone and have a lot of things explained to him (I guess maybe even yokai can have a fear of the unknown??), and then he would probably start to become more accepting of the changes the country's gone through.

2) Hikiki tends to not display those kinds of stronger, more heartfelt emotions - love, happiness, fear, grief, regret - as something of a safety mechanism to avoid appearing vulnerable. That goes double when there's someone he genuinely cares about in the picture since he knows the kind of people he's made enemies with wouldn't think twice about getting back at him by targeting his family instead. So he wouldn't be that incredibly affection towards Venini, no, but there would certainly be a noticeable difference in the way he'd behave around her.

I guess he's kind of always had a thing for pushing her buttons, and that wouldn't change once they became An Item SORRY VENINI. He'd do it more often, but less to get a real rise out of her and more just as playful teasing (i.e. actually dropping it after a minute or so instead of carrying on like an ass until she's about to deck him in the face [not that he minds]). On special occasions Venini might find a litl wooden trinket on her night stand - in his downtime Hikiki does do a bit of carving, as a hobby but now with a little more actual purpose! Other times he'll find something nice and practical to do for her (stealth naginata sharpening? ninja venom re-alphabetizing?? other things that coincidentally involve sneaking into the women's quarters???), and if asked about it will just grin and deny ever having done such a thing.

Boshishi never had any GFs or BFs, naw. He's always been the type to put work before play, even back in the day on Keron; he considers his obligations to be of extreme importance and would feel guilty as hell if he shirked his duties of maintaining the shrine or comforting the dead for selfish purposes. (You could basically look at it like a vow of chastity that works too)

Though obviously this presents a bit of a challenge when it comes to continuing the family line AHEM

Nowadays Boshi's pals are almost exclusively yokai and he does the PARTY HARD thing with them every so often, either on special occasions (Oshougatsu is a pretty big one obv) or just for funsies (when the seasons change, etc). Sometimes they meet out in the middle of the forest where it's 2spooky4humans, and sometimes when Boshi's feeling especially extroverted he'll host a gathering at the shrine. There is a lot of eating and drinking involved. Emphasis on the drinking because he and a lot of his pals are damn good at holding their liquor and when the oni bring the bottomless sake gourds that is when you REALLY better watch out! Also the hyakki yagyou, that is definitely a thing that happens.