Nisshokubi-no-Yako

日食尾の野狐

Crystal DC | Mateus | GMT+2

The fox that ate the sun

The Day The Sun Disappeared

Long ago in Yanxia, there was a lone farming village. In the fields lived a peculiar, large fox. As travelers who passed by regularly complained about all manner of inexplicable mischief, the villagers came to believe the fox was an evil spirit. Food going missing from their storages with no culprit to be found only fueled their fear of the malicious being; yet they found comfort in the fox only coming out after nightfall.One day, the villagers were treated to a frightening sight. While they were tending to their farms as usual, the sun slowly disappeared, as though swallowed by an incomprehensibly large entity. That was when the fox appeared, saying it had swallowed the sun so that it could come out and play whenever it wished. It then ran off, mocking the villagers and inviting them to play with it if they dared.Thankfully, a travelling swordsman happened to stop by for rest. After hearing about the villagers' misfortune, this mysterious man rose to the challenge, promising he would return the sun to the sky.One variation of the tale claims that the swordsman challenged the creature to a duel. The battle lasted for no longer than two hours, ending when the man sliced the beast's belly open, freeing the sun.Another version of the tale says the swordsman offered to play with the fox. While roughhousing, he squeezed the beast hard enough for it to cough the sun out.Whichever one believes in, the sun returned to its rightful place, and the swordsman got an offer to stay in the village. He rejected the offer gracefully, soon leaving as though he had never been there, not leaving so much as a name behind.As for the fox... some say it was killed. Others claim it ran back into the fields humiliated, never to be seen again.And a few are sure it's the very fox that has appeared in folktales since.

A Game of Seven Nights

Once in an unnamed village in Yanxia, numerous people started seeing mysterious blue fire and hearing the laughter of a small child at night. After a while of this, no one dared to set a foot outside after nightfall, spare for one particularly brave farmer.When he went to investigate, he eventually found a large pink fox and what appeared to be a normal girl clad in white running around the village. Upon being confronted, the fox explained it was playing with the girl to help her pass on. However, it alone was having trouble keeping her entertained, as there were only so many games the two of them could play.The village was only just starting to recover from a famine. The farmer was shocked, now recognizing the little girl as someone who was already dead. However, he gathered his courage and didn't run. Seeing this, the fox was impressed, and asked if he would play with them for this night, and the following six; in return, it promised to do a favor for him. While the farmer was wary of the fox's intentions, he agreed nevertheless, knowing it would be for the best if the girl could pass on peacefully.That night and the six that followed, he played with the fox and the girl. Their games ranged from normal to befuddling, yet he kept up tirelessly. In the end, the dead child could pass on, happy that her last wish had been fulfilled. The farmer, however, was so tired he slept for a long time following the last night.One night, he woke to find the fox sitting by his window. It told him it hadn't forgotten what it'd promised, and asked him if he knew what he wanted yet. The farmer considered, and told the beast that all he really wanted was for his family's fields to always be so plentiful that no other child would have to die from starvation. Entertained yet touched by the selfless request, the fox promised him it would guard and bless their fields for as long as the village stood.Whether this tale is true or not, it is said that there was once a town in Yanxia with fields that yielded extraordinary amounts of produce. Of course, that was before the Garleans came.Legends die surprisingly easily.

What Does The Fox Say

☼ Name: Yako
☼ Age: 29 years old
☼ Nameday: Any day people want to give him cake. 3rd Sun of the 5th Astral Moon (03/09)
☼ Race: Miqo'te, meow.
☼ Nationality: Doman
☼ Gender: Male☼ Relationship stuff: Yako don't caare.
☼ Hobbies: Eating, peoplewatching, introducing himself to strangers.☼ Trivia:
For all intents and purposes, he appears to be a country bumpkin from Yanxia. His skin is tan, presumably from fieldwork, and he knows how to hold a scythe - if someone is deranged enough to hand him one.The room he owns at the place he's staying is filled with fox plushies (?) and absolutely atrocious origami dolls that look like they were made by a 5-year-old. Every now and then, some of them appear around him when he goes out, only to disappear with no trace, seemingly unnoticed by the man himself.He loves food, especially meat and tofu. His sense of scent is so finely tuned that he can simultaneously smell most things within 100 yalms and tell you what exactly each scent is. Sometimes, this is not a good thing.Yako has been seen in the company of a witch, and he regularly accompanies a strange midlander man. His relationship with the latter appears to be quite close, despite the stark contrast between his cheerful irreverence and his friend's apparent stone-faced calm.He can sometimes be found chatting with various animals on the streets and in the woods. While he doesn't often converse with them, he is rather protective over insects. Especially centipedes.Anyone sensitive to aether may notice his distinctly non-spoken aether. His aetherical presence feels numerous times larger than the man himself if one has the misfortune of being a tad too sensitive. To anyone else, it feels like something is holding back a large predator... or perhaps an evil spirit of some kind.Or something else.

The Fox

☼ Name: Nisshokubi-no-Yako
☼ Age: 1629 years old
☼ Nameday: Any day people want to give him cake. He picked 3rd Sun of the 5th Astral Moon (03/09) for the goroawase. San-kyu~.
☼ Race: An inconveniently large fox, auspice
☼ Nationality: Doman, but an animal
☼ Gender: Male☼ Relationship stuff: Yako don't caare, because he's taken.
☼ Hobbies: Eating, peoplewatching, introducing himself to strangers, being a tricksy little bastard, farming, figuring out more things about mortals and their food culture, helping the dead pass on, answering prayers.☼ Trivia:
He's quite literally a field fox. While his kind are normally prone to evil, he's mostly curious and happy to coexist with people. He's often rather sympathetic to mortals and their various circumstances, even though he likes to play it off as though he's just a dumb, carefree fox.While Yako doesn't draw attention to them, he often has a few shikigami with himself, often in the shape of the terrible origami he tries to make out of fast food pamphlets. And expired coupons, though they're never his. He dutifully uses his coupons.(He calls them shikigomi.)While aware of the auspice community, he has no plans on settling down with a bunch of "his kind". He's spent most of his life living alongside mortals, and a considerable amount of that time tending to a specific farm that is now gone. Thus, his visits have been, at best, infrequent.Though he enjoys answering prayers, there are not many people who still pray to him. Despite trying to play it cool over this, it bothers him. He can't ignore a prayer directed to him, and any amount of devotion shown towards him is returned in kind. Yako's "affinities" lie with fire, harvest, fortune, and guidance.His large tail is simply all of his tails merged into one. He's quite careful about not having someone step on it, usually situating it to his side rather than leaving it hanging behind. The amount of tails he has is 9.Yako has some problems being around Garleans - or, specifically, Garleans who are proud of their military service background. The village and the fields he guarded were razed down during the Garlean invasion of Doma; an insult he will never forgive. Behind his cheerful exterior lies a spiteful old fox who never forgets him or his being slighted. His aramitama, though quelled, burns slowly away at the edges of his consciousness.For all his joking and trying to make light of everything, he has trouble letting go of things. Perhaps it's because of his nature as a field fox. Perhaps it's just a personal issue.His unleashed form is a fox so large it can't fit inside any normal room. His fur remains pink and blue, just like his hair. The claws of this fox form are red.He can also take on a smaller, cuter fox form. Therefore, if a small pink fox kit approaches you to beg for food, it may not actually be a fox kit.

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OOC

The player is Crows, she/her, 21+. English is not my native language.My timezone is GMT+2, which means I'm probably waking up in the dead hours when everyone else goes to sleep, or has just gone to sleep. However, because my sleep schedule is terrible, I may be up at odd hours, and try to make time for events and eateries I'm interested in.I'm not interested in ERP or romance. I'd like to discuss any harm coming to my character or yours first, if it comes to that, even if it's through /tell. I'm not open to killing or getting killed, so all RP encounters will be non-fatal. Yes, even if you're a Garlean Legatus. We can figure something out.I'm IC only when I have the RP tag on. I don't usually do any Discord RP, but I can do OOC chatter.On Discord as varikset. If you want to add me for some reason, please send me a /tell. Unless we share a server, in which case it's most likely fine. :]