Undertale x Touhou Project

Undertale Characters:

Frisk:

Frisk is a yellow-skinned human child who wears a long-sleeve light blue shirt with two magenta stripes, light blue pants (often depicted as shorts in the official Undertale merch), and red-brown shoes (usually depicted as black or in a darker tone). They have medium-length straight red-brown hair, short and choppy bangs, and a blank expression. Though Frisk does not show much expression in the overworld, NPCs often describe Frisk's expressions. Just like the first human, they have no stated gender and are solely referred to with "they/them" pronouns throughout the game, or by generic terms (such as "child", "human", or "kid".

Frisk's personality is usually ambiguous, allowing the player to project any personality onto Frisk since they're very often speechless to them. However, the narration that describes Frisk's actions occasionally changes depending on their LOVE. Frisk speaks to NPCs throughout the game, especially when ACTing in encounters, but the exact dialogue is shown only when the game gives multiple dialogue options. NPCs' dialogue boxes display "..." to show that the NPC is listening to Frisk, and some NPCs respond to questions that Frisk asks.

Depending on their actions, players can interpret Frisk as merciful and kind, or merciless and violent. Some NPCs emphasize Frisk's kindness, understanding, and grace in the epilogue. Frisk is obedient and only disallows player input when they follow someone else's instructions, such as when Sans tells them to hide behind the conveniently-shaped lamp.

Frisk's Abilities:

Frisk's determination grants the power to SAVE, heal at SAVE Points, and respawn at SAVE Points after death. This power emerged when Frisk first awoke in the Ruins. Frisk can reload the SAVE file to repeat events that occur after it, but memories are not completely erased unless a True Reset occurs or after completing the Genocide Route. After the True Pacifist ending, Flowey's dialogue implies that Frisk is not the being who is manipulating SAVE files.

Frisk is the only character who is ever shown using items or gaining EXP.

Flowey:

Flowey is a sentient golden flower. He has a white center, six yellow petals, and a light-green stem. Flowey can show a variety of expressions and can mimic the faces and voices of other characters. He mimics Toriel and Asgore in some situations, as well as his old self at the end of the Genocide Route. He also mimics the protagonist's face before the Neutral Route's final battle.

Initially, Flowey is friendly towards the people he meets, greeting the people he meets with "Howdy!", calls himself "your best friend," and, like his father, uses words such as "golly" at the end of his sentences. When he is not trying to fool the people into trusting him he will stop using pleasantries and insult them.

As a flower without a SOUL, Flowey is neither human nor monster. Because he has no SOUL, he is unable to feel compassion or love, and seeks pleasure by indulging his curiosity that stems from his ability to "reshape the world" with his powers of determination. He retains his memories between SAVEs because he used to be able to SAVE himself. It is revealed in the Genocide route that, in spite of his emotional numbness, he was not always amoral and initially used his SAVEs to help others; yet as time passed and his inability to feel continued to persist, all the while he was trying to sate his evergrowing curiosity, Flowey – reluctantly, at first – decided to commit murder, telling himself that he had to know what would happen.

In the current day, Flowey has a malevolent and cruel disposition, berating other people for not following his "kill or be killed" philosophy. He is manipulative, devious, a cunning planner and subtle if the circumstances require it.

When a situation emerges that Flowey has no control over, he may act in frustration or even sheer cowardice.

Asriel Dreemurr:

Asriel is the biological child of Toriel and Asgore, the adoptive brother of the first human Chara, and the former prince of monsters.

Asriel Monster with white fur, long ears, a snout, and a set of visible fangs. In his child form, he lacks horns and has a small tuft of fur atop his head, unlike his parents. He wears a green long-sleeved shirt with yellow stripes and black pants, similar to the first human's clothing.

Asriel's God of Hyperdeath Form:

In this state, in contrast to his child form, Asriel has black sclerae with white slit pupils, longer fangs, a pair of horns, and black markings on the sides of his face. He wears a long robe with white sleeves and the Delta Rune symbol, akin to Toriel's robe, as well as a large collar with shoulder pads. He also wears a locket similar to the Heart Locket.

Asriel's Final Form:

Asriel's body becomes more geometric, his horns are longer, and his claws and teeth get sharper. He has a pair of wings that continuously change color, and his lower body becomes sharp and heart-shaped.

While this form is not directly named, it resembles the Delta Rune, which looks like the "Angel of Death" from the prophecy.

Asriel's Personality:

Before his death, Asriel was a docile, loving, and gentle child. Asriel was compassionate, as he helped the injured fallen human despite The War of Humans and Monsters. In the VHS Tapes, Asriel's dialogue implied he highly trusted the fallen human, as they continued their plan to break the Barrier to free monsterkind.

As Flowey, he lacks a SOUL and becomes incapable of feeling love. This saddens him initially, as he blames himself for his fate. Eventually, he became resentful and murderous.

After temporarily regaining his compassion, Asriel regrets adopting the "kill or be killed" philosophy and apologizes for his actions to the protagonist, understanding that they may not forgive him.

Before the events of Undertale, Asriel was the prince of monsters in the Underground. In the Ruins, Asriel finds the fallen human, who was the first human to fall into the Underground. After bringing them to his parents, the fallen human became Asriel's adoptive sibling and best friend. It is implied through the VHS Tapes that the two eventually began a plan to break the Barrier and free monsterkind. When the fallen human became ill, Asriel absorbed their SOUL to fulfill their wish, which was to see the Golden Flowers at their village on the Surface. With their shared SOUL and form, the fallen human carried their own body across the Barrier to their home village.

The villagers assumed Asriel had killed the human child and in response, they attacked him. Asriel fled the village, refusing to fight back. Upon his return to the Underground, he died from his lethal injuries and turned to dust, which spread across the garden in New Home.

Later, during the determination experiments, Alphys injected determination into one of the garden's Golden Flowers — the first one to bloom after Asriel's death. Initial experiments on the flower vessel proved unsuccessful, and Alphys returned it to Asgore. Not long after being replanted, Asriel awoke within the garden, reincarnated as Flowey. Though the injection of determination granted Flowey the will to live, he soon found that neither his mother nor father could elicit any emotional response from him. He did not have a SOUL and thus could not feel love, joy, or compassion, which eventually turned him murderous.

Chara Dreemurr:

Chara Dreemurr, also known as the fallen human, is the first human to fall into the Underground. Chara is their "true name" on the naming screen, a reference to the protagonist's sprite being called "mainchara" in the files, though their canon name is whatever the player's real name is. They are distinct from the eighth fallen human, who is the protagonist of Undertale. As a major character, Chara's primary role is described through the Dreemurr's backstories.

Chara looks strikingly similar to Frisk, and has a "similar fashion choice," as said by Asriel Dreemurr. Both appear to have been around the same age when they fell into the Underground. Chara's SOUL is also the same color as the protagonist's, which is indicated by the red SOUL on Chara's coffin, but any other shared traits are unknown.

Chara appears with a long-sleeve neon green sweater with a single horizontal cream stripe and nondescript brown pants and shoes. Chara has cream skin, brown medium-length hair with side-swept bangs, and rosy cheeks. Distinctly, they have open brown eyes, and a smile that contrasts the protagonist's stoic expression. Chara can also appear with red eyes.

While initially cast in a sympathetic light, Asriel admits at the end of the True Pacifist Route that Chara "...wasn't really the greatest person." Asriel explains Chara climbed Mount Ebott for an unhappy reason, and that they "hated humanity." In the VHS Tapes, Chara is implied to be mischievous, and can make a "creepy face" with a certain smile. Chara is also intelligent, secretive, and persuasive. Chara does not let their plan be recorded on the camera, and they gain Asriel's trust to continue their plan. At one point, Asgore noticed Chara once had a sense of hope in their eyes. Despite this, much of Chara’s personality and intent is ambiguous.

There is evidence to suggest that some narration, as well as descriptions of certain actions and events, is by Chara themself. However, the narrator throughout the entirety of Undertale is up to speculation.

Chara behaves in a polite, formal, and terse manner. Chara's vocabulary is slightly above average, and they are blunt and criticizing in their dialogue.

After her death Chara similarly like Flowey lacks a human soul thus lacking compassion as a result.

Toriel Dreemurr:

Toriel is the former Queen of the monsters, the ex-wife of Asgore, the mother of Asriel, and the adoptive mother of the first human.

Toriel is a Monster whose head resembles a white-furred Nubian Goat, structured with floppy ears and tiny horns. She has a pair of visible fangs and long eyelashes, and her irises have a dark red tint. She has an anthropomorphic body, with paws at the end of her limbs. She wears a long purple robe with white sleeves and the Delta Rune on the chest. Toriel can also be seen with reading glasses, when reading a book on snail facts.

Toriel is a kind monster that acts as a protective mother figure for the protagonist. She is sincere in expressing her love through words and actions, such as when she was married to Asgore. She employs tough love on the protagonist and Asgore. Toriel cares for children and was excited to become a mother.

Toriel's hobbies includes baking, reading, writing puns, bug-hunting, and tending to flowers. She enjoys baking Butterscotch Pie, as well as her favorite, Snail Pie. She has read many books in her home, and has a journal full of puns. She enjoyed puns even before meeting Sans.

Toriel is said to be intelligent and can come off as intimidating when she is serious. Toriel is meticulous in her goals, and was often referred by her title when she was the queen.

Toriel aspires to be a teacher. She offers instructions on puzzles and prepares a curriculum for Frisk.

Her full name is Toriel Dreemurr, she is also one of the three known Boss Monsters and a member of the Dreemurr family along with Asgore and Asriel.

Toriel's Magic:

Toriel uses fire magic whenever she fights and is incredibly skilled in using it, though Toriel never fights to kill even when she fought Frisk she deliberately missed her magic in order to not harm them.

Asgore Dreemurr:

Asgore is a large Monster, and the tallest main character in Undertale. Asgore has two large curved horns, golden-blond mane and beard, white fur, long ears, a snout, and a set of visible fangs. Asgore wears a small, three-pointed crown atop his head, golden pauldrons and a long purple cape that slightly drags along the ground, which he often uses as a cloak for his armored body. Asgore's armor consists of a large chestplate, with a winged crest of the implied "angel" from the Delta Rune emblem, and his tasset visually resembling the triangles of the emblem. Underneath is a standard outfit, consisting of pants and a shirt, though only the shirt's collar can be seen in color.

Asgore's weapon in battle is a sharp red trident, adorned with a six-petaled flower at its base.

Asgore is also shown to have golden-blond arm hair on his forearms, muscular arms, and a rotund stomach, in contrast to his broad-chested armored appearance. While Asgore still retains his crown, he instead wears a white flower-patterned, pink Hawaiian t-shirt, and long purple pants for casual wear.

Asgore is kind and upbeat, yet often quiet. He speaks in Southern slang, such as "howdy" and "golly", similarly to his son Asriel.

Asgore's interests include gardening, humming, making tea such as golden flower tea, going for walks, sparring with Undyne, dressing up and acting as Santa Claus in Christmas, and puns. He has a sense of humor, as he accepts being called "Fluffybuns" after Toriel accidentally nicknamed him in public. However, he is bad at naming places, as evidenced by him naming the kingdom the "Kingdom of Monsters", the kingdom's first capital city "Home", and its latest capital city "New Home". Gerson suggests that Asgore may not be too intelligent, as he states everyone knew Toriel managed governing.

Despite this, monsters respect Asgore as a powerful leader. Many monsters refer to him by his name, or by nickname, and partially by his title. Asgore's name is always fully capitalized, and sometimes in red text, yellow text, or a combination of both. However, he only fights humans to give hope to monsterkind. Asgore feels miserable for the deaths of the six humans, does not want to kill anybody, and feels guilty for declaring war on humanity.

Asgore clings to the past, wishing to see his wife and Asriel even though both of them have been gone for a long time. He writes the same short positive phrase in his journal every day, presumably to not think about his guilt or his family. However, he seemingly tries to bake Toriel's Butterscotch Pie multiple times, which is one of his favorites.

Before the events of Undertale, Asgore and Toriel ruled monsterkind as king and queen. One day, the humans attacked the monsters abruptly out of fear of their SOULs being absorbed, with many monsters being massacred. Following the war, monsters were sealed in the underground by humans with the barrier. Fearful of more attacks, monsters retreated further into the Ruins, and Asgore named their new city "Home". Toriel and Asgore later had a son, Asriel.

No longer fearing humans, in early 201X, Asgore, his family, and much of monsterkind moved out of Home and ventured deeper into the underground. Asgore's family and some of monsterkind eventually settled in their new capital, which Asgore named "New Home". Near the end of 201X, the fallen human, who had fallen into the Ruins, was adopted by Asgore and his family as their child. For some time, Asgore's family lived in Asgore's Home, close to the barrier. One day, the fallen human fell very ill, much to Asgore's concern. After the human's death, followed by Asriel's death shortly after, Asgore blamed humans and declared war on humanity in a fit of anger. He swore to kill any human that fell into the underground and use their SOULs to break the barrier and exterminate all humans. Toriel, disgusted with him, left New Home and returned to the Ruins.

Before the protagonist fell into the underground, W.D. Gaster disappeared, and Asgore did not hire a new royal scientist for a long time. While Asgore tended to the golden flowers, he also went for walks and interacted with monsters often. At unspecified points in time, six more humans fell into the underground, and Asgore collected their SOULs for future use. At one point, Asgore was impressed by Alphys's invention of a robot with a SOUL, and hired her as the new royal scientist. Asgore requested Alphys to research SOULs in an attempt to break the barrier.

Though puzzles were meant as a precaution versus humans, Asgore eventually corrected older mandates to make the underground safer to traverse on multiple occasions. This includes the spikes from Snowdin's puzzles and the precarious bridges in Waterfall.

Asgore Abilities:

Similar to Toriel, Asgore is able to use Fire Magic but to a much greater extent, arguably being the strongest monster in the Underground, additionally Asgore's trident can use Blue Magic which forces the opponent to freeze in place, or Orange Magic which forces the opponent to move constantly.

Napstablook:

Napstablook is a simple ghost mostly black and white, a long white body, two eyes with black sclerae, white pupils, and a mouth. A thin black line separates the eyes, additionally Napstablook sometimes wears a pair of generic black headphones.

Similar to Sans, Napstablook speaks in all lower case, not even capitalizing names or sentence starters. There are a few exceptions, however. As for punctuation, Napstablook frequently uses ellipses, often with more than three dots (sometimes many more), even at the beginning of some sentences. They also tend to omit most question marks and some periods, while using commas (and most periods) correctly.

Napstablook is a dour introvert with low self-esteem. Napstablook cries in battle, which may indicate some form of depression, anxiety, or sorrow. Despite this, Napstablook is courteous to others and treats Frisk as a guest when they visit his home. They often employ self-deprecation and apologize for any inconveniences to be polite.

Froggit:

Froggit's overall appearance is that of a white frog. Only its two front feet are visible, with three black dots on its chest. Between its two front feet is what appears to be some small creature with eyes that excessively blink and a rounded mouth. It is unknown what this creature is, as it is never mentioned in flavor text or by any Froggits.

Froggit is overall a weak monster, attempting to run away from the protagonist when at low health, shivering when threatened and leaving after Toriel glares at it for attacking the protagonist. It is influenced easily by the protagonist's comments, despite not being able to understand them. However, it is also somewhat informed, telling the protagonist about functions in the game and foreshadowing sparing techniques.

Sans:

Sans appears as a relatively short and paunchy skeleton, with mitten-like hands. He has white dots for pupils in his black eye sockets that disappear when he is serious or angered. When Sans uses telekinesis, his left eye flashes light blue and yellow, the colors for patience and justice, and his right pupil vanishes. No matter the mood Sans is in, he is always seen with a wide, toothy-grin on his face. His clothes consists of a blue hoodie with a gray hood, a white t-shirt underneath, black shorts with white stripes on the sides, and a pair of slippers.

Sans is lazy and relatively laid-back. Sans's dialogue reflects his personality, as he speaks in all lowercase, not even capitalizing names or sentence starters, with a few exceptions, such as the initial beginning of his judgments and other more typical changes to his style of speaking for the sake of emphasis. His laziness is a combination of fatalism and apathy due to being self-aware and knowing of timeline resets. Conversely, he suggests that this knowledge could be "a poor excuse for being lazy."

Sans enjoys being mischievous, primarily acting this way towards those he is on good terms with. His antics range from an assortment of illogical, juvenile, and slightly inconvenient pranks; examples include selling fried snow, using whoopee cushions, sharing an unscrewed ketchup bottle, and eye paint on a telescope. He is not above utilizing his teleportation or other magic for practical jokes either. Sans is also fond of making the occasional low-brow puns. He enjoys making others laugh in general, as he also performs at the MTT Resort as a comedian.

Despite Sans being apathetic towards his own life, he is considerate to those he cares for. For example, Sans is a regular at Grillby's, and the monsters and Royal Guard dogs treat him kindly. Sans has informed Big Mouth about "all kinds of incredible foods", yet Big Mouth comments that "he always orders the worst burger off the menu". Although Sans dislikes making promises, he respects Toriel's request to watch out for any humans. Even if Frisk kills people that were close to him, Sans refrains from broaching the topic until the Last Corridor. In Neutral Route endings where Papyrus or Toriel are alive, Sans does not tell them that Frisk is responsible for killing monsters.

Sans is also observant; he can often tell that Frisk has already done certain tasks, such as SAVING and reloading, by reading their expressions. Though Sans is usually agreeable, he can become serious to emphasize a subject.

Sans may have a scientific background. Evidence includes the quantum physics book, his workshop, affinity for science fiction, his ability to teleport and taking part in timeline research at one point. He is also actively employed as a sentry by the Royal Guard, citing the pay as a reason, although it's unknown who hired him.

Sans has implied he once longed and searched for a life that he cannot go back to, as he "gave up trying to go back a long time ago". As a Lost Soul during the battle with Asriel, he tells the protagonist that "you'll never see 'em again." However, as Sans' statements in this case are vague and nonspecific, it is currently unknown what he refers to.

Sans' magic:

Sans powers and magic can include teleportation, creating bones that he can throw or shoot towards the opponent, manipulating gravity, Gaster Blasters, and telekinesis.

Papyrus:

Papyrus appears as a tall skeleton, with a skull more vertical and geometric than his brother's skull. Being skeletal, many of his expressions incorporate a toothy grin. His eyes resemble vertical slits; his skeletal pseudo-brows form most of his expressions, as well as the corners of his mouth. He has eyeballs which show at times when he is experiencing strong emotions mainly shock, Papyrus is relatively taller and slightly slimmer than his brother.

For most of his in-game appearances, he wears his "battle body", an outfit that he created for a costume party. It consists of an orange-red cape, a white chestplate with a gold trim on the bottom, and blue briefs with a golden belt. A triangular symbol that resembles that of Starman adorns the chestplate. He also wears red coquelicot gloves, each with a yellow trim, and red boots.

If Papyrus invites anyone to his home to hang out with each other, he changes into his "secret style": a backward baseball cap, a t-shirt that reads "COOL DUDE", small shorts with buttons, gloves with striped trim, knee-high socks, and sneakers. He also wears basketballs on his shoulders, likely Mettaton's MTT-Brand FashionBall.

During the Undynes "date" with Alphys, Papyrus arrives wearing a sweatband, shorts, and a t-shirt that reads "JOGBOY", with hearts on the pauldrons. He still wears his boots, gloves, and scarf.

Papyrus is flamboyant and brash, which is reflected by him speaking exclusively in capital letters. He presents himself as confident and charismatic, and seems to be egotistical, referring to himself as "THE GREAT PAPYRUS". However, Papyrus is also hard-working and kind at heart, remaining considerate and forgiving even towards people who are incredibly dangerous. He is occasionally oblivious but can be cunning, as seen when he uses reverse psychology to trick Undyne into befriending Frisk. He is thought of to be somewhat naive by other characters, but not exactly ”dumb.” He shows great bravery as even in the face of potentially imminent death, and will actively try to steer others into the right path to help them change.

Papyrus believes in others just as much as he believes in himself. He has so much faith in his abilities that he waited outside of Undyne's house all night and begged her to accept him into the Royal Guard. Seeing his persistence, Undyne offered to train him, but instead gave him cooking lessons. His confidence in himself and others is so great that he interprets direct insults towards him as others trying to make themselves look bad so he can hurt them more easily, rather than the possibility that they dislike him.

Papyrus cooks spaghetti from time to time, though many characters seem to think that he is not very good at it. A potential explanation for this is the fact that Papyrus has never tried his own spaghetti, only cooking it because, as far as he can tell, "EVERYBODY ELSE LOVES IT!!!". He also learned how to cook from Undyne, who is not very good at cooking, as shown when Frisk befriends her. According to Flowey, Papyrus's favorite food is "that oatmeal with the dinosaur eggs".

Papyrus loves puzzles and japes, as shown by the numerous puzzles he prepares for the protagonist as well as his collection of "complex tomes about puzzle creation". He takes offense to people attempting to skip or otherwise ignore his puzzles. Though his advanced puzzles may demonstrate his intellect, Papyrus also enjoys children's books and is somewhat childish with the decoration of his room. He collects action figures and disdains anime despite not having watched it before. He also believes that skeletons are warm and cuddly, while ghosts are spooky. Papyrus watches Mettaton's TV shows and admires him so much that he would move to Hotland, a region that he hates.

Papyrus's other skills include consistently high-caliber artistic prowess, from things such as being able to paint a rock formation to look exactly like a bridge and creating a snow sculpture to look like a muscular version of himself to the various puzzle designs he creates for Frisk. He also has a photographic memory for phone calls, and the ability to perform physics-breaking acrobatics.

Papyrus is implied to be deeply lonely; he wants to join the Royal Guard in order to be popular and loved by the people of the underground. This desire to be favored among the crowd runs so deep that Papyrus will change his opinion on any given subject on the spot just to gel in with the majority. He does not get much attention from the people of Snowdin compared to the much calmer and more amiable Sans, which is further evidenced by the two's mailboxes: Sans's is packed with junk mail while Papyrus's is empty, Papyrus exclaims that he "[DOESN'T] EVER WONDER WHAT HAVING LOTS OF FRIENDS IS LIKE". His desperation for companionship allows others like Flowey to manipulate him.

Papyrus's magic:

Just like Sans Papyrus also can create bones and specializes in "Blue" attacks which forces the opponent to stand still, additionally Papyrus can force characters that are able to fly onto the ground by turning their soul blue.

Lesser Dog:

Lesser Dog's fur is a light cream color, and its red tongue appears to be perpetually lolling out of its mouth. It wears gray, presumably metal armor with a darker gray band around the waist area. It holds a sword and a shield with the Delta Rune. According to concept art shared in the UNDERTALE Art Book, Lesser Dog is based on a Labrador.

Like several other dog characters, Lesser Dog becomes overexcited from physical attention. It is capable of extending its neck at a seemingly limitless rate when stimulated by being pet. Lesser Dog appears to enjoy spending its time off sentry duty by playing card games (namely, poker and go fish) against itself at Grillby's. When interacting with it at this time, the text mentions how it appears to be losing. Additionally once being pet Lesser Dog's head will keep rising higher and higher, there is no apparent limit to how high their head can rise.

Greater Dog:

Greater Dog's fur is wholly white, and it wears mantle-gray armor adorned at the wrists with apparently functional dog faces, much like the spear weapon it holds during battle. However, Greater Dog itself only fills the smallest neck portion and the tail area of the armor while controlling the rest of the suit through unknown means. Although it appears to have hands that extend out of the arms of its suit, when it jumps out of the suit, the "hands" seem to withdraw into the armor and don't reappear when it hops back in backwards. According to concept art shared in the UNDERTALE Art Book, Greater Dog is based on a Pomeranian.

Greater Dog is incredibly affectionate and constantly seeks attention; even pouncing atop of people who give it attention and licking their faces affectionately.

Mad Mew Mew:

Mad Mew Mew appears in one of three dresses when first encountered. In battle, Mad Mew Mew has a human-like body with a cat tail. She wears a frilly tutu, a t-shirt, a pair of stockings and a pair of ballet shoes. In the True Pacifist Route's epilogue, she appears in the same dress she wore during the fight.

Although she is described as a life-sized doll for most of the fight, she is revealed to be an animatronic character once she is defeated violently, with the doll perhaps having been upgraded by Alphys.

Just like when she was Mad Dummy, Mad Mew Mew is always angry and a bit rambunctious. She has a tendency to make violent threats and repeat herself three times in a row. She also has a new habit of adding "mew~" to the end of certain sentences; it is unclear if this is a conscious decision made to better coincide with her new body or if it is an innocuous side-effect of the possession.

The Annoying Dog:

The Annoying Dog is a small white dog that looks similar to that of a Pomeranian.

The Annoying Dog shows up periodically throughout the game, most often around Papyrus. Whenever it shows up, it often somehow comedically ruins the characters' plans.

Monster Kid:

Monster Kid is a yellow monster with no arms, a tail, and spikes on the back of their head. Having no arms and frequently running everywhere, they trip and fall often. They have bags under their eyes. One of the bags are bigger than the other. They wear a yellow shirt with brown stripes.

Monster Kid looks up to Undyne as a role model. They are an innocent monster who assumes an energetic attitude that pervades most of their actions. They seem to be a bit naive, as well as a bit clumsy, as they trip frequently. They also use words like "c' mon", "dude", and "yo" frequently, usually considered childlike ways of interaction.

Temmie:

Temmies resemble dogs, with cat-like ears on top of their heads as well as dog ears on the sides, shoulder length black hair, and blue shirts, excluding the Temmie Shopkeeper, who has gray hair and a striped blue and yellow shirt instead.

All Temmies share an erratic manner of speech, where they often exclude letters, mix lower and upper cases, make inconsistencies, etc. There are some exceptions, however; Bob always speaks in perfect English, the Temmie Shopkeeper speaks in fluent English when the protagonist refuses to sell an item she wants, and regular Temmies in-battle speak in somewhat proper English when denied Temmie Flakes.

In battle, Temmies find the protagonist to be adorable and refer to them as such despite attacking them. However, they also find muscles to be disgusting, as evident by their negative reactions to the protagonist's flexing should they choose the "Flex" option. Because of this, when Aaron, a monster who has tight muscles and an obsession for flexing, appears as a result of the "Flex" option, Temmies are so put off by them that they flee on sight shortly after.

According to one Temmie in Temmie Village, and the text from checking Temmie, the protagonist is allergic to Temmies. It is implied that some Temmies are also allergic to other Temmies, which explains why the one and only Temmie on the far-right was seen with hives, which the affected Temmie quirkily names "hOIVS!"

Mad Dummy:

Mad Dummy takes the appearance of a dummy with a set of upper teeth on the torso, a set of eyes on the head, and nostrils on the nose. However, as Glad Dummy, they instead have two happily closed eyes, along with a smile and blush. Their overworld sprites are colored orange and red.

Mad Dummy has an aloof attitude when making conclusive presumptions, which is notable when any action the protagonist does to the dummy is considered unfathomable. They also despise the feeling of powerlessness, feeling disarmed when their dummies cannot kill the protagonist quickly. They also act unhinged at exciting points of an event, often repeating three times what they say in a crescendo and uttering maniacal laughter, such as against the protagonist to entice an outward fear of hopelessness and boast their invincibility.

Despite their somewhat erratic behavior, they can be calm and collected and can cooperate with other people, seeing how they do not bother the protagonist after Napstablook interrupts the battle and serving as Undyne's punching bag for training outside her house.

When Mad Dummy turns into Glad Dummy when they become so angry that they became corporeal with their dummy, making them happy and thankful to the protagonist, so if anything, Mad Dummy just needed to let off some steam.

Gerson:

Gerson is an elderly-looking olive green tortoise-like monster. He wears archeologist attire, with a large magnifying glass and a tan pith helmet. His teeth are crooked and yellow, he sports a pointed beard, and his shell is a dark brown color with a pale cream rim. He also seems to be unable to open his right eye.

Gerson tends to be scatterbrained and testy. He has trouble recalling information such as the location of Temmie Village or why Asgore was nicknamed "Fluffybuns", goes on a brief tangent if the protagonist asks him whether Asgore is a goat and refuses to repeat himself if asked about the Delta Rune's prophecy a second time. However, he still freely shares his wares and vast knowledge with the protagonist otherwise, advises them to be careful before they exit his shop and ultimately warms up to them, congratulating them on their success if his shop is visited in the True Pacifist Route's epilogue.

Gerson appears to possess a sense of humility, as he does not consider himself a hero in spite of his reputation as "The Hammer of Justice". Owing to his age, he is remarkably unperturbed by threats.

Undyne:

Undyne is a piscine, anthropomorphic monster. She has red and blue fins on the sides of her head, blue scales, a long red ponytail and a pair of sharp, yellow, protruding teeth. She wears a red eyeshadow and has an eyepatch over her left eye. She usually armor varying in light and dark shades of gray. Her eyes have black vertical pupils and yellow sclera. Undyne has no nose.

In casual settings, Undyne wears a black tank top and blue jeans, but during mire important moments in her life such as her date with Alphys she wears a white turtleneck under a black leather jacket, a scarf around her neck, pants, lipstick, a light-colored eyepatch, and lets some of her hair down.

Undyne is hot-blooded and passionate about everything that she does. She acts quickly on her ideas and is steadfast in her beliefs. Though she wants to kill Frisk and basically every other human she encounters during their first encounter, she also makes an attempt to be fair and offers an explanation of how green mode works. Her training with Asgore taught her the value of pacifism, which is why Undyne sees Frisk as "a wimpy loser with a big heart".

Undyne loves to help others and mentors Shyren and Papyrus in various skills. She dislikes puzzles, loves japes, enjoys playing the piano, collecting weaponry, primarily swords, and anime. The latter interest is shared with her romantic interest, Alphys. Since Alphys told Undyne that anime is human history, Undyne regards human history as exciting.

Undyne has the crudest vocabulary of any character in the game, being the source of the majority of the mild expletives. She also comes close to using stronger language in one of her phone calls. When Undyne was younger, she followed Gerson around much like how Monster Kid follows her.

Undyne enjoys greasy food, particularly the cheese fries at Grillby's. She also enjoys eating limes whole. She dislikes cold food and soda, having a "Hot Fridge" created by Alphys to remedy the former, though she still keeps bottles of soda, most likely for Alphys.

Out of all encountered monsters, Undyne possesses the most determination. She melts before her death, as her body cannot handle the amount of determination she has.

Undyne is physically strong. She is able to bench press seven children, and she is able to lift multiple people at once. Additionally, she is the only one who is able to move when Flowey traps her with vines.

Undyne's Powers:

Undyne mainly uses spears in her attacks and additionally is the only monster to be able to turn a soul green which freezes the person but gives them a shield to block Undyne's attacks, if Undyne is ever struck by a fatal attack she won't turn to dust but instead slowly melt before suddenly reforming back together and becoming Undyne the Undying.

In Undyne's Undying form, her pupil turns white and her sclera becomes black. She no longer has an eyepatch, with her empty eye socket emitting a flashing light in the shape of a spear. The end of her ponytail flairs up at the ends, and the tips of her fins are sharper.

Undyne's armor drastically changes, and is more fitted to her physique. Instead of being rounded, her shoulder pauldrons, arm guards, the ends of her gloves, and the toes of her armored boots are sharp. Undyne's chestplate and gloves also depict hearts.

Undyne's Undying form is significantly Stronger, Faster, and more Durable her attacks dealing way more damage and her spear patterns becoming a lot more difficult to block.

Alphys:

Alphys is a short, yellow lizard monster who shares a similar height with Frisk. Her head consists of a set of sharp-pointed head crests, a pair of round glasses that does not cover her eyelashes, beady black eyes, and a pair of protruding square buck teeth that is constantly visible. Depending on the direction she is facing, it is depicted as as a set of two or four teeth. Alphys has clawed hands, wears a long-sleeved, large white lab coat with her three-toed feet being visible, and her tail jutting out.

On Alphys's date with Undyne, she wears a polka dot dress a friend picked for her.

Alphys's posture is somewhat hunched over, with her arms and feet curled toward each other, reflecting her anxiousness.

Alphys is a shy introvert who is passionate in her work and interests. She has low self-esteem, makes self-deprecating comments, and devalues her skills at times. True to her occupation as a scientist, Alphys is intelligent, analytical, and observant. She occasionally theorizes on matters, and can create thorough plans from those theories. Alphys can create inventions that use both metal and magic, such as a "magical spear repair kit". She is adept in programming, robotics, and mechanical engineering.

The failure of Alphys's experiments with determination overwhelmed her with guilt and insecurity, causing her to procrastinate. Socially, Alphys tends to be avoidant and anxious. Alphys also favors being appealing to others, and resorts to lying or hiding secrets to avoid disappointing herself and others. However, Alphys concealing the truth has caused her to become depressed and remorseful.

At the end of the True Pacifist Route, Alphys is honest with her intentions and is not ashamed.

Asides from her scientific and mechanical work, Alphys's hobbies include enjoying human anime, manga, and video games. Alphys is fond of posting online content, writing walkthroughs for games, though she prefers giving puzzle solutions as a last resort, shipping, and writing fanfiction. Alphys also has crushes on multiple characters of male and female genders. Some of them are mild, such as her crush on Asgore and her compliments towards Toriel, while her most serious crush is Undyne, though she struggles to communicate her feelings to her.

Muffet:

Muffet is a spider monster in Hotland, who owns an expensive Spider Bake Sale. She appears to be the leader of the underground's spiders.

Muffet is an anthropomorphic spider monster with periwinkle or lavender skin, five eyes, six arms, and two legs. She wears red rompers with buttons in the front, a red ribbon across her chest, as well as twin pigtails in her hair. She is also shown holding two teacups with her top pair of hands and two teapots with her middle pair.

Her "pet" appears to be a giant muffin with a face on the frosting part, as well as spider legs sticking out of the sides.

Muffet is greedy, stingy, intimidating and hypocritical, although with a courteous style of speaking. Even so, she seems malicious when she is crossed, something that occasionally triggers the encounter against her. Muffet has a tendency to make morbid or inappropriate statements, such as commenting on the protagonist's possible fate in being used to make food.

Muffet's magic:

Muffet is the only monster that is able to turn someone's soul purple, restricting them to purple horizontal lines with them only being able to move right and left and shifting up and down to other lines.

Mettaton:

Mettaton is a large gray rectangular box with a 4x5 grid of rectangular lights on his front. The grid of lights can change colors between red, yellow, green, and blue, and Mettaton uses these color changes in place of facial expressions. Underneath the main screen is a row of four/five small rectangular lights. He has four dials underneath the row. The bottom of his base has a single-legged wheel. He has two segmented robotic arms that have four-fingered white gloves. On Mettaton's back is a large flippable switch, with the word "SWITCH" and an arrow above it.

Mettaton is a confident, charismatic, and charming TV host. His shows emphasize drama, action, and violence, for which he has garnered a loyal fanbase. He enjoys performing, as he often abruptly performs various actions that do not correlate to the show he is currently producing.

Mettaton is very egotistical, having centered his brand around himself. His hotel and the products he advertises are themed heavily around his physical appearance.

Despite his self-centered personality, however, he deeply cares about the seemingly positive impact his show has had on the inhabitants of the underground, and is shown to have soft spots for several characters, such as Alphys and Napstablook. Mettaton is also secretive, as he tries to not acknowledge the Mystery Key if it is found, and refrains from sharing his friend's secrets.

Mettaton is one of the few monsters who does not express prejudice against humanity despite knowing of the monsters' history with the former, being more interested in entertainment than harming anyone. Likewise, his attempt to kill Frisk when they fight is motivated by a desire to prevent Asgore from taking their SOUL and destroying humankind. His lack of prejudice is further shown when he is killed during the Alphys Ending of the Neutral Route, as he claims that the protagonist is not "ABSOLUTELY EVIL", indicating that he still has some faith in them.

Many of Mettaton's employees praise him for his actions in the workplace. Mettaton is known for prioritizing accessibility and expressing support for his employees. However, Burgerpants claims that Mettaton is a demanding employer who is very unpleasant to work for, having once considered working for him to be a dream.

Mettaton's powers:

Mettaton has a switch on his back that if flipped will transform him into Mettaton EX a new body he specially requested Alphys make for him. In this humanoid form, he has black hair with a long fringe that seems to cover his right eye, pale "skin" and visible metal segments below and above his left eye.

He has a pink chest piece, a narrow metallic waist with a box contraption, and black shoulder pads above his segmented arms, which end in gloves. The chest piece has what appear to be a speaker and some knob or gauge, while the waist has two parts that seem to act as a locking mechanism that holds his "heart-shaped core", as they both lose white pixels during his "heart-to-heart" attack. His long black-clad legs end in pink high-heeled boots.

Mettaton can also turn into Mettaton NEO, however this is mainly for combat purposes. Mettaton NEO resembles Mettaton EX, but has a more combat-oriented design. His right forearm is replaced by what appears to be a cannon, pauldrons clad his shoulders, which are longer than his arms, and he has wings on his back. The SOUL on his waist points upwards in a more monster-like manner, and he has a heart shape engraved on his chest plate akin to Undyne the Undying, also mimicking the Delta Rune in the same ways. His hair on the right side is spiked out, revealing an entirely black segment of his face, with a sparkle or crosshair in place of his right eye. Mettaton NEO's power is on par with monsters such as Undyne's Undying form, Sans, and Asgore.

River Person:

The River Person is a hooded figure who provides transportation services to Snowdin, Waterfall, and Hotland on their wooden boat for the underground. The protagonist can request a ride to any of the locations above if they reach Hotland on any route.

The River person during the ride on their wooden boat will reveal one vauge detail about the underground usually starting with a calm and soothing "Tra la la." Before listing some information such as stuff about Asorge, Snowdin, The location of Temmie Village, or even to "beware of the man who speaks in hands", or "the man who has come from another world."

W.D Gaster:

Gaster is A tall, slender, black-and-white figure with a distorted face, cracked black hollow eyes, and a broad, frozen smile.

Gaster was the royal scientist preceding Alphys. He was supposedly responsible for the creation of the CORE and is stated to have had "irreplaceable" brilliance. His fate is relayed by the Gaster followers: one of them claims that he "fell into his creation", the other claims that "his experiments went wrong", and the third one claims he was "shattered across time and space".

Gaster also created the Gaster Blaster which is something Sans continues to use.

Gaster can only be encountered through a monochromatic door hidden in the underground, finally Gaster only speaks in Wingdings

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Touhou Project Characters:

Reimu Hakurei:

Reimu is a shrine maiden characterized by her iconic red-and-white outfit, large red hairbow, and brown (sometimes black/purple) hair. She typically wears a stylized, non-traditional sleeveless red top with a white collar, detached white sleeves, a red skirt, and red Mary Jane shoes. She is defined as unusually easygoing, lacking any sense of danger, and being carefree. She is described as simpleminded, always showing her true feelings and acting on whatever ideas she thinks at the top of her head. However, nobody except her can know what is in her head, and thus how she is depicted varies depending on the perspective, be it human, fairy, or youkai. She can also be emotional and noisy, and her presence is well known wherever she is, but she can also merge into her surroundings quite easily when necessary.

She is portrayed as someone simple who passes her days sweeping the shrine grounds, drinking green tea and lazing about; to the point that Kasen Ibaraki thought she lacked training to be the Hakurei shrine maiden and made her train to be more disciplined, something that only worked for a couple of days due to her easygoing personality. However, Kasen states that despite Reimu being "a little unreliable and a little slovenly", she still performs her duties, doing enough to be befit the title of Hakurei shrine maiden.

On the other hand, she is someone with an intuition when it comes to incidents, usually rushing to solve them and not letting anybody get in her way and waste her time. This leads to some people she confronts to think that she has an “indescribable intimidating aura”. This is backed up by her innate abilities, powerful enough to beat her opponents without her being worried of training often, to the contrary of Marisa Kirisame's.

Her straightforward and open personality makes her being liked by both youkai and humans, but she herself considers only few people her friends (like Marisa Kirisame) and she maintains a more strict stand against youkai due to her being human and the Hakurei shrine maiden. As she attracts the people she interacts with and she deals more with not humans than humans, her shrine gets more youkai visitors than human. Reimu tries to revert this and get more human followers and donations through various schemes, but they usually end up not working due to how simple and flawed were or because they were a product of a burst of her emotional side, like in Wild and Horned Hermit. In other occasions, those only end up attracting more youkai instead.

Although she says it is her job to exterminate youkai, she has worked with them in multiple occasions, such as during the incident in Subterranean Animism. She can be seen drinking and hanging out with youkai that invite themselves to the many flower viewings she hosts at the Hakurei Shrine, and collaborating with kappa with business at her shrine festivals. She even offered the three fairies to drink with her after reprimanding them for trashing her shrine, and later gave them several tasks to help clean the shrine. Toyosatomimi no Miko theorizes she only says it is her job to exterminate youkai as a way to say that she wants to maintain Gensokyo's equilibrium, something Yukari Yakumo and others remind her of when she gets too carried out dealing with youkai. Her friendliness with youkai did not stop Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu from saying that she exterminated youkai without reason, and that she slacks in basic shrine maiden activities like communicating with her own god.

Reimu Hakurei's Abilities:

Ability to 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. Reimu generally displays extraordinary intuition and incredible luck, naturally ending up on the path of least resistance through most situations. However, 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. The ultimate expression of this ability is Innate Dream, which allows Reimu to float away from reality and become impossible to attack. This was considered too powerful for use as a spell card until Marisa gave it a name and time limit.

Reimu's Powers as the Hakurei Shrine Maiden

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 gods, but she isn't well-trained enough to do so reliably.

Barrier techniques Reimu displays great aptitude with magical barriers - 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".

Aura manipulation Reimu can control the natural spirits of living things, an ability which isn't listed in any source afterwards. No clear instance of this ability has ever been displayed.

Other abilities During the events of Urban Legend in Limbo, and at least until the end of Antinomy of Common Flowers, Reimu acquired 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 Hakurei's Occupation: Reimu is the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. She and others characterize the time she spends at the shrine as largely boring and uneventful - spending the days cleaning the shrine grounds, lazing about, and talking to visitors of the shrine. While she is sometimes serious about her duties, the shrine is usually is not a very popular location for human worshipers. This is in part due to the amount of youkai that visit the shrine, to the point that, according to Marisa Kirisame, everyone in Human Village says that "youkai completely control [the] shrine", something Reimu is frustrated about. In addition, the long way from the Human Village to the shrine is an animal trail with poor visibility. However, Reimu still manages to attract sizable amounts of visitors with festivals hosted at the shrine - both traditional Shinto holidays such as Setsubun and non traditional gatherings such as a "Stay Cool Festival". The festival stalls often have kappa and other youkai running them, and the revenue produced from them by visitors make up a valuable portion of the shrine's income.

In addition to her duties at the shrine, Reimu has the duty within the Human Village of performing exorcisms, stopping supernatural disturbances, and generally pacifying disorder arising from the villagers' fear of the unknown. Though she may not always know the cause or the solution behind a disturbance, Reimu still has no problem offering her services - she states that placing the incomprehensible in the context of the supernatural and then containing it to quell anxieties is "one of the most respectable duties for a shrine maiden to carry out".

Finally, Reimu specializes in youkai extermination as one of the main incident resolvers in Gensokyo. In most cases, "extermination" means non-lethal reprimanding, though Reimu will not hesitate to use sealing or lethal measures against youkai that cannot abide by Gensokyo's rules. A prime example is the fortune teller, who became a jinyou (human youkai) after using a taboo method causing a panic directly inside the Human Village, leading to his swift, permanent extermination. Reimu believes that jinyou would destroy the balance of Gensokyo, which is why she keeps careful watch over Kosuzu and certain other humans at risk of becoming youkai. 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 Hakurei's Possessions: Yin-Yang Orbs In most of the Touhou games, Reimu uses the Yin-Yang Orbs, go-shintai of the Hakurei God, in combat. Kasen Ibaraki states that the shrine's blessing is youkai extermination, which is manifested through the Yin-Yang Orbs. In Subterranean Animism they also functioned as communicators with people above the surface.

Gohei Reimu utilizes a gohei, sometimes referred to as her purification rod, originally prepared by Rinnosuke Morichika. She uses it for Shinto rites and exorcisms, as well as in combat as a melee weapon.

Ofuda Reimu 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. She can also use them to create barriers and even copies of herself. Like the Yin-Yang Orbs, she uses them in most, if not all, games she has appeared in, either as a normal shot (usually with homing properties) or as bullets for her spell cards.

Needles Reimu also utilizes a large collection of large throwing needles hidden within her sleeves in combat, which she chooses because of their divine connection and because they are easy to throw.

Machinery In PC-98 canon, she possesses a robot called Ruukoto, given to her by Yumemi Okazaki as a reward for defeating her. Ruukoto has not been seen outside of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream.

Marisa Kirisame: Marisa has 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. Outwardly, Marisa is an outgoing and informal person. Hieda no Akyuu states that her personality is condescending, but she has a sophisticated side to her that tends to be interesting. She socializes with many inhabitants of Gensokyo and is friendly to both human and non-humans individuals. She's quick to act if she hears or sees anything interesting, sometimes doing dangerous things to satiate her interest at the time like 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 (ぜ). "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. When Reimu summoned birds that she claimed to be celestial’s familiars, they started biting Marisa because "they gather around people who tell lies". She even got judged by Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu for it, saying that if she was her judge at that moment Marisa would be punished for lying with her tongue being removed. She tried to defend herself by claiming she has never told a single lie, but the event did make her more honest for some time.

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". In many cases, she is the one who would push Reimu to investigate potential incidents. Doremy Sweet states that Marisa's Dream World self, a manifestation and exaggeration of her real personality, is always performing superhuman acts, leading her to wonder if perhaps Marisa is captivated by youkai.

Marisa is straightforward and much easier to understand than other characters, typically filling the support role. She also serves as a contrast to Reimu, who's blessed with innate abilities, by being the hard-working type of character without any special powers.

Marisa Kirisame's abilities: Although Marisa is a normal human with no innate abilities, her true strength is her high magic power, unusual for humans. Marisa has trained herself in magic that specializes in light and heat. She is 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. Unlike Reimu, her strength comes not from natural ability, but from hard work and training, something she goes to great lengths to hide.

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 many various handmade grimoires (notebooks). Marisa states that her abilities lend their power from the Forest of Magic itself.

Prior to starting her research in The Grimoire of Marisa, Marisa did not use complex slave-type attacks, as she was only capable of using slaves that circle around her (her guest appearance in Shuusou Gyoku notwithstanding).

Although magicians are known for their magical abilities, she notably does not lack physical strength. In Forbidden Scrollery, she was seen climbing youkai mountain manually (instead of just flying), and climbs down Genbu Ravine instead of flying like Reimu. In Marisa's otter route of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, Urumi Ushizaki tried to drown Marisa using her stone baby but ends up failing and being amazed that Marisa is able to hold onto it despite its weight.

Marisa is almost always depicted as riding on her broom when she flies in the sky. In the fighting spinoffs prior to Hopeless Masquerade 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. In Great Fairy Wars, her broom is nowhere in sight. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states she uses the magic broom to ride around on because she believes it's an essential tool for a magician. There were instances where Marisa got in trouble for not having her broom at hand.

In the PC-98 games, she's typically shown to use a vine in place of her broom in her boss appearances (with the notable exception of Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream where she has illusionary wings instead), but her Lotus Land Story and Mystic Square endings show her using a broom. In Shuusou Gyoku, she's depicted with angel wings.

Speed 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. However, Aya Shameimaru is considered the fastest in Gensokyo, and Marisa appears to consider Aya extremely fast, and a worthy challenger in terms of speed, so while there is the idea that Marisa is quite fast, there are other characters that are faster than her.

Marisa's Love Sign "Non-directional Laser" was copied from Patchouli Knowledge's regular attack. Other than that, there are also others suggested to have been stolen; Love Sign "Master Spark" greatly resembles Yuuka Kazami's and Gengetsu's laser from Lotus Land Story, and her "Orreries Sun" resembles Mima's orreries. However, there's no official evidence that these are copied moves.

It's unknown if Marisa is inherently talented at imitating others' moves, or if she simply manages to do so due to sheer effort. She uses her mini-Hakkero to use the Master Spark, while Yuuka uses her version of the laser through other means. Thus, her copying of the Master Spark seems more analogous to a person copying the ability of an animal making a tool for it, instead of developing such ability. Marisa also states that she can't imitate Kaguya Houraisan's spell cards as they use special items that she doesn't possess.

It's unlikely her implied tendency to copy other's moves is abnormal, as magicians such as Marisa build upon the work of others. Marisa claims in The Grimoire of Marisa that it's "magicians who build on observation", while Patchouli Knowledge uses the pride of magicians to add their own original touch to another's work while preserving and respecting the original, apart from seeking the truth .They act like researchers in this sense, building upon the work of others. However, other magicians such as Patchouli and Alice Margatroid haven't been depicted using imitations as blatant as Marisa's for spell cards.

Occupation Marisa, as someone close to youkai, specializes in jobs dealing with them. She does state in Strange and Bright Nature Deity's 9th chapter that she regularly goes to the Hakurei Shrine to take away Reimu's youkai extermination jobs, something affirmed by Hieda no Akyuu in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense. Additionally, it is stated that some humans make a profession or a side job out of provide aftercare or preventive measures to youkai attacks. Marisa (like Reimu) engages in this business, though her methods differ from hers - she is shown selling a magic "sealing pot" that wards off tanuki.

She has also written a book called The Grimoire of Marisa that reviews various spell cards and has shown a desire to try and sell it.

Kirisame Magic Shop: Marisa runs a shop for anything as an attachment to her own house. Although it's her primary occupation, she's usually absent. Inside the shop, it's so unimaginably disordered that it becomes like a mini-Forest of Magic.

Though Marisa is surprisingly honest with her services, refusing to take payment for a failed job, the shop sees little use due to its difficult-to-find location in the Forest of Magic and the ambiguity of what her services actually are (there's nothing on its door except for a signboard, with the name of the shop and "will do anything" (なんかします). The Three Fairies of Light were the first customers to her shop, but Perfect Memento in Strict Sense implies she's had other customers since then, albeit not many.

Marisa Kirisame's Burglary:

According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, 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. When called a burglar, she defended herself implying she is only a "prowler", and because her victims will live much longer than her, they'd lose their belongings for only a short while if she "borrows" them until she dies. However, she called herself a thief at least twice, especially when the situation asked her to be more honest.

In Subterranean Animism's Extra Stage, Koishi Komeiji asked if she was 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 Kirisame's Possessions: Throughout the series, Marisa has gathered a large collection of rare and magical items, originating from her kleptomania.

Magic broom Marisa flies on a bamboo broom as part of her magician appearance. It's an ordinary broom, but constant exposure to magic has caused a curious growth to begin. Although the bamboo is dead, leaves appear to be sprouting from the handle, independently from Marisa's magic. In the fighting games, it serves additional purposes - she uses it as a weapon for striking and shooting danmaku.

Mini-Hakkero The mini-Hakkero, Marisa's treasured item, is a furnace that she uses to power her signature Master Spark. From the flame of a table-top stove, to that of a flamethrower, to a powerful and unmatched wide magicannon, the mini-Hakkero has a convenient range of uses. Marisa herself said, "I can't even think of makin' a livin' without it." It was given to Marisa by Rinnosuke Morichika as a farewell gift when Marisa left her family to live in the Forest of Magic.

Magic Wand Marisa wielded a magic wand during her PC-98 appearances, but afterwards, it was seen only in Undefined Fantastic Object.

Explosive items Marisa carries, concealed in her skirt or her hat, various small implements made from mushroom magic which explode after throwing them. Hieda no Akyuu notes the fact that she conceals exploding objects in her skirt seemed dangerous.

The Sword of Kusanagi Marisa, in her pursuit of collecting metal objects to find Hihi'irokane, obtained The Sword of Kusanagi but thought it was just a rusty sword. Not knowing its true value, she traded it along with her other scrap metal to Rinnosuke in order to have her Mini-Hakkero fixed.

The Lunar Capital Occult Ball After the events of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, Sagume Kishin has gifted her the Occult Ball that she created. It had the power to change the world by using people's words, and merely being near it would cause false rumors, such as urban legends, to materialize.

Yukari Yakumo: Yukari Yakumo is a young woman with long blonde hair, often styled with a white or pink mob cap. Known for her signature pink parasol and paper fan, she typically wears a long, elegant dress that is a dark shade of purple in color. 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. In Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, according to Ran Yakumo, this ability with numbers 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.

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, in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, 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 Yakumo's Abilities:

Strength 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. In Silent Sinner in Blue, Yukari claimed Watatsuki no Toyohime was stronger than her and avoided a direct confrontation with her, although at the time she was purposely 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. There are some displays of Yukari's physical prowess:

In Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 12, Yukari's hand is able to effortlessly block and brush aside a mallet swung by Rinnosuke Morichika with all his might, leaving him shocked that a small slender feminine hand was able to pull off such a feat. Rinnosuke said that it feels like he hit a pillow. Hong Meiling, in one of her Touhou Hisoutensoku win quotes, notes that she felt an odd resistance from Yukari's body (presumably after punching and kicking her a lot), to the point where she wondered if Yukari was wearing something else under that presumably delicate dress of hers. Yukari states in her own win quotes in Immaterial and Missing Power that she has no weaknesses, and even shooting, cutting, stabbing, hitting, or killing her is useless.

Gaps 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.

Though seemingly limitless, the range of Yukari's gaps is sometimes subject to restrictions. In Silent Sinner in Blue she is able to utilize her ability to create a portal to the "fantastic" side of the Moon using the moon's reflection on a lake's surface (a boundary) and only during the full moon, which is the only period of time during which the passage is open. For some unknown reason she is unable to use her powers to bring a living being on the far side of the Moon, which is where the Lunar Capital is located.

By mostly moving around in gaps, one would usually not see her as doing much physical labor at all, and according to Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, since she ends up in blurting out herself such sayings like "to do mountain climbing at such an age", there is the image that she is like an indoors-type youkai, but in the end, she is still a youkai.

Yukari's Manipulation of Boundries

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 Manual 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, as said in Perfect Memento, 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 referred 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.

Examples of the usage of this ability

Neutralized Suika Ibuki's ability by forcing the oni, which was spread as mist over the entirety of Gensokyo, into her normal form so that she could be seen and interacted with by others. Adjusted the sky by manipulating the border between the daylight and moonlight, to unite the day and the night. Possibly, this also allowed Yukari to stop the night in Imperishable Night. Manipulation of the boundary between the true and illusionary moon, which allowed her to open a gap, that lead from Gensokyo to the Moon, on the lake surface. (Lunar War, Silent Sinner in Blue). By creating the Boundary of Fantasy and Reality, she established the Outside World as the real world, and Gensokyo as an illusionary one, allowing youkai to disappear from the former and thrive in the latter. (Youkai Expansion Project, over 500 years ago). She is widely acknowledged as the creator of the Great Hakurei Barrier, which isolates Gensokyo from the Outside World. (The Great Barrier Disturbance). Upon Yuyuko's request, weakening the Border of Life and Death between the world of the living and the Netherworld, making it possible for denizens of both world to easily cross it. (Perfect Cherry Blossom). When the Great Hakurei Barrier has loosened, she returned Rinnosuke Morichika to Gensokyo who has been ejected into the outside world (Curiosities of Lotus Asia). Dragged the real Sumireko Usami out of the Dream World (Antinomy of Common Flowers). By manipulating the border of master and slave during the Perfect Possession incident, she thwarted Joon and Shion Yorigami's scheme that allowed Joon to win any battle by forcing Shion as the enemy's slave (Antinomy of Common Flowers). Many of her Spell Cards and attacks allude to various circumstances involving boundary manipulation or creation, such as: Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness", Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness", "Boundary of Humans and Youkai", Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier", between many others. The description of Yukari's "Boundary of Intellect and Feet" states that she would be able to cut anything by using boundaries, a motif also used in her Splitter "Thing That Splits All Into Two" Spell Card. According to herself, when humans have noctambulism it's because she manipulates the boundary between sleeping and being awake.

Onmyoudou

Yukari is skilled in Onmyoudou, the Taoism-derived arts of traditional Japanese court wizards, and specializes in spells which create and manipulate barriers (presumably due to overlap with her innate abilities). Yukari has been able to teach some of her spells to Reimu Hakurei, whose own techniques have similar roots.

Yukari also displays great aptitude with shikigami, binding a powerful kitsune and numerous lesser servants at once. As Shikigami are stronger when following the right orders, Yukari must also be skilled at giving the correct orders to fully maximize her shikigamis' potential. In an interview with Aya Shameimaru, Ran Yakumo states that despite sleeping most of the time, Yukari is capable of giving orders no one else would think up the instant she opens her mouth, and Yukari uses complex equations to increase Ran's power indefinitely (This manner of using shikigami is likely one of the reasons Yukari views computers and shikigami as one and the same).

Various

Yukari was able to talk to Luna Child even after the fairy erased all sound around her. As described, it was a voice that Luna heard in her own heart. It's unknown if this ability is part of her main ability over boundaries. (Fairy of the Moon)

According to Suika, Yukari was the only one able to resist her power, which she used to gather everyone's thoughts making them have banquets for several days.[29] (Immaterial and Missing Power)

Yukari Yakumo's Possessions:

Parasol Yukari owns a pink laced parasol with red ribbons like the ones on her outfit and a curvy and pointy ornament on top, similar to Yuuka Kazami's parasol. In the danmaku games, it's simply an accessory, but in the fighting games, she uses it as a melee weapon as well as a conduit for shooting danmaku.

Hand Fan Yukari has a fan which she can use as a weapon and a way of shooting danmaku. The fan has had multiple different patterns on it through the games.

Ran Yakumo: Ran Yakumo is a nine-tailed fox (kitsune) youkai and shikigami with a distinct, mature appearance. She is characterized by short blonde hair, yellow eyes, and nine large, fluffy fox tails. She is noted to be tall, often depicted wearing a white dress with purple accents, a signature light pink hat decorated with numerous amulets, and an indigo tabard. Ran is described as a gentle youkai, unless provoked. Although Ran is a shikigami, she sometimes "forgets" her position as a servant and acts of her own volition, such as deciding to attack the heroine in Perfect Cherry Blossom to avenge Chen.

Ran Yakumo's Abilities 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 in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost.

Occupation 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.

Species Shikigami Ran's true identity is that of a shikigami possessing a kitsune, or youko (妖狐, "mystic fox"). The fox she is possessing is an entirely separate being, but since it never comes to surface, there's no problem in thinking of Ran as a nine-tailed fox herself. Because she is a shikigami herself, it's highly unusual that Ran has a shikigami of her own.

Youkai fox Ran's body is that of a youkai fox with nine large tails, which is a clear sign of great power and intelligence, as described by Akyuu.

Suika Ibuki: Suika Ibuki is a petite, cheerful, and habitually drunk Oni from the Touhou Project series, characterized by long, messy ginger hair, brown eyes, and two prominent, ribbon-adorned horns. She wears a tattered white (or pink) singlet, a long purple skirt, and chains on her wrists. She is known for her small stature, which belies her massive physical strength and ability to manipulate density. Her personality is jolly and quite childish, as you would expect from her appearance. Despite her childlike exterior, however, she possesses great amounts of raw power. She loves drinking and is frequently seen drunk; she claims she's been drinking sake for some hundreds of years now

Suika bears the typical personality traits of most oni, valuing strength and fair play while despising dishonesty and cowardice. However, she is apparently slightly less honest than a typical oni. In addition, she doesn't kidnap humans, which is known to be the "strongest bond of trust" between oni and humans. However, she is nonetheless quite honest.

Though she is generally a happy-go-lucky oni, as one of the most powerful youkai in Gensokyo, she can be very observant. In addition, she is seen being very critical of others in Immaterial and Missing Power, such as by calling Alice Margatroid a coward and telling Youmu Konpaku how people make fun of her.

Suika Ibuki's Abilities: Strength Suika, more than the abnormal strength of an oni, possesses super-strength. Aya Shameimaru, who has probably seen or heard of nearly every youkai by now, once referred to Suika as "simply the most powerful youkai in Gensokyo". That doesn't mean there aren't others that could be nearly equal to her power, but she is still thought of as the strongest/most powerful youkai in Aya's opinion. Of course, this may be because she is a tengu, who were once subordinate to the oni. At the time of Silent Sinner in Blue, among the people that Reimu Hakurei knows, it seems that she had the greatest super-strength, but she admits that Yuugi Hoshiguma might be (physically) stronger than she is. She once uttered "my army is the night parade of a hundred demons! No human or youkai can stand against foregathered oni!"

Manipulation of density and sparseness

Suika's ability to manipulate "density" gives her the power to control the density of any given object; to put it simply, assembly and dispersion. As the object's density increases, it heats up, and as it decreases, it turns into a mist. During her spell cards and other attacks, she can also create smaller versions of herself and make herself giant. She can also decrease her own body's density to become a mist, as she did during the events of Immaterial and Missing Power, making it impossible to attack her. By doing this all over Gensokyo, she can effectively keep an eye on everything going on. She can also gather things without shape, like people's souls, which caused the incident in the first place. She has also affected the Moon as reflected in sky (the canopy) to make it explode, then take the falling fragments and turn them into mist as well, but the details as to how are unknown. Youmu Konpaku, after striking her with one of her swords, commented that the sword itself reacted strangely.

With this power, she was able to assemble the thoughts of people and youkai, and made the residents of Gensokyo periodically have a party. Furthermore, with this power she is able to split up into small pieces and become a giant, and she is also able to disperse into the atmosphere. Other than that, she is able to compress her attack and increase her power, and is able to draw the opponent into something like a black hole, and sucking the opponent's power, out of nowhere she assembles rocks and health, and the way she throws it can be seen. It seems like she is able to turn a mountain into sand by this power (according to Immaterial and Missing Power). During her mystery attacks on Myouren Temple in Wild and Horned Hermit chapter 9, she was capable of one-hit knockouts without being seen. She was also able to collect all the trash around the Hakurei Shrine in three seconds.

Unbelievably, in her last spell in Immaterial and Missing Power's story mode, "Pandemonium" or "A Million Oni Parade the Night," her spell gauge and her health gauge disperse, making an unthinkable system-intervention model for its usage method.

Possessions Suika has a gourd that she calls the Ibuki Gourd, which has been soaked in the extract of a sake bug, making it capable of turning water into sake. To prevent it from overflowing, the gourd has a stopper on it, and she can't pour out more than the gourd will hold at one time. Closing the gourd will make it refill right away. This is because it takes the evaporated contents of the countless ordinary gourds and turns them into alcohol inside the gourd.

Yuugi Hoshiguma: Yuugi Hoshiguma is a tall, athletic, and muscular oni with long, straight blonde hair, red eyes, and a single red horn protruding from her forehead. She wears a short-sleeved white top with red trim, a dark blue, somewhat translucent skirt, and broken, manacled chains on her wrists and ankles. Yuugi is a very firm and straightforward oni who loves the freedom of Old Hell. She likes those who are strong and brave, and has no mercy for the weak and cowardly. While she may be intimidating, she can be very friendly and sympathetic towards anyone regardless if they're a human, youkai or a vengeful spirit.

Yuugi Hoshiguma's Abilities: Superhuman Strength Yuugi possesses enormous strength that far exceeds that of any other kind of youkai. She has arguably the greatest super-strength, as even Suika, that was considered the strongest in this sense by the time of Silent Sinner in Blue, admits that Yuugi might be physically stronger than she is. In Symposium of Post-mysticism, it is said that, according to rumors "her superhuman strength is of the level where her footsteps alone are enough to make nearby buildings collapse". She has also shown to be able to easily produce heat by raising her hand, and flatten trees merely by screaming.

Wield unexplainable phenomena Anomalies, strength, disorder, and spirits (怪力乱神 kai-ryoku-ran-shin) is a metaphor for unexplainable phenomena that originates from the Analects of Confucius, where one of his disciples said "the Master never talked of anomalies, strength, disorder, or spirits." (子不語怪力亂神 shifugo-kairiki-ranshin) Furthermore, Yuugi's title is "the so-called unexplainable phenomenon".

More accurately, Confucius did not talk about unnatural things (strangeness (怪異)), mysterious powers (courage (勇力)), things contrary to reason (devious rebellion (悖乱)), and strange things related to god (fierce god (鬼神)). In other words, "strangeness" (怪異), "courage" (勇力), "devious rebellion" (悖乱), and "fierce god" (鬼神) are why "怪力乱神" is referred to as "anomalies, strength, disorder, and spirits." It's appropriately unclear what exactly this ability allows Yuugi to do, since the ability itself is a metaphor for things that cannot be explained.

Her very name, "Yuugi" (勇儀), might've come from the courage (勇力) that's represented as "strength" in "anomalies, strength, disorder, and spirits."

Occupation Yuugi spends her time in Old Hell, fraternizing with the other oni, engaging in frequent drinking contests and generally having a rowdy time.

Possessions Yuugi carries a sake dish called the "Hoshiguma Dish". It raises the quality of any sake poured into it. Kasen Ibaraki later uses this to transform some of her own sake for a party at the Hakurei Shrine. The dish itself is considered a masterwork of the oni.

Utsuho Reiuji: Utsuho Reiuji is a hell raven from Touhou Project characterized by her long dark brown hair, red eyes, and a white, short-sleeved shirt featuring a red, cat-like "eye" emblem. She wears a green skirt, a green hair-ribbon, and has large black wings. Her design includes a nuclear control rod cannon on her right arm, a "starry" inner cape, and a right foot encased in white, congealed matter representing the Chernobyl "elephant's foot". Utsuho has such a simple and direct personality that it can even be said that she's airheaded or birdbrained. In fact, she misunderstood what Kanako Yasaka told her "We can use that to bring about the wishes of not just the underground, but the above ground as well." and believed that she had to use her new power to take over Gensokyo. Furthermore, when Sanae Kochiya told her that she is the shrine maiden that serves Kanako, Utsuho said she doesn't know that it's her; and after fighting, Utsuho didn't even remember the purpose of the fight and believes Sanae when she said that Utsuho was following Sanae's orders.

Utsuho Reiuji's Abilities:

Manipulation of Nuclear Fusion

Her abilities come from the god of nuclear fusion, Yatagarasu, and were granted to her by Kanako Yasaka in the god's attempt to turn the Hell of Blazing Fires into an energy source for Gensokyo. After absorbing the god, Utsuho obtained the left leg "the leg of fission" and the right leg "the leg of fusion", along with the third leg (a nuclear control rod in her right hand). As a result, she is able to manipulate the ultimate energy, nuclear fusion. Essentially, this means that Utsuho's own body actually houses a divine spirit, technically making her into a branch shrine for Yatagarasu. Apparently, the duller the holder of the power, the better they can utilize it. The red eye on her chest is proof that Utsuho obtained the power of fusion by absorbing Yatagarasu because the god's eyes are red, according to Chapter Three of Cage in Lunatic Runagate.

In the Outside World, the prospects of putting this to use have still not been reached, and thus can surely be said to be an illusory power.

Yatagarasu is the Misaki God of the Nihon Shinwa. In Nihon Shoki, as the messenger and envoy of highest sun god of the Nihon Shinwa, Amaterasu Oomikami (天照大神), Yatagarasu is considered the incarnation of the sun. It has been said that Yatagarasu possibly lives in the sun.

That is, it means that she's able to manipulate the same temperature as the highest heating power in the natural world, the sun (Furthermore, by the spells that she uses, she is also able to spring forth the same gravitational attraction). However, Utsuho can't keep creating energy forever on her own because she would run out of "fusion material" and as explained in one of the endings for Subterranean Animism, she needs to get the atoms used in the fusion process from someone else.

Occupation Utsuho's job is to manage the temperature inside the Hell of Blazing Fires, by either opening the skylight above the Hell of Blazing Fires's courtyard to lower the temperature, or feeding the fires with the corpses carried by Rin.

Possessions Utsuho wears a control rod on her right arm, which she uses as a cannon in combat. She presumably also uses it to absorb radiation and regulate nuclear reactions.

Sakuya Izayoi: Sakuya Izayoi is a tall young woman with pale skin, silver hair styled into two long side braids with ribbons, and blue eyes. She wears a distinctive French maid outfit, often featuring a dark blue/pink, dark red, or light blue color scheme, a white apron, and a headband. Her personality seems perfect and elegant, being a fairly serious person overall, as befitting of a maid. Although due to the nature of the mistress of the house, it is arguable whether she serves the role of a maid or a babysitter. Sometimes she shows a more spaced-out and airheaded side, and can be surprisingly unreliable. She's polite and pleasant towards to her mistress Remilia Scarlet and those she's close with, such as Patchouli Knowledge, while being less formal with other people. She doesn't hang out with other humans or youkai too often, so they mostly see her as a demon's servant, while she does act like one from time to time. She was reprimanded by Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu for this, specially for her coldness and indifference to humans. Still, some humans will overlook this, and she sometimes stands in as an incident resolver, mostly when it's somewhat in her mistress's interest or interest of the mansion. For example, she worked with Reimu and Marisa to catch a sake-stealing beast. When the Miracle Mallet's magic affected one of her knives in Double Dealing Character, she became more open to the idea of using her knives. Even when she realized that the magic was taking advantage of a weakness in her heart, she decided to keep a sword filled with that magic and use it, which could indicate that she has a more bloodthirsty side.

According to Hieda no Akyuu in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, "she claims to be in her late teens", but acts with the mannerisms of someone older and the level of her ability seems like that of a human that's been living for more than a hundred years.

Sakuya Izayoi's Ability:

Manipulating Time

Sakuya possesses the ability to manipulate time, where she's able to control the flow of time, such as speeding up time, slowing it down, erasing it, and stopping time altogether. She can also compress the flow of time to make both past and future to exist at the same time, making the same object from different timelines be in many places simultaneously. The extent of her ability lets her not only control the time of the place in which she is, but influence the flow of time of a person, a specific object or even a small zone if she so desires, such as stopping the time of an object and thus affecting the space, making it stand still on thin air or creating time suspension fields where everything inside them will be affected by her ability; she can also accelerate or decelerate the movement of objects from slowed down speed to incredibly high speed, to even reaching the speed of light, making it move at tremendous speed. However, as it is difficult to reverse events that have already occurred, and since she is not able to return broken things to how they were originally even if she reversed time, in reality, it is not possible to reverse time. However, she is able to do things to the extent of moving things back to where they were originally. She has shown the ability to erase time of an object from a respective timeline; such as erasing bullets of the present and then the future, making them non-existent.

She is also able to manipulate space, and can narrow or lengthen it: she made the Scarlet Devil Mansion, which was originally spacious, even more abundantly spacious, and furthermore just like this she cleans alone. ZUN also said that "Manipulation of Time" is synonymous with "Manipulation of Space". By manipulating space-time, Sakuya is also capable of creating another Sakuya and making it appear in front of her, which will execute a different action to that of the original. This is apparently related to "another time" though it isn't explained thoroughly.

According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, the power to control time is a power that a human can possibly have, but isn't acquired just from just training. In the games, using this ability, she scatters an infinite quantity of knives. To disclose the secret of this trick, she stops time and assiduously collects the knives.

Hieda no Akyuu believes Sakuya has managed to live so long while still looking like a teenager by manipulating time. It's true that Sakuya can increase the speed at which something ages, such as making bamboo flowers bloom instantly in Marisa's A ending of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, even though this would normally take sixty years. It seems safe enough to assume she can decelerate aging for a specific object, too.

According to Sakuya, her ability to stop time is actually her moving at extremely high speeds with no mass, and she commented that she lacks the ability to stop the progression of someone else's time. While it's possible that this could have been an effort to make Reimu leave and rid the Scarlet Devil Mansion suspicion of kidnappings, there is no way to prove otherwise.

Occupation

As the head maid, she oversees all the fairy maids as the only human maid. The other maids have many perks to their jobs and rarely choose to leave (even though they are not paid or given vacations); however, they are nearly useless and most of the work is done by Sakuya alone, which would be impossible if she didn't stop or slow time. She shops at the Human Village, but she is cold toward other humans and has no friends there. However, ever since Remilia Scarlet was beaten by the heroine of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Sakuya has begun opening herself up more.

At the time of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she merely worked at the Scarlet Devil Mansion in return for food. Continuing in Imperishable Night, she did not worry at all about the clothing, food or housing and felt satisfied. Meanwhile, she is utterly devoted to her mistress. She's constantly seeking out new varieties of tea flavours for Remilia to try, as shown in several official works. For example, she mentions in Phantasmagoria of Flower View that with so many flowers around, she can make as much tea and as many pastries as she wants. (Flowers have often been used to provide flavouring for tea, especially in the past, and are still the basis of jasmine tea.)

According to a quote from Remilia Scarlet and Sakuya's ending in Imperishable Night (Good Ending #3), Sakuya has been working at the Scarlet Devil Mansion for so long, Remilia doesn't feel it fitting to call her human. With a comment like that, it seems safe enough to assume she has been at the Scarlet Devil Mansion for an extremely long time.

Possessions She possesses a great amount of silver throwing knives and is skilled at handling them, and with only her ability to manipulate time, she is skilled in conjuring knives from nowhere.

Her throwing range is said to be 20 ken (about 36 meters or 39.8 yards) and has the accuracy such that she is able to strike an apple on the forehead of a fairy. A portion of her throwing-knife ability is within her cooking ability and therefore is very skilled at cooking as well. She also is able to conjure knives in battle as danmaku. In the games, despite Sakuya showing to make knives appear mysteriously when time is stopped, her artwork in The Grimoire of Marisa shows that she's placing the knives physically.

Remilia Scarlet: Remilia Scarlet is a petite, centuries-old vampire with short light-blue hair and striking red eyes. She is characterized by a "childlike" appearance, standing about as tall as a young teen. She commonly wears a pink or red mob cap and dress with lace, featuring large, black bat-like wings on her back. While she tries to cultivate the image of a mysterious and frightening vampire aristocrat, 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, frequently indulging her own childish whims in order to create entertainment for herself. In Silent Sinner in Blue she allows herself to be manipulated by Yukari Yakumo, simply because the alternative would have been boring. The other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion spend much of their time catering to Remilia's odd whims (including numerous parties), though she does make an effort to appreciate and respect their patience.

Remilia is respected by most youkai of Gensokyo and so she's said to have a charismatic personality. However, in reality this is only because of the fear they have for her kind. 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 childish behavior. She enjoys novel things and isn't above playing along in silly games or allowing herself to be manipulated if it means staving off boredom.

Her behavior may be due to the fact she actually has the wisdom of a 500 year old being with the whims and patience of someone who has yet to fully mature. 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 Scarlet's Abilities 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. According to Akyuu she evaporates when exposed to sunlight. However, it was shown in Silent Sinner in Blue chapter 16 that she only begins to smoke under sunlight, and didn't suffer any lethal injuries after being hit with Amaterasu's light. Regardless, she typically remains inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion (which has few windows to prevent light getting in) during the day and emerges during the night.

Powers of a Vampire Remilia has tremendous physical abilities (superhuman strength and speed) and magical power. According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, vampires have tremendous physical abilities and magical power, that allow them to uproot a thousand-year-old tree single-handedly and to run through the Human Village in a flash. While the true extent of these capabilities is unknown, Remilia's profile in Immaterial and Missing Power describes her as being "faster than the eye can follow, and strong enough to crush boulders", and in Silent Sinner in Blue chapter 16 she claimed that she was able to fly around the Moon (or at least around its "fantastic" version) 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. Because vampires possess all of these capabilities, they are among one of the strongest species in Gensokyo.

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 can also has the ability to summon and manipulate devils, but she is never seen doing so, not even for employing them in the mansion.

Vampires like Remilia are also immortal, as they forfeit growth and maturity in exchange for eternal life.

Manipulation of Fate In the current world view of Gensokyo, there isn't detailed information concerning this ability nor an instance where Remilia clearly used it. It is not even clear if she can control it or if she changes the fate of things around her without knowing 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. However, it has to be noted that Remilia does sometimes lose, although this could be because of the spell card rules. 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, as they are commonly associated with destiny.

According to Hieda no Akyuu, it seems to be that those in her vicinity will be followed by bad fortune, although she also states that Remilia can bring great changes in one's daily life with nothing more than a word. According to her little sister Flandre Scarlet, the true nature of the ability may simply be to know what happens in the future. However, Flandre also said that it's just that "Remilia just likes to talk that way" and thus may just be an act of pretense.

Flandre Scarlet: Flandre Scarlet has the appearance of a young, blonde girl (approx. 495+ years old) with short hair in a left-side ponytail, red eyes, and a red dress/vest over a pink shirt. She wears a pink mob cap with a red ribbon and features unique, unnatural wings adorned with dangling, multi-colored crystals. She is described as being quite strange and eccentric, which makes it difficult for others to understand her. She's also described as being "normally docile" and generally pleasant to be around, but somewhat of a loose cannon if left unwatched. In Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, it's suggested that she isn't very good at talking to other people, though she can get rather sassy and uppity when talking with her sister. Her friendship toward humans is very low. In Sunken Fossil World, she appeared to only care about "destroying the indestructible" when facing off against Yuuma Toutetsu, although she did display a willingness to work with Okina Matara, insofar as it let her have some fun. Until the time when she met either Marisa Kirisame or Reimu Hakurei in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she claimed to not have seen any humans other than when they were prepared for a meal, although it's left vague as to whether that was her idea of a dark joke.

During the events of Sunken Fossil World, however, she left the grounds of the Mansion for an extended period of time of her own accord to fight Yuuma Toutetsu, marking her first major departure from the grounds of the Mansion since her introduction.

Flandre Scarlet's abilities:

As a vampire, Flandre possesses superhuman capabilities just like Remilia Scarlet, such as enhanced physical strength, with the destructive power of oni and the nimbleness of tengu, as well as a vampire's bodily and regenerative ability. She can swing an oversized sword, though not as quickly as she would like to. Since she doesn't know the proper way to attack humans, she is unable to go easy on them and blows them away without a trace.

Destroying absolutely anything and everything

Flandre can destroy anything she wants, which is truly a frightening ability with no real weaknesses. By moving the "eye" of the object, where the tension is highest, and by attacking this eye, she is able to destroy the target. She is able to move the "eye" of anything into the middle of her hand, then she pours her power into it or in other words, she crushes the "eye" and unconditionally destroys the target with just a squeeze. She states that everything has an "eye" and that she has the "eyes" of everything in her right hand. She destroyed a meteor with a single hand and without touching it, where Flandre stated that she "went squeeze and it went boom". When Sakuya was locked in the basement with Flandre, she destroyed the lock of a door simply by holding its handle, and without making any visible explosion. Everything that is made for her to play with ends up broken, which may mean why she doesn't have many playmates, to which it's recommended to never meet with her.

Cloning herself Flandre is able to clone herself as seen in one of her spell cards where she creates 3 clones that join her in the battle. The clones attack as they like which could mean they're able to think independently to some grade. It's in the category "Slave Type" so they're under the command of the original Flandre.

Possessions In her hand, she possesses an object that looks like a crooked clock needle (sometimes thought to be a Lævateinn) – this is a prominent peculiarity associated with Flandre, in which the name is derived from her second spell card Taboo "Lævateinn". It shares its name with the sword (wand in some versions) of Loki, a Norse god known for causing mischief. This sword/wand is used by the fire giant Surt in Ragnarok (the Norse equivalent of the Apocalypse) to burn down the whole world, except for one safe heaven. Fitting that Flandre would be wielding a tool of such destructive might.

Hong Meiling: Hong Meiling is the Chinese youkai gatekeeper of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, she has long, scarlet/salmon-colored hair—often worn in two braids with black ribbons—and aqua-blue or teal eyes. She wears a distinctive olive-green Chinese dress and a matching cap adorned with a gold or bronze star bearing the Chinese character “龍” (dragon). Meiling is very laid-back, which sometimes gets her into trouble, and is known to sleep on the job. However, she does her job when needed. She regularly receives challengers and is a worthy opponent of the strong. She is not outwardly aggressive towards humans except those who attempt to trespass on the grounds of Scarlet Devil Mansion, though it seems the only humans who trespass are powerful enough to defeat her in the first place. She will also sometimes have conversations with passersby.

Many of her lines in Touhou Hisoutensoku express a boastful, somewhat stereotypical patriotism for China: "You're all not there yet! You're all children compared to 4000 years of history!" She also compares Yuyuko Saigyouji to a Jiang Shi and notes that Tenshi Hinanawi and the Celestials have read Chinese classics. The script also reveals that she seems to spend a lot of time reading manga written by the tengu.

Hong Meiling's abilities:

Meiling's mastery of t'ai chi ch'uan is her main ability in combat, but other than that, she has no youkai-like ability. While not particularly strong as a youkai, she is described as being well-rounded, with no particular weak point when fighting humans; this is likely why she was hired to watch the gate of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Usage of Qi Meiling is able to manipulate her life-breath, or qi. Her danmaku and her flight likely involve projecting her qi outward to attack foes or propel herself in a manner seen in martial arts folklore and in contemporary Japanese manga.

Occupation Meiling works as the gatekeeper and gardener of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She also acts as the doorkeeper when there's a party at the mansion. She performs Tai Chi Chuan daily and has a nap at noon.

Rin Kaenbyou: Rin Kaenbyou is a cat youkai (kasha) with fiery red hair styled in twin braids adorned with black ribbons, dark red eyes, and black cat ears (plus human ears). She wears a black gothic-style dress with green frills and a dark green turtleneck with a red bow. Rin has an energetic, positive personality; she prefers to be called Orin, since she doesn't like long names. She claims that while it is more fun to take on a pure cat form, she can't talk to humans that way - nor does it seem she can do her job, carting corpses away, which she seems to take great pleasure in. She appears to have challenged the main character in Subterranean Animism partly because she wanted their corpse, but also partly to test their strength to see if they would be able to stop Utsuho Reiuji for her, and appears to bear no ill will towards them for her defeat. Symposium of Post-mysticism states that she has no interest in killing humans herself to gain their corpses; she prefers to hunt for those on the verge of death, supposedly because it makes for more interesting conversation. If a corpse is properly buried, she'll lose interest.

Rin Kaenbyou's Abilities: Carrying away corpses Rin's official profile lists her ability as "carrying away corpses". As an ability that comes from her species, it is as it sounds like. The carried-away corpses burn as fuel for the Hell of Blazing Fires, although it is a mystery why the abandoned Hell of Blazing Fires needs to be fuelled in the first place. Incidentally, the spirits of the corpses carried away by kasha become onryou and become unable to achieve nirvana. She can also shift between cat form and human form at will. Hieda no Akyu states in Symposium of Post-mysticism that her corpse-carrying ability is not really a youkai-like one, but she is very good at it, using various tricks.

Controlling and communicating with spirits She is able to communicate with corpses and control all kinds of spirits; she appears to enjoy the conversations of the freshly dead, because they may not realize they're dead. In combat, she can briefly reanimate corpses so that they "act" like zombies.

However, prior to the events of Subterranean Animism, she displays the ability to drive vengeful spirits above-ground, which is what causes the heroines to dive underground in the first place. Symposium of Post-mysticism does not mention this.

Occupation Rin is a kasha living in the Palace of the Earth Spirits; her master is Satori Komeiji. Essentially, she lives day-to-day by stealing corpses from funerals to cart them to the former Hell of Blazing Fires. She will not kill humans herself, though she (quite efficiently) pursues humans that are close to death, hiding stolen corpses in her wheelbarrow using a straw mat, or just generally collecting corpses she happens to run across. Humans do not usually think that she would be carting corpses out in the open like she does, so she has a degree of freedom even in places with lots of people. In addition to maintaining the energy influx for the power source, she also controls vengeful spirits, at least in the vicinity.

Possessions Rin's only possession is her wheelbarrow, often referred to as "Orin's Cat Cart". It has no special properties, but Symposium of Post-mysticism describes it as the pushcart that has likely carried the most corpses in all of history. In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost she is able to launch her cart as a charged attack.

Satori Komeiji: Satori Komeiji is a young-looking yokai with short, wavy purple hair, a black hairband featuring a yellow heart-shaped accessory, and brilliant purple eyes. Her most distinct feature is a red "third eye" located on her chest, connected to her body by wires. Satori often has a calm and deductive demeanor especially when dealing with serious affairs. She can be very blunt and come across as rude especially due to reading the minds of people she comes across which can lead to people disliking her. Also, due to her ability of always reading minds, she prefers to stay in the calm location of the Underworld rather than the surface. Satori takes her role of managing the Underworld seriously and still shows kindness to the animals of the Underworld, such as Rin, and appears to be loved by animals who can't normally be understood in the first place. She spends a lot of time reading and writing books, and she's especially fond of stories that delve into the psychology of the characters.

Satori Komeiji's Abilities Reading minds As a satori, Satori is capable of using her Satori eye to read the heart and mind of any living creature, even vengeful spirits. This ability works only on those within her Satori eye's line of sight, and doesn't work at all on her sister, Koishi. Satori's mind reading ability can exhaust her, especially when coming to the surface, due to many lingering thoughts that can be in the area around her. She also seems to be able to show others what she sees if they're in close proximity, as shown in Foul Detective Satori chapter 43 where she is able to share Mizuchi Miyadeguchi's thoughts with Reimu Hakurei.

Awakening and copying trauma Although Satori cannot directly read past memories, she can use hypnotic lights to distract opponents causing them to think they might die from a sudden danmaku attack. This will bring back traumatic memories to the surface of a person's mind or induce amnesia. After successfully awakening the trauma, Satori is able to tap into her target's memories and use patterns they may have seen in the past - i.e. Spell Cards that the player character may have fought against in a previous game. This is a true recreation, not an illusion, but is not completely exact[8] (possibly due to flaws in the source memories, or Satori lacking the original users' abilities).

Species Satori Komeiji is, as her namesake suggests, a satori, which means she has the power to read minds. The satori are particularly detested, even among the other youkai currently living in Old Hell. Her palace never gets visitors, because no one wants to visit her. Even Kanako Yasaka felt the need to go behind her back to get control of the Hell of Blazing Fires, as it would be impossible to negotiate with her.

Koishi Komeiji: Koishi Komeiji is a satori youkai with short, wavy, light greyish-green hair and dark green eyes. She wears a black hat with a yellow ribbon, a yellow shirt with green trim/collars and cyan buttons, and a green skirt. Key features include a closed, purplish "third eye" over her heart, connected by cables to her ankles. Koishi is generally playful and free-spirited, not unlike a child. While her ability to manipulate the unconscious makes her presence unsettling to many people, she seems unconcerned with appearing scary, and does whatever feels right in the moment. She does not seem to go out of her way to harm others out of malice or spite, although she has occasionally caused issues for other characters due to a lack of self-awareness, such as in her accidentally stealing Hata no Kokoro's mask in Hopeless Masquerade, or Sumireko Usami's smartphone in Urban Legend in Limbo.

In Urban Legend in Limbo, she takes on the urban legend of Mary-san. Rather than wanting to be truly menacing, however, Koishi appeared to "join in on the fun" with the other characters also performing urban legends, eventually having to receive advice from Marisa Kirisame on how to make her urban legend scarier. She seemed genuinely happy that she was able to use her urban legend effectively, even if it was only on a single person.

Having purged herself of "worldly attachments," she's viewed as having achieved something akin to enlightenment by the Buddhists of the Myouren Temple, although they question whether or not the price she paid was in her best interests.

Koishi Komeiji's Abilities: Taking actions unconsciously As her actions are controlled entirely by her unconscious, Koishi's presence cannot be noticed by other beings unless she allows it, even while standing in plain view because she's closed her mind, or her Third Eye. Likewise, her older sister's ability to read minds has no effect on her, as she does not technically have a mind to read, which is why she said "my sister can't win against me." Even someone who manages to communicate with Koishi will forget about her after she leaves, unless they already knew of her as Satori's sister.

Some children are immune to this effect due to their still-developing minds, leading Koishi to become their "imaginary friend", though they will forget about her when they grow up. Other than making others unable to perceive her existence, it also makes the act of doing so difficult to perceive. Practically, without being noticed by tengu or the other youkai, she climbed Youkai Mountain. However, as Satori's presence has been made generally known among the youkai of Gensokyo, Koishi has begun to be recognized by other residents as of late.

The youkai satori, on whom she and her older sister are based, by the actions of the humans' unconscious, they saw painful experiences. Since she closed her third eye which can read minds, she became unable to read others' minds.

Manipulation of the Unconscious Koishi's presence cannot be "felt" by anyone unless she has entered their direct field of vision and is forgotten by most people as soon as she leaves it. She can manipulate the unconsciousness of every living thing around her, allowing her to make them see everything she desires and make them confront their own weaknesses hidden inside their hearts, as seen in lot of her Spell Cards.

Occupation Koishi currently resides at the Palace of the Earth Spirits, but she is also a laywoman in regards to the Myouren Temple as a recent convert to Buddhism, at Byakuren Hijiri's request.

Possessions During and after the events of Hopeless Masquerade, Koishi now possesses the original Mask of Hope that once belonged to Hata no Kokoro before she lost it. Koishi found it while wandering around Gensokyo, and because of this, she temporarily obtained the emotion of hope.

Chen: Chen is a young, cat-like shikigami with dark brown hair and eyes, black cat ears, and two tails. She typically wears a red dress with a white collar ribbon, pale pink ruffles/sleeves, and a green mob cap. Ran Yakumo uses Chen as a shikigami, but since Ran herself is Yukari's shikigami, she is a "shikigami of a shikigami". When possessed as a shikigami, Chen acquires 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.

She ordinarily lives on Youkai Mountain.[4] In Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, she made the village of cats and tried to stand as the leader, but the progress has been unfavorable.

Chen's Abilities: The way her abilities show up in the game itself is that she runs around the screen so freely in a way that is not expected of a boss of a shooting game, which is characteristic of her (as one would expect of a cat). This could be considered cute if she were an ordinary cat, but it also makes her slightly more tricky to deal with due to her speed and deceptive movement, which can confuse her opponent. Another characteristic of her is how she spins around and around while attacking, somewhat like her master.

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.

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.

Occupation 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.

Cirno: Cirno is an ice fairy with the appearance of a young girl with short, light blue/cyan hair and matching light blue eyes. She is characterized by her six crystal-like ice wings, a blue dress with a white blouse, and a distinctive blue ribbon in her hair. 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 "baka" (バカ, lit. Idiot") in an explanation of the game screen's layout. She was again labeled as such in the manual for Touhou Hisoutensoku.

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 Kazami. 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's abilities: Manipulating cold Cirno has the ability to manipulate cold to the point of being able to freeze water. It seems like her surroundings are chilly even in summer, as she emits cold air constantly. 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 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.

Kanako Yasaka: Kanako Yasaka is the 2,000-year-old goddess of wind and rain. She has long, flowing blue hair, dark red/orange eyes, and an imposing presence. She wears an elaborate red blouse with long white sleeves, featuring a round mirror on her chest, paired with a long black skirt featuring a red floral hem. Kanako is an ambitious woman who treats religion like a business, using whatever means bring her the most "profit" - that profit being faith. She has a natural presence that can seem intimidating or suspicious at times, but also reliable. Unusually for a god she has little respect for tradition - she demands little formality in her worship, and encourages scientific progress. It is somewhat strange for a deity to be knowledgeable and interested about science.

She has no hostility towards humans, though as is the case with all deities, she may curse them if they are disrespectful. She also seems to be rather short-tempered, but she is vulnerable to gifts.

Kanako Yasaka's abilities: Ability to create heavenliness

Kanako's ability specifically refers to the element of Qian (乾), the "sky" of Bagua in Taoist philosophy. Qian is associated with creation, leadership, overtness, reliability, and acting first rather than reacting to others. Suwako Moriya's ability to create Kun (坤, earth), refers to the opposite element.

She is at least called "wind god", so it may be a power to manipulate wind, rain, and weather. For Kanako to be a god of agriculture, to manipulate the wind and rain and make the soil plentiful would definitely be a way to quickly and easily gather faith.

In Symposium of Post-mysticism, it's stated that this ability of hers is still very much a mystery. She has been seen altering the terrain with Suwako's help, opening holes to the underground, and even creating large structures. She helped build the Myouren Temple, as well.

Occupation Kanako is currently the deity of the Moriya Shrine, and lives with Suwako Moriya, the de facto ruler of the shrine, and Sanae Kochiya, a wind priestess. She generally seems to spend her time implementing new ways to gain faith from those who live outside the Youkai Mountain. She tries to control nuclear fusion and does so by feeding Yatagarasu to Utsuho Reiuji and creating a nuclear fusion reactor leading to the underground, which indirectly caused the events of Subterranean Animism, Undefined Fantastic Object, Touhou Hisoutensoku, and Ten Desires. Kanako would later successfully have a ropeway going from the foot of Youkai Mountain near the Human Village to Moriya Shrine in Wild and Horned Hermit.

Possessions Kanako's shimenawa represents the figure of an entwined snake, which in turn represents resurrection, rebirth, and eternity through the repeated shedding of its own skin. She also possesses onbashira, which she apparently uses in traditional festivals to toss off of cliffs, and also in combat in Sunken Fossil World.

Suwako Moriya: Suwako Moriya is a short goddess with a distinct amphibian motif, featuring medium-length blonde hair, light blue or grey eyes, and a signature wide-brimmed light brown hat topped with two large, cartoonish frog eyes. She wears a short, simple purplish-blue dress adorned with frog prints, white sleeves, and white knee-high socks. Suwako typically acts friendly and cheerful but though she feigns ignorance, Suwako is just as capable of scheming as Kanako. In contrast to Kanako, Suwako is more laid back and mischievous. Despite her young look, she is a god that has lived for over 2,300 years and is wise and even cunning. She enjoys competing against others, and loses gracefully. Combined with her rarely leaving the shrine, her intentions can be hard to read. She doesn't come forth of her own volition often. Whether it is because she is bad at marketing faith by herself or some other reason is one of the mysteries of the Moriya Shrine.

Suwako Moriya's abilities:

Ability to create earthliness Suwako's ability specifically refers to the element of Kun (坤), one of the eight trigrams in Taoist philosophy that means creating Earth. Kun is exactly the pinnacle of the native god and is associated with acceptance, devotion, subtlety, flexibility, and reacting to others rather than acting first. Kanako Yasaka's ability to create the "heavenliness" of Bagua, or Qian (乾), refers to the opposite element. Although Mountain of Faith offers little insight into the nature of Suwako's abilities, her attack animations in Touhou Hisoutensoku depict her "swimming" through the ground, summoning magma, geysers, various rocks and minerals, growing plants instantly, and bending rivers.

Unlike Kanako, who is technically a Divine Spirit and once had a human form, Suwako is one of the Yaoyorozu no Kami, and thus consists purely of faith. She also controls the Mishaguji, which is one of her main sources of faith from humans. When a portion of her spirit is enshrined, she can take on the form of a frog. In this form, she can grant various blessings, such as safe travel, financial upturn, and transfiguration.

Possessions Iron rings Possibly because of her ability to manipulate minerals, Suwako uses large iron rings as weapons in various attacks. Aya Shameimaru mentions that weapon isn't a kanawa, Japanese Chakram-like weapon, because of the way she throws it. According to Hatate Himekaidou, they are scarily sharp.

Sanae Kochiya: Sanae Kochiya is a human/living god shrine maiden with long green hair, hazel/green eyes, and a slim figure. She is recognized by her blue and white outfit with polka dots, a signature frog-shaped hair clip, and a snake-like accessory, reflecting her ties to the Moriya Shrine gods. Sanae is confident, energetic and dutiful, sometimes too much so, and tends to get carried away easily or have trouble thinking for herself. She also appears to be something of a geek, making references to popular culture and having knowledge of advanced scientific concepts. As someone who grew up in the Outside World, much of Gensokyo seems strange and novel to her; she finds great fun in "exterminating" youkai and solving incidents. As a result, she is rather knowledgeable about the outside world and modern living, although her attempts to explain scientific concepts usually just confuse the locals. Her knowledge on things like the youkai of Gensokyo, on the other hand, seems a bit lacking for a shrine maiden. She also may have somewhat of a complex about herself as an incident resolver, thinking foes won't take her as seriously as the other experienced youkai exterminators. The simple fact that she is adjusting to life in Gensokyo makes her an extremely rare case.

Sanae Kochiya's Abilities:

Ability to cause miracles Sanae possesses the ability to invoke miracles due to her divine heritage. Many of her spell cards are themed around miracles stemming from various religions or unlikely events. Her powers primarily involve weather manipulation and are often used in rituals, such as prayers for rain. The "miracles" that she can invoke are not related to good or bad fortune – they are merely events that have a very low chance of occurring. Before invoking a miracle, she needs time to prepare it proportional to how unlikely the miracle is. Simple ones can be invoked with a single word, while more complex ones may take days of preparation.

Abilities as a shrine maiden Sanae is a Shrine Maiden, though of a different type compared to Reimu Hakurei. Similar to Reimu, she can summon gods and borrow their powers. However, she relies more heavily on this ability and can only summon her own patron gods: Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya.

Occupation Sanae's occupation as a Wind Priestess involves serving as a priest who worships the god of wind. She is able to cause miracles, such as bringing wind and rain, through a mysterious technique. However, because she is worshipped and gathers faith herself, she is treated on the same level as gods and is considered a living god. In Mountain of Faith, she tells Reimu Hakurei, "I guess you could call me something like a Shrine Maiden", suggesting that her role may differ slightly. Nevertheless, she is fundamentally treated as a Shrine Maiden, just like Reimu. Additionally, since Sanae is both a "god" and a human, she can continue living as a human even if she loses all her faith.

Possessions Gohei Sanae carries a gohei, also known as a purification rod, with her on incidents. She mainly used it to perform incantations and act as a bludgeoning weapon.

Reisen Udongein Inaba: Reisen Udongein Inaba has long, light-purple hair, red eyes, and prominent, straight rabbit ears adorned with buttons. She typically wears a long-sleeved black business suit with a white skirt and a red necktie, often featuring a crescent moon insignia. Reisen is described as changing her personality completely to match her circumstances. Ordinarily timid and sometimes showing a scatterbrained side, she can be both carefree and crazed, and is a different person in battle. she is not originally from the Earth, she has never been friendly and cannot get along with humans very well.

Watatsuki no Toyohime, when commenting on Reisen's abandonment of the moon, states that that she was both self centered and cowardly, poor traits for a soldier in the Lunar Defense Corps. Eiki Shiki additionally affirms this by stating Reisen's sin is that of selfishness due to abandoning her allies, something Reisen states she is "earnestly trying her best" to fix. Later on in Forbidden Scrollery, she is seen peddling medicine for the Human Village, and invented a device to repel rats to assist with the Human Village's rat problem, without input or permission from her master Eirin Yagokoro. Reisen states that because her and the residents of Eientei are outsiders to Gensokyo, they should aim to be "productive members of society", as isolating themselves by aggravating others would be a bad idea.

Reisen Udongein Inaba's Abilities:

Manipulation of Wavelengths/Insanity Reisen has the ability to sense and manipulate waves of all kinds - including waves of light, sound, space, the waves that make up all things, and the waves that make up the thoughts and feelings of living creatures. Her signature use of this ability is manipulating a creature's waves to induce insanity. Reducing the wavelength of brainwaves make her target short-tempered and irrational, while increasing the wavelength leave her target apathetic and depressed. Increasing the amplitude of a wave results in an "excess" of existence, which she can use to transmit her thoughts no matter how far, while reducing the amplitude results in a "rarefaction" of existence, which she can use to silence a voice. Synchronizing waves removes interference, resulting in intangibility, while offsetting the phases negates existence, which can completely hide a subject's form. Reisen can also manipulate light and sound waves to deceive the senses, such as by creating hallucinations, concealing her danmaku, and tuning the vision of her enemy. She is also able to create illusions of herself that can attack the enemy, and can cast wide-area illusions that cause people to get lost.

Reisen's red eyes have a similar effect as the true full moon and can induce insanity. She can use this ability to disorient and dizzy a target, preventing them from moving straight. In addition, she is capable of releasing waves of madness from her eyes in ripples or in destructive beams.

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. However, she seems unable to replicate Star Sapphire's abilities with her own.

Moon rabbit abilities Moon rabbits can pick up "ESP waves" with their ears, forming a sort of psychic network where they can detect feelings and rumors from other moon rabbits, no matter how far they are. Reisen can still participate in this network despite the physical and spiritual distance between Gensokyo and the Moon.

Occupation Formerly, Reisen was a moon rabbit in service of the Lunarians, as the pet of the sisters Watatsuki no Toyohime and Watatsuki no Yorihime, and being enlisted in the Lunar Defense Corps. Moon rabbits are used for a large variety of menial labor including farming, pounding medicine, cleaning, and as soldiers in the Lunar Capital's war effort. However, sometime in the Lunar War, Reisen deserted the Lunar Capital and fled to Earth as refugee from the "Lunar War" between the two worlds that began in 1969 A.D. after the Apollo 11 "invasion".

After seeking refuge from Eientei, Reisen now serves Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan. She effectively performs as their servant, doing manual errands and taking charge of festival preparations for them. Eirin serves as Reisen's master as well as her mentor in medicines. Eirin also sends her to the Human Village as a medicine peddler. They operates under an okigusuri system, where each customer is given a medicine box, which is check at the turn of the season, and only the medicine used is charged for.[13] In addition, Reisen commands Tewi Inaba, who herself commands all of the earth rabbits of Gensokyo. However, Reisen complains that Tewi does not listen to her, leaving her to attend to chores and cleaning up by herself.

Possessions Megaphone-shaped Handgun Starting with Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, Reisen equips a megaphone shaped handgun with rabbit ears. She uses it to fire bullets and damaging waves at her foes. It can change its size to function as a shotgun, and can also be used like a real megaphone. In some attacks, Reisen is also shown dual-wielding them.

Species Throughout the Touhou Project, she was referred to as a moon rabbit. However, in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, Reisen realizes that living on Earth for too long has tainted her with impurity. Knowing that she can no longer return to the Lunar Capital or continue being a moon rabbit, she now proudly proclaims herself to be an earth rabbit of Gensokyo.

Alice Margatroid: Alice Margatroid is a youkai magician known for her doll-like appearance, she has short blonde hair, blue or gold eyes, and a light blue dress with a white capelet, pink ribbons, and white sleeves. She is often depicted carrying a black book (the Grimoire of Alice) and is associated with creating and controlling dolls, particularly her signature red-clothed dolls. Alice is someone that is generally indifferent to others. As an "indoor type" person, she does not know much about the outside of the Forest of Magic, and hardly ventures outside of it, spending most of her time alone. While she puts on a confident attitude, she also has a timid side. Alice loves magic and has an obsession with collecting things, especially magic items and books, which makes her sometimes collide with the similarly minded Marisa Kirisame.

In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, Hieda no Akyuu writes that, despite being a youkai, she has high understanding and friendship level to humans and presents a low danger level. If someone gets lost in the Forest of Magic and arrives at her house, she will gladly offer them shelter. However, Alice's house is filled with dolls, and since she is not very eager for conversation, it seems like the rare visitor is inclined to immediately flee as they find it eerie. In chapters 5 and 6 of Strange and Bright Nature Deity, the Three Fairies of Light accidentally arrived at her house and Alice was hospitable to them, providing tea and cake, and extends an offer of friendship after finding out their true identities as weak fairies. She likewise showed amicability to Sakuya Izayoi in Immaterial and Missing Power, leading her out of the forest when she became lost.

As a former human, Alice does not perform the usual act of attacking humans like most youkai, but she unexpectedly enjoys fighting and upon being challenged to battle, she gladly accepts. Unlike Marisa, when fighting with danmaku, she values brains and strategy over raw power. She does not find dominating her opponent with overwhelming power fun at all, and instead tries to fight while only slightly exceeding her opponent's abilities, not even showing her full power when losing. This is because she believes that it would be the end of the line if she lost while using all her strength, a personality trait that is compared to Reimu Hakurei.

Alice Margatroid's Abilities:

Using magic, manipulating dolls Magicians are a race that have their purpose of existence bound to their magical technique, and Alice's magic manifests itself with her enchanted dolls. While her physical and magical ability are only average, she is very dextrous and is also able to manipulate a great amount of dolls at the same time as if they were living beings - a skillfulness which is among the finest in Gensokyo. Her magic does not give any life to the dolls, but allows her to control them with magical threads, manipulating them by magic instead of using her hands. She can make the dolls move in nearly any way a human could, and can even have them control other dolls. She mostly leaves cooking, laundry, cleaning, and other chores to her dolls, and as such usually has her hands full concentrating on commanding them. The one thing Alice does not have the dolls do is creating other dolls - she leaves this task to her hand only.

When fighting, her army of dolls highly outnumber her opponents, and defeating some of them will just cause them to be replaced. Many of her dolls are additionally filled with gunpowder or can be detonated with magic power; once she is done using them, she typically repurposes them to act as kamikaze bombs, a fact referenced in many of her spell cards (such as Magic Sign "Artful Sacrifice" and One Lemmings' Parade) and skills (such as "Doll Cremation" and "Ooedo Explosive Marionette"). However, her weakness is that, as she is concentrating on manipulating the dolls, her movements are sluggish and her fighting abilities are low, leaving herself to be a prime target. She usually leaves the firing of danmaku entirely to the dolls - in the rare cases where she joins in, her attacks are weaker and more plain.

Her dolls have been seen talking in some instances, such as Marisa and Alice's good ending in Subterranean Animism and in the prologue of Imperishable Night. Additionally, in chapter 5 of Strange and Bright Nature Deity, the dolls are seen with emotion, conversing back and forth with Alice, and even putting on snow clothing. However, Marisa points out that, as the dolls are not alive and are merely being manipulated to talk, it really is just a "lame one-person act".

Alice's ultimate objective is to make a completely autonomous doll that have their own thoughts and move by their own volition. While she has poured her soul into making one, she still has not seen any success, and she admits that she has much to learn. In order to perfect a completely autonomous doll, Alice does experiments relating to the link between the doll and the soul. One such experiment involved nailing humanoid straw dolls to trees - she stated that, as this causes the subject to feel pain as well, understanding this dynamic would allow her to better understand this link. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she states that string between the body and soul is the same link that allows her to manipulate dolls. Despite the effort she has put into creating a completely autonomous doll, she admits that dolls that she controls herself are more useful than one that would think for themselves.

Occupation Alice generally stays in the Forest of Magic, rarely venturing outside, and isn't interested about what other youkai do. While she usually doesn't concern herself with incidents, she will investigate for herself if no one else seems to be solving the issue. Despite being a puppeteer, she states that she does not put on performances for the public or sell her dolls, and since she makes her own dolls, she never goes out to buy them. However, Akyuu writes that she performs with her dolls in front of crowds during festivals, and that her main place of activity is "Any kind of place". Additionally, Aya Shameimaru encounters her in the Human Village in stage 3 of Shoot the Bullet, and she can be seen in the village again during Hopeless Masquerade.

Possessions Dolls Alice has a very large amount of dolls of different kinds at her house. As the Forest of Magic is quite humid, the conditions cause the dolls to become damaged without her constant care. Her spell cards names usually name dolls based on certain locations, such as Darkness Sign "Foggy London Dolls" or Blue Sign "Fraternal French Dolls".

She additionally has named individual dolls: her Shanghai Doll fires a straight piercing laser, while her Hourai Doll uses a powered up version of that attack. The Goliath Doll is another doll created by Alice which was still in the testing stages at the time of Touhou Hisoutensoku.

Grimoire In Mystic Square Extra Stage, Alice appears with a black book with "Grimoire of Alice" written on it, from which she recites spells and claiming that it has "the ultimate magic". However, in most later games, she appears with a book that has a black cover with no label. In Strange and Bright Nature Deity, she accuses the Three Fairies of Light of trying to steal it.

Species In her Imperishable Night profile, she is said to be a magician as a species, in contrast to Marisa, who is a human that practices magic. In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, she is described as a magician youkai that used to be human and became a magician by using "abandon food" magic. It is also said that she has only recently become a magician, and because of this, she apparently still continues human habits like eating and sleeping, despite them not being necessary.

Tsukasa Kudamaki: Tsukasa Kudamaki is a fox youkai (kuda-gitsune) with shoulder-length blonde hair, yellow-brown eyes, and large fox ears with white tips, paired with a fluffy tail. She wears a simple white, one-piece dress with green banded hems, often posing with a test tube in her left hand. Tsukasa is a sly kuda-gitsune who talks out of both sides of her mouth, acting as a "loyal" confidant to her mistress, Megumu Iizunamaru. Although she presents herself to be Megumu's faithful servant, she seems primarily interested in her own goals. Tsukasa's willingness to manipulate high-class youkai like Megumu, Gods like Chimata Tenkyuu, and even extremely powerful and dangerous youkai like Momoyo Himemushi, demonstrates a high degree of pride and confidence in her skills as a manipulator. She also addresses them in a very polite manner, calling them "Miss". Despite this, it's shown that Megumu, Chimata, and Momoyo trust her advice, even when they have good reason to be suspicious of her. When challenged, however, she can get quite vicious and mean-spirited, showing her malicious and disparaging side to the protagonist in Unconnected Marketeers. According to Megumu, Tsukasa is "too confident in her own strength, despite being a weakling". According to Tsukasa's 100th Black Market title card, Tsukasa hates getting her clothes dirty.

Tsukasa Kudamaki's Abilities:

Capable of slipping into places where one's soul is weak

Tsukasa senses weak points in the souls of those around her, and can exploit them in order to get what she wants. She demonstrates this ability against Megumu, Chimata, and Momoyo in Unconnected Marketeers.

Kuda-gitsune's wealth-bringing Kuda-gitsune are capable of bringing people great wealth, but can somewhat ironically also cause financial ruin in the long run.

Patchouli Knowledge: Patchouli Knowledge is a short, pale-skinned magician with long purple hair and eyes. She is iconic for wearing pink or lavender striped pajama-like clothing, a nightcap adorned with a golden crescent moon, and multiple ribbons in her hair. She often appears bookish, frail, and rarely leaves her library. She is a magician (or witch) who is over 100 years old. As described in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, she is the type of magician who was naturally born as a magician; rather than a human that has become a magician through training such as Alice Margatroid.

She is "fairly short" and is around the height of Marisa and Youmu Konpaku. She stays confined to the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion because the books and her hair are damaged by sunlight. Despite her enormous magic power, she has a weak constitution, has asthma, is anaemic and has vitamin A deficiency. Her physical ability is worse than that of humans. According to Wild and Horned Hermit, this is because she often works with toxic chemicals, such as arsenic and mercury.

After the Scarlet Mist Incident during Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she became somewhat more active. It was commented that Suika Ibuki's party at the shrine was enjoyable for her. In Silent Sinner in Blue, she said that she herself came to the shrine to pull an omikuji. Incidentally, the result of the omikuji was "future blessing" (末吉), though it seemed to have been something prepared by Marisa. It is noted by Reimu that she tends to have bad luck. Patchouli is known to be highly capable, experienced and studious magician, usually found researching the countless tomes within the house library. However, her great abilities are offset by her poor health caused by long-time recluse and asthma. She doesn't have a very proactive personality but rather always walks her own path. However, she's always interested where knowledge is concerned and will proactively go and try to acquire it. She does everything by the book but still makes a lot of mistakes. She's also described as very dark and taciturn, which in this case means she is introverted and silent in expression and manner.

Patchouli Knowledge's Abilities:

Manipulation of fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun and moon

Patchouli manipulates the five Chinese elements, making her an "Eastern style Western magician", an antithesis existence to Marisa Kirisame: "Western style Eastern magician". Patchouli is able to handle the five phases (commonly called Wu Xing, sometimes known as the five elements) with the addition of the sun and moon elements. The order of elements she uses follows the days of the week on a Japanese calendar. Due to this, she's known as the "one-week girl". In the Japanese language, the weekdays are named after the classical planets, which in turn were named after the Wu Xing phases (e.g. Mercury, water star), plus the Sun and Moon as heavenly bodies. As this ordering is based on the planetary hours, there is no direct relationship between the weekdays and Wu Xing. The ordering of Patchouli's elements follows the weekday sequence but places the Wu Xing phases first and "Sun" and "Moon" last.

Fire (Tuesday) - Change and movement. Fire assists earth and inhibits metal. Fire's ashes pile up to create earth, but it melts metal.

Water (Wednesday) - Silence and purification. Water assists wood and inhibits fire. Water nourishes wood, but it quenches fire.

Wood (Thursday) - Life and awakening. Wood assists fire and inhibits earth. Wood feeds fire, but it absorbs away water and nutrients from the earth.

Metal (Friday) - Wealth and abundance. Metal assists water and inhibits wood. Metal gives forth water (by condensation), but it tears up the roots of trees.

Earth (Saturday) - Foundation and immobility. Earth assists metal and inhibits water. Earth contains metal, but it absorbs water.

Sun (Sunday) - Activity and offense.

Moon (Monday) - Passivity and defense.

Elemental magic (属性魔法) (also spiritual magic (精霊魔法)) borrows the powers of spirits that exist in nature. Through this, she's able to receive great output from a small input. Since the Wu Xing elements interact with each other, she can combine them and multiply their power but this runs the risk of weakening the overall effect unless the elements are precisely controlled. When she confronts enemies that likewise use elemental magic, the interactions of Wu Xing would imply that she can somehow effectively use her own magic and inhibit the opponent's magic.

Since the Wu Xing elements could be said to exist in living things, she touched upon them for characters who showed up in Immaterial and Missing Power. For example, Marisa Kirisame is associated with the element "water" according to Patchouli. Given Marisa's last name (Kirisame, meaning "drizzle"), her black clothing, her lack of yang (due to living in the Forest of Magic), and her "Cold Inferno" shot in Mountain of Faith, this makes sense.

She uses spell cards that combine multiple elements. In addition to using combinations with good compatibility such as Earth & Metal Sign "Emerald Megalith", she also uses combinations with poor compatibility such as Water & Fire Sign "Phlogistic Rain". Sun and moon are not within Wu Xing but they're classically opposite to each other and these two have been combined with each other in Sun & Moon Sign "Royal Diamond Ring". In Shoot the Bullet, she devised a new experimental magic that combined elements with poor compatibility. With a large diversity of element combinations, she can do many things such as increasing her power or covering her weaknesses. As of now, among the Wu Xing, the only combination that hasn't appeared is wood & earth.

While she's capable of using advanced magic with great power, her poor health, asthma, and anemia limits her ability to use it. During Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she says "I can't finish reciting the spells because of my anemia!" and her condition limited her to using two-element spells. On another day, her asthma wasn't as bad and she felt better so she was able to cast three advanced spells in a row: a sun, a moon, and a five-element spell.

Fitting her magic to the same attributes as the days of the week is her secret hobby but nobody has realized this. Thanks to this, she doesn't mistake the day of the week but oddly enough, she doesn't have a good sense of the date.

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she had the peculiarity of using different spell cards depending on the player's character and shot type (a recurring gimmick in many stage 4 bosses of the Touhou games). Other than spell cards, she's able to use a revolving laser that focuses on herself as her regular danmaku.

Possessions Patchouli has many books in the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion which are mostly used for magic. Some of these books appear to act "independently" and can shoot danmaku, as shown in Stage 4 and the Extra stage of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. She also has waterproof books that Marisa finds interest in reading in the bath.

Shinmyoumaru Sukuna: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna is a tiny, purple-haired, brown-eyed inchling (dwarf) from Touhou Project who wears a pink kimono with a black obi and a frilled petticoat. She is recognized by her signature black bowl (decorated with gold) worn as a hat, holding a giant sewing needle and the Lucky Mallet. She has a short stature and a height complex. Shinmyoumaru acts and speaks as if she was a young child. Along the same lines, she appears easily persuaded, as she readily accepted the fabricated history of the inchlings that Seija Kijin fed to her. She has a height complex and will always seek ways to become taller, like with the Miracle Mallet or the Occult Balls. She's described as the type of person who's not satisfied until she has investigated silly rumors.

Shinmyoumaru Sukuna's abilities:

Ability to use the Miracle Mallet

The Miracle Mallet is an ancient inchling artifact, passed down through the generations, said to be able to grant any wish the user wishes. However, only inchlings are able to use it. In addition, the utilization of the Mallet to grant wishes comes with a price, and for wishes that are too large, it extracts this price before it even grants the wish.

In Double Dealing Character, Shinmyoumaru tried alongside with Seija to overturn society with the power of the Miracle Mallet, but the price she had to pay appears to have been the leakage of a lot of magical energy into Gensokyo. This magical energy was responsible for turning normally peaceful youkai into aggressive monsters, and creating tsukumogami such as Benben, Yatsuhashi, and Raiko. It caused Reimu's purification rod, Marisa's Mini-Hakkero, and a few knives belonging to Sakuya to start "acting" strangely. However, in Sakuya A's route, Shinmyoumaru says that the maid's knife is something she made into a tsukumogami as an experiment, so it's unknown whether or not all the heroines' weapons were the same, or if all of the tsukumogami were her experiments, or if Sakuya's knife was an exception.

Shining Needle Sword Whilst appearing as more of an accessory in Double Dealing Character, in Urban Legend in Limbo, Shinmyoumaru makes heavy use of the Shining Needle Sword in combat. Although appearing to be just an oversized needle, it seems to function very well as a weapon on its own. It seems to be able to produce beams and fishhooks made of energy, and she even uses it in a similar manner to a fishing rod in some moves and spellcards.

Occupation She was a co-conspirator to Seija, and plotted to overturn the hierarchy of society with her. After exhausting the power of the Miracle Mallet in Double Dealing Character, she began living in a cage-like doll house at the Hakurei Shrine whilst her body remained tiny and she was waiting for the Miracle Mallet to recover all of its power. She planned to return to being "tall" afterwards. As of Urban Legend in Limbo, she is once again normal-sized (albeit very short) and presumably living at the Shining Needle Castle once more.

Sagume Kishin: Sagume Kishin is a Lunarian goddess with a distinct, partially angelic appearance, characterized by her short, light grey hair, red eyes, and a single, large, greyish-white wing on her right side. She wears a purple, knee-length dress with a subtle arrow pattern on the hem, paired with a white-collared, tan/light brown jacket. Because of her powers to reverse fate when speaking, Sagume has to carefully choose what words she uses to speak. This has resulted in her being taciturn and reserved, even picking up a habit of covering her lips with one hand. In Antinomy of Common Flowers, Reisen Udongein Inaba describes her as "reticent and bold", but notes that she can also be "a bit scatterbrained".

Strangely for a Lunarian, Sagume has displayed actions that go against their ideologies. Despite being enemies with Gensokyo, Sagume had aided the realm on two separate occasions. The first time was in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom where she forgoes her plan to relocate the Lunar Capital and places her faith in the protagonists, even going as far as to seemingly gift one of them a power stone that can manifest urban legends in the process (though it's a possibility that she did it out of pragmatism) and the second time was in Grimoire of Usami where she put a stop to the spreading chaos that plagued the fireworks festival with her words. Sagume's also on friendly terms with Eirin Yagokoro despite her status as a traitor and would frequently visit her. However, Hecatia Lapislazuli surmised that Sagume would've attempted to control Gensokyo through Aya Shameimaru's dishonest articles about isolationism if she were to publish it, though it's uncertain if Sagume actually wanted to go through with it or if she was ordered to.

Sagume Kishin's Abilities:

Reversing a situation with her words

When she speaks about a particular situation or event, that situation will eventually proceed to reverse itself, through whatever means possible. This is a constant ability that she cannot turn off. If she speaks about an attempt to achieve a goal, it will fail in some way. If she speaks about something bad occurring, it will be resolved in some way. Due to this, she tends to not speak too much and always chooses her words carefully. Note that it is the situation or the event she talks about that will be reversed in some manner; it is not that the opposite of what she says must occur.

In Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, Sagume had thought of a backup plan to move the Lunar Capital to Gensokyo in case Junko's actions eventually forced the Lunarians to leave their temporary refuge in the Dream World. However, when the player shows up to take care of Junko, Sagume realizes her opportunity to help save the Lunar Capital. By talking to the protagonist about their plan to invade Gensokyo, her ability ensures that the plan will not come to fruition. By doing so, Sagume bets on the likelihood that the reason they will not end up relocating to Gensokyo is because the protagonist will in fact save the Lunar Capital. By talking to the player directly, she forced the situation to reverse around them.

Occupation She normally occupies a very important post amongst the Lunar Capital, and doesn't often show herself publicly. She often will do what needs to be done to protect the moon. At least since Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, she now stays in contact with Eirin Yagokoro and will even help each other in problematic situations such as in The Grimoire of Usami.

Possessions Occult Balls Using her powers, Sagume created a secret occult ball. It had the power to change the world by using people's words, and merely being near it would cause false rumors, such as urban legends, to materialize. Although it was just insurance, the plan was to use it to materialize the Lunar Capital in Gensokyo by spreading rumors about NASA hiding the truth about what they saw on the Moon. This also caused numerous lesser urban legends to materialize, starting the events of Urban Legend in Limbo. It is currently in possession of Marisa Kirisame.

Species She is a goddess, but she has a part of her that is a Heavenly God (天津神 Amatsukami) represented by the sole wing on her back and a part that is a Earthly God (土着神 Kunitsukami)[5]. Other than being a Lunarian, Sagume can also "tentatively" be classified as a divine spirit, but it is said that her true nature isn't that of a god, an oni, or a departed soul. She could be considered a type of amanojaku, but she is actually far above them, and could also be considered separate from them.

Rumia: Rumia is a young-looking Youkai with short blonde hair, red eyes, and a, T-pose often associated with her (arms spread out). She wears a black vest and skirt over a white blouse, with a signature red ribbon in her hair that is actually a cursed amulet. After deducing that Rumia cannot see at all inside the darkness sphere she surrounds herself with during the day, Hieda no Akyuu asks if she really was stupid. Rumia herself states that improving her simple daily routine of aimless wandering, or using darkness to her advantage to hunt more effectively, would be "too much effort" - due to this, Aya Shameimaru labels Rumia as one of many youkai that recently do not feel like working or learning, and that she does not maintain her dignity as a youkai. She dislikes sunlight and the summer heat, complaining that sunlight makes her tired, her skin red, and her hair dry.

Rumia is usually depicted as having her arms spread straight out horizontally - her intent is to evoke the image of a saint crucified on a cross.

Rumia's Ability:

Manipulating darkness

Rumia has the ability to make her surroundings dark at any moment. This darkness is magical in nature and can render even traditional lights such as torches useless within it; humans that wander inside can see scarcely anything. While the darkness is unaffected by outside light, it does not have any physical affect on anything it collides with. Rumia herself has no ability to see in this darkness, and while surrounded by it she cannot see either. She states that she bumps into trees all the time, and multiple eyewitness reports from humans encountering and even being inside the darkness sphere were able to escape unscathed.

However, Rumia was still able to read Aya's newspaper even with almost no light, while Aya herself couldn't write notes nor reading her notebook. She has also shown that she can control how much light can pass through the darkness, as she lets only a bit of it enter to be able to read the newspaper.

Although she dislikes heat and sunlight, she was seen without darkness in broad daylight in various occasions, even in summer.

In-game, this ability is used as part of Rumia's Darkness Sign "Dark Side of the Moon" spellcard in Shoot the Bullet, during which she becomes impossible to photograph when she is covered in darkness. The names of her spell cards are also related to night and darkness (Moon Sign, Night Sign, Darkness Sign).

Occupation Rumia flies around aimlessly during the day and night, occasionally bumping into trees. She keeps her darkness sphere up during the day, but lets it down at night because it's dark, but the moonlight makes it bright enough to see. Despite her young appearance, she eats humans and thinks that a youkai's job is to hunt them down; she complains that as of late, humans won't let her attack them.

Yuuka Kazami: Yuuka Kazami has green hair, red eyes, and signature parasol. She typically wears a red plaid skirt/pants and a waistcoat over a white shirt. Her appearance evolved from long, straight hair to a shorter, wavy style, with a calm yet menacing demeanor. Yuuka is a youkai who holds strength in high regard, ignoring other people unless they are strong youkai or humans with special abilities. However, it is also said she enjoys rubbing people the wrong way. She does it either by teasing those who she sees as weaker than her or even going around taking advantage of her link with flowers to joke claiming she is the culprit of the flower incident, just to see a reaction. She also does not show mercy to those who disturbs her or her flowers, which Yuuka loves the most. Although Hieda no Akyuu claims that she has a threat level of "very high" and a human friendship level of "the worst", it has been also reported that she often appears in the Human Village, where she is very polite, and it is known that she visited Reimu Hakurei to chat at least once. She is also described as someone who is often smiling, as seen for example in her cameo in Hopeless Masquerade, where she is smiling and waving.

Yuuka is shown to be rather dormant due to her age. It is said she is usually in the Garden of the Sun moving only to where the flowers bloom, and thus she usually doesn't actively seek opponents. However, there are exceptions to this when something catches her eye, as shown in her excursions in Mystic Square and Phantasmagoria of Flower View.

Yuuka Kazami's Abilities:

Ability to manipulate flowers

Yuuka is capable of manipulating flowers, making them bloom, shifting the faces of sunflowers towards the sun, or making withered flowers bloom again. As implied in her title, she can use it for flowers of all seasons. This ability is considered to be more of a small addition to her physical abilities, but it can manifest in destructive ways, for example destroying the Hakurei Shrine using a giant flower.

Strength Yuuka is said to be impressively strong. She is stated to be one of the strongest youkai in the vicinity of the Hakurei Shrine in Mystic Square. She sports extremely high power and physical abilities, which she uses to mercilessly eliminate any disturbances. She is also compared to a manifestation of nature, akin to a Fairy, albeit far stronger. Komachi Onozuka and Medicine Melancholy are the only characters in Phantasmagoria of Flower View who trigger a defeated sprite for Yuuka after beating her.

However, despite her strength, she appears to move quite slowly in all of her appearances. As a boss, she slowly drifts across the screen, and when she's playable her movement speed is the slowest of all characters. On the other hand, she can move quite fast when using her ability of turning into a ball of light in Lotus Land Story.

Turning into a ball of light, teleporting and cloning herself

In Lotus Land Story, Yuuka is shown to be capable of turning into a ball of light, allowing her to move at a speed much higher than usual. She also teleports around the screen in most Stage 6 attacks and she can clone herself to perform the same patterns twice.

Possessions Parasol Yuuka always has a parasol with her, and she claims it is the only flower in Gensokyo that never withers. According to Rinnosuke Morichika, it is a special parasol capable of cutting ultraviolet rays, as well as blocking both rain and danmaku. Yuuka uses it to perform graceful attacks.

Youmu Konpaku: Youmu Konpaku is a short, half-human/half-phantom she has short silver hair, green eyes (occasionally red or blue), and a large white phantom trailing her. She wears a green-and-white dress with ghost insignias, a black hairband with a ribbon, and wields two swords: the long Roukanken and shorter Hakurouken. As she has a straightforward diligent personality, she is often manipulated by those around her (especially Yuyuko). For this reason, she often fails at her task, but that does not mean that she has no real power, and she particularly excels at instantaneous force and concentration power. In Immaterial and Missing Power, as stated from her Master, "truth-slashing is something which you know", but Suika Ibuki pointed out that she does not think that Youmu understood her Master's teachings.

She has strong sensitivity, and in the good ending of Imperishable Night, her human half was unable to resist the insanity-inducing effects of the true Moon, causing her to become "half-insane". Ironically enough, considering her species, she is afraid of ghost stories, dares, and darkness, but she is calm around phantoms since she is half phantom herself. In Imperishable Night's Extra, after defeating Fujiwara no Mokou, Yuyuko pretends there is a ghost under a tree, earning a terrified shriek from Youmu. Much further on in Ten Desires, as a result of being mistaken as a hermit, she temporarily mistook herself as being a hermit. Due to artworks and her sprite in the fighting spin-offs, Youmu may be ambidextrous.

Youmu Konpaku's Abilities:

Handling Sword Techniques

Youmu is a swordswoman who dual-wields two special swords, Roukanken and Hakurouken. As a result of Youki's disappearance, Youmu's sword training is incomplete. However, she is already extraordinarily skilled in swordsmanship, as she can consistently win spell card duels which are meant to be long-ranged with just her skills. Youmu can perform a constant barrage of flying slashes as danmaku, and is also extremely fast which helps her close in on opponents and deliver a flurry of slashes faster than the eye can see.

Occupation As a gardener in the service of the Saigyouji family and the bodyguard of Yuyuko Saigyouji, Youmu is a swordswoman of a two-sword school of swordplay.

According to the Saigyouji family, Youmu is the second generation to take her position, the former generation being Youki Konpaku. Youki was Youmu's swordplay instructor. Youmu is also Yuyuko's sword instructor, but she is fundamentally treated as a gardener. In Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red and Chapter 13 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, she took on the responsibility for collecting and returning the phantoms that wandered around Gensokyo as a result of the boundary of the Netherworld being thinned.

Possessions Roukanken and Hakurouken The katana carried from her left shoulder to her waist on the right side, is Roukanken (楼観剣, "watchtower sword"). It has been claimed to have been forged by youkai, and has the power to kill ten phantoms in one slice. The shorter sword on her left waist is a wakizashi named Hakurouken (白楼剣, "blank tower sword"), which seems to be the heirloom of the Konpaku family, and can slice through people's confusion.

Species She belongs to the subspecies of phantoms called the "half-human half-phantoms" (半人半霊 "hannin hanrei" or "hanjin hanrei"). Half-human half-phantoms are the mixed-race of phantoms and humans (幽霊と人間のハーフ), which have a largish phantom accompanying them and a relativity long life span compared to humans. The phantom that always follows them is called the "half-phantom" (半霊、半幽霊 hanrei, hanyuurei), and they are the other half of their body. In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it was supposed that Youmu's human half manipulates the phantom half consciously. Youmu's human half has a lower body temperature compared to normal humans, and her phantom half's body temperature is not so cold compared to normal phantoms. In the Imperishable Night manual, it was written, "she has two kinds of body: human and phantom," showing Youmu to be "human" and the phantom to be "phantom."

Half-human half-phantoms are long-lived, but in Seasonal Dream Vision, since it has still not been 60 years since the time she was born, in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she was not very knowledgeable about the "flower incident that occurs once every 60 years."

Yuyuko Saigyouji: Yuyuko Saigyouji is a ghost princess with short, wavy pink hair, maroon eyes, and elegant, layered kimono. As a restless spirit residing in the Netherworld, she is frequently surrounded by small, formless ghosts and wears a blue mob cap featuring a red ghost insignia. She is very cheerful and friendly. In fact, her playful, good-humored personality, otherworldly beauty, and courtesan charm can have a disarming effect. She often makes bizarre and apparently nonsensical remarks and sometimes seems to overlook the obvious, leading to her characterization as an airhead or a ditz. For instance, in Touhou Bougetsushou, she toyed with Youmu Konpaku as a daily occurrence even with Ran Yakumo present.

However, at other times she will reveal an extremely cunning and perceptive side and will also sometimes display an extraordinary level of knowledge. For instance, in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she was the quickest character to identify the culprit as Tenshi Hinanawi when the incident was in the omen stage (Yukari Yakumo spoke of the dwindling of phantoms as Komachi Onozuka's negligence, but Yuyuko guessed correctly). Additionally, in Ten Desires, she obliquely informed the playable character about the location of the incident regarding the divine spirits. She is also known for her incredible appetite.

Yuyuko Saigyouji's Abilities:

Manipulating death

This is the ability to, without exception and without permitting any resistance, end the life of any living being, whether it be human or youkai. The only kind of creatures immune from this are Hourai Immortals. Be aware that this does not mean that she can make any person die instantly, but rather that she can make it so that any person will die with absolute certainty, regardless of if they wish to die or not. Clearly and simply, it is an unusually and dreadfully powerful ability. Although the fear and responsibility brought with this ability is what drove her to commit suicide and become a ghost, it seems that she hasn't forgotten this ability since then, and it seems that she can use this ability in a carefree manner (though she doesn't act carelessly in the usage of this ability). However, whether she's able to end life only to the extent of fainting, or if she tempts one to death gently, is unclear. During her lifetime, the latter was true. Her Last Word "Saigyouji Parinirvana" is said to be the very incarnation of this ability.

Manipulating departed souls This is the ability that enables her to manipulate ghosts and spirits, an ability she possessed even while she was alive. Although it's unclear what one is exactly able to accomplish with this ability, it seems to place Yuyuko on the role of the manager of the ghosts who stay for a while in the Netherworld. Because of this ability, she is able to let those from Hell stay eternally in the Netherworld.

Possessions Yuyuko has a pair of folding fans which can be used as weapons.

Aya Shameimaru: Aya Shameimaru is a crow tengu with shoulder-length black hair, distinct red eyes, and often features pointed ears. She wears a white blouse, a black short skirt (sometimes with leaf patterns), and a small red hat called a tokin. She is commonly depicted with a hauchiwa fan, a camera, and an orange arm-band. Aya is courteous - though she is more firm towards the weak and more polite with the strong, she is always polite when conducting an interview, though she will forcefully drive away any that interfere. She has a sharp mind that turns thoughts much more quickly than humans, so it is difficult to tell what she is thinking, and she changes her mannerisms to match who she's with, so no one feels entirely comfortable around her. Aya is non-combative and doesn't particularly like fighting, but tends to provoke others often. However, few can match her real strength, so she mostly just lets them be.

Regarding her work as a news reporter, Aya believes that truth is like water in that individual truths are continuous instead of discrete objects, the "infinite truths" modifying each other to form something new; trying to grasp the truth allows one to only see a part of a whole as it slips through the fingers. Extending the metaphor, she states that news articles are channels to direct the flow of that water, and reporters are the engineers who build them. She believes that, as she maintains her "truth" that there are no objective facts except in ideal worlds such as mathematics, there is nothing wrong with reporting the truth that she creates - the truth that will prevail in the end.

Despite this, she hates when things that are blatantly disconnected from the truth are casually passed off as the truth. In this vein, she disliked writing "talboid" style articles, which followed the spirit of “more exciting, more attractive”, for her cancelled weekly publication. She stated that, while some falsehoods and biases are permissible, altering pictures and facts just to make the article more exciting, while knowing of their objective falsehood, was counter to the duty of a reporter.

Aya is frustrated at the tengu bureaucracy's rigidity of its hierarchy, where one cannot move positions due to ability or quality of work; and additionally dislikes the long work hours and the issue of having "rules for rules sake". At one point, she expressed intent in using her paper to perform whistleblowing, but was foiled by Megumu Iizunamaru before her plan could come to fruition.

Aya Shameimaru Abilities:

Manipulating wind

With this ability, Aya can create, control, and stop winds of incredible strength at will. This even extends to being able to create tornadoes. While her powers are among the top class in Gensokyo and not many can really challenge her, she prefers to remain non-combative. She also rarely uses her powers just to show off, a characteristic that seems to be common amongst all tengu.

Speed While Tengu as a whole are known for their incredible speed that few can match, Aya prides herself as being "the fastest" in Gensokyo, and has been referred to as such by many. According to Marisa Kirisame, not even Remilia Scarlet, who was apparently able to fly around the Moon in an extremely short amount of time, can compare to Aya's speed. This speed is even demonstrated in one of her spell cards, where she moves so fast across the screen that her movement is replaced by lasers.

Occupation Aya runs the Bunbunmaru Newspaper, for which she flies around Gensokyo, gathering information, taking pictures, and performing interviews with humans and youkai alike for articles, which are commonly sensationalist in nature. If there is no news to be found, Aya has no issues with creating news worthy material herself. In addition, Aya works to deliver free (and often, unwanted) copies to people all over Gensokyo.

Among the tengu, she takes the largest interest in the inhabits and special characters of Gensokyo at large, to the point where barely a moment passes where she isn't obtaining material, either from her own observations or from colleagues. In particular, the Human Village is one of her major sites of interest - she has been observing it for a long time in order in an attempt to catch any trouble brewing in human society, but is frustrated at the continual stagnation and lack of events.

While in earlier works her paper is regarded as a simple gossip "third rate rag", in Forbidden Scrollery and beyond, its influence has extended to become a major source of information within the human village, in part due to Aya working with Kosuzu Motoori in Suzunaan to further push the Bunbunmaru's sales in the Human Village. Due to this, it is consistently depicted to maintain popularity and have a powerful effect on public opinion.

Aya fully exercises the Bunbunmaru

Newspaper's role in the tengu society's goal of "ruling through information". Although her stated policy is to report only the truth, she often writes opinionated pieces, twists the truth, or outright lies in her articles to her advantage - in order to grab more readers, fulfill her ulterior motives, or avoid causing a panic within the human village. She often uses them to deny or publicize the truths of incidents and other events, whichever would be more convenient or attract the most readers. For example, one of her articles ruined the popularity of a plum wine festival that the Hakurei Shrine was planning, much to the dismay of Reimu Hakurei; another boosted the business of Geidontei while defaming the Myouren Temple by lying about the cause of a ghost haunting; yet another hid the truth that Miyoi Okunoda was a youkai in the human village, because Aya found an after hours youkai bar in the Human Village too convenient to pass up on.

Possessions Camera Aya's tengu camera is used for gathering photographs for her articles. In Shoot the Bullet and Double Spoiler, it has the ability to clear away danmaku caught in a photograph.

Bunkachou Aya owns the Bunkachou (文花帖), a tengu notebook she uses for gathering innumerable photographs and handwritten notes for articles.

Hauchiwa fan Aya's maple leaf shaped hauchiwa fan is her weapon. In addition to acting as a melee weapon, it can generate gusts - one sweep of the fan can knock down a house, two sweeps can fell a large tree, and three sweeps can cause a traveler's cloak to be blown away.

Momiji Inubashiri: Momiji Inubashiri is a white wolf tengu with short light silver hair and red eyes, typically wearing a white top, a black skirt with red maple leaf patterns, and a red tokin hat. She is known for patrolling the Youkai Mountain, frequently depicted with wolf ears, a large scimitar-like sword, and a shield. Momiji has a very cooperative personality who executes her duties faithfully. She's very obedient to the Great Tengu, but according to Aya Shameimaru, she apparently looks down on Crow Tengu. She feels very strongly about the dignity of beasts.

Momiji Inubashiri's Ability:

Seeing a thousand ri ahead

Momiji has a telegnosis ability that allows her to see a thousand ri ahead (approximately 3,927 kilometres, or 2,440 miles). She also has a superior sense of smell, that combined with her ability makes her able to detect any intruder in an instant.

Abilities as tengu Hieda no Akyuu describes tengu as one of the strongest species, both in physical and sorcerous abilities. While nothing about Momiji herself has especially come to light, she is likely to possess some of those traits, such as their (almost) unmatched speed.

Occupation She works as one of the Youkai Mountain tengu's patrols. Her job is to attempt to stop intruders on the mountain with simple attacks and report any that were undeterred to Tenma. In her free time, she plays dai shōgi with the kappa.

Wriggle Nightbug: Wriggle Nightbug is a female firefly youkai. She has short teal hair, blue eyes, and insect-like antennae. She wears a white shirt with stylized sleeves, baggy blue shorts, and a black cape with a red lining that mimics wings. She is often portrayed as childish, and her design is notably androgynous. Wriggle is quick to anger, and seems to take it personally when someone offends insects. She is concerned about the decrease in the amount of insects lately, especially due to insecticide. Wriggle is annoyed at the low social status of bugs, and has at one point expressed interest in proving they can be useful to humans to break their status quo, something she and the bugs quickly got tired of. She forgot about it in a matter of days afterwards, stating that insects get rid of old information once it served its job. Wriggle is also "a bit slow in the head", and that Cirno would be a more suitable person to play with for her than people like Reimu and Marisa.

Being an insect herself, she cannot stand the various kinds of countermeasures against them, including cold and insecticide.

Wriggle Nightbug's Abilities:

Manipulation of insects

Wriggle possesses the ability to control insects of all kinds of varieties at will. Among these varieties are fireflies, moths, centipedes, and crickets; and also include deadly, venomous insects such as hornets. She always appears with a large number of bugs in her company, which makes humans find her particularly unpleasant. Hieda no Akyuu writes that she is essentially the leader of insects.

Her spell cards utilize synchronized flickering of firefly swarms and large swarms of bugs - Marisa Kirisame notes that experiencing them essentially amounts to a swarm of insects completely obscuring your field of vision. Akyuu notes that her ability is frightening because, while insects by themselves don't have much power, in swarms they are difficult to deal with - particularly for insects such as hornets that can kill a human with one sting. An especially dangerous kind of bug Wriggle can control are harvest mites - bugs invisible to the naked eye that can cause a deadly fever with their bites, with no effective treatment - which she summons a swarm of when she's particularly upset and serious.

However, while this ability makes her a fearsome opponent for most humans, since the insects she controls still have their typical weaknesses, such as cold, fire, fumigation and insecticide, one can greatly weaken her capabilities by exploiting one or more of these weaknesses. In addition, Wriggle herself is almost harmless, and confronting her while she is alone, such as during the winter, would lead to an easy victory.

Occupation At one point, Wriggle was in charge of the "Insect Notification Service", in order to improve the social standing of insects. It worked by sending a large swarm of insects to a person to make announcements, given a time and date, and was particularly useful in functioning as a morning alarm, as a recipient notes that they "broke out in a cold sweat and woke up right away". However, during the span of time between Aya Shameimaru's article and her interview, she stopped, and forgot all about it.

Species Wriggle is a firefly that has matured into a beast youkai after living a long life - this is easier for insects such as fireflies and butterflies because they are popular with humans, so they can avoid being exterminated by humans. Long ago, the prestige of bug youkai were equal to mighty youkai such as the oni and tengu, and many could defeat youkai with a single sting. Wriggle herself does not know this. However, bug youkai have since fallen from grace, and Aya Shameimaru notes that Wriggle is not much more powerful than a regular insect.

Tewi Inaba: Tewi Inaba is a short, youthful-looking youkai rabbit with shoulder-length black hair, dark red eyes, and prominent fluffy white rabbit ears. She typically wears a frilly pink-and-white nightgown/dress and is characterized by her mischievous, playful demeanor. 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. Despite her childish appearance, she is one of the oldest Youkai in Gensokyo who has lived for more than 1,000 years before the first Gensokyo Chronicle was written (if she really was the White Rabbit of Inaba, she would have existed since the early of 8th century) and is very wise and cunning. 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 is a very lighthearted and playful youkai, and is known to lie at times. In Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she even tries to swindle Aya Shameimaru out of some pocket change.

Tewi Inaba's Abilities:

Conferring good luck to humans

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.

Occupation She is also considered to be the leader of all the earth rabbits in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. 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. 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.

Fujiwara no Mokou: Fujiwara no Mokou is a young, tomboyish-looking immortal human with ankle-length white/ivory hair and red eyes. She wears a distinctive, masculine outfit consisting of a white or light-brown button-up shirt, dark red sashinuki hakama (pants), and suspenders, often covered in paper charms. 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, and the text of Imperishable Night even emphasizes this with the line "and she is alive to enjoy it, how magnificent!"

Fujiwara no Mokou's Abilities:

Neither aging nor dying

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.

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

According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, in her 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.

Occupation 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), she also protects other humans from the forest's youkai.

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.

Koakuma: Koakuma is a library assistant in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She has red hair, red eyes, a black dress with white sleeves, and two pairs of black, bat-like wings—one on her back and a smaller pair on her head. She has a capricious, mischievous personality and doesn't think of consequences, similar in many ways to Daiyousei.

Occupation

Koakuma lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and has been seen helping out Patchouli Knowledge in the mansion's library on multiple occasions.

Species Koakuma was originally described as a devil - they are stated to be a powerful race on par with vampires and magicians, with Koakuma as one of the weakest among them, hence the name "little devil". However, this would be called into question over two decades later in Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine where she's only referred to as a devil as a nickname, and is instead a being of magic, similar to a magician like Patchouli.

Eiki Shiki: Eiki Shiki is a Yama (judge of the dead) with long green hair, blue eyes, and a distinctive blue and white hat with a gold crest. She wears a dark blue, sleeveless robe over a white shirt, a black skirt, and carries the Rod of Remorse. 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. 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.

Eiki Shiki's Abilities:

Establishing as clear good and evil (black and white)

This is as literally stated. With this power, in order to hand down judgements, 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.

Occupation

Eiki is a yama who belongs to the Ministry of Right and Wrong located at Hell. Although there are many yamas, Eiki is the one in charge of Gensokyo. 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 all the way across without being tired out from the journey or being extinguished by Komachi. 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 judgements.

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 in Oriental Sacred Place, she was originally a jizou statue, who received enough faith to gain divine powers, and was promoted.

Possessions

Rod of Remorse

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, 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.

Cleansed Crystal Mirror

This is also an item meant for Yama to perform judgement. When a sinner is presented to 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 official artwork, she does not carry it as often as her rod. 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.

It can even turn these deeds against the person in question, as shown in Shoot the Bullet when Eiki uses the spell card Judgement "Cleansed Crystal Judgement -Aya Shameimaru-" to pit Aya against herself. The "-Aya Shameimaru-" subscript in the card's name suggests that she can create other versions of this card for use against other characters.

Kaguya Houraisan: Kaguya Houraisan is a Lunarian princess and a NEET with a refined, elegant appearance. She has long, straight black hair styled in a traditional hime cut, soft amber or brown eyes, and a fair complexion. She typically wears a pink, long-sleeved shirt decorated with white bows under a long, dark burgundy or red skirt. She is also described as haughty and relatively wild, often sneaking out to visit the human village. She apparently is refined in the art of conversation, but her vocabulary is a bit dated. She also enjoys receiving guests at Eientei, telling stories, and showing off her possessions.

Kaguya Houraisan's Abilities:

Manipulating eternity and the instantaneous

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." In the nineteenth chapter of Silent Sinner in Blue, 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."

Possessions According to a Bunbunmaru News article and the Gensokyo Chronicle, some of Kaguya's possessions were brought from the Moon. These include a flag planted by outsider humans, a flying cart, clothes with magic properties, Lunarian weapons, a lunar rover, and Lunarian books. Kaguya also owns a Lunar Udonge bonsai tree, and she takes care of it every day to relieve boredom.

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Locations of the underground:

Ruins: The Ruins encompass a large, sprawling labrynth. The walls are made of bricks and are primarily purple. The floors are similarly purple, with lighter purple patches that serve as pathways.

There are many puzzles and traps within the Ruins, as well as a surplus of red leaves and green-leaved vines that are strewn throughout the area. Small bodies of water run through the Ruins, and the dark ground is hallmarked by small patches of auburn leaves. Despite the abundance of red leaves in the Ruins, only a single black tree is seen here, which is in front of Toriel's Home.

The Ruins exit can only be opened from the inside. It is stated only a ghost (such as Napstablook) or someone who can burrow (such as Flowey) can freely traverse in and out of the area.

Sublocations of the Ruins:

The beginning of the Ruins: The first room in the Ruins has a bed of golden flowers, which {{user}} will land on. Nearby it is a short hallway, and a large gray Delta Rune arch. After meeting Flowey, the narration becomes available for the bed of golden flowers. If Toriel is spared at the end of the Ruins, she can be found here, tending to the flowerbed.

The second room contains a small sunlit patch of grass, where Flowey is first encountered, along with a purple Delta Rune arch far north.

Entrance: The next room is the proper entrance to the Ruins, where the area's purple brick walls first appear. It contains the "Entrance".Toriel waits for {{user}} until they near the staircase.

Middle road puzzle: The middle road puzzle is the first puzzle Toriel introduces to {{user}}. She solves it to unlock the Delta Rune door and explain puzzles being common in the area. A plaque is also nearby the door, which provides a hint to the puzzle.

Switch puzzle: Past the door is the switch puzzle room, where Toriel has preemptively labelled the correct switches, and a separate room that has a Dummy. Toriel encourages visitors to converse with the Dummy instead of choosing violence.

Blueprint puzzle: The next area is the blueprint puzzle, which features light-purple markings on the floor, indicating the correct path through the spike tile floor. Toriel waits for {{user}} at the left half of the room if they slow down. Halfway through the room, a stray Froggit begins an encounter, that Toriel swiftly ends by glaring at the Froggit and intimidating it.

Long hallway: Past the spikes is a room that has a long hallway, and a pillar at the far-right end.

Leaf Pile Room: After the Long hallway there is the Leaf Pile room, a room covered with piles of leaves and a nearby Froggit who informs Visitors on how to FIGHT and ACT, and asks them to show MERCY to monsters that do not want to fight anymore. If any monsters are killed in this room, the Froggit disappears.

Monster Candy pedestal: North of the room is a small room with a bowl of Monster Candy atop a pedestal. {{user}} or the Characters can take up to four pieces before it spills onto the floor.

Cracked tile room: Southeast of the leaf pile leads to a room with a 2x6 pattern of cracks in the floor, and two chutes to the side. If someone steps on the cracks, they fall into a small room directly below. In the lower room, only a leaf pile and two chutes are visible. The chutes are on the other side of the cracked floor depending on if it was left or right, with the right chute leading further in the Ruins.

First rock puzzle: The next room features the rock puzzle, which requires soneone to push a single rock onto the pressure plate to lower the spikes.

Leaf puzzle: Past the rock puzzle is the leaf puzzle. It is a large floor covered with cracks, and the room below it depicts the correct path through a pile of leaves. If this path is followed on the upper floor,you can walk on the cracked floor without falling through. Moldsmal which are monsters that resemble Lime-Green jelly can also be encountered here and in the next room.

Second rock puzzle: Nearby is the second rock puzzle, featuring three rocks. The reluctant southernmost rock can be interacted with, and can even talk with the people that interact with it, if they ask the rock to move to the pressure plate they will do so.

Mouse Hole: This minimal room contains a small table with a piece of cheese on top. Checking the table informs that cheese is stuck to the table due to being there so long.

Napstablook's room: The right passage leads to two more passages: one going north and further in the Ruins, and one continuing south. However, Napstablook blocks the narrow pathway by resting. People blocked by Napstablook must choose to move them with force, engaging them in battle. However if you are kind enough Napstablook will just vanish.

Spider Bake Sale: The southern room leads to the Spider Bake Sale, and a nearby sign for the fundraiser. The smaller web exchanges 7 gold for one Spider Donut, and the larger web takes 18 gold and gives one Spider Cider in return.

Froggit hallway: North of Napstablook's napping room is a large room with a sign and many Froggits. It is also the first room where Loox a small shy round creature with hkrns and a singular eye, Migosp a brown cockroach-like monster with a shy expression that twitches and dances occasionally, and Vegetoid a monster that resembles a carrot with a large smile and curved eyes can be encountered.

One switch puzzle: Past the Froggit hallway is the one switch puzzle, a two-floor room with six cracked floor tiles and six chutes. The Faded Ribbon can be found in the bottom left, and some Vegetoids can be found in the lower floor. If the {{user}} was kind to Napstablook, they can also be found in one of the lower rooms.

Rotating switch puzzle: The next room is the rotating puzzle, which consists of the same room rotated four times. Each of these rooms contains three pillars, and three colored switches adjacent to them. Pressing the correct switches based on the room's plaque lowers spikes. Otherwise, the incorrect switch causes the protagonist to fall into a room with only red leaves, causing them to return via the chute.

Crossroads: The following room is a crossroads with green vines and red leaves strewn on the floor. No random encounters occur here. North progresses further into the Ruins.

The eastern path leads to a small room, which houses a single Froggit NPC, and a doorway leading north. The Froggit can explain that it had seen Toriel with groceries.

Home overlook: The nearby north door leads to an overlook of the old capital, Home. The Toy Knife can be found on the left side of the overlook.

Home: Home, referred to as Old Home, is the abandoned old capital for the underground, most of the buildings are grey castle-like structures that completely dark, there is also a town square that has a large stone statue of Toriel. Despite it being abandoned Toriel and Gerson sometimes visit Home, additionally in a house near the Toriel statue is a Toy Knife that lays on a table that Frisk or Chara can use.

Toriel's Home entrance: Going north at the red leaves path at the crossroads leads to Toriel's Home. A large, leafless black tree is near the entrance.

Toriel's Home: Toriel lives in a small house adjacent to the Ruins. She confesses to the protagonist that she had no time to clean up before taking them there, but the cottage is very tidy. Her house consists of a foyer, a hallway, her room, two guest rooms (one of which is currently under renovations), a kitchen, a living room, and the front room with a staircase leading downstairs. Many of the rooms feature large bookshelves, as Toriel herself spends time reading by the fireplace. The hallway and Toriel's bedroom are adorned with various potted plants.

Sublocations or Toriel's Home:

Foyer: This is the entrance of Toriel's home. To the west is the living room, to the east is the hallway, and up north are the stairs to the basement. The room has a drawer with a plant atop it and a calander inside the drawer, and a small bookshelf with worn books.

Living room: The east path of the Foyer leads to the living room, where Toriel can usually be found sitting in a reading chair next to a small, lit warmly fireplace. Nearby is a bookcase, filed down tools, a large dining table with three chairs, and the entrance to the kitchen. If the bookcase is inspected, there is a history book on monsters retreating into the Ruins.

The history book: "Trapped behind the barrier and fearful of further human attacks, we retreated. Far, far into the earth we walked, until we reached the cavern's end. This was our new home, which we named... "Home." As great as our king is, he is pretty lousy at names."

Kitchen: North of the living room contains the kitchen with a fridge with a brand-name chocolate bar inside it, a sink with white fur stuck in the drain, a kitchen island with a cupboard filled with cookie cutters and butterscotch pie on top, hanging pans and kitchen mittens, and an oven with a clean stovetop.

Hallway: To the right of the entrance of Toriel's Home, there is a short hallway containing the doorways to the guest room and Toriel's room. It also contains a variety of plants, including two that the protagonist does not know the name of. At the end of the hall is an inaccessible room "under renovations", as well as a drawer with flower seeds and broken crayons. Next to the door is a mirror. After reading the encyclopedia in Toriel's room, the two vases with plants are described as "water sausages".

Guest room: The guest room is a children's bedroom, including a picture of a five-petaled flower, toys, a shelf with a dusty, empty photo frame, and a box of kids' shoes in various sizes. Turning off the lamp in the top left corner darkens the room.

If a visitor of Toriel wakes up with the lights in the room switched off, and if it is the first time they sleep there, Toriel leaves a slice of Butterscotch Pie on the floor nearby and being tucked in bed. This room also originally belonged to Asriel.

Toriel's room: Toriel's room is simple, and primarily contains an assortment of plants, including some cacti and potted golden flowers. It has a table with her diary, an old bucket full of snails, a rather large bed, a bookcase, and a drawer full of her socks beside it.

Inspecting Toriel's diary reveals that she has written various puns in it. One of the books in the bookcase is an encyclopedia of subterranean plants, which when read, reveals the "typha" plants in the hallway to be revealed as a "water sausage". The bigger, potted cactus with flowers is described as "tsundere".

Basement: The basement is accessed via the stairs in the foyer. It is a series of long hallways leading up to a door that leads to the Runs exit and leads into Snowdin.

Snowdin: Snowdin shares many characteristics of a taiga biome. It is a heavily forested region that is perpetually blanketed in snow and ice. Coniferous trees form natural borders around each area, and dark patches of snow serve as pathways. Much of Snowdin sits on a raised cliff face, from which a large stretch of trees can be seem below.

The Snowdin region includes a large river that flows east. Ice Wolf uses this river to transport ice to the CORE.

Sublocations of Snowdin:

Ruins Exit: Once someone exits the Ruins they end up in a heavily forested area with a single path leading east. The Delta Rune door behind them is closed and locked, preventing them from re-entering the Ruins. A stray bush is situated near the door, and interacting with it reveals that it contains one of Alphys's cameras.

Sans walkway: The eastern path is linear, though trees freckle the foreground, allowing Sans to appear as a silhouette as he follows whoever walks through the walkway. A heavy branch also appears on the main path and, as people passes by it, the branch splinters.

At the bridge, Sans introduces himself with a prank, offering a handshake with a whoopee cushion in his hand, He informs that his brother constructed the wooden bridge, and tells whoever he encountered to hide behind a conveniently-shaped lamp that matches their body perfectly, Papyrus appears and the brothers banter until Papyrus leaves to prepare his puzzles.

Afterwards, the if {{user}} inspects Sans's sentry station and interact with Sans. They can also check the tree behind the station and find another one of Alphys's cameras.

Box Road: The next room is the Box Road intersection, which is split into two paths: north and east. Encounters begin to occur here, with Snowdrake a bird-like draconic monster with a light blue body, white snowflake face, and yellow highlights, who also likes telling really bad puns related around Ice and the Winter. Ice Cap a snowman-like monster with a large icicle for a hat also has a chance of appearing.

River: The north exit of the Box Road connects to the river, with a fishing rod situated near the river bank. When interacting with it, the protagonist reels in the line to reveal a note attached. Additionally sometimes you can encounter the River Person who can offer to ride visitors to other areas, and may reveal info about the formal Royal Scientist W.D Gaster.

Papyrus's sentry station: When taking the eastern exit of the Box Road, they enter a long walkway with Papyrus's cardboard sentry station at the end. When initially entering the room, Papyrus and Sans stand in the middle of the walkway and converse. If there is a human nearby Papyrus and Sans will notice them, Papyrus immediately declaring himself as "THE GREAT PAPYRUS" incredibly excited and enthusiastic to capture them and promising to give them the most challenging puzzles yet before quickly running off to formulate plans.

Doggo's sentry station: The next area after the Papyrus sentry station is smaller, and contains Doggo's sentry station. The station is preceded by a sign near the entrance that warns the reader not to move. When passing in front of the sentry station, Doggo who is a tall dog-like monster who has two blue swords and loves smoking dog treats appears and initiates a battle. Doggo's encounter introduces blue attacks, attacks have no effect on someone if they stand still.

Ice field: Past Doggo's station is an intersection with a large patch of ice the with a sign at the center of the ice. The sign describes that ice is in all directions and that Snowdin Town is to the east, additionally sometimes Lesser Dog can appear playing in the snow and ice.

Snowman: North of the ice field leads to the Snowman, who asks visitors to take a piece of himself to take with them on their travels. So they can fulfill their wish and see the entirety of the Underground.

Invisible Electricity Maze: To the east of the ice field leads to a square room with a darkened patch of snow. The Invisible Electricity Maze, hosted by Sans and Papyrus, occurs here. A large invisible maze with electric walls that will shock anybody who collides with it, though the puzzle is quite easy since right after he explains the puzzle Papyrus never covered his footsteps that reveal the exact path of the maze. After the puzzle, Sans stays behind and can speak to the protagonist about Papyrus's outfit, and how he hand crafted it himself and showed it to the Royal Guard to try and convince them that he can join.

Ball Game: The next area is a larger room with a large patch of snow. This patch serves as the Ball Game, and has a snowball situated at the top. At the bottom is a hole, that the snowball must be pushed into before it melts.

The Nice Cream guy a humanoid, friendly blue bunny-like monster sets up his Nice Cream cart near the entrance. A lump of snow to the left of the game contains one of Alphys's cameras.

Sans stands near the northeastern exit. Interacting with him causes him to try to sell fried snow for GOLD, though he gradually raises the price.

Dogi's sentry station: The northeastern exit of the Ball Game room leads to the sentry stations of the Dogi, and also includes a sign that explains "smell danger ratings".

Word search: The southeastern exit of the large room leads to another encounter with Sans and Papyrus. A word search lies on the ground, provided by Sans. After Papyrus leaves, Sans stays behind and can speak to the protagonist about Papryus and his loves for puzzles.

Spaghetti: East of the word search is the Spaghetti room, a large table with frozen spaghetti that is stuck to the table it is on, and an unpluged microwave. The microwave and spaghetti are on separate tables. A wall to the north has a mouse hole and, atop this ledge, there appears to be frozen flowers.

Snow puzzle: The east exit of the Spaghetti room leads to a large room whose exit is blocked by spikes. A sign is situated near the entrance, warning the reader of a "dog marriage", and the tree next to it hides one of Alphys's cameras.

At the bottom left of the room, there is a map covered in snow. The switch to retract the spikes is located between two coniferous trees in the upper right of the room. After passing the retracted spikes, the person encounters the Dogi two dogs one male named Dogamy and one female named Dogessa in knights armor that will initiate a battle though they don't really work together due to them constantly bickering with one another.

XOXO puzzles: Once the Dogi are defeated, the protagonist can leave the large room through the south exit and complete the first XOXO puzzle. Where they need to step onto switches shaped like the letter "X" to turn them into an "O" before pressing the button nearby to complete the puzzle Once completed, spikes near the east exit of the room retract, and Papyrus questions the person about the state of his spaghetti trap.

The second XOXO puzzle: After leaving through the east exit, there is asecond XOXO puzzle that Papyrus supervises because he modified the puzzle while he was waiting. Again, spikes prevent the protagonist from leaving the room through the east exit until they complete the puzzle.

Multicolor Tile Puzzle: The next room hosts the first instance of the Multicolor Tile Puzzle, which has a console that resembles Mettaton. Both Sans and Papyrus look on as the machine creates a simple "puzzle" which is just a straight line and nothing else. Papyrus spins out of the room without saying a word. Sans stays behind and can speak to the protagonist about Papyrus's cooking and how passionate he is about his cooking and even if it's not that good, he still tries it to make his brother happy.

Dog House: Leaving the Tile Puzzle room through the east exit leads to the Dog House room, which contains Lesser Dog's sentry station and snow sculptures of Lesser Dog with varying degrees of detail. One of Alphys's cameras is situated behind Lesser Dog's sentry station.

Ice XOXO puzzle: The east exit of this room leads to the third and final XOXO puzzle, which the visitor has to slide on ice to solve, south of the room contains a heavily muscular snow sculpture of Papyrus and a lump of snow with Sans's name written on it in marker. The north exit of this room leads back to the XOXO puzzle.

A bridge that leads to the east exit of the room forms after the puzzle is completed, and they can slide through a tunnel of coniferous trees to get to the next area. Upon passing through the trees, four snow sculptures can form on the persons head: a house, a bird, a hat or a dog, though these sculptures crumble away as soon as the person stops sliding.

Southern offshoot: Directly south of the bridge is an area where the protagonist encounters Gyftrot a reindeer-like monster with a vertical jaw, sharp teeth, and presents stuck on it's antlers that it wants removed. Jerry a small monster resembling a flying saucer. With wide body, black spots, three dull spikes on top of his head, very long and thin arms, four thin legs, and two small rectangular eyes, and a small smile can also be encountered here, and hidden in the room is a Mysterious Door.

Mysterious door: Within the small room that contains the mysterious door, two lantern mushrooms can be turned on and off with no consequence. Within this small room, the protagonist can encounter, Glyde a flying whale-like monster with a large smile that flies around.

Overlook of Snowdin Forest: Past the Southern Offshoot there is a tiny house seen beyond the cliff along with a majestic view of the large forest surrounding Snowdin.

Greater Dog's sentry station: After exiting east of the Ice XOXO puzzle they encounter a room full of snow poffs. This room also contains the small doghouse of Greater Dog. Near the east exit, Greater Dog pops out a small snow poff before initiating a battle.

Long bridge: After defeating or playing with Greater Dog, they approach the last puzzle, The Gauntlet of Deadly Terror. A collection of Spikes, Flames, Cannons, Ropes, and even a rope holding the Annoying Dog, Papyrus threatens to activate the Gauntlet but ultimately decides not to. Two of Alphys's cameras are situated at both ends of the bridge After crossing over the long bridge, they enter Snowdin Town.

Snowdin Town: Much like the greater Snowdin region, Snowdin Town is covered in a perpetual layer of ice and snow. Because of how cold it is, it mainly homes monsters with thick fur or monsters that do not get cold.

Sublocations of Snowdin Town:

Main area: The main area is long and linear. It contains most of the town's facilities and monsters. The town hosts a connected tunnel system known as the "undersnow tunnels", which allows to quickly travel to the other side of town.

Near the entrance to the town is a sign that reads "Welcome to Snowdin Town". Next to the sign is a pair of connected buildings, with the left housing Snowdin Town's shop and the right housing the Snowed Inn.

Next to the buildings is an undersnow tunnels igloo as well as a house with Rabbit Kid in front. Rabbit Lady and Cinnamon stand below Rabbit Kid. Next to the house, in the middle of the path, is a Christmas tree with presents underneath. A Bear-Like monster is seen tending to the tree and explains that the tree is based on a tradition that arose after teens dressed Gyftrot with decorations.

Next to the tree is Grillby's, with Politics Bear standing in front. To the right of the Grillby's building is the Wrap Mouse and Red Demon. At the center of the town is a pathway to the north. One of Alphys's cameras can be found in the trees south of this pathway.

The Snowdin library is situated east of the northern pathway, next to which is Papyrus and Sans's house. In between the house and the garage to the east is the connecting undersnow tunnels igloo.

Snowdin shop: The Snowdin Shop is the first building people encounter after entering Snowdin Town, It has a smaller building that connects it to the Snowed Inn. It is the first vendor found in the Underground.

QC a tall Purple Rabbit-Like monster runs the shop, and people can ask her what there is to do in Snowdin and about the history of the town. She is positive about the underground's future. The rabbit who runs the Snowed Inn is her sister. She can also explain info about people in the town specifically Sans and Papyrus, as well as the weird hooded guy that rides a raft through the rivers occasionally.

Snowed Inn: The Snowed Inn is a building in which the people can sleep in. Even though the room price is 80G, If someone does not have 80G when they initially try to rent a room, the innkeeper allows them to stay for free on all subsequent visits. Alternatively, the innkeeper charges full price for all visits if the visitor paid 80G for their first stay.

After someone rents a room, they head upstairs and lie in bed for a few moments. Three white monsters snore a song in the adjacent room.

Snowdin library: The Snowdin Library, misspelled as "LIBRARBY" on the sign, is a building near the middle of Snowdin. Around a table, Scarf Lady, Lady Garf, and a Loox are present. One editor discusses how they make content even though there is never much to report on while the other talks about their history with word searches. The Loox looks at the protagonist and sees which game troubles them the most.

Grillby's: Grillby's is an area resembling a bar hosted by Grillby, a monster who wears a tuxedo, glasses, with a head and body completely made from fire, he is also quite good friends with Sans occasionally talking with him when he visits. Some monsters hang out at Grillby's, including Lesser Dog, playing poker against itself, the Dogi, Greater Dog, Grillby, and a few other regulars. Sans also frequently hangs out at Grillby's and even performs stand-up comedy at times.

Papyrus and Sans's house: Sans and Papyrus' house is a large brown wooden house decorated with Christmas decorations, there are also two mailboxes one of which is Sans which is completely full with mail, and the others is Papyrus which is completely empty.

The kitchen: The first floor of Sans and Papyrus' house contains a living room and a kitchen.

The living room features a television that is always set to one of Mettaton's shows when turned on. The living room also hosts Sans's pet rock, which is covered in sprinkles, and one of Sans's dirty socks with a series of sticky notes attached to it. These sticky notes depict Papyrus nagging Sans to pick it up. The living room also contains an old couch, and a joke book made by Sans that contains a quantum physics book which contains another joke book containing another quantum physics book.

The kitchen contains a stove with an empty pie tin in it, a trash can, a tall sink, and a fridge that has containers labeled "spaghetti" on one side and an empty bag of chips on the other.

Dog Shrine: Hidden in the sink of the kitchen is a now destroyed Japanese-style. Behind the shrine is a red and blue colored door. It is sealed with a lock though due to it's poor condition the lock can easily come off, entering the door is a door that contains Mad Mew Mew.

Second floor: The second floor of the house contains a framed painting of a cartoon bone and doors leading to Papyrus's room and Sans's room. The door to Papyrus's room is plastered with labels reading (NO GIRLS ALLOWED!), (NO BOYS ALLOWED!), and (PAPYRUS ALLOWED.). The door to Sans's room has multicolored flames under it which do not hurt if stepped on.

Papyrus's room: Papyrus's room contains a racecar bed, action figures, pirate flag, a bookshelf with complex tomes about puzzle creation and children's books, a computer opened up to a social media website, a box of bones, and a closet with clothes neatly hung up inside.

Sans's room: Sans's room is messy, containing a self-sustaining tornado of trash, an unused treadmill with a note that reads "the truth is that you got owned, nerd....." It also contains a dirty sock pile, a worn mattress with sheets bundled up in a weird creasy ball, an uncovered pillow, a "thank you" letter addressed to Santa, a lamp with a flashlight that is out of batteries stuck in the bulb socket, and a drawer with a Silver Key, clothes, and trombones inside of it. Rarely, the Annoying Dog appears in the self-sustaining tornado of trash.

Papyrus's toolshed: Papyrus's toolshed, also known as the capture zone, the doghouse, the guest room, the coolshed, or Papyrus and Sans's garage, is a small shed located to the right of Papyrus and Sans's house. If someone loses against Papyrus he brings them to his toolshed to "capture" them, though it isn't really that good for capturing anyone due to the bars being wide enough that someone can just walk through them.

Inside the toolshed. There are large bars and notes regarding the protagonist's capture. The shed contains a bowl of dry food, a squeaky chew toy, and a bed that is too small to sleep on. There is a note that reads "SORRY, I HAVE TO LOCK YOU IN THE GUEST ROOM UNTIL UNDYNE ARRIVES. FEEL FREE TO MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME!!! REFRESHMENTS AND ACCOMMODATIONS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED. -NYEHFULLY YOURS, PAPYRUS." The bars of the shed are built too far apart, just like the ones on the bridge in Snowdin, so someone can easily escape from it.

Sans's workshop: Sans's workshop is located in the house's basement. It can be found behind the house and can only be opened with the Silver Key found in Sans's room.

At the bottom-right corner of the room, there is a strange, covered-up machine that seems to be broken. The workshop has four drawers, but the rightmost two are locked, there is also blueprints on the table, The blueprints are described as being of a machine and written in unreadable symbols (which may be the Wingdings associated with W.D. Gaster, or Alphys's handwriting).

The second drawer from the left contains a badge. The first drawer's contains a photo album with photos of a happy Sans along with many other people the protagonist does not recognize as well as a poorly drawn picture of three smiling people with the words "don't forget" written in lowercase.

Ice Wolf and the north of town: The north exit of the main part of Snowdin Town leads to a long horizontal area. On the right side of the room, the Ice Wolf throws ice into the east-flowing river; this ice eventually travels to the CORE.

On the left side of this room, a few NPCs are playing "Monsters and Humans" in front of their house while their father looks on.

The northern pathway in this area, is a small dockside that connects to the water. This is the place where the River Person picks up people and drops them off in Snowdin Town and is the most common area to find the River Person.

Foggy Walkway: East of the area is a foggy walkway on which the protagonist battles Papyrus. After the battle, they can continue to Waterfall.

Waterfall: Waterfall is a damp, cavernous region that sees constant rainfall. Many bodies of water flow throughout the region, and, true to its name, the region is characterized by its numerous waterfalls flowing from the ceiling and from the lakes and rivers. The color of this water ranges from white to various shades of blue.

Pink and blue gemstones are embedded in Waterfall's indigo floors and walls. Sometimes, gemstones can be seen in the ceiling and act as stars in the night sky.[5] Waterfall's pathways are often winding and contain many branches.

Many different forms of plant-life grow in Waterfall, including the numerous Echo Flowers scattered throughout the region and seagrass that obscures the protagonist as they walk in. Additionally, bright blue mushrooms appear in some areas, which light up when touched.

Ancient glyphs adorn the walls throughout Waterfall. These glyphs detail the war that resulted in monsters being sealed underground as well as a prophecy surrounding the Delta Rune.

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Entrance: The initial walkway in Waterfall is short and linear, with waterfalls scattered throughout the foreground. The river just above the walkway eventually veers upwards and off-screen.

Waterfall Checkpoint: In the Waterfall Checkpoint. A small waterfall flows through this room, and an Echo Flower and Sans's sentry station are against the north wall. Snow covers Sans's sentry station and his station blocks access to a wooden door. From this room.

Waterfall Rock puzzle: After progressing right, visitors encounter a puzzle that involves dodging rocks that are going down the waterfall as well as a Box. If a rock pushes someone over the edge of the waterfall, they land on a wooden bridge that has an Echo Flower on the rightmost end. One of Alphys's cameras is situated behind this waterfall. Backtracking to the left allows people to retry the puzzle or access the hidden room behind the waterfall. The Old Tutu resides in this hidden room.

The Hallway: Exiting the waterfall rock puzzle leads to the Hallway, a room with a patch of tall grass this is also where people first encounter Undyne looming over a shadowy cliffside clad in her royal guard Armor, scouting the area, if she spots anyone abnormal she will go on the offensive.

A few pink gems and blue gems are in this room, along with three stalagmites near Undyne. Monster Kid is also hiding in the tall grass amazed at seeing Undyne and likes to walk with visitors and help them navigate Waterfall

Bridge Seed puzzles: Progressing right, visitors encounter the Bridge Seed puzzles. The first room serves as a tutorial of Bridge Seed mechanics, and the protagonist crosses the waterfall in the room after lining up four Bridge Seeds on a body of water. Using the right exit of the room, there is a larger room with another Bridge Seed puzzle within it.

After taking a few steps forward, visitors encounter Aaron a brown, muscular merhorse-like monster with a twelve-pack and a long, winding green tail, who loves to flex and show off their monsters, though if they flex too hard they usually fly away unexpectedly.

Along with four Bridge Seeds, this room contains four glowing mushrooms, a sign in the middle of a waterlogged area, a Bell Blossom that retrieves the seeds, and a sign describing the Bell Blossom. The sign in the bottom left of this room reads "Congratulations! You failed the puzzle!"

Wishing Room: The next room is the Wishing Room, which contains many Echo Flowers and blue, glowing gems on the ceiling. As visitors progress right, a telescope pointed at the ceiling offers a clue to check the northern wall to find the exit of the room.

Raft dock: The northern exit leads to a room with a wooden bridge and dark water in which many Water Sausages grow. On the north wall are many ancient glyphs. At the end of the wooden dock, once someone steps on a small raft it drifts to the right.

Boardwalks: The raft eventually stops at the boardwalks, surrounded by black water before being suddenly ambushed by Undyne, having to flee from Undyne's spears along a wooden dock surrounded by black water. Undyne stands to the north of the person she ambushes and directly behind a row of rock pillars. Though Undyne eventually loses track of the person she ambushes when they hide in tall grass.

Crystal: After leaving the Boardwalks through the right exit, visitors reach the "Crystal" area. In this area has an Echo Flower, a mouse hole, and a piece of cheese. The Echo Flower, which is to the right of the mouse hole, lets out the squeak of a mouse.

Fake hallway: There is a very small chance that the next room is a horizontal hallway, with a light grey door, entering into the door reveals a small room surrounded by an inky black void and grey floor, in the middle of the room stands W.D Gaster.

Telescope area: Continuing right, visitors see Sans standing next to a telescope. Sans attempts to prank the passerby with the red-eye telescope that puts a red dot over their eye if they try to look into the telescope. Exiting through the wooden door on the north wall of this room leads to another small room with the Nice Cream guy in it.

Onionsan: Continuing foward, visitors enter a long, horizontal room with a narrow black path leading to the right. As they progress down this path, Onionsan a large octopus-like monster who also resembles an onion appears and talks with them engaging in friendly conversation.

Shyren area: leaving through the right exit visitors encounter Shyren a floating, fish-like monster from with light green scales/skin, a slug body and light blue hair who is incredibly shy about their looks. Shyren's area has two small, white waterfalls that flow from the top to the bottom of the screen and always stay in the foreground. A pool of water is situated at the center of the room.

Piano puzzle: To the north of Shyren's room, people encounter a piano that reveals a hidden door if someone plays the melody that echoes through the area, which reveals an artifact room. The artifact room itself contains a red orb on a pedestal and glyphs that cannot be read because the protagonist cannot stand directly in front of them.

Rain rooms: Exiting the piano puzzle through the right exit leads visitors to an area with a white waterfall in the foreground, a bucket of umbrellas, and a sign encouraging them to take an umbrella. Progressing right, they walk through a waterlogged room that has many waterfalls and reflective pools within it. Monster Kid walks alongside visitors for the duration of this room.

New Home view: After the duo reaches the end of the rain rooms, they enter a cliffside with New Home off in the distance.

Bridge: After exiting the New Home view to the right, another wooden bridge similar to that of the Boardwalls where Undyne ambushes them again. After reaching a dead end of the bridge, Undyne slices the bridge in two making visitors fall down into the depths below.

Garbage dump landing: They wake up on a bed of golden flowers, finding themselves in the garbage dump. Most of the garbage dump is flooded, and visitors walk with their legs below the water. The initial area is very large and spacious. The waterfall that flows into this room spans across the entire northern wall, and there are two piles of garbage along the southern wall.

Trash Zone: East of the landing area is the Trash Zone, which is a smaller room with a waterfall that flows into the room and a waterfall that flows into the abyss below. This is also the area where Undyne first met Alphys.

Trash walkway: East of the Trash Zone is a vertical room that veers upwards. More piles of garbage litter the walkway as well as a cooler with two packs of Astronaut Food. Mad Dummy is situated at the end of the walkway, and the protagonist is given the option to beat it up when inspected. Mad Dummy wakes up and engages visitors in battle which is interrupted by Napstablook. Napstablook then invites the protagonist to their house.

The Quiet Area: Napstablook leads people to the Quiet Area, which is a rectangular room with a pond in the center. A sign is situated near the northeastern exit, indicating the directions of the nearby rooms. To the west of the Quiet Area a small yellow bird that can carry people over a disproportionately small gap to the earlier areas of Waterfall.

Blook Acres: The left path leads to Undyne's house, the middle path leads to Napstablook's house, and the right path leads to the snail farm. Mettaton's house lies next door to Napstablook's house, and it can eventually be unlocked by using the Mystery Key.

Gerson shop entrance: To the east lies a crossroads with Gerson's shop to the north where people encounter Gerson and a southern path that leads to a room where the River Person is present once the protagonist reaches Hotland.

Twin waterfalls: Continuing east leads to a horizontal room with two bodies of water that the protagonist sinks their legs under. This is the first room where Temmie and Moldbygg a five-tiered gelatinous monster that disguises itself as a Moldsmal can be encountered. There are Echo Flowers in this area, but they are inaccessible.

Mushroom maze: Continuing forward, there is a maze of paths that light up when someone touches a blue glowing mushrooms. There is a southern path that is hidden from view that leads to Temmie Village but lights up once someone leaves the village or all four mushrooms are lit.

Temmie Village: Temmie Village is a hidden settlement inhabited by Temmies. It houses a bunch of temmies, a small hole in the wall where they live and the Tem Shop, to which the visitors can sell their items.

Crystal maze: East of the mushroom maze is another maze, but this time, there are darkening lanterns that must be turned back on to temporarily light the way forward. In place of the light, purple crystals are scattered throughout the room and emit light, but they ultimately do not provide any usable light.

Dead end: After solving the two puzzles, visitors enter a horizontal area that gets progressively darker as they continue forward. Interacting with the Echo Flower at the end of the room causes the room to light up only for Undyne to appear and slowly approach in order to take the intruders life, however Monster Kid appears from the tall grass and jumps in the way, Undyne still in her Royal Guard armor ultimately backs off, not wanting to accidentally hurt Monster Kid but dragging him away back to Snowdin.

Echo Flower path: After Undyne drags Monster Kid away, a path that was previously hidden from view lights up, allowing visitors to continue north into a vertical room with a few Echo Flowers along the path. There is an ancient glyph at the end of this room that mentions a prophecy of an Angel returning from the surface and causing the underground to go empty.

Reaching the end of the room and backtracking without leaving the room allows for Flowey to be seen going back into the ground next to an Echo Flower. If the protagonist then interacts with the Echo Flower, Flowey can be heard disguising himself with Toriel's voice.

Chasm: Progressing to the right leads to the next area that contains a bridge spanning across an expansive chasm. Monster Kid confronts the visitors and talks to them about how They aren't allowed here and should leave, initiating a battle. If someone were to try and kill Monster Kid, Undyne would jump in the way at the last second taking the hit and telling Monster Kid to run before she becomes Undyne the Undying and initiates combat with the person who tried to kill Monster Kid.

However if the person chooses to spare Monster Kid, they accept and wish them the best and say goodbye. However, once they start to leave, they trip off the bridge and hang onto the ledge below just as Undyne enters the room. Having the option to either Save Monster Kid from falling, confront Undyne, or let him fall by leaving.

Undyne Arena: In the "Undyne Arena", Undyne stands atop a tall crag and speaks to the protagonist, with her dialogue changing based on if they killed monsters or if they killed Papyrus. She eventually allows the person to prepare themselves however they want, initiating the battle once they step forward.

River: Going under the crag that Undyne originally stood on leads to a vertical room that acts as a bridge over a river. The ice thrown by Ice Wolf flows along this river.

Neon sign: The next room is a horizontal room with a neon sign saying "WELCOME TO HOTLAND!" with the letters scrolling across the sign. Which leads into Hotland.

Hotland: Hotland is an arid region covered in reddish-orange dirt rising above the lava below. Many of the puzzles in the area involve platforms, adding to the hot atmosphere, as well as foreshadowing the technology found in the CORE.

Hotland appears to be a very industrial area of the underground. Aside from being home to the CORE and Alphys's lab, Hotland also contains many steam vents, conveyor belts, lasers, elevators, and doors opened by solving puzzles. In some rooms, gears and cogs can be seen on the walls.

Hotland and the CORE are counted as a single region, which means that they share a kill counter.

Sublocations Floor 1 Here, the protagonist enters the Lab for the first time, and is introduced to the River Person. Monsters such as Vulkin, Tsunderplane, and Pyrope are first encountered on this floor, but only after exiting through the right side of the Lab. This area mainly serves to introduce the protagonist to the steam puzzles and conveyor belts that are abundant through Hotland.

Sans's sentry station This room has a sentry station followed by a wooden bridge that continues into room 2. If the protagonist flees from Undyne and Papyrus is spared, Sans is seen sleeping in the sentry station. When Undyne gets to the sentry station, she pauses for a moment, sporting an angry expression, buying the protagonist time to outpace her. If Undyne is killed, Sans does not appear in the sentry station regardless of whether Papyrus was spared or killed.

Water cooler Here, the protagonist can find a small room with a water cooler. When checked, the water cooler gives the protagonist a cup of water. Dumping out the water causes a small puddle to appear next to the water cooler, which gradually gets larger the more water that is spilled into it. Attempting to leave the room with the water causes it to evaporate, and the cup humorously evaporates as well. After leaving the room and going back in quick succession, the water cup gets erased by a mysterious force. If all of the water is poured out of the water cooler, there is a small tree growing in the puddle at the end of the True Pacifist Route.

If the protagonist spares Undyne by running away from her, she collapses when the protagonist reaches this room. If the protagonist splashes water on her, she gets up and walks back to Waterfall. If the protagonist pours out all the water in the water cooler while Undyne is passed out, then checks the now-empty water cooler, the check says "Sadistically, you've poured out all the water right in front of Undyne's eyes."

The second time the protagonist enters this room, the Clam Guy appears. They tell the protagonist that they came to Hotland to get a drink from the water cooler. If approached with a cup of water, they ask if the protagonist plans to look sophisticated by carrying the water around, and then informs them it is not working.

Laboratory Entrance Lab location.png The entrance to the Lab This area is a four-way crossroads that the protagonist enters from the west. The north path is initially blocked by the Royal Guards, who claim to be blocking the way for Undyne. After fighting the protagonist on floor 2, the path becomes unblocked. The south path leads to the River Person, who offers to ferry the protagonist back to Snowdin or Waterfall. The east path leads to the Lab. In the middle of all four paths, a SAVE Point is visible.

On the Genocide Route, instead of the Royal Guards blocking the path to elevator L1, a force field is present. This force field is deactivated once the protagonist reaches elevator R3.

Lab Main article: Lab It's Showtime! soundtrack.png Mettaton's quiz show, as It's Showtime! plays The Lab is a two-floor building, with a hidden elevator on the first floor. It is where the protagonist meets Alphys and Mettaton. The latter subjects the protagonist to a Quiz Show.

Post battle, Mettaton leaves. As the protagonist leaves, Alphys offers to upgrade the protagonist's dated Cell Phone. Once Alphys departs into the "bathroom", the protagonist can explore the entirety of the Lab with the lights on. An Instant Noodles can also be found in Alphys's refrigerator.

After defeating Mettaton EX, the doors to the lab become locked, making the rest of floor 1 inaccessible. On the True Pacifist Route, the Lab can be entered after completing the garbage dump date with Alphys.

Conveyor belts After exiting the right side of the lab, Alphys realizes she did not watch the protagonist's encounter versus Undyne.[6] The protagonist's phone gets frequent updates of Alphys's UnderNet statuses as they navigate the region.

Another Medium soundtrack.png The first set of conveyor belts Going up takes the protagonist to a long, vertical room consisting of two sets of conveyor belts going forward and backward. The first set is straight, but the next set contains several bends and curves. Shots of flame burst from nearby pipes, adding to the scenery. In between the two sets, a Vulkin NPC appears after receiving Undyne's Letter.

Magma Chamber At the end, a SAVE Point can be found at the Magma Chamber, which is the first set of steam vents. It consists of several small islands, most with steam vents, and is surrounded by lava.

Stepping on these vents causes it to emit a large steam that pushes the protagonist towards the depicted arrow's direction. On the branching isle, the protagonist can choose to take the west vent to progress, or east to go south and to the Burnt Pan room. Progressing towards the north path causes Alphys to express her anxiety on UnderNet, and she eventually calls the protagonist.

Conveyor belt offshoot Upon taking the southern path, the room has a steam vent that rapidly changes from left to right. Next to it are two islands with conveyor belts. The left island contains the Burnt Pan, while the right island contains nothing. The protagonist must get on the steam vent immediately after it switches to the left to get the pan.

Regardless of what island the protagonist lands on, conveyor belts on each side of the island take the protagonist back to the steam vent.

After receiving Undyne's Letter, A Pyrope NPC appears on the right island.

Laser walkway Upon entering the north path past the steam vents, the protagonist comes to another path that veers to the right. Soon after stepping into the room, Alphys calls the protagonist, and informs them of the orange and blue lasers nearby. She reports that they must be moving to avoid being hit by the orange lasers, and stay still to get past the blue lasers (similar to the orange and blue attacks). Afterward, she hangs up. In the path, several rows of orange and blue lasers, which the protagonist must evade to make it safely through the path. At the end of the laser field, the path veers upward into the next room.

Puzzle hub Hotland location shooting puzzle 1 right.png The right shooting puzzle In this room, the protagonist comes across the reactivated door puzzle. On the left and right, the protagonist must solve two puzzles to move forward. To reach these puzzles, the protagonist must step on a steam vent that rotates clockwise between the north, south, east, and west. Upon entering the room, Alphys informs the protagonist that the right path is easier, and they should try that puzzle first.

Right puzzle On the right path, Business Dude and Fire Coffee are found sitting on the ground.

Business Dude tells the protagonist that they managed to catch Mettaton's show on their phone, and remarks about how realistic the human looked. Fire Coffee talks about the size of Mettaton's fan club. Inside the puzzle room, the disembodied fox head explains that their co-workers refuse to help them solve the puzzle, and questions if they even want to go to work today. After completing the puzzle, they remark surprise when checked, and conclude that the protagonist must be a "total nerd" to solve the puzzle.

Left puzzle Hotland location shooting puzzle 1 left.png The left shooting puzzle The left puzzle is blocked by a blue laser, which impedes the protagonist's progress. Soon after entering the room, Alphys calls the protagonist, and turns off the blue laser, allowing further progress. Like the right puzzle, two NPCs wait outside the door, named Fuku Fire and Skateboard Girl. Fuku Fire exclaims relief about the laser going down, then questions what she will do. After thinking, she decides to continue standing where they are. Skateboard Girl is happy about the laser blocking them from leaving, as it gives them an excuse to skip school, but realizes that it was already summer vacation and expresses displeasure over school.

After solving both puzzles, a door to the north opens, letting the protagonist proceed.

Vent islands After solving the Reactivated Door Puzzle and leaving room 6 through the now-open doorway, the protagonist is greeted with a small pathway, and a steam vent pointing to the left. In this room, Alphys calls the protagonist again and begins to explain the Reactivated Door Puzzles. Once she realizes that the protagonist has already completed the puzzles, however, she becomes embarrassed and quickly hangs up. On the Genocide Route, the Royal Guards are present and initiate a battle against the protagonist.

Walking on the steam vent projects the protagonist through three other steam vents, which eventually lead the protagonist to a lime-shaded floor with several large dots. The protagonist is unable to turn back once they reach this area.

Mettaton's cooking show Upon going to the right, the protagonist enters Mettaton's cooking show set. The set consists of a wall fragment, against which are a fridge, a countertop, a microwave, and an oven. An artificial window is situated above the countertop, and sugar, milk, and eggs sit on top of the counter. Another countertop sits at the front edge of the set, which consist of a sink and a cutting board. Off to the side to the right is a small countertop, which has a can glued on top.

Here, the protagonist must face Mettaton again in his Cooking Show. Afterward, the protagonist may continue to the right.

Core View Hotland location Core View.png View of the CORE from Hotland The Core View consists of a long walkway with a view of the CORE in the distance. Along the walkway, Alphys calls the protagonist and tells them not to worry. At the end of the passageway, an elevator is visible, which takes the protagonist to Floor 2.

Floor 2 Here, the protagonist must solve more puzzles such as the conveyor belt puzzle and the vent puzzle. At the end of floor 2, the Royal Guards fight the protagonist as mini-bosses. Sans also sells Hot Dogs near the beginning of this floor, provided that Papyrus has not been killed, or he has not yet appeared in the Last Corridor.

On the Genocide Route, this floor is entirely blocked off by force fields. Because of this, the protagonist cannot acquire the Stained Apron or fight So Sorry.

Elevator exit After exiting the elevator, Heats Flamesman and a path leading off to the left are visible. Heats Flamesman tells the protagonist their name when talked to, then asks them to remember it.

Sans's hot dog stand The left path leads to Sans, who is selling Hot Dogs for 30G each. No monsters may be battled in this room. Nearby are two NPCs, both with Hot Dogs of their own. One of them, called Hot Dog Harpy, remarks on the snow atop Sans's Hot Dog stand, then decides he must be too lazy to clean it. The other NPC, a Vulkin with a Hot Dog, exclaims "Toasty Bun!" when talked to. If Papyrus is killed, these NPCs do not appear. Next to the Hot Dog stand, a path leads west, which takes the protagonist to the next section of Hotland.

Walkway Art Club Room location entrance.png The invisible path to the Art Club room This room has three visible passages, along with one secret passage directly north of the southern path. The path east leads the protagonist back to Sans's Hot Dog stand. The south path leads to a room with the Stained Apron, an armor item that slowly heals the protagonist. The west path leads onward to the Conveyor Belt Puzzle.

After receiving Undyne's Letter, A Tsunderplane NPC appears to the left of the invisible path.

Art Club room Main article: Art Club room An invisible path to the north leads to the Art Club room. It can only be seen when the protagonist walks on it. Here, the protagonist may fight So Sorry if the game is launched while the player's clock is set to October 10th, at 8:00 PM (all day on the Nintendo Switch version).

Conveyor belt puzzle Here, the protagonist must solve the Conveyor Belt Puzzle to move forward. Upon entering the room, Alphys calls the protagonist to explain the puzzle to them. Upon completing the puzzle, a path to the left becomes accessible, allowing further progress. Here, the protagonist must solve The Vent Puzzle. Shortly after approaching the puzzle, Alphys yet again calls the protagonist, and tells them that she has to go to the bathroom. Afterward, she does not call the protagonist until after the Royal Guards have been defeated.

Bad Opinion Zone Hotland location Bad Opinion Zone.png SAVE Point in the Bad Opinion Zone After completing the puzzles, the protagonist enters the "Bad Opinion Zone" (likely named due to Alphys's complaints on UnderNet about "Mew Mew Kissy Cutie 2"). Nearby is a SAVE Point, a mouse hole, and a safe atop a small table. Checking the table informs the protagonist that the cheese inside has been melted by the laser safe, causing it to become stuck to the table. On the True Pacifist Route, the dialog of the table changes.[7]

Boys' night out East of the Bad Opinion Zone is a room with a bend that veers to the left. Bordering the pathway are inaccessible island with pipes that constantly shoot steam. Here, the Royal Guards approach the protagonist and warn them of a human in a striped shirt roaming Hotland. After realizing the protagonist is said human, they attack. After the battle, the protagonist travels across the bend and receives more notifications from Alphys.

Mettaton's news report The protagonist comes across another dark room. After traveling a few steps to the right, the lights turn on to reveal a large room split into three connected segments. The protagonist appears on the middle segment, which initially consists of six bombs disguised as various objects. The bottom segment consists of three lasers colored blue, orange, and blue. A conveyor belt to the right leads to a vent, which transports the protagonist to the top segment, which contains a single large bomb.

Here, the protagonist faces Mettaton's news report. Afterward, the protagonist may continue forward to a pathway that veers upward.

CORE view This room consists of a walkway that veers to the left. Another view of the CORE can be seen in the distance. Along this walkway, Alphys calls the protagonist and tells them not to worry about meeting Asgore. The protagonist continues to an elevator leading to floor 3.

Floor 3 This is the last stretch of Hotland before the protagonist reaches the MTT Resort. Here, the protagonist must face another reactivated door puzzle and Mettaton's Multicolor Tile Puzzle. The protagonist must also fight Muffet here.

Spider Bake Sale Spider Bake Sale location Hotland.png Spider Bake Sale in Hotland After leaving the elevator, a path to the east leads the protagonist to Muffet's Spider Bake Sale. Here, the protagonist can buy a Spider Donut and Spider Cider for 9999G each. Besides the bake sale, the scared donut guy lies in this room, holding a Spider Donut. When talked to, he claims he did not want to buy a donut, but Muffet scared him into buying it and spending all of his money.

Puzzle hub Going forward takes the protagonist to the second Reactivated Door Puzzle. After beating this puzzle, a door to the far right opens up, allowing passage.

The room consists of many square islands with directional vents on top. The protagonist must reach the puzzle by navigating the islands using the vents.

Northern puzzle After solving the puzzle directly north, two doamond-headed NPCs, Diamond Boy and Tall Diamond Boy, appear. They talk about their favorite moments on Mettaton's show and provide hints that foreshadow the battle against Mettaton EX.

Southern puzzle The lower door puzzle is blocked by lasers, which the protagonist must dodge. After beating this puzzle, Alphys calls the protagonist, and ask if they want to watch anime with her. Saying yes causes Alphys to talk a great length about her favorite anime, "Mew Mew Kissy Cutie". Saying no simply causes Alphys to hang up. On the way back, a stray cactus can be seen to the north, which the protagonist stops to look at if interacted with despite being on a conveyor belt.[8]

Spider Entrance After beating the Reactivated Door Puzzle, the protagonist reaches the Spider Entrance, which contains a SAVE Point and a doorway to Muffet's Lair. Strands of webs can be seen in the background.

Muffet's lair Muffet's lair consists of spider webs scattered throughout the floor. Walking across the webs slows the protagonist's movement. Spiders hang from the ceiling, retracting when the protagonist gets close. At the center of the room is a large stretch of spider webs, which progressively slows the protagonist's movement until the webs prevent them from moving entirely. when this happens, Muffet engages in battle against the protagonist intent on killing them for being too stingy with their money and not buying anything, but does not attack if they bought at least one of her 9999G items.

Mettaton's musical Oh! One True Love soundtrack.png Mettaton singing in his musical The path out of Muffet's Lair leads to a small stage, where Mettaton begins his musical performance. In this room, the game window on the PC versions of Undertale is renamed to "UNDERTALE the Musical". After the performance, Mettaton drops the protagonist down to the room containing the Multicolor Tile Puzzle. Mettaton fights the protagonist after the puzzle and is defeated using the laser attached to the protagonist's phone.

Crossroads After, the protagonist comes across a small room with a four-way crossroads. Nearby, the Nice Cream guy sells the protagonist Nice Cream for 12G each if the Royal Guards were killed, and is out of stock if they were spared, with all of the Nice Cream having been bought by them.

The south and west paths lead back to the Multicolored Tile Puzzle and "Undertale the Musical", respectively. The east path leads to elevator R3, where Heats Flamesman waits. They ask the protagonist if they remembered their name. Regardless if the protagonist says no or yes, Heats Flamesman becomes shocked, and questions how they could be so easily defeated. The north path leads to the MTT Resort.

MTT Resort Main article: MTT Resort The MTT Resort is a hotel situated at the end of Hotland. At the entrance to the resort, the protagonist can meet up with Sans and buy items from Bratty and Catty. Inside, they can buy items from the MTT-Brand Burger Emporium and sleep at the hotel. The MTT Resort connects directly to the CORE.

The Core:

New Home: