Yaotsu (ヤオツサマ, Yaotsu-sama^?), also known as God (神 (かみ) , Kami^?), is an incredibly powerful being originating from Indignia. They serve as one of the natural enemies featured in Versus.

Appearance

Yaotsu has a slender, androgynous humanoid form, with skin composed of pure white, pure black, and grey tones. These colors blend together in intricate, swirling patterns in some areas, while others remain monochromatic. Their hair is extremely voluminous, flowing, and of a pale hue. Bushy eyebrows and prominent lashes, both the same shade as their hair, accentuate their gaze. Each iris contains two concentric rings, and each pupil is marked by seven small dots. Additionally, Yaotsu can manifest multiple eyes within their hair.^[1]

When angered, the swirling lines across their skin shift, concentrating heavily to the left side of their face and torso into sharply defined black and white regions, with minimal grey remaining. Along the blackened region, numerous eyes—each bearing concentric irises with a dotted pupil—manifest, spreading across their hair, torso, and arm. These eyes vary in size, with those embedded in the hair growing larger than those nearer or on their body, and all emit a pure-white glow. Their hair, already voluminous, becomes increasingly animated and cloud-like, dispersing and expanding in fluid plumes around their form—including their eyebrows and lashes.

Personality

Yaotsu exhibits a volatile and almost immature temperament defined by their self-image as a god. They respond to prayers not out of compassion, but as cues for divine performance, arriving in exaggerated displays of power that reinforce their status, such as conjuring a volcano or manifesting a colossal avatar to theatrically destroy threats. They also enjoy visible displays of wealth, such as grand temples, towering symbols and ziggurats, and piles of golden treasures.

They are highly reactive to reverence or its absence. Praise elicits joviality and theatrical generosity, while uncertainty or failure to acknowledge their divinity quickly provokes offense and extremity. This includes turning weaponry to sand or distorting mortal wishes in grotesque ways, often fulfilling them literally but without regard for intent. Though often smiling or amused, Yaotsu’s kindness appears highly conditional and performative.

Plot

Background

At some point in the past, Yaotsu emerged from the collective devotion of their people and instilled a deep-seated fear among the populace by means yet to be understood.^[2]

Demons vs Aliens Arc

When Daikokuzan annihilates a colossal warship belonging to the Madalans, resulting in a tremendous explosion, it draws the attention of Yaotsu, reclining atop a vast pile of gold and treasure.^[3]

Lawless Kyokai Arc

As a parasite evolves and becomes a Super Wurm while rampaging across Kyokai's headquarters, the Lawless humans get on their knees and begin praying for salvation. Naurai sees this and yells at them not to pray, knowing that their prayers will grab Yaotsu's attention, but it is too late. The deity's attention is drawn to their plight.^[4]

Hearing their prayers, Yaotsu generates a volcano from underneath the ruins of the city, rising up behind the Super Wurm. Suddenly, the gigantic hand of an avatar appears in the air gripping an equally gigantic fork, stabbing the Super Wurm with it before lifting and dipping it into the lava at the top of the volcano as a means of cooking it. With the Super Wurm cooked, Yaotsu's avatar proceeds to consume it before gazing down at the humans who had prayed for salvation. Yaotsu’s face in the sky was seen as far as from the Combined Forces of Humanity Headquarters, noticeable to Iglay and Hiroshi, though they were unable to understand the phenomena.^[5]

Yaotsu's avatar and the volcano disappear in an instant, with their humanoid form descending to the human's below. A bed of flowers appears underneath Yaotsu as they touch upon the ground, before they smile and ask whether the humans were seeking a god.^[6] When Yaotsu receives no answer, they again ask, who called him and why they hesitate to answer. When Zaybi speaks, thanking Yaotsu for saving them and stating that they are really powerful, Yaotsu is pleased, spitting out the Super Wurm—who is now a tiny trembling worm—declaring they are an almighty God, that the terrifying worm was but a plaything to a God like them, and that it was scarcely the tip of their powers, all while laughing jovially.^[7] However, when Zaybi makes the mistake of explicitly acknowledging Yaotsu as "really the God of Indignia", they grow angry at the notion that someone would not know them. Naurai warns Zaybi to pray and beg for their forgiveness while Yaotsu lifts Zaybi from the ground. Keila and her men lift their guns in alarm but Zaybi shouts at them not to do anything as he explains to Yaotsu that they are residents of a different world that lacked any almighty being and thus could not have known them.^[8] This calms Yaotsu down, who with a gesture turns Keila's Anti-Machine Combat Forces' guns to sand.^[9]

Yaotsu—now smiling again—tells them to be grateful before asking what they sought from their God. Naurai attempts to speak but is shoved aside by three Lawless thugs. The first asks for food until his stomach swells, the second asks for his brother to be resurrected, and the third asks a new safe place to call home.^[10] Yaotsu fulfils their wishes in order but not how they envisioned. A torrent of food rushes into the first thug's mouth until his stomach explodes and the head of the dead brother sprouts from the second thug's face. The last thug tries to retract his wish but Yaotsu turns the Kyokai Headquarters into a walled temple city such as those in Indignia,^[11] declaring that God shall be with them as they seat themselves at the peak of the largest pyramid.

Abilities

The inhabitants of Indignia regard Yaotsu as an omnipotent and omniscient entity.^[12] Due to Yaotsu's power, they harbor a dread of divine retribution.^[13] It appears that Yaotsu can be called by prayer, with humans from Indignia struggling not to resort to it when under extreme stress as well as panicking when others pray.^[14][15][16]

Yaotsu's power does not appear to have any cost, rules, or limitations thus far, effectively functioning as a form of reality warping. They are capable of generating a massive avatar that far eclipses a Super Wurm in size, effortlessly stabbing and lifting it.^[17] They can manipulate the environment on a massive scale, as shown when they created a volcano to cook the Super Wurm^[18] or when they near-instantly transformed the entire Kyokai Headquarters into a temple city, complete with lush palm trees despite the barren wasteland prior^[11]. Furthermore, they can alter matter on the atomic level—capable of turning complex guns into sand—and can even generate matter from nothing, such as creating an abundant array of food items.

They can also seemingly resurrect dead people, though they have not done so properly yet.^[19]

Trivia

• So far, Yaotsu, the Curse, and Robots are the only Natural Enemies that were created by mankind rather than being an enemy force that appeared and overpowered humanity.

References

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Curse • Demons (Great Demon King Army) • Game • God • Kaiju • The Lawless (Kyokai • Titan Weapons) • Madalans • Nature (Avoidashroom • Tyrant Bear) • Neo-Humans • Parasites (Wild Beast Wurm • Super Wurm) • Robots (Naver) • Titans (Brothers of Hundred Arms) • World Tree