Ogre Head Spirit

This spirit doesn't have an official name. The name on this article is simply a descriptive name of this spirit.

## Ogre Head Spirit

### Rarity

Unique

The Ogre Head Spirit, also referred as the Oni Head Spirit, is a unique Spirit in Yomawari: Midnight Shadows. It appears in the middle of a set of the streets and alleyways that are separating the two Lion-Dog Statues. This Spirit is at the center of a Sub Event involving the pair of Lion-Dog Statues in order to collect the Lion-dog Set Item.

## Appearance

This Spirit is an enormous disembodied head, resembling a monk, a daruma, or an ogre. It has a asymmetrical face that make up two different sets of faces depending on which side it flips. As a result, this Spirit has two sets of noses, with one hidden very well with the Spirit's current 'forehead'. It also has two sets of mouths, with one also hidden very well on its current 'forehead' as creases. It has a mustache and eyebrow set that can switch places depending on which side the Spirit's head is. It is the same with a set with the Spirit's hair and beard, as they switch places depending on which side the Spirit's head is.

The Spirit can change between two different colors. It initially appears as blue and cheerful face that sometimes laughs. However, when the Spirit's head flips upside down and its face "swaps" to it's other face, it will turn red and presents an angry expression.

Its eyes will also change accordingly to its current face. If its face is blue, the eyes will appear with white sclera, black iris, and multiple blue pupils. If its face is red, the eyes will appear visibly with just its black iris and multiple red pupils. Its white schlera will be hidden because its iris is so big that it can cover its eyes when looking straight, and the white schlera are only visibly when it shifts its eyes rapidly left and right.

## Behaviour

The Ogre Head Spirit, in its Blue Ogre Form, appears by dropping from near the telegraph pole close to the alleyway below the Blue Lion Dog in an attempt to crush Haru. If this fails, while it is in its Blue Ogre Form, it will follow Haru and laugh, before teleporting close to her to continue chasing. Occasionally, its head will flip by a 180 degrees in order to swap to its face so that it can change into its Red Ogre Form. When in its Red Ogre Form, it will follow Haru for a moment and then shifts its eyes rapidly left and right before charging at her in a straight line. Once it does that, it will repeat the process until it flips its head again to change its face into its Blue Ogre Form again.

If Haru leaves its range, the Spirit will disappear and reset itself at the alleyway where it initially appears. However, when this Spirit has been lured to either of the two Lion-Dog Statues and killed by one of them, it will then spawn near that statue unless it has been killed by both Lion-Dog Statues.

## Mythology and Theories

This Spirit seems to be a combination of multiple inspirations from Japanese folktales and mythology.

One of them is the Japanese folktale known as "The Ogre Who Cried". The story is about a red ogre and blue ogre who lived together. The red ogre wanted to befriend with the human children from a nearby village, but the children were scared of the red ogre. So the blue ogre created a plan. He would put on an act of scaring the children and the red ogre would chase away the blue ogre & rescue the children. This allowed the red ogre to befriend the humans. However, the red ogre later found out that the blue ogre left in order to prevent the humans from finding out that the two ogres were friends and ruin the new friendship. The red ogre would then cry upon losing his close friend.

This folktale is referenced in the Ogre Head Spirit in the form of the Spirit's two phases: the blue happy face and red angry face.

The other inspiration for this Spirit may be based the "Tsurube Otoshi". It is a yokai that takes the form of a giant human head. In many legends, it learns in a certain species of tree (the tree depends on the place the story came from) and would do different mischiefs on humans. They can be dropping buckets on them, crushing them by jumping off the tree and falling on top of them, or devouring them.

The manner of how the Ogre Head Spirit can attack Haru by dropping on top off her references one of the ways Tsurube Otoshi attacks travelers.

## Gallery

The Ogre Head Spirit when it's in its Blue Ogre Form.The Ogre Head Spirit when it's in its Red Ogre Form.

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