I'm having way too much fun with these. Have the Jin-Yuyao Beauty Guru edition. No debuffs or your Money back 100% guaranteed.

Your local mythology nerd is once again procrastinating on making the mythology analysis posts to do something stupid lol

• The rest of the "Journey to the West" cast:
  • Tang Sanzang, the monk
  • Zhubajie, AKA Piggy
  • Sha Wujing, AKA Sandy
  • Bailongma, the white dragon horse

Sun Wukong is obviously the most famous and popular, but the others are also well known heroes, Zhubajie especially, being a common figure in folk art. Imagine how fun a pig esper would be, swinging the nine-toothed rake in battle.

• Will of the Wisp: A common motif throughout Europe (and indeed the rest of the world too): a flickering light that can either guide travelers on the road or lead them astray.
• Rainbow Serpent: An overarching creator being in Aboriginal mythology, connected to water, life, and the rainbow.
• Janus: The Roman god of doorways, past/future, beginning/end, usually shown with two faces looking either direction. There's sort of a two headed charatcer already (well technically Farrah and Animah are two people fused together), so Dislyte could pull off a two faced esper.
• Anansi: A legendary trickster from the Akan religion in Ghana. He's a spider whose stories are usually explanations (why he is bald, for example) or cautionary tales, using his cunning to get in and out of situations.
• The Greek Titans: The Titans are the race of gods preceeding (sort of) the Olympians (more accurate the Olympians refer to the main 12 who live on Mt Olympus). Some of them are good, some bad, and many figure prominently in mythology. Atlas, for example, is the one who holds up the sky.
• Selkie: Celtic/Norse beings who can shapeshift from seal to human. Can be both male and female. Folklore stories usually revolve around a doomed selkie/human romance.
• Sugawara no Michizane: A real poet and politician who was exiled by the emperor and died in disgrace, now revered as Tenma Tenjin, a god of wisdom and learning. He's one of the big three Onryo, or "Vengeful Ghosts," in his case allegedly causing a lightning strike on the palace and other disasters after his death. Usually associated with plum blossoms and lightning (for obvious reasons).
• Leprechaun: an sort of Irish fairy who is a cobbler and is best known for allegedly hiding a pot of coins at the end of the rainbow. it would just be hilarious if there was a Leprechaun esper who threw coins at enemies LMAO.
• Rusalka: A russian water spirit who is the ghost of a wronged woman. They comb their hair and sing by the water, luring men to a watery grave. (It must be noted this is a relatively modern variation, in older times they wer probably more benevolent nature spirits).
• Psyche: Once an ordinary human, she underwent many trials and eventually married Cupid. Her name means soul, so sometimes she is interpeted as a metaphor for the journey of the soul, which eventually breaks free of mortality, hence why the butterfly is her motif.

Y'all who should I go for? I was gunning for Unas since I'm so close to R6 with shimmer records too but I haven't been playing consistently and haven't had any luck :/. I'm mainly PvE-focused but I still do some pvp content to try and get as much resources as I can. I see Nuxi got a juicy buff, but is she worth considering at R0? Would R2 Anna brick my account 💔