Touhou Character Bio thread.

Reimu Hakurei

Species: Human
Age:?? Perhaps mid-to late-teens
Abilites: Flight, Summoning power of the Gods, Manipulation of Auras, her spiritual power.
Location: Hakurei shrine
Occupation: Shrine Maiden
Friends or ally to most of the cast.

Reimu is the first main character of the series, having been seen since the first game. She holds the responsibility to maintain her shrine through followers and donations, the first shrine in Gensokyo, keep the Hakurei Barrier intact and solve any disturbance as well as exterminate youkai as past Hakureis have. However Reimu doesn't exterminate youkai rather knock them out when a incident occurs. Reimu powers have grown to be close to godlike since the first game. It was not till the six game did she learn how to fly and use her own spiritual powers to her best. Because she had (there are 4 religions now) the only shrine she is either called on or called herself to handle a disturbance to Gensokyo. Of course this has not changed even with the presence of other religions now as she is the expert of solving incidents.

Reimu has an easygoing, curious, dutiful and optimistic personality. As such many of people in Gensokyo see Reimu as sympathetic and even many of those she fights in the games stay as an enemy to her. This has two effects, one good and one not so. Because she never use her power to exterminate youkai, her shrine has become the local hang out for many of the other characters in the series to visit. Of course as many humans are afraid to be near youkai Reimu's shrine is hardly to never visited by normal humans from the human village, causing a loss of donations.

Reimu is always proving her increased power with each game. During the early years of the series, Reimu was a weak human. She couldn't hurt eneimies at the start and had to rely on the Hakurei shrine's ying-yang orbs for power. Reimu even had to rely on a familiar to fly. By the six game Reimu had learned to fly on her own and as time went on grew to use her own power in battle, Though she still uses the orbs, and talismans to channel her power.

Marisa Kirisame

Species: Human
Age?? Perhaps the same as Reimu
Abilities: Flight with a broom, Extremely powerful magic, a wielder of the master sark spell.
Location: Kirisame home in the Forest of Magic
Occupation: Magician, Kirisame Magic Shop owner, burglar, part-time youkai hunter(like Reimu, no killing)
(sorry no house picture)
Marisa is the second main character of the series having appeared in the second game and all but one game. She and Reimu are long time friends and is also a expert of incidents, though the two are sometimes against each other with incidents. However unlike Reimu who solves incidents as job and duty as a shrine maiden, Marisa does it by getting involved in every incident out of curiosity. Marisa is a known hard worker, wanting to catch up with Reimu through training and developing her magic. This fact makes her a more normal human compared to other humans in the game as Marisa works for her power then being naturally talented(Reimu) or some ability(Sakuya and Sanae). Marisa dresses like the western witch style and her broom may be for show than flight.

Marisa may be considered a stealing hoarder. She collects thing and never throws them away so her home is easily the messiest in Gensokyo, this includes books and items that she may not know are worth fortunes.

Marisa has a straight forward, sometimes disagreeable personality. She may also be a genius in math and is famous for her spell Master spark: a large laser of pure magic that well here:
Marisa's lesson of how to "Spark"

• Concentrate your mind
  
  
  
  
  
• Mutter the spell to Mini-Hakkero tenderly
  
  
  
  
  
• Aim at someone you don't like
  
  
  
  
  
• Now unleash your annihilation of love!
  
  
  
  
  

Finally she is the author of the Grimoire of Marisa: A book of her studies on the power of the people she has met, and fought and her own spellcards.

Yukari Yakumo

Species: Youkai (expect a human again? )
Age:????? Older than Gensokyo's history. Might be the oldest resident.
Abilities: Manipulation of ALL boundaries and conceptuals. I.e. she can be in France, U.S.A and wherever you all are at any moment. Lose something?
Locations: Somewhere along Gensokyo's boundaries. Might have a house. Has a dimension to herself.
Occupation: Sleeps most of the time.
Family: Ran Yakumo: Shikigami and Chen Yakumo: Ran's Shikigami

Yukari may be the oldest in Gensokyo, but she is the strongest Youkai there. She lives the youkai life of enjoyment and long living. Though she rarely leaves her home, Yukari is well known, and friends with some of Gensokyo's powerful youkai, friend of Reimu and anyone who has a dealing with Gensokyo and our world. Also it was found that she gave herself the name Yukari Yakumo and her original name is unknown, in fact her name may have a meaning to boundaries with double rainbows as a reference and the phrase:violet forms the boundary between the sky and the rainbow.

Yukari is not someone to mess with. Though she sleeps a lot Yukari is a intelligent genius who never uses her full power on anyone, instead toying with them at their level. Out of anyone human, youkai or whatever, Yukari fits the mastermind role has vast insight on what happens in Gensokyo. While she may seem unreliable if Gensokyo is at stake where even Reimu is not enough, Yukari will step in directly and get involved, even if she has to use others to do it. Yukari is a heroine, villain, or whatever fits her needs, even if it is weird. In the Immaterial and Missing Power Yukari actually sings her way to victory in her battles and steals ALL of Gensokyo's wine, sake, and brandy. Somehow this will end the incident? Apparently it worked in her scenario.

A thousand years ago Yukari massed a large army of youkai and invaded the moon (I'll explain it later) and were forced out by the Lunarians and their high grade technology and magic. Since then no youkai has ever tried to expand their territory. Some think Yukari was power-hungry while others believed it was to teach youkai a key lesson: Don't invade anywhere!

When it comes to our world Yukari knows much of the tech we use. Since she controls boundaries, Yukari can leave and return to Gensokyo at will. She is the only one who could tell what and how to use a IPod, and seems to also know how to play a Nintendo GameBoy and DS. Once Marisa Saw Yukari talking into a small-box to Ran Yakumo. It is debatable whether they are using cell phones or walkie-talkies. Due to her vast knowledge of our world it seems Yukari may live here from time to time.


Yukari has been seen in two outfits. She has purple full body purple dress she wears as casual attire and a pink one with a Ba Gua symbol (as seen in her image) which is her work attire when she commands her shikigami's or anything that is defined as business for her.

Ran Yakumo

Species: Kitsune
Age.??? Considering Kitsune mythology and her 9 tails Ran may be 800+ years
Abilities: Black Magic master, Can perform Shikigami rituals.
Occupation: Yukari's Shikigami
Location: The Boundary of Gensokyo, Wherever Yukari lives
Yukari: Master Chen: Shikigami to Ran

When Yukari is busy or sleepy, it is Ran who runs the Yakumo household. Yukari sleeps for 12 hours normally so Ran has to run things with the help of Chen, Ran's Shikigami. She knows how to do any household chore and is quite smart, as Ran can solve complex math equations in her head. She is very loyal to Yukari as she has been serving her for a long time. The two always have a way to communicate which other through Yukari's gaps but Ran has the freedom to do what she wants. Ran also has a well-rounded personality because she is a youkai.

Ran is not a natural youkai. She was originally a fox turned youkai and when she was found by Yukari, Ran was made into a Shikigami by Yukari to serve her. Being a Shikigami also means that Yukari gave Ran her name. As time went on Ran was getting stronger and becoming a master of black magic. Ran's power is so strong that she was able to make her own Shikigami, a cat called Chen, as Ran's own. So the Yakumo family goes like this: Master, Shikigami, Shikigami to a Shikigami. However since Ran is a youkai her form is still the same, and Ran is very powerful even without the added powers of being a Shikigami.

Ran Yakumo is a kitsune youkai. In the Kistune Mythology every 100 years a kitsune grows a new tail. So Ran since has 9 tails, that should make Ran somewhere in the 800 year range. Assuming Ran follows Kistune folklore Ran should begin to lose her tails until Ran has 4 tails. At that point Ran will be considered a "Tenko" (heaven) type of fox where Ran will be one step away from finding divinity.

Since Ran is Yukari's Shikigami, Ran has access to the Netherworld, ruled by Yuyuko who is a long time friend of Yukari. When it is spring, Ran goes to the Netherworld to watch the cherry blossoms, which the Netherworld is full of, bloom.

Cirno

Species: Fairy, specifically ice fairy
Age:??? It is implied that she is at least 60 or older though that makes her a child in youkai terms
Abiliteas: Manipulation of chill, cold, ice.
Locations: Anywhere that is cold, and Misty Lake near the Scarlet Devil Mansion
Occupation:??? Does freezing frogs, and fighting count?
Title: THE STRONGEST! (self-proclaimed, but may be true among fairies)

Cirno is a tomboy child. She has the personality of a child so not much to explain. She love to fight and prove her strength to people she meets. However as fairies are the normal enemies of the series, Cirno is not that strong when compared to many other characters. As such her habit of picking fights for no reason has backed fired a few times when her opponents are way out of her league, mainly Reimu and Marisa. Cirno really has no intention on anything more than playing danmaku with people so when it comes to incidents it can be a mere stroke of chance to either find her or have Cirno find Reimu, Marisa and whoever else are trying to solve an incident. However as the series moved on Cirno began to lose her fighting habits and admit her own weakness. Though she is still a child. Cirno also is sometimes a kind person and bit of crier. She cries very easily.

Cirno's involvement with incidents has not to end them but to pick fights or play. In the six game she attacked either Reimu or Marisa (depends on who you pick) out of instinct. Were she was beaten easily. Then in the seventh game she appears again to get revenge from the six game, but was beaten again. In the ninth game (yay 9) in her scenario Cirno was just playing with the flowers that bloomed en mass all over Gensokyo and got tangled in the incident by everyone who was investigating it (the ninth game has a large cast). Everyone who found Cirno had no reason to put up with a fairy and either fought her or Cirno made the first move. This lead her to accidentally find the yama Judge Shiki and ended up fighting her to save her own life. However this time Cirno knew how often the ninth game incident happened before anyone else did.

Cirno once tried to capture a spirit of fear and prove her strength and the she had no fear. Though that failed when her journey took her right into the reactor core of the Hell of Blazing Fires where she fought the highly dangerous, nuclear fusion wielder Reiuji Utsuho came to kill Cirno. Cirno ended up fighting long enough to get the hell out of there before she melts. Finally Cirno declared war on three troubling fairies who had the idea to get Cirno to help them attack the Human village. Why did Cirno declare war? Because those three idiots destroyed Cirno's house! A civil fairy war breaks out and Cirno takes out everyone and even fought Marisa who wanted to know what was going on and thought Cirno make a good challenge. Cirno actually defeated Marisa but Marisa claimed that she wasn't trying. (Riiight )

Cirno is not the brightest person in Gensokyo but not the dumbest as some previously thought. After the ninth game Cirno showed more intelligence and was losing her fighting tendencies. She was acknowledging her limits. Cirno, unlike some characters can read and she knows basic math such as rounding and fractions.

Cirno's favorite hobby is to freeze frogs and watch them thaw out in the water alive. However she has not quite got it right as 1/3 tries end up with the frogicle shattering. This was okay till Reimu warned Cirno that doing that would anger Suwako Moriya, a newer resident in Gensokyo and a goddess who loves frogs and outfit has frog patterns on it. However Cirno still does and that does tick off Suwako to no end and created a rivalry.

Lastly in the fandom a holiday for Cirno was created on September 9 2009 called Cirno day based of the number 9 a symbol to Cirno and somehow everything can be in some way connected to 9 (try coming up with every math problem that leads to 9). This day occurs every September 9.

Yuyuko Saigyouji

Species: Ghost
Age: Dead, Existed for 1000 years
Ablilties: Manipulation of Death, Controls souls of the dead
Occupation: Ghost Princess of the netherworld
Location: Hakugyokurou (Tower of White Jade) in the netherworld
Friend: Yukari Yakumo, Servant: Youmu Konpaku

This woman truly knows how to love being dead. Yuyuko is a rare ghost in that she still keeps her human appearance. Though human fear her for her power, Yuyuko is a cheerful person. She is a beautiful woman with a good-humor, playful personality with a charm that takes away any aggression you can have at her. She will at times throw out strange remarks that sometimes make no sense at all and tends to overlook the obvious. This makes her seem innocent, a bit dumb and an airhead. Fun fact about her. She isn't

Yuyuko, next to Yukari is another mastermind in Gensokyo. Yuyoko's innocence in fact is a façade as she knows everything, possesses a cunning and perceptive side and pull the strings from behind. However Yuyuko never takes anything too serious and she love to tease her servant Youmu, who is the opposite of Yuyuko in many ways. Yukari Yakumo and Yuyuko are LONG time friends, having known each other when Yuyuko was alive, and Yukari visits the netherworld to see her friend.

Yuyuko has a bit of a sad story about her death. When she was a human she possess the power to kill people and it was something she feared in life. At some point in time she committed suicide. Her body was then used in a ritual to seal Saigyouji Ayakashi, a massive cherry blossom tree youkai who's beautiful petals would invite humans to sleep/die under it's shade. This was why Yuyuko did not move on to either Heaven or Hell and why she looks like a human. As Yuyuko is bound to the tree as it's seal. The Cherry blossom can never fully bloom and so it looks like a dead tree aside from spring due to the seal. After a thousand years Yuyuko has since forgotten her human life, why the tree was sealed, and how she died. It does not bother her and it may be best if she never knows why.

Yuyuko's power is to invite mortals to death. As long as someone has a life span, she can kill that person. Her death power is useless on gods, dead or immortals. Her death power traps people as ghost in the netherworld, and those ghosts can never leave. However Yuyuko is responsible with her power and never uses it as a weapon, in spite or fun. As such most of the ghosts in the netherworld ended up there as their new homes after being judged by the forces of judgment. Also because she lives in the netherworld, to go there is the same as being dead so immortals can't enter there, though mortals can.

If you invite Yuyuko to a party, get a ton of food. She is known for a incredible appetite and has a food or food-related metaphor for just about anything. In fact Yuyuko kinda....ate the second stage boss Mystia Lorelei in the 8 game: Imperishable Night. Mystia is alive though!

Eirin Yagokoro

Species: Lunarian
Age: At least 1500. Very old and helped build the Lunar society
Abilities: Maker of all types of medicine, including cures. Is a very intelligent genius.
Occupation: Pharmacist
Location: Eientei,
Mistress: Kaguya Houraisan, Apprentice: Reisen Udongein Inaba

The genius of medicine form the Moon. Eirin's name holds a large importance to the Lunarians even if she is a fugitive. As Eirin helped build the Lunar society, was the leading medical mind and was in charge of the emissaries to the Earth. She is generally a pleasant person but because of her high intelligence won't stand idiots. Eirin will come off as impatient, conceited, and condescending to those who can't follow her instructions fast. Eirin comes from a long line of medical geniuses and she herself is exceptionally intelligent even to her family.

Eirin's greatest and top secret medical achievement was the creation of the Hourai Elixir. By using the exiled princess Kaguya's power over Eternity and Eirin's knowledge the Hourai Elixir the potion of 100% pure immortally. One can't age, never become sick and can't die. The drinker will be as vulnerable as before but any injury will heal in short time. Even complete destruction will not kill the drinker but they will have to go through full restoration. The effect is permanent and it takes three tastes to get the full effect, also Eirin likely made it irreversible. However it is not the Elixir that makes one immortal, in a short sense the drinker is a being that is 100% independent from all concepts of life, not bound to life, death even manipulation. As such making it is forbidden and only three people are confirmed to have taken it. Eirin is a subject to debate, a never directly, lost in translation speech in the 8 game has Eirin taking it herself and a Lunarian's lifespan is shortened by the impurities of Earth so how can she be alive so long on Earth is questionable. Only in the book Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth has Eirin getting sick, something a Hourai drinker can't be. As of now only the originally Elixir was made and it is unknown where it is.

The reason Eirin is wanted was because at the wish of Kaguya who was the Lunar who princess asked Eirin to make it and Kaguya took the Elixir, being banished as a result and after Kaguya's time was up Eirin along with others were sent to bring the princess back. However Eirin turned against the Lunarians and murdered the others instead. What happened later is with Kaguya's summary.

As of now Eirin is Gensokyo's preferred pharmacist/doctor who makes all types of medicine and works on new medicine and with the help of Eirin's apprentice Reisen, sells the medicine to those who need it. Eirin's latest creation is a pill to help induce pleasant dreams at night however it is still not a popular medicine.

Remilia Scarlet

Species: Vampire
Age: Around 500 or more. Born in 1502
Abilites: All those of a vampire, shapshiting into bats, Manipulation of Fate. Wielder of the Gungnir the Norse spear of Odin.
Occupation: Mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
Location: The Scarlet Devil Mansion
Title: The Scarlet Devil
Sister: Flandre Scarlet, Assistant/Head Maid: Sakuya Izayoi, Gatekeeper: Hong Meiling, Friend: Patchouli Knowledge


Remilia Scarlet is one powerful vampire. Remilia is not native to Asia but from some part of Europe. Why did she and her sister move to Japan is unknown as well as how long she has been in Gensokyo as well as the mansion. Despite being 500 years old, Remilia has the personality of a selfish brat. Though someone can becomes friends with her, though she is not the kind of friend someone normally wants either. She claims to be the descendant of Vlad "Dracula" Tepes, but this is a flat-out lie to seem more noble and feared. However she is very powerful and dangerous. She is called the Scarlet Devil for her magical power and reputation. Also she hates sardine heads and garlic, however if hates means weak against is something she knows

As a vampire she is sensitive to photos and sunlight and the Scarlet Mansion has few windows and is lit by other non-sunlight things. She normally stays indoors the mansion during the day(She carries a parasol for the day) and comes out at night. She can turn into bats but can't hide her wings so she can't hide her vampire form. Also like any vampire Remilia needs to drink blood to survive and she goes to feed when she wants. However unlike some vampires who suck the blood of their victims dry, Remilia is a light eater and her victims are left feeling a little anemic at most, and stay alive. One reason her attire is red is from the fact that Remilia spills out more blood than she needs and the blood dyes her clothes. Meaning that her outfit may have been white. Crosses have no effect on Remilia and she wonders where the idea that vampires are weak against crosses came from. Also she has a strong constitution and as long as something remains, Remilia can regenerate and Type-B blood is her favorite.

As for Manipulation of Fate and why, how does she wield the Gungnir is unknown. Some believe she has a unconscious control of Fate as if she used it Remilia never would have been defeated by Reimu in the six game. However it is hinted that she manipulated Sakuya's fate in a way to be more liked by humans. If true then she may just rarely use her power over Fate. As for the Gungnir is a mystery, though it does have great magical power and the power to hit it's wielder's target.

Why is Remilia's head maid a human? Sakuya's past is a mystery and how she went to serve Remilia is a debate. Considering how unlikely a human becomes the willing servant to a vampire a theory holds that Sakuya was a vampire hunter and that Sakuya and Remilia once fought each other. The result is that Remilia won the battle and Sakuya became Remilia's servate as the result. Also Sakuya Izayoi is not Sakuya's real name, but one that was given to her by Remilia.

Apparently Remilia and her sister were not the only vampires in Gensokyo. Remilia once stated that when she first arrived she had killed all the other vampires. However Remilia later said some facts were lies and this statement about killing others vampires may be a lie.

When Remilia can't handle an incident herself or gets annoyed she will send Sakuya to solve it for her.

Sakuya Izayoi

Species: Human
Age:?? Between 16-20 by her looks
Abilites: Manipulation of Time, Space, Master of knife combat, throwing
Occupation: Head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
Location: Scarlet Devil Mansion (Picture for Remilia only)
Mistress: Remila Scarlet, Mistress sister: Flandre Scarlet, Fellow employee: Hong Meiling

Not much can be said of Sakuya's personality. She is a very loyal person to her vampire mistress Remilia and will do whatever she says without hesitation. As the head maid it is Sakuya's role to ensure the upkeep of the mansion and attend to Remilia as her personal assistant. Sakuya still does what a normal maid does and when an incident annoys Remilia, Sakuya is sent out to fix it as Remilia can't leave the Mansion in daylight without what is commonly seen in fandom a umbrella. Sakuya is also the only human Remilia's younger sister, Flandre Scarlet has contact with, due to Flandre's world destroying powers.

Sakuya can control time and space as well as knives when she fights with a mastery in them. When using time and her knives the idea is that she stops or slows time to throw her knives midair and have time flow normally to hit her targets. First Sakuya does not have unlimited supply of knives. When she runs out of knives Sakuya says she freezes time to pick up the ones she threw. When controlling time Sakuya has been shown to manipulate any aspect of time. So far Sakuya can stop, slow, possibly reverse and fast forward time. She once made bamboo flowers bloom instantly, something that takes 60 years to do. With Space Sakuya has done by enlarging the inside of the mansion and may have to do with her large supply of knives (you can't carry 100 knives in a European maid outfit with no pants).

Sakuya has several things about her. First Sakuya Izayoi is not her real name and was given to her by Remilia Scarelet. As the Head maid and since the Mansion's staff is mostly maids there only a few people have more authority than Sakuya. Second is her cooking. Since Remilia and her younger sister Flandre Scarelet are vampires, their food requires blood and Sakuya is the one to prepare their meals. How Sakuya does that is a complete mystery, since she can cook many high class western style dishes and tea which one would never notice what the food contains, it looks like any normal food. In the 9 game where flowers bloomed en mass Sakuya mentions how she can use the flowers to make as much tea and pastries as she wants.

Sakuya has certainly been questioned if she really is a human at all. Reimu during their first encountered questioned Sakuya's humanity. Also her powers and the fact that she is the only human in the Scarlet Mansion does raise the question.

Finally Sakuya won't donate to Reimu's shrine under the reason that Sakuya doesn't believe in gods. (There are two actual gods in Gensokyo and considering that you can go to heaven, hell and back and all the other stuff that would throw the world back a few centuries that is quite some ignorance.)

Satori Komeiji

Species: Satori
Age:??
Abilities: Can read the heart and conscience of all beings
Occupation: Misstress of the Palace of the Earth Spirits.
Location: Palace of the Earth Spirits
Sister: Koishi Komeiji, Pets: Rin Kaenbyou, and Reiuji Utsuho
Palace room


The girl most people hate and fear but animals love is Satori. It is not that people hate Satori for her power but that she keeps invading your thoughts and finishing your sentences. A person would hate her for that than her personality, which is hard to describe other than showing emotions is not a thing she will show often. However her mind reading power makes her loved by animals who can't speak and the Palace became a hub for animals in old Hell to reside. Her pets are the only ones who go there as every spirit, youkai, oni etc stay away from the Palace and Satori.

When the underground city became separated from modern Hell, a number of evil spirits still remained in old Hell and had to be controlled. So it was Satori who took the role to control the evil spirits and built the Palace above the former Hell of Blazing Fires and when her large number of pets were making it hard for her to control the spirits, Satori decided to trust some of the management to her pets. So some of her pets tend to other pets, some tend to Satori's gardens and others would play with Satori's younger sister, Koishi Komeiji, who comes and go whenever she wants. As far as it is known only two of her pets, Rin Kaenbyou and Reiuji Utsuho work with the old Hell's fire's and evil spirits.

When Satori uses her powers on someone it would usually begin by reading your memories and finding out everything your subconscious doesn't protect. She does this with her third eye, that red eye hanging on her left chest attached to her wrists, and headband. People can't keep secrets or lie to her as Satori will read your mind to tell the truth. An annoying aspect is that Satori keeps on reminding people she can read minds. Perhaps Satori's biggest regret of reading minds (and the fandom has used this a lot) is that she may find some thoughts that contains perverted desires and very adult thoughts directed at her.

Satori may be one the most powerful stage 4 bosses of the Touhou series. This is because Satori can copy the spell cards from other much stronger youkai such as Yukari, Yuyuko etc and use them against her targets. Satori has in total 76 spell cards making her the only character to have the most spells in a single game. However only her first spell card belongs to her and the rest are copies from the Reimu or Marisa's supporting characters (Satori has three varying copies of your support character across the four difficulties including her own.)

Koishi Komeiji

Species: Satori
Age:??
Abilities: Manipulation of the Subconscious
Occupation: None. She wonders the world aimlessly
Loocation: Palace of the Earth Spirits, Wherever she wants to go
Satori Komeiji: Older sister Orin: Satori's pet Okuu: Satori's pet

The girl who runs from hate. Koishi is Satori's younger sister and was once a resident of Old Hell. She left everyone for the upper world and to perhaps see ours. Why? That is something she knows. No one knows what Koishi is thinking, or what her personality really is. Not even her older sister Satori, who can read minds, can tell. The reason why Satori can't tell is because Koishi is far stronger than her sister, and while Satori read the conscious, Koishi can act on the subconscious.

Koishi and Satori shared the same mind reading power. As with Satori, Koishi was hated for reading minds and unlike her older sister, Koishi couldn't handle it. So Koishi thought of an easy solution: Koishi closed her third eye, the eye that allows mind reading, forever. Koishi lost her mind reading powers, but gained the power to act on the subconscious. As such people no longer hated her, but they did not fear her, and animals no lingered loved her. Now people take pity on her.

To seal her eye had another setback. To read hearts makes one's own heart stronger. Because Koishi closed her third eye to stop people's hatred to her, what she did was running away. By sealing her third eye Koishi sealed her own heart, pushing away other peoples feelings and shutting herself down, even her sister Satori and her own emotions.

Koishi wanders around for no reason. She thinks it is fun so there is nothing wrong with that. But people pity her. Since no one can read her mind, Satori has no idea where Koishi is or what she does. Koishi returns to Satori's home when she feels like it and leaves for the same reason. However Satori tries to get Koishi to reopen her eye, by will and not force. So Satori has some of her pets play with Koishi and has given some for Koishi to raise. It has worked slightly, but Koishi has changed more after the 11 game, when a certain shrine maiden or witch made Koishi regret closing her third eye.

Her power is a bit hard to explain. In a sense....if there was a person next to you notice and then that person disappeared. Like that. Koishi is invisible to the conscious and no one can see her. She wonders the world while passing people who minds can't even detect her presence. Now she use her power to investigate humans, who she finds an interesting species.

Rin Kaenbyou. Nickname Orin

Species: Kasha
Age: ?? (expect this a lot)
Abilities: Power to take corpses, and control the evil spirits of Hell
Occupation: Controller of the spirits in the Hell Of Blazing Fires
Location: Hell of Blazing Fires, Palace of the Earth Spirits.
Master: Satori Komeiji, Friend: Reiuji Utsuho

A dangerous cat to be around. Orin is a kasha and one of Satori's pets. Her name in English is literally Phosphorus Blazing cat, which makes sense since she lives in old hell. Being a animal naturally Orin was drawn to Satori, since Satori mind reading enables her to understand animals. In a family structure Satori is the parent and Orin and the other pets are children. Orin has been alive for a long time and may have turned into a kasha through long life. In fact she is really a cat, just that she can turn into a human with cat ears and two tails, Though she prefers being a cat. Orin hates long names so she has everyone call her Orin. What is freaking weird is that in her human from Orin has FOUR ears! Two cat ears and two human ones. Why is that?

Despite being an animal Orin is well spoken and can talk to the evil spirits in old Hell. As such Satori has tasked Orin to control the spirits. She also takes hold of the corpses of recently dead sinners which is how she can trap new spirits. If she can get a corpse Orin gets a new soul. A souls trapped by Orin is forever stuck in old Hell and can go to the afterlife. Though Orin does take care to be respectful to corpses. Orin is commonly seen with a wheelbarrow which is best assumed contains a new corpse she found and brings to old Hell. So in a sense Orin is the undertaker of old Hell. If you plan on dying near old Hell, make sure your corpse is not retrievable unless you want to be stuck with Orin forever.

Despite her looks Orin is like a child. Satori is seen and acts like a parent figure to her pets. So the fear of Satori punishing her "children" for wrongdoings does cross Orin's mind like any other child. This includes secrets as well, though that makes little sense since Satori can read minds. Also Satori would never punish her pets seriously. In fact if Orin did not think that Satori would punish her pets, Orin would not have caused the 11 game incident. Long story short Orin did some forbidden power and sent Evil spirits into the upper world to get a powerful youkai to stop the problem Orin found involving her friend Reiuji.

Orin is one of the most persistent Touhou bosses. She attacks the player in three stages as a mid-boss as well as stage boss.

Daiyousei

Species: Fairy
Age: ?? Perhaps young
Abilities: ??
Occupation: ??
Location: Misty Lake
Friend: Cirno

Not much can be said of this fairy here. Daiyousei is one of the fairies who are slightly stronger than the regular weak fairies of the series. By no means is Daiyousei strong like Cirno, who is a rare case among fairies. Like the majority of fairies Daiyousei is simple, cheerful, emotional and mischievous.

Originally this character had no name. The name Daiyousei was a fan nickname for her since Daiyousei means Greater Fairy due to being a mid-boss fairy being stronger than regular fairies. Possibly due to her name some fandoms refer to Daiyousei as the leader or high ranking elder to fairies around the lake.

Her relationship with Cirno is mostly fan made. This may be due to Daiyousei being the mid-boss of Cirno's stage in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and in the comic Strange and Bright Nature Deity where the two were seen playing hide and seek. Fandoms tend to depict Daiyousei as being Cirno's older sometime mature sister, not by blood of course. In that manner Daiyousei is commonly seen as timid, shy, and very kind especially to Cirno. An opposite to Cirno's personality but as the saying goes: Opposite attract.

Another nickname for her comes from her appearance as an extra stage mid-boss in the Great Fairy Wars called DIE-yousei. This was done for her enhance difficulty compared to last appearance in the 6 game. The personality associated is that she is darker or angry.

Shikieki Yamaxanadu

Speicies: Yama
Age: Immortal. Age Unknown
Abilites: Can distintly judge anything to be good or evil.
Occupation: Judge of the dead
Location: Hell, Sometimes in Higan
Subordinate: Komachi Onozuka

The serious judge of right and wrong. Yamaxanadu is one of the gods whose job is to judge and decide the fate of the dead. She takes her job very serious and her word is final to the dead. Her real name is Shiki Eiki and Yamaxanadu is a title for yamas. Being immortal for a long time and being a judge has made her a smart, and keen person. Actions speak louder than words, though with Shiki her words and actions are very much the same.

As a judge of the dead Shiki has to examine the faults of the deceased brought to her. Unlike us humans who view of right and wrong vary by person, Shiki has a define definition of the two. Her definition is hard to describe. When Shiki examines a crime, she will take ALL factors into consideration, the seriousness of the crime, the reason the crime was committed, personal history etc. However despite how complex her view is the result is always to things. You're good, or you're evil, and her word is final. If you lied in life and meet Shiki, if you want to be seen as good, don't let her find out you lied. Though that is harder to do then you think.

Her job has made Shiki a Moralistic person. It is not enough for her to judge people, Shiki also tries to correct people. She usually will lecture people on their errors and tell them how to improve them. Though she sounds harsh, Shiki is a compassionate person who just wants to see people better themselves. Shiki does not discriminate between the humans and youkai of Gensokyo as Shiki once told the powerful flower youkai Yuuka Kazami to scare humans as youkai do and Reimu to stop youkai as shrine maidens do. To Shiki it is to just do your job.

Shiki has a boat-rowing reaper named Komachi bring the dead to Shiki. To both Shiki's and Komachi's displeasure the two are a bit of an annoyance to each other. Reason being Komachi is lazy at her job and Shiki has to lecture Komachi about it.

According to Komachi, Shiki was originally a jizou statue, that after receiving enough faith to gain divine power, was promoted to a yama. As to who promoted Shiki if anyone is unknown.

An interesting fact is the background to Shiki's spellcards is Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment". Fitting really since to the dead Shiki really is the one who give the dead their "Last Judgment"

Momiji Inubashiri

Species: White Wolf Tengu
Age: Less than 1000 years
Abilities: Power to see extremely far distances
Occupation: To patrol and guard Youkai Mountain
Location: Youkai Mountain
Chief: Lord Tenma, Colleagues: Aya Shameimaru, Hatate Himekaidou

The white wolf of the mountain. Momiji is of the wolf species of  tengus who live in the Youkai Mountain. She like some others are employed to keep trespassers out of the mountain, though Momiji is located near the top of the mountain near a waterfall. Momiji  has a cooperative personality and is quite the opposite of lazy when it comes to her job. This makes her a bit unusual compared to youkai but it is normal to the tengu society.

Momiji can see things at distances impossible for most people to even see. Hiding or getting past Momiji is not an easy task as the chances of her finding where you are is very high. Her senses are very sharp and she employs their use when she is patrolling.


If you think being a guard on a mountain is hard work. Well not really. Youkai Mountain has little to no trespassers overall so Momiji has a lot of free time on her hands even when she is patrolling. As a result Momiji will play a lengthy game of  Dai shogi ( a game similar to chess) with a kappa who is near the waterfall where Momiji guards while she awaits her orders. However when there is an intruder and Momiji finds that person, she will try to turn them back with simple attacks and if they get past her, Momiji will send a report to Lord Tenma of the intruder.

Apparently Momiji and the crow tengu Aya Shameimaru, will often get into fights whenever they meet. According to Aya, Momiji looks down at the crow tengu race though Momiji will serve the Tengu Lord faithfully. However another crow tengu Hatate Himekaidou  has countered Aya's claim by having Momiji as a person of high regard. To Hatate the issue between Aya and Momiji is a personal matter between the two than an matter of discrimination.

Yuuka Kazami

Species: Youkai
Age:?? Implied to be ancient
Abilities: Manipulation of flowers, can create small dimensions.
Occupation: Unknown. She care for her Flowers
Location: Now in the Garden of the Sun

The ever powerful and dangerous Yuuka. This woman is not friendly at all and will kill you. She has a love of all flowers and for her sunflowers are her favorite. Yuuka is a smart woman, and is manipulative and a really sharp liar. Also Yuuka always a smile that is both creepy and pleasant. Many people are wise to avoid contact with Yuuka and avoid very large patches of flowers. There are many people in Gensokyo who can kill humans fast, but most of them either wont' or can be talked out of killing you or scare you. However Yuuka is not one of them. Also Yuuka is the only one confirmed to destroy whole spaceships.

Yuuka's love of flowers comes from her power over them. Like Satori who can understand animals, Yuuka can understand flowers. However Yuuka can control flowers and she lives in the Garden of the Sun: A field full of sunflowers that has become a staple for Yuuka's power over flowers. She is seen as the owner and personality is to tend to the flowers. Fandoms make it so that Yuuka will blow a fuse if a flower is hurt by someone and sometimes the opposite if a hurt flower is tended by someone. However Yuuka does not like trespassers and her flowers will "watch" the trespasser for Yuuka. According to Yuuka, her umbrella is actually a flower and is the only one that will never wilt.

It is implied that Yuuka is a slight sadist. Her dialogue in the ninth game suggest that she likes to "tease" people by coming very close to killing them. Fandom has used this to make her dominating person and violent. In Japan Yuuka has earned the title of Ultimate Sadistic Creature or U.S.C. for short. Also in the games she has slow speed and is shown to compensate that with high power. Fandoms also show Yuuka with a soft spot for Cirno for some reason.

There are two things about Yuuka that needs to be said.

First Yuuka is one of the four Touhou characters from before ZUN was an solo indie developer. The other three are Reimu, Marisa, and Alice (who I'll write later) from the original five PC-98 games. Only these four have returned to the modern games albeit they had changes in looks and outfits. No dialogue from any of them in official games mention their past encounters as well but it can be assumed they do have recollection of each other.

Second: Marisa is not the creator of her famous Master Spark Spell. Yuuka possess one as well and a variation of it called Dual Spark: Two smaller beams fired at once. It is not sure who truly created the Master Spark but it is also contested that Yuuka is not the creator as well. A PC-98 character called Mima is thought to be the creator as well and has her own form of Master Spark too. So it is not known who created this powerful spell or how they possess it.

Lunasa, Merlin, Lyrica

Species: Poltergeists
Ages:??? Lunasa is the oldest, Merlin is the middle, and Lyrica is the youngest.
Abilities: Lunasa: Play the violin without contact to put on a melancholy performance. Merlin: Play the trumpet without contact for a manic performance.                                  Lyrica: Play the keyboard without contact for a illusionary performance
Occupation: Musicians
Location: Poltergeist Mansion
Creator: Layla Prismriver: Human (Deceased)

The three musicians of Gensokyo. These three sisters are musicians of the classical music in Gensokyo with a modern touch. Their different music talents enable them to preform at their best and are noisy yet popular depending on how you look at them. Lunasa is the oldest for being the most mature, Merlin is second and Lyrica is the youngest of them. Magic and music go hand in hand with them.

The emotion in each individual music represents each one's personality. Lunasa's melancholy music with the violin is to depress the spirit. Lunasa is the one who excels at everything with honesty and fairness, and she hates cheating. She has a dark personality and is a pessimist. Lunasa is highly skilled in string instruments and she prefers solo performances. Merlin's manic music with the trumpet is to uplift the souls. Merlin is erratic. Her magic is the strongest of the three but she often messes up with it. Merlin is the one who is always cheerful, never being depressed or sad, just happy. When Merlin likes something, she obsesses like a maniac. Though Merlin is skilled in brass and wind instrument she prefers the trumpet. Finally Lyrica who's music uses illusionary sounds lost to the world. Lyrica is a sly one who gets her sisters to fight because she does not like to fight alone. Lyrica is smart and uses minimal effort for maximum gain and she thinks three steps ahead. She is skilled with all types of instruments but prefers to use keyboards or percussion.

The sisters are artifical Poltergeists, meaning they were created by someone. The event that lead to their birth began a long and forgotten time ago. There was once a mansion in perhaps the outside world where there lived a rich man called Count Prismriver with his four daughters. The count loved his daughters and cherished them in a happy life. However this changed when an accident left the four daughters orphaned. With no family left the daughters left each other for a new life. However the fourth and youngest daughter named Layla Prismriver choose to stay in the mansion she held dear and using her magic, created three Poltergeists who resembled her older sisters. Then the mansion vanished. Of course since Layla was a human, as time went on she became old and died, leaving the mansion to her creations and the mansion soon became to be called Poltergeist Mansion, where music is always heard from.

The three are employed as musicians to the ruler of the Netherworld Yuyuko Saigyouji's family hired them for a music convention in exchange for flower viewing. Since then the Prismrivers are always requested for various events since they liven things up. Also they are always looking for new things in music and experiment with it. If you intend to go to their home, be mentally prepared for anything as there are mental risks to going to their mansion.

Alice Margatroid

Species: Magician. Was once a human
Age:?? Young for a youkai
Abilities: Magic, Puppeteer
Occupation: Magician
Location: Forest of Magic
Friend: Marisa, Dolls: Shanghai, Hourai, Goliath Doll

The master of puppetry. Alice is a interesting person in Gensokyo. She was once a human but found a way to become a magician youkai at some point through training and her unusual high-dexterity, which is even impressive in Gensokyo considering what lives here. Her personality is hard to describe but generally she is uncaring to other people and is at times obsessed with magic. Her uncaring nature means that she is alone and not a social person. Though Alice has a love of dolls and is seen with many of them. Alice pretends very hard she has a strong attitude but is a coward in her heart.

Alice and Marsia are very much alike, but that doesn't mean they are best friends. They are both magicians and very powerful with magic. Alice and Marisa both love to collect things, especially magic books which puts them at odds with each other sometimes. They both even live in the Forest of Magic, though they both have different uses for the forest famous mushrooms. Meaning Alice won't use them for anything like Marisa does. The biggest difference between Marisa and Alice is that while both are magicians, Alice is a magician by species than occupation like Marisa.

Dolls are Alice's passion. She has the power to control them and she makes dolls as well as collect old ones with backstories. Her house is full of dolls which is creepy even for the Forest of Magic, and people tend to run away from her home for that fact. Alice is very strong in magic and her dolls when she needs them act as support channel for her power and other purposes. One reason why Alice is often in her homw is to tend to her dolls due to  the humidity in the forest which damages the dolls. Alice has been trying to make a doll to tend to the others. However Alice may have not succeeded in making a fully independent doll and it is thought that when the dolls act like their self alive it is really Alice who is doing that to fool people. Alice is known to have three dolls, Shanghai, Hourai and the Goliath doll. However it is almost certain that the first two dolls were never ment to have names and it is suggested that the names of the dolls come from where they were made. The Golitah doll is Alice's giant new doll she made not long ago. It was tested out when Cirno met Alice once and, I really am not joking, Cirno won that fight. Afterwards the doll became an urban legend. Also her dolls are filled with gunpowder.

Alice is known for carrying a locked book with her. The book is believed to be the Grimoire of Alice, the book Alice had when she was a human. Here is the story about Alice. Alice is a PC-98 character like Reimu, Marisa, and Yuuka. She lived in the realm of Makai as a human child serving the god and creator of Makai, Shinki. When evils Demons started to show into Gensokyo, the latter three entered Makai for their own reasons. Inside they met Alice, who was a young child. She was not very strong and was defeated. After the incident in Makai was solved Alice returned with the grimoire and a higher power in magic and became a youkai as well. Like with the others there is no mention of their past years to each other.

The thing about Alice is that she does not like to use sheer power to win a battle and uses strategy instead and will follow this even if she loses. Alice also is called the Rainbow puppeteer because Alice belives in a connection with numbers, colors and power. Alice thought that Reimu's power level was 2/7s of Alice's because Reimu had only two colors on her outfit