#like the actual dodomeki

[yoiasa]

people wondering (i'm people) if asa's youkai is either a mokumokuren or a dodomeki/todomeki , and both of them seems possible that i wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit of both, like how tsk and rui have two and more youkai in their cards.

one who are said to be harmless but creepy, watching everything in the walls, constant surveillance inside of the house. while the other, a woman punished by having multiple eyes in her whole body for committing wicked acts (theft and stealing money in the og myth, but in asa's case, for "disobeying" her mother's wishes)

#i kinda understand why they won't #give mfy eyes on her body i mean #like the actual dodomeki #but you know #the potential is there for eye body horror ohhhh it gives me the chills just thinking abt it #i've seen one already and holy shit #宵朝.txt

[youkaigakkou-tl]

I've been thinking about how the Gods 'cannot harm humans' but also how Haruaki's been hit, kicked and had wrestling moves done against him by a few Gods throughout the manga. Definitely for the humor of the manga (it is funny when it happens lol).

But I guess what I'm waiting to see is if Haru getting kicked around by Gods is just going to being a continuous gag, or if it is actually a hint that Haruaki (because he's a descendent of Abe no Seimei) isn't... entirely human. If it is a hint to that, I wonder if any of the known Gods noticed it.

Because I may be wrong, but it might be a Taboo that has a consequence against Gods that harm humans. Similar to what happened to Suzaku, but probably not to that same level of punishment as that, depending on the extent of harm done.

you know what this is kinda interesting to think about, there’s a few things that Might point to Haruaki not being entirely human, but I just don’t know if this is necessarily one of them, mainly because of 2 things:

Thing 1: Semantics

Every time this is brought up, very specific wording is used: not “gods cannot harm humans”, rather “gods cannot KILL humans”. (One exception: Ebisu in ch 91, he says gods cannot harm humans. But it's Ebisu so like…) I don’t know if that’s a hard rule, as in “gods can get away with any amount of harm as long as it doesn’t kill” but none of the gods we’ve seen are that interested in chasing loopholes regardless (in an actual serious way like torture or something).

(Also, judging by the fuujin and raijin’s dictionary entry, it probably isn’t)

The more I reread ch 90 and 93 the more baffled I am honestly. The gods in ch 93 seem to imply there’s a difference between killing a sinner and an innocent, but in ch 90 Byakko was talked down from killing Douman despite believing fully that Douman killed Seimei, which kinda implies Gods Are Not Allowed To Kill Humans, Period. (The exception being the specific situation where Seimei is some part youkai and therefore not under the general “gods protect humans” umbrella, which would fulfill both “Byakko believes Douman killed Seimei” and “Byakko believes he will be punished for killing Douman”)

Also, if it’s as Takahashi’s anecdote about dodomeki suggests, there’s other ways to turn a human into a youkai that don’t involve killing, so why did Suzaku specifically choose to kill Douman? Unless Takahashi’s story is just a cute story, and turning a human into a youkai does involve killing, just that killing sinners is okay OR the higher-up gods get to decide???

In any case, how this applies to Haruaki, since he’s evidently super hard to kill, is probably doing something irreversible to either his soul or body that he couldn’t come back from, something the four gods intended to do had their plan succeeded according to Byakko (since he says they've "thought this through"). Anything short of that, like we've seen, doesn't kill him.

(On that note, what exactly was their plan??? As far as is shown the shikigami papers are only able to summon something that already exists to where the paper is. How does it interact with a (ambiguously) human soul???)

If that’s true, this maneuver would be really stupid and also funny (well, considering they were ready for the worst case scenario of becoming youkai regardless…)

(UNLESS. It only applies to doing something irreversible to the soul?? In which case what is a soul and also why is Haruaki’s Like That. Both of these possibilities are Weird)

End of the day, there’s just not enough sample size: The only confirmed god on human murder is Suzaku and Douman, which itself is an edge case since we don’t know the full story of what happened to Seimei. And then we’re talking about Haruaki, who’s also an edge case considering he’s gotten his soul taken out 3 times (that we've seen) and walked it off every time. (Granted, we haven’t seen him take fatal damage physically)

And now, the second thing, way more simple:

Thing 2: It is still October

As of chapter 97, we are still in October, aka Kannazuki, aka “the month when gods aren’t here”. They have fucked off to Izumo. It’s just the four gods who stuck around in Kyoto for this plan of theirs. We’ve seen a handful of gods now, and none of them are all that omniscient or all-powerful, they probably have to be watching to be doing any smiting. In which case, if there is any consequences, we would have to wait until November in-universe to see.

(We actually do know what date chapter 97 happens on: October 18. Haru says Mame’s seat number matched the date, and I just remembered today that his seat number is shown in ch39 page 1)

#asks #rambles

[mingjue]

character bingo… Seimei . i think his potential has been wasted but who hasn’t had their full potential erased in onmyoji LMAO

OK SO HES . . . DEFINITELY SOMEONE I ROTATE IN MY BRAIN . . . BUT MOSTLY IN RELATION TO SOMEONE ELSE.

1. Absolutely wasted potential. We still havent gotten a SINGLE clarification for turquoise seimei and it genuinely doesnt look like we're getting any any time soon. 😭. It like drives me up the wall bc unpopular opinion turquoise seimei is my FAVORITE seimei and i rlly wish we cld get him as a skin 😭😭😭

BUT a lot of my thoughts concerning him are in relation to Shuten, Arakawa (ofc), & Tamamo. The most i rlly think of him by himself are for like . . . My indulgent domestic onmyoji courtyard au where i develop seimei & co's living space LMFAO.

I think hes a bit cuntish. But i also think hes really sweet, and Aware of himself to the extent he Can be aware of himself. I honestly love him 2 death but i Mean 2 death in that i will beat him to death hes still an asshole (thank god)

But um. Like. Goign into the dynamics.

Him & shuten have unexplored shit. Imo. If im remembering timelines right, on top of if we actually still have documentation of all of their interactions 🥲. But i think smth a lot of ppl dont think about is What was seimei doing in the time of the initial purge on Mt Oe, on top of Why does ibaraki come to accept him, let alone shuten when he gets his memories back. Im like 90% sure turquoise seimei was still together during this time and i think this wldve been interesting for the three of them to go over. I dont have this fully thought out but it Is something i think abt esp for any possibilities that seimei at the time might have been some kind of aid. Bc again, he was both Shiro and Kuro-- i wldnt specifically put it past him, iirc he was aware of his kitsune heritage during this time period. Dont think it'd be possible bt food for thought

As for arakawa i literally have no basis for them i just think they should gay kiss on the mouth and seimei goes through a heavy depression spell when he dies and also kingyo calls them slurs. <3

BUT FOR FUCJING TAMAMO. Thats his uncle first of all bt SECOND OF ALL i dont think ill be able to get into everything but theres so so much to be explored with seimei and tamamo and i really wish this had been a prime focus for SP Tamamo, along with focus on Dodomeki and Yuki Doji in reconciling family. They did the family run for Sp Enma they couldve done it for sp tamamo!!!! But also like theres So much there w both of the seimeis to tamamo. And even turquoise seimei?!?!? What was going on then. What was tamamo thinking in that time period, esp if seimei really did participate in the purge on mt oe? But Seimei is so closely tied to one of THE most powerful spirits and it just feels like they dont do enough concerning it?? They barely even do enough for tamamo himself and it drives me fucking insane. I know tamamo has involvement in the minamotos(? I remember him disguising himself and dropping smth abt it in a cg to seimei?) But idk man . . . Tamamo needs more screentime with seimei. Esp with recent hints on kuzunoha and the like . . . . .

#Asks #Foxyboysupremacy #theres so much to seimei bt again all of my thoughts are how hes connected to other characters

[shslpunkartist]

So me & friends spent the last couple of minutes trying to send in a number between 1-8 like you've asked but either tumblr itself or the shitty wi-fi over here or both kept giving us trouble. I'm now home though and currently attempting this again. Is2g if this crashes on me too then I will be very >:C. Anyway the number I chose is 5!

5 is Soul Eater!

Beat-Z is named Skyler, age 19, female, and bisexual

Skyler is a weapon, able to transform into dual chainballs that can change in size, depending on what her meister sees fit.. that is, if she HAD a meister. For now, she's a lone weapon, but she still makes use of her power when needed by using her hands and ends of her sweater to form the chainballs. She can even use herself as a slingshot by slamming her "fists" to the ground and launching herself forward.

This form is definitely one of the more reckless ones, to the point that it's hard to tell if she's good or bad. She gets easily intrigued by strong people, and her constant follow ends up in a fight, which she almost always outlast. But she's still a good person, understanding that she doesn't always make the best decisions, but she doesn't want to cause problems on purpose.

Her best friend is Kuma, who is a meister that wields Storm, a large hammer weapon. Kuma and Storm seem to have such low energy (especially compared to Skyler), but they're also the only ones that can keep up with her hyperness. Both speak little in words, but Skyler somehow understands them perfectly. She and Storm are dating, while Kuma glares and constantly reminds Storm that he better take care of her, otherwise he's swimming with the fishes.

Enemy is named Dodomeki, age unknown, nonbinary, and asexual

Dodomeki is a witch that loves to curse weapons and/or meisters' souls. They don't turn them in Kishin demons, but they disguise their souls with something similar, which makes those people targets, as others will think that they're actually monsters. Skyler is one of them. Being cursed somehow helps her work well with anyone, but hardly anyone wants to use her as weapon because of the curse. It even took some time before Storm and Kuma could deal with the effects of just sensing her soul.

Dodomeki has no follower in this verse

#Soul Eater #Beat-Z #I hope you guys are familiar enough with these series ajhsjkldfh #Enemy usually has a follower but I didn't think of one for them this verse #I'll add proper refs one day

[trinketprince]

All the Youkaimatsus so far

JExcept sets that have all of them as the same youkais (Nekomata, Tanuki and the various Kitsune sets from Tabimatsu)

Pinup Poster from the Osomatsu Character Book #6 (July 2016)

A classic. The very first iteration of Youkaimatsu. Kind of hard to find since it was a bonus poster from the character book, so unless you were actively looking for the book, you wouldn’t find this.

Osomatsu - Kitsune (unknown how many tails he has but is often depicted in fan artworks as 6 or 9, 9 meaning strongest/wisest a kitsune has been, Spirit Fox)

Karamatsu - Karasu-Tengu (pun on Kara, Bird Man)

Choromatsu - Dodomeki (usually a woman cursed with long arms littered with many bird eyes because of greed. Most popular one imo)

Ichimatsu + ESP Nyanko - Nekomata (Two-tailed cat, legend says that cats who live longer than a 100 years gain a second tail)

Jyushimatsu - Rokurobi (available in two flavors. Long Neck and Floating Head. He is the former. Theorized to not actually be a youkai but created for entertainment. Also used as a literary device for a wandering soul.)

Todomatsu - Yukki Onna (Also a joke on Todo being scared stiff. Yuki Onna pull tricks on humans that usually end on the person’s death via cold. Has a harsh and soft side)

Youkai Units from The Great Youkai War event from Hesokuri Wars (November 2016)

Most popular Youkaimatsu set, this baby could get milked for miles, but for some reason isn’t. Has a lot of variants (Awakened, Darkness, Snow, Sakura and Hyakki Yagyou) and connected to a lot of other sets: Denki Mystery, Colorless Overalls, Mononoke and a bunch of others. She is the top DOGG set.

Osomatsu - Shuten-Douji (Oni Leader with a penchance for Sake, literally carrying a big ass bottle of it on his back, since he is the leader of the sextuplets and the one seen drinking beer the most)

Karamatsu - Aoandon (Summoned after 100 supernatural stories are told. Originated from the blue (ao) paper lanterns (andon) that were sometimes used to give a chilling atmosphere)

Choromatsu - Daitengu (Great Tengu, Tengus were theorized to be ascended souls, but also has its origins in a Dog Beast that looked like a comet. For some reason Dog Beast turned into Bird Man. The bird man’s beak is often anthropomorphized into long noses. Tells humanity to behave by throwing invisible stones at them)

Ichimatsu - Nine-tailed Kitsune (So wise. So powerful)

Jyushimatsu - Inugami (Dog God that possesses people)

Todomatsu - Bake-Danuki (also known as tanuki, mischievous spirits, mostly known in pop culture for their BIG FAT NUTS)

Dayon is a miko, a shrine maiden. Hatabou is an Onmyoji, an exorcist, Dekapan is a kannushi, a shrine priest. Totoko and Iyami are regular civillians

Youkai Hyakki Yagyou merchandise from Animate Girls Festival (September 2017)

One of the lesser known sets, considering that it’s just designs for a line of merch but their designs are so good? Why don’t people use these designs more often.

Osomatsu - Karasu-Tengu

Karamatsu - Nine-tailed fox

Choromatsu - Shuten-Douji (A possible reference to Season 1 Episode 2 where he gets the most drunk?)

Ichimatsu - Mizuchi (Legendary Water Serpent/Dragon)

Jyushimatsu - Kamaitachi (Beast that rides on dust devils. Cuts people using it’s scythe-like nails. The wounds are sharp but painless)

Todomatsu - Ungaikyou (A haunted mirror that can be used to trap spirits. The spirits in the ungaikyou can manipulate the reflection shown on it’s reflection.)

Kitsune Servant Set from Tabimatsu (September 2017)

Ok I know I said I wouldn’t cover the Kitsune sets from Tabimatsu since there are like 5 different Kitsune sets, but this one is noteworthy cause they have secondary Youkai traits other than the regular kitsune traits.

Osomatsu - Oni’s horns

Karamatsu - Tengu’s wings

Choromatsu - Orochi around his neck

Ichimatsu - True Kitsune (Or Nekomata’s paw?)

Jyushimatsu - Wanyudo (Flaming Wheel)

Todomatsu - I don’t know, but there’s something around his neck?

Japanese Youkai set from Shimamatsu (January 2018)

Shimamatsu was such a good game, what a shame it ended so soon. The 3D models were so cute. Edit: The two designs are from before and after evolution!

Osomatsu - Enma-san (A wrathful god in charge of judging souls in the afterlife. Resides over hell)

Karamatsu - Yamato no Orochi (Eight headed and Eight-tailed serpent/dragon)

Choromatsu - Kamaitachi (wields an actual scythe)

Ichimatsu - Youkai Catman or a Bakaneko (Catboy, furry)

Jyushimatsu - Yobuko (lives in the mountains, repeats whatevers shouted into the mountain, explains the phenomemon of Echos)

Todomatsu - Yuki Otoko (Snowman, a Yuki Onna basically)

“Inn” Osoma and Choroe from Osomatsu Season 2 Episode 17

A BUNCH OF PEOPLE REMINDED ME AND HOW COULD I FORGET THE BEST YOUKAI EVER. Osoma baby,,,, I’m so sorry..... Srsly, this skit was so good, I hope they make more skits like this where they make entirely new characters out of the framework of the sextuplets.

Osoma - A Zashiki-warashi, child spirits who live in store rooms or extra rooms, they died buried in their homes. Pranksters but meeting one is said to bring good fortunes to families. Osoma gets crossovered a lot with the other Youkai sets in JP fanart. A popular pairing is Dodomeki Chorosuke (from Denki Mystery) and Osoma also Kitsune Osomatsu (from the poster) and Osoma.

Choroe - Not necessarily a youkai, in fact in the episode she’s presented as just a regular human. But is theorized often to be a Yama-uba. An old woman banished to the mountains. She provides shelter to weary travelers (in the myth it’s just a humble shelter but you know. an inn is also considered a shelter) before eating them. In one story she eats the recently birthed baby of a woman who had to give birth in the mountains. 

Mononoke from Hesokuri Wars (May 2019)

Technically they are all the same type of being, Mononoke, but they look different from each other. Mononoke can posses individuals and cause suffereing and even death. And technically they aren’t Youkais but Onryos, vengeful spirits. But Onryos can also be used to refer to youkais and truthfully I just wanna include this set cause their designs are so cool looking. This set’s attacks contain glimpses of units of other sets. 

Osomatsu - Bear themed

Karamatsu - Wolf themed

Choromatsu - Rooster/Chicken themed

Ichimatsu - Spider

Jyushimatsu - Boar

Todomatsu - Bull or Ox

Edo Rock The Great Youkai Harvest Festival from Tabimatsu (October 2019)

This set is interesting cause rather than youkai alone, they are also musicians. This set also has another set like Hesokuri called The Great Youkai NEET which is basically the awakened versions, properly showcasing more of the youkai traits.

Osomatsu - Shuten-Douji (Again, we need to stage an intervention for you damn)

Karamatsu - Karasu-Tengu (Again)

Choromatsu - Mizuchi (actually riding said serpent)

Ichimatsu - Black Kitsune (Hot Topic, Goth version)

Jyushimatsu - Frog. Just. Frog. (could be a reference to the legend of Jiraiya, the ninja who could shapeshift into a frog/ride big frogs. His mouth is cover just like a ninja is too.)

Todomatsu - Kamaitachi (could be a reference to season 1 where Todomatsu wields a scythe)

Iyami - Oni (not sure if he’s any particular oni but he does have the horns and metal club)

Atsushi - Ibaraki-Douji? (White hair and singular horn, most imporant servant of Shuten-Douji)

Promo Merch from Sega Cafe collab (September 2020)

Edit: Thank you @zenryokubatankyu for notifying me! Another set of promo youkais! You can get them by random by ordering a drink or meal at the now-defunct Sega x Osomatsu collab cafe. And the return of F6? Damn I haven’t seen you since Season 2!

Osomatsu - Oni

Karamatsu - I’m not exactly sure but he seems like a Mizuchi, a water serpent/dragon. He also could be another legendary serpent/dragon though.

Choromatsu - Kappa

Ichimatsu + ESP Nyanko - Karasu-Tengu

Jyushimatsu - I’m not sure, at first i thought it might be a crab youkai judging from the legs, but upon closer inspection he has spider webs on his robes, so they may be spider legs instead. Could be a Jorogumo, a youkai that wields fire breathing spiders with it’s spider legs

Todomatsu - Bakaneko (I think? The veil could be the napkin a bakaneko puts on it’s head)

Ayakashi Sextuplet’s Retro Halloween Cafe merch from Web Kuji (October 2020)

Thank you @gradelstuff​ for telling me about this! Ayakashi are Youkai that appear above nearby bodies of water. Although the youkais they’re dressed up as (or are?) aren’t really what you would call ayakashi? Although it’s cafe themed, it isn’t actually from a cafe collaboration. These designs are merchandise meant to be won through lottery. So if say you really love Kara and Choro’s designs (I do), then tough luck buddy!

Osomatsu - Oni

Karamatsu - Now you may think he’s Dodomeki since he’s covered with eyes, but turns out there are two other eye-relateed youkai! Mokumokuren is a youkai phenomenon where eyes appear from torn paper walls and tatami floors, initially i thought this was it given the checkered pattern he was wearing. But he might actually be a Hyakume, a youkai covered head to toe in yellow eyes specifically. Underneath those eyes is a body of flesh roughly in the shape of a man. This Youkai isn’t particularly malicious, only detaching one of it’s many eyes to follow you and survey you for criminal activiy. He might also be a BackBeard, a youkai allegedly from the US, err that would make him a cryptid I guess? A Backbeard is often characterized as a shadow with a Yellow eye with a red iris in the center. Note: Backbeard’s true origins are not known as there doesn’t seem to be any cryprid called a Backbeard, it first entered the Japanese public eye as an antogonist in the show Gegege no Kitaro. Although ever since then this “yokai” has appeared in other media and games in Japan.

Choromatsu - He isn’t exactly dressed as it (only themed as it) but the youkai he represents is the one he’s holding, a Kasa-obake, One of my favorite youkais and it’s literally iconic. Thought to be a Tsukomogami, an object that gains a spirit after it turns 100 years old.

Ichimatsu - Edit: I’m not sure but he might be a Kuchisake-Onna. In the description attached to his teaser, it makes mention of specifically his wide smile, his dos dagger and his beautiful shirt. A kuchisake onna is a yokai that wanders in the street covering her face with a mask (skull mask for ichi) and a sharp object (his dos dagger). TW GORE DESCRIPTION: She asks you if you think she’s attractive and depending on your answer she muders you with her scissors, plunging it into you OR she takes off her mask showing her wide smile, her mouth slit at the corners to her ears and asks “how about now?” and depending on your reaction she cuts you in half with her sharp object OR she slits the corners of your mouth to look like hers. END DESCRIPTION. Ichi has the mask, sharp object, wide smile and “attractiveness”. Obviously it would be inappropriate to portray ichi in the same fashion as the kuchisake onna so he was probably given the internal organ tattoos to represent the gory yokai. (internal organs usually = gore in japan). This is speculah and he might be another youkai but this is all i can think of rn.

Jyushimatsu - sailor themed Jiangshi. Jiangshi are basically Zombies originally from Chinese culture. They hop around, and crave for life force. this little jyushimatsu has taken to tomato juice instead. (Bonus: the zombie that osomatsu is in the zombie set in hesokuri wars is also a Jiangshi)

Todomatsu - Kitsune (sly fox)

“The Night Path” Youkai from Osomatsu-san Season 3 Episode 6 (November 2020)

The latest and what sparked me to make this post tbh. This set reuses the Rokurobi design from the very first Youkaimatsu iteration! Full circle yo! I like to think of this set as an addition to the original youkaimatsu, since they’re both from the primary sources.

Jyushimatsu - Rokurobi (Again)

Totoko - Amabie (mermaid with three legs? prophesized about either good harvest or an epidemic, trivia: “Amabie” trended when Covid 19 hit the world)

Hatabou - Azukiarai (a youkai that originated from the sound of something like beans being washed near a river, anyone who comes near will fall into the river)

Dayon - Nopperabou (Faceless spirits that take the form of humans. They are harmless usually, they just scare humans)

Dekapan - Kappa (Mischievous River spirits)

That should be all of them! 

Recap: 

Osomatsu has been a Kitsune, Shuten-Douji (twice), Karasu-Tengu, Enma-san and an Oni

Karamatsu has been a Karasu-Tengu (twice), Aoandon, Kitsune, Yamato no Orochi and a Mizuchi (?)

Choromatsu has been a Dodomeki, Daitengu, Shuten-Douji, Kamaitachi, Mizuki and a Kappa (No repeats!)

Ichimatsu has been a Nekomata, Kitsune (twice), Mizuchi, Bakaneko and a Karasu-Tengu

Jyushimatsu has been a Rokurobi (twice-ish), Inugami, Kamaitachi, Yobuko, a Frog from Jiraiya and a Jorogumo (?)

Todomatsu has been a Yuki Onna (twice), Bake-danuki, Ungaikyou, Kamaitachi and a Bakaneko

You can definitely see a trend (lmao), I’m looking forward to more Youkaimatsus from Osomatsu-san!

bonus:

Osomatsu-san cameo from Yokai Watch!!!

#Osomatsu san #Youkaimatsu #Yokaimatsu #妖怪松 #Hesokuri Wars #Shimamatsu #Tabimatsu #I'm not tagging all the matsus lmao #long post

[astra-inclined]

Eight Hundred Eyes are Better Than One (although it didn’t seem to actually help her rip dokomeki)

I’m late, but here I am

@anbu-legacy @nezumiko @saunterleftside @ninjaeyecandy

It's been a hot minute since I've read Anbu Legacy, but here I am!

Oh a mission. I forgot Jiraiya was around right now.

Omfg..................Kakashi seeing his sensei threesome. The hypocrisy of it all. Kurenai is so satisfied. Raidou waking up like that.....Pls my ninja man.

I love watching Jiraiya piss everyone off immediately bc it's valid. He's The Worst hahah.

Oooooh I always love how you guys add in this like. Dichotomy between there being very traditional/old-school families vs more modern families in this universe!!! The old money Ginta and Kakashi's vs the normies everyone else. It makes things like this so interesting, where this yokai is so “real” to ones who have literally heard stories of her growing up compared to the others who literally have 0 knowledge.

"Lieutenant! How many goats can you buy on an ANBU’s budget? Ginta appeared at his elbow, knocking Katsuko’s echo out of his head." O-oh I see, you guys are gonna remind us of Katsuko when you get the chance. Cool. Not like I was thinking about her character last week and was SUPER SAD ABOUT IT AHH.

These mfers gonna die in a thunderstorm.

“Sakamoto is deaf and you both could have died,” Raidou said. “Is there a more appropriate emotion? What should I be feeling?”  I have MISSED READING THIS. Raidou scolding people is <3

“Except that you’re a giant hypocrite,” Kakashi added. “There it is,” Raidou said, sounding resigned. --- uh DUH RAIDOU. Mr. high and mighty over here, making the boys sneak around for various reasons (I mean, and they're taking things slow for their own reasons) but STILL. smdh. And Raidou’s worried about the presumed awkwardness of boss/subordinate, when really Ryouma’s moved on to better things (Genma, the love of my life).

“Not helpful,” Raidou said.  Kakashi shrugged. “Ask a stupid question.” --- The two least compatible of the whole team rip

How do you guys choose what sort of folklore/yokai to incorporate? Do you have X idea, and then find a yokai that fits, or do you peruse yokai and make the story up along with it?

“Be more cryptic,” Usagi said, startling him. He turned to find her standing an arm’s length away, poking gingerly at her bandaged shoulder.  “Don’t test him,” Raidou said, dumping a last clawed foot on the pile. “Because he will, and then no one gets answers.” --- Have you guys watched True Detective? I'm picturing the scene where normal cop is like "can you be fucking normal" then asks him how he slept and matthew mcconageufhey responds with "I don't sleep....I just dream". That's him. Kakashi. A rotten troll of a man. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-kvkESiOXo )

I am SO excited about the mystery of everything!!! It's already dead, just re-animated? Starving? Is this some Orochimaru body stuff?!

Damn, that was a good one. Loved the fight and LOVED the description of the Dodomeki, that shit sounded intense and scary. Birds eyes?! That gaping mouth!!

Love that Kakashi negotiated body parts for his team. How sweet.

<3 <3 <3 Missed reading this!!! Gonna check more out after I work my next couple shifts. Love you all, and hope you’re healthy and safe and doing well.

#anbu legacy #u guys know i always come back

[missmillyashford]

Eight Hundred Eyes Are Better Than One - Reaction

I should have done this a long time ago but I just reread this chapter and reacted to it as I went if you’re interested @anbu-legacy

Because I’ve had a grudge against canon Jiraiya for so long it’s been an interesting but slow process of adjusting to this (better) version of him where his awful traits either don’t exist or are slightly more subdued, and traits I could actually appreciate are more emphasized. And saying that, I love this image of this giant, flamboyant man being so unsubtle about his summons that he just wakes up not just Kakashi but his entire FLOOR. Nice one. This man is a spy theoretically and I love that juxtaposition. At least it makes it easy to let Ryouma know they’re leaving.

“Dodomeki?” he said quietly. 

Boyfriends, Kakashi reflected, were supposed to be reassuring. “I’ll bring you an eyeball,” he promised. 

“Gross.” 

This reminds me of that time Kakashi found a weird creepy bug in that one cave during the kiri mission and instead of leaving it be like a normal person he decides to pick it up and bring it all the way back to the team to scare Ryouma with it. I always find it super funny when Kakashi pulls stuff like this, terrorizing his poor teammates with gross unwanted show and tell. I personally would love a gift like that, though. I am totally someone who would probably keep particularly interesting animal body parts preserved in a jar somewhere in my house because I find anatomy and physiology interesting. I once had the opportunity in one of my university classes to hold a horse’s brain and was quite enthralled. I just wanted a good look at it and was really curious what it would feel like.

“Just bring yourself home safe.” 

“Always do,” Kakashi said, which was mostly true. “Captain, too.” 

I’m reacting to this on a reread so hahaaaaaaa. Nice one, Kakashi. Your poor hands.

I would say I can’t believe that Kakashi actually WENT INTO THE ROOM to wake up Raidou and Genma, but this is Kakashi, so I can. He could have just knocked on the bedroom window, or just gone to the door, like a person with basic social skills and a modicum of decency. Kids these days. No respect for the general concept of privacy. Sheesh. Boundaries. I’m glad I’m not them. I will admit that I laughed though.

Raidou jerked, sat up wildly, and blurted, “What the hell?” 

“Taichou,” Kakashi said, with a little wave. 

Genma exhaled, tweaked the sheet so that it covered Kurenai more fully, then sat up — a much smoother operation. “Hatake,” he said tightly, visibly trying for calm. 

“Lieutenant,” Kakashi said. And, for good measure: “Yuuhi. Well done.” 

Asdfghgfds. This bastard. I love and hate him. DK is always so good at this sort of humour with Kakashi and it never fails to get me.

I feel bad for Genma and Raidou and Kurenai right now though because they didn’t even get to TALK properly the next day after getting together before Raidou had to leave.

Kakashi felt his spine stiffen. Reflexive, pointless defense of his parents, who had raised him on legends and myths, told in the few quiet moments between everything else. 

I really love the callback to Don’t Fear the Dark. It’s really interesting when we get little glimpses at what Sakumo was like, and what his family was like before it fell apart. The defensiveness about it has my heart hurting, because it’s one of the few tiny pieces he still has of his father. Speaking of Sakumo, mythology/legends, and Don’t Fear the Dark, I remember that there were traditional masks of demons and things in their home. For a very long time I’ve been very curious to see what the Hatake estate looks like, and what other personal items from Sakumo and their life before are still there. Here’s to hoping we’ll get to see it one day?

I like how these legends have been woven into the worldbuilding too.

Usagi thumped him on the shoulder. “Better dodge, then. We’ll bring some of her scrapings back in a jar for the lab.”

Genma would probably appreciate some jar-scrapings, though. 

Genma’s my type of person. I appreciate him.

I’m really enjoying getting to know a little more about the relationship dynamics of the members of team thirteen. Ginta and Usagi’s relationship is so fun.

I love Goya purely on the basis that she’s a badass archer lady with wicked aim and I feel like that’s understandable and valid.

While Raidou and Usagi bartered for shelter, and Jiraiya signed autographs for the goat herder’s starstruck daughter, Kakashi watched a handful of goat kids bounce back and forth over a fence with blithe disregard for its actual purpose.

The goats hopping over the fence makes such a great image. I adore Tarama the goat village, purely because of the goats. And the Katsuko callback.

I am weak to the characters being dumb reckless idiots experimenting with jutsu for science so I was LIVING for the thunderstorm Ginta-Kakashi shenanigans. I’ve also always loved thunderstorms so I might be extra weak to lightning users. Just casually detonating each other’s jutsu and hoping they don’t explode each other irreparably in the process. Good fun.

Actually getting so see Kakashi split lightning was so cool. We keep hearing about it in canon and legacy so to finally see it is so satisfying. I like the description of sharingan vision as “he tracked the bolt zig-zagging down as if it were made of syrup, oozing through superheated air, long, lethal fingers branching out towards them.” And I also particularly liked this line:

The lightning snapped towards him like a massive, elemental predator scenting blood. 

I am very amused:

In the dizzying aftermath, Kakashi had just enough time to think ow and awesome before the next strike threatened, and they both ran like hell for the village. 

Usagi’s childish glee is so great. And yeah, I feel both her reaction AND Raidou’s are pretty appropriate. But still, lol:

“When did you turn three hundred? Your rookie just did the coolest thing ever. Stop being miserable about it.” 

“You want him?” Raidou said. 

“Yes,” said Usagi instantly. “Hatake, you’re mine, get over here.” 

“Wait, no,” Raidou said. 

I’m glad Kakashi is being appreciated.

The conversation Raidou and Kakashi had about KureGenRai hook up was veeeeery interesting. I wasn’t expecting Kakashi to react so harshly. I guess it is hypocritical of Raidou to say what he said then do that, though Raidou has a point that it’s to protect rookies from senior officers. Lieutenants and Captains are different since they’re closer in rank. I’m guessing that Kakashi is kind of frustrated with how he and Ryouma have felt like they’ve had to keep their relationship secret for fear of getting in trouble, even if same rank liaisons are technically not against the rules, unwritten or otherwise. Because of Raidou’s whole boundaries thing and general testiness about that kind of thing?

I’m curious to see how keeping it a secret from Ryouma will go. How long will they even want to keep it from him, and if they do want to keep the secret how will Ryouma feel about both the relationship and Kakashi’s secret keeping once he finds out?

Another thing I’ll be curious to see is if this at all changes if Kakashi wants to keep his relationship with Ryouma secret still, and if so from who. I’d doubt it would since there are other factors but still. I am looking forward for when people find out, but at the same time I’ve been enjoying it being private. I think a temporary shared secret like this can feel kinda intimate so long as it doesn’t overstay its welcome. And we get scenes like Kakashi panicking and hiding in Ryouma’s bathroom while Ryouma clumsily lies and implies he may have hooked up with an Uchiha to evade arrest so that’s a bonus. I think being able to have their own relationship exist in isolation from judgements and comments from the outside allows them to take some pressure off their relationship, and gives them time to figure each other out and how to just be together unhindered. I can see why they’re doing this the way they are.

A mass grave. Whoever had dug it — Kusa ninja, most likely — had missed the small body on the hill. 

“Poor bastards,” Usagi said quietly. 

Kasumi, of all people, went back for the body. 

I like this detail about Kasumi.

“Now we track,” Jiraiya said. He gave a little wave in Kakashi’s direction. “Do the nose thing.” 

Some days, Kakashi didn’t feel entirely respected in his workplace. 

Loooool

It took two more days to even get close to the Dodomeki. For Kakashi, it was like living in dual headspaces — the clean, sleek arrowhead mind of a predator, and the disordered tangle of everything human. Team Thirteen, with their… themness. Jiraiya — firmly, unignorably himself. The discomfort of Raidou and the unhappy friction between them. No Genma to smooth down the rough edges. No Ryouma to distract with chatter or an unexpected, brilliant idea. 

I really liked this section for a couple reasons:

1)    I like how when certain members of the team are absent it highlights just how important they are to the entire team. Genma the vital lynchpin and mediator; Ryouma the emotional heart, friend, and innovator. I also appreciate that it’s not just their skillsets that are addressed either. They’re valuable for things like their kindness, level-headedness, and company.

2)    I love the acknowledgment of duality of Kakashi’s headspace and social interactions. The headspace required to do his job as a tracker vs. working as part of a team of antsy, ridiculous people are very different. The interactions he is going to be having with the wolfdogs that don’t even so much as speak human vs. his human coworkers are going to be very different too. Kakashi having an entirely different headspace with the dogs  to the point he actually separates it from being entirely human (like referring to “humans” as if it were a group he isn’t entirely part of) reminds me of all the way back to the thread Lost in the Dark when Raidou sees Kakashi speaking to the entire pack for the first time. He realizes Kakashi’s social skills have likely been influenced by his exposure to the dogs he grew up with. It was such an interesting revelation to me. This is the part I mean if you’re curious:

What followed was one of the strangest conversations Raidou had ever witnessed. Kakashi, with his economy of speech and movement that seemed so disjointed in human interaction, slotted into place as naturally as breathing. Raidou recognized that questioning head tilt echoed back by listening dogs; the silent, watchful glances that lingered a second beyond comfortable; the predatory edge polished like a fine weapon. Here, Kakashi’s hair and mask just looked like markings, no more notable than that shepherd’s black-tipped ears, or that hound’s white-ticked coat.

It explained a lot.

I really liked seeing Raidou defend Kakashi from Kasumi’s crochety and unjustified remarks. Progress!!! I’m proud.

I’ve probably said it before and I’ll probably say it again, but I always love your dialogue. There’s so much personality and liveliness in it. The banter is so entertaining. Usagi and Ginta especially right now.

I know the mythology the Dodomeki comes from is very different, but there is something about the descriptions of her that make me think a lot of what I felt watching the Netflix the Witcher series. Which might not mean anything to you if you haven’t seen it. Similarly horrifying and deadly and gross. It’s great.

The entire fight scene had my heart pounding. It was so intense and fast-paced. So many close calls and how fast she was was so terrifying. We just saw Kakashi with his sharingan so fast he was able to split a lightning strike in half, yet she’s so fast he can’t even hope to keep up. Fuck.

Abe had to chase him nervously around, attending to whatever bits of Jiraiya’s face he could reach, until the medic finally lost his temper and ordered Jiraiya to sit. 

I loved this.

I don’t have anything interesting to say about them theorizing about her sickly state, but I am very intrigued. I also love when little bits of real life actual science are incorporated in fantasy like this (ex. the mention of ketosis).

I am still very very worried for Kakashi’s hands. I suspect he won’t get out of this entirely unscathed even after treatment.

#anbu legacy

[eyecovered-a-blog]

›    basic

name  : shion hagiwara nickname  :     none age  :     appears 19 or 20 but is actually 300+ species  :   formerly human --- now dodomeki

›    personal

morality  :     lawful neutral religion  :      shinto sins  :     greed  /  gluttony  /  sloth  / lust /  pride  /  envy  /  wrath virtues  :     chastity  /  charity  /  diligence  /  humility  /  kindness /  patience  / justice known  languages  :     japanese & english 

›    physical

build  :     scrawny  /  bony  / slender /  fit  /  athletic  /  curvy  /  herculean  /  pudgy  /  average . height  :     4′10 scars  /  birthmarks  :    eyes up and down her arms

abilities  /  powers  :  

shion can extend her arms at will. she rarely uses this ability, though, unless she cannot reach something. this ability is not idea for combat in her opinion.

she can also transform into what she refers to as her “ true form ” which is that of a ten foot monster with masses of eyes all over its body. all that remains of her human form is some tuffs of her hair in this form. if extremely injured or killed, her body releases a toxic fume. 

›    favorites

food  :     basically any soup!! pizza  topping  : color  :     greens & blues music  genre  : movie  genre  : curse  word  :     she only says damn for the most part scents  :     flowers and fruity scents!!

›    fun stuff

bottom  or  top  : a big ole bottom sings  in  the  shower  :     nope she’s more of an in-and-out kind of girl likes  puns  :     they’re literally the worst

tagged by: @buganjimo tagging: @anukai @voratorum @doyoufearthescarecrow & @esuriio

#( &. headcanon. ) #( &. about. )

[myth-lord]

Too much monsters isn’t good for your health (part 2 / split up)

Some people had troubles with their mobiles so I post it in two parts.

This part covers the secondary groups.

THE SHIFTERS (Shape Changers) OF MYTHIKA: A Bao A Qu / Forneus / Koromo-Dako / Siats / Amhuluk / Peuchen / Quetzalcoatl / Andrealphus / Bangkilang / Baldanders / It / Fear Dorcha / Berserker / Maenad / Bisan / Cuca / Laure / Mambabarang / Bushyasta / Cheshire Cat / Nekomata / Circe / Aitvaras / Hundun / Djinn / Awar / Dasim / Flaga / Ghul / Ifrit / Peri / Redjal El Marja / Tir / Zalambur / Dobhar-Chu / Kikimora / Ovinnik / Davy Jones / Rusalka / Dryad / Abere / Anthousai / Askafroa / Yanagi Baba / AoAo / Fafnir / Albastor / Encantado / Beelzebub / Garei / Spriggan / Annunaki / Doppelganger / Cirein Croin / Punga / Perelesnyk / Phooka / Anansi / Bergkonge / Jorogumo / Kelpie / Apaosha / Cauchemar / Ceffyl Dwr / Each Tened / Helhest / Hrimfaxi / Skinfaxi / Kitsune / Karzelek / Cwn Annwn / Lausks / Leshy / Lilith / Lofjerskor Druid / Cernunnos / Piasa / Akhkharu / Strigoi / Oread / Nue / Taowu / Nurikabe / Malebete / Phobetor / Carabosse / Muryan / Popobawa / Hala / Soucouyant / Qiuniu / Fuxi / Hidebehind / Raiju / Rokurokubi / Taka-Onna / Beast of Set / Huay Chivo / Sepid / Skinwalker / Bouda / Kresnik / Nagual / Nanave / Selkie / Swan Maiden / Lampong / Pilou / Squonk / Succubus / Gylou / Tezcatlipocao / Kayeri / Valravn / Akhlut / Nike / Dobrochoczy

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/6123808-nightmare-style-shadowmere-now-with-25-more-flames/

The Each Tened is related to the Kelpie, they appear as beautiful black horses which stimulate humanoids to ride them. Once on their back, the Each Tened shifts into its true self, a burning horse of hell, then it burns the rider on its back to ashes which it feeds on.

THE PARASITES OF MYTHIKA: Alp-Luachra / Alkuntane / Amarun / It / Nojukubi / Inugami / Burach Bhadi / Alukah / Waldgeist / Echeneis / Egregore / Ewah / Bosch / Ham Varenti / Bitoso / Ichneumon / Dodomeki / Osakoburi / KawKaw / Devalpa / MbieluMbielu / Muhuru / Menreiki / Barong / Hannya / Rangda / Falajitax / Nuckelavee (Wyvern Parasite) / Chemosit / Orang Minyak / Oseichu / Futakuchi-Onna / Kishi / Poltergeist / Dybbuk / Zimni Ludzie / Polong / Hinkir Munkur / Trenti / Inifri Duir / Tsutsugamushi / Awahondo / Luz Mala / ColoColo / Aerico

@art : Brain Collector Paizo/Pathfinder

The Egregore are failed experiments of groups of people to store their collective intelligence into one being. Now, these brain-collecting horrors (Which look themselves like big brainy-horrors) attack anyone they see and steal their brains to add to their macabre collections.

THE MARA (Dream Haunters) OF MYTHIKA: Baku / Nocnitsa / Shtriga / Hypnalis / Batibat / Incubus / Alû / Cambion / Perelesnyk / Cauchemar / Lilith / Nue / Taowu / Oneiroi / Phobetor / Sandman / Zirnitra

@art : D&D Chaos Beast

Spawn from nightmares of an entire town, these horrifying formless monsters take chaotic and random forms, these forms are always unstable and horrifying. Oneiroi always serve Phobetor, which is their leader.

THE TULPA (Creatures spawned by Imagination) OF MYTHIKA: Bloody Mary / Tailypo / Cheshire Cat / Ewah / Garei / Bosch / Bugbear / Scarbo / Grendel / Bandersnatch / Gremlin / Jabberwock / Arrach / Hinnagami / Kamikiri / Amikiri / Marabbecca / Mngwa / Tooth Fairy / Hidebehind / Fear Liath / Siguanaba / Pilou / Keukegen / JubJub Bird / Zana

Born from a phobia for Dolls and toys, the Hinnagami are Tsukumogami which can be both gentle or murderous, depending what imagination spawned them.

THE CENTAURIC OF MYTHIKA: Arachne / Mandarangkal / Centaur / Anggitay / Cervitaur / Chiron / Onocentaur / Dhinnabarrada / Girtablilu / Serket / Grindylow / Cecaelia / Scylla / Kampe / Lamia / Ajatar / Echidna / Gorgon / Medusa / Merrow / Adaro / Marakihau / Ngorieru / Shiofuki / Siyokoy / Tabib-Al-Bahr / Yawkyawk / Zitiron / Urmahlullu / Mukil

The Mukil are the evil cousins of the Urmahlullu, they enjoy hunting heroes or innocents and tear them to shreds. Fights between the Urmahlullu and the Mukil are legendary to behold.

THE VAMPIRES (Blood Drinking) OF MYTHIKA: Palis / Alraune / Adze / Moskitto / Peuchen / Asanbosam / Abuhuku / Aswang / Kubot / Manananggal / Bezkost / Alukah / Kranokolaptes / Chupacabra / Haermorrhois / Askafroa / Rake / Hongaek / Glaistig / Jubokko / Umdhlebi / Lamia / Ly Erg / Mandragora / Devalpa / Moroi / Akhkharu / Catacano / Kudlak / Strigoi / Vrykolakas / Camazotz / Garkain / Soucouyant / Raktabija / Redcap / Rokurokubi / Taka-Onna / Sandewan / Polong / Mormo / Tiyanak / Tsutsugamushi / Impundulu / Yara-Ma-Yha-Who

@art : Paizo/Pathfinder

Sandewan are disgusting bloody ooze creatures which leave a trail of smelly blood which attracts other creatures, which the oozes then drain of their blood.

THE SKELETONS OF MYTHIKA: Ahkiyyini / Citipati / Danse Macabre / Machukuna / Naglfar / Ankou / Grim Reaper / Tupilaq / Bakekujira / Spartoi / Bloody Bones / Gaki / Gashadokuro / Mekurabe / Tzitzimitl / Nachtkrapp

@art: Paizo/Pathfinder

Naglfar look like normal ships from a distance, but coming closer reveals a terrifying undead ship made from the bones of its many victims, leaving a trail of blood in the water.

THE SWARMS OF MYTHIKA: Abatwa / Pelesit / Camacrusa / ChonChon / Choukeshin / Legion / Nosoi / Pandora Box / Shamir / Oniate / Tooth Fairy / Feiyi / Minceskro / Mekurabe / Tculo / Trollnoste / Wilogiyuk / Rat King / Chindi / Funayurei / Landvaettir / Sluagh / Tatarigami / Eintykara / Yosuzume

@art: Critters (From the movie)

Behaving much like the Critters from the movie, the Trollnoste (Troll Cat) are actually constructs made from hair, flesh, teeth, and dust by hags to serve as familiars. One of them posses little danger, but they always come in large groups in which they are more than deadly, especially when they merge together to form giant balls of rolling death.

THE MOUNTED CREATURES OF MYTHIKA: Abatwa / Hippolyta / Svinfylking / Laure / Buckrider (Demon Cultist) / Bushyasta / Chrysaor / Circe / Alberich / Dulhath Gauarge Rider / Dulhath Ophiotaurus Rider / Dullahan / Coiste Bodhar / Dvergr Mammoth Rider / Abaasy / Encantado / Andras / Goblin Wolf Raider / Horseman of Death / Horseman of Famine / Horseman of Pestilence / Horseman of War / Human Knight / Human Wizard / Imori / Curupira / Karzelek / Nuberu / Leshy / Cernunnos / Erlking / Ngorieru / Sunakake Baba / Lycaon / Shellycoat / Vish Kanya Queen / Bolotnik / Yacuruna / Valkyrie  

@art: Miniature

Imori are the warriors of Intulo society, they ride large Reptilians into battle and are very hostile to other races.These Gecko-like humanoids eat large insects and feed other killed enemies to their mounts. 

#Mythology #Folklore #Cryptid #MOnster #Fantasy #Long Post #Longpost

[ryo-maybe]

What do you actually write about?

Whatever strikes my fancy in the spur of this long, varied moment that we call life!

You can find an assortment of the byproducts of my fingers HERE. I also used to do some RPing on the side - I still do technically, but on a very sporadic basis, not at all like the daily post rush of a few years ago, since like 90% of the people I most enjoyed writing with moved on.

Back to the question at hand, it’s hard to pinpoint a specific theme or style, since I like to constantly experiment with a variety of different situations for the sake of keeping things fresh, but I’d have to pick something I’m most comfortable with, it would be self-contained scenes depicting surreal conversations narrated in a dry, matter-of-factly manner and a tinge of odd humor, the kind you’d find in movies like The Great Lebowski and And He Died With A Felafel In his Hand. The kind of narrative that makes the corners of your lips arch as high as your eyebrow as you read it, you feel me? An apt example of what I mean would be my mini-series of loosely connected one-shots about a harionago who struggles to live in the modern world, along with her friends the grumpy dodomeki and the sex-starved yuki-onna. If it’s not clear yet, I deeply enjoy writing characters who are utter disasters in life. The drabbles I write under the label of “The Machine Eaters” - to not be confused with a setting I titled in the same manner and is more or less unrelated, since I recycled it along with some characters’ names - however constitute the main bulk of this specific preference of mine, and you can find some of these on the blog too.

As you might fathom, setting-wise, I veer heavily towards the “somewhat decadent urban surrealism”. I’m not much of a fan of fantasy so you’ll hardly ever see such content from me, sporadic exceptions aside. My heart belongs to sci-fi rather, although I’ve written far less of it than you’d otherwise think, which is a shame! All that said, like I mentioned before, I like to branch out on a nearly constant basis, so beyond what I’ve said, there’s much more to be found.

Oh, and then there’s the Mic Checks, but I’m forbidden from talking about those, for the sake of your sanity and my reputation.

#There's also a secret place where I keep the cheesy stuff but that's secret to all but a few select souls #Anonymous

[betanyagito]

ive been trying to find more info on ao andons because im obsessed with them now apparently and theres not a lot of info. it takes elements of hannya/kijo(spirits that are corrupted by bad emotions like envy after death) and blue wife (a spirit corrupted by vanity and is constantly looking in the mirror) and since 青(ao) is attributed with jealousy and childishness it can be implied that it comes because you keep talking about other demons during the ritual to summon it (p1)

p2) there used to be like... parties were youd just sit around telling ghost stories and thats how ao andon comes! talking about demons is the easiest way to lure them to you - and no one really knows what they do like if they just scare you or kill you or Something but they eat fear so. in some version of the story the parties would place lamps near mirrors to summon them, like how you look into a mirror to summon bloody mary or dont realise how awful blue wife is until you see the mirror

WOOOOW...THIS IS ALL SO INTERESTING MINA OMG!!! Yeah, I tried to look them up too numerous times (dodomekis too actually) but there wasn’t a lot...ITS SO INTERESTING THOUGH,,,I LOVE MYTHOLOGY SO MUCH THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME ALL THIS

#yuissamidare #soapbox

[akumatsuno]

Thread: Clumsy

continued from here

@xxchoro-beanxx:

The dodomeki huffed, turning his head away from the demon to avoid any eye contact from happening. Wincing once or twice as the cuts were being cleaned. Thankfully they were just light cuts and scrapes, but it still stung like hell to his discomfort and all he wanted to do was scratch them.

“Well let’s see how you do with these damn eyes talking over you all at once! It’s not easy I can tell you that.” Even though he’s had these eyes since the day he was born, never once did they get along. They drove him crazy! That’s all they did. Having these many eyes was more of a curse than a gift and he’d always end up in some sort of trouble because of it. Sometimes even covering them up with wraps didn’t help, other than the fact that he had to hide them from any humans being able to see. He even kept them covered despite being deep in the woods.

Choromatsu sighed, looking back to the demon with a look of discouragement. Thankfully Aku had been here to patch him up. He would have surely panicked at the small beads of blood that had formed from his freshly new cuts, even if it didn’t seem like a big deal it was to him. “ Why couldn’t I be something else? Like a human or..you! You obviously don’t have to deal with disgusting eyes covering your body. And you pull off a pretty good disguise.”

 Being a dodomeki pretty much sucked. Especially if you were the only one who barely knew what in the world you were capable of. And some pretty obnoxious eyes who talked and mocked you to no end.

"That's fair. I'd probably get overwhelm from sensory overload from all the information all those eyes can give at once. Not too mention they can 'talk' to you too..." He shook his head a little as he continued to treat the other's wounds. He didn't want to rush anything and risk hurting him too much, since already the treatment would be sure to sting.

"My human disguise isn't even that great... I have to be thankful that I wasn't born back in earlier years where body mods like sharp teeth weren't a thing. And would you really prefer to be a human? their lives are so short though... Surely there's got to be a perk to being a dodomeki. Maybe your eyes can be used to see into the future, or someone's past? that would be pretty cool! you could become a famous diviner!" He swayed a little in excitement about that idea. To be fair he didn't know much about dodomekis himself. Maybe he'd have to go find a book about them back in his world and do some research?

"Being me ain't so great either. being a shapeshifter.. i'm not even sure the form you see now is my actual form. Heck do I even have a form? I know that when I get too angry or too powerful I lose most of my shape. Maybe i'm not supposed to be corporeal at all! I'm also really sensitive to light. I love the day an all, but really bright sunny days kind of hurt my eyes.." He told the other this so he could attempt to cheer him up. To prove that his situation wasn't perfect either and they all have pros and cons.

#Thread: Clumsy #ic #rp #dodomeki choro #xxchoro-beanxx

[mingjue]

onmyoji (gay flag)

🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you?

YES SO MANY

Ibaraki Doji - Gay Transman, ADHD/depression

Shuten Doji - token cis actually, Bisexual, ADHD

Tamamo no Mae - i Think its called transfem where ure transitioning to b fem bt like.... that doesnt always mean trans woman ? I always get the terms messed up bt That bc tamamo doesnt have a set gender identity at all and generally lets people refer to him as they want, bt hes taking low dose E. He also generally calls himself gay. OCD/real bad executive dysfunction

Orochi - gay. Doesnt bother figuring out whats wrong w him he just likes sitting in his snake room being evil & messed up

Dodomeki - trans girl! Lesbian, + separation anxiety. Tamamo orochi (dads) & yuki doji (baby brother) r the ones shes attached to.

Aoandon - pan, nb, and surprise! Adhd.

Ubume - trans woman & aro/ace! Idrk for Mental Illness bt *holds her*

#Asks #yuandao #guess which mental illness i have

[ryo-maybe]

I guess she’s not the kind to need sweaters to kill virgins

Yeah alright, but consider this: people are forgetful. We’re talking about an entire species made out of individuals whose concept of object permanence begins and ends where TV remotes and cellphones are concerned. Ah, right, they call them ‘smartphones’ now. Smart. Pretty ironic name for some device concocted by a bunch of monkeys whose brains cannot even hold onto the entire sum of knowledge they spent a whole childhood accumulating. No, please, go on, prove me wrong, steal a trigonometry formula from Wolfram and slap it on your index finger so you can shove it into my face when you point at it and maybe add an obnoxiously loud “Hah!” while you’re at it.

Now, while your ego is feeling satisfied by having proven a stranger on the Internet wrong and you’re too busy indulging in your sense of petty accomplishment, let me be the one to burst your bubble with these few simple words I fished out of my bag of condescence:

It Doesn’t Matter.

Look, keep your “But”’s to yourself and listen up when I say that it really, honestly doesn’t matter when the lowest common denominator can barely process the basic math involved in calculating how much they’re going to pay for their groceries, nor remember the name of their state’s capital city and whatnot. That stuff doesn’t matter. In their minds it’s already ancient nonsense best left gathering dust under piles of cat videos and every imaginary conversation they’ve ever thought of where they end up punching their boss and all their coworkers clap in the aftermath.

You see, I didn’t throw the word ‘ancient’ out there just to sound like a 40-something trying to appeal to a crowd of teenagers. It’s a giant beacon of light shining over the real, actual main issue: today’s present has a hard time finding a use for its past. We’ve just stopped giving a damn about old stuff altogether, let’s be real here. Your teachers have failed. Historians, anthropologists, geologists, museum owners, art critics with curriculums thicker than your beer-fueled bellies. Their usefulness nowadays is no more greater than that of your “laughing Buddhas” and that cheap ceramic monstrosity that you have to put on display every time the in-laws who gifted it come visiting.

Them’s the facts, so to speak. There’s no statistics or crunched numbers to feed you this truth in the usual abstract fashion that you’re so used to digesting and stop thinking about one second later. What you do have are instead three women standing in front of a mirror taking selfies because their lives depend on it and - guess what! - it’s entirely your fault.

Maybe you remember them. Like the one in the middle who seems currently intent on half-heartedly practicing what could pass for a duck face, if it didn’t seem so much closer to a roasted turkey not one bit elated about its predicament. That’s Chitoku Zeninai, who spent much of last time waking out of a drunken stupor to yell at her sexually frustrated acquaintance (she’s the kind of troublesome person who gets really annoying if you refer to her friends as anything but acquaintances). So yeah, here she is now: lips puckered out, one eyelid tentatively lowered, and every both of the remaining two dozen eyes covering her exposed forearms joined in a communal frowning parade. It really says something about yourself when you’re a dodomeki, yet all the advantages of your expressiveness are lost to a body-wide resting bitch face.

“This is dumb. I look dumb. We all look dumb. We’ll be dead from embarassment way before the world can forget us out of existence.”

Don’t look at me, it’s her words, not mine, although they do prove my point with the kind of exasperated frustration that goes into her slamming the phone - a smartphone, of course - on the cold hardness of the sink. That said, neither of the other two seem particularly inclined to join her grumpy side of things.

Kamigami Hari, for instance. Technically speaking, since this is her apartment and all, she is supposed to be the host. A quick gander at the worried way she’s looking at her clearly pissed off guest, though, and you’d think that she was preparing to be kicked out, and without protest to boot. It might be the fact that a healthy chunk of the populace nowadays hasn’t a damned clue what a harionago is. There’s a disgustingly good chance that you are included, by the way. It’s the reason why I so kindly provided an informative link for your perusal. In fact, here: let me add another one, since I bet you never even heard the word dodomeki before you decided to sit here and listen to me rambling. Hell, for all I know, I just extended these three youkai’s lives by a week or two merely doing that.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, the truth of the matter isn’t what I mentioned a half paragraph ago. This Hari gal is just sort of a weirdo like that. Being a socialite isn’t exactly intuitive when your job prescription/entire way of life revolves around telling bad jokes to random dudes by a road in the middle of the night. Yeah, she did that when, surprise surprise, a couple centuries ago Japanese males began wisening up enough to think twice before smiling back to strangers lingering about like the goddamned spooks they are. Good news is, it worked! The downside to that is it worked a tad too well. The smile of a doofus, curved like the hook that just sunk into his fishfaced lip, is absolutely nothing like the unabashed guffaw of the son of a gun who just can’t believe how awful your attempt at making a joke was, the kind of bad so utterly terrible, even the very real danger of an impending death by barbed impalement isn’t quite enough to save your aching sides from their explosion. It’s kind of like reading about a man’s disappointment about the unwillingness of service women to be bribed into interacting with him for the sum equivalent of some spare change, only a tad less pathetic.

“B-but it works, it really does! It, it’s kept me going for at least the last two decades! S-see?”

Oh yeah, real charming smile sweety, it goes perfectly with the planet-sized bags surrounding your insomniac eyes, with those sclerae that are more ruptured vein-red than reassuringly healthy-white. You can see how impressed Zeni is from the way her myriad pupils are synchronized in their annoyed rotation.

“O-okay, maybe it’s not that efficient, but but but! Huuh... Yuyuyuyuki, give me a hand heeeeeaaaAAAAAAあああ!!! Wh-wh-what are you, why--STOP!”

‘Yuyuyuyuki’ would be Hari-panicked-speak for ‘Yukine’, which in turn refers to a particular specimen of yuki-onna - come now, you at least know what those are, don’t you? Alright, I believe you. I guess I’ll just leave a link here and look away while you don’t take the time to peruse it thoroughly since you don’t need to do that, right? Right.

In any case, the Yukine in question aka the one at the end of Hari’s trembling and rather impolitely pointing finger, is the third of the three women I mentioned earlier. To discern what had Hari’s pants... well, they’re mostly metaphorical pants, since she’s wearing one of those frilly gothloli skirts of hers, but they’re still very much up in a bunch, because apparently Miss Snow Lady here decided to translate Selfie Session into One Finger Selfie Challenge Practice. I’m trusting you not to look it up if you’re a young’un enslaved by your rioting hormones, ‘kay? Everyone else, go nuts. Also, don’t even dare turn the previous sentence into a dirty joke cheaper than the animation in a DEEN cartoon.

Oh, almost forgot, but don’t go stripping out of nowhere in a friend’s house? Especially if the friend in question is the kind like Hari here to turn into a useless stammering mess best left recovering in a quiet, lonely corner. If you really do feel that the powers that be compel you to let your whole tiddy hang out to serve your questionable needs, do apologize afterwards. Never ever do this:

“Well, Hari-san, I can’t really see the point in joining your artistic endeavors if you’re going to act like that and stifle my creativity, can I?”

Only villains and surreptitiously smiling snow women who know perfectly what a scene they were going to cause and take delight in the aftermath do this. But, at the very least, do they cover themselves up, so there’s a lining as silvery as their hair to take solace from, I guess.

“Far be it from me to agree with the nympho, Hari, but I gotta level with you: she’s kinda right.”

Imagine finding yourself cornered like this by the very same people you trusted enough to invite them in your own home. Try to visualize the sense of betrayal dripping from every pore on your face. You’ll probably still be unable to come close to the sense of betrayal painted all over Hari’s face as she’s faced with the most painstaking sense of isolation in the entire weekend (N.B. today is Friday). Tell me, for realsies, what’s one to do in a scenario like this? Why, look down dejectedly, murmur a dejected ‘A-alright then...’ and start unbuttoning your shirtwaIT NO!!!

“You scatterbrain, stop that!” Thank goodness, nothing escapes a dodomeki’s gaze nor her swift, modesty-restoring hands. “I mean that there’s no point to this whole selfie thing! I ain’t itching to live on scraps of attention like a good for nothing slob!”

“Even though living on scraps like a slob is what you do on a daily basis...”

It’s a little known fact that sharp-tongued yuki-onna tend to experience a sudden spike of interest in completely uninteresting things lying in the corner of everyone present in a room like the ceiling, a magazine rack and roughly any corner that could best welcome a line of sight supported by the unapologetic, honeyed trace of her smile. It’s also relatively unknown, though decidedly easier to imagine, that dodomeki can pull off one hell of a glare with eyes numbering way into double digits.

“As I was saying, there has to be something - anything better than this. Shit, whatshername, the kejorou... Osui! Doesn’t she do something kinda like this for a living?”

“No.”

Since we began by talking about forgetfulness, let’s capitalize on that and shove aside everything we’ve seen of the socially inept harionago so far. Just, stuff it into a mnemonic closet for a moment, it’s necessary to understand how novel the peremptory tone Hari just used is by comparison. We’re talking about tightened fists and record levels of grump here. Pouty cheeks filled by Satan himself, the real deal. She’s that pissed by there mention of

“That s-slut! I’m never, ever sinking to her level! Ever! Not even you, Yuki, so put that phone and your shirt down now!”

She does, but not without showing off the single classiest pout no human will ever be able to replicate.

“Oookay then? Guess I misunderstood hard when she said something about this ‘profiting web venture’ deal she has or whatever. Still! Putting aside the T&A shenanigans, ain’t there a whole lotta people who get by doing some similar kinda thing? Just, doing what they do best in front of a camera, instead of Instant-gramming pics of yourself where you look like an assclown?”

Back to your regularly scheduled shrinking violet (in dire need of a shrink) Hari...

“I think the ones I take are cute enough...”

“Aaah shut up about that! We don’t need cute, we need scary! Spooky scary gals! That’s what we are, that’s what we want folks to believe we’re all about, dammit! Let’s give it a spin, it’s not like we got anything to lose other than our friggin’ lives at this point!”

“Other than our dignity, you mean.”

“Yuki, on Nurarihyon’s thrice cursed name, I swear the next pictures I’m gonna take are gonna be of your larynx.”

Believe me when I say that nobody gives the cold shoulder like a snow woman does.

“Suit yourself. I suppose it would be as good a way as any to wash it off, after the ‘fun’.”

“Fun? You had a date with some random loser of a salaryman yesterday. What kind of fu...uuuck, you’re a nasty, nasty woman, lady. My hands feel dirty just thinking that I was gonna touch you with them... gah!”

“I got it!”

We humans, we’re a forgetful sort. But maybe, all things considered, that’s for the best. Some things are best left bereft of remembrance, rotting away until they disappear in an oblivion from whence they cannot reach nor hurt us. Things like the tense feeling of a harionago’s fingers tightly clutching her friends’ shoulders, causing the amount of nervous perspiration on her foreheads to instantly decuplicate.

“A podcast. We’re going to try making a podcast.”

Ah, yes, the inconspicuous sense of safety that comes from hiding your face while spreading your voice throughout the myriad corners of the Internet. The final frontier of youkai’s continuous struggle to remain relevant while simultaneously hiding their existence from the public eye.

You know what? Forget about it.