#oni lore

The au is just Lloyd 99% of the time following MK like a little duckling around the city.

Sometimes Lloyd’s human looking the next he’s just scrunkly little Oni cub with baby Dragon wings he’s just grown in.

Also the Demon Bull Clan is just heavily invested in capturing Lloyd because they think Pigsy and Tang aren’t proper parents for a Demon Child.

It also might be due to DBK’s subconscious desire to have more kids with PIF and those cow instincts to grow the herd out.

Lloyd doesn’t take kindly to these attempts because he has Parents who try their best given the circumstances and his God Parents are awesome guardians/uncles.

His cousins MK and Mei are awesome and so is grunkle Sandy.

They put up with the mini power surges he causes and they’re never mad when he melts the silverware on accident.

Also he loves the cheese tea breaks his cousin takes him on and the arcade too.

He loves every part of his patchwork family. That the little family tree project he made in first grade has them on there.

Also Lloyd being capable of lifting Wukong’s staff too but in his own words “I mean it’s cool and all. But I much prefer the Kanabō my father sent to me. Besides my Kanabō can turn into a baseball bat. Way more useful.”

Said Kanabō may have some of Garmadon’s first shed Oni horn as part of its construction.

The horn as a result of its inherent magic can change its shape super easily into any weapon the wielder can think of due to Oni being a race of shapeshifters.

Oni often give those first shed horn(s) to those they intend to mate and their children as protection.

Misako has the other half of Garmadon’s first shed horn and the horn seems to have settled on being a rather large semi spiky shield.

Said shield is great for bashing in idiots brains and whatever heebie jeebies get mad at her for trying to preserve and study their remains and or artifacts.

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in traditional oni lore, an oni's typical weapon is a kanabō, which is a spiked or studded metal war club. in fact, a japanese saying even references this. 鬼に金棒, when translated into english means 'giving a kanabō to an oni', which basically means 'making the strong stronger'.

further more, there is also a smaller version of the kanabō, an ararebō, though there doesn't seem to be any traditional connotation between oni and ararebō.

i think it's fun to imagine garmadon with a kanabō, and him deciding to give lloyd an ararebō since lloyd's way shorter than the average oni,, lloyd wouldn't be happy, to say the least

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A bit of information about the effect of ochimizu on pure blood oni. I think it is interesting that it doesn’t work the same way on oni and humans.

With that in mind. Can I ask? Do you think the Oni warlord fell apart somehow? How do you think the masks ended up where they did?

OH ANON I'M DELIGHTED TO HEAR THAT I'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR ONI LORE!!! Feel free to drop you ramblings in my askbox whenever you feel!!!

As for your epic questions, I think the show more or less explains it, Mystake fell in love with Ninjago, and betrayed her fellow oni to start a new life in Ninjago.

However, I'm gonna go a bit further and say, I think Mystake didn't JUST betray them because she liked Ninjago more than her own home, but rather, she fell for Ninjago and saw the gorgeous, loving nature of it all, the way the animals and the people of this strange land lived and loved, and realized her own people would never accept a lifestyle of peace and kindness that existed in Ninjago. She tried reasoning with her siblings, but her brother Venge was quite bent on getting the FSM, dead or alive, and he wouldn't let up, and Ha'eed was just as adamant as Venge.

It was chaos, Decer watching as the lands around her were scorched and destroyed, seeing her siblings wreak havoc and devastation upon yet another land, feeding off of the life that bustled so heavily in the people and animals and the plants, and seeing how ruthless they were, she betrayed her kin, and she killed them, and that was the end for them.

It SUUUUCKS, but even more so when applied to Ibaraki and Tsuna.

But also??? If the case is that Ibaraki is Tsuna’s first love???

Does that imply that when Ibaraki turned into an oni, she pretty much discarded her human form??? I mean let’s be real, the human Ibaraki is dead, while the oni, Ibaraki, is alive and well.

When Benienma turned into an oni, she had died first before becoming an oni.

I’m just....invested in oni lore now, like how exactly does a human go about turning into an oni? do they JUSt turn into one, or do they end up DYING as a human, and then turning into an oni?

this time, as it won in the previous poll, we'll be discussing the relation between oni and cannibalism.

oni are omnivorous, but have a taste for saké (japanese rice wine) and human flesh in particular, and will often capture humans just to torment them and then eat them.

in fact, oni are known for eating humans in one mouthful, an act called 'onihitokuchi'. Along with this, some oni are depicted as going to great lengths into tricking a human into trusting them, just for a quick meal, such as one oni who married a woman, just so he could eat her.

i've also read a couple anecdotes about humans becoming oni or looking oni-ish after consuming human blood or flesh, this being one of the many potential origins of the famous oni Ibaraki-Dōji and Shuten-Dōji.

i can just vividly imagine garmadon casually suggesting that they should have 'human shoulder' for dinner, to the absolute shock and horror of poor vinny, who has to then explain to garmadon why cannibalism is wrong,,

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they're called 'kishin' or 'kijin', which translates to 'oni god'. they're essentially just very powerful oni, and while they may not hold up the fabric of reality like source dragons do, it's still a cool concept to explore, seeing as they're powerful enough to warrant a whole new name for themselves.

let me know if anyone wants anymore oni lore posts like this! they'll be far more detailed, as unfortunately i couldn't find any information on kijin/kishin beyond this.

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you do? perfect.

today, i'll be telling you all some traditional ways that oni were warded off or weakened, straight from the original japanese mythology.

i'll start off with the one everyone knows: soybeans. During Setsubun, people will partake in the bean-throwing ritual, '豆撒き', or 'Mamemaki', to ward off oni and bring in luck for the new year. People will throw roasted soybeans, '福豆', or 'fukumame', meaning fortune beans, out the front door or at a family member wearing an oni mask, yelling '鬼は外! 福は内!' or 'Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!', meaning 'oni out, luck in!', and slamming the front door after.

now onto the lesser known ones; sardines, holly, and shinto and buddhist religious practices.

the odor and smoke from roasted sardines are said to repulse oni, and they are also warded off by holly leaves, as they are reportedly frightened that the sharp ends in the holly leaves will poke their eyes out. as a result, on setsubun, it is customary to make a ward out of sardine heads and holly leaves, called a '柊鰯', or 'hiiragi iwashi', and display it at the entrance of your home.

finally, what appears to keep oni away is both shinto and buddhist practices, especially wards and cleansing rituals, such as the shinto harae and ofuda, and the buddhist sutras, talisman, wards.

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who knew that the ninja didn't need to do the tornado of creation to defeat the oni, but just start making lunch? a roasted sardine sandwich with roasted soybeans on the side.

i can just imagine it being festival day (the ninjago equivalent of christmas), and someone deciding to hang up some holly, only to find garmadon covering his eyes and backing away very slowly, with lloyd clinging to his leg and wu hiding behind his hat

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