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Orochi-Onna (
Appearance[]
Orochi-Onna's true form is an anthropomorphic serpent, with pale green scales, dark grey underside, a pair of slender arms and a rattle at the end of her long tail. Her face has a horn on her forehead, her eyes have yellow sclerae with narrow black pupils, a snout with a pink forked tongue and long wavy red hair. She also has a rather curvaceous figure, with pair of large breasts and unusually, a slit around her midsection that resembles a pair of legs.
Personality[]
Aside from Nezumi-Otoko became fascinated with Maya Hibino, Orochi-Onna also became fond of the rat hanyō, as she felt the similar loneliness and hardships both went through by living through tremendous amount of times in human worlds, and tends to pull him within her coiling.
When she sacrificed herself, her despair was not only because of her duty and fate, but also by losing Nezumi-Otoko's affection.
History[]
Yato-no-Kami's Broken Fang before transforming into Orochi-Onna.
When Enma-Daiō defeated Yato-no-Kami in ancient time, one of snake god's fangs was broken off, and turned into Orochi-Onna.
Powers and Abilities[]
Poisonous Acid:
Claws:
Enhanced Agility: Orochi-Onna is very agile and fast to lead Kitarō around by the nose.
Skin Shedding: Being a snake, Orochi-Onna is able to shed her skin instantly even with her hair.
Human Transformation: Orochi-Onna is capable of transforming into a human form, under the name Maya Hibino.
Enhanced Flexibility: Orochi-Onna is very flexible, being able to wrap and coil her snake body around a target to restrain them.
Trivia[]
- Orochi-Onna's background is akin to Tsukinowa from the movie Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon.
- Tsukinowa was the transformation of a broken fang of Yamata-no-Orochi, the transformation of Tsukuyomi the Moon god who tried to destroy the world and lost its fang in an ancient battle against Susanō-no-Mikoto, the latter god of underworld. Tsukinowa disguised himself as a human for long period and worked to revive its master, and died to complete its mission.
- Similar to Hana Kazamatsuri's comparison to Yumeko Tendō, Orochci-Onna's background shares some commons with Caroline from the GeGeGe no Kitarō: Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Yōkai no Dai-Hanran as both being offspring of major antagonists, became Nezumi-Otoko’s affections, and had tragic fates and died.
- Within a magazine scan, Orochi-Onna was mistakenly stated to be born from a scale that broke off, rather than a broken fang.
- Serpentine women or human ladies transforming into serpents (such as Orochi-Onna and Numa-Gozen in the 2018 anime) to engage in obsessive yet unrequited interspecific love is a common theme along East Asian lore, such as the Legend of the White Snake.