Jellyfish Yokai

**Jellyfish Yokai** are humanoid beings who are known for their painful stings.

## Physical Appearance

Wild Jellyfish Yokai looks like normal jellyfish but they're quite bigger in size. The civilized Jellyfish Yokai are humanoid beings in appearance. Their bells acts as sunhats with stingers attached to the bottom of the bell.

## Description

Jellyfish Yokai are one of the many yokai species that lives in the subterranean sea of the Hidden World. They mostly live in the sea but some are able to live on land. These yokai have a laidback personality as they would just float around. Sometimes swimming to a specific location but they spend most of the time floating around. Making them quite lazy at first glance.

## Abilities

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

* Anatomical Liberation
* Aquatic Adaptation
* Bloodlessness
* Boneless Body
* Brainlessness
* Electricity Generation
* Elasticity bordering Amorphous Physiology
* Heartlessness
* Lunglessness
* Poisonous Biology
	+ Poison Inducement
		- Death Inducement
		- Pain Inducement
		- Paralysis Inducement
* Regenerative Healing Factor
* Tentacle Extension
	+ Constriction
	+ Stinger Protrusion

### Variations

* **Anthozoa Physiology (sea anemones, corals, sea pens)**:
	+ **Hexacorallia Physiology (stony corals, sea anemones, tube anemones and zoanthids)**:
	+ **Octocorallia Physiology (blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians)**:
* **Medusozoa Physiology (jellyfish)**:
* **Physalia Physiology (Portuguese Man o' War)**:

### Associations

* Unicellular Mimicry

Folklore links cnidarians to following powers: Electricity Generation, Electricity Manipulation, Immortality, Semi-Immortality

## Pop Culture

There are many characters who has the appearance of the jellyfish in various forms of media. Tentacruel and Nihilego (Pokemon) are both inspired by the jelllyfish. Dikya (Aryana) is a jellyfish with human traits. Opal (Sonic the Hedgehog) is a Mobian Jellyfish. E-57 Clurken (Sonic X) is a giant jellyfish-based robot. Xiao Mei Mei (The Adventures of Little Carp) is a jellyfish with a singing voice that can calm anything down and stop it.

## Variations

### Unicellular Yokai

Jellyfish and ctenophores both have tentacles with specialized cells to capture prey: nematocysts and colloblasts, respectively. Jellyfishes' nematocysts are organelles within special cells (cnidocytes) that contain venom-bearing harpoons.

## Life in the Hidden World

Because Jellyfish Yokai are free-swimmers, they don't need much energy to physically swim unless it's going to their destination. Their bodies are made out of 95% of water while the remaining 5% are made of structural proteins, muscles and nerve cells. Their bells on top of their heads are umbrella-shaped and it can act as sunhats. Protecting them from the sun and other weather patterns like raining. Jellyfish Yokai are born with the ability to produce their own light. They can light up their bells at will. Using it to navigate in dark areas. Venom are produced on their tentacles which can cause painful stings to anyone who comes into contact with the tentacles.

## Symbolism

Someone who has had a lot of hardships in their past might get the jellyfish tattoo to show that they have the strength to move on with their lives. This could also be a great tattoo meaning for soldiers who have made it through a war. The jellyfish is a symbol of tranquility, although the jelly has a stinging edge.