I am distressed that I did not have a relevant pic of Ghaleon handy on my hard drive for this post.

[indigozeal]

I'd heard before, but cannot recall the source or whom they themselves were citing, that the headband Ghaleon wears in Eternal Blue is meant to be some sort of symbol of the dead. But I was scrolling through an article on the Famicom horror title Getsu Fuuma Den, and I just realized:





The shape is just a stylized one of those headbands that some Japanese ghosts wear, isn't it?

"The meaning of the cloth is speculative, although there are two main theories why it came into fashion. One says that the dead have ascended to a higher level, and thus the tenkan (heaven’s crown) is placed upon their heads to show their new status. Another says that the sharp point of the triangle wards off evil spirits or demons from entering the now-empty body from the head and resurrecting the corpse or preventing the spirit’s transition."

Well, too late for that last bit. Does it count if it's your own spirit resurrecting the corpse, though?

The Getsu Fuuma Den screenshot is taken from Super Adventures in Gaming's article; the Ghaleon pic, from Dragon-Weaver's DeviantArt.

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Comments

Oh, I actually know this!

[steelstrings.livejournal.com]

Or at least, I think I do. Uhm. The triangle thing is mentioned in an interview in the Lunar I&II artbook! There's a translation of it on lunarnet here, (http://www.lunar-net.com/interviews/lunaripii4.php) and it's apparently on page 99 in the Process section.

_{Also, ahaha that face.}

Re: Oh, I actually know this!

[indigozeal.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh, it was that artbook. There we go. I've gotta flip through that more; there's so much in there.

(It is a good face.)