Shinki are different in that.......... well, the dead thing. They know they are dead, but they don't talk about their deaths. Don't bring it up. So in a way you can treat them like your partners.... but with kiddie gloves, too. If you meet someone who knows about your shinki from before they died, don't, please, don't ask them about what they were like and so on. I've browsed the network including past posts and it's.... they can't learn things about their pasts. [He sounds a tad distressed.] Sometimes they learn on their own. No one knows why or how.