Mushroom Yokai

**Mushroom Yokai** are humanoid beings that has the appearance of mushrooms.

## Physical Appearance

Mushroom Yokai has a humanoid appearance. Their yokai forms are anthropomorphic mushrooms. Their limbs are made out of stems and they all have mushroom heads with spots that contains their spores. When disguised as a human, some traits of their yokai form appears such as their mushroom caps becoming hats or their legs would remain being their stems.

## Description

Mushroom Yokai are known for producing spores. The spores are developed from the spots that are on their mushroom caps. Like Dryad Yokai, they can regain their energy via photosynthesis their "legs" act as roots that they can embed into the ground to absorb soil nutrients. The effects of the spores it has on someone may vary. It could produce hallucinations. It could produce an aphrodisiac aroma which causes the affected person to become horny. Some could even produce temporarily paralysis to those who had come into contact with the spores. Though it would only last an hour before they return to normal.

## Abilities

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

* Contaminant Immunity
* Dermal Armor
	+ Natural Weaponry
	+ Pain Suppression
* Disease Immunity
* Enhanced Durability
* Enhanced Endurance
* Enhanced Lung Capacity or Oxygen Independence
* Enhanced Strength
* Poison Generation
	+ Drug Generation
		- Healing Drug Generation
	+ Mental Hallucination
	+ Pheromone Generation
* Self-Sustenance via absorption of nutrients.

### Associations

* Drug Usage
* Fungus Manipulation
* Golem Creation
* Malleable Anatomy
	+ Appendage Generation
* Organic Mimicry
* Regenerative Healing Factor by drawing fungus/nutrients to fill the wounds.
* Scattering - some users are able spread their transformed form over wast areas.
* Thermal Resistance

## Pop Culture

Mushrooms are usually one of the many ingredients for cooking meals. There are many characters throughout media who are mushrooms. For example, Fungus Humungous is a mutant mushroom. It can control small mutant mushrooms and the spores will cause anyone who comes into contact with the spores to see their greatest fears. Shiinotic & Morelull and Amoonguss & Foongus from Pokemon are both based on mushrooms. Other characters include Goomba (Super Mario Bros.), Fun Gus (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts), Shroobs (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time), Kino and Mashu (Monster Musume), and Mushroomon (Digimon).

## Life in the Hidden World

Mushroom Yokai live in dark areas where there isn't any sunlight. This includes caves and sewers. These yokai can accidentally release their spores when they're feeling extreme emotions like anxiety and fear. So they must be careful when those emotions starts to flare up while they're in a crowd with other yokai. Mushroom Yokai is somewhat vulnerable to attacks. However, they don't do well with light and fire. They become weakened from a fire source or a light source like the sunlight during the day. Some Mushroom Yokai work as potion makers by using their own spores and other Mushroom Yokai's spores as one of the ingredients for their potions.

## Symbolism

A mushroom represents finances, betrayal, lack of financial planning, back biting and positive changes. If you dream of a large mushroom, it indicates hidden finances that are doubling up.