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Touhou 8 Imperishable Night
Wriggle nightbug is a firefly youkai
and has the ability to control insects. She really like insects and
hates pesticide or people that harm insects.
In the fandom many fans will draw her as a male because
when she was first introduced there was some confusion about her gender.
Wriggle is sometimes portrayed as Yuuka's lover.
Mystia lorelei is a night sparrow youkai
with the ability to confuse people with her singing.
She is really fond of singing in fact she created a punk rock band called
choujuu gigaku along with Kyouko. She runs a grilled eel stand.
Grilled eel is rumored to help people see in the dark and
since she is the ability to inflict night blindness on people
she may use her ability to attract people to her stand.
. In the fandom she is often portrayed as yuyuko's food
because it is implied that yuyuko ate her during touhou 8
although it was probably just a joke.
Kamishirasawa Keine she is a were-hakutaku. A hakutaku is a cow, sheep or lion like youkai
youkai with horns.
She was once human but after a curse
she turns into a hakutaku on the night of the full moon.
As a human she has the ability to eat history.
As a hakutaku she has the ability to change history.
She works as a history teacher and a guardian for the human village.
She is good friends with moukou. In the fandom she is often considered to have
a crush
on moukou. She is associated with the phrase caved
which refers to when she head-butts someone with her horns
or when she sexually assaults you these are not mutually exclusive by the way.
Inaba Tewi is a rabbit youkai with the ability to give people good luck.
She is the leader of the earth rabbits and loves pranks and schemes.
She lives in eientei. In the fandom
fandom she is often portrayed playing pranks on Reisen
but Tewi always finds a way to avoid punishment for her actions.
Reisen Undogein inaba
is a rabbit from the moon. She has the ability cause insanity and
can manipulate electromagnetic waves. She used to be in the moons military defense force and
was owned by the watatsuki sisters. She now lives in eientei. Despite her ability
to cause insanity
Reisen is often seen as one of the sanest people in gensokyo.
Fans often depict her being the victim of tewi's pranks or
or eirin's medical experiments. Because her bullets look like suppositories
there are a lot of suppository jokes about her.
Yagokoro Eirin
is a lunarian with a great deal of medical knowledge.
She is famous on the moon but now lives on the earth in exile
She is the only doctor in gensokyo and
humans can go to her for help with medical conditions
She and Kaguya were responsible for the events of touhou 8 when
they created a fake moon
to hide from the lunarians.
in the fandom she is famous for her shady drugs.
Houraisan Kaguya was a lunarian princess
but she became immortal after consuming the hourai elixir that eirin made.
She now lives on earth in exile.
Both she and Eirin are friends with the Watatsuki sisters who run
the moon defense force. Kaguya has the ability to control eternity.
Fans often portray her as being a hikikomori that spends her time playing video games
and never leaves the house.
She also has a strong rivalry with moukou.
Fujiwara no mokou
is a human that became immortal after drinking the hourai elixir.
she has the ability to manipulate fire.
She lives in the bamboo forest of the lost and will guide people through it.
Mokou is friends with keine but has a deep seated rivalry with and hatred of Kaguya.
Fans will often depict them as either enemies,
lovers or both at the same time.
Touhou 9 Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Shameimaru aya is a crow tengu with the ability to manipulate wind. She is a newpaper reporter
and writes the bunbunmaru newspaper. The newspaper is not very popular and
is known as a sensationalistic and gossipy paper. Even among tengu
she is one of the fastest. Only aya and cirno
have received their own games so in the fandom since aya got her own game
immediately after the game when she was introduced
there were rumors that she somehow bribed
ZUN. Aya often takes pictures of the other characters at inconvenient times.
Medicine Melancholy
is a tsukumogami of a doll which is a type of youkai.
she has the ability to manipulate poison
and wants to overthrow humanity in order to free dolls from oppression.
Medicine lives on the nameless hill and gets her power from the poisonous lilies on the hill.
She is always seen with a doll so
there is speculation that the doll is her real body.
In the fandom the doll is called Su-san. She is often seen as friends with Yuuka
because of their mutual love of plants.
Kazami Yuuka is a youkai with the ability to manipulate flowers. She lives in the
garden of the sun.
In the fandom she is considered to be
the original user have to master spark other than Alice,
Reimu and marisa Yuuka is the only other character
that has escaped from the PC 98 era. Fans portray her as a powerful ***
that will destroy
anyone that harms or assaults her sunflower field.
Onozuka Komachi
is a shinigami with the ability to manipulate distance.
She is a ferryboat shinigami and ferries the spirits of the dead across the Sanzu River.
She's considered lazy because she's
often seen slacking off but many times she doesn't ferry certain spirits
because they would not receive a good judgment from the yama.
She is probably still a slacker though.
Shiki Eiki Yamaxanadu is a Yama. Shiki Eiki is her name and
Yamaxanadu is her job title. She has the ability to judge anything
as good or evil. As the Yama for gensokyo she judges
the spirits of the dead and either sends them to heaven, hell or the netherworld.
She has a habit of lecturing people.
There were no new characters introduced in
Touhou 9.5 Shoot the bullet
Touhou 10
Mountain of Faith
Aki Minoriko and Aki Shizuha are a
goddess of harvest and goddess of autumn leaves.
Minoriko has the ability to produce a bountiful harvest.
Shizuha has the ability to make leaves change to their autumn colors.
In the fandom the Aki sisters are rarely
referred to individually. They are notorious for being two
of the least popular characters in the series. Kagiyama Hina is a curse goddess.
she is associated with the Hino doll which is floated down refer to dispel
misfortune
She has the ability to collect and manipulate misfortune.
She has recently started to make disposable
Hina dolls for people to perform流し雛 (nagashi bina) which is a ritual
to dispel misfortune. Because of her ability to collect misfortune
those around her may experience misfortune. In the fandom she is famous for
spinning,
she also has the infamous Hina face.
Kawashiro Nitori is a kappa. Nitori has the ability to manipulate water.
She carries a backpack filled with various tools and gadgets.
She lives with the kappa in the Genbu ravine on youkai mountain.
She is notorious for inventing amazing gadgets
and as a kappa she loves cucumbers. Inubashiri Momiji is a wolf tengu.
She lives with the tengu on youkai mountain
and defends the mountain from intruders. Momiji often carries a large sword and shield.
In the fandom she is often a friend or coworker of Aya.
Kochiya Sanae is a wind goddess
she is also a human but over time she has collected enough faith
to become a living god. She has the ability to cause miracles.
Sanae used to live in the outside world as a human.
She serves Kanako and Suwako and lives in the moriya shrine on
Youkai Mountain.
In the fandom she is often treated as player 2
because she is very similar in appearance to reimu.
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Everyone calls sanae a good girl especially when she is doing something bad.
In touhou 11 she says "You can't let yourself be held back by common sense
in Gensokyo, right!?"
So she is often depicted as having be made insane by gensokyo.
Yasaka Kanako is a wind and rain goddess.
She is the official head of the Moriya shrine. She provides services and
blessings to her followers in exchange for faith. She stole faith
from Reimu which caused touhou 10. She fed Utsuho the corpse of a yatagarasu
in order to
use her to fuel Nuclear reactor which caused the events of touhou 11.
This in turn caused the events of touhou 12
which caused touhou 13.
In the fandom her involvement in many incidents led to the phrase
"It's a Moriya Shrine conspiracy". Moriya Suwako is a mountain goddess with the ability
to control
earth and is the unofficial head of the Moriya shrine.
She acts innocent but she is a lot more sly than she looks.
She wears a hat with eyes and fans refer to
this hat as pyonta some even consider it a
a living thing.
Touhou 10.5 Scarlet weather rhapsody
Nagae Iku is an oarfish.
As a messenger from the dragon palace in heaven
she warns people of earthquakes and other natural disasters
which her ability allows her to foresee. She is an acquaintance of Tenshi
though she doesn't approve of Tenshi's behavior.
In one of her attacks she makes a disco pose so she is often associated with Saturday night fever
which in Iku's case is often accompanied by a lightning strike.
Hinanawi Tenshi is celsestial though
this is not a result of training. She has the ability to control keystones.
This allows her to create earthquakes and manipulate earth
to some extent. She uses the sword of hisou
which has the ability to manifest people's nature's as weather.
She started the events of touhou 10.5 when she destroyed the Hakurei shrine
with an earthquake and manifested people's emotions as weather.
In the fandom she is considered to be a ***.