Bat Yokai

**Bat Yokai** are night-dwelling beings who are active during the night and sleeps during the day.

## Physical Appearance

Bat Yokai are the anthropomorphic version of normal bats. They have large bat ears and bat wings on their backs. They also possess fangs like the Vampire Yokai and sharp claws.

## Description

Bat Yokai would appear in the Surface World during the night when they're more active. Unlike Vampire Yokai, Bat Yokai don't drink blood. Though many humans have fear them because of the Vampire Yokai drinking their blood. These yokai mainly eats insects as their main diet. But they can also eat fruits, vegetables and nectar from plants that produce it. When they're sleeping, they sleep upside down like their Surface World counterparts.

## Abilities

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

* Aerial Adaptation
* Atmospheric Adaptation
* Climbing/Wallcrawling
* Echolocation
* Enhanced Agility
* Enhanced Balance
* Enhanced Hearing
* Enhanced Smell
* Enhanced Stealth
* Fang Retraction
* Hibernation
* Wing Manifestation which grants either Flight or Gliding.

### Variations

* **Megachiroptera Physiology (fruit bats/old world fruit bats, flying foxes.)**: Enhanced Vision, Enhanced Smell
	+ **Pteropus Physiology (flying foxes)**:
* **Microchiroptera Physiology (echolocating bats)**: Echolocation, Hibernation, Darkness Adaptation
	+ **Desmodontinae Physiology (vampire bats)**: Blood Consumption, Painless Damage (via saliva), Disease Immunity (Blood-Based)

### Associations

* Fear Inducement
* Mammalian Physiology
* Sonic Scream
* Vampire Physiology

Bats are associated with great number of mystical and supernatural abilities and connections in mythology and folklore, thus user with this power may have access to:

* (Asian cultures): Luck, Luck Bestowal, Decelerated Aging
* (Creek, Cherokee and Apache): Trickster
* (Mesoamerican cultures): Underworld Lordship, Disaster Manipulation
* (Western cultures): Dark Arts, Darkness Manipulation, Vampire Physiology, Spirit Physiology, Necromancy, Disease Manipulation

## Pop Culture

Bats have been associated as evil. In many horror movies, vampires can transform into bats as one of their signature abilities. Many people have suffered from Chiroptophobia which is the fear of bats. In various forms of media, there are many bat or bat-themed characters. This includes Rouge the Bat, Jenny the Bat (Bloody Roar), Antasma the Bat King (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team), Experiment 277 "Snooty" (Lilo & Stitch), and Maria Notte (Freedom Planet), an anthropomorphic fruit bat.

## Variations

### Popobawa Yokai

Popobawa Yokai are male spirits whose nocturnal attacks can comprise simple physical assault and/or poltergeist-like phenomena; but most feared is its tendency toward sexual depravity.

### Vampire Yokai

Vampire Yokai are one of the classic monsters. They're nocturnal humanoid beings who are known for drinking human blood and transforming into a bat among other things.

## Life in the Hidden World

Bat Yokai lives in dark areas where there's no sunlight. This includes subway stations and sewers where there's little to no sunlight to shine through during the day. When night comes, they can freely fly around the cities and towns of the Surface World. Despite popular belief that bats are blind, they aren't fully blind. Bat Yokai has partial blindness. But they can use echolocation to detect their surroundings. Hush-Bats are a type of wild Bat Yokai who lives in the Hidden Library. Their job is to send those who made a noise louder than a whisper to the kiddie room as punishment.

## Symbolism

It might come as a surprise to many, but not all Bats are bloodthirsty. Only the vampire Bats are hematophagous, while the others are mostly insectivores; some species are even herbivores! Bats are associated with the symbols of death and darkness due to their nocturnal habits. These creatures are mostly seen out and about at night, and night time is traditionally believed to be the time of all the evil spirits. Their association with death is somewhat similar; many believe that after we die, we move on to a world of darkness, where there’s no light. Just as light is the driving force of all life forms, darkness can be associated with death.

Bats have a heightened sense of vision and hearing that helps them to hunt for their prey in the dark. Therefore, they symbolize sensitivity to us. Bats symbolize change and transition because they are symbolic of one’s journey from the darkness into the light. Their spirit teaches us that changes might not be easy, but if they make our life better, they are certainly worth it in the end.