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Touhou Youyoumu (Eastern Ghostly Dream)　Perfect Cherry Blossom


Character Settings & etc


	　

Team Shanghai Alice Leader ZUN
2003/08/17




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There's lots of extreme spoilers here, even about the ending.
Only look at it if you've given up on clearing it, or just don't mind that sort of thing.
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* Lovely Shrine Maiden of Paradise
Reimu Hakurei

She possess the ability to mainly fly in the air.

Basically, she's a shrine maiden. The shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, which is located on the boundary of Gensokyo.
The Hakurei Shrine exists in both Gensokyo and the world of humans at the same time.
The boundary is the home territory of the Hakurei Shrine. From both sides, it's located in very remote mountains from human villages, and is also kind of small, and has no known history or blessings. So it's no wonder that it rarely gets any visitors.
Inside the shrine, almost all foreign boundaries has been nullified. That alone should say that the Hakurei Boundary, the boundary between Gensokyo and the world of humans, is amazingly powerful.

Only those of the Hakurei have rules to follow in Gensokyo. Therefore, Reimu always wears clothes that's apparently some kind of uniform (she's supposed to have many other rules too, though...). Her daily routine consists of wearing red-white, staring at Gensokyo's sky from the edge of Gensokyo, and drinking tea.

By nature, Reimu can use various mysterious powers, but she doesn't use them or boast about them. Everything is, as is, after all.



An Ordinary Black Magician
Marisa Kirisame

Mainly she possesses the ability to use magic.

A bit of an ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She has a mania for collecting things.
It looks like her mania for collecting things is getting more serious after each year.

Her house, which she rarely invites anyone into by the way, is located in the forests of Gensokyo (a.k.a. Forest of Magic). It's a bit on the smallish side. The interior is extremely disordered, and would cause an avalanche of collected items if an earthquake hit.

When magic items are gathered in one place they tend to interfere with each other, causing their powers to amplify, weaken, or in some cases even develop completely different powers. Due to this fact, this house may hide items that even Marisa herself never imagined possible.

On another topic, the elixir she had been secretly developing during the winter ended up being too large for consumption. More improvement is required.




Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
Sakuya Izayoi

Mainly she possesses the ability to manipulate time.

She is a maid who works at the Scarlet Devil Mansion on the banks of a lake in Gensokyo for no salary.

She's kept quite busy in this mansion cleaning, commanding the other maids, cooking, and taking care of her mistress.

The mansion is unnecessarily large and has monotonous colors, so it's hard to tell things apart inside. Nobody would notice if an uninvited guest wandered inside and fell into a hole somewhere, undiscovered. Nobody would know if they were discovered and gotten rid of, either.

Somehow, this scarlet building doesn't seem out of place surrounded by the green of Gensokyo. It simply stands there as if it were always meant to be there.

Living here, even Sakuya feels as if time has stopped. Of course, that's not because Sakuya has stopped time.



Youkai of the Ice
Cirno

Stage 1 midboss, a youkai of ice that likes cold places.
Mainly she possess the ability to manipulate of cold.

She didn't have any specific reason for attacking Reimu and company, so she attacked them just for being there.

Cirno radiates chilling air from herself, whether it be summer or winter, so the air around her is always cold. It's cold in the spring as well of course. Autumn too.




What Winter Left Behind
Letty Whiterock

Stage 1 boss. A youkai that appears out of  nowhere during winter. She possess the ability to manipulate cold.

Letty is happiest during winter. She gets in the way of Reimu and her companions because they threaten to put an end to her time of greatest happiness.

However, Letty and her friends, which suffer from hay fever, know well that spring, a season of depression, comes every year. She accepts that fact and never attacks players seriously.

When spring comes, she will disappear to unknown whereabouts.



Black Cat of Bad Omens
Chen

Stage 2 Boss, a bakeneko living in a mountain possessed as a shikigami. She possesses the ability to handle sorcery.

Her true form is Ran's shikigami, which makes her a shikigami of a shikigami of a youkai. Although she's a shikigami, she's often not in a form of ofuda or something like that. She usually looks the same, which makes distinguishing the forms hard. Even without being in shikigami possession she can speak the human language and fly around, but she would merely have the ability to the extent of surprising people. Also, while not being possessed, neither her appearance nor personality changes, but she still curls up by a kotatsu in the winter.

In shikigami form, this bakeneko-figure acquires the fearsome power of a wrathful god. But because her master is a shikigami as well, her power is fairly low.

Getting touched by water dispels her shikigami possession. As a bakeneko her normal form also hates water, so she is always weak against water.


*Seven-Colored Puppeteer
Alice Margatroid

The stage 3 boss, kinda ordinary magician.
Mainly she possess the ability to handle magic.

She is a versatile magician, that has no specific strong or weak point in any area. If you ask me, she is similar to Marisa, or rather I'd say a youkai version of Marisa.

Alice has an obsession with collecting things as well, and has the habit of collecting magic items, such as books. As they both share the same hobby, she often clashes with Marisa so their relation is like that of cat and dog. Most recently, she is interested in collecting dolls that have an interesting history behind them.

She had no evident reason to attack Reimu and company. They were chosen for the target of her magic because they were there. Dominating the enemy with overwhelming power is not fun at all for Alice, so she always sees her opponent's reaction and tries to fight with power that exceeds the opponent by a hair. Even if she loses, she doesn't show her full power.

That's because she thinks it would be the end of the rope for her if she lost with full power. In this aspect, her personality is somewhat similar to Reimu.




Fairy Herald of Spring
Lily White

Stage 4 midboss. She's a fairy who appears when the spring is approaching.

Mainly, she possesses the ability of announcing that spring has come.
Within the game, she uses neither words nor Spell Cards.

Her ability is only a little stronger than minor enemies'.
She checked above the clouds since spring did not come no matter how much she waited. When she did so, spring had already arrived there. She only wanted to announce that spring had finally arrived above the clouds to humans in front of her, but to Reimu and her companions, it unfortunately appeared as a hostile attack to them.



Three Poltergeist Sisters
Eldest Sister: Lunasa Prismriver
Middle Sister: Merlin Prismriver
Youngest Sister: Lyrica Prismriver

Stage 4 boss, a musical performance group as poltergeists. Noisiness times 3. They have the ability to perform with instruments without hands and feet—times 3.

The Saigyouji family enlisted the Prismriver sisters to provide music at a convention, promising them a flower-viewing in return. The three of them are always summoned to banquets and such; their music stirs things up. They're like phantomic versions of the Japanese advertising marching bands.
This time, the Saigyouji family is holding an extravagant flower-viewing festival, so they would naturally be invited.

Lunasa is an honour student type who excels at everything she does. She hates cheating, and confronts all challenges with fairness and great strength.She does what she has to do but her personality is somewhat dark on the outside. Furthermore, her honesty makes her easy to deceive.
She is most skilled with stringed instruments, especially violins. She usually prefers solo performances.

Merlin is an unusual type. Her magical power is the strongest but she often slips up when using it.Her personality is overflowing with good cheer. When she picks up an interest in something, she obsesses over it like a maniac.
She is most skilled with wind instruments. Trumpets in particular.

Lyrica has a sly personality. She usually spurs her older sisters into battle because she doesn't like to do her own fighting. Using minimal effort for maximum gain is the only thing she thinks about.She knows herself well and is smart. She doesn't act without first thinking 3 moves ahead.
She is very skilled with all kinds of instruments, but usually works with either keyboards or percussion.


The three of them were born long ago. At that time, there was a human noble, Count Prismriver. The Count had four daughters, whom he cherished.

However, due to an unfortunate accident, the four daughters were orphaned. Without any other relatives, each daughter went her own separate way. The fourth daughter, Layla, was unable to leave the mansion that held so many of her memories. Using her strongest power, she conjured poltergeists with the appearance of her older sisters, then vanished along with the mansion and the poltergeists.

Time moved on, and the death of the four people from those old days came to pass; the poltergeists' mansion remained in Gensokyo. The three poltergeist sisters continue their noisy lives in that mansion to this day.

The musical performances given by those three, at various places of announcement, a fusion of casual rhythm and classical instruments, are loved by the inhabitants of the cheerful Netherworld. Yet, the performance itself provides no additional effect, and does not heal.




Ghostly Gardener
Youmu Konpaku

A Stage 5 boss, a being of half-human and half-phantom. She's both the second gardener for the Saigyouji clan and the guardian of their mistress. Mainly she posses the ability to handle sword techniques.

Youmu looks after the garden with two swords: Roukan-ken is a longer sword that has the power of killing ten phantoms; Hakurou-ken is a shorter one that can slash down the confusion of humans.


Youki Konpaku, the former gardener, had been the one for about 300 years, but suddenly reached enlightenement after having made a very young Youmu his successor, and became a hermit. Youmu's ability of swordsmanship has still been in progress, so she needs daily practice. Though Youmu herself has no clue where her master is, she thinks of her master's absence as a lesson from him.

This time, following the order the mistress of Saigyouji gave her, she has gathered all of spring essences in Gensokyo to make Saigyou Ayakashi bloom fully.

Here in Hakugyokurou, there are so many cherry blossoms besides Saigyou Ayakashi, which does not bloom every year. The former gardener, which has seen it bloom, said,

"It was a terrific cherry blossom, but it might not bloom a second time."

At that time, Youmu had no idea what he meant and why the mistress of Saigyouji gave her such an order.

Youmu sweeps the garden of the Saigyouji family; it's about 200 yojanas long (The mistress exaggerates, of course). This garden has a terrifyingly large amount of cherry trees, where they are attractions for residents all over the Netherworld. When spring comes, Youmu is very busy in sweeping.
This year isn't the exception, too. The phantoms are really thrilled by the wonderful cherry trees. Everyone said, "I'm happy to be a phantom!" On the other hand, Youmu, the half-human saw this raving scene and half-sympathised by saying: "I'm half happy to be a half phantom!"

Now, all she should do is wait for the blooming of Saigyou Ayakashi.




Ghost Girl in the Netherworld Tower
Yuyuko Saigyouji

Final boss, formerly the mistress of old Saigyouji clan, currently the ghost princess.
Mainly she possesses the ability to manipulate death.

Long ago, there was a divinely talented poet in Gensokyo. He loved nature and spent most of his time traveling. When he became aware that the hour of his death drew near, he chose to begin his eternal rest under the most beautiful cherry tree he could find..

That cherry tree has grown even more beautiful since then, charming many people into resting in peace beneath its blossoms. The tree with the mortuary charm developed the powers of a youkai after a while.


More than thousand years have passed.

In the garden of the Saigyouji clan, there exists a youkai cherry blossom with a story behind it; it is called the Saigyou Ayakashi. For as long as Yuyuko had been there, this cherry tree has never bloomed, even in spring.

One day, while browsing through the library as usual, Yuyuko found an old record. It was unknown how old it was, but the following was written...

"The daughter of Fujima will, at the time of the Saigyou Ayakashi's full bloom, cross the boundary of life and death (that is, die). So that her soul may rest in peace within Hakugyokurou, she'll seal the cherry blossom flowers with herself to create a boundary. May she never be reminded of reincarnation, so that she never suffers again..."

Yuyuko had read that breaking the seal on the Saigyou Ayakashi, making it bloom fully, would cause a certain someone to be resurrected; she started gathering spring's essence out of curiosity.

Basically, those present in the Netherworld are mostly spirit beings. It is for that reason that she wondered about the corpse lying under the Saigyou Ayakashi with great interest, going as far as to consider breaking the seal. Her ability only enables her invite people and youkai to their death. Bringing life to something already dead would be a first.


Thanks to an all-out effort put forth by Youmu, the gardener, every cherry blossom bloomed perfectly; every cherry blossom except for the Saigyou Ayakashi, which still bordered on blooming. By that point, Gensokyo's spring had almost been completely drained.

No one would have imagined that a living human, bearing a tiny drop of spring, would visit.

A battle for that last remaining bit of spring ensued...



Perhaps it was because of her carefree everyday afterlife, or maybe the record was just so old, but Yuyuko failed to realize until the very end that the girl who was written about in the record... was herself.

In the beginning, Yuyuko only possessed the ability to manipulate departed souls. Unconsciously, that power grew stronger, that eventually she possessed the ability to invite others to death. Terrified by her own ability, she committed suicide.

After becoming a ghost, she thoroughly forgot everything about the time she was alive, and started to enjoy being able to invoke death, without concerns.

The reason Yuyuko can neither reincarnate nor vanish is because of the seal on the Saigyou Ayakashi. Once the boundary is breached, the time that was frozen will continue to flow, resulting in her death again. Reviving the corpse will destroy Yuyuko's ghost, so it's no wonder that the near-success of the revival ended in inevitable failure.

After all, Yuyuko is not able to manipulate anything but death.

The only one who knew all of it, the predecessor Youki Konpaku, aged slowly due to the nature of half-humans, and disappeared with the intention of telling Youmu truth about Yuyuko.

For all time, Yuyuko will remain as the princess of Netherworld and mistress of long-dead Saigyouji clan.

    She shall never bear witness to the blooming of the Saigyou Ayakashi.




A shikigami of a shikigami of the Gap Youkai
Chen

Extra Stage midboss.
While in the middle of fully recovering from the injuries of her previous defeat, Chen is set for a second round of combat.
Her master is in the vicinity this time around, so her power has been amplified considerably. Would that power work on the human before her?



Shikigami of the Youkai of Boundaries
Ran Yakumo

Extra Boss, and Yukari's shikigami. She does Yukari's work for her while her master sleeps. She has the ability to mainly use shikigami.

Yukari sleeps 12 hours per day and is only awake from sunset to midnight. On top of that, she hibernates through winter. Because of that, Ran takes care of Yukari's work while she's asleep.

Ran has been a shikigami for quite long time, so she's more powerful than ordinary youkai. For that matter, she has enough power to possess her own shikigami. Perhaps she has already forgotten that she herself is a shikigami.

Every year, when cherry blossoms are about to bloom, she visits the Netherworld for flower viewing. The cherry blossoms this year feels very pleasant. Just as she was considering that, an usual living human dropped in. She watched them with interest for a few moments.

She later heard that her shikigami had been defeated by them, so she plotted a little revenge.

Her true form is a fox-turned youkai. Like Chen, it's hard to distinguish, and she has a well-sociable personality. Even without looking closely, it's obvious that she has several tails. As a matter of fact, when it matters, she has plenty of power ever since she uses her true form.

Through all these events, her master continues to sleep.




Mastermind behind the spiriting away
Yukari Yakumo

The youkai of boundaries, who awakens at spring.
Mainly, she possess the ability to manipulate all sorts of boundaries.

She and Yuyuko have known each other for a long time, but Yukari is not a phantom. She lives in the remotest place in Gensokyo. Her lifestyle involves a lot of staring at the Hakurei Border.

When humans from the outer world wander into Gensokyo, it's all thanks to fluctuations in the boundary caused by Yukari. There is an enchanting element about the phenomenon which people like to call "Spirited Away"; if it is ever discovered that spiriting away is not the work of gods, but the meddling of a youkai girl, the term will lose all of its mystique.

Yukari usually doesn't act on her own, preferring instead to have Ran handle the details of daily life. But, since she is almost always asleep, she has no idea what Ran does while she sleeps.

When she heard that Ran had been defeated by someone, she became mildly surprised before going back to sleep.

After waking up from her second nap, she finally noticed that spring had graced her place of residence. The truth is that spring had been around for the past 10 days, but she forgot it whenever she went to bed and woke up just as surprised the next time.

She couldn't sleep carelessly until Ran fully recovered, but she opted to sleep on the problem.

At that moment, she received a request from Yuyuko asking her to restore the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Yukari thought, it was she herself who weakened it, but Yukari rubbed sleep from her eyes and set out nevertheless.

It had been quite a while since Yukari's last visit to the Netherworld, and she was curious to see that it was bustling with excitement. She thought the Saigyouji family were more quiet, laid-back folks, but she shrugged and decided Yuyuko simply just had a change in taste.

She met the gardener, Youmu, along the way and heard about the situation. Youmu admitted that they seemed to be in quite a mess, but it sounded like well-earned punishment to Yukari.


It appears about just everyone was driven crazy by the youkai cherry blossom. Surely, it had drained the life out of so many people. Yukari knew it was dangerous. However, she realized there was nothing she could do about it.
Yukari had known Yuyuko since before her death. She also knew that it was not Yuyuko who was sealed by the Saigyou Ayakashi...

... but that it was Yuyuko's body that was sealing the Saigyou Ayakashi.