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===Form===
===Form===
====Phenomenon====
====Phenomenon====
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Tatari is no longer Zepia or a true Dead Apostle. It has no true form or a body to call its own, and it has become something lacking independent individuality.
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Tatari is no longer Zepia or a true Dead Apostle. It has no true form or a body to call its own, and it has become something lacking independent individuality. It is nothing more than a phenomenon, so the thirteenth slot can only be said to have no name. It can be called a kind of energy that gives things orientation, and a phenomenon with infinite forms. There is nothing left of the dispersed Dead Apostle's former self, and there is no way for it come come back as it was other than the end of the contract. It is called "unknown", as it can only be called "present" rather than saying it "exists." Where it "went" has to do with mastering the system of authenticating rumors and realizing them in its own body.
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It can be called a kind of energy that gives things orientation. It can only be called nothing more than a phenomenon, so the thirteenth slot has no name. There is nothing left of the dispersed Dead Apostle's former self, and there is no way for it come come back as it was other than the end of the contract. It is called "unknown", as it can only be called "present" rather than saying it "exists." Where it "went" has to do with mastering the system of authenticating rumors and realizing them in its own body.
When a community of people imagines one thing at he same time, a consensus of the village emerges as a legend. Tatari can only exist by clothing itself in rumors, so as the isolated legends, often dealing with taboo, are spread between people, its roots spread through the area. It permeates the unpleasant rumors that begin to turn into reality as time passes, allowing it to occur due to the bizarre circumstances. It pieces together anxiety from a little bit of the rumors and reality to take form. Once such a legend becomes universally established, Wallachia becomes the legend and later disappears in the same manner. It repeatedly brings such legends into existence, becomes real, and feeds in cycles.
When a community of people imagines one thing at he same time, a consensus of the village emerges as a legend. Tatari can only exist by clothing itself in rumors, so as the isolated legends, often dealing with taboo, are spread between people, its roots spread through the area. It permeates the unpleasant rumors that begin to turn into reality as time passes, allowing it to occur due to the bizarre circumstances. It pieces together anxiety from a little bit of the rumors and reality to take form. Once such a legend becomes universally established, Wallachia becomes the legend and later disappears in the same manner. It repeatedly brings such legends into existence, becomes real, and feeds in cycles.
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===Formation===
===Formation===
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Tatari generally has at least four conditions that must be met in order for it to form. The first is that the area needs to have a rumor, {{Nihongo|Malignant Information|悪性情報|Akusei jouhou}}, such as urban tales, fright stories, anonymous charges, unfounded assumptions, improbable evidence, and all manner of rapidly spreading but ultimately void rumors. This is ideally something about an individual, and preferably the extension of something human. It is not a minimum rule, but rather what Tatari desires as a former human, as it cannot move without human intelligence.
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Tatari generally has at least four conditions that must be met in order for it to form. Unlike the event of storm clouds being dispersed to prevent a wind storm occurring again soon after with high frequency, Tatari's occurrences as a phenomenon do not appear often because the conditions are rather complicated. The first is that the area needs to have a rumor, {{Nihongo|Malignant Information|悪性情報|Akusei jouhou}}, such as urban tales, fright stories, anonymous charges, unfounded assumptions, improbable evidence, and all manner of rapidly spreading but ultimately void rumors. This is ideally something about an individual, and preferably the extension of something human. It is not a minimum rule, but rather what Tatari desires as a former human, as it cannot move without human intelligence.
The second condition is that the extent of the legend most be somewhat socially isolated while circulating. Rumors have problems spreading uniformly over large areas, so small, closed communities are more suitable to it. It usually occurs n small villages, so he mentions that the city of Misaki is much larger than where it normally forms. It helps if this area had a previous incident on which to base it, such as Misaki's previous murder spree. While it isn't necessary for rumors to be true in order bring about an incarnation of them, it is much easier to bring about that which has a basis. It can be hard to make original rumors into truth, but those with an origin become confirmed as long as even the smallest amount of information is flowing.
The second condition is that the extent of the legend most be somewhat socially isolated while circulating. Rumors have problems spreading uniformly over large areas, so small, closed communities are more suitable to it. It usually occurs n small villages, so he mentions that the city of Misaki is much larger than where it normally forms. It helps if this area had a previous incident on which to base it, such as Misaki's previous murder spree. While it isn't necessary for rumors to be true in order bring about an incarnation of them, it is much easier to bring about that which has a basis. It can be hard to make original rumors into truth, but those with an origin become confirmed as long as even the smallest amount of information is flowing.
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===Occurrences===
===Occurrences===
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Tatari appears in predesignated spaces, but the laws of time do not apply to it. It's longitude is unmeasurable, and it can not be expected due to being somewhat random in nature. Despite that, it is easy to predict with all the pieces assembled and having an idea of what actions will take place. This allows Sion to predict the locations where it will occur by analyzing where is will most easily occur, the culture and population of those areas, consideration for the random appearance of aces, and by simulating world affairs in the same way measuring atmospheric pressure can result in predicting the time and place of a typhoon. Sion utilizes two thousand possible patterns and the fact that it can only occur in 12,500 sectors on the Earth to begin her deduction. Upon determining that, grasping its general progression is possible, but guessing the prime condition for its occurrence is the most difficult part. Seeking the original cause for the phenomenon, what it desires, is what troubles her the most.
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Tatari begins by spreading a strange feeling over the area. Curses take strength from extreme anxiety, and operating on that principal, it transforms general rumors into reality. It's presence is initially weak, but as humans become more uneasy and the rumors spread more, its power grows even greater. In order to take form, the rumors must spread throughout the town to increase their probability. It is only a rumor, and as rumors cannot actually kill anyone, there won't be victims until it truly occurs. Sion attempts to use her Ethelite on the townspeople of Misaki to guide the rumors as much as possible to allow her to track it down.
Tatari begins by spreading a strange feeling over the area. Curses take strength from extreme anxiety, and operating on that principal, it transforms general rumors into reality. It's presence is initially weak, but as humans become more uneasy and the rumors spread more, its power grows even greater. In order to take form, the rumors must spread throughout the town to increase their probability. It is only a rumor, and as rumors cannot actually kill anyone, there won't be victims until it truly occurs. Sion attempts to use her Ethelite on the townspeople of Misaki to guide the rumors as much as possible to allow her to track it down.
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Before the main event, it will bring about its form in different ways as experiments using the rumors in those areas. Utilizing the greatest of those rumors as the conduit for his power, it manifests in the form of "the worst possible fate, that which we can never stand against." It once became a [[Divine Beast]] as large as a mountain, but that was only because more people feared the darkness back then. It won't become anything that strong in the current age with the exception of happening to manifest in the same are with beings on that level like Arcueid.
Before the main event, it will bring about its form in different ways as experiments using the rumors in those areas. Utilizing the greatest of those rumors as the conduit for his power, it manifests in the form of "the worst possible fate, that which we can never stand against." It once became a [[Divine Beast]] as large as a mountain, but that was only because more people feared the darkness back then. It won't become anything that strong in the current age with the exception of happening to manifest in the same are with beings on that level like Arcueid.
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It is possible to predict the locations where it will occur by analyzing where is will most easily occur, the culture and population of those areas, and by simulating world affairs in the same way measuring atmospheric pressure can result in predicting the time and place of a typhoon. Sion utilizes two thousand possible patterns and that it can only occur in 12,500 sectors on the Earth to begin her deduction. Upon determining that, grasping its general progression is possible, but guessing the prime condition for its occurrence is the most difficult part. Seeking the original cause for the phenomenon, what it desires, is what troubles her the most.
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In the past, he has claimed victim after victim until his time is up, even going as far as preying on the entire town. Always acting as the most "unpleasant rumor" in which they believed, the humans cannot fight back against their own nightmares and worst fears given shape. It cannot be stopped if they cannot fight back, so it goes on without pause by destroying everything that it can until the end. It will not appear where no rumors will start, a place no people will gather, but it also doesn't like to appear in crowded places. Elevated places like Shiki's school or the Tohno Mansion are desired for that reason.
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In the past, he has claimed victim after victim until his time is up, even going as far as preying on the entire town. Always acting as the most "unpleasant rumor" in which they believed, the humans cannot fight back against their own nightmares and worst fears given shape. It cannot be stopped if they cannot fight back, so it goes on without pause until the end. It will not appear where no rumors will start, a place no people will gather, but it also doesn't like to appear in crowded places. Elevated places like Shiki's school or the Tohno Mansion are desired for that reason.
Out of all the times it has manifested, he claims that bringing about Kouma is his first time summoning a demon. In one possible scenario where the vampire the town fears already has shape, he may take the shape of Zepia. It is rare for him appear as such, claiming that it has been at least five hundred years since his last "evening party." In such an event, he must "bravely commit suicide" by dawn because Tatari can't be limited to a single form.
Out of all the times it has manifested, he claims that bringing about Kouma is his first time summoning a demon. In one possible scenario where the vampire the town fears already has shape, he may take the shape of Zepia. It is rare for him appear as such, claiming that it has been at least five hundred years since his last "evening party." In such an event, he must "bravely commit suicide" by dawn because Tatari can't be limited to a single form.
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Following positive wishes, he once gave a village wanting a bumper crop the proper agricultural conditions by providing abundant fertilizer in the form of the dead bodies of everyone in the village. Quarrelling townspeople wishing for peace and friendship were fighting because they had different opinions, so it was solved by bringing them together as they all tried to escape from him. He appeared in a village wishing for the appearance of their local god of a tree by taking its form, and as that god wished it, he took the heart from every villager. Appearing in a town praying for release from a plague, he helped end their suffering from the disease in the quickest way by letting them die.
Following positive wishes, he once gave a village wanting a bumper crop the proper agricultural conditions by providing abundant fertilizer in the form of the dead bodies of everyone in the village. Quarrelling townspeople wishing for peace and friendship were fighting because they had different opinions, so it was solved by bringing them together as they all tried to escape from him. He appeared in a village wishing for the appearance of their local god of a tree by taking its form, and as that god wished it, he took the heart from every villager. Appearing in a town praying for release from a plague, he helped end their suffering from the disease in the quickest way by letting them die.
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In the end, he is only a vile demon that grants nothing but the sucking of blood. He appears according to everyone's desires and subsequently leaves in a manner that they wish, but only in a way that interests his sadistic pleasures. He claims that humans do not want a beautiful setting where everything goes right in a happy ending, but instead a tragic ending.
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In the end, he is only a vile demon that grants nothing but the sucking of blood. The meaning of Tatari is a curse, and people destroy themselves with a blind belief of the curse they themselves created. It exists as the "uneasiness" of others, and as the embodiment of that, they cannot resist and only have their blood sucked. It appears according to everyone's desires and subsequently leaves in a manner that they wish, but only in a way that interests his sadistic pleasures. He claims that humans do not want a beautiful setting where everything goes right in a happy ending, but instead a tragic ending.
====Wallachia====
====Wallachia====
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The main focus of the Tatari in Misaki city, called {{Nihongo|Hologram Summer|幻影の夏}} are rumors surrounding Arcueid, Shiki, and Akiha based on "The Return of Last Year's Serial Killer." The town is very suitable for it due to there being models for the rumors and the town still being uneasy from the previous incidents. Shiki, having Arcueid's "favor", makes the town very desirable for an appearance. Thinking of a True Ancestor going mad would be the absolute worst nightmare possible for the town. Should the vampire manifest, it will, as according to what the people in the town believe, drain the blood of everyone in the town.
The main focus of the Tatari in Misaki city, called {{Nihongo|Hologram Summer|幻影の夏}} are rumors surrounding Arcueid, Shiki, and Akiha based on "The Return of Last Year's Serial Killer." The town is very suitable for it due to there being models for the rumors and the town still being uneasy from the previous incidents. Shiki, having Arcueid's "favor", makes the town very desirable for an appearance. Thinking of a True Ancestor going mad would be the absolute worst nightmare possible for the town. Should the vampire manifest, it will, as according to what the people in the town believe, drain the blood of everyone in the town.
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The stage is set with the town facing a fierce heat of record high temperatures and the spawning of strange paradoxes of unknown origin. The townspeople are struck by terrible ideas, dreadful thoughts, ill omens, and visits to temples that portend bad luck. The dark night is where "uneasiness" led by anxiety becomes reality.
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The stage is set with the town facing a fierce heat of record high temperatures and the spawning of strange paradoxes of unknown origin. The streets are mostly empty even at the height of the daytime, while those that are out are faced with the searing heat. The townspeople are struck by terrible ideas, dreadful thoughts, ill omens, and visits to temples that portend bad luck. The dark night is where "uneasiness" led by anxiety becomes reality.
The rumor of "something wondering the night and attacking people" is based around Shiki, taking the form of Nanaya. It is his "sin", the end where he becomes a killer if he were to mess up even slightly that he fears in the depths of his consciousness. Akiha comes from "a vampire girl with red hair" or a "long, black haired killer." Arcueid is a "blonde, female vampire" due to how she willfully walks around town at night.
The rumor of "something wondering the night and attacking people" is based around Shiki, taking the form of Nanaya. It is his "sin", the end where he becomes a killer if he were to mess up even slightly that he fears in the depths of his consciousness. Akiha comes from "a vampire girl with red hair" or a "long, black haired killer." Arcueid is a "blonde, female vampire" due to how she willfully walks around town at night.
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No matter how many times the material forms are obliterated, the reoccurring phenomenon will ensure his reappearance as a materialized rumor. Even the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception can only kill a single incarnation, even after hitting a point of death. They cannot kill a pure phenomenon, but only single incarnations of them.
No matter how many times the material forms are obliterated, the reoccurring phenomenon will ensure his reappearance as a materialized rumor. Even the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception can only kill a single incarnation, even after hitting a point of death. They cannot kill a pure phenomenon, but only single incarnations of them.
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No mater the information or form, conceptual weapons with strong meaning can negate one cycle. Sion's Barrel Replica can destroy the main event, disrupting the event until the next occurrence many years later. Barrel Replica with an added bullet made from Riesbyfe's Apocrypha, which normally wouldn't hurt Tatari, combines the lance's ability to annihilate vampires with the conceptual weapon of longevity gun barrel to destroy one with no shape.
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No mater the information or form, conceptual weapons with strong meaning can negate one cycle. Sion's Barrel Replica can destroy the main event, disrupting the event until the next occurrence many years later. Barrel Replica with an added bullet made from Riesbyfe's Apocrypha, which normally wouldn't hurt Tatari, combines the lance's ability to annihilate vampires with the conceptual weapon of longevity gun barrel to destroy one with no shape to cause a seem in the program. While she can't destroy it, she can cause a massive delay of the cycle, allowing her to disrupt the entirety of the phenomenon so the next occurrence won't be for two hundred years.
Tarari, as a phenomenon, is completely cancelled off by the invocation of the Crimson Moon by [[Arcueid Brunestud]]. Normally it would have been one thousand years in the future where his pact would have reached its end, but Marble Phantasm brings it into reality and causes him to return to the state of Zepia Eltnam Oberon early. This is not permanent, meaning that Arcueid can only cancel it while she keeps the red moon materialized.
Tarari, as a phenomenon, is completely cancelled off by the invocation of the Crimson Moon by [[Arcueid Brunestud]]. Normally it would have been one thousand years in the future where his pact would have reached its end, but Marble Phantasm brings it into reality and causes him to return to the state of Zepia Eltnam Oberon early. This is not permanent, meaning that Arcueid can only cancel it while she keeps the red moon materialized.
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Even with the destruction of Zepia, Tatari itself is not completely destroyed. Aoko is able to create [[White Len]] from remnants of Tatari and unused pieces of [[Len]]. [[Dust of Osiris]], the part of Sion's soul brought into him from the blood he sucked from her, manages to take over Tatari after Zepia's death.
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Even with the destruction of Zepia, Tatari itself is not completely destroyed. Aoko is able to create [[White Len]] from remnants of Tatari and unused pieces of [[Len]]. She ends up recreating his form as part of her Tatari, but he is only on the verge of disappearing and lacks any of his original power. Most of the Tatari fragments that formed White Len overlooked him, so she calls him a shell and asks if he wants to become part of her. He is only the Dead Apostle Zepia before becoming Tatari, but he mentions that taking Arcueid's blood would allow him to easily return to his previous prosperity. The true Tatari also continues to exist due to [[Dust of Osiris]], the part of Sion's soul brought into him from the blood he sucked from her. It fought against Tatari for three years, and while winning was impossible, he lost his seat as Tatari when he was defeated, allowing Sion's blood to fill that empty seat and take form.
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