#ponc'tan

[beyond-skies]

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[coockie8]

That adorable little sneeze Issun does at that one part in the Tsuta Ruins ❤️❤️❤️

[journeyofthemoonprophet]

Just when you think your strength is spent, you see light through the trees.

It’s hard not to be curious, especially after wandering in the dark for gods know how long. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you remind yourself it could be a trap... or at least not be as welcoming a sight as you think, if the gate in the village taught you anything. The rest of you that’s tired and frayed drowns it out enough to come closer.

It’s a clearing. More shockingly, it’s a green clearing. A perfectly lively patch of grass and flowers, even a pair of blossoming trees flanking the old stump in the center. Wildlife pause in their grazing when you break the treeline, staring at you long with wary eyes before going back to their business. The air still nips at your skin, but with much smaller teeth. There’s something in the air here that you can’t quite put your finger on; an odd stillness to the place, but instead of being foreboding it’s genuinely serene.

At first you think it’s a dream. You’re almost afraid to take that first tentative step off the snow and into the grass, lest the illusion shatter completely. When it doesn’t disappear under the teeth of your geta, you start to wonder if perhaps you’re not dreaming but dead. (You sure hope not, especially with a prophecy to eventually deliver). The Celestial Plain was always on the cusp of summer; this place is on the cusp of spring. Green and growing in defiance of the winter surrounding it.

The rabbits scatter as you finally collapse onto the ground, watching curiously as you run your hands over the grass. The blades tickle your palms, rustling beneath you as you roll onto your back. It’s real; by the grace of the gods this place is real. It’s real, and it’s warm, and for the first time in this hellish nightmare, you start to actually feel safe.

You lie on your back as you finally rest your eyes, breathing in the crisp springlike air, bobbing just on the surface of sleep.

[ammyandissunbesties4lyfe]

in ponc'tan ohhhhhhhhhh baby

[ammakou]

Imagining modern Nippon is weird but fun. Ammy is the exact same, but would be more familiar with the advanced architecture and technology of humanity (though I wonder if Moon Tribe tech would be studied and eventually adapted into society - at least in Sei-an). She'd probably get treated like a stray dog by those who can't see her divinity whenever she decides to roam streets or roads, but Ammy and the Fudegami would still have shrines around the country and be worshipped as kami.

Considering Kamui is pretty isolated from the mainland, and Ammy would absolutely strike down any trespassers who got certain terrible ideas if the Oina couldn't handle it themselves, it makes sense for the Oina's culture to remain fairly static & stable even in the modern day. They might incorporate some new tech contraptions for quality of life improvements, but I'm sure they would overall be adamant on sticking to their traditional way of life.

Yoshpet would remain as is, and so would Ponc'tan as well I think. I don't see any reason why Celestial Envoys would cease to be, and it's honestly pretty funny to envision Issun being an old man since Poncles can live for centuries.

It is sad to imagine all of the mortal faces Ammy met and got to know throughout her journey being gone, but hey, abstract immortality is quite the thing...

[miss-maana-plays]

Okami HD - Complete prt. 26 (Yoshpet - Ponc'tan - Inner - Yoshpet)

[yamaneko-chan]

[gadegami]

Ponc’tan

[misskanabelle]

Okami InkTober Day 20: Deep

deep inside yoshpet is a place hiding away all the poncles. It is a relly pretty location :)

[luminecho]

I should make a list of top 10 video game locations that I would like to live in forever

[sunwoofs]

// ✖ - Who is someone they just cannot stand?

It’s rare for her to find someone genuinely intolerable without them being some form of morally offensive to her. Omitting ‘people who want to kill everyone’, I think that in a mundane sense, people who annoy her the most are those who discourage others’ confidence one way or another.

[coockie8]

tf would issuns "childhood trauma" even be?

Okay, headcanons aside, I don't know how to explain to you that spending basically your entire childhood being berated by your extremely controlling guardian does, in fact, qualify as trauma :/

Issun left Ponc'tan because Ishaku, his grandfather, was hyper-controlling and refused to acknowledge his effort/artistic skill. This is practically blatantly explained in-game towards the end.

[journeyofthemoonprophet]

(Now that I’ve finally gotten to this part, I offer this little doodle from the bottom of my outline notes page)

[ammyandissunbesties4lyfe]

got my top surgery at ponc'tan wtf they gave me a leaf binder

[reegahearth]

Okami is a visceral experience because I spent the whole game going "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!" At Issun and then got to Ponc'tan and went

"Ah I understand you intimately"

[shayminsh]

*bonks u with LISTENING TO YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR INTERESTS YOUVE GOT VERY GOOD INTERESTS (and cardboard tube)*

ANON ILY I SAW THIS AND I WAS LIKE "hmm i think ill save this for when i want to ramble about my interests since rn i cant think of ANY of my varied and many interests" AND THEN LIKE JUST NOW I WAS THINKING HMMMM I WANNA TALK ABOUT OKAMI BUT WHERE DO I DO THAT so now youre stuck here listening to me talk about issun!

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issun,,,, thoughts. ough. waugh. woahoogjhoo. he's a punk. he has authority issues. probably an inferiority complex that he shoves deep deep down. He's been raised to become a celestial envoy. that's who he's going to be. shaped and molded into an artist from birth.

He tries, he improves, but he never gets the recognition he wants, the recognition he craves. His confidence tells him he deserves it, his confidence shows that he doesnt have to be STUCK doing this his whole life. I feel like being stuck is something Issun fears alot, actually. He needs to be free. He wants change when things arent going his way. He wants to be respected! He wants people to STOP CALLING HIM A BUG.

His entire character just- ough. The CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. MAN. The first two acts he's crass. He's immature. He's demanding. But he doesn't notice, or else he doesnt care. Because journeying with Ammy, even if its scary sometimes, even if times are uncertain, he feels free. Is this what being a Celestial Envoy is? Maybe it's not so bad.

He's still hiding from that destiny, mind you. Its more of a feeling that he can't name, won't name. Waka prods him about it, and it Pisses. Issun. Off. Can't he escape that? He left Ponc'tan for a reason! Why is it still plaguing him?

When Ammy visits Ponc'tan, Issun refuses to go in. And I got to wonder what's going on while she's in there. (Asides from the hilarious mental image of him sitting on a mushroom arms crossed just pouting) Is he guilty? Angry? Scared? I think it's a mixture of all of three, tbh. He's so so resentful of- is it Ishaku? Is it himself? Is he angry that he couldn't just wait to find his destiny as an envoy? He had to go find it himself? Then he was RIGHT! He's RIGHT and Grandfather is WRONG.

I know i'm skipping a bit but they find the arc of yamato and just. JUST. FUCKING. ISSUN TRIES TO SEPARATE HIMSELF. AMMY'S GOING ON TO FINISH HER DESTINY AND HE'S NOT COMING WITH. I HAVE SO MANY FUCKING FEELINGS ABOUT THIS SCENE BUT I NEED TO PLAY IT AGAIN BEFORE I TALK ABOUT IT JUST IN CASE I GET IT WRONG

Issun's goodbye breaks my fucking heart. He's resigned to not seeing her again. It's like all this time he's been growing closer and closer to who he's meant to be, and now he's backing away. He doesn't want a stiff goodbye, he doesn't want an emotional one. He wants Ammy to STOP looking so sad. What does she care, anyway? She needs to go to BRUSH GOD things! EPIC WORLD SAVING THINGS!!

Waka shows up and. BITCH WHY SO INSENSITIVE??? YOU COULDVE BEEN SO MUCH NICER. But also I think Issun really needed to hear someone say that he had to face facts, you know?

Waka prods him, Issun gets angry, he tries to enter the arc anyways. I GOT SO EXCITED SEEING THIS PART WE GET TO KEEP THE BELOVED BUT THEN BAM. A barrier forms and Issun is repelled. He falls back against the dissolving bridge. Issun falls into the cold lake as Waka leads Ammy into the arc.

What was he thinking while the arc closed? While his best friend Ammy disappeared to go to important- life threatening things- without HIM? I think he had a severe case of fomo for a minute there, but he stomped it down. It's not like- its not like this is HIS problem. What does he care anyways?

......no. He does care.

THIS IS THE PART. THE PART WHERE HE ACCEPTS THE SIDE OF HIMSELF THAT HES BEEN BEATING BACK WITH HIS LITTLE BRUSH SWORD FOR AS LONG AS HE CAN. IT ALL COMES CRASHING DOWN ON HIM. HE THINKS MAYBE THAT DUNK IN THE ICY WATER DID HIM SOME GOOD. HE STARTS TO DOGGY PADDLE TO SHORE.

THE PLAN FORMS IN HIS MIND. I- FUCK I NEED TOSTOP TYPING IN CAPS

The plan forms in his mind all at once. What if the reason he was hiding so long is that he didn't know HOW to do what he was trying to do? Now he knows. He feels it in his very being. He needs a scroll and some ink.

FUCKING. DUCKING FUCK HELL. IM. GENUINELY TEARING UP MAYBE ITS THE FACT THAT IM LISTENING TO RESET BUT-

Issun has to move fast. He doesn't know when, he doesnt know HOW he's so certain of this but- Ammy needs him. Ammy NEEDS a celestial envoy, and isn't it selfish of him to deny her one? Who's a better candidate, after all!!

Susano, Kushi, Oki, everyone they know, everyone they barely met. He meets with them all. He MAKES them listen, he MAKES them see. Don't you remember that white wolf that came through a while ago? She made you a drying pole, she saved your dog. She saved and defeated the water dragon. She ate all of your food, she won your race. Don't you remember? She's a god, silly! See her here? She's in trouble. I need you to believe in her, so that the sun can shine on us again.

FUCKING. TEARS IN MY EYES.

I like to think that Issun knew the whole time how much that saved Ammy's life. Powerless, facing the stupid fucking evil discount mike wazowski orb and missing her friend. I like to think that Ammy felt the warmth of the sun, too. I mean yeah she IS the sun but- all of those souls thanking her and believing in her? I like to think that it flooded her body with a determined burn that woke her up, spread through her veins and made her seethe with a power to dispense some Divine Retribution.

..

I think that after everything is all said and done, Issun feels ten times lighter. Not only because the world is saved and Ammy victorious, but because he did it. He became what he had to become, what he was so afraid of. He conquered his fear. Would Ishaku be proud now? You fucking BET!

ough,,,, i just,, i have so many feelings over him and i would write more of them out if i didnt just write a THOUSAND FUCKING WORDS OVER THIS PINT SIZED LIL SHIT

anyways bows impressively and remember you asked for this <3