Talk:Grin in the Dark/@comment-7706473-20130803110731/@comment-13205380-20130820075611

Sorry this took me so long to reply to Lilly lol. Miyuki's fate I can't see as a happy ending for her because (though I was unable to convey in the story due to it's fast pace) she was killed very slow and graphically. I wanted to go into detail but it wouldn't make sense for him to casual describe what happened to his wife as he watched, so naturally that was omitted.

lol yes Takeda's line was more or less lifted from a concept prevelent in the anime that inspired me to write this, Higurashi. It was fun re-exploring Japanese folk lore and culture since it had been years since I otaku'd that hard XD.

The Goh mask was tricky and yeah it's a nitpick with me, but finding a possible "shrine deity" match up for this Thing in the story was near impossible. I wanted to avoid the traditional Japanese horror in that what you see is what scares you, since I come from the Lovecraftian school of horror where its what you can't comprehend is what's most terrifying.