NessYoa the Plague Ashtra
Full art:
Details:
-Kingtsugi:
Wounds from:
--Branding
--Violence
--Torture
-Divine crest:
--Wind
--Crow wings
--Dog fangs
Kimono pattern:
"Egasumi" pattern
Jade gemstones:
"Jade gemstones ー＞ Health, fortune, harmony...
Used to minimize misfortune.
All of them feature cracks, so they are not effective.
They actually bring misfortune."
Demonic beast:
"The curse that he was forced to bear + Yoa's own will to curse the world"
Story:
2nd frame: "Whenever tragedy befell the village, the blame was placed upon Yoa. He was chosen as the target to sacrifice against such tragedies."
4th frame: "A plague has spread through the village."
5th frame:
Right: "It would be really inconvenient if you were to return as a god of pestilence"
Left: "You know, just in case..."
TL note: In the 5th frame, the assailants refer to Yoa as a "kazeokuri" (風送り), translated here as "god of pestilence".
For context, Yoa's story and namesake seem to originate from a classic rakugo tale from the Edo period called "風邪の神送り" (kaze no kamiokuri). In this story, the villagers suddenly fall ill. A ritual to symbolically drive the illness away was common in the era, where people would create a doll from paper and other materials, and cast it away in a nearby river. The story concludes with a fisherman catching the doll with his net during nighttime. The doll comes to life, announcing it has turned into the god of pestilence, only for the fisherman to retort with a pun: "It seems the pestilence preyed itself into a net". The pun is a spin on the common phrase 風邪の神は弱みに付け込む (kaze no kami wa yowami ni tsukekomu). The phrase means "the god of colds imposes upon the weak", but in this pun, "the weak" (yowami) is changed to 夜網 (yo + ami, night + net), turning the phrase into "the god of colds imposes into a net during nighttime". Yoa, and his Synchro form, Yoami, seem to follow this namesake.
Blades:
The horns are annoying, heavy and painful, so he breaks them and turns them into blades.
*Throbbing sounds*
*Annoyed sounds*
Yoa: "Grr..."
"If he leaves them be, he looks like a hercules beetle"
Source.
Full art:
Details:
-Kingtsugi:
Wounds from:
--Branding
--Violence
--Torture
-Divine crest:
--Wind
--Crow wings
--Dog fangs
Kimono pattern:
"Egasumi" pattern
Jade gemstones:
"Jade gemstones ー＞ Health, fortune, harmony...
Used to minimize misfortune.
All of them feature cracks, so they are not effective.
They actually bring misfortune."
Demonic beast:
"The curse that he was forced to bear + Yoa's own will to curse the world"
Story:
2nd frame: "Whenever tragedy befell the village, the blame was placed upon Yoa. He was chosen as the target to sacrifice against such tragedies."
4th frame: "A plague has spread through the village."
5th frame:
Right: "It would be really inconvenient if you were to return as a god of pestilence"
Left: "You know, just in case..."
TL note: In the 5th frame, the assailants refer to Yoa as a "kazeokuri" (風送り), translated here as "god of pestilence".
For context, Yoa's story and namesake seem to originate from a classic rakugo tale from the Edo period called "風邪の神送り" (kaze no kamiokuri). In this story, the villagers suddenly fall ill. A ritual to symbolically drive the illness away was common in the era, where people would create a doll from paper and other materials, and cast it away in a nearby river. The story concludes with a fisherman catching the doll with his net during nighttime. The doll comes to life, announcing it has turned into the god of pestilence, only for the fisherman to retort with a pun: "It seems the pestilence preyed itself into a net". The pun is a spin on the common phrase 風邪の神は弱みに付け込む (kaze no kami wa yowami ni tsukekomu). The phrase means "the god of colds imposes upon the weak", but in this pun, "the weak" (yowami) is changed to 夜網 (yo + ami, night + net), turning the phrase into "the god of colds imposes into a net during nighttime". Yoa, and his Synchro form, Yoami, seem to follow this namesake.
Blades:
The horns are annoying, heavy and painful, so he breaks them and turns them into blades.
*Throbbing sounds*
*Annoyed sounds*
Yoa: "Grr..."
"If he leaves them be, he looks like a hercules beetle"
Source.