Where Does the Myachi Glyph Come From?

by Crazy Ivan


It was a post on Facebook that alerted me to this grave discrepancy in the Myachi Blog's history.  For some crazy reason, I've never talked about the origins of the Myachi Glyph, the most important symbol of Myachidom, on this blog.

It should have been one of the first articles I ever wrote.  It should have been one of the main reasons I started writing a blog in the first place, but somehow I've managed to neglect this explanation for well over a year now.

So where does the Myachi Glyph come from?  The short answer is that it comes from Myachi Man.  The slightly longer answer is that it comes from Myachi Man watching video of Myachi Man doing the Cold Fusion.

The Cold Fusion is the signature trick of Myachi.  It's easy to learn, it's hard to master and there are literally hundreds of variations on this simple hand to hand swap move.  It's one of the first tricks that Myachi players learn and it's almost always the first one they truly master.  One of the quickest ways to distinguish a new player from a veteran is to watch them do a Cold Fusion.

And it has been so since the very beginning.  This was one of the first moves Myachi Man ever did with his new invention (and by some accounts it was the very first, though he admits that his memory might not be 100% on this one).  One thing we can say for certain is that it has been part of the Pantheon of Beloved Myachi Tricks as long as such a pantheon has existed.

So it is quite fitting that the inspiration for the symbol that means Myachi should be derived from this move.

The easiest way to visualize it is to think of someone jamming with glowsticks.  Imagine they've got a glowstick on their Myachi and one on the middle finger of each hand.  Now imagine they're doing a Cold Fusion quickly, but not insanely fast.

That's the pattern that is (more or less) traced out in the sky as the Myachi and the hands move together.  I say more or less because the motion of the Myachi is somewhat exaggerated on this diagram.  The drop from the first throw doesn't shift and start going straight down and the scooping catch from the opposite hand doesn't shift the Myachi way up, so this is just an approximation.  Obviously if you just used the exact movements, it wouldn't be as impressive as a company logo:

But this was Myachi Man's artistic expression of the pattern he was seeing and I think all of us who choose to wear the Myachi glyph on our clothing can appreciate the fact that he wasn't too literal with it.