Tsuchinoko

Tsuchinokos are cryptids who supposedly originate from the old history of Japaland. These snakes are large and round in shape, but are relatively and surprisingly small, but that doesn't mean they can cause harm, however. This certain snake "species," as it is dubbed after many modern day reports, supposedly lives in the tall grassy areas and forests. It reportedly chirps, spews venom like a viper, and can jump several feet. It is called "bachi-hebi" in Northern Japaland, and is refered on the "Kojiki," the oldest known book about the history of Japaland. They are about three feet long, and is about seventy pounds. One was even sighted in Gensou Island, whom it is locally known as Mister Noko, a Tsuchinoko who is apparently capable of speech and is a trickster. It is both a yokai and cryptid, since it was sighted in old and modern history. Despite being litteral reptiles, animals who can range their blood temperature to warm or cold, they are somehow able to live in the frigid temperatures of Antarctica. Tsuchinoko's dominant range are exclusively in Japaland as mentioned, but with the inclusion of Mister Noko from Gensou Island, a small conspiracy theory is that a large population is currently living on Gensou Island. Tsuchinokos are yokai, especially of the more monster-animal-like category. Tsuchinokos are exclusively in dark green coloring, and tend to live in areas far from civilization, but can find their way in parks or literal forests next to city streets.

History


Tsuchinokos, as mentioned, are part of the very old history of Japalendese mythologies and ancient literature, being mentioned in perhaps the oldest book in these older ancient times in Japaland's history, the Kojiki. The tsuchinoko is, if not one of the oldest known yokai mentioned in any form of media in the ancient times. It is often regarding as the supposed "first yokai." Tsuchinokos would stay for a very long time and still has reports today. Around the 1950's to early 1970's, a small surge of sightings of the tsuchinoko would appear, having national status in Japaland as a famous fiend of history's past. The reports would die down, but as usual, a smaller surge re-appeared in the mid 2000's, and from 2018 to current times, a surge of tsuchinoko sightings appeared. Many certain tsuchinokos have gotten such media attention from a photo or story (with modern cartoon-like animations and art attached to them), so many tsuchinokos had gotten nicknames, with such individual tsuchinokos with names like "Captain Green" (キャプテングリーン, Kyaputengurīn) or "Sir Fangs (牙卿, Kiba kyō). However, amongst one these more famous tsuchinokos is the more obscure, locally known tsuchinoko known as Mister Noko.

Mister Noko
Mister Noko (のこさん, Noko-san) is a rather locally known villain in Gensou Island, a tsuchinoko with a rather bizarre accent akin to speaking english with his japalandese accent sound, but is not afraid to talk crazy in his native tongue. As a villain, he is misteriously capable of speech, and often bores himself by saying he is the greatest. Fellow inhabitants like K.A.G.U.Y.A. despise him because of his overall jerk-like attitude. When he is not in arguments, he wears his traditional conical hat, to which he says his grandfather gave it to him. He claims he has a family, and all work as fellow rice farmers, a family lineage that has gone through his entire family tree, along with kitting carpets and clothes, despite having no arms.



Appearance, behavior and diet
Tsuchinokos are known for being smaller, and noticeably chubby, but more of being fat. This is due to their physical structure and large rib cage size, being around one to three feet long, and weighing seventy pounds. They are able to slither and can flatte themselves to go through tight and small spaces. They can hold their breathes underwater for half an hour. What humans call "snakes," from reports, tsuchinokos act like typical snakes, slither, hunt and eat prey, sleep, repeat, basically, acting like any kind of predator. They are exclusively dark green in color, with either red or orange eyes, and have a series of black stripes along their backs. These snakes rely on eating small animals like insects, but will attempt to hold onto wild puffles, that is if they get the chance. They are known to spew venom, and said venom can damage one. However, when one is hit by this venom, it only causes a mild rash for a couple of weeks, but that being said, their venom is still dangerous.

Explanations
It is actually not clear how they came to be. All that is known is that since they are mentioned in the oldest piece of Japalandese literature, they could be some sort of evolved invasive reptile species that somehow made it into Antarctica, and slowly began to evolve and know their new environments. Because of their early history, some say humans brought them to Japaland, but their origin is still unclear. In fact, even no one knows when Mister Noko arrived on the Gensou Island scene, but he claims his family has lived in the island for a long time.