Possible worldbabble
Jun. 23rd, 2010 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yukieIn re: the colourkidsFanha, Geshtar and Sheex, who in the JP version of Secret of Mana are pretty much understood to be from the makai/underworld.
I ended up classing them as mazoku rather than straight-up demons, because - well, mazoku has less of a stigma to it and it doesn't sound invariably EEE-VILLE.
Anyhow, some stuff about mazoku in that universe according to CRACKMOBILE.
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Mazoku, if you pick apart the kanji, doesn't literally mean evil being! It's more like 'race of magic' and it refers to basically any magical or daemonic race inhabitants of hell/the makai or the spirit world.
Which is what Fanha, geshtar and Sheex are.
So how do you tell them apart from human people? Uh, well, the ridiculous hair colours, for one! Fanha's the only one with a remotely plausible human hair colour, but it's only plausible for a human who's been into the Tiger Lily or Electric Lava Manic Panic.
Using Manic Panic as a further reference, Geshtar's Green Envy and Sheex is Purple Haze. XD
BUT I DIGRESS!
Mazoku hair is even wilder-coloured than is fae hair. While you do get fae with some very intense hair colours, mazoku hair is even wilder. Mazoku also tend not to be as *fehff* as fae in the hair department. Fae hair is fluffy, mazoku hair isn't always.
The other dead giveaway is their eyes. Mazoku have "+"-shaped pupils, much like Nono of Diebuster fame. It is a son of a bitch to glamour this away for some reason that irritates Sheex to no end, as he's the one who's most often trying to pass among humans (it's a ninja thing).
They do have pointed ears as well. Oddly, the shape of their ears is very much like fae ears, hinting at a possible common ancestry (which fae will admit is likely).
Due to the ridiculously high mana level of the world they live in and the nature of their people in general, they tend to have two forms - a humanlike one and a much wilder one. Fanha, for example, is actually a lamia naga (note: don't pick at me for the oddness of this name, go bug Square Enix, they're the ones as named her boss form this). Sheeh is - a giant angry marimo. *cough* Er - depending on the translation he's either a megaxorn or aegagropilon. Either way he looks like a big assed watermelon with fangs.
Why does he turn into a damn plant? Well - his clan is what happens when a member of the Mana tribe and a mazoku fall in love and get busy.
...*cough*
Geshtar has some sort of a shapeshift but he chooses not to use it much, instead preferring to run shit down on his hoverbike.
Anyhow - the makai is in essence a dark version of the Pure Land. No one's quite sure how THAT happened (though most people tend to point fingers at a certain deity...), but there you go and there you are. However, the makai has no central tree. It has trees PLURAL, but they are weird trees to the human eye. It's not terrible place to live, or an invariably hostile one. It's just very strange to human senses.
Travel to and from the makai is possible via the Dark Corridors; the main gateways in and out of the makai are generally closed, and that's not only to protect the humans from the mazoku. There is only one gate that's unsealed and always accessible, but that's not exactly in a place that mortals can come and go from. Unless they're passing through en route from one life to another.
One would think this was one hell of a raw deal, but oddly enough mazoku are among the very few groups of people whom, Thanatos isn't ever violently jealous at, possibly because they and he are largely in the same boat - they're blamed for just about everything by just about everyONE whether it's their fault or not, assumed to be soulless and unable to love, et cetera. (Fae and elven societies, by the by, tend not to do this kind of stereotyping since people will say similar crap about them...)
TBC
I ended up classing them as mazoku rather than straight-up demons, because - well, mazoku has less of a stigma to it and it doesn't sound invariably EEE-VILLE.
Anyhow, some stuff about mazoku in that universe according to CRACKMOBILE.
*
Mazoku, if you pick apart the kanji, doesn't literally mean evil being! It's more like 'race of magic' and it refers to basically any magical or daemonic race inhabitants of hell/the makai or the spirit world.
Which is what Fanha, geshtar and Sheex are.
So how do you tell them apart from human people? Uh, well, the ridiculous hair colours, for one! Fanha's the only one with a remotely plausible human hair colour, but it's only plausible for a human who's been into the Tiger Lily or Electric Lava Manic Panic.
Using Manic Panic as a further reference, Geshtar's Green Envy and Sheex is Purple Haze. XD
BUT I DIGRESS!
Mazoku hair is even wilder-coloured than is fae hair. While you do get fae with some very intense hair colours, mazoku hair is even wilder. Mazoku also tend not to be as *fehff* as fae in the hair department. Fae hair is fluffy, mazoku hair isn't always.
The other dead giveaway is their eyes. Mazoku have "+"-shaped pupils, much like Nono of Diebuster fame. It is a son of a bitch to glamour this away for some reason that irritates Sheex to no end, as he's the one who's most often trying to pass among humans (it's a ninja thing).
They do have pointed ears as well. Oddly, the shape of their ears is very much like fae ears, hinting at a possible common ancestry (which fae will admit is likely).
Due to the ridiculously high mana level of the world they live in and the nature of their people in general, they tend to have two forms - a humanlike one and a much wilder one. Fanha, for example, is actually a lamia naga (note: don't pick at me for the oddness of this name, go bug Square Enix, they're the ones as named her boss form this). Sheeh is - a giant angry marimo. *cough* Er - depending on the translation he's either a megaxorn or aegagropilon. Either way he looks like a big assed watermelon with fangs.
Why does he turn into a damn plant? Well - his clan is what happens when a member of the Mana tribe and a mazoku fall in love and get busy.
...*cough*
Geshtar has some sort of a shapeshift but he chooses not to use it much, instead preferring to run shit down on his hoverbike.
Anyhow - the makai is in essence a dark version of the Pure Land. No one's quite sure how THAT happened (though most people tend to point fingers at a certain deity...), but there you go and there you are. However, the makai has no central tree. It has trees PLURAL, but they are weird trees to the human eye. It's not terrible place to live, or an invariably hostile one. It's just very strange to human senses.
Travel to and from the makai is possible via the Dark Corridors; the main gateways in and out of the makai are generally closed, and that's not only to protect the humans from the mazoku. There is only one gate that's unsealed and always accessible, but that's not exactly in a place that mortals can come and go from. Unless they're passing through en route from one life to another.
One would think this was one hell of a raw deal, but oddly enough mazoku are among the very few groups of people whom, Thanatos isn't ever violently jealous at, possibly because they and he are largely in the same boat - they're blamed for just about everything by just about everyONE whether it's their fault or not, assumed to be soulless and unable to love, et cetera. (Fae and elven societies, by the by, tend not to do this kind of stereotyping since people will say similar crap about them...)
TBC