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薬売り

The Medicine Seller NAME
It's all kind of whatever. SEX/GENDER
Mononoke CANON
End of the second Bakeneko arc CANONPOINT

HISTORY

Bakeneko

The Medicine Seller visits the Sakai household the day of the youngest daughter’s wedding to sell the sorts of things new brides need. The festivities are halted when the bride and guests are brutally killed. The culprit is the vengeful spirit of Tamaki, a girl the head of the household kidnapped in his youth and kept caged, subjecting her to all manner of abuses. Her spirit merged with that of a cat - her sole comfort during the ordeal - and set loose to get some good, old fashioned revenge. The demon is vanquished, the Sakai family is in ruins and neither the Medicine Seller nor the two survivors are particularly sorry for their lot.

The first Bakeneko arc in Ayakashi marked a shift in the Medicine Seller's personality. Though it is brief, he is far more relaxed and at ease than we ever see him again. His interactions are casual, sometimes even playful or friendly and there is a degree of cockiness to him when he's captured by the Sakai family and accused of Mao's murder. He isn't really taking the whole situation too seriously and it comes back to bite him big time.

Zashiki Warashi

On a cold, rainy, windy night, the Medicine Seller stops at an inn to sell his wares. A young, pregnant girl is pursued by an assassin who is subsequently killed and hung from the ceiling. Turns out the room the young lady was staying in was a mass grave for all the forced abortions the proprietor put her employees through back in the inn’s days as a brothel, and all those ghosts want to be born into the real world.

Umi Bozu

The Medicine Seller gets on a boat that winds up off course in Ayakashi territory. A monk must confront his guilt over incestuous feelings towards his sister who was sacrificed when they were both young.

Kayo, who had been relatively friendly with the Medicine Seller in Bakeneko, finds him to be a lot more suspicious in Umi Bozu, questioning his motives, who he's actually trying to protect, and calls outright his significantly chillier personality.

Noppera Bo

The Medicine Seller goes to jail for selling someone fake viagra and encounters Ochou who is set to hang for murdering her abusive husband and shitty inlaws. But not all is as it seems, including who Ochou actually killed and what the nature of that 'death' even was.

The Noppera-bo Arc gives a glimpse into the Medicine Seller's more romantic side. While we see him flirt with Kayo in the Bakeneko and Umi Bozu arcs, nothing ever really seems to come of it but this is not quite the case for Ocho.

Whether he acted on this affection before or after the arc's conclusion is up in the air, but it shows the Medicine Seller is capable of forming attachments to people and not all his relationships are shallow or fleeting.

Nue

The Medicine Seller heads to a mansion in Kyoto and plays parlour games with a bunch of ghosts who are stuck in an endless loop in vying for the hand of Lady Ruri and continuously reliving their gruesome deaths because a piece of wood wanted to feel special.

The Medicine Seller is visibly stunned by the three other suitors display of greed and disregard for the deaths of others, and while he'd been cold to them iitially, his usual mockery takes on a far more callous, contemptuous edge. These men are ghosts, it's true, and it's his job to cut their ties to this world and let them reenter the cycle of death and rebirth, but his approach becomes cruel. He poisons the incense, and reveals the murderers of the first suitor and Lady Ruri by having the perpetrators face gruesome demises, all the while finding the whole thing to be quite funny.

Bakeneko

Time takes a leap to the early Showa era and The Medicine Seller hops on a train with some very familiar faces. They wind up trapped in a car together, terrorized by the ghost of a news reporter who allegedly committed suicide. Each must come clean about their role, however indirect, in her death to escape this prison.

ABILITIES

Ofuda

He can create powerful talismans that are effective in warding off supernatural nasties. They have four stages depending on proximity of said nasty; blank, black writing, black writing with a closed eye motif, red writing with an open eye motif, and when the sword is unsheathed, the paper turns gold, giving them a little extra oomph. He can also create wards without the ofuda but this is shown to be very draining and even capable of outright hurting him when the bakeneko pushes back against the ward, causing deep lacerations to appear on his hand.

Sword of Exorcisms/The Other Self

The sword is a powerful tool in and of itself; when the Medicine Seller knows the Form, Truth, and Regret of a Mononoke, the sword is able to be unsheathed replacing the Medicine Seller with his other aspect known in fandom as the 'Other Self' or 'Hyper Form'. This form possesses the lion's share of his power, able to craft large and powerful barriers out of the ofuda, and exorcise Mononoke without breaking a sweat.

Note: since the sword will not be coming with him, the more chaotic aspect of his other self will be restored to the Medicine Seller, allowing him to draw on that power at will, but also having the effect of mentally destabilizing him and making him far more prone to acting out.

Telekinesis

The Medicine Seller can move things without touching them. Rule of thumb is that they seem to have to be possessions of his or he's attached ofuda to them beforehand.

Spiritual Sensitivity

He possesses some degree of spiritual sensitivity; he can generally pinpoint a location where a Mononoke resides, he can sometimes see or sense the presence of things others can't, and he occasionally receives premonitions in the form of brief visions of coming entities (such as in the Umi Bozu arc when he saw visions of the Umi Zatou gasping and twitching on the floor and the weird bird head monsters of the ghost ship winding through the boat). His spiritual sensitivity is not particularly fine-tuned or reliable on its own, which is why he uses the scales, ofuda and sword to make up for his own shortcomings.

Scales

These are not one of his innate powers but the scales are important tools to measure the distance of a Mononoke and he uses them to track their movements by the sound of their bells.

***The scales are N/A since they won't be coming with him, but I thought I'd make note of them here since they're important in the series.

Hand Mirror

A small, ornate brass hand mirror he wears like a pendant. It can grow to many times its size to reflect magical attacks back. When used in conjunction with the smoke from his pipe, it can help form powerful illusions where the subject can project their inner nature outwards and confront their personal demons.

***Again, N/A unless he gets his hands on a comparable substitute.

PERMISSIONS

Yes TOUCHING Yes KISSING Yes SEX Yes (Mind control, telepathy, etc.) POWERS USE Yes INJURY Yes death

Yes FIGHT SCENES Tentatively - he prefers casual encounters. SHIPPING Only in memes please. FOURTH-WALLING Yes BACKTAGGING Yes THREADJACKING Will note if necessary OOC HARD LIMITS

PREFERENCES

SMUT

♥ Aphrodisiacs

♥ Exhibitionism

♥ Hair Pulling

♥ Light/Medium Bondage

✓ Anal/Vaginal Sex (Giving)

✓ Apparatuses

✓ Clothed Sex

✓ Crossdressing

✓ Cunnilingus(Giving)/Fellatio/Rimmig (Giving & Recieving))

◌ Anthro/Xeno Anatomy

◌ Bloodplay

◌ Cockwarming

◌ Medical play

◌ Multi genitalia

◌ Sounding

◌ Tentacles

◌ Wax Play

HORROR Body Horror
Ghosts/Demons/Paranormal
Folkloric Horror
Existential Horror
Cosmic/Eldritch Horror
Psychological Horror
Corruption
Survival Horror
Genius Loci (including liminal and sentient locations)
Medical Horror
Gothic Horror
More to come!

MONSTER

appearance

The Medicine Seller comes with a monster form pre-baked in. While there's no official confirmation about what the fuck his deal is, long-running fan theories posit that he is a zenko kitsune, and I specifically h/c him as a Kiko within the ranks of the zenko.

Fully transformed, he would be a bit smaller than average size for a typical Ezo fox, his fur the same ashen colour as his hair, with the distinctive red markings still present on his face, and with nine bushy tails.

POWER_LIST

Illusion | Illusions can range from fairly harmless, such as trails of lights or balls of flame or making a stack of leaves and rocks look like priceless treasure, to psychological deep-dives digging into a person's most intimate memories. There will always be an air of artifice about the latter, like being trapped in a play or a painting.

behavior

Kitsune, in folklore, are tricksters and seducers at their worst. Even the highest ranked zenko are not able to escape their mischievous nature. In his bestial form, the Medicine Seller may grow territorial over a place or a person, and use illusions to trick interlopers away or seduce them into doing something he wants. The more he fails to feed his urges, the more dangerous the illusions will become - starting as largely benevolent and just turning people around and away, but as his aggression progresses, he would use trickery to lead them into dangerous situations, or even driving them to madness (akin to kitsunetsuki, albeit without the element of possession)