Remember Aspergillus Oryzae? Something I started a while back and gone nowhere with…. well its getting a revival. As Kuchikami no Sake. Yet another random arse name. Mouth chewed sake… basically how they used to make it. Chew rice, spit it into tub, let it ferment. Fun stuff.
This is basically a link to the old stuff.
Changes! Main character is now… a miko. Yes a miko.
Shiori. A miko. As a character, she might actually be different…. in ways but not quite I guess. Outfit inspired by Artonelico and Kannagi.
She travels around and is generally polite, soft spoken and seemingly nice. If you piss her off, she shows it by… attacking you rather casually in her same polite soft spoken tone. In a way, that makes her incredibly evil. Super indifferent verbal assault. And it hits you in all the soft spots.
She still likes to drink I suppose. Rather unbecoming of a miko. Maybe her personality changes when drunk…
Generally a helpful person. Like Ginko of Mushishi or something. Like if she has nothing to lose by helping people, she might as well. Unless you’re a total prick and its helping you be more of an asshole or something.
All that aside… I should think more about it. Since she’s going around, meeting all kinds of mythical creatures and things, I wonder if I should link her to some goddess or mythical being. Either way she’s a bit weird for a miko, traveling. And not belonging to a shrine. She probably comes across and helps out at a bunch of shrines as she moves along.
Lastly… Group Picture!!
YUS GROUP PICTURE!!
A fox priest, hairy samurai, buff Oni, even hairier Hibagon, a Tsuchinoko, a Kuchisake Onna and a Kappa. And my design sketch bits of Shiori.
I guess I could at least elaborate about these guys. 300 words is a bit unbecoming of me.
Fox Priest! He’s a priest in the sort of way everybody follows what he says. So he essentially rules this town of his. Nobody knows he’s a fox spirit though. Miko miko comes in, and does some of her little investigating on him mainly because she’s bored and curious and finds out his true identity. But since he’s not actually doing anything malicious and is just… bored and wants to run a town…. she doesn’t really do anything about it. The whole premise is a big load of about nothing anyway.
Samurai guy! Due to lack of any real conflicts, he’s kinda jobless. So he decided to try fit into society but he looks too scary so he’s a bit stunted. He tried offering bodyguard services to travelers and stuff, but when he walks up to them, he’s mistaken for some criminal causing them to run off and spread bad rumours about him. So he’s kinda been living in the wild… so he’s a bit dirty. And if he’d just wash his face and cut his hair, he wouldn’t be looked so badly upon. Well one day he meets the miko who doesn’t run away for once and hires him as a bodyguard. Although in actuality she hired him so that she’d have somebody to talk to as she traveled from one place to another. She tells him to shave and wash his face if he doesn’t want to be treated like a criminal but he refuses to for some reason or another.
Hibagon! Harry monkey thing. She meets it in a forest and maybe finds some Hibagon village. No idea what else. Tsuchinoko… probably unchanged from previous incarnation. She tries fishing, and hooks this guy and they start smacktalking. And then get drunk. Oni will probably remain unchanged too.
Kuchisake Onna! A spirit of a woman who had a ‘Joker’ treatment. Just go wiki it.
Miko miko its requested to take care of this evil spirit. So by the folktale or whatever, when it asks AM I PRETTY? She goes, heh I’m much more beautiful! And it leads to some kinda bitchfight involving a metal fan meeting a knife. Evil woman gets subdued somehow. Should think about more details. Damn woman kinda deserved getting her mouth slit open anyway, for cheating on her husband and toying with the delicate hearts of men around the place!
A friggin Kappa. Well I haven’t really thought about shit here either. It was quite arbitrary when I decided to draw it in the corner. Evil ugly thing that eats children. Maybe its actually not such a bad creature in my rendition. No idea. I’ll get to it someday… I’m lacking focus right now.
Until next time I guess.
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