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* [[Leitmotif]]: "A God That Loves People ~ Romantic Fall"

* [[Odd Job Gods]]: She is the goddess of ''dead leaves''.

* [[Physical God]]

* [[Real Is Brown]]: An [[Abstract Apotheosis]] of it, but for leaves.

::'''Hina Kagiyama'''

 

 

==== Tropes associated with Hina: ====

 

* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Despite what Akyuu claims.

* [[Curse]]: Not deliberately, but...

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: She's a yakubyougami - a curse god who would normally spread misfortune and illness - but she absorbs misfortune and curses so they won't affect humans, and in ''Mountain of Faith'' she tries to drive away the protagonists so the youkai above won't harm them. She is said to [[Power Incontinence|leak misfortune]] if you stay too long with her though.

* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: [[Word of God|ZUN said]] the design of her costume is supposed to be in this style.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Road of the Apotropaic God ~ Dark Road" and "The Dark Side of Fate".

* [[Physical God]]

* [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl]]

* [[Signature Move]]: Exteeending Aaarm, both in fanon and in canon. Describing it is pretty much the only part of her ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' profile that talks about her in specific instead of kappa in general.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cucumbers. Partly because Kappa traditionally like cucumbers. And partly due to [[IOSYS]]'s remix of her [[Leitmotif]], which [[Memetic Mutation|led to her being often shown]] with [[wikipedia:File:Pepsi cucumber.jpg|cucumber-flavored Pepsi]] and beer.

* [[Vague Age]]: One of the more extreme cases in fanon. Fan-artists just can't agree on how old she's supposed to appear.

 

* [[Ascended Extra]]

* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Generally, her default appearance in [[Fanon]] has them.

* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: There are some hints that within tengu society the wolf tengu (guardsman corps) don't really get along with the crow tengu (information gathering corps). Or maybe Momiji is just annoyed by Aya personally for whatever reason.

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Averted. The revelation that there is some bad blood between Aya and Momiji has done nothing to slow down the tide of fanart portraying them as a close couple. In fact, it may have only made it even ''[[Up to Eleven|more]]'' popular, since Momiji can now be portrayed as a [[Tsundere]] toward Aya.

* [[Shogi]]: She specifically plays [[wikipedia:Dai shogi|Dai Shogi]] with the kappa according [[All There in the Manual|to her profile]].

* [[Super Senses]]: Like Aya, she has the power to see great distances, but she also possesses an excellent sense of smell. Oddly, no particular mention is made of super-hearing. Rather than use these powers to snoop on people for news, Momiji acts as the captain of Youkai Mountain's patrol guards, with soldiers hiding behind a waterfall. She also spies on the heroine and the goddess of the new shrine when they do battle, without being noticed by either.

* [[Sure Why Not]]: Much like with Daiyousei and Koakuma receiving fan-names, Momiji makes a cameo appearance in one panel of ''Oriental Sacred Place'' Chapter 1, looking exactly the way fanon imagines her, with wolf ears and detached sleeves. The artist for ''SaBND'' and ''OSP'' was a ''Touhou'' fan doing doujinshi long before being recruited for the official project.

* [[Always Someone Better]]: Coming from a world that revered her as a living god, she had quite the confidence in her abilities when she first came to Gensokyo. And then she was quickly humbled by Reimu and Marisa.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: To represent her goddesses, she wears hair accessories shaped like a frog's head and a snake, and in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' depending on which route she takes she can use either frog or snake-shaped bullets.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In her A-scenario in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', she begins her mission of "youkai hunting" with some degree of doubt in her abilities to do so. However, by halfway through the game, she has become particularly enthusiastic about it, something a noticeable number of fans [[Flanderization|have run away with]], with "darker" comics often turning her into a psychotic, hateful genocider. In all seriousness, this might be a particularly bad character flaw. In ''Hisoutensoku'', Marisa warns Sanae that she will "[[He Who Fights Monsters|become close to a youkai]]" if she gets too serious about hunting them. An entire pool in Danbooru is dedicated to this, but it has a NICE ENDING.

* [[Blow You Away]]

* [[Making a Splash]]: Some of her spellcards, like "Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split"" are this.

* [[Otaku Surrogate]]: We learn in ''Hisoutensoku'' that [[Megas XLR|she digs giant robots]], and she's also interested in nuclear physics as shown in ''Wild and Horned Hermit''.

* [[Physical God]]: She is both fully god and fully human at the same time. This is known as an Arahitogami, and happens to be what the Emperor of Japan used to be considered.

* [[Recurring Boss]]: After appearing as the stage five boss in ''Mountain of Faith'', she made a surprise appearance as the [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Midboss]] in ''Subterranean Animism''.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Most of her spellcards are shout outs to miracles from various religions. For example, Moses's parting of the red sea, or the original Kamikaze that repelled the Mongol invasion of Japan.

* [[Star Power]]: Some of her spellcards, like "Miracle "Mid-Day Supernova"" make use of this.

* [[Vague Age]]: Presumably a [[Joshikousei]], which makes her about the same age as Reimu or Marisa, if not slightly ''younger''. She hasn't been in enough games for us to know if she's [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]], but she probably won't be.

 

::''Young Mistress of Bhava-Agra''

 

Born as Chiko Hinanawi, she ascended alongside her parents when they became celestials, and chose to rename herself Tenshi. However, as she did not earn ascension herself she is considerably less enlightened than her peers, referred to as a delinquent celestial, quickly bored and frustrated with Bhava-Agra. This is what prompted her to cause chaos in Gensoukyou, having watched several of the incidents its inhabitants have caused and deciding they are lots of fun.

 

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Her final card in story mode doesn't require much effort to pass, even in the hardest difficulty.

* [[Berserk Button]]: She easily takes offense if you belittle her abilities.

* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Believe it or not, but [[Word of God|ZUN]] ''defended'' her in the interview in ''Symposium of Post-mysticism''. This was also noted in her description in SWR: she was raised as a Celestial after her parents ascended to [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]], but her personality stayed with her.

* [[Designated Villain]]: The plot of ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' was kicked off when she [[Invoked Trope|designated herself]] as the villain.

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Other than [[Beam Spam|spamming beams]], she has a lot of rock-based attacks.

* [[Final Boss]]

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: Tenshi has a habit of spouting Buddhism sayings without fully understanding their meaning.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Chiko, her name when she was human, means "earth child," while Tenshi means "heavenly child."

* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: About all she has in common with angels is the name and residence, really. That and the fact that if her name were written differently (天使 instead of 天子), it would mean "angel" in Japanese.

** Her family name is more correctly rendered as "Hinanai" in modern Japanese. The official Japanese pronunciation retains the archaic kana ゐ ("wi"), as Tenshi was born long, long before it was legislated out of common usage.

** The Kanji in her given name can also be read as "Tenko". This has become another [[Fan Nickname]] for her and she is occasionally included in Ran's "Suppa Tenko" meme.

* [[Sword Plant]]: She does this to demonstrate her sword's powers in her pre-battle cutscene. And she does it to raise pillars of earth for her second-to-last boss spell card. Also part of her normal, playable moveset as a way to trigger earthquakes and such.

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: As a result of Tenshi demanding you punish her in some of her quotes in ''SWR'', [[Flanderization|she has been portrayed]] as a ''masochist''.

* [[Weather Control Machine|Weather Control Artifact]]: Her weapon, the ''Hisou no Tsurugi'', has the power to alter the weather.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Leitmotif]]: "The Dark Blowhole"

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

 

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: One of her fanon depictions, sometimes heading into [[Yandere]] territory, for obvious reasons.

* [[Doppelganger Attack]]: "Egotistic Animosity to the Humble Rich Man" and "Large Box and Small Box".

* [[Emotion Eater]]: Eats jealousy.

* [[Fairy Tale]]: A few of her spell cards reference Japanese fairy tales like "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow" and "Grandfather Cherry Blossom". This might play into her [[Genre Savvy]] aspects.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Known in [[Image Boards|some circles]] as "Cave Alice," for her visual similarity to Alice Margatroid and for... well, living underground.

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: She is much, much easier once you know what you need to do. In particular, "Greenf-Eyed Monster" becomes one of the easiest spell cards in the game. Leads to [[Hype Backlash]] from people who don't get the fuss over how hard she is.

* [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]]: When using her spellcards.

* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: [[That One Boss|And how!]]

* [[Stealth Pun]]: She's a Persian (''hashihito'') bridge princess (''hashihime''). ZUN stated in an interview that this [[Visual Pun|influenced her design]], and the Marisa + Patchouli dialogue includes a joke about it.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Possesses extraordinary strength befitting an oni, as well as the single largest pair of breasts of any ''Touhou'' character at least according to an official promotional piece (see [[Hello Boys]] below).

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Though she can't quite reach Suika's "never sober" levels, keeping hold of her sake bowl while having a danmaku duel comes close.

* [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]]: She doesn't even bother putting her drink down while fighting you.

* [[Hello Boys]]: An [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/File:Th11PromotionalArt.jpg advertisement] for ''Subterranean Animism'' featured a drawing by alphes, the artist who drew the character portraits for the ''Touhou'' fighting games, showing Yuugi wearing a blue kimono [[Theiss Titillation Theory|pulled off]] [[Impossibly Low Neckline|her shoulders]]. Since it's from an official ad, the kimono is considered to be a canon alternate costume for her.

* [[Horned Humanoid]]: In traditional oni style, with a single horn.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "A Flower-Studded Sake Dish on Mount Ooe"

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: She can manipulate supernatural phenomena, which is too vague to know ''what'' it actually does, but given that almost ''everything'' in Gensoukyou is supernatural...

* [[Willfully Weak]]: She intentionally uses only a small amount of her power, more interested in having her first good fight with a human in centuries than actually winning.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Her in-game quotes give off shades of this.

* [[Badass Boast]]: "I can see it ... My mind-reading third eye will show me your very heart! The beautiful danmaku in your heart will make you suffer!"

* [[Cat Smile]]: One of Satori's very few expressions. Looks surprisingly cute on her though.

* [[Cosplay Fan Art]]: Due to how her power works in the game, some fanart likes to depict Satori cosplaying as other characters in the series.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Satori Maiden ~ Third Eye"

* [[Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me]]: Has a really bad habit of constantly talking about how she can read minds, and has no sense of [[Mind Over Manners]]. Perhaps if she stopped telling everyone how she could read their every thought - and that one, and especially that one - there would have been less antagonism. This is apparently a trait of the entire satori race.

* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?]]: In most scenarios, our heroines are just thinking about beating Satori up, which she finds rather off-putting, but is pretty much normal for them. She also catches Marisa thinking about what she's going to [[Sticky Fingers|steal from Satori's palace]] and shoos her off.

* [[Power Incontinence]]: Her mind reading is always on.

** Many of her moves in ''Hisoutensoku'' are similar to [[Fist of the North Star|Souther's]], even including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrgT9og49QQ a spell card], while some of her other moves bear a similarity to [[Mega Man X|X's attacks as well, most notably the Nova Strike]]. She also has two spell cards called [[Final Fantasy|"Giga Flare" and "Mega Flare"]], while that eye on her chest may be [[Lord of the Rings|Sauron's]].

** With all of the [[Just for Pun|nuclear-powered references]], [[The Wiki Rule]] notes that she has some connection to the Chernobyl, specifically [http://www.unknownexplorers.com/blackbirdofchernobyl.php The Black Bird of Chernobyl].

* [[The Power of the Sun]]: Eating the sun god Yatagarasu gave her nuclear fusion sun powers.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: <ref> Unless they were fertilized raven eggs, this isn't cannibalism.</ref>, and [[To Serve Man|the corpses of dead sinners]]. Extra-crispy. She had a strong desire to roast and eat Reimu, apparently not caring that she's ''alive''.

{{quote| '''Utsuho:''' See, your body's getting burned up pretty nicely now. I want to eat you up right now, but it's not good to rush. You have to let it fry just the right amount for it to taste the best.}}

** [[Freud Was Right]]: Koishi's "The Embers of Love" spell card is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NW4rqu2YhY infamous in the fandom].

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Some fanworks extend Koishi's inability to connect with people into making her [[Obliviously Evil]] or [[The Sociopath]], most infamously ''Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure''.

* [[Bonus Boss]]

* [[Break the Cutie]]: In her backstory.

* [[Stronger Sibling]]: She also explicitly states that her sister isn't really that good at fighting.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: She wanders all over Gensokyo, in contrast to her sister Satori being a [[Hikkikomori]].

 

 

 

* [[Big Eater]]: Being a mouse, which are known for the amount of damage they can cause by how much they eat, this isn't surprising. She's often responsible for grains being stolen, and damage to crops is especially severe whenever she uses a lot of field mice to help her with dowsing.

** [[Shipping]]: ...and tends to get shipped with either (or both at once).

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Fandom has her increasingly playing this role, either with Shou or the Myouren Temple crew as a whole. It makes a lot of sense when you remember that Nazrin was originally Shou's superior, acting as a sort of auditor, sent by Bishamonten, to keep an eye on Shou's work as Bishamonten's avatar.

* [[Emotion Eater]]: Lives on human surprise.

* [[Everythings Better With Eggplants]]: Her umbrella has an eggplant motif.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Although it seems to be unintentional.

* [[Harmless Villain]]: "Attacks" humans, but the greatest danger she poses is making people feel like a jerk by sulking after her efforts fail. Seriously. This is canon.

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]:

** The demo sets Kogasa up to be a character with a seemingly weak special power -- the power to surprise people -- and appears as an early stage boss. Then, in the full game, she {{spoiler|appears as an Extra stage midboss}}. Her portrait in her second appearance even has "Surprise~" written above her in Japanese.

** {{spoiler|Also in ''Ten Desires'', after you beat her, she drops the the first full power up item in the game as a pleasant surprise.}}

* [[Parasol of Pain]]: A youkai umbrella or ''karakasa''. Her accessory umbrella comes complete with an eggplant motif ''and'' a giant tongue. Although the umbrella is part of her, and she can't put it down.

* [[Recurring Boss]]: Surprise, she's {{spoiler|the extra stage midboss! [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Imagine the looks on the faces of the fans that teased her for her power before.]] She's also the mid-boss of Stage 3 in Ten Desires.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** Her article (not profile) in ''[[All There in the Manual|Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' is about her thinking that [[Mary Poppins|babysitters fly on umbrellas]].

 

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* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Wears the type of "sailor suit" the iconic Sailor Fuku is [[Older Than They Think|based on]].

* [[Serial Killer]]: Some of it is likely thanks to village gossip and/or Akyuu's fearmongering, but ''[[All There in the Manual|Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' paints her as liable to kill anyone that gets near water while they're alone.

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: For the Buddhists.

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Tiger-patterned clothes and hair.

* [[Badass Boast]]: "But, if you've chosen the wrong path... then you'll have to bear witness to the light of dharma, which is even ''stronger'' here in Makai. And bow down, to this holy pagoda of Bishamonten!"

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: While she's more gentle and reserved than most characters who fit this trope, she's still very fond of alcohol and will often become staggeringly drunk.

** Which might account for her [[Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels|different attitude]] when amongst friends.

* [[Multicolored Hair]]: It looks like tiger stripes!

* [[Species Surname]]: 'Tora' means tiger.

* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: The laser pagoda is more powerful than Shou herself and is the true source of the infamous lasers. At the very least it's powerful enough to boost Nazrin to a Stage 5 midboss.

 

* [[The Pollyanna]]: Some fanon turns her into this.

* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: Or in this case, a lotus petal.

* [[Status Buff|Status Buffs]]: [[All There in the Manual|Her profile]] says Byakuren specialises in magic that enhances her physical abilities.

* [[Spell Book]]: Her "Sorcerer's Picture Scroll" is a magic construct she created using materials from Makai, containing the sutras she must recite to cast spells. It's at least somewhat intelligent, being able to recite spells by itself and prevent others from using it.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: For religious purposes. She won't even eat meat due to the animals having been killed.

* [[Vain Sorceress]]: Magic of youth and to improve her physical abilities are her speciality. In fact they were, initially, the reason she protected youkai.

Byakuren's little brother, a monk who taught Byakuren Buddhist magic. His death made her fear her own, and drove her to seek eternal youth.

 

 

==== Tropes associated with Myouren: ====

 

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Meiling dreams that every other character she fights in her story mode are minions of the Taisui Xingjun that took the form of familiar characters. It explains Reimu's freaky dark aura. In addition, the background to the fight is rendered in a cartoony, childish style, in comparison to the [[Scenery Porn]]-filled backdrops of the other stages.

* [[Bullfight Boss]]: Its 3rd spell card.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: It's very possible that this thing is based on the giant catfish that Sakuya served as a meal in the end of Tenshi's ending in ''SWR''. Note that this was also a probable reference to the above folklore, as earthquakes were important to ''SWR'''s plot.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Aya. Hatate's the red oni - she's [[Hot-Blooded|fired up]] about beating Aya and has a more childish personality and manner of speech.

* [[The Rival]]: To Aya.

* [[Totally Radical]]: How her Nagoya dialect is rendered in English by some translators.

* [[Valley Girl]]: Her comments have been translated this way. Arguably a [[Woolseyism]] or rather, a mistake that caught on. With the release of the English patch it is now semi-official for the western fandom.

* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Visually, she has the ears of a [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Suushi_Yama-biko.jpg Yamabiko]. While the kind of animal the Yamabiko is supposed to be [[Cartoon Creature|is ambiguous at best]], ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'' has confirmed that she has a tail and a lot of fans make her to be a cute dog.

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Her power is to reflect sound waves, which she does by shouting according to her fight-posturing. However, it's hardly destructive. She uses it to reflect back her danmaku.

 

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* [[Recurring Boss]]: Appears to assist Seiga in stage 4.

* [[Soulless Shell]]

* [[Two First Names]]: The kanji for it are odd, but Miyako is normally a given name.

* [[The Undead]]: A [[Jiangshi]], to be exact. It is noted that she's gaining more and more qualities attributed to [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombies]] these days because in the outside world people rarely tell stories about jiang-shi anymore, but zombies are popular, and complains about getting compared to them.

** [[Generation Xerox]]: She ended up running out on her own family to seek her father, as well as to further practice Taoism.

* [[Dual Boss]]/[[Flunky Boss]]: Fights alongside Yoshika, though you can only kill Yoshika temporarily and must empty Seiga's lifebar to proceed.

* [[Evil Mentor]]: She taught Miko Taoism and she's a "wicked hermit." According to Miko herself, Seiga demonstrated through her actions that power is only as good or evil as the wielder.

* [[Faking the Dead]]: To run away from her family.

* [[Badass Boast]]: "This era, when humans deny my existence and I have become legend, is what I was waiting for! Now, try to defeat me! And spread the legend that I live!"

* [[Batman Gambit]]: She promoted the values of Buddhism in order to subjugate the population of Japan, while secretly practicing Taoism to attain immortality for herself.

* [[Boss Banter]]: Actually speaks a line during battle without pausing the game.

* [[Came Back Strong]]

* [[The Emperor]]: Was the Shadow Emperor variety while she was alive.

* [[Faux Death]]

* [[Final Boss]]

* [[Foil]]: She's pretty much set up as one to Byakuren.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Byakuren found Miko's mausoleum without being sure what it was, and built Myouren Temple over it to keep it sealed. This just succeeded in waking her up.

* [[Off-Model]]: Her portrait in the game gives her two right hands.

** Another theory is that the "thumb" we see is actually a pinky, which would make her anatomically correct.

* [[Title Drop]]: Her ultimate spell is named "Stars Falling on the Divine Spirit Mausoleum." "Eastern Divine Spirit Mausoleum" being the Japanese name of ''Ten Desires''.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: The ability to listen to ten people talking at once.

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