Encantado Yokai

**Encantado Yokai** are a variation of Cetacean Yokai who are legendary spirits from Brazilian folklore.

## Physical Appearance

Encantado Yokai has two forms. Their first form is their yokai form which is the appearance of the Amazon River Dolphin. They have pink skin and a long snout/mouth. When transformed into their human form, they're handsome young males who wears a tuxedo, dress shoes, tie and a fedora hat.

## Description

Encantado Yokai are known to be excellent dancers and musicians and possess supernatural beauty. Besides the ability to shapeshift into human form, encantados frequently wield other magical abilities, such as the power to control storms, "enchant" or haunt humans into doing their will or becoming encantados themselves, and inflict illness, insanity, and even death. During nights of full-moon, the encantados take human form and rise to the surface, seeking to celebrate with the humans in their parties. Much like other mythic creatures that symbolize fertility, the encantados seek to seduce and mate with the young and beautiful women in the region. After the intercourse, the woman is impregnated with a hybrid being and the father escapes into the night, turning back into a boto before the sun rises, leaving many single mothers in his wake. It's been a tradition for Encantado Yokai to seduce and mate with human females as a way to promote human-yokai hybrids. This is in order to keep their population in check.

## Abilities

Here are the abilities that Encantado Yokai can have in their arsenal:

* Aquatic Adaptation
* Aquatic Life Manipulation
* Beacon Emission
* Human Disguise
* Cetacean Physiology
	+ Cold Immunity
	+ Decelerated Aging
	+ Dermal Armor
	+ Echolocation
	+ Enhanced Endurance
	+ Enhanced Hearing
	+ Enhanced Lung Capacity
	+ Enhanced Strength
	+ Pressure Resistance
	+ Speed Swimming
* Enhanced Senses
* Hydroportation
* Speed Swimming
* Musical Empathy
* Seduction Intuition
* Siren Song
* Supernatural Beauty
* Water Manipulation
* Weather Manipulation
* Zoolingualism (limited to aquatic life)

## Pop Culture

Encantados primarily appear in Brazilian folklore. It's one of the most recognizable creatures in that region. This is due to Brazil being the home of the Amazon River Dolphins who are known for having pinkish skin.

## Variations

### Dolphin Yokai

Encantados are described as having the appearance of an Amazon River Dolphin. When night falls, they shapeshift into their human form and starts looking for any woman who are able to fall under their charms.

## Life in the Hidden World

The Encantados are all male. It is not known if females of the species exist, and if they do, they are probably incapable of transforming, seeing how there are no reports of them. Another possibility is that they are a sort of male mermaids due to their many similarities. Coincidentally enough, in Brazilian myths the most prominent famous mermaid, Yara, is the queen of all the aquatic creatures and is attributed the title of "mother of the seas", witch could mean that she has given birth to these half-fish people as well, since she herself was once human woman before acquiring her powers. Encantado Yokai have deep respect for the Yara. They would do anything for them no matter what. When on the Surface World as humans, they're natural charmers. Their aura can seduce any woman who are able to fall under their seduction. Once they successfully mate with the human women, they'll quickly leave the next day so they can transform back into their yokai forms.

## Symbolism

Encantado are water cryptids that live in the Amazon, the longest river in South America. Encantado are basically dolphin-men or weredolphins, usually living as a "Boto Cor De Rosa".

They are considered friends of fishermen in the Amazonian region, and helps with fishing and safely conducting canoes during storms. Some say they have power over storms. They are also said to help those who are drowning, removing them from the river. According to local folklore, every year at Festa Junina (a Brazilian celebration in June), this cryptid shapeshifts from a pink river dolphin into a young man in white garments, but they have to wear a hat of some kind to conceal their unchanged blow hole. These festive nights are the most dangerous time to see or be near Encantado, as they attend parties and balls where they seduce, kidnap, and impregnate young women. Although they probably don't have magic powers, it is possible they are a new species of dolphins. The encantado are notorious for their shape-shifting ability. They say that if you meet a handsome stranger at a festival, that it is more-in-likely an encantado. They are not only found in the Brazilian carnival, they can be found in Rio de Janerio, Salvador, and in the Amazonias. Encantado means enchanted one. Not only they are cryptids but they are mythical creatures too. Encantados may be a species of hybrid dolphin. Although Human and dolphin reproduction is not possible. It also appeared in Philippines.