Air Yokai

**Air Yokai** are beings who are made out of the air and wind.

## Physical Appearance

Air Yokai can take on any form. Some has the form of an animal (mainly a bird) who are made out of the wind. Some has the form of a human being but can scatter themselves if they were to be attacked by someone else. Air Yokai may possess a pair of wings in some cases.

## Description

Air Yokai are the embodiment of the air and wind. They have deep connections with the air around them. Even hearing the voices of others through the wind. They can absorb the air around them. Some can absorb other materials like smoke and fog. Even poisonous gas for some yokai. Depending on what they have absorbed, they can control it to their whims.

## Abilities

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

* Aerial Adaptation
	+ Atmospheric Adaptation
	+ Thermal Resistance
* Air Generation/Wind Generation
* Amorphous Physiology
* Contaminant Immunity
* Disease Immunity
* Enhanced Agility
* Enhanced Balance
* Enhanced Dexterity
* Enhanced Durability/Invulnerability: as a gaseous being, user is extremely hard to harm by direct attacks.
* Enhanced Lung Capacity or Oxygen Independence
* Flight/Gliding
* Near Intangibility: as long as the obstacle isn't air-proofed they can pass through it.
* Invisibility

### Techniques

* Aerokinetic Invisibility
* Aerokinetic Shapeshifting

### Variations

* Corrosive Gas Mimicry
* Helium Mimicry
* Hydrogen Mimicry
* Neon Mimicry
* Oxygen Mimicry
* Poison Gas Mimicry
* Smoke Mimicry
* Sound Mimicry
* Tornado Mimicry
* Vacuum Mimicry
* Vapor Mimicry
	+ Cloud Mimicry
	+ Steam Mimicry

### Associations

* Aerokinetic Creature Creation
* Aerokinetic Regeneration
* Aeroportation
* Air Manipulation
* Bubble Manipulation (when combined with water)
* Gaseous Physiology
* Non-Corporeal Form
* Scattering - some users are able spread their transformed form over vast areas.
* Size Manipulation

## Pop Cultures

Many characters throughout media are either the embodiment of air or can turn into bodies of air. Soi-Fon (Bleach), Mafuga (Doraemon), Storm (Marvel Comics), Windy Card (CardCaptor Sakura), and Hay Lin (W.I.T.C.H.) are examples of characters who can use air mimicry.

## Variations

### Elemental Yokai

Air is one of the main four elements along with fire, water and earth. Users who can control air can blow anything or anyone who gets in their way.

## Life in the Hidden World

Air Yokai has the ability to fly around in the air. They usually live above the subterranean sky where they can control how much wind power they use. These yokai can shoot out gusts of wind from their hands. Some can transform their legs into a ghostly tail. Air Yokai can be affected by those who are more skilled in controlling the wind. Some of these yokai aren't able to become solid. Job-wise, these yokai work as weather-people. They use their abilities to detect the humidity in the air and the possibility of raining in the Hidden World.

## Symbolism

Air symbolizes communication, intelligence, perception, knowledge, learning, thinking, imagination, creativity, harmony, and travel. This source of life can also, at times, become a force of terrible destruction. Air is associated with the Spring season and its corresponding direction is East.