Youkai Musume

Origin - Youkai Musume

(Applicants to this origin should speak to: Kureha Senkenzan on game first!)

Hengeyokai - Old Blood is an original creation, focused on a specific type of magical girl dubbed 'Youkai Musume'. The focus used by a Youkai Musume is a combination of their own blood, and a bead from the Yasakani no Magatama. This imperial artifact was used in the original purification of the band of youkai - or rather, the Youma - that threatened Heian-era Kyoto. Through the miraculous kindness of the priestess - or rather, the magical girl - performing the purification, these creatures of darkness were not elimiated, but rather converted. They came to live among humanity, each fostering a family line... and the primal, mythic power they held remembers the presence of the Magatama, awakening when called by it.

Not just any magatama bead from a shop or shrine will do - it must be a bead of the Yasakani no Magatama, the Imperial Regalia used in the purification. But each family line was gifted one, and has passed it down for over a thousand years. Any Youkai Musume in whom the blood runs strong can use their family's Magatama Pendant to awaken the dormant magic within, but only if they have the strong heart, the strong will, to back it up.

Youkai Musume can have somewhat of a varying style, depending on the youkai whose powers run in their family. All of them have something in common, however: very Japanese clothes! And an element. Very Japanese clothes and an element. The outfit probably takes the form of something fitting for each Youkai Musume; a flowing kimono for the Oni or Kitsune musume, a yamabushi outfit for the Tengu musume, etc. It also tends to include the color of their personal element as a signature hue. Additionally, their appearance is likely to take on traits of their youkai heritage, with horns for the oni, tails and ears for the kitsune, and so on. Each Youkai Musume also probably has a signature 'weapon' of some sort, although what constitutes a weapon can be rather broad. A tengu's fan to weave blasts of wind, a kiseru pipe or a shamisen for the kitsune to craft an illusion. Their Magatama pendant can be displayed somewhere on their costume, but it doesn't need to be.

Henshin sequences would definitely involve swirls and whirls of the Youkai Musume's element, and possibly other very staple flourishes where desired - a flurry of sakura petals, the shine of the moon in the background, etc. The element probably plays into this quite a bit, and their youkai features are also likely 'woven' from this element, e.g. the oni's horns taking shape from a whirl of flames. Very classic henshin style, somewhere in the neighborhood of Madoka or Precure, while expressing both the character's personality, and the nature of their associated youkai.

A Youkai Musume's fighting style will, much like their fashion style, depend on the youkai whose powers they draw on. Kureha will be a very close-up, super-strong powerhouse fighter, weaving her element in with melee attacks. A tengu musume might use agility, flight and their element to create a very fast, dextrous assault. A kitsune musume might stand back and act as more of a ranged caster, making close-in strikes only rarely. It's possible that one or two of them might have purification capabilities, but that's not a staple for all of them - the closest an oni comes to purification is a snap-out-of-it sock to the jaw.