#all thanks to mama hotaru! (well not all. but her influence is strong in him)

[noirandchocolate]

Yet Another Headcanon: My Master Kohga is not only a musician but a lyricist and poet—more artsy skills he learned from his mama and honed by reading tons of collected and preserved Yiga and ancient Sheikah documents and by hanging around with others in the Clan interested in that kinda stuff.

He is pretty dang good at the Yiga equivalent of haiku and tanka poetry, with syllable/sound-based structure and an emphasis on conveying small moments/feelings.* His particular favorite thing to do is to choose words and phrases with multiple meanings or opportunities for metaphor, that work together to get the theme/imagery across. And he can also do rhyming song lyrics, too.

He can rattle off simple stuff fairly easily if asked to on the fly, but also tries harder on more meaningful verse if the occasion arises. On the other hand, since he's Master Kohga and therefore an irreverent kinda guy, he's not above silly or raunchy subject matter.

For the Clan’s seasonal and event-based lil’ festivals/parties, the Master has been known to join in on reciting appropriately themed poems as well as playing newly-composed and/or improvised music (and old crowd favorites/traditional songs etc). He'll participate with others in the Yiga equivalent of renku collaborative spontaneous poetry at such occasions too, and have lots of fun coming up with the next couple lines in a community effort or with a response to 'beat' someone else's last verse, especially when the saké's been flowing.

If he's got a reason to write down anything he composes, he'll write it in Ancient Sheikah calligraphy (also tutored by mom) more often than modern Hylian. (But the Yiga's use of different scripts in their written language is a tangent to this post.) Anyway, artsy fella, is my bananaMaster.

(*They’re not exactly the same as those Earth Japanese forms, since Hyrule isn’t Japan of course despite the obvious influences especially in the Sheikah and Yiga cultures as presented in the games, but you know what I’m getting at I hope. The Yiga-original forms (which in turn have branched off from or carry on ancient Sheikah ones) do tend to use 5- and 7- syllable/sound lines, but not always in the 5-7-5 and 5-7-5-7-7 of haiku and tanka. For example one popular longer form goes 5-7-5-7-7-5-7-5-7-5.)