Hello there, I’m Paul Rea from the official, Teen Wolf Wiki. And today, I’m all about that Oni Life.
Also, I’ve had a lot of questions about my health since I suffered complications from oral surgery.
At the end of this video, I’ll talk more about that, and give you a sample of what my real voice
sounds like currently, so you will understand why I’m still using a voice clone from Descript.com.
This Oni video stems directly from two other videos that focused on Mountain
Ash and the ways some characters, namely Scott and Parrish, were able to defeat Teen
Wolf’s supernatural barrier-making wood dust. In both those videos I showed the
Oni going ham on the Mountain Ash barrier that Deaton helped to install at the McCall House.
Scott: What are they doing? Aiden: Testing for weaknesses.
So, why could they do that?
Aiden: We have a problem.
We know Scott was able to push through once with extreme effort and force of will
and Parrish just heated up the air so much around the barrier, the wood burned away.
But the Oni are very different. So far, the demon warriors are the only
thing we saw literally beat their way through a mountain ash barrier.
First we have to figure out what makes the Oni different
from all the other supernaturals on the show.
Silverfinger: They're called Oni. They are demons and they are unstoppable.
The Oni are a force of nature. You don't fight a tsunami.
You endure it and you hope that you are not destroyed in its path.
Terrifying to look at, and hard to stop, the Oni seemed scary, but they were really only puppets.
At the start of their arc, Noshiko Yukimura sent them
to find out which one of Scott’s pack was possessed by the Nogitsune,
and they were completely harmless, unless you tried to stop them from completing that mission.
From that perspective the mountain ash barrier at the house was in the way of their mission,
so being an unstoppable force of nature, they pounded on it until they broke it,
that makes sense, but it doesn’t tell us why they
could break through what is supposed to be an unbreakable, supernatural barrier.
To answer that question, I’m going to have to speculate, and some of this new speculation will
build on my prior speculation about how energy flows and manifests in the Teen Wolf universe.
In other words, I’m taking what we know to be canon and piecing that
together to make sense of something that was never explained on the show.
Based on what we know, the Oni are like the Nogitsune in that they are straight up spirits
with no bodies. Instead of possessing someone like Void did with Stiles, the Oni appear to
turn natural energy into matter to form the armor and weapons that make up their physical bodies.
I’ve talked a lot about natural energy in this universe. It flows
through telluric currents and is focused into powerful areas like the Nemeton.
And while the raw wood of the Mountain Ash tree has a sedative effect and repels supernaturals.
if you combine it with the energy in the currents and make a complete circuit, it forms a barrier
that physically repels the supernatural spark within every shapeshifter we saw on the show.
The oni, are different, the bodies they use are literally
this same natural energy transformed into matter.
They’re entities summoned to this plane by the breaking of one of Noshiko’s tails.
They use the natural energy present in the telluric currents and focused
by the Nemeton to give them shape and physicality.
Knowing these two things, I surmise that Mountain Ash barriers won’t work as well on them. While the
barrier still rejects the spirit inside, it is less effective against the physical bits because,
the bodies, the masks, the armor, and the weapons,
are all made from the same energy that makes up the barrier.
Does that make sense? I hope so.
Let me try it another way.
The oni are already tapped into the natural energy flow, it maintains their bodies
and weapons. It allows them to vanish and reappear somewhere else along the currents.
It just makes sense to me that, since they’re always plugged into the same current,
they could cause a short in the system that would collapse a barrier powered by that current.
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Beacon Hill's only contribution to the video game boom, the Dread Doctors game
was released in 1990 exclusively on the Turbo Grafix-16 platform. A simple side-scrolling,
role play game, it sold poorly originally. But Dread Doctors picked up a cult following
in the early days of the internet as several conspiracy websites speculated that the game,
and a novel of the same name, referred to real events.
You can see right there, the whole object of the game is to kidnap kids,
and turn them into monsters. The thing is, there actually were a bunch of kidnappings
in Beacon Hills back in like the seventies and eighties and a bunch of animal attacks
that fit with the action in both the video game and the book.
It's so obvious.
Based on real life or not, a lot of Beacon Hills 90s kids grew up playing this
game and now they can remember those times fondly with Paul's newest, limited edition,
Back to Beacon Hills Design. The link to the merch store is above and in the description.
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Okay, you guys need to let me know where my theory about the oni completely falls apart,
That’s what the comments section, is for, after all.
On a personal note, let’s talk about my recent health issues, if you’re interested.
(slurred) Hello there. I'm Paul Rea from the official teen Wolf Wiki. And today I'll bring you up
to date with everything I know about casting for the planned Teen Wolf movie on Paramount Plus.
Yeah,
So that is how my real voice sounds currently, and why I’m still using
a voice clone months after an oral surgery went wrong back in November, .
I mean, it didn’t go all Dread Doctors, Donovan wrong. but I did end up with a broken jaw.
My lawyer would only let me do this update if I promised not to use words like "botched".
"malpractice", or "completely effed up". She also wouldn’t let me use my real
xrays so these are just examples of the type of injuries I suffered and
treatments I’ve had and do not reflect the full extent of my own injuries,
Anyway, the broken jaw meant I was wired shut for several weeks. This was supposed to facilitate
healing of the fracture but instead I suffered more bone loss and several teeth had to come out.
I’ve now had bone grafts to reconstruct the damaged areas and facilitate new dental implants.
The new implants should go in this March. Until then, while I can talk, I don’t sound like myself.
(slurred) My special focus has been teen Wolf due to my involvement with the official Wiki.
Yeah, um, no. I don’t want to be remembered like that.
so I’m going to stick with the voice clone until I feel I can speak as clearly as I did before.
Thanks for understanding and I’ll see you next time we go back to Beacon Hills.