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[…] is a youthful and playful, but powerful character. He’s relatively thin and medium/tall height and has many boyish qualities about him. He’s a lone wanderer, but not by choice, and is still learning the extent of what he can do. He doesn’t speak, but his facial expressions connote his feelings. When angry, he becomes more violent and his appearance changes from cute to terrifying. The points that I looked at were children, fire’s nature, mythology, furniture, creatures, and culture, and I looked most into furniture and fire’s nature. With children I focused on their eyes rather than their whole head or body. 

Children
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Fire

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Mythology
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Despite the fact that this creature looks pretty freaky, it’s actually a representation of an o’uni, a Japanese witch that lives in the mountains; however she’s only friendly towards you if you are friendly towards her. She may come to your lodgings at night, and if you invite her in, she’ll spin you a large amount of witch-thread.




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This weird looking blob is called a nuppeppō, another Japanese mythological creature. More off-putting than its facial features are the smell it gives off, it’s a terrible stench similar to rotting flesh. However if you manage to catch and eat one, it can cure any illness.
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This little guy is called a Nurikabe, a mischievous Japanese spirit that only comes out at night. They won’t hurt you, but they’ll try to deceive you by growing into a wall to block your path. If that happens…guess you just have to find a way around.


Animals
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Did you know pepper spray works on bears? You can't use any regular old pepper spray though, you need a specific kind of pepper spray for bears.
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Koalas aren't nearly as cute as you'd imagine. They're actually more aggressive than crocodiles...and a lot of them have chlamydia.
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A red panda. One of these guys escaped from the Belfast Zoo pretty recently….don’t worry, they found him.


Cultures


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This is an example I found of fashionable victorian fashion.

Furniture
To mirror the victorian fashion, I also searched for victorian furniture.

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