#I'd lay cash money these bitches gay

[dharmafox]

Y'all, I've had an amazing thought.

I said a while back that the Medicine Seller's alter could be a manifestation of his connection with humans, since his alter is the form that destroys the mononoke, and that power to destroy depends on the Medicine Seller understanding humans.

And as I said in my analysis of Mononoke and feminism, the Medicine Seller's relations with humans occur along a "masculine" to "feminine" axis that's represented by male and female forms, the female/feminine as the creative energy and the male/masculine as the aggressive/destructive. The Medicine Seller's forms mirror the humans'; his usual form is more feminine and his "destroyer" form is more masculine.

But we have every reason to believe that in the movie, the Medicine Seller will be surrounded mostly by women. And instead of the het relationships that are central to almost all of the Mononoke stories, there's (I say) a fair amount of evidence that we'll have a lesbian relationship. So, two sets of "masculine" and "feminine" energies, but both in female forms, no external differentiation.

And if that's true, and the Medicine Seller's alter is male because he mirrors how the "destructive" energy appears around him...

... it's quite possible his new alter form will be a woman.