#teneien

I have this running story thing that floats around in my brain and occasionally I draw it or write it. The story doesn’t have a name, but the characters do.

From left to right: Mugennami, Arashi; Teneien, Hikaru; and The Dragon of the Eastern Palace “Higashi”. In typical Japanese fashion, they go by their last names almost exclusively aside from Higashi who that’s a shortening of his title (Higashi means east in Japanese)

You ever come up with a story but you write a random scene in like the middle of the story? Yeah that’s what I did with this concept and I just roll with it cause writing beginnings sucks imo.

The general synopsis is that Mugennami is the descendant of Susano-o no Mikoto and gets entrusted with two of the three Royal Regalia, Yasakani no Magatama, the magic jewel, and Kusanagi no Tsurugi, the grass-cutting sword, along with a mission to eradicate a bunch of demons and probably also the Yamato no Orochi as the final boss or something idk.

But anyway cause I’m an angst gremlin, I was flipping through one of my youkai myths and legends books and got some jacked up ideas and decided to hyper fixate on this one encounter with a demon called the Hari Onago and the series of events after said encounter. Honestly could be any demon with stabby capabilities, I just thought that one was cool.

Here’s random sketches in rough chronological order.

If for some strange reason you want to read the single-chapter worth of writing I’ve made for this, here’s the pdf. I’ve got more written that includes the scenes the bottom two pictures are of, though it’s not finished yet or anything. I guess I’ll do something with it eventually.

(Tw on the story: tw blood, tw gore, tw gross stuff, tw near death)

I’ll draw more pictures and stuff for this again I’m sure. Hope you like it, or don’t, I don’t really care tbh