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petroniaIn Mirage of Blaze. It's not really a teapot in the Western sense, being a little pot one uses to boil water for the tea ceremony rather than to brew the actual tea in. Still sucks, though. How would you like to be killed by a teapot demon? And didn't they do this trope in Matantei Loki Ragnarok?
It's called Hiragumo, "flat" + "spider", which is why I spontaneously picture it as eight-legged even though I'm probably wrong, and is actually a famous historical teapot. o_O Nobunaga coveted it, so when Hisahide failed in his final rebellion, he set terms that he would pardon Hisahide if he gave Nobunaga the teapot (I think for reasons too long to get into he assumed Hisahide wasn't entirely serious about betraying him). So to stick it to Nobunaga, Hisahide filled the teapot with explosives and blew himself up with it. XD Should count as one of the Great Suicide Scenes Of Japanese History.
(Googling this story turned up the lament of a random Chinese player of one of those sengoku strategy games. "I read Hisahide blew himself up with that teapot," he wailed, "so when I picked up the character I took his teapot away as soon as I could. The little fucker rebelled the very next day!")
In Mirage of Blaze Hisahide's simmering supernatural resentment (or maybe that of his soldiers, or possibly even something else altogether), takes the form of the Hiragumo and goes out and curses people by hanging over their heads like a gloomy teapot-shaped raincloud. Actually Naoe talks about it like this was based off some folk legend, in which the teapot-with-legs youkai scuttles into your house at night and drinks any tea or water that's left standing. Since it's a spider it also eats various other small noxious demon-things, so some people apparently leave water out purposefully to attract it. But I know nothing about that. >_> *eyes the tea dregs often left on my desk overnight uneasily*
Um, I was supposed to write about Naoe's past, I know. But I really needed to get this teapot thing down.
It's called Hiragumo, "flat" + "spider", which is why I spontaneously picture it as eight-legged even though I'm probably wrong, and is actually a famous historical teapot. o_O Nobunaga coveted it, so when Hisahide failed in his final rebellion, he set terms that he would pardon Hisahide if he gave Nobunaga the teapot (I think for reasons too long to get into he assumed Hisahide wasn't entirely serious about betraying him). So to stick it to Nobunaga, Hisahide filled the teapot with explosives and blew himself up with it. XD Should count as one of the Great Suicide Scenes Of Japanese History.
(Googling this story turned up the lament of a random Chinese player of one of those sengoku strategy games. "I read Hisahide blew himself up with that teapot," he wailed, "so when I picked up the character I took his teapot away as soon as I could. The little fucker rebelled the very next day!")
In Mirage of Blaze Hisahide's simmering supernatural resentment (or maybe that of his soldiers, or possibly even something else altogether), takes the form of the Hiragumo and goes out and curses people by hanging over their heads like a gloomy teapot-shaped raincloud. Actually Naoe talks about it like this was based off some folk legend, in which the teapot-with-legs youkai scuttles into your house at night and drinks any tea or water that's left standing. Since it's a spider it also eats various other small noxious demon-things, so some people apparently leave water out purposefully to attract it. But I know nothing about that. >_> *eyes the tea dregs often left on my desk overnight uneasily*
Um, I was supposed to write about Naoe's past, I know. But I really needed to get this teapot thing down.
