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fishingforcompliments) wrote2020-06-29 11:17 am
fishingforcompliments) wrote2020-06-29 11:17 am
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[not again] catchall for chuuya
i'll make this pretty when i'm not hunting down stuff for memshares
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...I-I cannot help it! It is delicious!
[Her stomach growls. She could use some fried food right about now. Pastries...]
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[He'll stand up to follow after her. Let's see if she can get the food she wants.]
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[inb4 their breakfast is interrupted by a memory from Chuuya]
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[Time for a really really stupid memory, yes. It's this sleepover the but threads involving Chuuya are the important ones.]
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[oh
monster week! huh. flayn pauses.]
...the unblinking eyes were a little unsettling.
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[Honestly he's just relieved that he didn't get doxxed further.]
That week was dumb. We all turned into monsters. I'm pretty sure I was a tengu, but I couldn't even fly.
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[um.]
A tengu...? I apologize, but we do not have such creatures where I come from - so I am not quite sure what you mean...
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[He does not know what legends exist in Flayn's world.]
...they're not real, but like, people write stories about them. Myths, kinda. Tengu walk upright like a man, but they have the features like I had in that memory: the feet, the wings, the tail, and sometimes they even have a bird head too. Usually they carry swords and are fierce fighters too.
They're a kind of yokai, which is like...kind of like demons, I guess? But yokai aren't always evil like demons are. Sometimes they're tricksters. Or like with tengu, they're not really good or bad and just like to fight.
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["Not really good or bad and just like to fight" - now who does that remind her of? Flayn, perhaps wisely, does not say that out loud.]
How fascinating! Do you know many of the stories that have been written about them, Chuuya?
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I know some? Like, they're bedtime stories and stuff. I'm no expert, but I grew up hearing them just like any other kid.
Why? You want to know more?
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First off, there's two similar ones: the tanuki, and the kitsune. Both of them are shape-shifting animals that can make themselves look like anything they want, even humans. There's two main differences between them. First off, a tanuki is a tanuki, obviously. And a kitsune is a fox. But the other difference is in their intent. Tanuki usually like pranks that are mostly-harmless, so coming across one isn't too dangerous. A kitsune, on the other hand, can be very dangerous. They're very moody, and sometimes they eat people.
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she doesn't knOW WHAT A TANUKI IS, CHUUYA. but she'll listen patiently as he explains.]
They... eat people? But why? [...] There are quite a lot of creatures that eat humans... but I cannot imagine that they are very tasty. Why eat a person when you could eat a delicious fish, instead?
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[Dazai was not a sexy lady kitsune though.]
The legends usually say that they can't hide their tails with magic, so they have to hide them under their clothes. So if you find a fox tail, it's a kitsune.
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...but a tail would be difficult to hide under clothing, would it not?
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Not under a kimono, I guess. Or a poofy dress.
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Oh - I suppose not. Then you could keep yourself safe by not associating with people wearing clothing of that type, correct?
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[Just. Listen to how ridiculous you sound, Flayn.]
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Well, I suppose that would be a little extreme.
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Is it the same for the tanuki? Are they also unable to hide their tails?