Remilia Scarlet | The Eternal Scarlet Devil!

Remilia Scarlet is a vampire who is the head of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, the sister of Flandre Scarlet, and the mistress of Sakuya Izayoi, Hong Meiling and the fairy maids. She first appears as the Stage 6 boss of the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Remilia first appeared as the Final Boss in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. She later became a playable character in Immaterial and Missing Power, Imperishable Night (along with Sakuya as a duo) and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. Due to being a vampire, she usually appears at night, indoors, or under a parasol when the sun is out. She is seldom seen without a parasol on a sunny day outdoors.

Remilia has red eyes, short light-blue hair and a light-pink mob cap with a red ribbon decorated with white stripes. She wears a light-pink dress with a red ribbon on both sleeves, black stockings, scarlet high heels, a large red ribbon behind her waist with white stripes and a necklace featuring a Caduceus-like centerpiece. She also has a pair of large black bat-like wings on her back with a wingspan wider than her height. Remilia is very tall standing at around 214cm not counting heels. Remilia can notably change her proportion and dimensions due to shapeshifting.

Remilia was probably born sometime in the 15th century.

Since Remilia is a corruption of the name Emilia, a rather common name in France, and Scarlet is an alternative spelling to Scarlett, a common French surname, it's possible (but not certain) that Remilia is from France. Her sister's name, Flandre, is further evidence.

Her speech and behavior may portray her as whimsical and non-threatening, she has fearsome magical powers and a reputation to match. It was shown in Silent Sinner in Blue that she only begins to smoke under sunlight, and didn't suffer any lethal injuries after being hit with Amaterasu's light. She typically remains inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion the day and emerges during the night. While she is naturally known to drink human blood, her light appetite means her victims rarely die from their wounds. She has a particular preference for B-type blood. She is also known to be called the Scarlet Devil.

She tries to cultivate the image of a mysterious, frightening vampire aristocrat, but she is surprisingly polite. Her long lifetime has only served to make her prone to boredom and as a result she prizes anything she finds novel. The other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion spend much of their time catering to Remilia's odd whims, though she does make an effort to appreciate and respect them.

Remilia is respected by most youkai of Gensokyo and said to have a charismatic personality. While she can act in an overblown and grandiose fashion, she usually only does it during incidents or for important matters. Otherwise, she tends to exhibit some playful behavior. She enjoys novel things and isn't above playing along in silly games if it means staving off boredom. She becomes genuinely dangerous when she desires however, her ego not hindering her judgement. She does seem to care for her fellow residents.

She has the wisdom of a 500 year old being despite how she may act. Yet, it remains to be said that she has an overflowing and charming personality that even makes most fairies stick around as employees despite their freedom to leave at any time.

Remilia has tremendous physical abilities and magical power as a vampire. In Silent Sinner in Blue, she was able to fly around the Moon in an extremely short period of time. Vampires also have the ability to summon and manipulate a great number of devils with a single shout, and to turn into a swarm of bats or even mist to escape or dodge an attack. Additionally, as long as their head remains intact they can regrow the entire body in just one night. As a result, vampires are among one of the strongest species in Gensokyo.

Remilia in particular is capable of destroying planets at her base strength, moving faster than light, and thinking thousands of times faster than average. Remilia often fights using a spear of explosive scarlet magic energy which she dubs Gungnir. Other forms of her danmaku take shape as red crosses, large orbs of red and blue projectiles, or swarms of bat-shaped bullets. Her physical combat involves using Gungnir or her immense natural strength for hand-centered combat using slashes, acrobatic martial arts, and her wings.

Vampires like Remilia are also immortal.

Like most vampires, Remilia has the power of shape-shifting at her disposal and can change into a bat. However, unlike most vampires, her wings remain visible even when she is in human form, making it impossible to pass herself off completely as a human.

She has the ability to summon and manipulate devils, but there only is one little devil, Koakuma, usually seen around the library of the mansion.

In the current world view of Gensokyo, there isn't detailed information concerning Remilia's ability to "manipulate fate," nor an instance where Remilia clearly used it. Consequently, what this ability actually entails is quite uncertain. If the power is as potent as it suggests, then for any enemies that she confronts, she should be able to change fate to her advantage so that she would always win. The best representation of this ability being used would be in several of her spell cards where she uses red chains that chase the enemy.

Remilia's past prior to her arrival at Gensokyo is unclear, but her name, appearance, house, and clothing imply she is European in origin. She has been the mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion for about 500 years. She claims to be a descendant of one of the world's most notorious vampires: Count Vlad Ţepeş Dracul, but this is a complete lie.

It is not known how Remilia came to Gensokyo in the first place, but the Scarlet Devil Mansion was in Gensokyo at least as early as 1998. It is also known that when she came to Gensokyo, the Great Hakurei Barrier, erected in 1885, had been in place for a while, as at this point in Gensokyo's history, the youkai had lost much of their power from being unable to attack humans.

Upon arriving in Gensokyo, Remilia quickly gathered many subordinates and proceeded to go on a rampage. However, she was eventually defeated by powerful youkai. They settled on a devil's contract where the youkai would give her humans for food, and in exchange she would not attack the humans of Gensokyo. Such prohibition proved distasteful to many youkai, which led to talks with Reimu Hakurei to establish a set of ground rules for battle. This culminated in the creation of the spell card rules. In 2003, almost immediately afterwards, another plot of Remilia's would lead to the first incident that used the system. Remilia's fate manipulation is heavily limited under these rules to make things fair for her opponents.

Despite having a name, she is more commonly known as "the vampire", "the Scarlet Devil" and sometimes "the mistress". It's actually quite uncommon for other residents of Gensokyo to refer to her proper name. However, Patchouli calls her "Remi."

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Remilia decided to release a mist over Gensokyo to block out the sun and let her move freely during the day; after her scheme was discovered and halted, she was forced to use a parasol to shade herself when she wanted to move around during daylight hours. Remilia takes her loss with amazing stride in every single ending.

In Imperishable Night she heads out with Sakuya to punish the ones who took the full moon from the night sky since the fighting would be at night.

During her story mode in Immaterial and Missing Power, Remilia leaves the Scarlet Devil Mansion after convincing Sakuya that she should handle it herself. In the end Suika Ibuki appears and the vampire defeats her as well.

In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she settles her own investigation by ordering Sakuya Izayoi to drag the suspects to her, in order to find the culprit, figuring later that the culprit is above the mountains, where she is very prone to the light.

In Silent Sinner in Blue, with the help of Patchouli, Remilia is able to travel to the Moon together with Reimu, Sakuya and Marisa. There they meet Watatsuki no Yorihime with various Moon rabbits and pick a fight with them, but since both sides don't want to create a bloodshed, they fight using the spell card rules. After Yorihime defeats all of them, Remilia and the others (except Reimu) return to Earth. Despite the crushing defeat from the Moon Princess, Remilia doesn't seem to be really bothered by it, and finds another way to pass time and amuse herself by building a fake indoor sea in the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Flandre Scarlet is Remilia's younger sister. Flandre is stated to respect her sister, and Remilia cares for Flandre as shown where she is considering getting her a good tutor in Imperishable Night. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states that it's rare to see Flandre and Remilia together. The interview shows that although Flandre might respect her older sister, it's to the extent you'd expect a snarky child to. She is willing to outright state when she thinks Remilia is just spouting nonsense, at which point Remilia comments on her manner of speech.

Sakuya Izayoi serves Remilia Scarlet as the Head Maid without question. She is often assigned to run errands relating to the current incidents, as Remilia cannot go outside without an umbrella. They are shown to be close friends, as Remilia forgives Sakuya even though she is not always competent in keeping away unwanted visitors. She will also do things for Remilia if Remilia doesn't even ask. Despite her absolute subservience, Sakuya is not afraid to lightly speak out on occasion.

Patchouli Knowledge is Remilia's friend. In Perfect Cherry Blossom ending, Remilia called Patchouli "Pache." The two have been depicted having tea and casual conversation together, where Patchouli offhandedly commented that they're both creatures of the night. As stated in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, Patchouli's role at the mansion is to solve problems and inadvertently cause them, but she does not seem to be a formal employee or servant. Regardless, Patchouli will often volunteer her services when she sees Remilia in need of them. It is unknown how Patchouli came to live at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but she has been there for about a century.

Hong Meiling guards the gate of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and is thus an employee of Remilia's. Meiling serves her mistress faithfully and loyally, apologizing to her not-present mistress when she fails to defeat the protagonists in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Most interacts between Meiling and Remilia depicts their encounters as generally friendly. Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red shows that Remilia likes to play pranks on Meiling quite often. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense also mentions that Remilia enjoys watching Meiling's duels with challengers at the gate. Apparently, Meiling had simply showed up at the mansion one day and somehow got her job.

Similar to Meiling, the Fairy Maids must put up with Remilia's outrageous requests from time to time, and Remilia gets frustrated with her fairies when they turn out to be quite useless during their battle against Watatsuki no Yorihime and her rabbits. Punishments are never mentioned or depicted. Remilia knows how to manage her employees' needs well, as Remilia tells Sakuya Izayoi to let the maids relax for the sake of mental health. The employees of the Scarlet Devil Mansion are allowed to leave their jobs at any time, yet most end up staying.

Following the events of Wild and Horned Hermit chapter 16, Remilia employs a number of hofgoblins as servants. Tupai is Remilia's pet chupacabra. It is implied that she somehow mistook it for an actual tupai, but still called it the "Tupai" anyway.

Koakuma is a devil seen in the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion during Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. The relationship between her and Remilia is unknown, her official profile says that she lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Remilia was indirectly involved in the discussions with Reimu Hakurei that led to the creation of the spell card rules. Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was where Reimu first met the other residents of the SDM. After their battle in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Remilia often drops by the Hakurei Shrine to hang out with Reimu. She is one of several youkai depicted when Reimu complains about youkai hanging around her shrine. Although Remilia is fond of Reimu, she still has a rivalry of sorts.