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folklore AU aizu

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here it is on the tumbls -_-

A river deity associated with floods or heavy rainfall, namazu often act as a premonition for danger, warning people from an imminent catastrophe. In time, their wrongdoings became a punishment for human greed; it was believed that the ensuing havoc forced people to equally redistribute their wealth. In this role, the Namazu became yonaoshi daimyojin</span> — the “God of World Rectification.”

Aizu herself is a local river youkai that has faded into popular conciousness, linked with the yearly flooding of the rice paddies under her domain and the constant earth’s tremors that plague the villages. When an eta boy comes to her for assistance, she sort-of-kind-of kills two birds with one stone and reestablishes herself as a cataclysmic diety.

this is aizu's human form in a more realistic style (and as featured in folklore au). her clothing is the medieval japanese travelling clothes of noblewomen (it's literally called "pot clothing" in japanese i dont make this shit up), but as bori pointed out the hat is really quite practical for inhabiting bodies of water, since the veil keeps out mosquitoes. it was kind of reminiscent of mist or spiderwebs to me, so I thought it would fit with her swampy design. i made the frog fasteners a black colour so that they'd look like flying insects (SNORTS)

her underkimono has a ryusui ("running water") design on it, and the top kimono is a seigaiha background with a hyotan ("gourd") motif on it. this is because the namazu and gourd are linked in folklore, since the catfish was thought to be restrained by a hollowed-out gourd. it's also a throwback to the old chinese/japanese proverb that goes "like trying to catch a catfish with a gourd" IE something extremely difficult because catfish are slippery. 

her shoes are really tall rain geta, which are usually only used when it's pouring rain, but yeah, THROWBACKS TO HER POWERS YO. I love costuming. also yeah her hair is insanely long
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hah, pot clothing, as if-
I'm gonna make it a point to comment on all the deviations I've missed in my absence. Abstinence. Wat.
Ey, I remember Aizu! The fish girl with scary teeth! I think, I might be completely off
But yes. Interesting design, I gotta say, enjoyed reading the description and stuff! Nice work!


..pfft, pot clothing.