History Characters / TouhouUndefinedFantasticObject

* ButtMonkey: In ''Symposium of Post-mysticism'' she's shown to be the weakest debater, and everyone takes a chance to make a crack at her ranging from things such as her followers being bad at actually following Buddhism's tenets, [[TheTeetotaler her unwillingness to drink]], and her naivety at how Gensokyo is supposed to work.

** Some of it is likely thanks to village gossip and/or Akyuu's fearmongering, but ''[[AllThereInTheManual Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' paints her as liable to kill anyone that gets near water while they're alone, though as a result of Byakuren's influence she does try to be more discriminating in ''who'' she attempts to drown.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When Ichirin uses her last word in HM.

* {{Shapeshifting}}: Being a cloud, he can easily shapeshift to look like whatever he wants. In ''[=ULiL=]'', he even makes himself look like Byakuren's scroll in one of Ichirin's portraits.

* GiantHandsOfDoom: Using [[PowerFist giant fists]] as danmaku, as well as RocketPunch. Taking off on the old "brofist" meme and its odd connection to Western Touhou fans, Unzan's attacks renewed the joke with full force.

* RecurringBoss: Surprise, she's the extra stage midboss! [[HilariousInHindsight Imagine the looks on the faces of the fans that teased her for her power before.]] She's also the mid-boss of Stage 3 in Ten Desires.

--->-- '''Hieda no Akyuu''', as stated in Kogasa's entry in ''[[UniverseCompendium Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''

* ChewToy: Many pieces of fanart have her being bullied by Reimu, Sanae, Yukari, Yuuka, Eirin, Aya, or anyone else the writer can imagine. Seems to be canon as of ''Ten Desires''. Her attempt to get help from the player characters of ''Ten Desires'' earns her a beating, simply because she happens to be there. Her first major appearance (instead of a cameo) in a printed work, Wild and Horned Hermit [[spoiler:Chapter 27, has her being beaten up just for being there three times!]]

* VainSorceress: The first thing she did with her magic was de-age herself from an old woman to her current twenty-something appearance. Akyuu specifically notes that magician-immortality doesn't come with any de-aging, so that's all just Byakuren's vanity.

** You wouldn't expect Kogasa to be a gifted blacksmith, but she is.

* BecomeARealBoy: Kogasa has, due to her failures with baby sitting, and her failures with surprising people, and her failures in general, [[DiscussedTrope considered going back to being a regular umbrella]] again so she at least can be of ''some'' use... The depressing implication being that she basically thinks people would appreciate her more if she was dead.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Used to be a human, but spending all of her time with Unzan and being youkai-like turned her into a unique type of youkai. While she's often considered a nyuudou out-of-universe, even Byakuren's not quite sure what type of youkai she's supposed to be.

* [[BecomeARealBoy Become a Real Umbrella]]: Kogasa has, due to her failures with baby sitting, and her failures with surprising people, and her failures in general, [[DiscussedTrope considered going back to being a regular umbrella]] again so she at least can be of ''some'' use... The depressing implication being that she basically thinks people would appreciate her more if she was dead.
* [[BizarreAlienBiology Bizarre Youkai Biology]]: Which is her real body, the humanoid girl or the umbrella? They ''both'' are.

* ChewToy: Many pieces of fanart have her being bullied by Reimu, Sanae, Yukari, Yuuka, Eirin, Aya, or anyone the writer can imagine. Seems to be canon now. Her attempt to get help from the player characters of ''Ten Desires'' earns her a beating, simply because she happens to be there. Her first major appearance (instead of a cameo) in a printed work, Wild and Horned Hermit [[spoiler:Chapter 27, has her being beaten up just for being there three times!]]

* HiddenDepths: You wouldn't expect Kogasa to be a gifted blacksmith, but she is.

* ThrowTheDogABone: As of ''Ten Desires'' she is now living in a cemetery near Myouren Temple, where it is [[CreepyCemetery much easier to surprise people]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded in her profile: "She finally did it. Amazing."]]

* TheHeretic: As a result of BecomingTheMask and BeingGoodSucks.

* BladeOnAStick: She carries a spear, just like the Buddhist god of treasure and [[WarGod warfare]] Bishamonten, on whom her character is based. She isn't actually any good with it, though, since it's just a decorative item that's a part of her purposeful imitation of a statue of Bishamonten. She uses it like a walking stick.

A mouse youkai who was sent to hunt for the ship fragments and the jewelled pagoda of Vaisravana by Shou. She carries a pair of dowsing rods which appear to be a cross between bent coathangers and weather vanes, and can control field-mice to help her find lost objects. She doesn't seem to consider herself one of Byakuren's followers, living in a house of her own and only visiting the Myouren Temple when Shou calls for her.

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wrVuPMVR0 "The Tiger-Patterned Vaisravana"]]

** Some of it is likely thanks to village gossip and/or Akyuu's fearmongering, but ''[[AllThereInTheManual Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' paints her as liable to kill anyone that gets near water while they're alone, though as a result of Byakuren's influence she does try to be more discriminate in who she attempts to drown.

* PeekABogeyman

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Used to be a human, but spending all of her time with Unzan and being youkai-like turned her into a unique type of youkai.

* TheGenericGirl: ZUN even notes that she's "basically just the hitbox for Unzan".

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhD4rg-Rvmc "The Traditional Old Man and the Stylish Girl"]]. Also has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAU8NLP0Ybs a remix]] in ''Hopeless Masquerade''.

%% * MoralityChain: To Unzan, more or less

* UnkemptBeauty: Unsurprisingly enough, a lot of fanart tend to portray her as this. Her rather conservative outfit doesn't help with this.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Quiet and shy by nature, but you wouldn't know that by looking at him and he's definitely no slouch in a fight.

** Some of it is likely thanks to village gossip and/or Akyuu's fearmongering, but ''[[AllThereInTheManual Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' paints her as liable to kill anyone that gets near water while they're alone.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Her mission of converting youkai to Buddhism and trying to get along with everyone is something that other people find rather confusing. Most youkai don't understand why they shouldn't eat humans, humans like Akyuu are waiting for the other shoe to drop, and Miko just thinks she's "playing house". It's also a fairly weird endevour in general - {{Youkai}} by definition oppose humans and they are born from fear, which means if they stop opposing humans and/or humans stop fearing them, they would most likely disappear entirely.

* KungFuWizard: She's not only good with spells, but is also an incredible physical combatant due to enhancing her strength with magic.

* OurGodsAreGreater: Akyuu claims she's closer to Kanako than to a youkai.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's a mouse. [[BlessedAreTheCheesemakers Guess]].

* LittleBitBeastly: Despite canonically not having any distinct tiger-like physical features other than her striped hair and in fact being incapable of assuming a bestial form anymore like other beast youkai, many artists portray Shou with tiger ears and tail.

** WarGod: Though she's not actually that good at fighting, and focuses more on Bishamonten's treasure aspect.
* SkirtOverSlacks

* AndIMustScream: A less-horrifying example. She was sealed in Hokkai for a thousand years, but was very much conscious and awake the whole time. She simply had nothing to do aside from reciting sutra and crafting magical scrolls.

** {{Fanon}} has taken it to the LogicalExtreme: she can hypothetically do ''anything'', so long as it [[ExactWords is sufficiently surprising]].

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: She has "the power to surprise people", and she's not even very good at it. Then you discover that she's the extra stage midboss. Surprise!

* TokenEvilTeammate: For the Buddhists.

* FrickinLaserBeams: This is her gimmick - every attack she uses involves lasers in some way. And they ''curve'' in midair. Plus there's just [[BeamSpam so many of them]]. And she's got spells, like ''Buddhist Art "Most Valuable Vajra"'' that put the Non-Directonal Laser to shame, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYqvDet61f4#t=2m25 as shown here.]] As it turns out, her real WeaponOfChoice is not her spear, but the Jewelled Pagoda she holds, also known as the Laser Pagoda. Akyuu considers it so deadly and accurate that even entering it's range (after pissing Shou off) will guarantee that you're reduced to ash.

* [[GodInHumanForm God in Youkai Form]]: She ''became'' an avatar for Bishamonten.

* LittleBitBeastly: Despite canonically not having any distinct tiger-like physical features other than her striped hair, many artists portray Shou with tiger ears and tail.

** BadassBoast: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', she absolutely loves doing this. So much with the Gandhi image...

* FlowerMotifs [[FrickinLaserBeams That Shoot Lasers]]: Her name [[MeaningfulName means "white lotus"]], to boot.

* StupidGood: Miko accuses her of this for trying to reform youkai. Akyuu is of the same opinion.

* YamatoNadeshiko: The closest the series has yet come to a true example. After all, she is tall, has long dark hair (though it's a purple-to-brown gradient), graceful and pretty on the outside, and calm, collected and warm on the inside and [[SilkHidingSteel boy does she put up a fight]].

* BerserkButton: As she's trying to get along with Byakuren's folks, she doesn't like to be called an "outcast".
* BonusBoss

* ItAmusedMe: The entire reason for her presense, deciding to have some fun by disrupting Minamitsu's group's search and involving the player characters. She later regrets this, though.

* ProngsOfPoseidon
* RecurringBoss: She's the midboss in stage 4 and 6, though she doesn't appear in her true form until the extra stage.

* [[SpeciesSurname Species Given Name]]: As you would expect, she's a nue. However, ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism'' states that what most people consider a nue (a [[MixAndMatchCritters chimera]] that's a cross between a monkey, a tiger, a {{Tanuki}} and a snake), is not an actual nue but a completely different being; a ''real'' nue's true form has never been identified.

* UrbanLegends: What most of her ''Double Spoiler'' spell cards are based on.

%%* FlowerInHerHair

* {{Cyclops}}: Her umbrella form has one red eye and an OverlyLongTongue, as is traditional for depictions of {{karakasa}}. Her humanoid body alludes to this by having heterochromia: her left eye is red and and her right eye is blue, but since her outfit and hair are also blue, it makes her one red eye stand out and give her the effect of being one-eyed.

* UltimateBlacksmith: Via syncretism with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology certain other one-eyed youkai]], she's a fantastic blacksmith.

* PluckyGirl

* BadassBeard

* TheQuietOne
* RapidFireFisticuffs

* RocketPunch

* TheCaptain
* CuteGhostGirl

* SerialKiller: Some of it is likely thanks to village gossip and/or Akyuu's fearmongering, but ''[[AllThereInTheManual Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' paints her as liable to kill anyone that gets near water while they're alone.

* TheDragon

* FlowerInHerHair

* SupernaturalGoldEyes

* KungFuWizard

* PhysicalGod: Akyuu claims she's closer to Kanako than to a youkai.

* %% MightyGlacier: In ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* %% MoralityChain: To Unzan, more or less