Dullahan Physiology

Dullahan Physiology
Headless Horsemen
Power/Ability to:	Use the traits of Dullahan

Power to use the abilities of Dullahan. Variation of Fairy Physiology.

Also Called

• Dullahan Mimicry
• Headless Horseman Mimicry/Physiology

Capabilities

User with this ability either is or can transform into an Dullahan a headless humanoid faerie, usually seen riding a black horse and carrying their head. The head's eyes are massive and constantly dart about like flies, while the mouth is constantly in a hideous grin that touches both sides of the head. The flesh of the head is said to have the color and consistency of moldy cheese.

The dullahan's whip is actually a human corpse's spine, and the wagons they sometimes use are made of similarly funereal objects (e.g. candles in skulls to light the way, the spokes of the wheels made from thigh bones, the wagon's covering made from a worm-chewn pall). When the dullahan stops riding, it is where a person is due to die: the dullahan calls out their name, at which point they immediately perish.

There is no way to bar the road against a dullahan — all locks and gates open on their own when it approaches. Also, they do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so (often a mark that they are among the next to die), or even lashing out the watchers' eyes with their whips. Nonetheless, they are frightened of gold, and even a single gold pin can drive a dullahan away.

Applications

• Access and Occlusion
• Death Inducement
  • Death Song by naming the victim.
• Death Sense
• Enhanced Vision
  • Telescopic Vision
• Fear Inducement
• Head Liberation
  • Headlessness
• Whip Manipulation

Associations

• Celtic Deity Physiology
• Fairy Physiology
• Grim Reaper Physiology
• Undead Physiology

Limitations

• Frightened by gold, even a single gold pin can drive a dullahan away.
• The lack of a head may leave the user without their senses of sight, taste and smell.

Known Users

Folklore/Mythology

• Dullahan (Celtic Mythology/Folklore)
• Headless Horseman (European Folklore)

Television

• Headless Horseman (Legacies)
• Death (Sleepy Hollow)

Manga/Anime

• Yuri Alpha (Overlord)
• Celty Sturluson (Durarara!!)
• Kyōko Machi (Interviews with Monster Girls)
• Dullahan (Konosuba)
• Dullahans (Monster Musume)
  • Lala
• Dullahan (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)
• Dullahan (Ragnarok)

Video Games

• Dullahan (Castlevania)
• Horseless Headless Horseman/Silas Mann (Team Fortress 2)

RPGs

• Dullahan (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Dullahan (Pathfinder)

Gallery

Dullahan (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)

Dullahan (Castlevania)

Celty Sturluson (Durarara!!) at home...

... riding to battle.

The Headless Horseman (Legacies), not shown with his human-spine whip

Though stubborn and intellectual at first, the true feelings of a Dullahan (Monster Girl Encyclopedia) are revealed when the head is unattached.

Lala (Monster Musume)

Yuri Alpha (Overlord)

Dullahan (Pathfinder)

Dullahan (Ragnarok)

Sometime after Silas Mann's (Team Fortress 2) physical death, he became the undead Horseless Headless Horseman.