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Please remember to only use examples that are either [[Word of God|canon]] or have undergone mass [[Memetic Mutation]] so that the page doesn't become overcrowded with tropes that only occur in one person/circle's works.

 

 

 

== Concerning the romanization of names ==

There are two principal methods for transcribing Japanese names into Latin letters: the [[wikipedia:Hepburn romanization|Hepburn System]] and the [[wikipedia:Kunrei-shiki romanization|Kunrei-shiki System]]. In general, [[Word of God|ZUN]] favored the Hepburn System before ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', but changed to the Kunrei-shiki System afterward. This page uses the Hepburn format for the sake of [[Spell My Name with an "S"|argument]], as it is the most widely recognized and makes the pronunciation obvious to English speakers.

 

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A darkness youkai and stage 1 boss. She wears a ribbon that's actually a magic amulet that she can't touch, leading to many fan theories as to what it does. Rumia has the distinction of being the first boss in the series to fight using the modern spell card rules.

 

 

* [[Biblical Motifs]]: To appear more menacing and badass, she always imitates a "the saint was crucified" pose when attacking someone.

* [[To Serve Man]]: At least in theory. There is no actual evidence for this, and could easily be simply bluster. The expanded universe states she's ''too moronic'' to be able to catch any human.

 

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A fairy who lives at the same lake as Cirno and is the midboss of her stage. She doesn't have an official name, so fans call her Daiyousei, or "Greater Fairy", even though that's also a generic term for any of the game's stronger fairies. She was probably intended to just be a nameless [[Elite Mook]], but in [[Fanon]], she's generally considered to be Cirno's close friend.

 

 

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Cirno. She is depicted as the observant and level-headed member of Team 9.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]

 

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An ice fairy who lives at the lake surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Her favorite hobby is freezing frogs and watching them thaw. Surprisingly, Cirno is one of the few characters that realizes what's going on during ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', even though she mistakes it for a festival. Is best known for both an infamous [[Memetic Mutation]] detailed below and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY_e-WoVIqU Icicle Fall -Easy-], a spell card that can be completely dodged by placing yourself directly in front of Cirno.

 

* [[Badass Boast]]:

** Even back then in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she tried to do this with "I'll cryo-freeze you together with some English beef!".

** "I'm the strongest!" in ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', adopted by fans as her [[Catch Phrase]].

*** "I've been going easy on you 'til now, but now I'm gonna get serious! On a night of spring when the cold returns, it's time for you to run out of sake and freeze to death!"

* [[Berserk Button]]: "The one who says "idiot" is the idiot!"

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Her art in ''Fairy Wars'' has very noticeable eyebrows.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Cirno's dialogue in ''Great Fairy Wars'' seems to imply so.

* [[Breakout Character]]: The main character of ''Fairy Wars'' and is on the cover for a second time - a first for anyone who is not Reimu.

9. [[Baka|Moron]] }}

* [[Day in The Limelight]]: Main character and only playable character of ''Fairy Wars'', much to the fandom's surprise.

* [[Japanese Pronouns]]: Cirno is infamous for her use of the rough-sounding/childish pronoun "Atai".

* [[Large Ham]]: Cirno in general, but most noticeable in ''Fairy Wars''.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Tomboyish Girl in Love", and its subsequent remixing.

* [[Not So Harmless]]: While the [[Bonus Boss]] tried to shrug off her defeat at the end of ''Fairy Wars'', pointing out that she was holding back a bit, even she has to admit that Cirno is quite a bit more powerful than she expected.

(Even if I had pulled out my most powerful lasers, she could've been trouble...) }}

** As a playable character in ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' and ''Hisoutensoku'' it should be noted that technically she can defeat EX level bosses. She is still considered weak in canon.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

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Head gate guard and gardener for the Scarlet Devil Mansion and stage 3 boss, a Chinese master of martial arts and physical combat. Possesses perhaps the most well-known [[Fan Nickname]] in the series, "China".

 

 

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Canonically, she has large breasts, and there is evidence to suggest she is among the physically strongest characters in the series despite her sub-par magic. Despite this, [[Iron Butt Monkey|usually attacked by Sakuya]].

* [[Everything's Better with Rainbows]]: Her main schtick, aside from being Chinese, is her rainbow-colored bullet patterns. Everything she attacks with is full of colors, even in the fighting games.

* [[Flash Step]]: In ''Hisoutensoku'', it takes the form of Brilliance: "Rainbow Brilliance Palm". Given, it's not as fast as many other flash steps out there, since you can still see it. It is, however, fast enough to put her almost instantly behind the opponent after running them through with a heavily-chi-infused palm strike, followed by a [[Delayed Explosion]] of rainbow colored lights.

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: Not as much as Yukari, but she's portrayed as this in fanon. In official works, she only takes a nap in the afternoon.

** The fanon perception of Meiling as being incredibly lazy evolved, in a slightly convoluted way, from her [[Captain Ethnic]] nature. In Japan, even more so than in America, China has a reputation for producing low-quality merchandise. This led to jokes that Meiling (largely defined in fandom by being Chinese) was another unreliable Chinese product. This in turn led to the idea that what made Meiling unreliable was that she was always sleeping on the job.

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: While her exact height has not been given, she's one of the tallest female characters in the series. Fans frequently depict her as taller than Sakuya, though [[Word of God]] says they're around the same height.

 

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One of the many lesser youkai found in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Like Daiyousei, she had no name, dialogue, or profile included with the game, and was instead given her descriptive name by fans. The appellation seems to have been adopted by ZUN himself, but it may just be referring to her species. Fanon usually portrays Koakuma as an assistant (or possibly familiar) to Patchouli, since she's the library midboss.

 

 

* [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Demon Girl]]

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The bat wings on her back are a [[Fanon]] interpretation. However, she's had a small cameo in ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'' and an even tinier one in ''Strange and Bright Nature Deity'', [[Sure Why Not|both including the wings]].

 

 

 

Librarian and tutor for the Scarlet Devil Mansion household, and stage 4 boss. Patchouli is known as the "One-Week Wizard" due to her mastery of the seven elements of the Japanese calendar week. She is indeed a powerful elementalist, but suffers from poor health, which limits her battle prowess.

 

 

* [[Adorkable]]

* [[Witch Species]]: She was born a youkai sorceress.

 

 

 

Chief Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Despite being the leader of the maids at the SDM, Sakuya usually has to do all of the work herself because the [[Mook|fairy maids]] are [[Surrounded by Idiots|completely useless]]. Uses [[Knife Nut|knives]] and [[Time Stands Still|time manipulation]] to fight and [[Mundane Utility|do maid tasks]]. Much of Sakuya's origin is left to speculation, although it is implied that she may not be human and "Sakuya" may not be her real name.

 

 

* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Some fanart portrays her this way, to go along with the [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|padding jokes]] ([[Hilarious in Hindsight|iPad, for example]]). Others go [[Boobs of Steel|the other way]].

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Akyuu says she's "cold-hearted" towards humans (besides the main cast). Often taken as a sign she's a Lunarian.

* [[Fantastic Time Management]]: [[Mundane Utility|Often uses]] her time manipulation power to speed up housework.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]] by ZUN saying that she regularly stops time and picks up all her knives to throw them again. Doesn't explain how she can have hundreds knives on the screen ''at once'', though her [[Required Secondary Powers]] may answer that.

* [[Knife Nut]]

* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Only showed up in Perfect Cherry Blossom. Of course, it was winter for the whole game.

* [[Serial Killer]]: There's a definite serial killer theme with her spell cards, such as "Jack the Ripper" and "Another Murder". Some doujin turn her into one in her backstory, and there's theories that believe her to be THE [[Jack the Ripper]].

* [[Simultaneous Blade Spam]]: Justified, as she has the ability to [[Time Stands Still|stop time]], and her main combat style involves throwing thousands of knifes to the enemy; she can combine both abilities to basically make an instant rain of blades on the enemy, making this a cross between this trope and [[Storm of Blades]].

* [[Stage Magician]]: A number of her spell cards have this theme and her profile says that "Deceitless sleight-of-hand is her pride". Another one of her fan backstories is that she was a magician or had a family that did stage magic.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Has explicitly told Remilia that she is loyal to her until the day that she dies a natural death, but that she does not want to be a Hourai immortal or a vampire. Fandom's run away with doujinshi of her either dying, turning out to be Lunarian (can only die by unnatural means), or being turned into a vampire against her will.

 

 

 

Vampire mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and final boss of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''. She is the source of the mist that blotted out the sun, because sunlight is harmful to her. (It turns out she can just use a parasol, though.) Feared by many youkai, she is incredibly vain and proud despite her relatively low position in the hierarchy of Gensoukyou, (falsely) claiming to be a descendant of Vlad Tepes himself and is very open about her being one of the few youkai that still eat humans, though she rarely takes enough blood to kill them.

 

 

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Her hair is pale blue, verging on white when ZUN draws her. The fighting games give her purple hair. Fanart can be anywhere in between.

* [[Battle Aura]]: The fighting games reveal she is capable of manifesting a blood red aura, which she can use to attack her enemies [[Morph Weapon|in different ways]]. For example, [[Variable-Length Chain|creating infinitely stretching,]] [[Made of Explodium|explosive]] [[Chain Pain|chains.]]

* [[Bloody Murder]]: ''Grimoire of Marisa'' reveals that she can control and use blood to attack in some of her spell cards. [[Running Gag|Blood is amazing!]]

'''Marisa:''' Thirteen. I prefer Japanese food. }}

* [[Creepy Child]]

* [[Your Vampires Suck]]: Remilia actually likes [[Creepy Cool Crosses|cross imagery]], and can't fathom why she should be weak to them. Her spell card "Red: The Nightless Castle" appears as a towering crimson cross. She also seems to be perfectly fine with holy water. One of her win quotes in the fighting games is to ask Reisen to make her some holy water dumplings.

** She is still weak to other things: Sunlight, flowing water (rain and rivers) are the 2 most known

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Younger sister of Remilia Scarlet and the extra stage boss. She possesses the power to [[Person of Mass Destruction|destroy anything at will]], but due to her immaturity and mental instability, she's been kept locked up in the mansion basement for around 495 ''years''. Despite this, she doesn't usually try to escape, and is actually quite fond of her older sister. [[Captain Obvious|It goes without saying she is quite popular]]. Her theme song "U.N. Owen was her?" must hold some kind of record for [http://www.youtube.com/user/Adauchisan#grid/user/062118B8094CF469 most] [http://www.youtube.com/user/Adauchisan#grid/user/D13029CBEEE57FFD remixes] of any piece of music anywhere. ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAjxo_yB9ek&fmt=18 ZUN himself has remixed it.]''

 

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]: There's some [[Alternative Character Interpretation|debate]] about exactly ''how'' nuts she is, though.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "[[Shout-Out|U.N. Owen was her?]]" Arguably the most popular [[Leitmotif]] of the series.

* [[Madwoman in the Attic]]: She's been shut down in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement for 495 years, since her birth.

* [[No Social Skills]]: Kinda justified in her case.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: In a series that runs on ludicrously powerful girls beating the crap out of each other, Flandre surpasses nearly all of them in sheer damage potential. Even ''Marisa'' makes it a point to avoid her whenever she's at the Scarlet Devil Mansion to steal books, which is impressive considering the things she's faced.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: While "Flandre" is pretty widely accepted in the Western parts of the fandom, no one else is certain how to spell it. The fact that "furandouru" wouldn't be pronounced much like "Flandre" probably helps. "Frandle", "Frandre" and "Frandoll" are the most often seen alternate spellings.

* [[Stronger Sibling]]

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Subverted. Remilia doesn't raise her as a [[Tyke Bomb]]; she hides her in a basement to prevent her from destroying something.

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]]: Like her sister, Flandre can also shapeshift into a bat. Oddly enough, her unique wings don't carry over to bat form.

* [[Your Vampires Suck]]: Flandre also seems to like [[Creepy Cool Crosses|cross imagery]] - in ''Shoot The Bullet'' Aya's notes on her second spell card say that [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Shoot_the_Bullet:_Level_Ex_Spell_Cards#Spell_Card_Ex_-_2 "she just came out and played with it..."]

 

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The youkai of winter and stage 1 boss. She is only ever seen during the winter, and disappears as soon as spring arrives. While she attacks the heroines for attempting to end the long winter, she's only half-serious as she has already accepted that spring must eventually come.

 

 

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Pun not intended, but she plays this role to Cirno in [[Fanon]]. [[Word of God]], however, says that while she does watch out for Cirno from time to time, it's only because she knows that ice fairies are an important natural part of winter.

* [[An Ice Person]]: She is a Yuki-onna, a youkai of winter.

* [[An Ice Suit]]: The heavily dressed version.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Her name is a reference to Lettie Blacklock in [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''A Murder is Announced''.

 

[[File:Cheeeeeeeeeeen_6010.jpg|frame|''<small>[[Say My Name|CHEEEEE]][[Memetic Mutation|EEEEEEEEEENNNNN~~!!!]]</small>''<br />''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

A nekomata youkai and shikigami to Ran Yakumo. As her own master is also a shikigami, this means that she too is a servant to Yukari Yakumo.

 

 

* [[Catgirl]]: A Nekomata.

* [[Up to Eleven]]: A shikigami to a ''shikigami''.

 

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Stage 4 [[Mid Boss]], a fairy who heralds the coming of spring. For some reason, the only way she knows how to do so is with a [[Bullet Hell|shower of danmaku]]. Despite a few appearances and descriptions throughout canon, she generally shows up as a one-note character with no dialogue, though her enthusiasm is hard to miss.

 

 

* [[Genki Girl]]: And how! Her sheer enthusiasm fuels [[Bullet Hell|magic barrages]] strong enough for the late stage she is in without even [[Calling Your Attacks|declaring a spell card]].

** She behaves similarly in the fanmade game [[Mega Mari]], as well.

* [[Mid Boss]]: This is basically her schtick, from ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' to ''Fairy Wars''. She even manages to be a midboss in ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', which ''doesn't have stages''.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|What Kind of Lame Power Is Announcing the Coming of Spring Anyway?]]: Apparently Lily has such a deep connection to spring that her presence actually brings it - plants even burst into flower during the seconds it takes her to pass by. Still doesn't help her much when she's shooting at people from sheer excitement, since they all shoot back.

 

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Layla Prismriver is one of the daughters of Count Prismriver and could not bring herself to leave their home after he tragically died in an accident, and his orphaned daughters each went their separate ways. Instead, she invoked powerful sorceries in order to create three poltergeists with the appearance and personalities of her three older sisters. Layla and her sisters have long since passed away before the events of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''.

While Layla has no official appearance, what little fanart of her exists almost universally depicts her with long green hair to complement her sisters' colors.

 

 

* [[Creating Life]]: Or unlife as the case may be.

* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: Gained her powers from "an item from Gensokyo" that her father attained somehow. Said item was also responsible for her father's accident.

 

 

The Prismriver sisters are a trio of poltergeist sisters who serve as the stage 4 bosses. The sisters are talented musicians whose performances are popular among youkai. According to their backstory, the three poltergeist Prismriver sisters are the creation of the youngest Prismriver sister, Layla. While the original four Prismriver sisters have long since passed away, the three poltergeists have remained in their ancestral home to this day, continuing to hone their musical skills.

 

 

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Sequential Boss]]: The fight against them in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' starts with just one sister, then all three at once, then another solo sister, and finally all three together for the finale.

 

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The eldest of the Prismriver trio, who specializes in stringed instruments. Lunasa is an honest, hard-working, honor student type who is nevertheless pessimistic in general.

 

 

* [[Brown Note]]: She can induce depression in anyone that hears her playing her violin.

* [[The Stoic]]

 

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The middle sister of the Prismriver trio, who specializes in wind instruments. Merlin is energetic and easily excitable. She possesses greater raw power than her sisters, but lacks precision and control.

 

 

* [[Brown Note]]: Her trumpet playing has the polar opposite affect of Lunasa's violin. It can cause people to break out uncontrollably into dance or become unable to hold a coherent conversation.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Most official sources give her name as Marlin.

 

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The youngest of the Prismriver trio, who specializes in percussion and keyboard instruments. Lyrica is very intelligent, but dislikes exerting effort, so she usually tries to trick her sisters into fighting for her.

 

 

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Unlike her sisters' instruments of choice, the synthesizer clashes with the general setting, not to mention the whole classical musician image.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: She tends to hang back and let her sisters do all the work while she stands in the corner and snarks.

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: The entirety of ''PoFV''.

 

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Swordswoman and gardener of Hakugyokurou, the Netherworld court. She's half-human and half-phantom, half-dead and half-alive, half-phantom and half-reality, and [[Overly Long Gag|altogether]] half-baked. She is Yuyuko's faithful servant, but her seriousness and naivete contrasts with her mistress's whimsical and carefree nature. She is the one who has been stealing the essence of spring from Gensoukyou in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', under orders from Yuyuko.

 

 

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: [[Badass Boast|"The things that cannot be cut by my Roukanken, forged by youkai, are next to none!"]]

* [[Ironic Fear]]: She's afraid of ghost stories, despite her ancestry.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]:

'''Reimu:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|That was what needed correcting?]] }}

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]

* [[Leitmotif]]: Her boss fight theme from PCB, "Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird ~ Till When?", and her stage theme, "Mystic Oriental Dream ~ Ancient Temple."

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: A minor case. Youmu's level of skill is actually quite impressive and she doesn't often brag about it, but she's young and has a poor idea of her own limits.

** From ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'':

'''Sakuya:''' "I wonder how long our little stalker will continue to believe she has not been spotted." }}

* [[Spin to Deflect Stuff]]: One of her moves in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' and ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''. She spins her sword to reflect the opponent's danmaku attacks.

** [[Irony|Despite the fact]] that she serves a ghost and ''is'' half one, Youmu is terrified of ghost stories. Made doubly ridiculous by the fact that with the Roukanken, she is one of the very few people actually capable of killing ghosts.

** Youmu is just one huge scaredy-cat when it comes to imaginary horrors. In one chapter of ''Oriental Sacred Place'' she participates in a test of courage and spends most of it running hysterically from people in cheap Halloween costumes. Since she knew perfectly well there was nothing to be afraid of, most of them assumed she was just playing along, but her mistress knew better.

 

[[File:YoukiKonpaku.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart, appearance is completely speculative)</small>'']]

 

Youmu Konpaku's father ([[Lost in Translation|or possibly grandfather]]) and mentor, who served as Hakugyokurou's gardener before her. He disappeared sometime before the events of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', which Youmu took to be just another one of his lessons. Strictly appears only in Youmu's character description for ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''.

 

 

* [[Badass Beard]]: Often portrayed with one.

 

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Ghost Princess of Hakugyokurou, also an old friend of Yukari. When she was living as a human, she discovered that she has the power to invoke death with mere thoughts alone. Frightened with her power, she [[Driven to Suicide|committed suicide]], and then her body was used to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|seal an evil cherry tree]]. Over time, she [[Ghost Amnesia|forgot about her life]] and hatched a plan to resurrect the body sealing the tree. When she realized that it was her own body that sealed the tree, she changed her mind and lived her life as a ghost, perhaps for the better, because the resurrection of her body would destroy her, and unleash the evil tree.

 

 

* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Having the power to [[I Wished You Were Dead|invoke death as one pleases]] is [[Captain Obvious|dangerous.]] Good thing Yuyuko is responsible enough to know how dangerous it is, [[Cloudcuckoolander]] tendencies aside.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: She is an unusual case. She's whimsical and prefers pulling pranks on her servant/guardian, but she can be serious if the time comes. She is, however, the elegant mastermind befitting the character type.

 

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An evil cherry tree sealed by Yuyuko and Yukari centuries ago. Currently it is the only truly evil character in the Touhou universe. It has the power to lure people to rest underneath its branches after which it drains their souls.

 

 

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Brutally subverted, it's its beauty that lures people to it, after which it kills them.

* [[When Trees Attack]]

 

 

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A kitsune, Yukari's beleaguered but loyal shikigami, looking after the house and her duties while her mistress sleeps. A grand youkai in her own right, she is wise and strong, old enough to possess a full set of nine tails and is powerful enough to have her ''own'' shikigami, Chen.

 

 

* [[Action Mom]]: In [[Fanon]], she and Chen generally have a mother-daughter relationship, which normally her going "[[Say My Name|CHEEEEEEEEEENNNN!!!]]".

* [[The Watson]]: To Yukari, especially in ''Silent Sinner in Blue''.

 

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The youkai of boundaries, and quite possibly the most powerful being in Gensoukyou, as well as the laziest. Yukari has the power to manipulate borders, which would presumably grant her the task of being Gensoukyou's [[Barrier Maiden]], except that she sleeps during the day, hibernates through winter, and she's extremely lazy, so she leaves the Hakurei Border to Reimu, and most other tasks to her shikigami, Ran. She tends to mess around with people, but ultimately she usually means well. She is an old friend of Yuyuko, and after the events in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', she tends to hang around in the Hakurei Shrine and either help or annoy Reimu.

 

 

* [[Ancient Tradition]]: A one-woman variation, but only helps when she sees fit.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: She's had a hand in many, many schemes over the years, the complexity and scope of which makes Kanako look upstart. Including the disastrous Moon invasion 1000 years ago that taught youkai not to overstep their boundaries, and made Yukari well-known, even among the humans (whether Yukari knew they would lose and this would happen is up for debate). Then, 500 years later, in order to return leverage to the youkai over that of the humans, she laid the groundwork for the Hakurei Barrier, by establishing the area of Gensoukyou as a youkai haven, where they could emigrate to and be free from the outside, after which the Barrier took 400 years more to be completed. Even the debates and conflicts over the Barrier and their use in distracting from Gensoukyou's vulnerable human population until youkai and humans could live together there were possibly foreseen by her. Lastly, in ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' she played the Watatsukis, Eirin, ''and'' Remilia against each other in an infamous [[Batman Gambit]].

** Yukari openly acknowledges herself as this when playing as Sakuya in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''.

'''Yukari:''' "Craftiness, it is." }}

* [[Colourful Theme Naming]]: Her name means "violet" in Japanese. See Chen's entry above.

* [[Compressed Hair]]: Somehow manages to hide almost all her hair in her hat in the fighting games.

* [[Immortal Immaturity]]: Fans tend to portray her this way.

* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: Fluctuations in the Hakurei Border that sometimes send clueless humans into Gensoukyou are entirely her doing, "spiriting away" some of the folk she finds ''fascinating''. In fanon this sometimes is manifested as literally taking people home with her.

* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: In ''Silent Sinner in Blue''. [[Batman Gambit|Relying on Remilia's greed to create a decoy]] is one thing. ''{{spoiler|Being a second decoy}}'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|is quite another]].

* [[Leitmotif]]: In the fighting games, she has "Night Falls ~ Evening Star", though she's more pictured with "Necrofantasia" even though it's only appeared once.

* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Maybe. It's been implied that Yukari was originally a Western human ([[Mukokuseki|not that you could tell from the art]]).

* [[The Omniscient]]: Type 2. Yukari is likely the most well-informed person in Gensokyo, deriving from her network of shikigami spies, divination magic, ability to travel to the outside world and the lunar capital, and possibly [[Trapped in the Past|being from the future]].

* [[Onmyodo]]: She's such a powerful magic user that not only is her shikigami an old and mighty [[Kitsune]], but her shikigami has its own shikigami (and ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' shows that she simultaneously uses numerous lesser shikigami as spies). She occasionally tutors Reimu in the use of her own powers.

* [[Purple Is Powerful]]: See [[Colorful Theme Naming]] under Chen.

* [[Reality Warper]]: She's capable of manipulating "Boundaries" in any sense of the word, including abstract concepts. That could mean anything from opening a portal into a painting or a dream to grabbing the horizon with her hand and pulling it around to ''manipulating the border of truths and lies in the reflection of the moon'' to create a portal to it.

* [[Supernatural Is Purple]]

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Definite winner.

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: In fanon. She's usually the wizard that did it.

 

 

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An oni girl with the power to manipulate density, which extends to gathering or dispersing emotions and people, along with more destructive applications. She caused the inhabitants of Gensoukyou to have more parties for a while, hoping to attract more of her kind to Gensoukyou and reuinite her people that had been scattered long ago. Currently living in Bhava-Agra (one realm of Heaven) after threatening the inhabitants to allow her to stay there.

 

 

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Suika's sprites in fighting games represent her with brown hair, however, her artwork shows her with light orange hair. Her sprite in ''Double Spoiler'' confirms that her hair color is more orange than brown. Though, fanworks sometimes depict her as blonde or brunette, depending on the artist's preferences or color judgements.

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Controls density. Physical density, like making herself into mist or just really big/small, and things like, say, population density.

 

 

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A firefly youkai with the ability to control insects.

 

 

* [[Bifauxnen]]: A lot of fanart likes to depict her as looking very boyish, to the point where most posts of her on Danbooru get the "reverse trap" tag.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Stirring an Autumn Moon ~ Mooned Insect"

* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Firefly antennae.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: This is on the ''other'' side of the [[Bifauxnen]], a [[Memetic Mutation]] that started with [[Word of God|ZUN]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|confirming she is a girl]]. Fans went along with her dressing up as a guy, and why the above fanart makes her ''look like a guy''.

 

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A night sparrow youkai who loves to sing. Her singing causes night-blindness to those who hear it. In-game, it shrinks the player's field of view.

 

 

* [[Badass Boast]]: "All humans fear me in the darkness! If I wanted, I could call enough youkai here to eradicate every human in this land.", or "I'll show you the true terror of darkness!" It's all empty bluster, though. And she ''really'' makes herself look stupid by using the "terror of darkness" line when talking to ''Remilia''. A ''vampire''. You know, ''lord of the night''?

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Sparrow wings.

 

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* [[Animorphism]]: She turns into a [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Hakutaku Hakutaku] during the full moon, but it seems that the only apparent physical feature that changes is that she grows a tail and horns, complete with ribbon and her hair turns green.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: With blue or green highlights depending on her form.

 

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An earth rabbit youkai and leader of the earth rabbits of Eientei. Her explicit power is the ability to bring good luck to people, but usually she's just a prankster. Started as another stage midboss with no dialogue, only a name and profile, but later got more coverage, including a major role in ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth''.

 

 

* [[Ascended Extra]]: She was originally a midboss who wasn't even named in-game, just in the [[All There in the Manual|manual]]. She however got a speaking role in ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' and then became one of the main characters of ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth''.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: fan material has her ending her sentences with "usa", short for "usagi" (rabbit).

 

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A Lunar Rabbit who fled from the Lunar War,<ref>[[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|which supposedly started with Neil Armstrong landing on the moon and planting a flag]]</ref> abandoning her comrades. It's not known whether [[Dirty Coward|she did it out of cowardice]] or something else. She was found in Eientei by Kaguya and became her pet and Eirin's student. Nicknamed "Udonge" by the latter and "Inaba" by the former (though that is how Kaguya refers to all rabbits), Reisen now loyally serves and protects her master and teacher. Being a Lunar Rabbit, she is gifted with the [[Evil Eye|madness-inducing eye]], though ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' reveals that her eyes also control waves in general, including mind waves and electromagnetic waves.

 

 

* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: Reisen's spell card names are an oddity - they all have one name in kanji, but they're then given an official pronunciation in katakana, which creates a totally different phrase. For example, her first spell card's name is "Wave Sign: Red Eyes Hypnosis," but going by the katakana will get you "Wave Sign: Mind Shaker". Interestingly, only the katakana expression will change with difficulty level.

* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]/[[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit]]: She only wore a suit jacket in her first game appearance, and exclusively wore short-sleeved dress shirts in all subsequent games, but the suit has become her [[Memetic Outfit]]. In ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'', she wears the suit most of the time, and only takes the jacket off in summer.

* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Her power, aside from being able to manipulate waves, is to [[Mind Rape|drive people insane]] with her eyes. She doesn't really do this, though; she's depicted as one of the most level-headed characters in all of Gensoukyou, and only uses this power during ''Imperishable Night'' in order to protect Kaguya.

* [[Confusion Fu]]: Fittingly for a character who induces insanity.

** In [[Danmaku]] games, her gimmick is bullets that do not behave as they initially appear. Bullets will seem to fly in all directions, only to fold into patterns that are manageable if the player didn't panic and try to dodge the initial pattern. Bullets will vanish, multiply and divide, slow to a crawl at the oddest times, etc.

* [[Mind Rape]]: The usual result of her powers.

* [[Moon Rabbit]]

* [[Only Sane Man]]: [[Irony|Ironic]] since she's a master of [[Mind Rape|Lunacy]].

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: In her article in ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense''. Nowhere else, though.

 

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* [[Functional Magic|Alchemy]]: She makes immortality potions along with her varying medicines and potions.

* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: She is implied [[All There in the Manual|in an ingame spell-card description]] to have been responsible for the failure of the Apollo 13 mission.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[The Dragon]]: Noted to be harder than the final boss Kaguya.

* [[Final Boss]]: Of the A-route.

* [[Willfully Weak]]: ZUN says she's actually far stronger than Kaguya, but she limits her power out of respect for the princess. Possibly, she's one of the strongest Lunarians, whom are already pretty high on the power scale. She was the teacher to the Watatsuki sisters after all.

 

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A Lunarian princess who was exiled to Earth centuries ago for having consumed the Hourai Elixir, which made her immortal. While on earth, her beauty attracted many suitors, including Mokou's father, but all were unable to complete her five impossible requests. When her exile had ended, she refused to return to the moon, and instead convinced Eirin to betray the Lunarians and escape into hiding with her. Her backstory is based largely on the [[wikipedia:Tale of the Bamboo Cutter|Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]], the oldest known example of Japanese literature and quite possibly the original [[Science Fiction]] tale.

 

 

* [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]]: All her regular spell cards are powered by the items from her impossible requests. She only uses her manipulation of eternity after she loses to break the imperishable night during her last spells.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: It reaches her ankles.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Kaguya was originally exiled to Earth for the crime of [[Immortality Immorality|becoming immortal]]. Years later, she was forgiven for her crimes and Lunar emissaries were sent to bring her back to the Moon. However, she decided she would rather stay on Earth and proceeded to elude the emissaries while enlisting the aide of Eirin in the process. This would eventually lead to the events of ''Imperishable Night''.

* [[Super Strength]]: Possibly. In the ''Grimoire of Marisa'', Marisa talks about how Kaguya can lift a solid wooden panel, large and wide enough to be a temple's ceiling, using only her hands. Whether this is simple physical strength or a magic trick, or super-strength AS a magic trick, is unknown.

** Interestingly enough, when she discovers that the player's team has been causing the eternal night, she very quickly rips the spell apart using her power of Eternity. Which means that, in some respects, she's a stronger [[Time Master]] than Sakuya.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: In the last chapter of ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'', we never find out what happened during the second Lunar Exposition because Reisen was drunk the whole time.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: She's often depicted with the Jewelled Branch of Hourai, one of her five impossible requests, and the last of her spell cards based on them.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: While Mokou's a more popular target, [[Darker and Edgier]] portrayals commonly depict her as having been driven [[Ax Crazy|insane]] by the pain/boredom of living forever, or angsting about it. The former is more popular than the later, as a result of doujin artists taking "lunatic princess" ''too'' seriously.

* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: What Princess Kaguya was in "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter". In ''Touhou'', let's just say that out of all the characters ZUN has drawn, she has [[Damned By Faint Praise|the most symmetrical face]].

 

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The Extra stage boss of ''Imperishable Night'', Mokou was the daughter of a nobleman (presumed to be [[wikipedia:Fujiwara no Fuhito|Fujiwara no Fuhito]], the founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan) who was scorned by Kaguya centuries ago. She swore revenge against Kaguya, and ended up stealing the Hourai Elixir and consuming it, becoming immortal.

 

 

* [[Animal Motif]]: Associated with the phoenix, due to her immortality and fire powers.

* [[Stronger with Age]]: According to ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', all the Hourai Elixir did was make her immortal. All of her firepower has come from more than a millennium and a half of practice. If you consider her to still be human, she is the only human EX-Boss in the entire series (except maybe Yumemi or Alice, if PC-98 counts). Strong arguments could be made that, if she can be considered human, she is the most powerful human magician in the world (Marisa can beat her, but she's also teamed up with Alice, who is an EX-Boss in her own right.) Of course, this also assumes that her powers don't come from being possessed by an actual phoenix, which is another popular theory.

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: She likes saying this to Kaguya in ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'', but never actually delivers on it, making her look like a [[Tsundere]] rather than a mortal enemy.

* [[Tsundere]]:

** Despite her grudge against Kaguya, she also feels that they mitigate each other's [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|immortal loneliness]] as no one else can, even with Kaguya being firmly on the [[Living Forever Is Awesome]] side of things. ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' has her explaining to Keine how terrified she was when she heard about the Moon rocket in ''Silent Sinner in Blue''. She thought Kaguya was taking it to the Moon and was going to leave forever.

** There's also the [[Jerkass Facade]] and pretty much anything she does in the semi-canonical ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth''. Naturally, fans [[Foe Yay|exaggerate it]].

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Similarly to Lyrica, in ''Imperishable Night'' Mokou's hair is largely white with dark purple shading. Most fanart as well as ''The Grimoire of Marisa'' unambiguously depict her with white hair.

 

 

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One of the crow tengu who inhabit Gensoukyou, Aya runs the newspaper known as the Bunbunmaru. Because she gets carried away when writing the articles and exaggerate things, people don't really like to be featured in her paper. While she is strong, to the point that sometimes she accidentally wins fights when she was really just trying to take pictures for her newspaper, she prefers to work on her paper far more than fighting.

 

 

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: She's the star of the of the 'Bunkachou' games (and to a lesser extent the [[All There in the Manual|book]]), ''Shoot the Bullet'' and ''Double Spoiler''.

* [[Ravens and Crows]]: Crow tengu.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Hatate. Aya's the blue oni, having a much more dignified manner of speech and taking her reporting much more seriously. She is also more mature than Hatate... [[Fanon|generally]].

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: K-S Romanization of her last name - "Syameimaru".

* [[Super Speed]]: Easily one of the faster individuals in Gensoukyou, definitely ''the'' fastest, along with Hatate, as far as average speed goes.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Her taking photos ''during the middle of a heated battle'' results in some epic shots within [[Fanime]].

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Inconsistently shown with and without crow wings in official works, but has yet to be seen with wings in any of the games.

 

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A doll that has come to life as a youkai, she works hard for the emancipation of all dolls. Unfortunately, most dolls are unable to live as she can. She has the power to control various kinds of poison.

 

 

* [[Artificial Human]]/[[Living Toy]]: She's a doll that gained sentience. It is likely the little doll that follows her around is the real Medicine and the big doll is an external body projection.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Her name comes from the [[Ray Bradbury]] short story collection ''A Medicine For Melancholy'', while her backstory is also similar to Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story ''Rappaccini's Daughter''.

 

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A [[Shinigami]] whose job it is to [[The Ferry Man|ferry the souls of the dead across the Sanzu River]] to await judgment. However, she's an incorrigible slacker, which ends up leading to the events of ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''<ref>though the event was simply the 60-year cycle and not Komachi's fault; however, her slacking exacerbated the situation, if only a little</ref> when the amount of dead souls overwhelms her and begin accumulating in the world of the living.

 

 

* [[Berserk Button]]: She's easily one of the most laid-back and friendly characters in the series. But in her ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' scenario, when Tenshi killed ghosts to alter the weather and defeated her fellow shinigami to feign immortality, Komachi put aside her role as a ferryman and gave the Celestial a good old-fashioned attitude adjustment.

** According to PMiSS, not paying her right away will cause her to dump you into the Sanzu. In other words, she'll let you get horribly maimed by various sea life and deny you your afterlife for ''not paying immediately''. Some fans interpret this as just a threat and not something she'll actually do, though.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Canonically depicted as having large breasts, although fandom has a habit of [[Gag Boobs|exaggerating it]]. Fans also often juxtapose Komachi with Eiki, as they commonly depict the latter as being short in comparison.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: When confronting Tenshi after having her aforementioned [[Berserk Button]] pushed, appearing to be as calm and carefree as always despite her anger.

 

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Komachi's boss and Gensoukyou's resident judge of the dead. Unlike Komachi, she takes her work seriously, and is oftentimes lecturing her subordinate, as well as everyone else. She possesses the power to see everything in black and white, which leads her to be a bit moralistic, although she always means well. For reference, her name is simply Eiki Shiki, while Yamaxanadu is a job title.

 

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

** "Yes, you have [sinned] a little too much."

* [[Character Filibuster]]: Due to her job, she gets to preach upon the characters fault, and due to those characters' [[Chaotic Neutral]] tendency, they have tons of faults. One might suspect that she is basically ZUN's in-story speaker.

* [[Celestial Bureaucracy]]

* [[The Judge]]: Of the Netherworld, no less. It's on her authority that Yuyuko is queen of Hakugyokurou.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Eastern Judgement in the Sixtieth Year ~ Fate of Sixty Years."

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Yukari, who is often seen as nigh-godlike due to her [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] powers, said she [[Curb Stomp Battle|would not stand a chance against Eiki]] even with both Yuyuko and Reimu backing her up, if Eiki was serious. Bearing in mind Yukari fighting probably means Ran and Chen too, you can realise just how powerful Eiki is.

* [[Nice Hat]]: remarkably ornate even for a series where almost everyone has nice headgear.

 

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