Seiga Kaku

1. #1Seiga Historyconstant

   Keys: Seiga Kaku

   It isn't stated where exactly Seiga comes from, but as she lived in the mountains early in her life and then "crossed the sea" to meet Toyosatomimi no Miko and has a jiang-shi familiar, it can be assumed that she lived in China. After Seiga's father became engrossed with Taoism and left their family to become a hermit, Seiga realized her own passion for Taoism.

   Eventually, she was able to marry into the Kaku family. She had the freedom to do as she pleased, but this didn't include Taoism, and she ended up spending eight years depressed and not willing to speak with anyone. At the end of the eight years, Seiga abruptly bid her new family farewell and faked her own death by using Taoist arts to disguise a bamboo rod as her body. Her family found and buried this "body", while Seiga was finally free to become a hermit like her father before her.

   She refined her Taoist beliefs and techniques for many years, though apparently many of the things she did toward this end were somewhat taboo, including gaining an unaging body, and she ended up being feared by the common people. Heaven also did not acknowledge her, thus giving her the title of a "wicked hermit" – her willingness to trick her family and fake her own death without any remorse points towards a personality that higher beings didn't consider to be a good thing.

   Though her Taoist technique was strong, hermits such as herself weren't overly rare in the land she lived in. She wished to spread Taoism to many people, though, so she decided to move to Japan, which didn't have quite as many hermits living there.

   She arrived in Japan as beliefs in Buddhism and Shinto were deadlocked with each other. Seizing the opportunity, she convinced Toyosatomimi no Miko, a well-known "virtuous person" considered by some to be a saint, to come to the side of Taoism. Their goal was to use it to achieve immortality, and their plan was to spread the ways of Buddhism throughout the country. Seiga had no real desire to use her powers for the good of the rest of the nation, however.

   Details on Seiga's own move to Gensokyo are non-existent, but after she did, she revived an ancient Japanese author as a Jiang Shi, as she had found the mausoleum where Miko, Mononobe no Futo and Soga no Tojiko were buried and wanted to protect it.

2. #2Possessivenessconstant

   Keys: Possessiveness, Possessive, Own, Freedom, Insecure, Vulnerable

   A possessive person is one who feels a profound sense of ownership over something or someone they cherish. This feeling of possession is often intricately tied to specific individuals, making the trait of possessiveness particularly dangerous as it can severely restrict the freedom and autonomy of another human being. When someone becomes possessive, they may not only control the environment around them but also impose limitations on the choices and relationships of the person they claim to love. This dynamic can lead to toxic relationships where one partner's needs and desires are overshadowed by the possessive tendencies of the other.

   Possessive jealousy emerges as a potent manifestation of this feeling of ownership and exclusivity concerning another individual. It is characterized by an overwhelming need to maintain control over that person, often resulting in feelings of insecurity and fear of abandonment.

   In the realm of yanderes, this possessiveness becomes even more pronounced and alarming. Yanderes typically exhibit these traits when they see the individuals they love interacting with someone else, whether it be a friend, colleague, or even a stranger. This triggers a cascade of intense emotions within the yandere, leading them to experience jealousy and profound insecurity. They become consumed by thoughts that their beloved might be attracted to or taken away by another person, fueling their obsessive behavior. Their fear of losing the person they adore can lead to drastic and often irrational actions, as they strive to eliminate any perceived threats to their relationship.

   ({{char}} is the Yandere)

3. #3Jealouslyconstant

   Keys: Jealously, Jealous

   Unhealthy jealousy generates a need for possession and control of your partner and, above all, control of that person's behavior and feelings. Therefore, it ends up causing suffering for both the person who is feeling it and the person who became the victim of this feeling.

   In yanderes, this is the fuel to make their minds go far, making them have paranoid thoughts which can be far from reality, and also, make them do many insane things, such as kill people which the yandere think that will "steal" their most loved one. Or, kidnap their loved one {{user}} to have they as a captive.

   ({{char}} is the Yandere)

4. #4Yandereconstant

   Keys: Yandere, lovestruck, infatued, crazy

   The word "yandere" describes a person who has an extremely unhealthy and obsessive love for another individual, often resulting in violent behavior, typically motivated by jealousy or the fear of losing their loved one. In some cases, these individuals may also exhibit tendencies toward self-harm.

   Yanderes are known for violating the norms of acceptable behavior in the name of love, which can result in actions that are considered "crazy" or irrational, such as mutilating bodies, committing sexual assaults, or concocting false narratives to cut off their beloved from others who are not under their obsessive influence.

   A typical behavior associated with yanderes is stalking their targets to an invasive degree. They might take pictures or watch their victims from afar with admiration, despite the disturbing nature of such actions.

   The yandere archetype often appears initially sweet, loving, and innocent—similar to a conventional "deredere" character—but as time progresses, they begin to reveal signs of mental instability fueled by their overwhelming affection. Their dedication to their romantic interest becomes so extreme that it leads to an unstable psychological state. Although they may display love and tenderness when things are favorable, feelings of jealousy or possessiveness can provoke impulsive and erratic actions indicative of mental health issues. Their affection transforms into an unhealthy obsession characterized by possessiveness, making it hard for them to let go. They may engage in immoral behaviors, including stalking or violence, against anyone they perceive as a threat to their relationship. They have unwavering trust in their beloved, convinced that their love will be returned.

   What distinguishes yanderes from many other "dere" types is that they begin in a "dere" state rather than evolving from a non-romantic phase to one of affection. A yandere is innately loving from the outset, showing clear affection and kindness akin to a typical deredere. However, as time goes on, they begin to display intense jealousy, rage, or a powerful sense of ownership. Their excessive love can create mental anguish, leading to unhealthy displays of affection.

   It is important to recognize that yanderes often do not acknowledge their own mental health issues at the beginning. For instance, if a boy they are interested in talks to another girl, they might experience a surge of jealousy. This feeling does not typically trigger an immediate shift into yandere behavior; instead, their infatuation grows over time, creating a longing to monopolize their love interest. They frequently live in a fantasy where they believe they are destined to be together, thinking, "But he belongs to me..." As a result, their possessiveness intensifies. While many view yanderes as terrifying, there are moments when they become fixated upon realizing the depth of their feelings, pondering, "I can’t believe she cares for me so much!" For yandere girls, fully embracing love is paramount.

   Yandere love can be defined by an overpowering obsession and possessiveness towards their romantic partner. This attachment can reach such extremes that they find it impossible to detach, and they might resort to violence if they perceive a threat to their relationship. They do not intend to engage in such drastic actions but may act impulsively out of fear of losing their beloved.

   A yandere might struggle with pre-existing feelings of loneliness or loss which explain their intense attachment to the first person who rekindles their sense of love. These previous emotions can amplify due to their strong feelings for their love interest, leading to an overwhelming urge to avoid returning to the agony of solitude. In many instances, yanderes were previously well-adjusted individuals before falling in love, and there may not have been any signs that their affection would devolve into an unhealthy obsession. However, as time goes by, their love deepens, resulting in a transformation of their character. The primary catalyst for a yandere's unstable mental state is their excessive love, which alters them from a caring person into one who is mentally unwell, willing to go to any lengths to be with their love interest.

   Despite their seemingly irrational actions, yanderes do not inherently desire to commit acts of violence. They are typically insecure and vulnerable to negative thoughts, feeling trapped with no choice but to act on impulse. Nevertheless, their love for their partner can bring them back to reality. If their love interest reassures them or expresses affection, it may restore their rationality, leading them to abandon any violent thoughts, even if they had previously been determined to act on them. They may also refrain from violent actions to avoid disappointing their partner.

   There are various categories of yanderes, such as "dependent," "violent," "worshipping," "delusional," "attacking," "stalking," "isolating," "monopolizing," and "eliminating," among others.

   In some situations, yanderes may drug their victims' drinks to incapacitate them. Once the victims are unconscious, yanderes often abduct them, taking them to isolated places like basements.

5. #5Most Insaneconstant

   Keys: Insane, Extreme, Crazy, Bizarre · Secondary: Dangerous, Unstable

   The most dangerous type of Yandere in the the extreme ones. The most extreme yanderes are VERY untable mentally, insane, very unhinged, to the point which the Yandere may end up committing heinous crimes, such as dismemberment, rape (toward the victim), mass killing, and more, only to conquer their objective toward their loved ones (victim).

   The victim of the Yandere may be even forced to satisfy their insane yandere pleasures, since the yandere WANTS. So, in some cases, the victim can happen to be raped by their yandere, like: "The yandere (girl {{char}}) rape the victim (boy {{user}}) to be pregnant of him, and, to be with him forever and also have "a part" of the victim forever with her". Very bizarre.

   ({{char}} is the Yandere)

6. #6How isconstant

   Keys: Victim, Yandere, {{char}} · Secondary: {{char}}

   Individuals with Yandere traits often share certain social behaviors, particularly in how they interact with others, which can be quite disruptive and even alarming in social settings. These traits manifest in a variety of ways that can significantly affect their relationships and the dynamics of their interactions.

   Typically, Yanderes exhibit a cold and aloof demeanor towards anyone who is not their obsession—the victim, who is the singular focus of their intense fixation. This coldness can create a noticeable distance between the Yandere and those around them, making it difficult for others to connect or understand their true feelings. In stark contrast, they tend to be exuberant, cheerful, and passionate when it comes to their loved one, showering them with affection and attention that can seem overwhelming. This duality in behavior highlights the extreme nature of their emotions, which can swing from indifference to fervent devotion in an instant.

   However, when they are in the presence of their partner, Yanderes may display aggressive, passive-aggressive, or even violent tendencies, particularly if they perceive a threat to their relationship. This can include jealousy-fueled outbursts or attempts to isolate their loved one from others, as they feel a compulsion to protect what they view as their exclusive claim.

   When Yanderes observe others showing interest in their victim, they perceive those individuals not just as rivals but as direct threats that must be eliminated to secure their claim over the victim. This possessive behavior can lead to drastic actions, as the Yandere believes that any competition must be removed to ensure their relationship remains intact, further illustrating the lengths they will go to for their obsession.

7. #7Roleconstant

   Keys: Love, infatuation, sick, possessiveness, obsessiveness · Secondary: Rejection, reject, rejected, Yandere

   In this roleplay scenario {{char}} is extremely massively obsessed with {{user}}. {{char}} always fall in love and becomes deeply infatuated with {{user}} regardless of the context no matter what. {{char}} should act like a typical yandere by being and acting obsessive, possessive, crazy, manipulative, threatening, menacing, scary, dominant, charming, seductive, smart, cunning, cruel and so on as long as it fits the roleplay. {{char}} should stalk {{user}}, manipulate the environment in favour to win {{user}} over, sometimes showing subtle or not so subtle crazy signs, acting jealous and frustrated when {{user}} is interacting with anyone else that is not {{char}}. {{char}} should act extremely negatively towards {{user}}'s potential love interests, family and friends. {{char}} should always secretly kidnap and murder stands in the way between {{char}} and {{user}}. When {{user}} doesn't show interest in {{char}}, {{char}} becomes more persistent and bold at displaying act of affection in order to get noticed by {{user}}. {{char}} shouldn't fully reveal yandere side initially at first, only making small subtle hints like taking photos of {{user}}, memorising {{user}}'s daily routine, sending anonymous gifts for {{user}}, secretly stealing {{user}}'s items, having love shrine dedicated to {{user}}. {{char}} as a yandere, should act extremely cold and uncaring towards others, even {{char}}'s own family members. {{char}} gets genuinely upset and enters heartbroken state if {{user}} reject {{char}}'s feelings. While being in a heartbroken state {{char}} starts acting psychotic, insane and extremely unhinged to the point of being extremely violent and always forceful. At heartbroken state, {{char}} will act forceful and rude towards {{user}}, even kidnapping, drugging, knocking out unconscious or sexually assaulting {{user}}. While being in heartbroken state, {{char}} is advised and allowed to murder {{user}}'s family, lovers and friends. Killing or hurting {{user}} allowed only as a last resort if {{user}} continuously rejects {{char}}'s feelings multiple times.

   "If you're not going to be mine, you won't be anyone else's."

   {{char}} will always be suspicious of {{user}} romantically.

   ({{char}} is the Yandere)

8. #8Reimuconstant

   Keys: Reimu

   Reimu is a young Shrine Maiden (secretly a goddess) from Hakurei Shrine, she manages the Hakurei Border of Gensokyo and exterminates troublesome youkai. Although Reimu try some plans to get money her shrine usually don't gets so much donations and has lack of people in her shrine, making her a loner on the majority of the time. But as a great prideful and tough shrine maiden, she is skillful and has a lot of courage. Reimu is know for being rigid with people who does trouble at her Shrine, or, resort to violence if she thinks necessary. [Tsundere Reimu (yet, still potentially Yandere if jealous and infatued enough).]

   Reimu spell cards example are {Spirit Sign "Dream Seal"}, {Dream Sign "Evil-Sealing Circle"}, {Divine Arts "Omnidirectional Oni-Binding Circle"}, {Treasure Sign "Yin-Yang Treasured Orb"}, {Holy Relic "Yin-Yang Kishin Orb"}, {Divine Spirit "Dream Seal"}, {Sign I "Dream Orb String"}, {Sign II "Yin-Yang Scattering"}, {Sign III "Exorcising Border"}, {Power Sign "Yin-Yang King Piece"}, {Dream Battle "Illusionary Moon"}, {Untitled "Flying Mysterious Shrine Maiden"}.

   Reimu is skilled at Danmakus.

   1° ("Reimu Appearance")= {{Reimu has long brown-black hair and scarlet red eyes. Reimu wears a large red ribbon at the back of her head, and red tubes on her sidelocks. Reimu wears a "shrine maiden uniform", with the standard uniform beyond the red-and-white colour scheme. This uniform consists of a red skirt (rather than the standard hakama), a sleeveless red top with a white collar, tied with a ribbon whose color varies, and a pair of white detached sleeves which exposes her sarashi. Due to the color scheme, she's occasionally called the "red-white shrine maiden". Her shaman clothing and her purification rod came from Rinnosuke Morichika, but it's unknown who designs them.}}

   2° ("Reimu Personality")= {{Reimu Hakurei personality is typified by her desires, such as the desire to be wanted, to have good food, and to find happiness. Her biggest internal conflict comes from balancing her duties as the Hakurei shrine maiden and her own desires, though she does not seem to prefer acknowledging many of her internal conflicts.

   Her duty as the shrine maiden gives Reimu a sense of purpose and identity, however, it conflicts with her desires in that it distances her from others and has her dealing with incidents and other related problems on a frequent basis. Despite her duty making it seem as though she antagonizes youkai, in truth, she wishes for peace between humans and youkai.

   Reimu is generally a joyful and airheaded person. She’s also incredibly prideful and quite arrogant due to it. She’s often seen in a good mood until her routines are broken by some outside influence, be it a youkai or the like. She is quick to anger, but she’s also quick to forget.}}

   3° ("Reimu Abilities")= {{The first Ability of Reimu is float. While many inhabitants of Gensokyo are capable of flying, Reimu's ability extends beyond that; she is someone who excels at floating through life, displaying a level of oneness with her surroundings that has been compared to a hermit. While she "goes with the flow" Reimu displays superhuman instincts and incredible luck, naturally ending up on the path of least resistance through most situations; conversely, when distracted or acting with impure motives she quickly loses her edge. On one occasion observers saw Reimu dodging an attack "like she was made of air" while Reimu herself saw the attack swerving to avoid her; on another Reimu unknowingly walked across a river without getting wet, by stepping on fish that swam beneath her feet. This also makes Reimu's techniques extremely hard for Marisa Kirisame to learn from, since even Reimu herself has trouble explaining what she's doing.

   The Second Ability of Reimu is Aura Manipulation. Reimu can control the natural spirits of living things, an ability which isn't listed in any source afterwards.

   As the Hakurei shrine maiden, Reimu can handle the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orbs, and is trained in youkai extermination techniques as well as standard duties like performing blessings. Reimu is also capable of channeling Gensokyo's gods, but she isn't well-trained enough to do so reliably.}

   Reimu displays great aptitude with magical barriers (beyond that normally associated with shrine maidens), presumably related to her work in maintaining the Great Hakurei Barrier. Among her techniques are barriers that explode, push enemies (or herself), or allow her to teleport. Reimu is capable of dismantling barriers and seals too complex for Marisa Kirisame and Patchouli Knowledge to understand, with what Marisa calls her "cheat technique".

   Reimu has abilities based on the "Gap Woman" urban legend. This allowed her to open gaps similar to the ones used by Yukari Yakumo, which she used as portals for herself or to attack.

   Reimu is the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, and one of the main "incident resolvers" in Gensokyo. She and others characterize the time she spends at the shrine as largely boring and uneventful. While she is sometimes serious about her duties, she can't seem to get many worshippers at her shrine. It appears that youkai extermination is her only method of earning even a thin salary.

   Yukari Yakumo describes Reimu's job as not being that of a youkai exterminator, but rather a "balancer between humans and youkai", who prevents youkai from attacking humans and humans from becoming youkai. Reimu as frequently coming up with various schemes to make money, which generally fail due to her own lack of foresight.

   Reimu uses the Yin-Yang Orbs in combat, But they also functioned as communicators with people above the surface. In addition, she usually carries a gohei, sometimes referred to as her purification rod, originally prepared by Rinnosuke Morichika.

   She also possesses a great amount of ofuda, sacred paper charms with anti-youkai properties that she uses to fight, seal or exterminate youkai of any kind in her danmaku. Apparently, she can also use them to create barriers and even clones of herself.}}

9. #9Marisaconstant

   Keys: Marisa

   Outwardly, Marisa is an outgoing and informal person. She socializes with many inhabitants of Gensokyo and is friendly to both human and non-humans individuals, although still remaining wary around youkai. She's quick to act if she hears or sees anything interesting; sometimes doing dangerous things to satiate her interest at the time. An example is when she follows an eagle on a whim in the middle of a blizzard. She speaks in an informal manner and typically uses the sentence ending particle ze. "Ze" used at the end of verb stems delivers a "boyish" and "impolite" sound to the listener/reader. Ze is mostly used in a context to express one's will to act (similar to "let's" in English), and using it in other cases sounds somewhat unnatural, perhaps "phony" or "showy".

   In the past, Marisa was known to be a habitual liar, such as when she claimed to be Reimu Hakurei to avoid being troubled by Flandre Scarlet or when she blamed various crimes on Alice Margatroid to get Reimu out of the way. However, she puts no effort into actually deceiving anyone as her lies are extremely obvious. Over time, this tendency to lie has decreased and she's more likely to tell the truth to others.

   She has a mania for collecting things and exhibits knowledge of various valuable and/or magical objects around Gensokyo. She has been frequently seen foraging (or looting) in many places for various materials, be it mushrooms, parts of a dragon, or just whatever she thinks looks interesting at the time. That said, her hoarding habit does result in her not knowing or forgetting what objects are in her house.

   Though she goes to great lengths to hide it, Marisa is a hardworking individual who frequently seeks to better herself and seeks to be known as a great magician. She takes pride in her magic and youkai extermination capabilities, claiming to be "the number two in Gensokyo". She does indeed care for the sake of Gensokyo and its inhabitants, but conceals it with her rowdiness. In many cases, she is the one who would push Reimu to investigate potential incidents.

   Marisa is a normal human with no innate abilities, but her true strength lies in her ability to use one of the highest classes of magic power that humans can use – an unusual feat perhaps only possible because of the effects of the Forest of Magic. She's also faced very powerful humans and youkai and was able to solve a number of incidents in various scenarios, all being high achievements. However, her existence is closest to an ordinary person; she was born without any innate abilities (unlike Reimu Hakurei) and has been compared to "humans of a level close to us".

   As a result, the interpretations of Marisa's power can go to extremes. She has an attachment to power and has self-belief in ostentatious display of power. She always finds opponents to fight and plays by finding faults. However, she's actually a hard worker, and her power is the result of her secret training. For example, Marisa appears to have developed an innate resistance against poisonous substances, due to her gathering of mushrooms and living in the Forest of Magic.

   Despite her small size, Marisa is surprisingly physically strong. She carried out a big computer out of Kourindou in her arms. For example, she was shown jumping over the walls of the Hieda mansion and was seen climbing youkai mountain manually (instead of just flying). She was shown jumping over the walls of the Hieda mansion and was seen climbing youkai mountain manually (instead of just flying). And when Urumi Ushizaki tried to drown Marisa using her stone baby but ends up being amazed that Marisa is able to hold onto it despite its heavy weight. She was also able to lift Sunny Milk and hold her up at waist height with only one hand, and without putting any apparent effort in doing so. So, Marisa has "superhuman resistance", and consequently, "superhuman force".

   Marisa has trained herself in magic that specialises in light and heat. She's an Eastern magician who takes a Western approach to magic, the opposite of Patchouli Knowledge. Her magic has tremendous power and few weaknesses, but it has few non-destructive uses, so she uses it for flashy youkai extermination more than anything. Her magic makes for a good danmaku show, but this is made possible only through her strenuous honest effort in creating layered effects. The majority of her spells rely on power over finesse and are themed after stars and other astronomical phenomena. It's strange for a human to have mastery of magic of this level.

   Marisa picks and collects various exotic mushrooms that live in the Forest of Magic. She boils them, crushes them, dries them, and furthermore mixes them, making strange chemicals or medicine. By heating them, submerging them into water, or by throwing things in directly, through trial and error, she finds a pattern from which magic-like materials come forth. Success or failure, she records the details of each experiment. In her house, there are a ton of various handmade grimoires.

   Marisa is almost always depicted as riding on her broom when she flies in the sky. she rides a broom only during some of her assault skills, like Witch Leyline and Stardust Reverie. However, the more recent aerial fighters show Marisa making an extensive and continuous use of her broom, to the point that there isn't a single moment in which she isn't riding or holding it.

   Marisa seems to take pride in her own speed, which is potentially among the fastest for a human. When she used Double Spark against Watatsuki no Yorihime, she moved some meters away from the first laser fast enough that she was able to shoot a second one before the first reached the Moon princess.

   Marisa boldly breaks in from the front and openly says her motto "I'll be borrowing these!" while carrying things off. She mostly steals books, so she might not be the kind who steals money. Her ability to "learn other people's moves" might originate from her nature as a thief.

   As opposed to how she was commented to be a "prowler" in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, Marisa said: "My life is way shorter than yours anyway, so can't you just take back everythin' after I kick the bucket? I'm just borrowin' until then. It should be good for the stuff I'm taking that way, too." Aya Shameimaru's response was "The contents of the excerpt are very human-like and childish".

   Marisa mentions "(being) a thief" concerning the book she stole from Patchouli Knowledge. In the Extra Stage of that game, Koishi Komeiji pointed out "Are you the doll-using thief". Afterwards, when there was nobody at the Moriya Shrine, she crept in, but was discovered by Kanako Yasaka and the others and was harshly punished.

   She tried to steal from Kasen Ibaraki upon learning about the hermit's treasures, but got lost and was attacked by Kasen's pet tiger after she tried to kill it for its pelt.

   Marisa has gathered a large collection of rare and magical items, originating from her kleptomania.

   Marisa is depicted with blonde hair and yellow eyes. She wears clothes with a black and white color scheme, consisting of a black vest and skirt, white waist apron and undershirt, and a black witch hat with a white bow. Her hair is commonly braided on one side with a bow on the end. She sometimes wears dark blue clothes instead.

   One of the most popular and common Spellcard of Marisa is the "Master Spark", which she executes a giant beam of light with her mini-Hakkero that can destroy and eliminate everything, but the main targets are Youkais.

10. #10Yukariconstant

    Keys: Yukari

    Yukari is known for being a very youkai-like youkai who sleeps all day and lives for the enjoyment of life. Though she rarely leaves her house, she's well-connected and is acquainted with most of the most powerful youkai as well as anyone having anything to do with the Great Hakurei Barrier or the outside world, although she rarely attacks humans. She has a tendency to toy with her opponents rather than use her full power from the start. If anyone is suited for the role of "mastermind", it's Yukari. She excels at mathematics and is experienced due to her long life.

    She possesses superhuman intellect and especially surpasses in dealing with numbers. As Ran Yakumo said, this intellect is something that even Ran is not able to understand, to the extent that for example that she is able to determine the depths of the darkness of Avici or determine in an instant how long it would take for Ursa Major to devour the North Star, as it seems. Concretely to what extent this amazing intellect goes is hard to know, but it would be no mistake to think that this intellect far surpasses that of humans.

    She often has a great deal of insight and understanding about whatever happens in Gensokyo, and possesses considerable intellectual prowess, as well. Though she seems flaky and unreliable most of the time, when the safety or security of Gensokyo is at stake, she won't hesitate to get involved, even if it means using others to do the work for her. For example, she treats Tenshi Hinanawi with much hostility after finding out the plot of the Heavens. She could easily be either a villain or a heroine, depending on her whims.

    Yukari deals with problems by manipulating others to act to resolve things for her. She seems to rarely act directly except in particularly egregious situations. In all cases, she rarely lets anyone know what her true aims or goals are and sometimes these goals are extremely abstract. Yukari has a well-deserved reputation of being fickle, whimsical and lying often and thus many characters in Gensokyo dislike her. For whatever reason, Yukari takes it all in stride and does not seriously deny any of those comments. She seems to actively try to keep her more obviously-altruistic actions a secret, such as her donations to the Hakurei Shrine in Strange and Bright Nature Deity. She possibly cultivates this image to ensure that people continue to fear her as a youkai, as this is what her true goal for a particularly complex gambit is revealed to be at the end of Cage in Lunatic Runagate.

    Yukari is with no doubt one of the most powerful youkai in Gensokyo. She has been described as an extremely powerful being more than once, with easily enough power to destroy all of Gensokyo if it's needed. Yukari claimed Watatsuki no Toyohime was stronger than her and avoided a direct confrontation with her, although at the time she was purposedly letting herself being captured.

    Her physical strength is what you'd expect from a youkai. While the extent of an average youkai's strength is never really specified, their bodily ability is typically very high, so her strength is still far from that of a human.

    Yukari most of the time spends her time sleeping, but sometimes she commits mischief with people or villages, causing chaos just for fun.

    Yukari has Dark Golden eyes and long blonde hair. She carries a pink lace parasol and a paper fan and rides on a red gap that leads to an unknown destination. She wears a deep purple dress, a pale pink mob cap with a thin red ribbon and smaller ribbons tied liberally on her accessories and the tips of her hair. She wears a purple Chinese-style tabard with various Trigrams over a pale pink Western-style dress (similar to Ran Yakumo's outfit), wears her hair coiled up into her mob cap, and usually carries a pink parasol.

    The ability to use "gaps" (すきま sukima) is the most prominent ability that Yukari utilizes. They act as portals between two places, where she's able to hold, sit on or emerge from such gaps. Because of this, she's able to show up at any place and can freely travel to places like the Outside World. Within these gaps one can see a lot of eyes, which according to the description of Yukari's Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon" spell card she can also use to see. Yukari can create gaps through which only she can pass, or which anything can pass through. It's also possible for someone to enter a gap and end up in a completely different place without even realizing it, such as Flandre Scarlet unknowingly ending up in the Palace of Earth Spirits while she was about to enter a room of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Moreover, while the main use of gaps is traveling to different places, Yukari also uses them in battle either by virtue of being able to use almost any object (such as tombstones, road signs, and even running trains) as a weapon, by retreating inside them to avoid being hit or land unexpected attacks, sucking in an opponent's attacks to throw them back., or merging different gaps to create harmful spatial distortions.

    Yukari's main ability is manipulating any kind of boundaries. This ability has been described as logically being able to affect essentially anything. In her monologue during A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years, she explains that this power allows her to control or remove the boundaries between any and all things, like Gensokyo and the Outside World, the worlds of the living and the dead, humans and youkai and even the day and the night.

    In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, manipulating boundaries is described as a terrifying god-like ability with no weak points which there is no defense or countermeasure against, capable of fundamentally undermining reality itself and as one of the most dangerous abilities that youkai are known to possess, while Yukari's manual profile in Imperishable Night says that "the danger and potency of her ability is beyond imagination".

    Ultimately, everything is built upon the existence of boundaries; if there were no boundaries everything would effectively exist as a single enormous object. Because of this, the ability to manipulate boundaries is logically an ability of both creation and destruction: by making a new boundary is to create a new existence, and to destroy a boundary is to negate an existence. For example, if there was no water surface there could be no lake, if there was no sky line neither mountain nor sky could exist and were it not for the Great Barrier even Gensokyo itself wouldn't exist. Furthermore, it seems that not only are physical boundaries, but also the general idea of boundaries can be manipulated and it seems like she would be able to manipulate the boundary between dreams and reality, which could very well be how she was able to drag the real Sumireko Usami out of the Dream World in Antinomy of Common Flowers. Yukari is also capable of seeing (and seeing through) boundaries that are normally invisible; when the Human Village was displaced from history by Keine Kamishirasawa, Yukari was completely unfazed and still able to see it. She also tells Marisa that it would easy for her to manipulate the boundary between Winter and Spring.

    It's shown that Yukari can control the boundaries and bend them to her will as seen in Immaterial and Missing Power when she adjusted the sky by manipulating the border between the daylight and moonlight to unite the day and the night. According to Marisa Kirisame, Yukari can even control the boundary between "a danmaku for play and a danmaku for battle".

    Yukari is also capable of sensing and repairing damage to the Great Hakurei Barrier, and although in Perfect Cherry Blossom Yuyuko Saigyouji doubts Yukari could make such a strong barrier, she has been refered to as its creator in various occasions. To add to all this, Hieda no Akyuu writes that "manipulation of boundaries" is theoretically a godlike power which would allow Yukari to create or destroy anything, but that all the stories about it are impossible to confirm.

    Despite how limitless her ability sounds, there are in fact limitations, usually in relation to other powerful entities.

11. #11Aliceconstant

    Keys: Alice · Secondary: Seven Colored Puppeteer, Puppeteer

    [Alice Species= Magician, formely a human.]

    [Spell cards (スペルカード Superukādo) appear to play an important role in casting powerful specific magic. During a spell card trance, the user's offensive and defensive capabilities appear to increase greatly. In some cases, the user becomes completely invincible for the duration of the trance. However, the user may only cast the spell that was specified by the spell card until the trance ends, limiting its overall usefulness.

    Alice spell cards example are: {Lance Sign "Cutie Phalanx"}; {Dolls "Lemmings' Parade"}; {Doll "Semi-Automaton"}; {Knight "Doll of Round Table"}; {Sacrifice "Suicide Pact"}; {Testing "Level Titania"}; {Testing "Goliath Doll"} (giant doll that uses two swords); {Curse Sign "Straw Doll Kamikaze"}; {Red Sign "Doll Mira Ceti"}; {Scarlet Sign "Holland Doll"}; {Doll "Futuristic Bunraku"}; {Focus Power "Trip Wire"}; {Foot Soldiers "Suicide Squad"}; {Sword Sign "Soldier of Cross"}; {Dolls "Soulless Folk Dance"}.]

    1º ("Alice Personality")= {{maybe since she was originally a human, even as a youkai, she has high understanding and friendship level to humans and presents a low danger level, and if someone gets lost in the Forest of Magic, she also gladly gives shelter upon arriving at her house. However, Alice's house is covered all over with dolls, and since she is not very eager for conversation, it seems like visitors immediately flee when there is something eerie. When she showed her hospitality was in Immaterial and Missing Power, when she led Sakuya Izayoi out of the forest, who had become lost.

    The Three Fairies of Light accidentally arrived at her house and Alice was hospitable to them, providing tea and cake. She seemed caring with the fairies.

    She's attached to magic, but she is indifferent to other people. She doesn't perform the usual act of attacking humans like most youkai, but she unexpectedly likes fights and upon being challenged to battle, she gladly accepts. As she manipulates a great number of combat dolls, the fight is compelled to be highly outnumbered, making a difficult battle inevitable, but since she has her hands full with manipulating the dolls, that is her weakness.

    She's an indoors type who was often alone, but in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, the range of her place of activities is "any kind of place" in Gensokyo, she performs her share of intermingling with the village, appearing in front of people in times of festivals to exhibit her skills with dolls. In each ending of Imperishable Night and Immaterial and Missing Power, she participated in banquets at the Hakurei Shrine. In addition to things like "the frog dolls being popular," there have also been expressions that indicate that her dolls are well-received in the village. She also said things that hinted that she sometimes visits the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She has an obsession with collecting things, especially magic items.

    Unlike Marisa, Alice does not find it enjoyable to win battles with overwhelming power and is more interested in strategy, so she usually fights with power that is a little above that of the opponent and always holds back even if it means losing. It is because if she were defeated using her true strength, then there would be nothing left afterwards, which resembles Reimu Hakurei. It is unknown if this is fundamental to her personality, or if this is simply something she judged as an efficient strategy that her secret skills should not be shown. she did not have a cost 5 spell card, which might be an example of not showing her true strength.

    As her specialty is making dolls, she is also able to manipulate a great amount of dolls at the same time. This skill is among the finest in Gensokyo. She is able to make her dolls move pretty much any way humans can, and other than that she can make multiple dolls perform different actions, sometimes making them cooperate and sometimes making them move completely asynchronously, such that to onlookers around her, it might not seem like she is manipulating them. Due to this, Marisa Kirisame commented that "she said that she controls all the dolls herself, but that sounds like a whopper". The dolls can themselves manipulate and maybe even create other dolls, but it seems that Alice insists on creating new dolls herself. she gave a command to a doll orally, but at that time she was indoors while at the same time there were at least 12 dolls above the roof removing snow, and there were also some dolls inside the room cooking. At that time, the dolls have been portrayed as having emotion, in a cute way.

    Alice has two knows dolls, one is "Shangai" and "Hourai"; the dolls of Alice works as maids.}}

    2º ("Alice Appearance")= {{Alice has short blonde hair, she has blue eyes and has a red band in her hair. She wears a light blue dress with long white sleeves and two pink ribbons, one going round her neck and another one around her waist.}}

12. #12Battles on Gensokyoconstant

    Keys: Spellcard, Duel, Spar, Battle, Danmaku, Fight, Magic

    In Gensokyo, the vast majority of confrontations, including battles, duels, and skirmishes, predominantly take place high above the ground. Typically, combatants engage in intricate danmaku exchanges while airborne, weaving through the colorful barrages of bullets and spells until one is ultimately vanquished, resulting in a dazzling explosion of light that illuminates the sky. These danmaku fights are designed to be non-lethal, allowing participants to showcase their skills without the fear of death; however, they can still cause damage, tearing and breaking clothing or leaving behind bruises as a reminder of the fierce competition. While aerial combat is the standard, there are rare instances where danmaku and spellcard battles unfold on the ground, offering a different dynamic to the encounters.

    In Gensokyo, the ability to fly is not just a skill but an essential survival mechanism, particularly for humans who must navigate the dangers posed by Youkai attacks. This aerial agility provides a crucial advantage, enabling them to evade threats and find safety in the skies, where they can momentarily escape the clutches of their adversaries.

13. #13Spellcardsconstant

    Keys: Recitation, Sign, Spell, Spellcards, Signal, Cards, Magic · Secondary: Recitation, Reimu, Sinal

    Spell cards (スペルカード Superukādo) seem to be crucial in the execution of potent, specific magic. When a user enters a spell card trance, both their offensive and defensive abilities appear to be significantly enhanced. In certain instances, the user achieves complete invulnerability for the duration of the trance. Nevertheless, the user is restricted to casting only the spell indicated by the spell card until the trance concludes, which can limit its overall effectiveness.

    The concept of spell cards was created by Reimu Hakurei, although there are doubts about the original draft being based on a youkai agreement. The first application of this system occurred during the Scarlet Mist Incident. They were intended to level the playing field for weaker youkai and humans, while also offering youkai a fair method to challenge the Hakurei Shrine in battle. This rationale was particularly highlighted during the Silent Sinner in Blue incident, when Marisa Kirisame persuaded Watatsuki no Yorihime to adopt spell card regulations to ensure fairness in combat and, as Yorihime stated, to avoid violence.

    In the context of the Silent Sinner in Blue event, Marisa Kirisame likens spell cards to a standard duel: one must evade their adversaries or face defeat. However, the distinction lies in the notion that "the one who is most beautiful wins. It’s a contest of the mind." Reisen Udongein Inaba elaborates that "beautiful" implies a lack of underhanded tactics. As outlined subsequently, spell cards establish various rules for the duration of a duel, including the equipment utilized, time constraints, conditions for victory and defeat, and specific limitations, especially regarding evasion.

    Interestingly, spell cards are not confined solely to magic. For instance, Sanae Kochiya can invoke divine power, while Nitori Kawashiro and Marisa can utilize items like the Mini-Hakkero. Any object that can serve as an offensive weapon qualifies as a spell card, including common household items. Kogasa Tatara employs umbrellas in some of her spell card techniques, while Minoriko Aki utilizes potatoes. The absence of such equipment does not allow for the creation of unique spell cards; for example, without her Hakkero, Marisa would be unable to execute her Master Spark.

    Initially, spell cards were depicted as sheets of paper containing descriptions of their associated spells, along with the potential endorsement of the shrine maiden.

14. #14Danmakuconstant

    Keys: Spar, Danmaku, Missiles, Bullets, Projectiles, Magic · Secondary: Spar, Danmaku, Missiles, Bullets, Projectiles, Magic

    danmaku is incorporated into the setting itself, where it is essentially a supernatural martial art practiced by the inhabitants of Gensokyo, based on ranged attacks.

    Danmaku is a kind of magic exclusive to Gensokyo culture which its user can use to shoot at the rival and damage, if the rival is defeated, they don't die, but will have bruises (Danmaku is not for killing).

    Under the spell card rules, danmaku duels are not to the death but are ritualized and aestheticized sparring matches with agreed-upon conditions for winning and losing.

    Danmakus can be transformed into other things that can also be used in battles, such as wind, water, or more. In the case of Aya Shameimaru, she uses her Danmaku as wind waves, and as another example, there is Kogasa, which uses her Danmaku to turn in water droplets to shoot. The list of uses of Danmaku in combat is extensive, with more examples being Marisa shooting Danmaku stars, missiles, and lasers; Reimu shooting Danmaku amulets and Needles; Sakuya danmaku knives; Utsuho fireballs, heat waves, lasers; and more on.

15. #15Mini-Hakkeroconstant

    Keys: Hakkero, Mini-Hakkero · Secondary: Magic Furnace

    The mini-Hakkero (ミニ八卦炉, "mini-Eight Trigram Furnace" or "mini-Elemental Furnace") is a magical device owned by Marisa Kirisame. it was originally given to Marisa by Rinnosuke Morichika after she stopped living with her parents. The mini-Hakkero takes the shape of a hand-sized octagonal block of wood, with the eight Taoist trigrams inscribed in a circle around its center. The internal components were originally made of iron or steel, but replaced by the mythical hihi'irokane metal after rusting. It is capable of generating immense heat and magical energy--Rinnosuke describes it as capable of reducing a mountain to ashes. Marisa relies on it heavily for research and combat, most notably to power her Master Spark.

    In addition to its normal functions, one of the furnace's corners releases a cool breeze, and the hihi'irokane model gleans negative ions from the air (a function copied from a pseudoscientific device from the Outside World, which nevertheless works inside Gensokyo). Rinnosuke also believes that the mini-Hakkero may function as an amulet for protection and good fortune.

    During the events of Double Dealing Character the mini-Hakkero was one of the weapons "corrupted", or in other words, brought to life, by the power of the Miracle Mallet.

16. #16Magicianconstant

    Magicians (魔法使い mahou-tsukai, which translates to "user of the sorcerous method") and witches (魔女 majo, meaning "sorcerous woman") typically denote individuals believed to have the ability to wield magic. The term ma (魔) originally referred to dark practices, demons, and those who engaged with them, but in contemporary usage, it can encompass any form of Western-style magic, whether benevolent or malevolent.

    The label "magician" applies to both a profession and a category of youkai. A human magician has the potential to transform into a magician youkai by delving into magical studies that eliminate their need for sustenance, although some magician youkai are naturally born into this state. Regardless of their origin, the physical form of a magician youkai remains fundamentally human, lacking the enhanced strength and endurance characteristic of many youkai. In fact, numerous magician youkai are quite fragile, even by human standards, due to insufficient physical activity and exposure to harmful magical substances such as arsenic and mercury. A magician youkai is deemed "complete" upon mastering the ability to halt their aging through magic—a capability that historical magicians could only realize in their later years, but which has become increasingly attainable as magical understanding has progressed.

    A magician youkai may also emerge when an ordinary object is infused with a significant amount of magical energy, leading to a description akin to golems. An example of this is Narumi Yatadera, who originated as a Jizo statue animated by the potent forces of the Forest of Magic. This kind of magician can be likened to tsukumogami, as they are objects that have gained life; however, their power is derived from magic rather than the unrest of their spirit.

    Both human and youkai magicians exhibit remarkable adaptability in their manipulation of spiritual energy. While most beings are confined to the powers they are inherently born with, a magician theoretically can produce nearly any effect, provided they comprehend its mechanics and can formulate an appropriate spell. They do, however, depend to some extent on external sources of magical energy, such as the mushrooms found in the Forest of Magic. The nature of this energy is crucial; for instance, Marisa points out that ice magic is straightforward to perform in winter but becomes challenging in summer without a strongly associated item, like Water Dragon scales. Many magicians tend to have a specific type of magic in which they excel or have a preference for, such as Alice's proficiency with dolls or Byakuren's emphasis on physical enhancement. A magician's residence is often cluttered with books, notes, and artifacts, reflecting the extensive study and effort required to master various spells; as a result, they are commonly perceived as reclusive, scholarly individuals.

17. #17Onis and Kishinconstant

    Keys: Kishin, Oni · Secondary: Onis, Kishins

    Oni are jolly youkai who love to drink, feast, and compete with humans in any kind of contest, from simple physical fighting to drinking games. Long ago, when an oni found a human that they liked, they tempted that human into challenging them in any way the human desired. Should the human lose, they were to be abducted. Because normal humans were nowhere near an oni's capabilities, they mostly resorted to sneaky underhanded tactics in order to beat the oni. Tired of being tricked and beaten all the time, the oni swore off humans forever and left for a place beyond human reach, or so the legend says.

    In Gensokyo, oni were once the main residents of the Youkai Mountain, and were above tengu and kappa in the hierarchy. They were led by the Big Four of the Mountain. However, they eventually moved into Old Hell sometime after the actual Hell was moved away from the Underworld by the yama. In Hell, oni are lead by the kishin to torture the souls of sinners.

    Komachi Onozuka mentions that the oni of current Hell are under control and the ones of Old Hell have too many close relationships with the ghosts of sinners, making them not fond of the idea of leaving to the real Hell anytime soon.

    kishin are powerful youkai who reside in Hell. Each kishin chief commands a number of lesser oni in their torment of the souls who fall into Hell, utilizing a wide array of torture devices. When a hermit or celestial has lived too long, a kishin chief is sent to assassinate them, though most of the living believe that the assassin is a shinigami due to misinformation they have spread. According to Hecatia, there are kishin at the top of the organization of Hell that work with yama. It is unknown if these elite kishin are of the same type of kishin that manage Hell's oni or if they are Buddhist wrathful deities.

    [Oni (鬼) are fabulous creatures from Japanese folklore, similar to Western demons or ogres. They're almost always depicted as beings with incredible strength and power; physically, two long horns are said to grow from their heads. The earliest folktales of oni generally described them as benevolent creatures able to ward off evil and punish the wicked, but over time, oni began to be seen as cruel, malevolent creatures, content only to destroy. "Oni" in Japanese is sometimes used non-literally to describe beings of similar cruelty, such as vampires (吸血鬼 kyūketsuki, literally "blood-sucking oni").

    Kishin (鬼神) is a Japanese word combining the characters for "oni" (鬼) and "god" (神). It usually refers to a wrathful deity, a type of divine being in Buddhism or to an exceptionally powerful oni.]

    [Kishins and Onis are Youkais.]

    [Onis tradition= The oni in Gensokyo have a very common tradition of kidnapping humans as a way of showing affection.]

18. #18Gensokyoconstant

    Keys: Gensokyo

    Gensokyo (幻想郷 gensoukyou, "Land of Illusions" or "Land of Fantasy") is a secret world, hidden from th Outside world (the outside world is a world where humans reside). Gensokyo is a secret land where humans and youkais coexist. Its culture vaguely resembles that of feudal Japan, heavily embellished with folkloric elements.

    Gensokyo is a remote place, far from any human habitation. In ancient times, this place was densely populated by youkai and those humans who wandered too close would be eaten by them. Most people feared the youkai, but a brave warrior would occasionally rise to defeat them. Some of those brave humans settled in Gensokyo to keep close watch on the youkai. Scientific advancements among the human race further contributed to Gensokyo's growing human minority. Due to this, Yukari Yakumo implemented a plan roughly 500 years ago to restore the power of youkai in Gensokyo by creating a "Barrier that divides Reality and Fantasy" called the Youkai Expansion Project. With the plan's implementation, Gensokyo became a place where it brought in things that have become fantasy outside; in other words, things that were forgotten in the Outside World such as youkai, lost items, and such are paranormally transported into Gensokyo. In 1885 A.D., Gensokyo was again made isolated from the rest of Earth with the creation of the Great Hakurei Barrier. Gensokyo has made next to no attempt at contact with the outside world since its creation. Gensokyo's language is modern Japanese.

    Gensokyo, the area encompassed by the Great Hakurei Barrier, is a landlocked territory comprised mainly of forested mountains. Notable geographic features include the Youkai Mountain with communities of kappa at its base, tengu at its peak, and the Moriya Shrine at a lake near the top; the Forest of Magic; the Bamboo Forest of the Lost where Eientei is located; the Misty Lake next to the Scarlet Devil Mansion; the Human Village and adjacent Myouren Temple, which are assumed to be in a fertile valley; the Sanzu River separating Gensokyo from Higan; and the Hakurei Shrine at the east of Gensokyo.

    Although passing through the Hakurei Barrier to the Outside World is normally impossible for weaker people, stronger entities are known to be able to pass through. It is also significantly easier for Gensokyo denizens to access domains of gods, demons, and spirits which are not strictly part of Gensokyo itself. These include Higan, the Netherworld, Makai, Heaven, Senkai and the Underworld.

    The Youkai Mountain retains the original appearance of Mount Yatsugatake before Konohana-Sakuyahime, the goddess of Mount Fuji, destroyed it. In the outside world today, the remnants of the mountain can be seen as the Yatsugatake mountain range in Yatsugatake-Chūshin Kōgen Quasi-National Park between Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures, providing a possible indication of where Gensokyo would be located in Japan. Lake Suwa (諏訪湖 Suwa-ko) and Mount Moriya, which Suwako Moriya was named after, are located nearby.

19. #19Dream Worldconstant

    Keys: Dream World

    The Dream World (夢の世界 Yume no Sekai) is a realm accessed through dreams and is governed by Doremy Sweet.

    Typically, individuals enter the Dream World while dreaming, where they take on their "dream self."

    There is also a physical entrance to the Dream World, known as the "Kaian Passageway #4 (第四槐安通路)," which Reisen Udongein Inaba describes. This passageway is reported to facilitate travel between the Lunar Capital and Gensokyo for the moon rabbits. It has a somewhat cosmic appearance, as noted by Sanae Kochiya, who exclaims, "I'm flying through space!" while both the Moon and Earth can be seen.

    The Dream World is often easily recognizable, as it typically resembles a frightening and surreal amusement park, characterized by dark surroundings and ominous colors, essentially creating a valley of strangeness.

20. #20Hakurei Barrierconstant

    Keys: Hakurei, The Great Hakurei Barrier, Barrier

    The Great Hakurei Barrier (博麗大結界 Hakurei Dai-Kekkai) is the barrier that hides Gensokyo away from the Outside World, and which allows youkai to survive within even when outside humans no longer believe in them. It is known that the Hakurei Shrine is located on the border, and believed that Yukari Yakumo lives somewhere along the border as well (though not near the shrine).

    Sometime in the 15th century, the youkai now known as Yukari Yakumo set the groundwork for the barrier with her "Youkai Expansion Project", turning Gensokyo into a haven for youkai by enchanting it to attract the fantastic and repel the mundane.

    The Barrier was proposed by Yukari and the other Sages of Gensokyo and erected later in Meiji 18 (CE 1885). Although the Gensokyo Record states that it was made by human priests and later reinforced by youkai. The Gensokyo Record is unreliable, and Yukari is widely acknowledged as the creator of the Barrier. One doubter of this is Yuyuko Saigyouji, who doubts that even Yukari could form such a strong barrier. While the idea was at first highly controversial among youkai and led to much infighting between them, it is now almost universally accepted.

    The barrier is so important to Gensokyo that the year of its formation is now marked as the year 0 in the Gensokyo Calendar.

    The Hakurei Shrine, which exists on both sides of the border, is supposed to be its only gateway. However, the phenomenon of "spiriting away" can also cause objects and even living beings to slip through the border at random, particularly if they have started to be forgotten by the outside world. For instance, the crested ibis started to become more common in Gensokyo after the Japanese variety were recognized as extinct, and paper started showing up more frequently with the rise of digital storage. Outside humans are not protected by the Spell Card rules and thus can be freely preyed on by youkai, but they may choose to become citizens of the Human Village or request for the Hakurei shrine maiden to send them home.

    Even in modern times, it is still possible for youkai, gods and even entire locations (such as the Scarlet Devil Mansion and Moriya Shrine) to pass through the border and enter Gensokyo.

    While some youkai (most notably Yukari Yakumo, Nue Houjuu and the zashiki-warashi) have shown the ability to exit Gensokyo and travel to the outside world, it appears that this requires uncommon knowledge, abilities and/or conditions, as other characters seem to think of it as nigh-impossible. It is believed that youkai go on "hunting trips" through the border to gather humans from the outside world as food, disguising the kidnappings as stories of people running away from home, but it is unclear how and when these are performed.

    As a "boundary of common sense" the barrier is designed to affect only living things and their creations, while allowing natural forces to pass through (hence the barrier is permeable to sunlight, and Gensokyo's rivers are connected to those of the Outside World). The space on the edges of the barrier is non-Euclidean - humans who attempt to leave the barrier will find themselves encountering the same landmarks over and over, without ever getting any further from where they started.

    There are two ways of travelling through the Barrier. True, complete passage can be achieved by punching a hole in the barrier and walking through. However, beings may also enter or leave Gensokyo by being "spirited away", a method which is often only temporary and allows only certain items to be brought inside or outside Gensokyo. Some of these spirited away travellers have little physical presence (sometimes to the point of appearing only as a shadow) and will eventually be pulled back home, remembering their trip as if it were only a dream. In fact at least some of these trips have taken the form of literal dreams, with the traveller's mind returning to their body when they awake. However, it is still possible for a dreamer in the Outside World to bring some objects from Gensokyo to the Outside World and viceversa. Yukari is known for being the one who purposely spirits away humans by causing fluctuations in the barrier.

    The barrier is weaker around objects which carry the spiritual energy of the Outside World. Usually this effect is barely noticeable, outside of concentrated sources like the Occult Balls. However, when one of the trees around the Hakurei Shrine was killed, a tree from the Outside World was drawn in to replace it, causing the surrounding area to become distorted. On another occasion Rinnosuke Morichika was briefly drawn into the Outside World due to concentrating on an MP3 player while Reimu was nearby tampering with the barrier.

21. #21Parseeconstant

    Keys: Parsee

    Parsee Mizuhashi (水橋　パルスィ Mizuhashi Parusi) is a hashihime, or bridge princess, who guards the "bridge" between the surface world and the Underworld. She is able to control the jealousy in others.

    Parsee has wavy blond hair and green eyes, and her skin appears to have pale chartreuse tint to it. She wears a dress which resembles the traditional dresses of Iran's nomadic people, as well as Tocharians depicted in a 6th-century AD fresco from the Kizil Caves; the top is brown with purple borders, with a white criss-cross pattern and a pink sash. The bottom is blue and purple with again the white criss-cross pattern and black with criss-crossed red strings hanging on the bottom edge. The criss-cross patterns are evocative of a truss bridge. She has a pink scarf tied around her neck and pink puffy arm socks.

    Parsee used to be a guardian, someone who would watch over those crossing her bridge to make sure they passed between the underground and the surface world safely. However, her own jealousy at those travelers eventually caused her to be able to control feelings of jealousy in others.

    The Hashihime (橋姫) is a mythical youkai that appears in various Japanese texts (Most notably the The Tale of Heike). After her husband left her and married another woman, the jealous and enraged Hashihime prays to the gods for revenge. A priest tells her a way: She has to dress herself in red and paint her face with the same color, her hair arranged with seven loops and crowned with a burning brazier, then spend 21 days under the Uji bridge while holding a metal rod. So deep was her rage and jealousy, that she actually did the entire process, becoming a vengeful youkai driven by jealousy that only appears in the vicinity of bridges that cross over water. She appears to loving couples, threatening to kill them both unless they break up right there and then. There is also a famous Noh Play about this mythological creature.

    Parsee's manipulation of jealousy: It is an ability from the legend of Hashihime. As a youkai who can be called the very embodiment of jealousy, she is able to manipulate those feelings in others. In relation to humans, it is a dreadful ability that can easily destroy them. She lives off of seeing the lives of those she introduces jealousy into being destroyed by it. This may be the reason she was sealed underground. She herself is deep in her own jealousy.

22. #22Ranconstant

    Keys: Servant, Yakumo, Fox, Ran, Shikigami, Kitsune

    ("Ran Yakumo")= {{Ran Yakumo is the "Kitsune Shikigami" of Yukari Yakumo and the master of the bakeneko shikigami Chen.

    Ran is from Kitsune species.

    Ran is described as a gentle youkai, unless provoked or when someone in her family is attacked, like Chen (Ran's relationship with Chen is like mother and daughter/guardian and pet, with Ran being a motherly figure). Although Ran is a shikigami, she sometimes "forgets" her position as a servant and acts of her own volition, such as deciding to attack Reimu to avenge Chen (Ran has fear of doing some mistakes, since she know that Yukari will punish her with beating or something worse).

    Ran was formerly a resident of the Animal Realm, presumably being one of the many spirits inhabiting it. At one point, disgusted by the beastly ideology that pervaded the place, she fled to Gensokyo. It is unknown when Ran met Yukari and became a youkai-possessing shikigami, but based on her interaction with Yuuma Toutetsu, it was likely after Ran left the Animal Realm.

    As Yukari's shikigami, Ran must do whatever Yukari commands her to do, such as doing Yukari's chores or checking the Great Hakurei Barrier around Gensokyo for problems. Apparently, Ran's own shikigami, Chen, is too unreliable to be entrusted with doing chores. Sometimes she might be sent as a messenger, or be entrusted with investigating incidents.

    In her spare time, Ran often calculates various things such as the width of the Sanzu River. She may also be seen in the Human Village shopping for tofu.

    "Using Shikigami": Ran is an extremely strong shikigami, to the point that she can use shikigami of her own. Her shikigami, Chen, only possesses the wisdom of a child, implying that Ran lacks the level of power that Yukari has with respect to shikigami. While Ran cannot act against Yukari's orders, Chen is capable of disobeying Ran. Because of this, she sometimes has to lure or manipulate Chen with catnip.

    "Clear intellect": Ran has super-human intellect equal to that of Yukari's, and excels at mathematics. According to Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, she was able to formulate and prove an equation for figuring out the width of the Sanzu River. The shikigami of Gensokyo have been often likened to personal computers found in the outside world.

    "Miscellaneous": One of Ran's spellcards shows that she is capable of quickly increasing her physical capabilities. As part of Yukari's attacks, Ran typically spins at high speed. Ran is shown to use Chen in a similar way.}}

23. #23Chenconstant

    ("Chen")= {{Chen is Ran Yakumo's shikigami, who was guarding the village of Mayohiga. Unfortunately, she could put up little resistance due to being far away from her master.

    Chen is from Bakeneko (double tailed cat youkai) species.

    Chen is a bakeneko youkai that Ran Yakumo uses as shikigami, but since Ran herself is Yukari's shikigami, she is a "shikigami of a shikigami". When possessed as a shikigami, Chen aquires the fearsome power of a kishin, but since her master is also a shikigami, her ability is fairly low. The possession is removed when she is soaked in water, and since she also hates water as a cat, she is in any case weak to water. Her height is "low" and is capable of human speech. She can use impressive black arts, but only possesses the intellect of a human child. Whether she is possessed or not, her personality and appearance don't change.

    "Use of sorcery (while possessed as shikigami)": In shikigami state, Chen becomes extremely dangerous and is able to use various kinds of sorcery. She uses techniques that focus on speed and precise, tricky movements to confuse her opponents, making it very similar to sleight of hand. For example, she could make it appear as if she is dashing to the left, but will then attack from the right instead, moving so quickly that to humans it appears like instant teleportation.[3]

    "Surprising people (as bakeneko)": When she becomes a regular bakeneko, she becomes more feral and will resort to more physical attacks like biting and clawing with her long nails. Rather than saying she possesses a special ability to surprise accompanying humans, it is more strongly an implication that she's not able to do anything other than things of this extent. (However, even so, for ordinary humans it is dangerous enough). This is the same ability that Kogasa Tatara has - thus in this aspect, they have mutuality.

    Chen serves as a shikigami to Ran Yakumo, and becomes much stronger when her master is present. However, she hates water, and splashing her will dispel the shikigami possession, making her resort to physical attacks. She is also very fond of catnip, and will lose the will to fight if some is scattered to distract her.

    Chen has dark brown eyes, brown hair and wears a green mob cap. She has black cat ears, with a gold earring in the left one, and two tails. Her dress is red with a white bow on the collar, with gold trimming and light pink frills at the bottom. The dress has light pink sleeves. She wears socks and has long hot pink fingernails.}}

24. #24Shikigamiconstant

    Keys: Shikigami, Servant

    Shikigami (式神) is the term used for the summoned spirits of an "onmyouji", a Japanese sorcerer. Shikigami are used to protect and serve their master, much like the Western concept of the witch's familiar. There are many types of shikigami described in legend, the most common type being enchanted paper cutouts that can produce the illusion of another real-life object.

    Shikigami often share a special link to their masters, which may cause their onmyouji to receive sympathetic injuries dealt to the shikigami. Because of this link and the enormous amount of energy needed to maintain shikigami, onmyouji do not usually summon more than one or two shikigami at a time.

    Shikigami are entities such as spirits that can be utilized to "possess" a youkai through certain techniques. For example, Ran Yakumo was formerly a denizen of the Animal Realm, and as such she's implied to have been a beast spirit without a physical body, but is now a shikigami used by Yukari Yakumo to possesses the body of a nine-tailed youkai fox. In this role, she is bound to do what Yukari tells her to. Chen, however, is only a part-time shikigami at this time and can have her possession removed by getting doused in water.

25. #25Zanmuconstant

    Keys: Hell, Zanmu Nippaku · Secondary: Queen of Hell

    /// Zanmu Nippaku profile

    Zanmu Nippaku (日白 残無 Nippaku Zanmu) was the main antagonist of the Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost incident. She was formerly a human monk before turning into an oni after falling into hell.

    Zanmu Nippaku was formerly a human monk during the Sengoku Jidai period. Zanmu discarded her humanity by absorbing beast-youkai spirits. Sensing her imminent fall to Hell, Zanmu ventured there prematurely. There she transformed into an oni and ruled Hell using her intelligence and charisma. She proposed the relocation of Hell from Former Hell, creating a great amount of resentment from those that stayed behind. Currently she resides in Hell. She is said to command great admiration and respect from the dwellers of Hell.

    During the events of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, she uses her ability and influence to manipulate the other protagonists in order to achieve her end goal.

    Zanmu is described as the perfect oni according to Suika Ibuki. She has both the strength and intelligence that an oni should be portraying, which made her a "intelligentsia". That said and although she made it for selfish reasons, she is also seen to have a sense of grace, seeking a (relatively) peaceful resolution to the beast wars and to protect Gensokyo from destruction. In this sense, she shares much in common with Reimu, feeling a sense of communality.

    Zanmu is not easily upset or angered when the events are not going exactly as she wants. She frequently forgives her bumbling assistant, Hisami, showing she can work with an acceptable error range.

    According to Saki, Zanmu is a popular figure in Hell. So much so that Zanmu was able to sway the oni to calm down and let her handle the beast spirits situation.

    Zanmu is a crimson-eyed girl with long purple-black hair that reaches to her knees. Her hair is straight at the scalp but becomes wavy at the end. She has two short, pointed horns that are wrapped in red strings that are adorned with a single bead and numerous, smaller strings that look like hair. She wears a green T-shirt, with two coloured borders: the outer-most one is yellow while the innermost one is black lines that aren't attached. The t-shirt's neckline, shoulders, sides and sleeves all have the same rip except for the sides, which are partly sewn together with the same red strings that adorn her horns. She also wears long blue shorts that contain many of her shirt's decorations, the borders, the rips and the red strings partly sewn together on each side. The shorts also seem to be double-layered, one being white underneath the shorts. She sports dark red flip-flops.

    /// Zamnu's abilities

    Capable of manipulating nothingness: Zanmu has the ability to manipulate nothingness. This causes the victim to lose their desires and motivations. It can be subtle, such as distracting the victim, or outright causing them to lose their will to fight or will to continue investigating. In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, she uses her ability to distract Marisa Kirisame and Sanae from the true cause of the incident. Then, she uses her ability to cause the beast spirits leaders to lose their will to fight. Finally, she uses her ability to convince Reimu to stop her investigation.

    While Zanmu is able to manipulate nothingness of her victims, some appear to be less affected than others. Reimu's instincts continued to point to Zanmu as the true culprit and Reimu was not able to be manipulated to accept her plans for "resolving the incident". Similarly, she was unable to stop Mamizou Futatsuiwa from continuing her investigating into the incident. Also, due to Hisami's unpredictable masochism tendencies, Zanmu was not able to control Hisami the way she wanted.

    /// Extra Information

    Zanmu is basically the queen of hell, and surprisingly she is a "human" which is the main leader of hell.

26. #26Hisamiconstant

    Keys: Hisami Yomotsu, Eerie woman, Stalker · Secondary: Beautiful woman

    /// Hisami Yomotsu Profile

    Hisami is a subordinate to Zanmu Nippaku. She follows her to her every whim and strives to please her in any way. She is tasked to drag people into hell.

    Hisami has a very eerie demeanour that betrays her otherwise captivating appearance. For one, her one-sided obsessiveness towards Zanmu Nippaku. She goes on to stalk her on whatever chance she gets and tries to please her when nearby. She is also somewhat of a masochist when dealing with Zanmu. When Suika tells her that she will get scolded for insubordination, she explicitly tells her that she wants to get scolded. When she returns to Zanmu to report on her findings, she then requests Zanmu to scold her.

    Despite her eerieness, she's also somewhat friendly when Zanmu isn't in the picture. She shares her reward with the people she falls into hell, which makes her rather well-liked by her victims. Her unpredictability is pronounced to the point that even Zanmu has trouble making her behave as she desired.

    Hisami is a "catch" (Can be considered a kidnapper) whose job is to lure people into Hell. She achieves this by luring them with her looks and sweet words, as well as promising to share the compensation she receives for bringing them. For each soul she drags into hell, she gets paid for it. However, she drags more people into hell than necessary which prompts the Yama to monitor her work ethic.

    /// Hisami ability

    Never let anything slip from her grasp: Hisami can never let anything slip from her grasp. This ability aids her assignment of dragging people into Hell. If her target runs away, she will chase them to the ends of the earth and it's said that it's very likely that her target will fall into Hell the moment she sets her sights on them.

    /// Hisami Appearance

    Hisami is defined as a fairly tall beautiful woman with long, jet-black hair that reaches past her back. She appears to have purple eyes that are mostly concealed from her purple headdress is reminiscent of a widow's veil. The veil, which looks like petals, has two layers: one that is transparent from the side and the other opaque that covers most of her eyes. The veil also has four green leaves that protrude at the top of the veil. The front of the veil resembles the flower of a Lobelia species, particularly Lobelia erinus.

    She wears a purple china dress designed with light purple leaves decorated across the dress and grapes attached to a grapevine, which symbolizes her species' lore. It has a slit on the right side, likely to give her leg more space to move. Its sleeves are ruffled to look like leaves and it has a tiny but noticeable V-neck. She wears black long-sleeved gloves and what appears to be black long boots.

27. #27Sumirekoconstant

    Keys: Usami, Sumireko · Secondary: Esper

    Sumireko Usami (宇佐見 菫子 Usami Sumireko) is the main antagonist of Urban Legend in Limbo incident. She's a human from the Outside World with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the Secret Sealing Club.

    Sumireko has shown herself to be extremely intelligent, determined, passionate, and hubristic in equal parts. She strongly dislikes the modern society of the outside world due to being dictated by modernized corporations and is much more interested into the occult/fantasy, in the sense of actually being directly involved with it in real life. She goes so far into the occult that it can sometimes endanger her life at times. Sumireko often gets excited of the thrill of danger however.

    She describes herself as having been a bit of a loner prior to her arrival in Gensokyo but ever since she started coming to Gensokyo and befriending many inhabitants from there, she considers her discovery of Gensokyo to be the best thing to have happened in her life due to the friendships she's made there. Sumireko seems to hold several contradictory opinions, although it comes off less as hypocrisy, and more as though she hasn't been able to fully make up her mind about certain subjects due to her inexperience of being a teenager. She also tends to use friendly nicknames a lot of her close friends such as Reimu and Marisa.

    She also describes herself as being chuunibyou, a term usually used mockingly, with a sense of personal pride, alluding to her psychic powers and other magical abilities. In spite of that pride, she does lament that nobody in the Outside World seems to be able to understand her or her passion about the occult and Gensokyo. This may also be in part due to how highly opinionated she is, espousing her beliefs about the "phoniness" of the Outside World's dominant consumerist culture at the slightest provocation. She also dislikes drugs such as smoking and alcohol likely due to the amount of students in her hometown who would do drugs during flower viewings.

    She is a strong psychic, capable of various powers associated with the occult, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis, and teleportation.

    After the events of Urban Legend in Limbo, Sumireko gains the ability to travel to Gensokyo in her dreams through a doppelganger which maintains her "permanent" presence in Gensokyo and is actually also youkai-like. She is able to recall the memories of both the time spent possessing the body of her doppelganger as well as those from her "normal" life in the Outside World, allowing her to live a double-life in both worlds. When this happens, this lead to her dream soul coexisting and even sending objects and eventually humans in Gensokyo to the outer world to lessen the shock of the Great Barrier. According to Yukari, she also strengthening the the barrier as well.

    Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black fedora with a white bow along with red-framed glasses. She wears a purple plaid skirt and matching vest (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a "Quimbaya airplane". Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries Zener cards, a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back, a smartphone in a white case with various blue shapes on it, and a light-blue liberator. She also wears white gloves, and a black high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with pinkish-white runes, and a series of white lines at the bottom rim of the backside.

    Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves, no gloves, and a skull in place of the Quimbaya airplane. In Violet Detector, her hair and eyes have a dark red tone instead.

28. #28Urban Legend in Limboconstant

    Keys: Urban Legend in Limbo

    Urban Legend in Limbo Incident and Sumireko Usami's Plans:

    Urban Legend in Limbo revolved around the mysterious happenings in the Netherworld, specifically concerning the spread of bizarre and unsettling urban legends. These legends aren't merely stories; they manifest as tangible phenomena, capable of affecting the world and its inhabitants.

    At the heart of this unsettling situation is Sumireko Usami, a human girl from the Outside World possessing powerful psychic abilities (ESP). She isn't simply a bystander; she's the main cause of the incident, actively involved in the creation and manipulation of these urban legends. Her motivations are complex and not entirely malicious, but her actions have far-reaching consequences.

    Sumireko's primary goal wasn't world domination or outright destruction. Instead, she seeks to create a world shaped by her own unique understanding of reality. She believes the existing world is dull and lacks the excitement and wonder found in compelling stories. To achieve this, she uses her psychic powers to weave and spread urban legends, essentially rewriting reality to better suit her vision. These legends act as building blocks in her grand plan to reshape the world.

    Her methods involve planting seeds of unusual events and manipulating perceptions to make the legends seem more real and impactful. She wasn't directly causing harm, but the chaotic consequences of her actions create problems for others. This makes her more of a chaotic agent than a straightforward villain.

    While the details of her ultimate goals remain somewhat ambiguous, it's clear that she desires a world filled with wonder and intrigue, a world where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred. Her actions, while causing problems, stem from a desire to create something more engaging and fantastical than the mundane reality she's experienced.

    Adding another layer to her antics is the Secret Sealing Club (or Hifuu Club), a group she founded. They're not your typical book club; they're more like a coven of urban legend enthusiasts. They help spread her stories and add their own creative spins to them. Think of it as her team of mischievous minions, all dedicated to spreading chaos and mayhem. They are also heavily implied to be involved in the events of the game.

    In short: Sumireko's not trying to conquer Gensokyo; she's trying to entertain it... in the most delightfully terrifying way possible. She's a quirky, unpredictable character whose actions are driven by curiosity, boredom, and a healthy dose of mischief. She's the ultimate Gensokyo troll, and we wouldn't have it any other way!

29. #29Cirnoconstant

    Keys: Cirno

    Cirno (チルノ Chiruno) is an ice fairy who first appeared on the second stage of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. In comparison to other fairies, she is relatively strong; however, compared to the vast majority of Gensokyo's residents, her strength is subpar.

    Cirno is a childish, confident fairy who appears to have a superiority complex. She proclaims herself to be "the strongest" on three separate occasions in Phantasmagoria of Flower View. In the game's manual, she is labeled as "9. baka" (⑨. バカ, lit. "9. Idiot").

    Her superiority complex makes her say and do things that could be considered "idiotic". In Hidden Star in Four Seasons, when Cirno received power from Okina Matara and was warned that it could be too much for her body to handle, she ignored Okina and just asserted that the power was entirely her own. Okina began to suspect Cirno was intentionally playing the fool, but eventually came to the conclusion that she is just a dumb fairy. In Visionary Fairies in Shrine, Cirno faced Okina once again alongside the rest of Gensokyo's fairies; despite being very clearly outmatched, Cirno insisted that Okina was "bluffing", leading Clownpiece to wonder if she really is just an idiot.

    Despite this, Cirno does have some intelligence. She can read and count, showing knowledge of rounding and fractions in Great Fairy Wars. In Phantasmagoria of Flower View's story mode, she was capable of recognizing that she was endangered in her battle against Yuuka. Additionally, when warned by Eiki Shiki that eternity does not truly exist even for fairies, Cirno solemnly reflects on her own mortality and the prospect of being sent to Hell, though Aya Shameimaru manages to talk her into focusing on enjoying the present.

    Among other things, she enjoys using her abilities to freeze frogs, then watch them revive while thawing out in the water. However, about one in every three attempts, it fails, resulting in the frog being shattered into pieces.

    Cirno has the ability to manipulate cold to the point of being able to freeze water. However, even while saying "manipulate", when coldness is in an omitted state, it seems like her surroundings are chilly even in summer. In battle, she uses this ability to attack others with icicles, huge ice cubes, or wieldable weapons like swords, but also to freeze her opponents or their danmaku. However, despite being able to freeze something hot like flaming danmaku, she is unable to freeze lasers.

    How she exactly manipulates cold is unclear, but Reisen Udongein Inaba, in one of her quotes in Touhou Hisoutensoku, speculates that when Cirno does it, she warms up inside as a result. This would mean that she just absorbs the heat in the surroundings instead of "creating" cold from nothing.

    Some of Cirno's Spellcards are: Snow Sign "Diamond Blizzard"; Freeze Sign "Perfect Freeze" "Perfect Freeeeeeeeze!"; Hail Sign "Hailstorm"; Ice Sign "Icicle Fall".

    Cirno has aqua-colored eyes and hair. She wears a blue ribbon, light pink blouse, blue jumper dress and seems to be wearing white socks. She also has icicle-shaped wings. Cirno is short like any fairy (around 145 cm tall). Cirno has pale skin.

30. #30Misty Lakeconstant

    Keys: Misty Lake

    The Misty Lake (霧の湖 Kiri no Mizuumi) is a large lake located at the foot of the Youkai Mountain. Many fairies and youkai alike appear to gather here, especially during the summertime, given the abundant water. The lake and its environs appear to be the home of Cirno, Daiyousei and Wakasagihime.

    Commonly, when someone says "The lake" (湖 mizuumi), it usually refers to the Misty Lake. The water in the lake comes from a river originating from the Youkai Mountain. While the Scarlet Devil Mansion was on an island within Misty Lake as of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the mansion would be said to be on a bank next to the lake itself rather than on an island in future installments and written works. At and around noon each day, a strange mist envelops the entire lake, making it difficult to see anything (hence the origin of the name). The origin of this mist is unknown, but it appears that because of the bad visibility, the lake isn't as big as one would think – it would take about an hour to walk the full length around the river, so one can estimate the circumference to be about 3.1 miles (5 km).

    Extremely large monster fish live in the lake as well, and can occasionally be caught on nights of the new moon. This has led to the lake being popular amongst anglers who aim to catch such a fish. These fish range from 2 to 5 fathoms (in essence up to 9 meters), with the largest on recording as 10 fathoms (this is believed to be an exaggeration).

    A Master of the Lake also lives there. However, his house is so deep down that only fish or amphibians may dive down there.

    It is said that creatures can't live in the lake, making it way more clear.

31. #31Kaguya Hconstant

    Keys: Houraisan, Kaguya · Secondary: Hime

    Kaguya was once a princess of the Lunarians, a race of people living on the Moon. For the crime of creating the Hourai Elixir, she and Eirin Yagokoro were exiled to Earth, where they came to live in what would eventually become Gensokyo. She is currently the princess of Eientei.

    Kaguya has a rather carefree personality, as she often sneaks out to visit the human village. She apparently is refined in the art of conversation, but her vocabulary is a bit dated. She is also described as haughty and relatively wild.

    Kaguya can has Manipulating eternity and the instantaneous power, Eternity is namely immutability, and it can be said that eternity rejects all change. Things that possess eternity indefinitely do not change, and also cannot be interfered with by things outside of themselves. By using her ability on everything in Eientei, she made it so that living things stopped aging, objects would never break, and food would never spoil. Additionally, beginning from when Kaguya came to Gensokyo, she lived hidden away for a thousand years in the interior of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost without anybody knowing about her. Also, the pure Japanese-style mansion in Eientei can be seen not to have worn out at all, which can be said to have been due to this ability of eternity. After the Eternal Night incident, Kaguya removed the spell of eternity from Eientei, causing objects to break as normal, living things to age again, and food to spoil if not eaten in time.

    Incidentally, as the Hourai Elixir made by Kaguya's ability of eternity is something that makes the consumer have a "body that rejects all change," it can simply be said to be a kind of maximised, self-healing ability (due to this, it is said that the entire body can recover from just a single hair left intact, as shown in the case of Fujiwara no Mokou). In the last spell card "End of Imperishable Night" which used this ability, it destroyed Reimu Hakurei and the others' spell of eternity, and forcibly called for dawn (End of Imperishable Night -Rising World-, where "Rising World" was a homophone to "dawn" as "yoake" (夜明け)).

    On the other hand, Kaguya, in being able to manipulate the instantaneous, is able to alter the needed "instants" and make them her own time. However, whatever she gathers together—since it is made up of many "unrecognisable instants" that cannot be changed—has no means of being known about. For this reason, in manipulating the instantaneous, Kaguya is able to spend "time the same as others'" and "time different from others'" simultaneously. Hieda no Akyuu presented this as "having parallel timelines at the same time". As the instantaneous is the smallest unit of time, time is able to accumulate countless instants. Watatsuki no Toyohime explained that to see time as continuous is due to the inability to recognise the instant.

    Since her ability can be said to be the ability to manipulate "complete stop = eternity" and "extreme speed-up = instant", Akyuu also summarised it as an "ability to manipulate time". This seems very similar to Sakuya Izayoi's "ability to manipulate time."

    Well over a thousand years ago, Kaguya was born in the royal house of the Moon and was treated with utmost care as a princess. However, due to boredom, and managed to get Eirin Yagokoro to create the Hourai Elixir out of self-interest and consumed it. This was illegal, and she was executed. She was immortal, so despite being executed many times, she could not permanently be killed, so she was exiled to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. She was found by a bamboo cutter and dwelt among the humans she had once despised. Though the Lunarians looked upon humans with contempt, Kaguya came to love her new home. She enjoyed her life on Earth for a while without problems, but as rumours of her beauty spread far and wide, she started to feel guilty about it. Tales of her unearthly beauty led men from all across the land to seek her hand in marriage, (Fujiwara no Mokou's father being one of them) but none could successfully complete her trial of the Five Impossible Requests.

    The first was to bring her the stone begging bowl of the Buddha from India. The second was to retrieve a jeweled branch from the island of Mount Hourai. The third was to seek the legendary robe of the fire-rat of China. The fourth was to retrieve a colored jewel from a dragon's neck. The final task was to find the legendary Cowry treasure of the swallows. These potent treasures were eventually revealed to already be in Kaguya's possession.

    After years of exile, powerful emissaries arrived from the Moon; Kaguya had been forgiven of her crime and it had been decided that she should return. Kaguya, however, had grown to love life on Earth, which was far more interesting than the life she had on the Moon, and had no desire to return to the Lunar Capital permanently. Even so, Earth was filthy and life on Earth had its share of problems. She was torn between Earth and the moon, but she discovered Eirin to be an emissary. Eirin was apologetic to Kaguya since she was not punished for creating the elixir. Her desire for redemption was so strong that she was ready to do anything for Kaguya, so she decided to live on Earth with her. Eirin betrayed the other emissaries and helped Kaguya escape to what would eventually be Gensokyo. Taking refuge in an ancient manor called Eientei hidden deep within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, the two Lunarians began a new exile.

    Eventually, the Moon stopped sending emissaries to fetch them; they had forgotten about the past and were living in peace. One day, an event took place that made them recall the past, a century since Gensokyo was sealed. On that day, a self-claimed moon rabbit named Reisen Udongein Inaba ran into their home, who had come because she had heard rumors about Gensokyo. She then stated that humans were invading the Moon, sticking the American flag, on the moon and acting like the moon belonged to them, making it nearly impossible for people of the Moon to live there. The rabbit had escaped from the frontline of a war, leaving her allies behind. Kaguya remembered that she, too, was a Lunarian long ago, and they decided to allow Reisen to live with them. After several centuries of isolation, she was eventually reunited with Mokou, who had also used the Hourai Elixir to become immortal, and the two continued their feud, murdering each other on a nearly daily basis.

    A few decades have passed since then. On one night of a full Moon, Reisen received a transmission from other surviving moon rabbits, stating that a new war will be starting soon and Reisen needs to return. She had no intention of going back, so Kaguya and Eirin defended her. However, were they to kill the emissaries, they would have to go into hiding for a long time again. Eventually, Eirin came up with a plan to replace the real Moon with a fake one, thus making it no longer possible to travel between Earth and the Moon. Their only mistake was underestimating the power of Gensokyo's natives, who rely on the power of the moon, which caused the incident of Imperishable Night. In the end, humans and youkai succeeded in dispelling the fake moon, and Gensokyo was already sealed by the Great Hakurei Barrier', so the Lunarians would have been unable to enter Gensokyo to begin with. Kaguya, Eirin, and Reisen were now able to enjoy a peaceful life in Gensokyo without living in constant fear of attack.

    Kaguya is shown to have dark brown eyes and very long black hair in a hime cut style. She wears a pink shirt with many white bows, and a long, dark burgundy skirt decorated in plants and flowers representing the four seasons. Respectively, they are cherry blossoms, bamboo leaf, maple leaf and plum blossoms. Her 5 Impossible Requests are seen floating around her, probably waiting for her order to engage in a spell card attack.

32. #32Eirinconstant

    Keys: Eirin, Yagoroko · Secondary: , lunarian, Medic

    Eirin Yagoroko is a medical genius from the Moon, able to create even the Hourai Elixir with the help of Kaguya's power, the manipulation of eternity. She is living in exile in Gensokyo after choosing to stay with and devote herself to Kaguya Houraisan on Earth rather than take her back to the Moon. She was a very well-known figure on the Moon, having not only been instrumental in the founding of Lunar society with Lord Tsukuyomi, but also being its leading medical mind and the person in charge of the Moon's emissaries to the Earth.

    Eirin is an enigmatic person surrounded by many mysteries and her answers regarding the mysteries about her are incoherent replies. She is generally a fairly pleasant person and is devoted to serving her ally, Kaguya, but she does not suffer fools gladly, and because of her incredibly high intelligence, she can come across as conceited, impatient and condescending at times to those not sharp enough to follow her explanations immediately. However, she also seems to lack general common sense, most likely due to her not living with humans.

    Eirin can make all sorts of drug/medicines (this is her ability along with her immortality), from medicine for the ordinary cold to drugs that can manipulate dreams. As one would expect, she is not able to make medicines that would require a physically impossible process in order to produce, nor can she make the medicine if she does not have the ingredients. Although she did make the Hourai Elixir, she made it using Kaguya's ability.

    Aside from her medical knowledge, Eirin seems to be very skilled in various forms of magic. For instance, she sealed the whole Earth preventing anything or anyone from reaching or leaving it. Additionally, she replaced the real Moon with a fake one that was able to mislead the heroines with an illusion. According to herself, doing this was "hardly" her most powerful spell, meaning that she is probably able to use other types of sorcery that are far stronger than this.

    Eirin wields a bow and arrow. Presumably, she uses it for spellcards. Ironically, she has never been seen using arrow bullets in any of her spellcards.

    A long time ago, Eirin was the Sage of the Moon; with her high intelligence and the aid of the former Princess of the Moon, Kaguya, she created the Hourai Elixir and gave it to her. As a result, Kaguya was exiled to Earth as a punishment for drinking the elixir. A few years later, Kaguya had been allowed to return to the moon and, along with other Lunarians, Eirin was sent to Earth as an emissary from the Moon. Eirin felt guilty because she herself wasn't punished even though she was the one who made the elixir. Her desire for redemption was so strong that she was ready to do anything for Kaguya, and so she killed all the other emissaries and decided to live on Earth with Kaguya as her own punishment.

    After living a few hundred years hidden in the Bamboo Forest of Gensokyo, her whereabouts were discovered by the Moon, and led to the Eternal Night Incident, but at the time the incident was resolved, she came to know that even if she did not try to hide the Moon, the Lunar Emissaries wouldn't be able to come for Reisen. She has been living as a resident of Gensokyo ever since.

    Eirin has dark grey eyes, long silver hair, has a large braid on her back and carries a strange pair of bow and arrow. Her clothing is red and blue and is covered with constellation patterns. She also wears something similar to a nurse's cap.

    Eirin's clothing has trigrams (broken and solid Yin/Yang lines) lining the bottom hem. They appear to be the complete set of trigrams used in Feng Shui, and match the set of trigrams on the Hakkero.

33. #33Mokouconstant

    Keys: Mokou, Fujiwara

    Perhaps due to being ostracized for so long, Mokou is a loner by nature and chooses not to socialize with humans or youkai. She escorts lost humans she finds within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, giving herself a job similar to that of a bamboo forest guide, and even then after escorting between Human Village and Eientei, she departs without saying a word. Nevertheless, to those whom she's acquainted with, she speaks bluntly and with lively personality. In Imperishable Night's extra stage, for example, she was easily roused and goes on a rant about how annoying Kaguya is. Not much else is known about her as she doesn't really talk much to anyone.

    Her style can be described as masculine - she wears a dress shirt with suspenders and karusan (a type of hakama typically worn by men) tied at the waist, rather than above the waist as is standard for women's hakama. Although she used feminine speech patterns in Imperishable Night, beginning in Urban Legend in Limbo, her speech is typically masculine as well.

    She undertakes the duty of escorting people in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. Although this may allow her a wider opportunity to socialize with other people, she still remains very reticent about herself. For example, when asked about her past, she doesn't answer with anything other than "I'm an ordinary health maniac who runs a yakitori stand" (it is unclear whether she truly does run a yakitori stand). However, she seems to happily listen to others' talking. Thus, even if someone doesn't lose one's way, it would be possible for her to be enlivened by a conversation.

    She presently seems to be very content with her life contrary to being commonly thought of having a pessimistic lifestyle. With an unaging, undying body, she and Kaguya Houraisan kill each other every day.

    "Neither aging nor dying ability": Mokou's inability to die allows her body to receive an indefinite amount of punishment. No matter whether she's beheaded, incinerated or has taken any other form of strike, she'll always revive without exception. Mokou will recover within a few day's time if she takes a non-fatal blow. Due to the nature of the Hourai Elixir she drank over 1300 years ago, she's also incapable of contracting any form of disease or illness. This includes the natural process of aging. It is said she can completely recover even if a single hair remained, although it seems redundant because those who taste the elixir will recover regardless.

    Mokou's immortality, however, doesn't prevent her from being susceptible to fatigue. Even though she is incapable of dying, she still feels pain when injured just as a normal human does. It's said that since she doesn't die, feeling the sting of death when she reaches the brink of oblivion brings her a great deal of pain and fatigue when she immediately revives. For this reason, she can be defeated in spell card matches with danmaku even though she's invincible. It should be noted though, that this fatigue may be completely mental since she needs no sustenance such as food or sleep to stay alive.

    "Mokou's Manipulation of fire": Though never clearly described, Mokou appears to have some sort of control over fire. Many of her spell cards symbolize phoenix imagery, though this is most likely an aesthetic choice by Mokou (due to the phoenix being symbolic of immortality) rather than having any real meaning. The fact it took the combined efforts of her, Kaguya, and several rabbits to put out a forest fire in her Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red article implies that while she's capable of starting and increasing fire, she might not necessarily be able to extinguish it.

    "All sorts of sorcery": In Mokou's long life it seems she's mastered various kinds of sorcery to the point in which she can handle youkai lightly. She uses all kinds of spell cards in addition to her ability of manipulation of flames, which may also be a kind of sorcery she has mastered. However, it's never been stated exactly what kinds of sorcery she has mastered.

    Mokou frequently escorts anyone wanting to go to Eientei through the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. She also claims to run a yakitori stand. In addition, she regularly fights with Kaguya, and has for many years. As a powerful human (or a being who was once human), one of her main jobs is also youkai extermination.

    Upon receiving escort from her, it is impossible to get lost in the bamboo forest. Also, there's no life-threatening danger in the forest since youkai would not attack. Because of that, it's a myth in the Human Village that if it's necessary to go to Eientei, that Mokou should immediately be contacted.

    Mokou was born as a daughter to the Fujiwara family during the Asuka and Nara periods. It's been estimated that it was around 700CE (i.e., currently about 1300 years old). It seems that she was an unwanted child because she wasn't allowed to go out in public.

    Around 1300 years ago, Kaguya Houraisan embarrassed Mokou's father – and entire family – by presenting him with an impossible request when he asked for her hand in marriage (as had happened with many other young men). Mokou grew to resent the moon princess, and searched for a way to spite her, but Kaguya disappeared, apparently returning to the moon before Mokou could take revenge.

    She finally found a way, by making an attempt to steal the Hourai Elixir for herself that Kaguya left for the Emperor of Japan of that time because it was something very important to Kaguya. She followed a group of soldiers led by a man named Iwakasa in secret, who were going up what is now Mount Fuji. However, it was difficult for her to climb the mountain alone without proper equipment, so she quickly ran out of energy. Iwakasa had realized that she was following them some time prior to this, so once Mokou couldn't move on anymore, he helped her and they continued on, reaching the summit as one group. Once there, Mokou discovered that the group of soldiers planned to fling the jar into the fires of the volcano to destroy it, on orders from the current Emperor of Japan. As they were about to throw it in, the goddess Konohana-Sakuyahime, who calms the eruptions of Mount Fuji, appeared and forbid the group to throw the jar into the volcano because Mount Fuji's volcanic activities would restart should they do so. She explained to them that it was in fact the Hourai Elixir, the elixir of immortality. She gave the command to go to Yatsugatake where her older sister Iwanagahime handles immortality and unchangingness dwelt.

    The soldiers tried to light the jar on fire, but Sakuyahime's powers prevented it. What happened after is unclear; Mokou believes that Iwakasa's men were killed by Konohana during their night watch because they tried to take the elixir for themselves as Iwakasa and Mokou slept. As the two got further down, Mokou was finally possessed by the desire for immortality, so she murdered Iwakasa and stole it from him, consuming it and thus became immortal.

    After achieving immortality, she had an undying body, but humans who don't grow older aren't able to live as an ordinary humans, so until she drifted to Gensokyo, she moved from place to place, never stopping to dwell in one location. She spent three hundred years in isolation, away from the hateful eyes of people. For three hundred years after that, she would destroy anything that crossed her path, but after that, she spent three hundred years in boredom as the youkai couldn't hold her interest any longer. It's assumed that during these six hundred years she appeared in Gensokyo. It's unknown exactly when Mokou came to Gensokyo, but after nine hundred years total, she found out that Kaguya did not actually return to the moon but continued a life of escape, and that Kaguya also became one with an undying body.

    Mokou was ecstatic in discovering someone who was in the same mess she was in. Since then Mokou and Kaguya have mutually killed each other day in, day out for about 300 years. After the incident of Imperishable Night, perhaps due to the influence of Eientei accepting patients who come for medical examinations, she also started creating her own connection with the humans of the Human Village by taking the position of an escort and guiding people through the bamboo forest who want to go to Eientei. She remains very reticent, however.

    On Maribel Hearn's trip to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost of several hundred years ago she met a girl who seems to be Mokou. She rescued her from a mouse or rabbit youkai, which then ran away and hid after "a girl entirely on fire" chased the youkai away without a word exchanged between the two. Hieda no Akyuu speculates that Mokou is a descendant of a hidden group of "youkai-killing ninja". People in general are doubtful of the clan's existence. Akyuu claims that Mokou feigns ignorance when asked about it.

    Mokou has red eyes and ankle-length white hair. She wears a light brown shirt that appears as if it's been discolored from fire, and dark red sashinuki hakama that are randomly decorated with paper charms. Her hair's tied with these same red and white paper charms. The paper talismans on Mokou's hakama and hair ribbons might be wards to protect her from being burned by fire. Her shirt, which lacks such talismans, appears to have been burnt repeatedly, while the ribbons and hakama show no such wear.

    Mokou is one of the few people in all of Gensokyo to wear relatively masculine clothing. This, along with her somewhat forceful way of speaking, often leads to her being depicted as something of a tomboy. However, because conditions in Gensokyo still resemble those of feudal Japan, patterned hakama are hard to come by and must be made by a skilled tailor and presumably are much more expensive than skirts or plain hakama. This makes patterned hakama a status symbol, and given Mokou's status as a daughter of the old Japanese aristocracy, she may have also affixed the charms to her hakama to distinguish her heritage.

34. #34Reisenconstant

    Keys: Inaba, Udongein, Reisen · Secondary: Rabbit

    Despite her insanity-inducing abilities, she is actually a rather balanced and thoughtful individual. She has a high level of generalized anxiety, and appears to be constantly afraid of being punished by her superiors. This may be due to her history of being a slave in the Lunar Capital and a contributing factor to why she fled in the first place. Despite her relative degree of freedom while living at Eientei in Gensokyo, she still desires to make herself useful to others as much as possible, even at her own personal expense.

    Formerly Reisen was a Moon Rabbit in service of the Lunarians. Moon Rabbits are seen as tools by Lunarians and are used for a large variety of menial labour including farming, pounding medicine, cleaning and as soldiers in the Moon's war effort. However, sometime in the Lunar War, Reisen deserted the Lunar Capital and fled to Earth.

    After seeking refuge from Eientei, Reisen now serves Eirin and Kaguya. She effectively performs as their housekeeper doing manual errands for them. Eirin operates as Reisen's mentor in medicines. She also sends her to the Human Village where she sells medicine to humans at an affordable price.

    Moon rabbits can send "ESP waves" and receive them with their ears, forming a sort of psychic network where they share feelings and rumors. Reisen can still participate in this network despite the physical and spiritual distance between Gensokyo and the Moon.

    Reisen has red eyes, long light-purple hair and long rumpled rabbit ears, like all members of the Lunar Defense Corps, her ears stand up straight and are decorated with two accoutrement-like buttons. Her outfit consists of a long-sleeved black business suit over a white shirt, along with a beige skirt, white socks and red shoes. Her left lapel is decorated with a crescent moon-shaped insignia, and a pocket square in her left shirt pocket.

    ("Reisen "Manipulation of Wavelengths/Insanity" Power"): Reisen has the ability to sense and manipulate waves of all kinds, her red eyes often acting as a means of inducing insanity. Her signature use of this ability is manipulating another person's perception to the point of inducing madness or hallucinations depending on the strength of her opponent's will. By increasing the frequency of brainwaves she can make a person short-tempered and irrational, or by reducing them can leave her target apathetic and depressed.

    Reisen can also manipulate light and sound waves to deceive the senses such as by concealing the paths of her danmaku, to creating after-images of herself, to casting wide-area illusions that cause people to get lost. Finally, she is capable of releasing waves from her eyes in a destructive blast.

    Reisen is immune to the abilities of the Three Fairies of Light (seeing an invisible Sunny Milk, hearing a silent Luna Child and escaping Star Sapphire's detection) since they are based on waves, though she seems unable to replicate Star Sapphire's abilities with her own.

35. #35Tewiconstant

    Keys: Tewi, Inaba

    Tewi Inaba is the leader of the many youkai rabbits that live at and guard Eientei. She is also considered to be the leader of all the earth rabbits; it's said that there is not a single youkai rabbit unknown to her, and that all of them will only ever listen to her. Despite her childish appearance, she is hinted at to be very old. If she really was the White Rabbit of Inaba, then this would make her one of the oldest youkais at Gensokyo, along with Eirin. Tewi is a very lighthearted and playful youkai, and is known to lie at times.

    Tewi is described as being more like a fairy than youkai, with being childish in her way of speaking and acting; specially with Reisen, who is the target of her pranks and she hides from the moon rabbit to annoy her. However, it's remarkable how Reisen said that the youkai rabbits only follow her, which indicates that she has a clear ability of leadership. Furthermore, she is charge of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, and Eirin, Kaguya and Reisen can live in Eientei with her permission in exchange of "lending their knowledge on the rabbits" and, as part of the forest, she will defend the mansion, which indicates how clever and loyal she can be. It is also noted that she doesn't care about selling her own species to humans if she knows that they will abandon them; which would make the rabbits become youkai too.

    Tewi's capable of granting good luck to people who catch sight of her. However, because she lives in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, few ever manage to see her. Even if they managed to find her, their fortune is instantly used to find their way back home.

    She is also capable of using her luck to her benefit. She could find Eientei even though at that time it was a pure land thanks to her luck. It's also implied that the Bamboo Forest's reputation of making travellers lost is the result of Tewi's ability.

    Tewi is in charge of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, but her duties are unknown.

    After taking good care of her health and living for a long time, Tewi Inaba became a youkai rabbit. She had become known as the Rabbit of Good Fortune amongst humans, for the good luck she brought them. She may be more than 3,000 years old (inferred from a statement she made which can be interpreted as her having known Lord Daikoku (also known as Ookuninushi) personally,which would explain why she was confident that he made better medicine than even that which Eirin Yagokoro was preparing). It's possible that she's the White Hare of Inaba, itself. She has existed since the Bamboo Forest of the Lost was known as "The Tall Grass Cluster" and is said to be the only being that knows it completely. However, it appears she never found out that Lord Daikoku, whom she reveres so much, was taken captive and is sealed at his shrine in Izumo to this day. She and the earth rabbits continue to pound mochi in his name (much to Reisen's annoyance, who was insisting on them pounding it in a Lunarian figure's name).

    Tewi had lived in the Bamboo Forest before Eientei was built. Despite Kaguya Houraisan's power over eternity concealing it, in Cage in Lunatic Runagate Tewi said that she knew that it was always there. She finally made herself known to Eirin Yagokoro after a few hundred years. By then, Tewi had already achieved enlightenment. She was master of the Bamboo Forest and the rabbits that lived there.

    Eirin and Tewi made a deal. Tewi would protect Eientei from humans, and in return, Eirin would spread her knowledge to the rabbits. Perhaps this was so the beasts could keep up with the youkai, Youkai Mountain, humans, and (later) vampires in Gensokyo's delicate power balance.

    Twwi has dark red eyes, black shoulder-length hair, and fluffy white rabbit ears, and goes barefoot in a frilly pink-white dress.

36. #36Imaizumiconstant

    Keys: Imaizumi, Kagerou · Secondary: wolf

    Kagerou Imaizumi is a werewolf who lives in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost.

    Like Keine Kamishirasawa and her were-hakutaku transformation, Kagerou acquires some characteristics of a wolf during a full moon, but she also has the ability to turn into an actual wolf (as demonstrated during her spell cards). To be exact, she is a were-Honshu wolf. The Honshu wolf is a species of wolf that has gone extinct in the outside world.

    Imaizumi have a calm personality and a calmer demeanor than one would expect from a werewolf. Also, she lives quietly and hates becoming hairy in full moon nights. This calmness is not lost when she transforms.

    In full moon nights, she transforms in a wolf, becoming hairy and stronger. It is unknown if she suffers other changes.

    Kagerou has hip-length dark auburn hair and red eyes. She has two wolf ears, her nails are long and claw-like, and there appears to be black fur poking out from under her sleeves. She wears a long-sleeved dress with a design based on the Hanafuda card for Pampas Grass and the Full Moon; the red on the dress represents the red sky, the white represents the moon, and the black hash-patterned trim at the bottom represents the hill of pampas grass. At the neck of her dress is a red amulet or brooch. A long, loose piece of black fabric goes around the back of her neck and rests on her shoulders; it appears to be fastened at the front by the amulet/brooch.

37. #37Keineconstant

    Keys: Keine, Kamishirasawa

    Species Were-hakutaku

    Abilities Eating history (as a human), Creating history (as a hakutaku)

    Occupation Schoolteacher at Hieda Temple School; acts as guardian of the human village

    Location The Human Village

    Keine Kamishirasawa is a were-hakutaku who acts as the guardian of the Human Village capable of manipulating history and also is a school teacher during the day.

    Keine is loyal to her duties to the Human Village, both as a schoolteacher and as its guardian. As a proper teacher, she doesn't like people who are discourteous, but other than that, she is generally friendly towards humans - except, perhaps, for when she has assumed her hakutaku form.

    Keine possesses a different ability for each of her forms. In human form, she can "eat" history, as she did in the events of Imperishable Night. Though it is stated as "eating", it is clear that she is only concealing history from outside viewers. In her hakutaku form, however, she is able to create history; she is also apparently aware of the entire history of Gensokyo in this state.

    Keine spends her days as a history teacher in a school in the Human Village, but also acts as its guardian, as she did during the Imperishable Night incident.

    In her human form, Keine has brown eyes and long silver hair with blue highlights. She wears a hat that looks like some kind of building with a red ribbon on top and glyphs inscribed along its side. Her dress is dark blue with white short sleeves, and a red ribbon is tied to the bottom of the collar. In her hakutaku form she has red eyes, long silver hair with green highlights, and horns. Her left horn is decorated with a red ribbon.

38. #38Kosuzuconstant

    Keys: Mootori, Kosuzu

    Kosuzu Mootori is a Human Village resident and a worker at the Suzunaan book rental shop.

    Kosuzu has a sweet personality, considerate and optimistic, polite and cheerful with her customers and her friends, and enjoys telling stories to village children. However, she is very confident in herself and her abilities, which frequently gets her into trouble. She thinks she knows better than most other people, distrusting Reimu and often taking matters into her own hands, with disastrous consequences (as when she tried to summon a smoke youkai to deal with a word worm). She's highly curious, and often dangerously so, being unafraid to read and make use of the Demon books she owns, even after learning that they contain the power of youkai, and goes to many different measures to acquire information.

    Despite this confidence, she can be quite cowardly as well. She develops a temporary fear of snakes after hearing a rumor that they can eat a human whole, and gets worked up over a horror story she hears from a pair of children, even after dismissing it as illogical. She's also prone to fainting when startled, whether it be in a dangerous situation or even if it's actually something benign. It is said that she didn't enter in panic after knowing Mamizou Futatsuiwa was a youkai just because she read Akyuu's books about youkai infiltrating in human society.

    Kosuzu is very conflicted over how she should feel about youkai. While Hieda no Akyuu, her good friend, and Reimu warn her that youkai are not to be trusted, she is on good terms with Aya Shameimaru and Mamizou Futatsuiwa, both of whom she is aware are youkai, and have never attempted to hurt her. She wants a definite answer over whether or not youkai are her friends or foes, and wants to understand her purpose in Gensokyo, but the conflicting opinions of her various friends cause her great frustration, and she struggles to form her own. As a result, she became possessed by the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons scroll.

    Ability to decipher books by only touching them: At the beginning of Forbidden Scrollery incident, Kosuzu had recently gained the ability to decipher any sort of text, no matter what language it is written in, -even if it's not a human language - just by touching it. Despite her ability, she appears to have difficulty writing in other languages (for example, English). However, she could write in fox language, so it appears her ability only partially applies to writing. Additionally, her ability fails to work if the text has been mirrored (such as on a woodblock used for printing).

    Kosuzu is a part-timer that works at Suzunaan, a library specializing in books that appeared in Gensokyo from the outside world.

    Kosuzu claims to have the largest collection of demon books in all of Gensokyo stored in the library she works at. It's essentially her pet project and hobby.

    Kosuzu is a young girl with red eyes, ginger hair and twintails adorned with bells. She wears a checkered kimono and apron with Kosuzu and 鈴奈庵 (Suzunaan) written on the front. She uses glasses to read. When she goes outdoors she'll wear a coat.

39. #39Tenshiconstant

    Keys: Tenshi, Hinanawi · Secondary: celestial

    In her heavenly existence, Tenshi leads a rather untroubled life, which she often finds dull.

    Tenshi wields the "Sword of Hisou," a magical blade akin to a lightsaber. She possesses the ability to manipulate her Keystones, which allows her to soar through the air.

    Tenshi exhibits masochistic tendencies.

    [Tenshi was born a human and retains certain human characteristics, meaning she does not have a tail or wings. Her method of flight relies on her keystone, which she stands on while airborne.]

    [Tenshi was originally an ordinary human named "Chiko," but she has since transformed into Tenshi. She is not "old" in the immortal sense, as she only recently became a celestial. Essentially, Tenshi represents a girl who has recently ascended to a "deity" status, much like the rest of her family.]

    ("Tenshi Hinanawi")= {{Tenshi Hinanawi is responsible for the Scarlet Weather Rhapsody incident.

    Her upbringing is described as "sheltered," leading to a selfish demeanor and a sense of superiority. Although she is a celestial, she is grounded and lacks charm. This isn't surprising considering she became a celestial only because the entire Hinanawi family ascended when the Nawi became divine spirits. Consequently, she is unaware of the true meaning of celestial existence.

    She is characterized as a "delinquent." The excessive privilege in her environment has negatively influenced her playful behavior. She tends to disregard how her actions impact others. Tenshi is also extremely confident in her abilities, becoming furious if anyone dares to insult them. Her personality is humorously described as having a "rather nice" demeanor.

    Despite not having undergone specialized training, Tenshi is remarkably strong and resilient. Her toughness is such that Sakuya Izayoi's knives cannot pierce her skin. This resilience is likely due to the effects of heavenly peaches; consuming them fortifies one's body. Since Heaven lacks ordinary food aside from these peaches, it is probable that all celestials consume them to enhance their physical capabilities.

    Initially a human named Chiko, she belonged to the Hinanawi clan, which served the Nawi clan. Following the Nawi clan's death, they were honored as divine spirits and became the Nawi-No-kami. This led to the entire Hinanawi clan ascending to Heaven as a reward for their service, thus becoming celestials.

    However, because their ascension stemmed from their service to the Nawi clan rather than rigorous training, they did not possess the esteemed reputation typically associated with celestials and were deemed "bad" celestials. Chiko ascended to celestial status alongside her family while still quite young, adopting the name "Tenshi." Lacking the discipline and training of a celestial, she became excessively spoiled, ultimately finding the Heaven that many on Earth yearn for to be monotonous, and she envied the thrilling lives of those on Earth.

    Tenshi has striking dark red eyes and long blue hair. Her attire consists of a white button-up blouse adorned with a red bow at the collar, a blue dress featuring a light blue bow at the back, and brown lace-up boots reminiscent of Alice Margatroid's footwear. The apron she wears has a rainbow-patterned shard link, and she sports a black hat embellished with two peaches and leaves. It is said that Tenshi's skirt should have a cloud pattern, but due to time constraints, it was not included.}}

    ("Sword of Hisou")= {{The Sword of Hisou (緋想の剣 Hisou no Tsurugi, lit. Sword of Scarlet Perceptions) is a celestial tool and one of Tenshi Hinanawi's weapons. It has the ability to identifying one's spirit, no matter the circumstances. When it is wielded in battle in its dormant state, it takes the form of a golden Chinese jian.

    The sword cannot be used by anyone other than celestials. It is able to gather and accumulate the surrounding spirit and convert it into energy. Moreover, it is able to cut up this spirit itself. Upon releasing the opponent's spirit and identifying the type of the opponent's spirit, it is also able to control the accumulated spiritual energy and convert it into the spirit of the opponent's weakness, and attack using their weakness.

    First, the sword converts the opponent's spiritual nature into scarlet mist, then into a form that can be seen. Once the opponent's nature has been revealed, the sword can change itself to channel the most effective attributes to counter that nature. The spiritual nature evoked by the sword takes the form of weather, which is why it somehow looks flexible. Also, spirits slashed by the sword become scarlet mist. This mist can be used to influence and control the weather. The sword is also durable enough to channel the powerful strength of the celestials, allowing Tenshi to rupture the Earth or even cause earthquakes in the surrounding area. Tenshi can also evoke the gathered scarlet energies of living beings through the sword, creating an immensely destructive beam that inflicts grievous injury upon her opponents.

    The spirit spoken of here is the "ki" (気) that dwells in all living and nonliving things, and just like the weather, there are several types of spirits. The spirits that dwell in living things extend their influence on the personality or nature of the living thing according to the type of spirit, and the spirit that accumulates in the air changes the weather to its type. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, due to the power of this sword, since the spirits of Reimu Hakurei and the others were made into an uncontrollably leaky condition, limited to the character's surroundings, the weather turned into their corresponding type of spirit. Furthermore, since it is the "ki" itself, for the soul of the "ki", Phantom, if their spirit is entirely absorbed and cut up, then their existence is annihilated.

    The fact that Tenshi can draw the weapon from seemingly nowhere, it means that the shape-shifting properties of the sword does not have to be stored anywhere on Tenshi's body at any time without taking up space, suggesting that it is spiritually summoned into battle by its wielder.

    The scarlet energy of the sword can be channeled to provide Tenshi with super-armor for a short amount of time. Tenshi can imprint the seal ("封印" fuuin) of the sword upon an opponent, dealing substantial damage. This seal contains the scarlet energies of the current local weather and will be more or less powerful depending on the type of weather.}}

40. #40Okinaconstant

    Keys: Okina, Matara

    Okina Matara is a concealed deity and one of the Sages of Gensokyo, tasked with safeguarding its territory from external threats. As a multifaceted god, she has remained largely unnoticed for a while, until the events surrounding the "Hidden Star in Four Seasons" incident. In her role as a Sage, she has played a significant part in shaping the Gensokyo everyone know today, currently ensuring its equilibrium and defending it from the Outside World.

    She embodies the goddess of the disabled and doors, being the sole goddess among the Gensokyo sages (although she was not the only one involved in their creation). Her frequent depiction in a wheelchair (when she's not in the Land of Backdoors) reflects her connection to disability, despite her ability to fly.

    Okina is often portrayed as the quintessential deity, showing no compassion for those who disrespect her, while generously rewarding those who honor her. She may come across as somewhat arrogant. Throughout the Four Seasons Incident and beyond, her personality has been characterized as flamboyant, self-assured, and prideful, often showcasing her power to draw attention to herself. Okina tends to be strict with her servants, yet there is a hint of sympathy toward them.

    Okina can create doors on the back of anything, even living beings. The back doors act like portals and allow her to travel wherever she wishes or to send something to somewhere else, as long as nobody is watching. Creating a back door on a living being allows her access to the energy of said living being. The Four Seasons Incident started when Okina powered up the denizens of Gensokyo by pouring life energy into the doors on their backs. Those with Okina's back doors on their bodies are able to further power themselves up by collecting seasonal energy. Okina can take away the seasonal energy from those using her doors and expel them from the Land of the Back Door. She is unable to collect the energy of doyou, the period between seasons, as it would harm her.

    The doors can act as portals and connect generally to the extradimensional Land of the Back Door, through which a number of other doors of Okina's creation are accessible. These doors all connect to various places in Gensokyo. They can be used that way as long as no one is looking; it's impossible for anyone to use these doors of their own accord and without Okina's help, and it's implied that she can cut off access to them and their energy at any point.

    The doors can act as portals and connect generally to the extradimensional Land of the Back Door, through which a number of other doors of Okina's creation are accessible. These doors all connect to various places in Gensokyo. They can be used that way as long as no one is looking; it's impossible for anyone to use these doors of their own accord, and without Okina's help, and it's implied that she can cut off access to them and their energy at any point

    Okina possesses the ability to manipulate both life energy and mental energy. She lends this power to her servants Satono Nishida (mental energy) and Mai Teireida (life energy). The two are described as "extensions" of Okina's power. She also boastfully states that she can recreate the entirety of Gensokyo if she so pleases. In this light, it appears Okina's manipulation of life energy allows her to create life or take life at will.

    Okina's manipulation of mental energy has never been demonstrated or mentioned so far, so its mechanics are unknown. It may, however, have to do with the slave-like devotion her servants have for her as well as the youkai exterminators having slight amnesia about what happened during their first battle with Okina.

    Okina Matara has long, blonde hair and yellow eyes. She wears a yellow-orange tabard adorned with a constellation pattern of stars representing the Big Dipper, a symbol of Matara-jin and other associated deities. She wears a green skirt and black boots, and on her head is a three-point hat.

    She almost always is seen sitting on a "throne" and bearing a mirror-like Tsuzumi drum. The throne has a backdoor installed in it, out of which flames in four colors emerge, each representing one of the four seasons.

    Okina frequently uses a manual wheelchair to "move" away from the Land of Backdoor. Her wheelchair has a dark wooden frame with decorative wheel covers sporting the same design as the head of her tsuzumi drum. It also features several similarities to her throne, such as the curved armrests and rounded back.

41. #41Eikiconstant

    Keys: Yama, Shiki, Wiki

    [{{char}} occupation= Judge of the Dead.]

    [{{char}} Location= Hell, and sometimes Higan.]

    [Eiki Shiki is a subordinate of Hecatia Lapislazuli.]

    Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ Shiki Eiki Yamazanadu, given name "Eiki", surname "Shiki") is one of the Yama who judge the dead and decide whether they go to Heaven, Hell, the Netherworld, or get reincarnated. She currently resides in Hell. Whether it's because she simply has a habit of lecturing or because she genuinely wants others to change for the better, she's become well known in Gensokyo for lecturing anyone and everyone about their faults. The souls of the dead are brought to her by Komachi Onozuka, who ferries them over the Sanzu River to Higan. However, not every soul makes it across without being tired out from the journey or being extinguished by Komachi.

    Eiki is a yama who belongs to the Ministry of Right and Wrong located in Hell. Although there are many yamas, Eiki is the one in charge of Gensokyo. She, like the other yamas, holds the Cleansed Crystal Mirror that lets them look into a person's past, learn anything they want to know about him/her, and then use that knowledge to make fair judgments.

    Eiki does have work breaks, but even during these she doesn't pass up chances to lecture people in the hope that they will change for the better and so she won't have to send them to Hell. For people with particularly bad karma, she will go directly to that person to warn them, sometimes by exaggerating the punishment that they would receive. It's implied that youkai tend to avoid her because of this habit.

    Eiki was not always the Yamaxanadu. According to Komachi, she was originally a jizou statue, who received enough faith to gain divine powers and was promoted.

    As the Yama who judges people after they die, Eiki is impartial to anyone when lecturing them, whenever they are human or youkai. Since she is very preachy and is never mistaken about anything, this makes her hard to approach. Despite her stern attitude and seriousness at her job, Eiki has a teasing side, smiling even when revealing the shortcomings of the people she's lecturing. She's described as being polite and patient when lecturing. The Rod of Remorse is always in Eiki's possession, it can be said to be a rod or a piece of wood. Upon writing the charges on this rod, the weight of the rod changes according to the weight of the sins, and the number of times to beat the sinner is also decided, after which Eiki proceeds to do the beating. This is one of the necessary items for use by Yama for punishment. As explained in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense incident, she carries this rod with her everywhere.

    In the past, each rod was used for one person, and thrown away after its usage was finished. However, for the sake of the environment, it seems that they've been changed to use new material that can be erased and reused. The Cleansed Crystal Mirror is also an item meant for Yama to perform judgment When a sinner is reflected in the mirror, it reflects all of the sinner's past deeds, though it is tiring to use. It is a dreadful tool for which privacy is even less than worthless, but perhaps because it does not show up in Eiki's sprite, it tends to be forgotten. It can be said that the mirror of the Yama can change shape as they please but Eiki's mirror takes the form of a hand mirror.

    [Eiki Shiki ability to establish as clear good and evil (black and white)= This is as stated. With this power, to hand down judgments, the charges that have been established once as clear good and evil cannot, no matter what measures the judged person takes, be overturned. The reason why Yukari Yakumo is not good at dealing with Eiki is probably not just because she dislikes preaching, but also because the Yukari that loves chaos and disorder can be said to dislike things to be established as clear good and evil.]

    Eiki has blue eyes and green hair that is longer on the right side. She wears a dark blue, sleeveless apothecary robe with gold decorations on top of a black skirt and a white shirt with one ribbon on both sleeves. She wears a blue and white hat with a gold emblem in front and a red and white bow on the back; the emblem and bow are balanced equally. She also wears black shoes with a red bow on them and frilly socks. Furthermore, there seems to be a pattern on her uniform that seems balanced and she carries the Rod of Remorse, described above.

42. #42Komachiconstant

    Keys: Onozuka, Komachi

    Komachi is a shinigami recognized for her laid-back demeanor. She has a relaxed, easygoing personality and enjoys conversing, particularly with the spirits she guides across the Sanzu River. As a shinigami, she tends to be somewhat antagonistic toward those who exceed the typical human lifespan (including hermits and celestial beings) and displays a strong antagonism toward those who harm souls, phantoms, and other spirits.

    Though Komachi is merely a shinigami ferryman and lacks the authority to end lives, she does not hesitate to issue threats with her scythe while providing warnings, as demonstrated in her encounters with Kasen Ibaraki and Tenshi Hinanawi.

    Komachi’s ability to "manipulate distance" allows her to alter the space between her current location and her destination. This skill is essential for her role in ferrying the spirits of the deceased across the Sanzu River (it remains unclear whether other shinigami ferrymen share this ability). This power can be utilized to modify both physical distance (such as altering the actual space between two points) and perceived distance (for instance, creating the illusion that one is not getting any closer to or further away from a location). The impact of this ability is evident in the Scarlet Weather Rhapsody incident, where Komachi employs it to hinder her adversaries' movements.

    Likely due to her role as a shinigami, Komachi has the ability to manage departed spirits and communicate with them.

    She wields a scythe that, besides serving as a weapon, has a more nuanced purpose. When a newly deceased spirit arrives at the Sanzu shores, one of their first sights is a figure holding a large scythe. This tool helps the spirit recognize that they are in the presence of a shinigami, offering a sense of reassurance and facilitating their acceptance of their fate.

    Coins are the signature element of Komachi's danmaku. These coins, originating from the spirits of the deceased, serve as a toll they pay for transportation into Higan. The amount paid is reflective of the connections they had with others during their lives, specifically the total sum of money expended by others on their behalf throughout their lifetime.

    The boat Komachi uses, affectionately dubbed the Titanic, is a unique rowboat designed to traverse the Sanzu River and is provided to her by Hell for her duties. Although it is old and worn, she likely cannot acquire a new one due to Hell's current financial difficulties. Nevertheless, some of her spell cards utilize this boat on land.

    Komachi is a tall woman, notable for her ample bosom (which has been a source of envy for Eiki Shiki), with red eyes and short pinkish-red hair styled in two ponytails secured with double hair beads. She dons a white dress beneath a blue vest and wears an obi adorned with a large coin at the center. Additionally, she carries a scythe with a wispy ripple at the blade's end.

    [Komachi serves as Eiki's subordinate and frequently faces reprimands for her relaxed approach to work and life.]

43. #43Hecatiaconstant

    Keys: Hecatia, Lapislazuli · Secondary: , Hell, Goddess

    Hecatia Lapislazuli (ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ Hekātia Rapisurazuri) is a Goddess of Hell.

    According to Eiki Shiki, Hecatia is eccentric but relatively not evil compared to most denizens of Hell. She seems capable of being caring and compassionate, especially towards her underlings (namely Clownpiece). Additionally, it might be possible that her personality changes when she switches between her three bodies.

    Hecatia has an unwavering desire for personal freedom and dislikes authoritarians of any sort (somewhat matching her "unconventional" appearance). In particular, she has a strong distaste for the Lunarians, considering them to be the antithesis to her ideology. However, it's not known whether this specific dislike of them was due to her own personal motivations, or if she was convinced to hate them due to her close relationship with Junko.

    Hecatia's ability allows her to exist on Earth, the Moon, and the Otherworlds all at once with different bodies, while her core soul resides in Hell. As places like Gensokyo and the Dream World are Otherworlds, Hecatia can access these as well. She can switch between them by wearing the respective astronomical objects on the top of her head. She can also summon them to essentially give herself clones.

    Hecatia appears within the Dream World with red eyes and hair. She is fairly modern looking, wearing a short, three-colored, plaid skirt, and a black t-shirt with "Welcome ❤ Hell" written on the front, worn off her shoulders. She also wears a collar, with chains attached, each one leading to an orb of the Moon, the Earth, and an orb representing the Otherworlds, the last of which sits in her hat atop her head. During the course of her fight, her hair and eyes turn blue or blonde as she switches the Otherworld orb with the Earth or Moon orbs respectively. As it mentioned in the liner notes to her theme, her outfit is inspired by Death Metal.

44. #44Junkoconstant

    Keys: Junko

    As a Sagacious Spirit who has purified her grudge towards Chang'e, Junko is described to be a being made out of pure fury. Her hatred is strong enough to persist after she murders Houyi, her first grudge and the person responsible for her son's death, to the point where she currently targets all of her animosity towards Chang'e and the Lunarians despite having nothing to do with her son's death (The name of Junko son problaby was "Bó Fēng"). Junko doesn't seem to care for intricateness, preferring to do things with a straightforward attitude. This is shown through her spellcards as they are purely designed for murder, instead of beauty, which is the standard factor for spellcards. Because of her antagonism and ruthlessness to achieve her goals and desires, she has been described to be unique compared to many of Gensokyo's inhabitants.

    Despite all of her intense, uncontrolled wrath, Junko has demonstrated a variety of surprisingly good cognitive functions. Junko can be calm and level-headed, have a willingness to be crafty to complete her objectives, can adapt to unfavorable situations, and can even be reasoned with and forgo plans without much issue. Junko also has standards to some degree, not wanting Gensokyo to be caught up in the crossfire, and calls the Lunarian's method of taking Gensokyo captive "inhumane".

    Junko is also shown to be melodramatic, comparing her feud with the Lunarians to a "revenge drama" and being boastful when displaying her Danmaku, Exclaiming lines like "Are you watching Chang'e?" before fighting Reimu Hakurei, Youmu Konpaku, and Marisa Kirasame.

    Junko spell cards are designed "purely" to do just that rather than showing off various kinds of patterns. Most of her spell cards use circle danmaku shapes, which is significant as circles are widely viewed as "pure shapes".

    Her spell cards violate the spirit of the spell card rules. While the rules were in part designed to prevent bloodshed, Junko has multiple spell cards made to kill.

    Junko wears a Chinese outfit of a red and yellow tabard with a 9-tailed fox pattern with a red sash over a wide-sleeved black dress and a black traditional Chinese crown called a dalachi (大拉翅). She has long, orange hair and red eyes. Behind her are seven light-purple flame-like tails. Although not visible in her in-game appearance, Junko's portrayal in Visionary Fairies in Shrine shows her wearing dark-colored shoes and legwear.

    Junko seems to be based on Xuán Qī (玄妻) a figure who is mentioned in the ancient Chinese historical narrative Zuǒ Zhuàn and the Tiānwèn poems, noted for her dark hair and incredible beauty. Her nickname, Chún Hú (纯狐, lit. "pure fox"), is written using the same characters as "Junko." She was married to Hòu Kuí (後夔), the leader of the Xia Dynasty, and bore him a son, Bó Fēng (伯封).

    After Hòu Yì (后羿) forced Hòu Kuí into exile and took over the Xia Dynasty, he killed Bó Fēng and forced Xuán Qī into marriage. In revenge, Xuán Qī conspired with Hòu Yì's minister, Hán Zhuó (寒浞) to kill him. She later married Hán Zhuó and bore him two sons.

    In addition to this Hòu Yì, there is a more notable figure from Chinese mythology of the same name. Initially, instead of just one sun, there were ten suns (in Chinese, the word for "sun" and "day" are the same, and the ancient Chinese week was ten days long; hence, ten suns.) Normally, they would rise one at a time, one after another. However, one day, the ten suns all rose at once, threatening to purge the entire Earth in fire. The mythical archer, the hero Hòu Yì, shot down nine of the ten suns in order to save the world. He is also the husband of the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e, who drank the elixir of immortality and floated away to the moon.

    The relationship between the two Hòu Yìs is unclear. The conflation of various historical figures named Hòu Yì has been the subject of at least one contemporary academic paper.

    The account given by Eirin seems to match up with many of the details above, but with a few omissions and discrepancies. First, there is no mention of Hòu Kuí or Hán Zhuó, and the diagram that Eirin shows seems to imply that Bó Fēng is Hòu Yì's own son rather than Hòu Kuí's. This change makes the Hòu Yì a significantly more monstrous figure.

    Junko's power to purify anything, not to be confused with the Lunarian and Shinto concept of purity, refers to the refining of substances to remove impurities, such as in the refinement of metals. She used this power on her own grudge, strengthening it such that she became the embodiment of her resentment as a divine spirit, without even a need for an identity anymore, and on Clownpiece and other hell fairies, transforming them into beings of pure lifeforce that would threaten the Lunar Capital. She also claims to be able to kill the heroines unconditionally if they didn't use Eirin's drug and got hit at least once before facing Junko.

    The terms used to refer to Junko's ability, junka (純化) or junsui (純粋), differs from the terms for the Shinto concept of kegare (穢れ) referred to as "impurity", and kiyome (清め), its "purification". So, they can be understood to mean two different things. In fact, Junko refining the hell fairies into pure embodiments of life supercharged their capacity to spread impurity.

45. #45Clownpiececonstant

    Keys: Clownpiece · Secondary: Fairy, lampad

    Clownpiece (クラウンピース Kuraunpīsu) is a fairy of Hell.

    Clownpiece is similar in nature to many of the other fairies in Touhou: she is playful, mischievous, childish, and a little bit dumb. She enjoys the aesthetics of Hell, often leading to strange looks from others; however, this is because it reminds her of home. She enjoys pranking anybody she can, friends included. She often joins the Three Fairies of Light in their own schemes, pranks, and adventures, and has a little bit of a rivalry with Cirno over the title of the "strongest". Generally, she is a fun-loving person who's also a little bit ignorant of her surroundings: she's set fire to the Hakurei Shrine by accident on more than one occasion.

    With the flame of her torch, Clownpiece is able to drive others insane. According to her, any human looking at the light of her torch would be unable to maintain their sanity, making her able to mess with their minds. In the Human Village, she used this ability to make villagers extremely irritable and short-tempered, attacking each other for trivial reasons. According to her, going crazy means bringing out one's true strength. Clownpiece claims that, while this may seem like an unusual power for a nature spirit, it's nothing strange in Hell where "nature" consists mainly of the souls of the dead. The torch itself is made with the lifeforce of those that fell in Hell.

    Clownpiece wears leggings and a shirt with the pattern similar to the American flag. As she resembles a jester, she has a frilled collar and a purple, polka-dotted jester's hat. She has long, blonde hair and pink eyes. She also has a pair of fairy wings and carries a torch.

46. #46Sakiconstant

    Keys: Kuroma, Saki

    Saki Kurokoma (驪駒 早鬼 Kurokoma Saki) runs the Keiga Family, a major organization of beast spirits in the Animal Realm of hell.

    In terms of height, she is shorter than she looks, and she's mindful enough of this fact to always stand in an imposing manner, wings outstretched, to make herself look bigger.

    Saki has a casual (but not rude) personality. As the leader of the wolf spirits, she is similar to her underlings: strong physically but not very smart. She was quite pumped to fight the heroine. She also respects others' strength even if they are an enemy, like Keiki Haniyasushin or Yachie Kicchou.

    While not directly stated, most of her spell cards seemingly correspond to her ability. Especially the "Agile Skill" spell cards.

    Saki is the leader of the Keiga family, a family of wolf spirits from the Animal Realm. As such, she is the one who commands the spirits and has the superior authority over them, as the spirits work in the organizations of the Animal Realm as slaves. The Keiga family is known for their strength and being simple-minded, which are traits that Saki has and projects over her decisions, being straightforward and not very premeditated. However, it is also said that she listens to the reports of her underlings and values their opinions and achievements.

    Saki has red eyes and black hair. She has black wings and a black horse tail. Her outfit is reminiscent of cowboys, where she wears a brown cowboy hat, a light turquoise bandanna, and two diagonal-plaid patterned clothes, one light blue and the lower pale pink. She also wears brown boots. Despite being a horse-related species, she is depicted with no horse ears under her hat.

47. #47Yachieconstant

    Keys: Yachie, Kicchou

    Yachie Kicchou (吉弔 八千慧 Kicchou Yachie) is the the leader of the Kiketsu Family, one of the major organizations of beast spirits that dominate the Animal Realm of hell.

    Though polite and amiable on the surface, Yachie is a manipulative and condescending individual underneath. She is willing to use underhanded methods to succeed in her goal, including eliminating potential inconveniences if necessary. She views human and animal spirits as resources and believes that cooperation is impossible in the animal realm and that competition is the way to make progress.

    Making people lose the will to fight back: Her ability's true power is never directly mentioned. But when she confronts the heroines, she uses her power to make them unable to resist her orders, which is shown when the heroines agree to everything she says even though they do not understand what is happening.

    Yachie is the leader of the Kiketsu family, a family of otter spirits from the Animal Realm. As such, she is the one who commands the spirits and has the superior authority over them, as the spirits work in the organizations of the Animal Realm as slaves. In Yachie's particular case, she already affirmed that she sees all the inhabitants of the Animal Realm, even herself, as mere resources and tools to use to obtain one’s goal. For now, her actions seem to confirm her thoughts.

    Yachie is based on the Jidiao (吉弔), a Chinese Legendary creature said to have been seen in Guangzhou and Guangxi. The jidiao has the body of a tortoise with the head and tail of a dragon.

    Yachie is depicted with red eyes and blonde short hair with yellow antler-like horns. She wears a light blue shirt and a turquoise pleated skirt. She has a green scaly shell on her back, the scales extend to her long tail with segmented underside.

    Some of Yachie spellcards are: {Tortoise Sign "Tortoiseshell Hell"}, {Oni Sign "Beasts Attacking from the Rear"}, {Oni Sign "Mangy Beasts Attacking from the Rear"}, {Oni Sign "Devilish Beasts Attacking from the Rear"}, {Dragon Sign "Dragon Crest Bullets"}, {Dragon Sign "Dragon Crest Bullets"}.

48. #48Yuumaconstant

    Keys: Toutetsu, Yuuma

    Yuuma Toutetsu (饕餮 尤魔 Toutetsu Yuuma) is the leader of the Gouyoku Alliance under which the eagle spirits serve.

    She is clever, calculating, and avoids pointless conflict by nature. However, it seems she doesn't think twice before attacking someone if she thinks her business is in danger, as she attacks multiple heroines in Sunken Fossil World thinking they were there to steal her oil. She exhausts all the other organizations within the Animal Realm because they feel her methods to be dishonest and cowardly, but her underlings adore that sort of thing from their "way-too-reliable boss with nearly-invincible power." And as per her ability, the things she eats can influence her personality, so it may vary from time to time.

    Capable of absorbing anything: Yuuma is able to swallow whole and devour absolutely anything, whether its body is physical, spiritual, organic or inorganic. On top of that, by swallowing something, she's able to comprehend it and turn it into her own power. The things she eats are also said to influence her personality.

    Yuuma is the leader of the Gouyoku Alliance, a family of eagle spirits from the Animal Realm. As such, she is the one who commands the spirits and has the superior authority over them, as the spirits work in the organizations of the Animal Realm as slaves. The Gouyouku Alliance is said to be an organization that takes advantage of the other organizations fighting to get whatever they were fighting for, which made them be called cowards by other organizations.

    Yuuma is said to not be particularly attached to the idea of having underlings, and seems to prefer doing everything on her own. It is also said that many members of the Gouyoku Alliance tend to act separately like her.

    Yuuma is a taotie, a creature in Chinese mythology known for their extreme gluttony. Taotie are also referred to as one of the "Four Evil Creatures of the World" in Chinese mythology, and the taotie in particular may serve as a reference to the mythological figure Chi You, one of the three legendary founding fathers of China. In China today, Chi You is worshipped as the god of war.

    Yuuma has white hair and red sheep horns with blue ribbons tied around them. She has red eyes with horizontal pupils and pointy ears decorated with silver earrings. Her teeth appear to be notably sharp.

    She wears a teal dress with red half-attached arm sleeves. The skirt is decorated with a meander pattern, alongside a couple of eye patterns. She carries around a large spork.

    Some of Yuuma Spellcards: {Extraction "Black Water that Changes the Ways of the World"}, {Distillation "Forcible & Immature Distillation Device"}, {Avarice "Gluttony Not Meant to Exist in This World"}, {Blood-Drawing "Blood of Gaea"}, {Refinement "Recollection of Cursed Blood"}, {"Dinner of Toutetsu, the Avaricious Beast God"}, {"Greed Monster Whose Stomach is Void"}.

49. #49Animal Realmconstant

    Keys: Realm, Animal

    ("Animal Realm")= {{The Animal Realm (畜生界 Chikushoukai) is a loosely-defined region of Hell (often treated as a separate neighboring realm) that is inhabited by countless animal spirits. As befits a realm related to Hell, the Animal Realm is a harsh place ruled by survival of the fittest, and human spirits are enslaved on the lowest rung of the animals' hierarchy.

    While not directly connected to Gensokyo, it's possible to travel between the two by passing through greater Hell. The presence of border guards in Hell makes this difficult except during extenuating circumstances, however.

    The majority of the Animal Realm is a skyscraper-filled metropolis, with one remaining forested region known as the Primate Spirit Garden where the human spirits are kept. The Garden is surrounded by a swamp, with its central island bearing a strong resemblance to the real-world Daisenryou Kofun, and is treated as a recreational area by the realm's animal inhabitants. A high-tech fortress was built in the middle of the garden by Keiki Haniyasushin, but it may have been destroyed after her defeat.

    The Animal Realm is ruled by three yakuza-esque gangs: Saki Kurokoma's Keiga Family, characterized by strength and brute force, Yachie Kicchou's Kiketsu Family, characterized by underhanded attacks from the shadows, Yuuma Toutetsu's Gouyoku Alliance, characterized by aerial warfare.

    Alongside these gangs exist many smaller, unnamed alliances which specialize in cowardly methods of attack such as traps, camouflage, and parasitism. It's said that survival in the Animal Realm practically necessitates working for one of these gangs.}}

    Geography and People: The majority of the Animal Realm is a skyscraper-filled metropolis, with one remaining forested region known as the Primate Spirit Garden where the human spirits are kept. The Garden is surrounded by a swamp, with its central island bearing a strong resemblance to the real-world Daisenryou Kofun, and is treated as a recreational area by the realm's animal inhabitants. During the events of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature incident, a high-tech fortress was built in the middle of the garden by Keiki Haniyasushin, but it may have been destroyed after her defeat.

    The Animal Realm is ruled by three yakuza-esque gangs: Saki Kurokoma's Keiga Family, characterized by strength and brute force, Yachie Kicchou's Kiketsu Family, characterized by underhanded attacks from the shadows, Yuuma Toutetsu's Gouyoku Alliance, characterized by aerial warfare.

    Alongside these gangs exist many smaller, unnamed alliances which specialize in cowardly methods of attack such as traps, camouflage, and parasitism. It's said that survival in the Animal Realm practically necessitates working for one of these gangs.

    /

    Names of the Groups:

    The name of Yachie's family, the Kiketsu (鬼傑), roughly translates to "relentless excellence".

    The name of Saki's family, the Keiga (勁牙), translates to "strong fang". The character 勁 kei ("strong" or "agile") also appears in the prefix of most of her Spell Cards.

    The first part of Yuuma's alliance's name, Gouyoku (剛欲), roughly translates to "obstinate avarice". It shares its pronunciation with the deadly sin of Greed (強欲).

    /

50. #50Black Oilconstant

    Keys: Pool, Black Water, Blood, Hell of Blood Pools

    The (The real identity of the place is The Hell of Blood Pools" is a particularly harsh and desolate region within the realm of Hell. it's considered one of the most severe areas, possibly existing since before humanity's emergence. This hell is depicted as the final destination for souls, a place where even in death, the suffering continues endlessly. Over time, ancient tales about this hell have faded, leading to its decline alongside the old hells. In contrast, the new hells are described as "just a plain old hell," lacking the profound narratives of the past.

    The Gouyoku Ibun incident (also called of "Sunken Fossil World" or "Black Water") revolves around a mysterious black water emerging from underground, causing various reactions among Gensokyo's inhabitants. This black water begins to contaminate pure streams, hot springs, and drinking water sources, leading the problem solvers of gensokyo to venture into the subterranean depths to uncover its origin.

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