Characters / Game Of Touhou Wildlings And Independent Characters

This page covers all non-noble, wildling, or independent characters in Game of Touhou For the rest of the characters, see this page. POV characters than be noted with asterisks.

Sea of Demons Wildlings

These are wildlings that live in the north-western desert region known as the Sea of Demons. For the nobility of this region, see this page. Wildlings from the Sea of Demons tend to be raiders, of either cities or each other. There are two rival horse-riding tribes, the Hell's Riders and the Dark Riders. Some of them end up seeking asylum in the Alchemical Stronghold in exchange for services to the Okazakis after finding out about the wights.

The Hell's Riders

One of the two rival horse-riding tribes of the sea. They have a tendency to wield curved swords known as arakhs, similar to the Dothraki. They are led by Konngara, a woman with a strange deformity making a unicorn-like horn on her head.

In General

• All Bikers are Hells Angels: Their role for the setting and name certainly invoke this sort of theme.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: They take pride in the fact they're hard enough to steal for a living and survive in the arid Sea of Demons, calling those who live in cities 'wallhuggers'.
• Shame If Something Happened: Their method of dealing with the Nightbug's tribe is effectively accepting gifts of goods to placate them.
• Sinister Scythe: Their weapon of choice- a sickle-like curved sword.

Konngara

The leader of the Hell's Riders. She is an imposing woman with a strange accent and a deformity which causes a bone spike to protrude from her forehead like a unicorn.

• Everyone Has Standards: She is disgusted by what she thinks is 'wallhuggers' desecrating corpses.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: As a wight.
• Horned Humanoid: She has a bony horn on her forehead, which is actually a deformity, not a mark of anything special.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: Her red and white outfit is apparently this compared to most wildlings of the Sea, likely due to the desert heat.
• Only One Name: As the wildlings tend to be named.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Becomes a Saigyouji wight, that is, spreadable by death and wargable.
• People Puppets: Is the first person to be made a wight on-screen.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• Shout-Out: Her bone-horn is a reference to her similar horn in canon.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Her insistence on heading into clearly ominous grounds for easy and plentiful raidings is what leads to her death.
• Tempting Fate: Her boasting that the Hell's Riders would have their best raid in ages is immediately followed by her death and most of the tribes' extermination.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She dies in the first chapter and becomes a wight, later dying for good in chapter 120.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Her accent is said to extend the 'i' and 'u' in 'Nightbug', an odd and likely not real accent.

Kikuri*

The sixteen-year-old second in command of the Hell's riders, and something of a psychic, as she can foretell good and bad omens from the moon. She is the very first POV character, narrating chapter 1.

• Despair Event Horizon: She reaches it when she sees her tribe be made into zombies.
• Eye Scream: She loses her eye in one of the wildling riots of the Alchemical Stronghold, retaliating to Hina's attack on her.
• It's Personal: Her abandonment of the Okazakis is partly due to her desire to put wight!Konngara out of her misery personally.
• Lunacy: Has premonitions based on the moon similar to astrology, but only as far as 'good' or 'bad', not anything in particular.
• Not Now, Kiddo: Is subject to this when she and Konngara raid the corpse-strewn remains of the Nightbug's camp- she has a bad feeling about it, while Konngara says to go ahead and raid anyway. Her bad feeling is completely correct, and most of her tribe gets decimated by wights.
• Odd Friendship: Ends up developing one with Jaime and Meira, the latter of which is the leader of a formerly rival tribe!
• Only One Name
• Pet the Dog: Her kindness to Jaime and Nazrin establishes her as a better wildling than most, even if she is part of the group that kidnapped them.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: While not as gung-ho about it as Konngara, she is clearly a proud woman regarding her way of life.
• Recurring Extra: She has relatively little bearing on the story, but she regularly appears as a non-POV character multiple times, yet has only three POV chapters to herself, the first being chapter 1 and the last being chapter 120.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She abandons the Okazaki troops, but in a subversion, it's actually due to her wanting to personally give Konngara permanent death, hence she is abandoning to go into a dangerous situation, not a safe one.
• Shout-Out: Her ability to read premonitions from the moon is a reference to her title in Canon- the Moon of Hell.
• Teethclenched Teamwork: She ends up joining onto the Dark Riders after most of her tribe got decimated by the wight ambush of chapter 1.
• Young and in Charge: As second-in-command of the Hell's Riders and later leader of the Hell's/Dark Rider coalition, she fits this trope well.

The Nightbug's Tribe

A tribe that prefers to raid cities, and placate better raiders like the Hell's Riders with gifts of goods. They are all dead and wights by the time they are seen.

In General

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Seems fine with the arrangement/extortion the Hell's Riders have with them.
• Dead All Along: They are all wights by start of the story.
• People Puppets: They are all Saigyouji Wights.

The Nightbug

The leader of the Nightbug's tribe. She prefers the fineries of a lord or lady despite being a wildling. She is already a wight by the story's beginning.

• Badass Cape: Has a black cape.
• Cool Chair: Has a makeshift throne in her tent.
• Dead All Along: She is found dead in the first chapter, and is revealed to be a wight.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: As a wight, she has these.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: Wears a noticeable fancy outfit for a wildling in a desert.
• Off with His Head!: Is decapitated when she comes to life and kills Konngara. Unfortunately, this does nothing to stop her.
• Our Zombies Are Different: She's a Saigyouji wight, and spreads her wightification to Konngara.
• People Puppets: Is the first wight seen in the series.
• Spell My Name with a "The"

The Dark Riders

Another horse-riding raiding tribe, the only difference between them and the Hell's Riders being that they have a culture of dying their hair. They are led by Meira.

In General

• * Expy: Of the Dothraki, along with the Hell's Riders, who sort of act like rival khalasars.
• Proud Warrior Race: Much like the Hell's Riders.
• Sinister Scythe: They, like the Hell's Riders, rather like curved blades.

Meira

The leader of the Dark Riders.

• Adaptational Heroism: Compared to the unambiguously dark Meira of Canon, she is notably quite affable, even if she is leader of a raiding tribe.
• Cool Horse: Her horse has fur dyed red and purple, and is naturally white-furred. This is a Shout-Out to her three colors of bullets in Canon.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She ends up killed by Hina because she was too intolerant of the Hell's Riders to accept her decision to amalgamate the tribes.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Kikuri notes she is strikingly similar in looks to Konngara.
• Odd Friendship: With Kikuri, a former leader of a dead rival tribe.
• Only One Name
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Though not so much that she lets tribal differences affect her and the Hell's Riders' mutual survival.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She is noticeably good-natured and affable to Kikuri, second-in-command to her former rivals, something her second-in-command Hina clearly doesn't want to be.
• Shout-Out: Her horse is white, red, and purple, a shout-out to her Canon iteration's color of bullets.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Kikuri, but she seems quite affable to her.

Hina

The second-in-command of the Dark Riders.

• Adaptational Villainy: Is certainly a lot meaner than her canon counterpart, and even kills Meira for being supportive of a former Hell's Rider.
• Due to the Dead: Thoroughly averted for her- she is implied to be part of a body pile in the Alchemical Stronghold from the riots that she partially caused, and the headless body that is most likely hers is later used in an experiment to cure wighthood by Eirin 'Hisakata Nou' Yagokoro.
• Off with His Head!: Gets decapitated by Kikuri shortly after betraying Meira.
• Only One Name
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: To the point where she is rather disapproving of Kikuri joining her ranks.
• The Starscream: She kills Meira when she continues to support the amalgamation of the Hell's and Dark Riders. She dies for her betrayal shortly after.

The Desert Needles

A mostly unknown tribe only known to operate by hereditary rule and a rudimentary form of regency for young inheritors. It is currently ruled by a child, Shinmyoumaru the Small.

In General

• A Child Shall Lead Them: Their current chieftain is a child, Shinmyoumaru the Small.
• Shout-Out: The tribe contains residents of the Shining Needle Castle from Canon, hence 'the Desert Needles'.

Shinmyoumaru the Small

The child leader of the tribe.

• The Ghost: Is very rarely mentioned, and never present.
• Puppet Chieftain: She is not the de facto ruler of the Desert Needles due to being a child, and is instead is ruled through by Seija.
• Shout-Out: Her being a puppet of Seija's and a naive child is a reference to her similar role in canon.
• Spell My Name with a "The": A more embarrassing version referring to her short stature.

Seija

The de facto leader of the Desert Needles and adviser to Shinmyoumaru.

• Adaptational Heroism: Her manipulation of Shinmyoumaru in this is merely to ensure the Desert Needles are run well, as opposed to her obsession with flipping the status quo as in Canon.
• Dragon-in-Chief: To Shinmyoumaru, due to being an adult while she is a mere child.
• Only One Name
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Plots abandonment of the Okazakis with Kikuri, for her an entirely pragmatism-based decision.
• Shout-Out: Her role in manipulating a child-like and naive Shinmyoumaru is almost an exact echo of her role in Canon, with just a different circumstance and manipulation to different ends.

The Lost Souls

A group of 'wildlings' mostly formed of formerly 'civilized' people that decided to live in the freedom that the law-free Sea of Demons provides for whatever reason. Due to their origins, they tend to be well-versed in certain trades.

In General

• Army of Thieves and Whores: They are effectively a group of people who have decided to run from society, effectively making them a band of outcasts, self-made or otherwise.
• The Bard: Three of their named members are bards, indicating something of a correlation between their group and travelling bards. They even use this to spy out valuable hostages in Chatra.
• Only One Name: One of the few tribes to have members that avert that, with some members having surnames.
• Shout-Out: All their named characters are tsukumogami in Canon, that is, lost objects come to life. Their name is the 'Lost Souls'.

Raiko Horikawa

The leader of the Lost Souls, a bard of some sort.

• The Bard: She is apparently a bard too, but unlike the Tsukumos or Yokina Silvertongue none of her songs are seen.
• Deadpan Snarker: For the brief moments she's seen, she's moderately snarky.
• Token Evil Teammate: She's working for the Okazakis, but organizes the dirty work, like taking a hostage from Chatra (via raiding it) to make Queen Byakuren listen to Lady Yumemi.

Benben Tsukumo

One of two bard sisters. She, along with Yatsuhashi, infiltrate Chatra and take Jaime and Nazrin hostage.

• The Bard: Complete with actual singing! She plays the biwa, while Yatuhashi plays the koto.
• Deadpan Snarker: Along with Raiko, she is quite the snarker.
• Expy: She and her sister are expies of Mance Rayder as being musically gifted wildlings that later use their bard identity as a cover while infiltrating a major city.
• Shout-Out: Her playing of a biwa is a reference to her being a biwa tsukumogami in Canon.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: She and Yatsuhashi sing Jaime and Nazrin a song right before arranging their kidnapping.

Yatsuhashi Tsukumo

The younger of two bard sisters. She, along with Benben, infiltrate Chatra and take Jaime and Nazrin hostage.

• The Bard: Complete with actual singing! She plays the koto, while Benben plays the biwa.
• Expy: She and her sister are expies of Mance Rayder as being musically gifted wildlings that later use their bard identity as a cover while infiltrating a major city.
• Shout-Out: Her playing of a koto is a reference to her being a koto tsukumogami in Canon.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: She and Benben sing Jaime and Nazrin a song right before arranging their kidnapping.

Kogasa

A blue-haired, heterochromatic wildling who occasionally shows up in unexpectedly influential positions.

• Shout-Out: Her sudden appearance as emissary to Chatra for the Okazakis is no doubt partially inspired by her obsession with surprising others in canon.

Woodlands Wildlings

Wildlings of the woodlands are hard people that live in the cold, harsh Frostbitten Forest, a place currently infested with wights. They do not raid settlements, as the Sea of Demons wildlings do, but they have a reputation of attacking small parties travelling between cities, as well as having fierce intertribal rivalry. They as a whole have been more successfully integrated in the Okazakis' men in exchange for asylum from the wights than the desert wildlings.

The Black Ghosts

A relatively savage, savvy tribe that has less-than-pleasant members, but still seem to value hospitality. They are the first group of wildlings seen to be in league with the Okazakis.

In General

• Equal-Opportunity Evil: They may be some of the nastier wildlings, but they do not care about disabilities- the two named members have a lazy eye and a horrifically slashed neck respectively, and the former is the leader of the tribe.
• Sinister Scythe: Like the horse-riding desert wildlings, the Black Ghosts like to use arakhs.
• Token Evil Teammate: For the Woodlands wildlings.

Rinnosuke

The lazy-eyed leader of the Black Ghosts. He is ruthless and callous, but cares enough about his people to ally with other tribes and work with the Okazakis.

• Adaptational Villainy: Is generally far more of a jerk than his canon counterpart, but when push comes to shove, he's a good guy.
• Fish Eyes: Suffers from a lazy eye.
• Jerkass: Is quite the jerk most of the time.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Cares enough about the wildling folk as a whole to ally with other tribes under the Okazakis.
• Mystical White Hair: Has strange white hair.
• Only One Name
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Sekibanki implies Rinnosuke wouldn't mind bedding Eirin, who is currently their hostage. The veracity of this is dubious, though.
• Shout-Out: His lazy eye is a reference to how he has glasses in Canon.

Sekibanki

A scary, scarred enforcer of Rinnosuke's. She has a horrific slashed neck.

• Adaptational Villainy: Is far more sadistic than her canon counterpart, who is simply an incognito youkai in the human village.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has some nasty-looking slashes on her neck likely being the reason she's so mean-spirited.
• Only One Name
• Red Baron: No-neck Sek is her nickname.
• Slashed Throat: Has a nasty rendition that gives her the nickname 'No-neck Sek'.
• The Man They Couldn't Hang: Surviving slashes to the neck takes grit.
• Shout-Out: Her nickname being 'No-neck Sek' is a reference to her actual lack of a neck in Canon.
• Token Evil Teammate: She's implied to be the tribe's torturer and one with sadistic tendencies, so she's likely this.
• Torture Technician: Implied to be one.

The Wolf's Wenches

A largely female tribe who have a trend of warging wolves. Largely exterminated by wights.

In General

• Amazon Brigade: Implied to be this.
• Animal Eye Spy: As wargs tend to, they likely used their wolves like this.
• The Beastmaster: A lot of them were wargs, apparently.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Likely occupy a similar place in superstition as werewolves, given their place in the Woodlands.
• The Remnant: Not many remain, with only Kagerou and Byakurou (a warg that's dead, but stuck in a wolf) remaining.

Kagerou

The last remaining wolf's wench with her human body still alive.

• Animal Eye Spy: Can warg wolves and see through their eyes.
• The Beastmaster: Can warg wolves, and wargs her wolf in particular to have psychic conversations with Byakurou.
• Heroic BSoD: She enters one briefly when asked about how the wights killed her tribe.
• Last Of Her Kind: She is the last Wolf's Wench with a human body.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Is mostly feminine in behavior, but also had a female lover (who is now inside a wolf).
• Only One Name
• Shout-Out: Her status as a wolf-warg references her status as a werewolf in Canon.
• Telepathy: Wargs Byakurou's wolf to talk to her within the wolf's mind.

Byakurou

Kagerou's former lover, her human body dead but her mind trapped in a wolf that follows Kagerou around.

• Animal Eye Spy: Uses Kagerou's wolf as a second body for her consciousness to occupy.
• The Beastmaster: Would have been when alive.
• Non-Human Sidekick: To Kagerou.
• Only One Name
• Original Character
• Posthumous Character
• Telepathy: She is able to communicate with Kagerou telepathically when the latter wargs her wolf.

The Brighthairs

A tribe of the Frostbitten Forest that has a cultural fondness for dying hair in bright colors, hence their name. Ser Ruukoto was a former Brighthair, and hence acts as an ambassador to them for the Okazakis. Other notable Brighthairs include Tokiko, and the late Mima, a Brighthair that married Lord Maurice Kirisame and mothered Lady Marisa Kirisame.

In General

• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: To the wildling way of life in general, given their willingness to diplomatically deal with the nobility of cities, marrying off one of their own and allowing a chieftain's daughter to become a knight.

Tokiko

A young member of the Brighthairs, amicable and pleasant.

• Deadpan Snarker: Has a fair bit of snark to her, but is mostly nice.
• Nice Gal: Is a genuinely nice girl to Eirin, albeit with a little snark.
• Only One Name

Independant Characters

Characters that are neither nobility nor wildlings, but are still Norosian.

Jaime*

A peasant boy from Muenzuka who is first seen losing his right hand for theft of a neighbor's pig for his hungry family. After Lady Yuyuko shows him kindness, his journey becomes far more than an average peasant boy's. Becomes a POV character in Chapter 65.

• Action Survivor: For the most part is this, until Death's Gates is overrun by wights, in which he stops surviving.
• Aerith and Bob: His name is more Westerosi-sounding than Norosian, and it's unknown why this is in-universe.
• An Arm and a Leg: Loses his hand due to stealing a pig for his starving family.
• Deadpan Snarker: His POV chapters show that while he stutters in speech, his mind is incredibly snarky for his age.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Thankfully averted- when he gets raped by Gnegetsu, it is played as just as bad as if a man raped a woman.
• Gallows Humor: Indulges in it a little, which is for the best given his dire situations.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Plays this trope entirely straight, being a good-hearted individual through and through.
• Hero-Worshipper: Is clearly one for both Ser Shou Toramaru, who he considers a strong, competent knight, and Lady Yuyuko Saigyouji, a noble that showed him kindness in a court full of people willing to abuse him.
• Justified Criminal: His act of theft is purely to feed his starving family.
• The Load: Due to him lacking a right hand, he cannot fight or defend himself, and so Nazrin has to protect him most of the time, and he is rather self-aware and self-blaming for his inability to do more.
• Nice Guy: He is undoubtedly selfless and kind, with one of his last acts being trying (in vain) to help a girl he barely knows escape the wights in Death's Gates.
• Non-Action Guy: Is unable to fight due to his lack of a right hand, making him reliant on Action Girl Nazrin.
• One-Steve Limit: He has the name 'Jaime', meaning he averts this as Ser Jaime Lannister (presumably somewhere in Westeros in this fic) has the name.
• Only One Name: As one of the smallfolk, he only has the one name.
• Original Character
• Puppy Love: With Nazrin, just about, due to them being in their early teens.
• Rags to Riches: Something he begins to lament, realizing the interaction he's had with the nobility of Noros has ruined his life.
• Rank Up: He goes from peasant boy, to squire to Lady Byakuren Hijiri, to Prince of the City of Desires, to valuable hostage for negotiation, to a kid on the run again.
• Shout-Out: As a blonde kid with green eyes who loses a hand, his name is clearly a shout-out to A Song of Ice and Fire's own Jaime Lannister.
• Speech Impediment: He has a noticeable stutter, which makes his relatively eloquent thoughts in his narration seem out of place.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: A strange and entirely Played for Drama example of the trope being played with. Jaime is definitely attracted to women, but Gengetsu is an utterly abhorrent monster of a girl. However, when she rapes him, he still gets an erection and still considers her body attractive, but hates himself thoroughly for feeling this way, and the sex still comes off as entirely non-consensual.
• Trauma Conga Line: After losing a hand, it just keeps getting worse for him: his message is used to start a war, he's dragged through said war and made to feel completely useless due to not being able to fight, is regularly touched by an insane girl, one of the few kind adults to him dies by the hand of said insane girl, he seems to get to safety and nearly sees his family again before being made a hostage by wildlings, nearly gets sent back to safety before being taken hostage by the insane girl who's been molesting him, having his crush killed in the process, before finally being helped by a broken woman to escape to a city that gets overrun by zombies, which kill him.
• Unwanted Spouse: Has one in the form of Gengetsu, who forcibly marries him and makes him her 'prince'.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He is the one to deliver the request by Lady Yuyuko that gets Ichirin killed and thus starts the rebellion.
• Unwitting Pawn: By both Yuyuko and later Yumemi Okazaki.

Isami Asama

A disillusioned, alcoholic sellsword. She is rather simple-minded and easy to buy off. Her personal sigil is a horn of ale.

• The Alcoholic: To the point where her speech is never coherent due to slurring.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: She ends up working for Lord Tatsumi Hakkaisan in his rebellion against Elly Kazami, but is clearly only doing it for more money and hence more alcohol. Elly takes advantage of this and buys her off, making her one the sellswords that betrayed Hakkaisan.
• Only in It for the Money: Like most sellswords in A Song of Ice and Fire. Elly Kazami uses this to buy her off and have her betray Hakkaisan.
• Rank Up: Due to Elly Kazami becoming Hand of the Queen, she places her as Prince of the City of Desires as a way of thanking her (and placing a more tractable sellsword in charge of the City of Desires rather than Amakasu Tenji).
• Shout-Out: Her alcoholism is a shout-out to her Canon counterpart in Uwabami Breakers' similar alcoholism.

Amakasu 'the Lord of Barley' Tenji

A sneaky, underhanded sellsword who has the dark skin of a summer islander. A notably ambitious fellow with a decently sized company.

• The Brute: Seems to function as this for Elly while he's in the Queensguard.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He dies via being knifed by Sakuya as she becomes a fierce Mama Bear to Ieyasu during his assassination attempt of him.
• Kicked Upstairs: See Rank Up. As he is notably ambitious as well as money-grubbing, Elly makes him a Queensguard to make sure he is not too influential beyond what Elly tells him to do.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: He joins Lord Hakkaisan's uprising against Elly Kazami. He is Only in It for the Money, and further shows his true colors after he is paid off by Elly Kazami, as he backstabs Lord Hakkaisan.
• Only in It for the Money: Just like Isami Asama, he is easily bought off if someone has a better offer for him. He gets bought off by Elly, and for a time takes over the City of Desires for her once Gengesu is killed, before being replaced by the less ambitious Isami Asama.
• Rank Up: He briefly becomes Prince of the City of Desires, before being Kicked Upstairs to be one of Remilia's Queensguard as a way of increasing Scarlet loyalists with his company and keeping the ambitious ma where Elly can see him.
• Red Baron: His nickname is more famous than his actual name- the Lord of Barley.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: He is quite foul-mouthed, a characteristic that gives away that he is most likely the Queensguard sent to kill Ieyasu in the Epilogue.

Rumi Arie

A favorite bartender of Ser Tatsumi Hakkaisan and Ser Tojiko Soga. She gets elevated to minor nobility by Ser Tatsumi Hakkaisan, and later becomes Lady of Muenzuka following Hakkaisan's death. Her sigil becomes a sake dish.

• The Bartender: She has been one for most of her life.
• Duality Motif: Her half-yellow, half purple outfit seems to invoke this, but she never expresses it.
• Rank Up: From lowborn bartender to minor nobility, to lady of the former capital.
• Shout-Out: Her being a bartender is a direct reference to her Canon counterpart in Uwabami Breakers.

Yokina Silvertongue

A bard from the Vale that sings for the Kochiya host. He writes a song about Sanae and Sangaku's romance.

• Aerith and Bob: His first name is quite a typical Norosian-sounding name, but his second name is clearly a chosen name made to brag about his singing talent, making him alone an example of this.
• The Bard: He travels, sings, and plays the lyre, and is quite good at all three.
• Bawdy Song: He sings one for Sanae and Sangaku's men about their leaders' sexual relationship.
• Original Character
• Plucky Comic Relief: His song 'the Knight of Sanae's Bed' gives one of the few moments of levity in this otherwise dark fic.