Futakuchi-Onna Yokai

**Futakuchi-Onna Yokai** are female humanoid beings who has a second mouth located at the back of their heads.

## Physical Appearance

Futakuchi-Onna Yokai has the appearance of a human female. They look human in every way. However, they have a physical trait that makes them different from other humans. They have two mouths - a normal one located on her face and second one on the back of the head beneath the hair. These yokai usually have long hair that are used to be controlled by the Futakuchi-Onna Yokai.

## Description

Futakuchi-Onna Yokai's skull splits apart, forming lips, teeth and a tongue, creating an entirely functional second mouth. They have prehensile hair, although whether this is under their conscious control varies. Aside of their mouth, they appear perfectly normal women. These yokai are often to linked to how little a woman eats. In many stories, the soon-to-be futakuchi-onna is a wife of a miser and rarely eats. To counteract this, a second mouth mysteriously appears on the back of the woman's head. The second mouth often mumbles spiteful and threatening things to the woman and demands food. If it is not fed, it can screech obscenely and cause the woman tremendous pain. Eventually, the woman's hair begins to move like a pair of serpents, allowing the mouth to help itself to the woman's meals. While no food passes through her normal lips, the mouth in the back of her head consumes twice what the other one would.

## Abilities

Here are the abilities that Futakuchi-Onna Yokai can have in their arsenal:

* Hair Manipulation
* Multiple Mouths/Mouth Manifestation
* Super Eating

## Pop Culture

Futakuchi-Onna has many stories that revolves around how the mouth was form. One is how little a woman eats during Ancient Times. In another story, the extra mouth is formed when a stingy woman accidentally is hit in the head by her husband's axe while he is chopping wood, and the wound never heals. Other stories have the woman as a mother who lets her stepchild die of starvation while keeping her own offspring well fed; presumably, the spirit of the neglected child lodges itself in the stepmother's or the surviving daughter's body to exact revenge. Mawile from Pokemon is based on the Futakuchi-Onna. Samson is a parasite that now acts as Filia's hair. The two taking on the appearance of the Futakuchi-Onna.

## Life in the Hidden World

Futakuchi-Onna Yokai are able to control their second mouth's endless appetite at will. The second mouth would appear when they turn 10 years old. This is when they start training to get better control of their second mouths. If they don't do this then the second mouth will go out of control and eat everything in its sight. When they're at the Surface World, they wear hats or hoodies to cover their heads where the second mouth is located. That way they can look more human and doesn't get any unwanted attention. Despite the second mouth, they can easily blend in with the humans in the Surface World.

## Symbolism

In Japanese mythology, Futakuchi onna (Japanese: 二口女 or ふたくちおんな, meaning "two-mouthed woman") are most often thought to be shape-changed yama-uba posing as young women who eat more food than a normal young woman.