ive made a post in the past but uh hey now im cutting it extremely close to going broke and i still don’t even start my job until the 29th and the last I checked I was only at $110 worth of spending money ( I have to keep around $100 in my actual bank account or else i’ll be charged ), alongside the fact that a few out-of-nowhere charges on stuff I thought I paid for weeks ago came to bite me in the ass and took $60 away from my account. Not to mention my father is unwilling to bum me any more money.
and uh commissions haven’t been going smoothly so here’s this again: For $10 i’ll draw you a simple illustration like these:
also for $10 I can write you a 1k word fic ( or $5 per 500 words, $10 per 1k words ) of like undertale or portal 2 or life is strange, I have examples up on my ao3 again and I like to think my strongsuit is writing about emotions and vignette-style.
And if you can’t afford to commission me you can always just drop me some cash and i’ll write a little diddy of a fic for your or make you a doodle if you just put what you want in the notes:
Again I mainly pay for my own breakfasts and lunch every day because i’m in an outside program that leaves me without free lunch from the school and I have to make $110 work until I get my first paycheck so any help would mean the world to me, thanks a lot.
OUR GUUUUURLS. I just want to say how happy it makes me you guys are liking this character. @heilos@mysterybensmysteryblog and I were super excited to introduce her!
A jubokko is a tree yokai that was once a normal tree… but was fed blood at some point. It then decided it liked the taste, and became a blood-drinking monster.
Let’s talk about Shiromori’s relationship with Mystery.
Mystery happened upon a small flower in an otherwise dead forest… and, in true trickster fashion, decided to use his own blood to feed the flower, allowing it to blossom and grow strong…
…to the point where the flower overtook the entire forest, and the resulting “white forest” (literally Shiromori’s name) once again thrived. Judging by the size of this forest, it had to be drinking MUCH more blood than Mystery could offer – and judging by the discarded helmet and katana beneath the tree on which he’s perched, as well as the fact that our mysterious blue warrior (Vivi’s ancestor, it looks like) seems determined to fight him, we can assume that Mystery has been killing the warriors come to slay the Fiendish Fox in the White Forest and allowing the forest to drink their blood.
The result: a very proud fox demon, lording over his own vast and impenetrable territory, and a very fruitful forest who seems to love her caretaker dearly.
Enough to feel utterly betrayed and embarrased when her caretaker chooses to be with somebody else.
The descendant of the one who slew him, no less.
And speaking of which, let’s touch on that.
We can see in this flashback sequence that Mystery has all nine tails. However, in Ghost, he has six… and in Freaking Out, he has seven.
A kitsune, a Japanese nine-tailed fox demon, can gain tails through experience, wisdom, honor… but can also lose a tail by breaking kitsune law, or occasionally, by dying.
The fact that Mystery still had nine tails when confronted by mystery-warrior-woman implies that what he was doing with the forest didn’t break any kitsune laws, so that’s not how he lost his tails. We can see in this image that Mystery was having quite the fearsome battle with the warrior… I suspect she managed to actually slay him, and when he came back, it was as a defenseless one-tailed kitsune once more.
Eventually, Mystery found his way back to Vivi’s family…
…the Yukinos. (art by @mysterybensmysteryblog and @artsyfeathersartsyblog, respectively) Judging by the blue, we can probably assume that Vivi gets her Japanese heritage from her father’s side… but while her grandmother looks very traditional, her father is wearing modern clothes. He probably doesn’t believe in any superstitious Japanese yokai stuff. Gramma Yukino? Another story entirely.
Mystery has probably been in disguise the WHOLE TIME, and has never properly revealed himself ot Vivi’s family… though Gramma Yukino doesn’t seem to trust this strange white puppydog. After all, the Yukino family has a story about a white canine from long in the past.
ANYWAY. THE MORAL OF THE STORY: DON’T FEED BLOOD TO PLANTS. WE’VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, SEYMOUR KRELBORN
So @artsyfeathersartsyblog suggested that I take a stab at this moment from the recent MSA video, Hellbent. 5 years of dubbing anime professionally, don’t fail me now!
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