Whew! Been a while since my last 100 Theme! And another inspired by a conversation with the lovely , this time about the rivalry my pilot version of Kurama, a shapeshifter who calls himself the Fairest One of All, would have with the self-proclaimed "Perfect Creature", Muneyasu the Three-Headed Chimera.

Here’s a crazy thought: imagine the babies these two would make should they be able to conceive… Fox-chimera babies...

*Flower and Serpent: referencing Macbeth Act I, Scene v, in which Lady Macbeth tells her husband to "Look like th' innocent flower, / But be the serpent under ’t" while trying to convince him to murder King Duncan

†Becoming a flower: In Greek mythology, Narcissus the man was the origin of narcissus the flower. The how is what is varied; in Metamorphoses, Ovid claims that the flowers grew from the man after he pined for his reflection, while in Coron’s Narrations, the flowers grew from the man’s blood after he committed suicide. Considering Kurama’s egotism and his transformative powers, who’s to say he isn’t a Beastly Narcissus?

And now, I leave you with the perfect song for these two

Kurama (name, rudimentary form) © Masashi Kishimoto
Muneyasu (character), Kurama’s pilot!form, this story © me