I know we have had this prompt. How do name something?
It's time to name a new youkai.
Appears as a night-blooming flower
What fits that description that grows in Japan? Needs to be tall (?Sunflower-like?) I find nothing like that but vines yes. And that will work.
Morningglory, Moonflower
Japanese Bindweed is a similar plant. Minor change the creature doesn't hypnotize like I first thought but binds
We gather all the JP names for these
Bindweed: 昼顔 ヒルガオ Calystegia japonica (Noontime Face)
Morninglory: 朝顔 あさがお (Ipomoea nil) (Morning Face)
Moonflower: 夜顔 よるがお (Ipomoea alba ) Night Face
What luck a pattern [something] Face
Pull up some kanji that is descriptive of the creature. False, lie, deceit, falsehood 偽 (That was easy got it on the first try)
偽顔 にせかお Nise kao False face
Easy to say which is good.
Slap on an ending to show it is "sentient" 女性 Onna sounds good
False Faced Woman
Flower-like, deceitful, vine-like
Oh, DeepL wants to translate にせかお as a smirk. We just learned something new about our creature. (It's a bad translation TBH)
For Love of a Konbini Idol, I Faced Her Onryo Lover
was inspired by the story "The Peonie Lantern" about the ghost of a dead woman who comes back for her lover and slowly kills him. It's one of the classic JP ghost stories.
From: For Love of a Konbini Idol
I Faced Her Onryo Lover
They have a ways to go before they get to the real thing.
Join Ume, Shiomi, and Tomo as their relationship develops. In a creepy world where “love” never dies.
Quote: I looked at the cigarette in my hand, thought, “What the hell?” and took a puff; “Ugh, unflavored.” But I’d finally gotten a kiss from my konbini girl, a secondary kiss, but a kiss.
From: For Love of a Konbini Idol
I Faced Her Onryo Lover
Any port in a storm
“Now, what am I going to do?” I thought.
I glanced around and saw that the other woman, or should I say ghost, was gone. So I bent down to see if I could rouse my charge. Her eyes fluttered. The feral gleam was gone, replaced by sadness. She muttered, “I need a drink.”
I didn’t think so. I could smell the sour odor of alcohol on her breath already, but anything to get her out of there before Mikawa reappeared. “Sure,” I said. “I have some beer at my place.”
From: For Love of a Konbini Idol
I Faced Her Onryo Lover
Everyone is angry
“Don’t swear at me!” The situation was wearing on my nerves, or I might have let it pass, but the swearing grated. It clashed with the image of Shiomi I kept trying to build in my mind. I was tired, my cigarette tasted foul, and I had just risked my life for the third time. And for what, an ungrateful woman who didn’t have the sense to see her lover was a rotting corpse!
“I’ll swear if I want to, White Knight-sama. I’d be with my girlfriend right now, instead of wandering around these desolate hills, if it wasn’t for you. You’re as bad as Mika, riding in on your fucking white horse and fucking my life up! I hate you! Damn it, I hate you!”
#WordWeavers#Writing 31 Would you ever cosplay one of your characters? Which one?
Since my character are often partially modeled after idols, I would cosplay the original idol.
Arisu, Kaori, or Shiomi would be my picks since I am very attracted to that dark goth look. I have a type.
(Some recently said, "Oh you're an OG 90's Goth. Yeap that be me.)
Alternately I might cosplay one of my creepypasta creatures. It is only a matter of time before Hasshaku-sama shows up in a story. I've already cosplayed that one.
#WordWeavers#Writing 17 Is there a story you’d like to write but aren’t sure you can?
My success rate with straight adventure, cyberpunk, and Steam Punk have not turned out well. I'm not dying to write them. But sometime day I would like to try my hand at a Steam Punk Romance.
But...
An epic classic seems beyond my reach, and I would love to write one of those.
I have a Yogen no tori print in my home shrine, so this will not be necessary. So far it has kept the worst of the current plague away, so I'm not messing with it.
I first had dreams of a two-headed crow back in 1998, but didn't know what they meant, until many years later. #yokai#youkai
#WordWeavers Sep 13: What animal would you like as a muse?
I don't suppose Yogin No Tori (ヨゲンノトリ) the two-headed crow of prophecy or Yatagarasu (八咫烏) the incarnation of Kamo Taketsunumi. What's not to like about a three-legged crow sun god?
If I have to be mundane, crow. They say there are more crow spirits in Seattle than anywhere else in the world.