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This came up in a recent read-in-progress (I think), but what's the strangest/most unique spirit/Yao/youkai/etc. you've encountered in a novel/novel adaptation?

What kind of Yao/spirit/youkai would you like to read about?

Date: 2025-06-06 08:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] liliacs
Are you thinking of the one in Nan Chan, maybe? Or if not, it also has a pen spirit and yeah, that has to be a contender for strangest yao I've seen.

Date: 2025-06-11 05:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] liliacs
The one in Nan Chan also had a romance iirc! I remember nearly nothing else about it though.

Date: 2025-06-07 01:57 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] llonkrebboj
Ohhhhhh! There was a pen ghost in a supernatural/unlimited flow novel I once read! It was very funny. I need to dig out the novel and show you!!!!

Date: 2025-06-06 07:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] larryhammer
The novel I'm reading now, I Am Average and Unremarkable, has a garlic chive yao. She's the title character and is in no way either average or unremarkable, and her claim tells you a lot about what flavor of yao she is.

A pen spirit would be fun to read about, as either yao or youkai.
Edited Date: 2025-06-09 03:45 pm (UTC)

Date: 2025-06-11 02:25 pm (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
I refuse to eat sentient beings.

(Including edge cases like octopus.)

Date: 2025-06-07 09:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ehyde
I don't think the notebook ghost in They All Say I've Met a Ghost is particularly unique (haunted tomes being rather plentiful) but I enjoyed him a lot and he inspired my binding of the novel. (I'm also not sure he counts, as he was a ghost haunting a notebook, rather than the spirit of the notebook itself).

I haven't actually encountered many strange spirits, so I'll be watching this thread for recs!

Date: 2025-06-08 03:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] halfcactus
I can't think of any unique one but I would more like spirit-of-the-week ones along the lines of Bai Yao Pu / Fairies Album... Spirits that make you cry haha

Date: 2025-06-11 07:38 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] llonkrebboj
Also it's not a novel or novel adaptation, but my favourite song features a length of silk that stole itself from the moon and eloped with a bamboo immortal. They go though a process of joining themselves together to be formed into a fan and went on adventures to see the human world through the centuries.

First time I've heard of a combo being possible 🤣

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