/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>43566785
There's nothing wrong with that! It's her right as a Mantis and she could have had medical reasons for doing so!

>>21116300
>the Mantid tribes aren't known purely for their huntswoman. Many a fine masked trader, goat herder, musician and chemist has graced their ranks but the most important role in the tribe outside of the chieften is that of the shaman. The most magically talented mantis youths are selected by the ancestors as shamans in addition to their other roles with the best being raised as the tribal shaman's heir, taught the history of the tribe through sign and scythe language and occasionally ingesting the psychedelics needed to manipulate the ethereal Dream Web that the ancestors inhabit. From their training until the day they join their forebears in the Dream Web as chitin, bone, and soul, their scythes are kept sheathed and hidden under wide sleeves, only to be extended when reciting tribal history upon meeting other tribes or in life or death struggles.

>the spirits who the masked mantids know as ancestors are full of mystery as they don't seem to communicate in anyway past gestures, a trait the tribes have somewhat adopted. While all clearly have pale white chitin, past the Huntress, many don't seem to have commonalities with mantises of the living world. Some like the Weaver, Shaman, and Shepherdess don't even seem to have been mantises at all in life.

>the "goats" the mantises have taken to herding are actually a species of diminutive antelope common in the steppes and raised for their meat, milk and skins. Trying to explain that to the mantises has led to blanks stares from behind inexpressive masks or increasingly firm repetitions of the word "goat".

>A natural philosopher and a mantis get into an arguement over the antelope/goat.

>"I'm telling you it's not a goat! Look at the slope of it's skull and horns! You can't even pen them with goats or they'll fight with each other!"
>"Goat!"
>"That's not an argument!"

>>20947967
Indeed, it's hard being a kuudere martial.

>>20697998
A fitting end for such a brilliant engineer. But what of the sociopathic inventor amongst the Pillar Mantises, Cars? What fate did she encounter?

>>19113067
SNIKT

>>17914834
Perhaps a Mantis is more your style?

>>16003144
>No Mantis bodyguard

>>15676730
This is a public service announcement. The Dire Mantids are conducting anti-Matango drills. Please continue your business as usual. I repeat, this is only a drill, please continue business as usual.

>>15626234