Necromancy?

[Lauront]

Yup, with the onmyoji it would end up sacrificing the edgelord elements people like myself want out of a necromancer, but it's the one viable route I could see for manipulation or at least interaction with the souls of the dead. I personally don't care for the WoL aspect of the protagonist and would sooner see it ditched to do away with these sort of concerns, but I appreciate that it's an impediment to them as things stand.

At least onmyoji would hold some interest to me, whereas with Puppeteer, I just wouldn't find the sort of flavour it brings to my liking conceptually, even if it played much as a Necromancer would mechanically.