History Characters / TouhouFuujinrokuMountainOfFaith

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has green hair.

* UngratefulBastard: On her defeat in ''Mountain of Faith'', Nitori claims that human and kappa are old friends, and she couldn't ''possibly'' impose on an old friend to defeat Kanako for her. When Reimu admits that [[RuleOfFunny she'd forgotten why she was on the mountain in the first place]], Nitori grumbles something about humans being flaky and says she "should have asked the tengu instead". She is much less friendly when Marisa tries to return to the mountain after the kappas' issues with Kanako have been resolved.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is blue and also provides the picture for ShyBlueHairedGirl.

--> '''Momiji:''' We're also fed up with the huge work load, especially the meaningless patrolling or making us defend the big wigs. What is the point even? I mean, the higher ups are so much stronger than the average tengu like us, so why do they even need protection?

** In her A-scenario in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', she begins her mission of "youkai hunting" with some degree of doubt in her abilities to do so. However, by halfway through the game, she has become particularly enthusiastic about it. This is something which is outright taken notice of in-story, with some characters even worrying she may [[HeWhoFightsMonsters turn into a youkai herself]].

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Sanae has a very low alchohol tolerance and gets drunk really easily, which is why she tends to avoid it.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In ''Hisoutensoku'', Marisa warns Sanae that she will "become close to a youkai" if she gets too serious about hunting them. Likewise in ''Double Spoiler'' Sanae uses [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Double_Spoiler/Spell_Cards/Stage_EX#Spell_Card_EX_-_9 a spell card]] that [[EnergyAbsorption absorbs the power of nearby youkai into herself]], causing Hatate to express similar concerns.

* PalsWithJesus: As odd as it sounds, Sanae lives with the deities she worships. What's more, Suwako is, DependingOnTheArtist, often portrayed as a very young girl, in spite of being a [[OurGodsAreDifferent god]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld who is several thousand years old]]. Sanae is also her direct descendant, and the main priestess of her shrine. This means she lives with her own great-great-great-great-great-etc. grandmother, who is ''also her god'', and is ''younger than her in appearance''.

--> '''Kanako:''' Now then! The new experiment is starting! The experiment we are about to perform will put great power into the hands of the kappa of the mountain and the humans of the village. Watch and be amazed, and '''WORSHIP''' us!

* OneManIndustrialRevolution:

* TheManBehindTheMan: She's the actual power behind the Moriya Shrine, being the one who controls the Mishaguji.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Differing artists depict her with or without wolf ears.

* CultureClash: A lot of Sanae's issues in Gensokyo both canon and fanon-wise tend to be based around her different social values as a result of growing up in the Outside World. For instance, in Chapter 19 of ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' she and Reimu almost get into a fight over Sanae not wanting to drink during Reimu's ''Double Dealing Character'' victory party, and the latter deciding to make fun of her for it.

* AnimalMotifs: To represent her gods, she wears hair accessories shaped like a frog's head and a snake, and in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' depending on which route she takes she can use either frog or snake-shaped bullets.

* BuxomIsBetter: Is consistently drawn by various artists with at least a notecieble bust, even ZUN.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Albeit not a very powerful one.

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Has a brief moment of this with Reimu in Chapter 19 of ''Wild and Horned Herbit'' when she tries explaining the concept of alcohol harassment. Reimu struggles to conceptualize the kanji for the word, mainly as a result of Gensokyo being separated from the Outside World for more than a century causing some amount of language drift.

* BlowYouAway: A god of wind and rain, among other things. Her ability is described as "creating Qian" (see below), which grants her various wind-related abilities. In ''Gouyoku Ibun'' she can create small tornados to either directly attack or keep her onbashira aloft for use in attacks.

* EasilyForgiven: Subverted; later material shows Reimu and Marisa still refuse to live her down for unintentionally causing the events of ''Subterranean Animism''.

* AcmeProducts: A popular RunningGag in fanworks - because kappa are known to have made {{Shoddy Knockoff Product}}s of devices from the Outside World, the presence of any anachronistic technology is {{Hand Wave}}d by slapping a "NITORI" brand on it. She's most frequently depicted as having made Aya's camera.

* FantasticRacism: She's rude to both humans and youkai, but humans get the short end of the stick. A good number of fan stories give her the FreudianExcuse of having been scorched by humans more than once in her life, who scorned her because of their own racism towards youkai in general.
* GadgeteerGenius: Kappa combined whatever existing technology they had (possibly BambooTechnology, {{Steampunk}} and/or {{Magitek}}) with modern-day technology from outside the MedievalStasis Field to become the most technologically advanced [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Kappa race in Gensokyo]]. Nitori herself is especially interested in engineering, and {{Fanon}} portrays her as the designer of Aya's camera.
* GirlishPigtails

* MacGyvering: Building marvels of advanced technology in a MedievalStasis land using the power of science? That's her. Western fans even joke that Series/{{MacGyver|1985}} is her main inspiration. Somewhat deconstructed in that she doesn't seem to bother with blueprints or any actual design, instead relying on her MadScientist talents to do the job. Supplementary manga shows this extends to some degree to all kappa, who ignore approved plans to each do whatever they please, and the consequences have caused several of Kanako's otherwise decent plans to implode.

%%* MightyGlacier: In ''Hopeless Masquerade''.

* VagueAge: One of the more extreme cases in fanon. Fan-artists just can't agree on how old she's supposed to appear.

Another of the tengu folk, and another character with no dialogue. She's said to have a cooperative personality and executes her duties faithfully, and so is often portrayed as Aya's subordinate or junior. Or just the hapless straight man to her antics. It was later revealed that she rather dislikes Aya and won't take orders from her as they belong to different chains of command, but fans will often ignore that.

%%* AscendedExtra

* CollaredByFashion: She is often given a red collar by fans.

* LittleBitBeastly:
** She's a wolf tengu, but wolf features are restricted to {{Fanon}} and supplementary materials, as she has been seen only as a small sprite in the games.
** ''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia'' further [[AvertedTrope averts]] this image, as one of the illustrations features Momiji lacking any of the wolf features that {{Fanon}} often draws her with.

* OCStandIn: Lack of in-game dialogue and portrait art caused her physical appearance and personality to vary greatly early on. Both have been fairly standardized by now, though.
* ShipSinking: Averted; the revelation that there is some bad blood between Aya and Momiji has done nothing to slow down the tide of fanart portraying them as a close couple. In fact, it may have only made it even ''[[UpToEleven more]]'' popular, since Momiji can now be portrayed as a {{Tsundere}} toward Aya.

* SuperSenses: She has the supernatural power to see across a thousand leagues (sometimes interpreted as [[PsychicPowers clairvoyance]], because the Japanese word for that is "thousand league eyes"), but she also possesses an excellent sense of smell. Oddly, no particular mention is made of super-hearing. Rather than use these powers to snoop on people for news, Momiji acts as the captain of Youkai Mountain's patrol guards, with soldiers hiding behind a waterfall. She also spies on the heroine and the gods of the new shrine when they do battle, without being noticed by either.

** In her A-scenario in ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', she begins her mission of "youkai hunting" with some degree of doubt in her abilities to do so. However, by halfway through the game, she has become particularly enthusiastic about it, something a noticeable number of fans [[{{Flanderization}} have run away with]], with "darker" comics often turning her into a psychotic, hateful genocider. In all seriousness, this might be a particularly bad character flaw, and some characters even worry she may [[HeWhoFightsMonsters turn into a youkai herself]].

* BuxomIsBetter: Her appearance in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' as a background character has a noticeable bust; a feature very few other characters in the background in HM have.

* CatchPhrase: "Sanae is a good girl". This stemmed from a doujin where she was drunk and demanded Kanako to call her this. Now, it means something almost completely different: you can see this mentioned almost ''anywhere'' in the English fandom as the line for her "[[{{Flanderization}} Youkai Extermination mode]]".

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Has since embraced Gensokyo's "lack of sense" wholeheartedly. Apparently, the less sense you have in ''Touhou'', the more likely you are to show up in the next game.

* FishOutOfWater: She's had trouble adjusting to Gensokyo, at first. [[TheTeetotaler Among other things, Gensokyo's inhabitants drink far more than she's used to.]] Fans were [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnAD34rn-Lc&t=6m4s having fun with this idea]] long before it was mentioned in canon.

* GagBoobs: It seems to be a general rule in fanworks that Sanae has a large bust for both comedy and {{Fanservice}} purposes, and that it's almost always bigger than Reimu's at that.

* HasTwoMommies: Though not definite, there is no evidence Sanae had any direct relatives in the Outside, nor even anyone she cares to remember, and it is plausible that Kanako and Suwako raised her.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends:
** According to her character profile, she wishes to have human friends to keep her company, since she lives constantly surrounded by gods and youkai.
** A common fan interpretation of Sanae's life before she moved to Gensokyo (and why she would be willing to leave it in the first place) is that she was extremely lonely - the older generation saw her as [[LonelyAtTheTop a figure of worship rather than a person]], while people of her own age saw her as weird because of her [[SupernaturalAngst supernatural powers]], eager/geeky personality and green hair.
** A lot of fanworks involving Sanae's interactions with her fellow incident resolvers (Mainly Reimu and Marisa) tend to involve her trying to make friends with them by virtue of being the only humans in Gensokyo she really knows despite their antagonistic first meeting and personality differences. Sometimes they end well, other times they don't.

* {{Joshikousei}}: Fanon has labelled her "the only actual high-school girl in the cast" due to being a [[VagueAge young-looking]] human from the outside world. For this reason, she is often depicted in fanart wearing a high school uniform. This goes as far as the character artist for the fighting games, alphes, drawing Sanae in something that strongly resembles a school uniform for an [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=145248 advertisement]] for ''Undefined Fantastic Object''. However, this doesn't really hold up anymore since the introduction of Sumireko Usami, who is canonically a high school girl.

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaqeawuY0r0 "Faith is for the Transient People"]]
** GenreShift: Noted by ZUN to have a ''metal''/hard rock feel, which is a surprising departure from ''classical'' with horns. There's even pseudo-guitar segments!

* NormalFishInATinyPond: In a fashion. In our world she was used to being considered the equivalent of a deity because of her powers. In Gensokyo EveryoneIsASuper (or enough people that she's not unusual, anyway), so she had some trouble adjusting originally. One AlternativeCharacterInterpretation is that [[IJustWantToBeNormal part of her is actually happy about it]].
* OtakuSurrogate: We learn in ''Hisoutensoku'' that [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR she digs giant robots]], and she's also interested in nuclear physics as shown in ''Manga/WildAndHornedHermit''.

* PalsWithJesus: As odd as it sounds, Sanae lives with the deities she worships. What's more, Suwako is, DependingOnTheArtist, often portrayed as a very young girl, in spite of being a [[OurGodsAreDifferent god]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld who is several thousand years old]]. Sanae is also her direct descendant, and the main priestess of her shrine. This means she lives with her own great-great-great-great-great-etc. grandmother, who is ''also her god'', and is ''younger than her in appearance''. Many fanfictions even portray Sanae as something of a motherly figure ''to her own deity''.

* PowerTrio: Fandom often depicts her as being part of one with Reimu and Marisa, and ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' depicts her as the one other human they hang around the most.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: How fans have interpreted her promotion to a regular recurring character: the more insane actions you do inside of the game (''UFO''), and the more unwanted you want to be outside of them (the popularity polls), the more likely you are to be a playable character (''TD'').
-->[[MemeticMutation "You can't let yourself be held back by common sense in Gensokyo, right!?"]]

* BoobsOfSteel: Fanworks generally have her being both shapely and physically powerful.

%%* MightyGlacier: Various levels of this tend to show up in fan portrayals - partly because her portrait shows her sitting down in a bulky outfit, partly because of her role as a mountain deity, and partly because of associations with Take-Mikazuchi and Take-Minakata... whose battle is regarded as the first instance of ''sumo wrestling''. Her [[ClarkKentOutfit choice of clothing]] generally limits the number of outright AmazonianBeauty portrayals.

* AmphibianAtLarge: Suwako is often shown in fanon as being able to call giant frogs in battle, though she mostly uses them to punish Cirno (an ice fairy) when she freezes frogs.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Portrayed as such due to her [[ConfusionFu bizarre fighting style]] in the fighting games, and the fact [[BonusBoss she fights the player character in the EX Stage]] ''for fun''.

* CuteBruiser:
** Look at her appearance... and now look at the total damage of her melee combo in ''Hisoutensoku''. It competes or maybe even beats half-ghost swordsman [[KatanasAreJustBetter Youmu]], [[IncrediblyLamePun deadly]] shinigami [[SinisterScythe Komachi]], mountain-smashing oni [[DrunkenMaster Suika]] and even ''nuclear''-powered hell raven Utsuho.
** Some fanworks like to play this up, ''Webcomic/TagDream'' being notable for having Suwako smack around [[PersonOfMassDestruction Flandre]] with ease.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Fans just can't seem to decide on how old Suwako should look. While most fanart sticks to canon and makes her look like a young girl, there's plenty of art depicting her as anything from a preschooler to a teenager to a full grown woman. Additionally, most {{Shipping}} artwork will make her look at least a tad more developed to avoid [[{{Squick}} squicky]] implications.

* NiceHat: A wide-brimmed one with frog-like googly eyes atop of it. {{Fanon}} has [[EpilepticTrees suggested that]] her hat is ''self-aware'', or even possibly [[PuppeteerParasite the one in control]]. Whenever it's portrayed as a character separate from Suwako the fandom refers to it by the name "Pyonta".
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Though she usually acts as childish as she looks, it's sometimes hinted that she's much more intelligent than she lets on.

* SleepModeSize: Commonly accepted fanon is that Suwako either looks like a child because she doesn't have as much faith as she used to ''or'' in order to preserve what faith she has left. Regardless, since Suwako has a many times great-grandchild it's commonly accepted that she has/had an adult form anyway... the alternative, that she looked like a child when Sanae's ancestor was born, is a bit squicky.

* VerbalTic: "Aa-uu-". As with Patchouli's "mukyuu," she only said it once in one game, but it immediately caught on with the fandom.

A minor harvest god. The younger of the Aki sisters, she is often portrayed as being more mature than Shizuha. Both of the Aki sisters love autumn, and get very disappointed when winter rolls around. This has led fans to came up with idea of a rivalry between them and Letty Whiterock, the youkai of winter. Minoriko also runs a sweet potato stand.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Calls out Suwako in ''Hisoutensoku'' for hiding her and Kanako's plans involving the titular robot from both her and everyone else in Gensokyo, citing how hiding things during ''Subterranean Animism'' just got everyone mad at them. The fact that not too long beforehand Reimu blamea her for starting the incident likely didn't help matters either.

* BigBad or TheGodsMustBeLazy: She is indirectly related to no less than ''three'' mainline games after her debut. Moriya Shrine conspiracy and all that.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: During ''Gouyoku Ibun'', Reimu accuses Kanako for causing the oil spills as in her mind, oil is basically the same as nuclear fusion. Kanako spends several dialogue boxes absolutely dumbfounded at Reimu's accusations before agreeing with her.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: During ''Gouyoku Ibun'', Reimu accuses Kanaka for causing the oil spills as in her mind, oil is basically the same as nuclear fusion. Kanaka spends several dialogue boxes absolutely dumbfounded at Reimu's accusations before agreeing with her.

* BlowYouAway: A god of wind and rain, among other things. Her ability is described as "creating Qian" (see below), which grants her various wind-related abilities.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: No matter how they try to spin it, this is Kanako and Suwako's basic business model for faith. Suwako primarily controls curses, so most of what they offer is the opportunity to not be cursed by Suwako. Although Kanako is trying to branch out into other markets, with limited success.

* BigBadDuumvirate or BiggerBad:

* RingsOfDeath: Her WeaponOfChoice.

* SleepModeSize: Commonly accepted fanon is that Suwako either looks like a child because she doesn't have as much faith as she used to ''or'' in order to preserve what faith she has left. Regardless, since Suwako has a grandchild it's commonly accepted that she has/had an adult form anyway... the alternative, that she looked like a child when Sanae's ancestor was born, is a bit squicky.

* LockedInARoom: Inverted in ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit''. She and the rest of the Kappa gang were at home in the watery depths of Genbu Ravine when a massive whirlpool formed for no readily apparent reason, forcing them all out. It turns out it's a trap by one of Hell's Judges meant to get Seiga Kaku. The problem is that Seiga succeeded in escaping and the deity has no idea, keeping the whirlpool in place. The instant Reimu and Marisa realize it's neither an incident nor their problem, they both leave peacefully... [[ArentYouForgettingSomeone leaving Nitori and the gang homeless at the side of the road]].

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQBWsBVpfm0 "A God That Loves People ~ Romantic Fall"]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLbZSIEMXuc "The Road of the Apotropaic God ~ Dark Road"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-jVAHSCc8Y "Dark Side of Fate".]]

* HelicopterPack: Flies with one in ''Hopeless Maquerade''.

** Now keeping up with her SCIENCE! thanks to the spellcard ''Heavy Rain "Great War beneath the River"''.

* EdibleAmmunition: Her Forgotten Husk "Unremembered Crop" uses surplus rice crops.

* DoppelgangerAttack: ''Native God "The Red Frog in the Fourth Year of the Houei Era"'' has a Suwako clone fly around the arena making trails of star-shaped bullets. Likely explained by her ability, as a Shinto god, to split her spirit infinitely.

* NotSoDifferent: Despite the fact that she and Aya do not get along, ''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia'' reveals that both resent the fact that despite their loyalty and hard work for Lord Tenma and the other greater tengu, they're both stuck in their respective castes.

** In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Sanae is shocked to find that they were aware of what goes on in the Rainbow Dragon Cave. In her ending she's also appalled to find out about Kanako agreeing to let Megumu and Tsukasa continue with their card business as long as she gets profits as well.

* [[RedOniBlueOni Blue Oni]]: With Suwako. Kanako's the Blue Oni despite the colour of their clothes. As explained by Akyuu, Kanako is the thinker and negotiator of the duo when it comes to gathering faith, except that her methods of thinking outside this [[EpicFail are not good enough]].

* BrokenPedestal: Sanae tends to think Kanako and Suwako are automatically good and the enemies she faces as automatically evil, but there are many occasions in which she finds her goddesses aren't as saintly as she thinks.

** In ''Unconnected Marketeers'', Sanae is shocked to find that they were aware of what goes in the Rainbow Dragon Cave. In her ending she's also apalled to find out Kanako agreeing to let Megumu and Tsukasa with their card business as long as she gets profits as well.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Calls out Suwako in ''Hisoutensoku'' for hiding her and Kanako's plans involving the titular robot from both her and everyone else in Gensokyo, citing how hiding things during ''Subterranean Animism'' just got everyone mad at them. The fact that not too long beforehand Reimu blamed her for starting the incident likely didn't help matters either.

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* FinalBoss: Of ''Mountain of Faith''.

* {{Adorkable}}: Able to recite how cold fusion works with [[GeniusBonus startling accuracy]], while still looking cute. However, her interests seem to lean towards science and math rather than the humanities, as evidenced by her forgetting who exactly Prince Shoutoku was until she pulled out a history textbook.