Yukkuri Biology/Behavior General

exitstrategy said:
I have seen a bunch of stories with Patchouli led clans, would the situation be different there?

Just remembered. If you want a more epic clan war, it will be based on, or a parody of human's conflict, real or fictional.

For example, find some idea about the age of colonization. Shave a lot of parts, make it silly, and replace the human with yukkuri.

That's a starting point to put in war strategy and a more complex idea such as institutionalized slavery towards the defeated. You can even put in freedom fighters in it.

But as effect, one of the basic idea about yukkuri will be weakened.
The good and bad thing about yukkuri is that they're stupid and simple, they don't think that far and doesn't coordinate more than a bunch of provoked mob.

I have a question: True acquatic Reimus exist or their are all fakes ?

RP said:
I have a question: True acquatic Reimus exist or their are all fakes ?

I'm pretty sure acquatic Reimus exist according to some people, but according to a more popular opinion, they're fake. You can say whatever you want about fanon material, so.

Usually, aquatic "common" land yukkuri are just one-shot with no story continuity.

yeah about fanon material...

What constitutes as fanon material? or even canon material, if there is such a type? popularity? common themes?

yukannon said:
yeah about fanon material...

What constitutes as fanon material? or even canon material, if there is such a type? popularity? common themes?

Everything yukkuri is fan material, there is no canon yukkuri

yukannon said:
yeah about fanon material...

What constitutes as fanon material? or even canon material, if there is such a type? popularity? common themes?

If I agree with it

yukannon said:
yeah about fanon material...

What constitutes as fanon material? or even canon material, if there is such a type? popularity? common themes?

I agree with it=canon
I don't agree with it=fanon

If a bunch of yukkuri are starving, is it acceptable for the living ones to consume those that have starved to death or does the cannibalism rule apply to the dead as well?

exitstrategy said:
If a bunch of yukkuri are starving, is it acceptable for the living ones to consume those that have starved to death or does the cannibalism rule apply to the dead as well?

probably depends entirely on the circumstances. like which of the yukkuris died, whether or not they were scum, how young they were, or if any of their relatives are around.

I'd say it's entirely up to the author.

Corpse usually smell worse than their shits anyway.
I say if a yukkuri is cornered enough think of eating corpse without being told to by their torturer, they're already not in condition to think about if cannibalism is an uneasy thing or not.

Salem said:
Corpse usually smell worse than their shits anyway.
I say if a yukkuri is cornered enough think of eating corpse without being told to by their torturer, they're already not in condition to think about if cannibalism is an uneasy thing or not.

You are sure corpse smell ?
Anyways i know that yukkuri or at least most of them are basically living sweets so they will acutally like the taste of the corpse

RP said:
You are sure corpse smell ?

For me that its more a phychological response, is easy to eat something, its dificult to eat someone.

Think in the accesories issue, even brand new accesories could trigger a "death stench" response even if they were harvested by "green" standards.

Yukkuri intelligence theory: the more there are the dumber they become. It's like the mana system from Fate/Stay Night, there are limited amount of mana in the world and the more magician there is the less can be shared. The magical yukkuri's intelligence is tied to a mana/intelligence pool and it's all being used just to sustain their existence. It also explains why yukkuris no longer fly.

Though the more bean paste they possess the smarter they are. Few to no bodied yukkuri demonstrate magical ability. Bean paste are batteries that store said mana/iq while it is the core itself that act as conduit to the pool. Either generations of pure yukkuriness have wiped the bodied of their memories of the ritual to cast spells or something else prevents it.

Rare yukkuri such as iku and mokou seems capable of their magical abilities to cast lightning and fire as does dosu marisa though they are supplemented by mushrooms. Dosu are capable of casting spells but there's not enough mana in the pool to do so without the mushrooms. Those that are capable without mushrooms may have been able to pull it from their bean paste battery.

So what actually happens during a successful hibernation? Most of the time, we only see the failures. Do they actually hibernate like a bear or other woodland creature would?

A successful hibernation, in the way that most of the authors explain the preparations i see this being the plan for the winter.

1- Stockpile enought food for three months.
2- Prepare the nest with an inner toilet area and the comunal bed in the warmer point.
3- Seal the entrance.

When the cold hits hard they spend most of the day sleeping, eat a little and return to sleep.

When the time gets warmer they regain their natural cicle.

Just noticed again from an anko about wild Marisa leading her clan members to war against Nitori (by going into the water, but well, yukkuri being yukkuri)

Seems like in the story, yukkuri's perception of amount is quite normal, but hampered by their arithmetic capacity.

In the story, the yukkuri can feel that the number of her comrades are less than before. But then when she tried quantifying it, there's still so many of them (read: more than 2), so the initial realization is quickly overridden by the number.

Although Deibu seems to be able to not count and assess solely through size, so they can take the bigger "many".

What about human in your opinion ? How is our perception about relative quantity (more or less, not exact number). After all our race had indulged in numbers for centuries as tool to quantify things and we're taught about it since before elementary education.

@Salem I'd say that's the case. Although yukkuris can't consciously count more than 3, I assume they would know intuitively if the number differs by a lot. Even humans wouldn't be able to recognize if a couple of people dropped out of like 200 or so. Same would go for yukkuris, just in much smaller scale due to their limited intellect.

Semi-related question: what is proper manners for eating live yukkuri?

Is it acceptable to torture them for more than a short period?

Is allowing them to make a lot of noise bad form? These things can be surprisingly vocal in their suffering.

exitstrategy said:

Is it acceptable to torture them for more than a short period?

yes because ethics don't apply to them

also the concept of anti-yukkuritis doesn't apply to all artists

exitstrategy said:

Is allowing them to make a lot of noise bad form? These things can be surprisingly vocal in their suffering.

livestock yukkuri are sometimes killed like other animals usually are or just muted when served in restaurants, but in some cases like post #59348 they're free to scream to their heart's content. I think it just depends on who's serving them up and where. can't see it happening in the real world if yukkuri existed though

It's going to be more of a house rule.

General non-abyuser crowds will mostly not care or enjoy the yukkuri suffering. They might even want the food to not look like yukkuri at all. In this case, the screaming would be contained in the kitchen.

Abyuser restaurant though, the playing with your food is part of the reason why the patrons keep coming.
But some authors like to make the world an abyuser (for example: traditional local food made with yukkuri) and in effect made torturing yukkuri the same as turning the meat when cooking barbeque, nothing special.

Civic clean up would be the same. Recommendation to kill yukkuri clean and fast instead of torturing is likely about practicality rather than ethic towards the yukkuri.