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What is your favorite yokai(Both from Yo-kai Watch and real mythology) ?

YIPPEE TIME TO RANT

My favorite yokai from YKW are Unfairy, Wobblewok, and Arachnia, and they all have one thing in common: gremlin behavior

unfairy is a stupid little rat thing that took down two war generals and then got defeated by a hose. wobblewok is a fucking Thang sealed inside a giant kamameshi rice cooker who lurks the deepest pits of hell and has killed hundreds. and arachnia is arachnia

as for my favorite MYTHOLOGICAL yokai, it'd probably be any of the creechers originating from buddhist lore. tbh that hardly narrows it down but I'm specifically talking about dragons/any of the 8 legions, since a majority of my OCs revolve around those yokai in particular and I think theyre really cool aaaaaaaaa.

the 8 legions (hachibushuu) are a group of 8 different celestial species that reside in the Buddhist version of heaven (<- using that term VERYYYYY loosely, also technically one of the legions don't live in Tendo, they got kicked out, it was a whole thing). They're super cool and powerful and they serve Buddhas/Bodhisattvas and whateva.

The 8 legions are made up of the Ten/Devas (buddhist equivalent of angels but not really), the Ryu/Nagas (dragons), the Karura/Garuda (bird people that eat dragons), the Magorakas (half-snake people), the Kinnara (half-bird musicians), the Yasha (heavenly warrior demon guys), the Kendatsuba (artistic spirits that eat scents), and the Ashura (scary demigod guys that are angry and violent and aren't allowed in Tendo anymore boohoo).

The 8 legions are actually Hindu in origin, but then the Buddha told them all to join his cool kids club (buddhism) and then they did

I could talk at length abt each of these guys but then this would be like 500 paragraphs longer than it already is. so I wont but I WILL do so if prompted

If we're talking about yokai that are SPECIFICALLY japanese in origin, there's a lot of ones that are extremely silly that I love a lot so I'll list them off rapid fire

-ghost that tells you to kill yourself (itsuki)

-rat that fucking explodes (kodama nezuki)

-water behemoth (umi bozu)

-eyeball ass jumpscare (shirime)

-literally any of the women (all the yokai ending in "onna")

-big spider (tsuchigumo)

-tamamo no mae (tamamo no mae)

-any of the several ridiculous prophet yokai that appear once and tell you your crops are gonna die unless you like their image and share it with the rest of the village. it was like the origin of those superstitious chain emails (this includes yokai like Amabiko, Arie, Kudan, Jinja Hime, etc etc, but my personal favorite is Amabie, SIMPLY because it originated from a misspelling)

-any chimera yokai (kotobuki, nue, baku, rokugyo, etc. I just think theyre neat)

but my FAVORITE yokai of ALL TIME

IS THIS THING. NANJAKA.

ITS NAME LITERALLY MEANS "WHAT"

IT ORIGINATES FROM THE BAKEMONO TSUKUSHI EMAKI (1820) AND IT HAS NO DESCRIPTION. NO STORY. NO EXPLANATION. NOTHING. IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE AN UPPER HALF. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO EVEN GUESS WHAT THE ARTIST WAS THINKING WHEN MAKING THIS GUY. I DON'T EVEN THINK THE AUTHOR THEMSELVES KNEW WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE DOING BECAUSE ITS NAME IS JUST "WHAT." ITS LIKE THE AUTHOR WOKE UP AFTER BEING BLACKOUT DRUNK, SAW THIS DRAWING, AND WAS LIKE "ok what the fuck is this"

I ADORE IT. PEAK YOKAI WEIRDNESS AT ITS FINEST

#rant OVER. I just really love ghosts n spirits n all that jazz #yo kai watch #japanese folklore #long post

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vndic-a · 4 years

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txf ran for YEARS and is chock full of moments that our boi has been horrifically injured. this is mostly going to focus on physically lasting scars and prominent breaks that still cause him all those fun aches and pains, but will touch into whatever prominent injuries he’s experienced that i think are noteworthy, including those with notable trauma experienced. this should have all of them but i’m not perfect. 99% of these are timestamped with what episode it happened, some have screenshots, and like maybe 1 or 2 will be headcanon ones. the reason i’m posting is for the sake of plotting and also a little timeline for myself, to keep in mind / keep track of all the things he’s been through.

SCARRING .

1 . shot in the left thigh, straight through his femur (oof). thicc boi star - shaped scar. 1X13 2 . gash on lower rib - cage / abdomen, clawed by the “jersey devil.” minimal / thin scarring. 1X5 3 . moderate skin damage to face / below eyes and around cheekbones due to hypothermia exposure. it’s not terribly noticeable and only really lasts maybe less than a year and a half, normally most don’t see it unless he’s pointed it out since the damage was so close to his eyes. screenshot of how it looked when he entered the hospital . 2X16/17 4 . scully shot him in the shoulder :// give that boy another starry scar. 2X25 5 . deep slash on the face / upper right cheekbone from a gargoyle. he tends to receive a lot of scars on his temple / head and most of them remain thin and whiten over the years, but to someone close enough / knows what to look for, they’re there. screenshot . 3X14 6 . slammed his head against a windshield hard enough for the window to have some blood on it. was unconscious for a while after. screenshot 1 2 and 3 ( 3 is harder to see but it was stitched & bandaged ). 3X16 7 . shot in the head. didn’t die bc this boi is wild. screenshot . FTF 8 . probable damage to his neck ( small scars dotted across ) after an octopus - like creature strangled him and embedded parts of it in his neck. this is another sort of scarring that probably only lasted around a year, if that, and wasn’t noticeable all over. trypophobia warning on this image : screenshot . 6X13 9 . deep human bite marks on right forearm / closer to elbow, as well as part of his bicep. definitely prominent if not jagged scarring. bleeding was severe enough a tourniquet can be seen in the screencaps. screenshot of heavy bleeding and tourniquet. also his arm ass arm had a sling after the fact . 7X04 10 . ricocheting bullet hit upper left bicep. wrapped in heavy gauze , it’s probably a small minute scar. 7X06 11 . he got attacked by a bunch of snakes, so specific scarring is ??? questionable but they were poisonous and he did have to go to the hospital. 7X09 12 . had his skull drilled into at the edge of his hairline to induce his repressed memories. 4X23 13 . infestation of his lungs. he was basically suffocating due to the volume of eggs and beetles in his lungs and had to have them cleared after coughing up blood. it was hella violent. 7X18 14 . i don’t count fight club cuz that episode was BONKERS and there were so many things. 15 . of course, mul.der’s abduction. the scars for this fade away, but in the first couple of days that he’s returned and back on his feet, they’re still healing. i’ll detail more on this later. 16 . another temple gash ! photoset. 8X20

BROKEN BONES .

1 . obviously whenever he got shot through the femur . 1X13 2 . he got attacked by a gorilla ( don’t worry abt it this shit was wild im just putting it on here cuz like wtf y’know ) so i’m gonna wager potentially broken / fractured ribs / possibly some pretty bad bruising if not any breaks to his head. he was unconscious for a while and when scully found him he reacted wildly pained to her touch. also the only reason i’m adding this as well is because he’s definitely had a history of broken / fractured ribs. 2X18 3 . left pinky twisted and broken severely as a means of torture. 5X18 4 . in general he’s broken some ribs here and there. i also personally headcanon he broke his wrist when he was a kid, and it’s partly reason why this stooge drops his gun so fucken often, he’s got a lousy grip.

GENERAL / LONG TERM AFFLICTIONS .

1 . was infected with an alien gas that killed him, he FLAT - LINED for about a minute before scully revived him . 2X16/17 2 . he’s had a trillion concussions, which can only get worse as time goes on :/// 3 . he’s also had unconventional medical procedures performed on him: mind - wiped in spooky unknown government labs, a lot of techniques and medicines to help him remember things via stimulating hallucinations that basically caused seizures, another time he was given medication that induced a seizure, drugged a few times that caused extremely high levels of paranoia and anxiety to very violent and uncontrollable levels. 4 . exposure to the black cancer, as well as torture / imprisonment without basic necessities which totally had some long-term mental effects. 4X8/9 5 . i mean he did get mummified by prehistoric fireflies but he’s cool now. 1X20 6 . he’s definitely got tinnitus from multiple stuff over the years but mostly from the gunshot to the head. FTF 7 . he almost died again, buried under rubble to narrowly avoid a massive explosion, severely feverish, dehydrated / heat exhaustion and unconscious for several days and BARELY fighting past the illness. 3X1 8 . subjects himself to tests from a doctor to inject him with ketamine ( a hallucinogenic anaesthetic ) to try and remember his past more clearly, causing seizures, severe migraines, and lapses in his current memory ( a vivid flashback occurs and he’ll wake up not knowing where he is ). also got his skull drilled into that was cool. 4X23 9 . moderate radiation burns to his forehead / face . 10 . oh yeah he drowned in the bermuda triangle but it’s cool his wife rescued him. 6X3 11 . he’s had hypothermia a lot in general.

MENTAL .

1 . take a shot everytime mulder gets tortured, die in 4 minutes . 2 . fear of fire is very pronounced. 1X12 3 . kidnapped, drugged, mind - wiped, dropped back to scully not knowing where he is. 1x2 4 . take a shot everytime he’s sleep deprived, whether bc of his own passion or because of someone forcing him to stay up. scully has made notes herself, verbally exclaiming mulder needs rest bc he hasn’t had any in 24 and sometimes 36+ hours. 5 . idk if i mentioned but he’s been held hostage a lot, more than once in some actual prison somewhere where he’s tortured, and a handful of times by dangerous criminals who are ready to kill him and do it for ransom. 6 . the amount of times he’s been detained and literally tied up or held down by something / physically restrained, i’d wager he’s less and less cool with it every time. 7 . almost was drowned inside of a mental hospital, drowned in the bermuda triangle, was almost drowned in a bath tub, and has been strangled more times than he’s comfortable with. the general concept of not being able breathe is a little too familiar. 8 . i just want to point out how many times he’s been exposed to seeing death / dead bodies / generally absolutely grotesque things , child death included . staring at severed appendages . has seen men literally chopped apart and left in trash containers . mentally he’s become very sound in a sort of formal way, in a way he can prioritize his work in an almost obsessive way to move past it all so it won’t catch up with him. he’s excellent at that mental compartmentalization. bleeding and dying, he is still looking for the truth. he’s seen many gruesome visuals and he notably has nightmares / terrors in the shows. 9 . that being said, he’s had some vivid nightmares since he was a kid. 10 . some ghosts psychoanalyzed the shit out of him and scully and made them think they shot one another, which has always been a fear of his since kitsunegari when he saw scully shoot herself in the head and how he almost shot her. he barely forgave himself for that. lots of hallucinations and fun stuff. 6X6 11 . extremely bad migraines that eventually formed into an unresponsive, violent state that put him in a mental hospital, where he paced around screaming, unable to form sentences. he harmed himself and others until he was medically forced into a catatonic state, while skinner and others tried to inject him with medicine to revert the state, resulting in seizures. he could also read minds during this period but nbd. a lot of this typically comes back up in 6X22/7X1/2 12 . got stuck in a simulated reality and drugged by an AI which would just kinda fuck with anyone. 5X11 13 . his abduction is an entire thing i won’t go into immediately here, but there was some very severe torture involved that stays with him for the rest of his life. 14 . his relationship with death is pretty fucked in general. he should’ve died so many times.

#I THINK this is all of iot #some of them are also repeated in s10/11 but i didn't add those refs #he doesn't have any severe injuries in those episodes so #.☄ ° ゜ as you claw the thin ice . ⇢ fact.#i hope you guys enjoy this cuz it took me a l l day

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