#just ended up down a yokai lore pit and .

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i’m coming up with kitsune!geto lore that u could not even comprehend

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I had an idea which I'm going to call 'A Colony of Cryptids', as a group of bats is called a colony.

Basically, Bruce is probably the only human member of the family.

Alfred is over of those beings well asks for the firstborn child in exchange for something, and the Wayne's asked him for two things, servitude until they died and help to improve Gotham. Of course, they managed to improve it before they'd died, so Alfred was free to leave, taking Bruce with him, but decided he liked it here, and stayed because of his own will. If he was supposed to return based on laws of his kind, then perhaps he found a way to discreetly pass the torch to Bruce, meaning he'll be part of the Wayne family until the Wayne Name is gone. He's the only one who knows about everyone who isn't human. Perhaps he's an eldritch entity, which is how he knows as much as he does, and how he can still reign in the others.

Dick is probably some kind of fae, probably a changeling. He found himself enjoying life as a supposed human child, and then his chosen parents died. He was supposed to return, he's not supposed to interfere in the human realm more than he already has, but he wants to take their killer down before he gets dragged back. He meets Bruce, and ends up imprinting on him maybe, and this man becomes the only reason his old kind haven't dragged him back. He wants to be a real person, but he also can't let go of his past.

Barbera is an entity whose entire being revolves around determination and confidence. From proving herself as Batgirl, to refusing to step down as Oracle, she's always there, persevering through everything. She's either a spirit (personification) of perseverance, akin to the Spirit of Gotham, or really could be anything.

Jason is an entity who's supposed to represent the innocence of childhood, perhaps he already died before, much much younger, and this was an attempt by the Powers That Be to give him another chance, perhaps they just keep returning him until he can live a fulfilling life. The Lazarus pit did two things, it both enhanced and suppressed what he represents, resulting in the torn up Jason we see to this day.

Tim is a god of knowledge who sought the only thing he hadn't yet experienced - humanity. This is why he's so forgetful about human needs, like sleep. This isn't necessarily erasing all his mental accomplishments though, as he locked away his memories, so he had to learn things again, but he had an accelerated capability to do so.

Damien might be an actual demon, or at least half or quarter, depending on LoA lore in this AU. Perhaps they're a special kind of demon that is more powerful when mixed with a human bloodline, or they're humans that go through a ritual that turns them half demon, maybe Damien was forced through it early.

Duke is probably some kind of angel even though he likely doesn't know himself, he just knows he has sight and light based powers. I don't know as much about him though.

Selina might be a cat goddess, or maybe some kind of yokai or something, perhaps a nekomata or bakaneko who was abandoned by her owner, hence why she takes care of so many kitties?

Cass seems like a good candidate to be a shadow creature.

Spoiler might be the only other normal person, but I'm not sure.

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What is your favorite yokai(Both from Yo-kai Watch and real mythology) ?

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My favorite yokai from YKW are Unfairy, Wobblewok, and Arachnia, and they all have one thing in common: gremlin behavior

unfairy is a stupid little rat thing that took down two war generals and then got defeated by a hose. wobblewok is a fucking Thang sealed inside a giant kamameshi rice cooker who lurks the deepest pits of hell and has killed hundreds. and arachnia is arachnia

as for my favorite MYTHOLOGICAL yokai, it'd probably be any of the creechers originating from buddhist lore. tbh that hardly narrows it down but I'm specifically talking about dragons/any of the 8 legions, since a majority of my OCs revolve around those yokai in particular and I think theyre really cool aaaaaaaaa.

the 8 legions (hachibushuu) are a group of 8 different celestial species that reside in the Buddhist version of heaven (<- using that term VERYYYYY loosely, also technically one of the legions don't live in Tendo, they got kicked out, it was a whole thing). They're super cool and powerful and they serve Buddhas/Bodhisattvas and whateva.

The 8 legions are made up of the Ten/Devas (buddhist equivalent of angels but not really), the Ryu/Nagas (dragons), the Karura/Garuda (bird people that eat dragons), the Magorakas (half-snake people), the Kinnara (half-bird musicians), the Yasha (heavenly warrior demon guys), the Kendatsuba (artistic spirits that eat scents), and the Ashura (scary demigod guys that are angry and violent and aren't allowed in Tendo anymore boohoo).

The 8 legions are actually Hindu in origin, but then the Buddha told them all to join his cool kids club (buddhism) and then they did

I could talk at length abt each of these guys but then this would be like 500 paragraphs longer than it already is. so I wont but I WILL do so if prompted

If we're talking about yokai that are SPECIFICALLY japanese in origin, there's a lot of ones that are extremely silly that I love a lot so I'll list them off rapid fire

-ghost that tells you to kill yourself (itsuki)

-rat that fucking explodes (kodama nezuki)

-water behemoth (umi bozu)

-eyeball ass jumpscare (shirime)

-literally any of the women (all the yokai ending in "onna")

-big spider (tsuchigumo)

-tamamo no mae (tamamo no mae)

-any of the several ridiculous prophet yokai that appear once and tell you your crops are gonna die unless you like their image and share it with the rest of the village. it was like the origin of those superstitious chain emails (this includes yokai like Amabiko, Arie, Kudan, Jinja Hime, etc etc, but my personal favorite is Amabie, SIMPLY because it originated from a misspelling)

-any chimera yokai (kotobuki, nue, baku, rokugyo, etc. I just think theyre neat)

but my FAVORITE yokai of ALL TIME

IS THIS THING. NANJAKA.

ITS NAME LITERALLY MEANS "WHAT"

IT ORIGINATES FROM THE BAKEMONO TSUKUSHI EMAKI (1820) AND IT HAS NO DESCRIPTION. NO STORY. NO EXPLANATION. NOTHING. IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE AN UPPER HALF. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO EVEN GUESS WHAT THE ARTIST WAS THINKING WHEN MAKING THIS GUY. I DON'T EVEN THINK THE AUTHOR THEMSELVES KNEW WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE DOING BECAUSE ITS NAME IS JUST "WHAT." ITS LIKE THE AUTHOR WOKE UP AFTER BEING BLACKOUT DRUNK, SAW THIS DRAWING, AND WAS LIKE "ok what the fuck is this"

I ADORE IT. PEAK YOKAI WEIRDNESS AT ITS FINEST