Anonymous asked: The internet is dying, images from your old posts are disappearing!
[ i’ve finally gone back and replaced them. now you, too, can enjoy vintage ask5ms questions! ]
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PERHAPS YOU COULD HAVE THEM HOLD YOU INSTEAD? MANY OF THEM SEEM TO HAVE NO SHORTAGE OF PREHENSILE APPENDAGES.
WE MUST ADMIT THE EXPLOSION OF POPULARITY REGARDING THESE “MONSTER GIRLS” IS BAFFLING. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MATING WITH YOUR OWN SPECIES?
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
…WE HOPE THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
MISS SEKIBANKI WAS ORIGINALLY A NUKEKUBI, BUT MORE RECENTLY TOOK ON THE FEATURES OF A ROKUROKUBI AS WELL; SHE CAN DETACH HER HEAD AND STRETCH HER NECK TO GREAT LENGTHS (OR EVEN DO BOTH AT THE SAME TIME - QUITE A GRUESOME SIGHT). HISTORICALLY, NUKEKUBI AND ROKUROKUBI HAVE OFTEN BEEN CONFUSED, WHICH CAUSED MISS SEKIBANKI TO TAKE ON THE IDENTITIES OF BOTH. IF SHE CHOSE TO TAKE UP EQUESTRIANISM, PERHAPS SHE COULD EVEN BECOME KNOWN AS A DULLAHAN AS WELL.
SINCE A YOUKAI’S IDENTITY HINGES UPON THE FEARS AND BELIEFS OF HUMANS, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A YOUKAI’S NATURE TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON HOW IT IS KNOWN. AS LEGENDS CHANGE OVER TIME, A YOUKAI MAY CHOOSE TO EMBRACE ITS NEW IDENTITY AND USE IT TO SPREAD FEAR AMONG HUMANS, AND THUS BECOME SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY.
IN THE CASE OF A PARTICULARLY LONG-LIVED YOUKAI, WHO KNOWS WHAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST?
NO, THE ONLY SENTIENT PLANETOID WE KNOW OF IS AN ARTIFICIAL ONE, AND HE IS QUITE THE UNPLEASANT FELLOW, TO SAY THE LEAST.
ALL CREATURES DREAM IN WHATEVER COLORS THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING. NOTE THAT DREAMS ARE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY WHATEVER FANTASTICAL MEDIA A PERSON MAY PARTAKE IN, SO FOR INSTANCE, A PERSON WHO HAS VIEWED MOSTLY BLACK AND WHITE TELEVISION IN THEIR LIFETIME IS LIKELY TO HAVE DREAMS WITHOUT COLOR.
IF YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT THE COLOR OF THE DREAM BUBBLES THEMSELVES, THEY ARE NORMALLY A SHADE OF PURPLE WHEN VIEWED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE DREAM WORLD.
THE DREAM WORLD LACKS THE COMMODITIES NECESSARY TO SUPPORT MOST LIVING THINGS, SO ANYONE THAT WISHES TO MAKE THEIR HOME HERE MUST BE A POWERFUL MAGICIAN THAT CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MALLEABLE NATURE OF THE DREAM WORLD TO CREATE THEIR OWN. OR BE IMMORTAL. WHICHEVER.
THE MOST NOTABLE EXAMPLE WOULD BE MISS GENGETSU. SHE IS NOT A NATIVE CREATURE OF THE DREAM WORLD, BUT RATHER A DEMON WHO CAME HERE WITH HER SISTER IN THE INTERESTS OF MAKING HER OWN WORLD.
IT WAS COMING ALONG RATHER NICELY, BUT IT’S BEEN IDLE FOR SOME TIME NOW. WE SUSPECT SHE RAN OUT OF IDEAS.
NEWCOMERS, YOU SAY? WE WERE NOT AWARE THAT ANY NOTABLE OUTSIDERS HAD ENTERED GENSOKYO IN THE PAST YEAR. WE WILL LOOK INTO IT.
[ okay so
it occured to me that while i’m generally too tired to work on purplequest or commissions on weekdays, for the sake of getting SOMETHING done, i could manage to squeeze out some 5ms questions!
since all the questions in my box were really old, i cleared it out. if you had a question that didn’t get answered feel free to resend it.
ask box reopened! ]
THERE ISN’T ONE. ENJOY YOUR NEWFOUND NIHILISM.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, IT IS SOMEWHAT OF A MOOT POINT. NEITHER THE BIRTH NOR THE DEATH OF ANY CREATURE IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION; NO HIGHER POWER HAS DECIDED YOUR PURPOSE, AND EVEN IF IT HAS, YOU NEED NOT FULFILL IT. NO OTHER CREATURE WILL BRING YOU MEANING. IT WILL HAVE TO COME FROM WITHIN.
WE APOLOGIZE IF THIS IS UNENLIGHTENING. COMPLICATED QUESTIONS DO NOT NECESSARILY HAVE INTERESTING ANSWERS.
