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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 ==

 

 

[[File:rumia3_23.jpg|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

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.

* [[Perpetual Smiler]]

* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: She usually surrounds herself in a bubble of darkness that ''even she cannot see through'', causing her to spend most of her time [[Watch Out for That Tree|crashing into trees]].

* [[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.

 

[[File:daiyousei_2_884.png|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

 

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]]

 

[[File:hongmeiling01.png|frame]]

 

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]].

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: When she's not portrayed as a [[Butt Monkey]], she's almost universally this to either Cirno and her friends, Flandre or even young Sakuya. Sometimes, she's this even while being portrayed as a [[Butt Monkey]].

* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud]]: Her "Colorful Windchime" and "Extreme Color Typhoon" spell cards from 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.

 

[[File:koa_3542.jpg|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

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]].

 

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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]]

** She repeats it after being defeated in Tenshi's route in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''.

* [[Cute Witch]]

* [[Elemental Powers]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]]. She likes to convert her spells to fit into one of seven different elements, associated with the days of the Japanese week, earning her the title "The One-Week Wizard."

** [[The Power of the Sun]]

** [[Lunacy]]

** [[Making a Splash]]

** [[Green Thumb]]

** [[Extra Ore Dinary]]

** [[Dishing Out Dirt]]

* [[Hikikomori]]: Patchouli rarely ever leaves the library in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Before the events of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', she apparently never left the library for more than a century.

* [[Hot Librarian]]: Especially in fanart.

* [[More Dakka]]: Try playing against her in the fighting games on Lunatic.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: This is noted as one of her characteristics in ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''. While there's [[Informed Ability|no explicit example of it]], presumably she chants quickly for many of her spells.

* [[The Snark Knight]]: Patchouli is at least a little sarcastic and cynical, especially in her lines regarding Sakuya in ''Subterranean Animism'' or ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', but she's nevertheless a good and caring friend of Remilia.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Genius spellcaster, but probably can't lift anything heavier than a book.

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

 

 

 

 

 

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[Invoked]] by the fanbase. Often seen as the lapdog of Remilia and Flandre, fanart has led to [http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu9/YoukaiOfFlowers/Touhou/swr_sakuya-inu.jpg something along the lines of this characterization], and the name "Inu Sakuya."

** Also done in-universe: Akyuu notes there are a ''godawful'' lot of theories about her and her background.

* [[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]]

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Though only sometimes invoking romance, many fans note that as a (relatively) normal human amongst a [[Cast Herd]] of youkai she won't be around for much longer compared to them, with Remilia or Meiling in particular depicted as being devastated by the loss. As noted below, officially, she was offered immortality by Remilia but refused it. Fanon runs away with this, either making her a Lunarian or the ever popular tragedy of her dying and being missed by the others in SDM.

* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' offers several backgrounds for her, with the note that it's likely that none of them are actually true. Akyuu notes the one most favored and has the most evidence is that she's an ex-vampire hunter.

* [[Mundane Utility]]: Hey, you'd be a perfect maid too if you could just stop time to do your work instantly. Stopping time supplies another benefit according to EoSD's afterword -- dust won't be raised, thus making cleaning more efficient.

* [[Nay Theist]]: In ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', Reimu asks her to give a donation to her offertory box, so she may please the gods and have good luck and and their blessing, but Sakuya tells Reimu she doesn't believe in the gods, in the sense [[Bond One-Liner|she doesn't need their help to make her own way]].

* [[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.

* [[Time Stands Still]]: Literally so, given Sakuya seemingly can manipulate time as she sees fit.

* [[Vague Age]]: [[Universe Compendium|Akyuu]] writes, "She claims to be in her [[Immortality Begins At Twenty|late teens]], but this is unlikely judging by her [[Wise Beyond Their Years|refined manner]] and the [[Improbable Age|level of her abilities]]. Rather, she seems to be a human who has been living for [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|hundreds of years]]." Her profile in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' also refers to her as "10-20". Also, in ''Imperishable Night'', Eirin seems to recognize Sakuya, though it's seemingly implausible for them to have met unless Sakuya was a good deal older {{spoiler|and used to live on the moon. [[Take a Third Option|Or all of the above theories]].}}

* [[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]]

*** Back to ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', she can only appear in night stages, even if you select a day stage.

* [[Punched Across the Room]]: ''Archdemon: "Remilia Stretch"''. Fighting games. 1 second charge up. Get hit by this, and you can say good-bye to about half your life bar.

* [[Royal Brat]]: Pretty classy outwardly, but her attitude can be as childish as her appearance.

* [[Shout-Out]]: See [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]] above.

* [[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

[[File:FlandreS_2069.jpg|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

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.

* [[Jekyll and Hyde]]: A widely accepted [[Fanon]] interpretation. This [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] was the result of the anger accumulated from staying locked inside the basement, the famous "[[Fridge Horror|I will break you]]!" line being one such example. However, she also has a very kind and [[The Ditz|childish]] personality and only wants to play with other people. Notably, most fanon has them as the same personality - she only gets evil when threatened.

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

* [[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.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Younger than Remilia by five years.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Her silhouette seen in "Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth" sports one of these.

* [[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.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Crystallized Silver."

 

[[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.

* [[Chinese Girl]]: Kind of. This is often overlooked in favor of her [[Catgirl|catgirl-ness]].

* [[Colourful Theme Naming]]: Her name actually means "Orange" in ''Chinese''. The Yakumos are all named after colors, so that their relative power levels correspond to the placement of the colors on the [[wikipedia:Electromagnetic spectrum|electromagnetic spectrum.]] So Chen, whose name means "orange" is weakest, while Yukari whose name means "violet" is strongest.

* [[Flunky Boss]]: She attempts to be this, assembling a large number of cats together so they can pledge allegiance to her. It fails miserably.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Diao Ye Zong (Withered Leaf)."

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

 

[[File:Lily_FK_6318.jpg|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

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.

 

[[File:lyla_6670.jpg|frame|''<small>(fanart, appearance is completely speculative)</small>'']]

 

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.

 

[[File:Lunasa_alphes_style_cropped_219.png|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

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]]

 

[[File:Merlin_Prismriver_9095.jpg|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

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.

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Joke Character]]: In ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''.

 

[[File:LyricaFK_6485.jpg|frame| ''<small>(fanart)</small>'']]

 

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!"]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Myon." As with Patchouli and Okuu, this is something she said only in PCB's Afterword that Japanese fandom has turned into a catchphrase, usually denoting surprise or frustration, or used as a nickname for Youmu herself. In Western fandom, "Myon" has become the nickname for Youmu's ghost half.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander's Minder]]: To Yuyuko. Though since Yuyuko is [[Obfuscating Stupidity|mostly faking it]], and Youmu has a rather one-track mind, it's sometimes inverted.

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: When she's playable in the shooting games. In ''Imperishable Night'' she's part of the Ghost Team, which reverses the usual unfocused spread, focused concentration, but is stronger than average (and Youmu herself has an option that fires opposite of how she moves, which can be very irritating or very useful depending on how used you are to it). In ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' she has horrible stats and a weak offense, but a charged attack that can cancel bullets (bit low on the awesome here. It's generally not considered very useful). In ''Ten Desires'' she again reverses the spread/concentration fire, but this time with ''[[Gradius]]''-style options unfocused, and a piercing charge attack that hits a large area focused. Her ''Ten Desires'' incarnation is probably the best example, as she can be quite a bit more effective than anyone else, but is hard enough to play that most players can clear the game with everyone else in the time it takes to get the hang of her.

* [[Doppelganger Attack]]: Her phantom half can also turn into a body double. Or even a triple.

* [[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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* [[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.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Her eventual reaction to realizing what her power was.

* [[Famous Ancestor]]: Not exactly ancestor, but her father may or may not have been the famous Japanese poet [[wikipedia:Saigyo Hoshi|Saigyo]], who wrote a poem about his wish to die under blossoming trees. According to ''[[Universe Compendium|Perfect Momento in Strict Sense]]'', Yuyuko's father was indeed a celebrated poet who did end up dying under the influence of the Saigyou Ayakashi, a youkai cherry tree.

* [[Final Boss]]

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Using the cover of [[The Ditz]] to cover her intellect.

* [[Ojou]]: She is a ghost princess whose home is a towering pagoda with an immense garden.

* [[The Pollyanna]]: Has easily the most heart-wrenching [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5TY1DqJ59E&fmt=18 backstory] in the cast and yet is one of the [[Angst? What Angst?|funniest and most cheerful]] characters. This may be originally due to her [[Ghost Amnesia|completely forgetting about her past]]. However, she recovered her memory at the end of ''PCB'', and nothing seems to have changed.

* [[Power Gives You Wings|Power Gives You a Giant Fan]]

* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]

* [[Soul Jar]]: Inverted - her body being sealed prevents her soul from passing on. The end result is still functional immortality, though.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: ''Mystia''.

* [[Troll]]: At the end of ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', {{spoiler|she steals a 1000-year-old bottle of sake from the Moon to piss the princesses off, which was what Yukari wanted her to do -- but she also trolls Yukari by not stealing anything ''more'' valuable than a bottle of sake.}}

* [[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.

* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: [[Captain Obvious|Well duh]].

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: What else can you call something that drives people insane with deadly peacefulness and beauty before draining their souls?

* [[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!!!]]".

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Tends to be abused a lot by Yukari in fanon, and canon probably doesn't treat her much better due to Yukari literally throwing her into the battle and generally being very strange.

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

* [[Fastball Special]]: Yukari often literally throws Ran into the fray.

* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Both Ran and Yukari believe that a shikigami is a tool, and that to achieve her full power as a shikigami, Ran must always do precisely what is ordered of her. An article in ''BAiJR'' describes Yukari beating her for getting into a fight without permission <ref>Presumably, this is when Ran fought the heroine in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' because the heroine wanted Ran to wake up her master.</ref> A shikigami gains power from their master so long as they obey, so getting into fights that the master doesn't authorize deprives the servant of potential power.

* [[Kitsune]]: She's a nine-tailed fox, which are traditionally quite powerful in mythology (almost divine). Presumably this is meant to contrast with her status as a shikigami and make Yukari seem even more threatening. Indeed, it may be hard to remember at times, but Ran is a fully-fledged Ex-Boss, placing her in the same general league as Flandre Scarlet, Suika Ibuki, Fujiwara no Moukou, Suwako Moriya, Tenshi Hinanai, Koishi Komeji, Nue Houjuu and Mamizou Futatsuiwa. In fact, Ran is also a Mid-Boss for the only Phantasm-level enemy in the series (Yukari), which technically puts her in a league ''above'' all the others.

* [[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.

* [[Frame Break]]: Sort of. In ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' Yukari's spell cards Boundary "Border Between 2D and 3D" and Boundary "Obective Border" travel along the edge of the screen.

* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: So powerful she might as well be a god. So lazy she sleeps 12 hours a day and "hibernates" though the whole winter. Even when she's awake, she still doesn't take much direct action, instead manipulating others into doing her job for her. Even though in most cases it would require minimal effort for her to get things done on her own.

* [[Graceful Ladies Like Purple]]

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: What does "Manipulating Boundaries" do? Whatever the hell you want it to do!

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: She hibernates through the wintertime. Some fanon theories claim that this is because Yuyuko's death traumatized her in some way, but there is no evidence of this.

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

* [[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]]).

* [[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.

* [[Opera Gloves]]: In at least her ''PCB'' appearance.

* [[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.

* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Acts this way towards Reimu.

* [[Troll]]: Fanon depicts Yukari as one of these, to the point where there's a pool on Danbooru dedicated to her trolling of the other characters.

* [[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.

* [[Bird Run]]: Her method of walking normally.

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: She carries a gourd of sake that never runs dry. No one has seen her sober.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: About as developed as a seven-year-old. Can tear apart mountains with her bare hands.

* [[Cute Giant]]: Suika is normally pretty small and adorable, but has the ability to change her size at will. She's still adorable when she's huge, but you're probably not thinking such as you're trying to avoid getting squashed by her!

* [[Horned Humanoid]]

* [[Intangible Man]]: Suika can become mist at will.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Onigashima in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power" and "Broken Moon."

* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Jolly most of the time, she nevertheless has harsh comments for everyone in ''Immaterial and Missing Power''.

* [[Me's a Crowd]]: She can make tiny clones of herself, using her power to manipulate density.

* [[Pettanko]]

* [[Stalker Without a Crush]]: She tells everyone in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' that she's been watching them, so she sometimes gets depicted like this.

* [[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''?

* [[Self Fanservice]]: Fanart often ignores her claws or reduces them to fingernails.

* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: In ''[[All There in the Manual|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', Mystia has started a food stand, selling grilled lamprey that she claims can help cure night-blindness. It turns out she's inducing the night-blindness with her songs and cancelling the effects herself as her customers eat.

* [[Ted Baxter]]: Severely overstates her abilities. She's so confident that she can defeat the heroines that after she's defeated as a mid-boss, she ''immediately'' starts the boss battle. No other character in the series does this. After the border team beats her Yukari says "A weakling acting strong leads to despair all the faster."

* [[Temporary Blindness|Temporary Night-Blindness]]: What you'll get if you listen to her song.

* [[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''.

* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: She is a known chronic habitual liar, a prankster (usually at Reisen's expense), and [[Little Miss Con Artist|a scammer]].

* [[Species Surname]]: Inaba is what Kaguya calls all rabbits. It probably refers to the fairy tale ''[[wikipedia:Hare of Inaba|The Hare of Inaba.]]''

* [[Troll]]: Fanon often depicts her going too far with her pranks. Like Yukari, this has earned her a Danbooru pool of her trolling.

* [[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 Boast]]: "The moon can drive people mad. So can you really beat me, the rabbit whose eyes contain the moon's power?"

* [[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]]

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]/[[The Gunslinger]]: Reisen is often depicted in fanon carrying and using a wide variety of guns, from pistols, rifles, and uzis, up to rocket launchers and even a turret-mounted chain gun. Conversely, she is just as often depicted firing bullets from her fingers, with just the index finger pointed and thumb raised, as she does in the fighting games. Because of this, Reisen is the only ''Touhou'' character who may actually qualify as a [[Hyperspace Arsenal|Walking Arsenal]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: Reisen has [[Vocaloid|Miku, Rin/Len, Luka, Meiko, Kaito, Gakupo and Gumi]] as alternate palettes in ''Hisoutensoku''.

* [[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.

** [[Motherly Scientist]]: The ''other'' Fanon interpretation.

* [[The Medic]]: Eirin is Gensoukyou's resident doctor.

* [[Proud Scholar Race Girl]]: She calls humans too stupid to get her charms in IN during the Border Team scenario. Akyuu says she comes off as a jerk to people to who don't get what she's talking about/moron.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: At least reaches past her hips and she usually has it in a large braid. However, in the latest chapters of ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'', she has been seen wearing it loose.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Likely 2000+ years old, but some vague hints suggest she may be ''[[Time Abyss|older than humanity itself]]''. At the very least, she was instrumental in the founding of Lunar civilisation some tens of thousands of years ago.

* [[Shout-Out]]: One of her spellcards is named after ''[[The Game of Life]]''.

* [[Subordinate Excuse]]: Aside from the aforementioned betrayal and self-exile solely to be with Kaguya, she only manufactured the Hourai Elixer in the first place specifically because Kaguya asked her to do so.

* [[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.

* [[Badass Boast]]: "My five impossible requests that defeated so many humans in the past... how many can you fulfill!?"

* [[Cavalier Competitor]]: ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'' implies that she treats Mokou's feud with her like a game, whereas for Mokou it's [[Serious Business]].

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Her depiction in ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth''.

* [[The Collector]]: She somehow has all of the items she demanded as part of her famous Five Impossible Requests, despite the fact that no one ever found or brought her any of them. Whether or not she had them ''before'' making the requests, or collected them afterwards herself or came by them through some other means, is unknown.

** After ''Imperishable Night'', Kaguya starts expanding her Spellcard repetoire by collecting new items which are rare, unique or "impossible", including a wooden temple-ceiling that seems to be made of a single wooden panel... despite the fact that no tree could possibly be that big.

* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: It is stated that she kills Mokou back as often as Mokou kills her.

* [[Hikikomori]]: Rarely leaves Eientei, except to pick fights with Mokou - and even then, prefers to send assassins at her. This led to [[Memetic Mutation]] about her [[Fan Nickname]] NEET. But ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' reveals that Kaguya rather wants to leave the mansion, explore Gensokyo and interact with its people... or at least find something to do.

** ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' implies that Kaguya most likely spent a great many years using her power of Eternity to make Eientei unchanging and undetectable, never leaving the mansion during that time. A very extreme extension of the lifestyle.

* [[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.

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Somewhat more masculine-looking than most other characters, and one of the very few ones who wear trousers rather than a skirt or dress.

* [[Bonus Boss]]

* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: She and Kaguya are constantly killing each other... with absolutely no success, since both are immortal anyway. Some [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] have them getting some kind of [[Catharsis Factor|catharsis]] from fighting each other. There is evidence this is true for Mokou at least, her character profile referring to their eternal stalemate as "magnificent", and in a chapter of ''Cage In Lunatic Runagate'' Mokou makes reference to "The joys of killing each other over and over."

* [[Demonic Possession]]: Her survival card, Possessed By Phoenix. Mokou's not-quite-yet resurrected spirit possesses the player's team, causing them to manifest her usual phoenix-wing aura, which begins to produce bullet-shooting familiars to attack the player.

** Same case for her hair.

* [[The Phoenix]]: The symbolism that Mokou uses. Whether she actually is possessed by a phoenix in never made clear.

* [[Power Gives You Wings]]

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: It grows all the way down to the soles of her feet.

* [[Shaping Your Attacks]]: Some of her spell cards shoot blasts of fire shaped like birds.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Often seen smoking in fanart. It's not like she has to worry about the health effects. All started with side-story where she mentions cigarettes as the cause of a forest fire, which was in fact almost certainly started by her and Kaguya during one of their battles. Somehow fans assumed this means Mokou smokes.

* [[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.

 

 

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: She can either be very determined in getting photos, or very [[The Ditz|ditzy]]. [[Cloudcuckoolander|She's portrayed in both canon/fanon as mostly ditzy]].

* [[Blow You Away]]: As a crow tengu, she has the traditional fan and the wind power to match.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Higan Retour ~ Riverside View".

* [[Money to Throw Away]]: Literally, as she uses coin danmaku. Maybe that's why the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]] is always broke.

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Of course.

* [[The Slacker]]

* [[Space Master]]: Her power is "manipulation of distance", which she uses during her job to change the width of the Sanzu river according to the deceased's life, as well as in the fighting games, to trap the opponents on one spot so she can scythe and coin them to death.

* [[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.

* [[Psychopomp]]

* [[She's Got Legs]]: Any fan interpretation that does not depict her as a kid depicts her this way.

* [[Super Strength]]: The Rod of Remorse that Eiki holds takes on the weight of a person's sins. But no matter who she faces, the rod is never so heavy that Eiki cannot hold it up. She is the Highest Judge of Paradise, after all.

** Alternatively, it may be that it's only heavy to the sinner. So to Eiki, who by job description would be nearly sinless, the rod would be feather-light.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: She calls ''everyone'' out, mainly out of concern that everyone's going to go to Hell [[Fate Worse Than Death|or worse]] if they don't change their ways right now.

 

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