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This page is for ''Touhou'' characters who debuted in ''Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object''.
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[[folder:Nazrin]]
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::''The Little Dowser General''
::'''Nazrin'''

-->''"My mice do like the taste of human flesh. They say that cheese just can't compare to certain other red foods."''

A mouse youkai who was sent to hunt for the ship fragments and the jewelled pagoda of Vaisravana/Bishamonten 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.

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* BigEater: Being a mouse, which are known for the amount of damage they can cause by how much they eat, this isn't surprising. She's often responsible for grains being stolen, and damage to crops is especially severe whenever she uses a lot of field mice to help her with dowsing.
* ChewToy: Fanon only. Since she's a mouse, she has practically become one for both Chen and [[http://walfas.org/flash/nazrun.swf Orin]], solely because cats eat mice. In the vein of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', this is sometimes reversed with Nazrin outwitting the cat, usually [[CheerfulChild the much more guillible]] Chen.
** {{Shipping}}: ...and tends to get shipped with either (or both at once).
* DependingOnTheArtist: Fanartists can never seem to decide if they want to draw with her WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse style ears, or more realistic mouse ears.
* {{Familiar}}: She is this to Shou. She's actually a high-ranking youkai who works under Bishamonten and was sent to monitor Shou when she was appointed as his avatar, but she ended up fulfilling the role so well that Nazrin became her servant.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Fandom has her increasingly playing this role, either with Shou or the Myouren Temple crew as a whole. It makes a lot of sense when you remember that Nazrin was originally Shou's superior, acting as a sort of auditor, sent by Bishamonten, to keep an eye on Shou's work as Bishamonten's avatar.
* KillerRabbit: Despite looking cute and being pretty tiny she's actually a very powerful youkai and a direct servant of Bishamonten.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiySSc2Yrhg "A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander"]]
* LittleBitBeastly: Mouse. This ties into her role as Bishamonten's servant: Bishamonten is the guardian of the northern direction, and the mouse (or rat) represents the north in the Chinese zodiac.
* MonsterLord: Can control field mice.
* RecurringBoss: Shows up for all of stage 1, then doesn't come back until stage 5 as a midboss.
* ShrinkingViolet: Apparently she'd be a lot [[IncrediblyLamePun mousier]] if not for Bishamonten being her boss.
* SmugSuper: Prides herself on being a powerful Youkai and servant of Bishamonten. Because of that people have to act stern when talking to her else she can easily get an inflated ego.
* ToServeMan: Not Nazrin herself, but the mice she's associated with have a taste for human flesh.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's a mouse. Guess. Yes, it's cheese.
* {{Tsundere}}: See HypercompetentSidekick. WordOfGod also states that despite having a big ego in contrast to [[TheNapoleon her short height]], she's actually very timid deep down and will run and hide as soon as she's frightened.

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[[folder:Kogasa Tatara]]
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::''The Cheery Forgotten Umbrella''
::'''Kogasa Tatara'''

-->''"These days you have to punish someone a little to surprise them, don't you?"''

Kogasa is [[{{Karakasa}} an umbrella that eventually came to life]] because she was unsold, becoming a youkai after she was swept off by the wind. Enjoys surprising people and watching their reactions, however as she isn't very good at it she's trying to improve her technique.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: She's an umbrella [[{{Youkai}} tsukumogami]]; the umbrella she holds is a fairly typical depiction of a {{karakasa}}, though having a second humanoid body is rather odd.
* BecomeARealBoy: Inverted. Kogasa has, due to her failures with babysitting, 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: Which is her real body, the humanoid girl or the umbrella? They ''both'' are.
* BrickJoke:
** You probably didn't think much of Kogasa when you first saw her, but later, [[spoiler:she comes back as the game's Extra Stage midboss. And TheGlovesComeOff. Surprise!]]
** And she [[spoiler:comes back ''again'' in ''Ten Desires'' as the game's Stage 3 midboss, making her one of the very few bosses to do so. Surprise!]]
* CatchPhrase:
** "Bero Bero Ba~!" Used by fans anytime Kogasa attempts to surprise someone.
** Also: "Urameshiya!" - literally means "I hate you" or "I envy your life"[[note]]In Buddhism, ghosts, youkai and possessed objects like karakasa are considered to inhabit a lower realm than humans, and are often depicted as being envious of humans due to the human realm having less suffering.[[/note]], but in context is equivalent to "Boo!"
** Surprise!
* 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!]]
* {{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. One of her in-game expressions also has her close one eye and stick her tongue out to resemble her umbrella form, invoking this further.
** She apparently qualifies as the One-Eyed Youkai of Kotoyouka and apparently visits on that day because she's an UltimateBlacksmith and people need new needles because they're retiring their old needles for the holiday.
* EmotionEater: Lives on human surprise. Apparently she doesn't have to eat that often, given how little success she has at surprising people.
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Double_Spoiler/Spell_Cards/Stage_3#Spell_Card_3_-_5 Rainbow Sign: "Over The Rainbow".]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Twirls her umbrella to fire bullets at you.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou:
** The only human she ever seems able to surprise is ''you'', the player. She's the character whose picture is on the game CD, instead of one of the major characters. Even though [[WordOfGod ZUN]] had already said during the demo's release that Kogasa was [[ExactWords irrelevant to the story]]. Thus, she surprises you when you open the case.
-->Surprise~
** Another surprise she has for the player is her EasyModeMockery: her final spellcard is actually harder in easy mode than it is in the harder modes.
* FriendToAllChildren: Although it seems to be unintentional.
* HarmlessVillain: "Attacks" humans, but the greatest danger she poses is making people feel like jerks by sulking after her efforts fail.
-->''"She'll become depressed when you ignore her. If there's a problem with that, it's that seeing her in her depressed state ''is bothersome'', so it's better to pretend that you're afraid to please her. "''
--->-- '''Hieda no Akyuu''', as stated in Kogasa's entry in ''[[UniverseCompendium Symposium of Post-Mysticism]]''
* 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!
** {{Fanon}} has taken it to the LogicalExtreme: she can hypothetically do ''anything'', so long as it [[ExactWords is sufficiently surprising]]. [[invoked]]
* HiddenDepths:
** You wouldn't expect Kogasa to be a gifted blacksmith, but she is. Surprise!
** Her descriptions in the side material and some spell card comments would suggest that she has extreme self-esteem issues as a result of her failures.
* InformedAttribute: PlayedForLaughs during her chapter of ''Wild and Horned Hermit'', where every time she brings up the one-eyed Youkai, whomever she's speaking to responds "Since when are you one-eyed?"
* {{Karakasa}}: An abandoned umbrella that was unused for a hundred years before becoming a sentient youkai.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEB3OQs55Og "Beware of the Umbrella Left There Forever"]]
* MeaningfulName: "Kogasa" means "little umbrella", while "Tatara" is derived from Ippon Datara, a one-eyed one-legged monster. It's also a technique for iron-smelting, which likely ties into her blacksmithing ability.
* MismatchedEyes: One red eye, one blue eye.
* PaintingTheMedium:
** The demo sets Kogasa up to be a character with a seemingly weak special power -- the power to surprise people -- and appears as an early stage boss. Then, in the full game, she appears as an Extra stage midboss. Her portrait in her second appearance even has "Surprise~" written above her in Japanese.
** And then there's her reappearance in ''Ten Desires'' where she specifically refers to her problem of [[StalkedByTheBell timing out Yoshika's attacks]].
** Also in ''Ten Desires'', after you beat her, she drops the the first full power up item in the game as a pleasant surprise.
* ParasolOfPain: A youkai umbrella or {{karakasa}}. Her accessory umbrella comes complete with an eggplant motif ''and'' a giant tongue. Although the umbrella is part of her, and she can't put it down.
* PeekABogeyman: All she does is try to surprise humans so she can eat their suprise, and never actually tries to harm them, making her one of if not the most harmless non-humans in the franchise.
* PokeThePoodle: She only "attacks" humans to surprise them. As her skills at frightening people aren't good, she trains by researching classic ghost stories.
* PowerOfTheStorm: A lot of her spell cards are based around rainstorms and cyclones.
* 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''.
* ShoutOut:
** A couple of her spell cards are named after games in the ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' series.
** And of course, [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Over the Rainbow]].
** Her article (not profile) in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Symposium of Post-Mysticism]]'' is about her thinking that [[Film/MaryPoppins babysitters fly on umbrellas]].
* ThrowTheDogABone: As of ''Ten Desires'' she is now living in a cemetery near the Myouren Temple, where it is [[CreepyCemetery much easier to surprise people]]. {{Lampshaded}} in her profile: "She finally did it. Amazing."
* UltimateBlacksmith: Via syncretism with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology a certain other one-eyed youkai]], she's a fantastic blacksmith.

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[[folder:Ichirin Kumoi]]
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::''The Great Wheel that Guards and Is Guarded''
::'''Ichirin Kumoi'''

-->''"I'm Ichirin, and I'm taking my sister's place guarding the treasure. I won't let any thieves in alive!"''

Self-appointed guardian of the UFO that appeared over Gensoukyou, and the first of Byakuren's followers the player encounters. She possesses a "partner" entity named Unzan. Ichirin's [[NiceHat headdress]] is a nod to Buddhist nun gear, Unzan being a nyuudo - a collective term for youkai that resemble monks.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: Blue-ish purple hair in ''UFO'', aqua hair in ''HM'' and ''[=ULiL=]''.
* AllMonksKnowKungFu: She and her fellow Buddhist Byakuren are more physical fighters in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', for no real reason other than this trope.
* 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 similar to a magician. Even Byakuren's not quite sure what type of youkai she's supposed to be, calling her a nyuudou-handler.
* BecomingTheMask: {{Irony}}, despite being partners with a species of youkai that pretend to be monks, she really is one and is one of Byakuren's followers that believes in Buddhism.
* CriticalStatusBuff: Her special skill in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' - her "rage meter" fills up as she takes damage, and increases her attack power when full.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: ''Hopeless Masquerade'' onwards depicts her with light blue hair and eyes.
* FailedASpotCheck: While everyone else in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' is able to see through Mamizou's disguise while talking with her, it isn't until the tanuki uses "wicked arts" that Ichirin realizes that she's not actually fighting Byakuren.
* FrickinLaserBeams: She is probably the biggest user to date of a specific variety of laser whose [[HitboxDissonance wonky hitbox]] enrages certain experienced players.
* FlyingOnACloud: She does this with Unzan in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' when Mamizou's spellcard "Transformation: Futatsuiwa Family's Clan" [[BalefulPolymorph turns her into a monkey]] in an obvious ShoutOut to ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
* TheGenericGirl:
** ZUN even notes that she's "basically just the hitbox for Unzan".
** She's treated this way in canon, if ''Hopeless Masquerade'' is anything to go by. Most people are more interested in Unzan rather than her.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhD4rg-Rvmc "The Traditional Old Man and the Stylish Girl"]], which is shared with Unzan. Also has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAU8NLP0Ybs a remix]] in ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "one wheel in clouds", and her [[BossSubtitles character title]] is "The Great Wheel That Guards And Is Guarded". She also carries a wheel/ring that she uses in the noncards to summon bullet patterns that look like huge wheels with spokes made of lasers.
* MegatonPunch: Her ''Fist Sign "Wind-Killing Confession" ''. She calls Unzan to punch horizontally, slamming the hit enemy to the wall at the far side.
* MightyGlacier: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'' she's one of the slower characters, but she also has amazing damage and range.
* MoralityChain: To Unzan, more or less, being the one who got him to quit attacking humans.
* OnlySaneMan: Her general personality in {{Fanon}}.
* PaletteSwap: One of those in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' gives her a colour-scheme that looks a lot like [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Index]]. Another makes her look like Utsuho.
* PluckyGirl: Never gives up and remains optimistic in most situations.
* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: One of her ''Hopeless Masquerade'' attacks.
* RingsOfDeath: She doesn't get much use out of them in ''UFO'' with Unzan doing most of the fighting. In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', however, she wields them a bit like [[PowerFist brass knuckles]] that also [[MotionCaptureMecha summon Unzan]].
* StrictlyFormula: ZUN admits that Ichirin was created as an afterthought because he worried that Unzan alone would be too much of a departure from the [[ImprobablyFemaleCast usual Touhou template]].
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: With her Occult Special she summons Hasshaku-sama who's sporting a huge SlasherSmile.
* TurnsRed: Again, in ''Hopeless Masquerade''. However, it's not permanent.
* UnkemptBeauty: Unsurprisingly enough, a lot of fanart tend to portray her as quite pretty despite her conservative appearance.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has purple hair in UFO, but in her later appearances she has light blue hair.
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[[folder:Unzan]]
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::'''Unzan'''

Cloud-like "partner" entity to Ichirin. ''[[TheOneGuy He]]'' is able to shapeshift into giant fists or a giant face and almost never speaks, preferring that Ichirin speaks for him.

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* BadassBeard: He has a very thick beard and is most of the muscle of their duo.
* 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. He also killed many people before being tamed by Ichirin.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After Ichirin warded him off, he decided to protect her for the rest of his life.
* TheDividual: Unzan and Ichirin are inseparable.
* EyeBeams: For the duo's final spell card. That's one scolding you ''don't'' want to receive.
* HeelFaceTurn: Killed people before getting tamed by Ichirin.
* {{Familiar}}: Unzan basically is Ichirin's familiar due to being honor-bound to her.
* 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.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When Ichirin uses her last word in ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* MadeOfAir: He's an intangible cloud that can punch people, so he's invulnerable to physical harm.
%%* MightyGlacier: His attacks are quite telegraphed.
* MotionCaptureMecha: He fights a bit like one in ''Hopeless Masquerade''. Most of the duo's attacks involve Ichirin throwing a punch, and Unzan's fists mimicking the same motion, to greater effect. Ichirin can still punch even if Unzan is unavailable, but for much less damage.
* TheOneGuy: Currently the only remotely male character ''overall'' to have appeared in the Windows games (unless you count Rinnosuke's background cameo in ''Hopeless Masquerade''). Considering he's also depicted in a non-{{bishonen}} way, unlike Rinnosuke, it adds up to some MemeticBadass status.
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't talk much.
%%* RapidFireFisticuffs
* RealMenWearPink: He's a giant pink cloud, and also the manliest character in the series.
%%* RocketPunch
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Being a cloud, he can easily shapeshift to look like whatever he wants. In ''Urban Legend in Limbo'', he even makes himself look like Byakuren's scroll in one of Ichirin's portraits.
* ShrinkingViolet: The reason why he's TheQuietOne is due to his crippling shyness, so he lets Ichirin act as a kind of spokesman for him.
* StealthPun: "Nyuudo", his species, can be also read as the Japanese for "thundercloud".
* SuperSenses: Is able to perceive Koishi far more easily than most other characters in the cast.

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[[folder:Minamitsu Murasa]]
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::''The Ghost Left From The Shipwreck''
::'''Captain Minamitsu Murasa'''

-->''"Hehe, unfortunately we can't bring powerless passengers with us. Now, leave the treasure here and return back to earth!"''

The ghost-turned-{{youkai}} of a [[TheOphelia drowned girl]] that spent a few years capsizing ships, until she was unbound from her place of death by Byakuren who offered her a new ship to captain. She and the Palanquin Ship ended up bound in the underworld with Byakuren's followers until Utsuho's geyser blew it off into the sky, kick-starting the game's plot.

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* AffablyEvil: Despite utilizing her power to cause people to drown and sinking ships, she is noted to have a bright personality, and is said to hold conversations with the captain of sinking vessels even as they're going down.
* AnchorsAway: She throws giant anchor danmaku!
* TheCaptain: Of the Palanquin Ship.
* CuteGhostGirl: Despite being a spirit who used to drown people before being tamed by Byakuren, she's pretty adorable in appearance.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Her official art makes it ambiguous whether she's wearing shorts or a skirt, and both appear in fanart.
* IOweYouMyLife: Her motivation to rescue Byakuren is that she rescued her from being bound to the sunken ship that claimed her life. .
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuZEXMzhso "Captain Murasa"]]
* NiceHat: Wears a cap with an anchor on it. It's undeniably a very nice hat.
* SailorFuku: Wears the type of "sailor suit" the iconic Sailor Fuku is [[OlderThanTheyThink based on]].
* 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, though as a result of Byakuren's influence she does try to be more discriminating in ''who'' she attempts to drown.
** Akyuu's explanation for it is that as a ghost she's obligated to have some sort of obsession to prevent her from moving on to the afterlife. So she would literally die if she stopped trying to drown people. Incidentally, she had previously been attached to the living world by the location of her shipwreck, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero until Byakuren unbound her.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: K-S romanization - "Minamitu".
* TokenEvilTeammate: For the Buddhists apart from Nue, since she's a ghost serial killer.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Easily the tomboy of the crew especially compared to Byakuren, even though Shou tends to get mistaken for being an actual boy.

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[[folder:Shou Toramaru]]
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::''The Disciple Of Bishamonten''
::'''Shou Toramaru'''

-->''"Then you'll have to bear witness to the light of dharma which is even brighter here in Makai. And bow down before this pagoda of Bishamonten!"''

An "honest and straightforward" tiger {{youkai}} representing good fortune, who was turned into an avatar of the Buddhist god [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaisravana Vaisravana/Bishamonten]] through the intercession of Byakuren. She sought the fragments of the Tobikura and the pagoda of Bishamonten to finally release Byakuren.

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* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: 80% of her strength comes from her pagoda.
* AnimalMotifs: Tiger-patterned clothes and hair.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Often depicted as one by fanartists, due to her GenderBlenderName and her overall boyish appearance in official in-game art.
* BladeOnAStick: She carries a spear, just like the Buddhist god of treasure and [[WarGod warfare]] Bishamonten, on whom her character is based. She can't actually fight with it, though, since [[OrnamentalWeapon 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 instead.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: How she came into being; tigers aren't native to Japan, but she was born from information about tigers that scholars brought over from the continent. When people began to imagine what tigers might be like, their collective imaginations brought Shou into existence.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: More like a giant spinning laser cross of death. It's actually a vajra/dorje, a Hindu/Buddhist scepter that represents the thunderbolt.
* CuteLittleFangs: ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' reveals that she has them when doing an open-mouthed smile.
* TheDragon: For Byakuren.
* FailureKnight: She was so loyal to her duties as Bishamonten's avatar that she wasn't present when Byakuren was dragged away and imprisoned. The regret stemming from this eventually motivates her to begin the quest for the Tobikura and put all her power into setting Byakuren free.
* FlowerInHerHair: Wears what appears to be a lotus flower on top of her head.
* 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, [[https://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 its range (after pissing Shou off) will guarantee that you're reduced to ash.
* GenderBlenderName: "Shou" is generally a male name and the suffix "-maru" is classically given to boys until they receive a ''real'' name.
* GodInHumanForm: She ''became'' an avatar for Bishamonten in youkai form.
* GodJob: An unusual example, in that her job is being an ''[[GodInHumanForm avatar]]'' of a god.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: While she's more gentle and reserved than most characters who fit this trope, she's still very fond of alcohol and will often become staggeringly drunk.
* InstantDeathRadius: Akyuu has stated that, due to the Laser Pagoda, if you so much as enter close proximity with an angered Shou, there is no guarantee that you won't be instantly vaporized.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wrVuPMVR0 "The Tiger-Patterned Bishamonten]]
* LittleBitBeastly: Despite canonically not having any distinct tiger-like physical features other than her striped hair and long teeth, and in fact being incapable of assuming a bestial form anymore like other beast youkai, many artists portray Shou with tiger ears and tail.
* ModeLock: No longer possesses the ability to change into her beast form.
* MulticoloredHair: It looks like tiger stripes!
* OrnamentalWeapon: She never uses her spear as a weapon; she only carries it around to look more like Bishamonten, who's often depicted with a spear. Her ''real'' weapon is the Jewelled Pagoda.
* OurGodsAreDifferent: Akyuu claims she's closer to Kanako than to a youkai.
* SkirtOverSlacks: Wears pants over her skirt.
* SpeciesSurname: 'Tora' means tiger.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: K-S romanization - "Syou"
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Has the gold eyes you'd expect from a divine spirit.
* UpgradeArtifact: The laser pagoda is more powerful than Shou herself and is the true source of the infamous lasers. Apparently it accounts for about 80% of Shou's strength.
* WarGod: Bishamonten's sphere falls under war, though she's not actually that good at fighting, and focuses more on Bishamonten's treasure aspect.

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[[folder:Byakuren Hijiri]]
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::''The Great Sealed Magician''
::'''Byakuren Hijiri (or [[MeaningfulName Saint Byakuren]]?)'''

-->''"Oh, the world of dharma is filled with light. Are you the one who liberated this world?"''

A Buddhist nun turned youkai magician. She pretended to specialize in {{youkai}} extermination, but helped the youkai by relocating them far from human settlements, like Minamitsu, instead of killing them. When her eternal youth raised suspicion, she was sealed in Makai. Nazrin, Ichirin, Minamitsu and Shou were successful in freeing her, with some unintended help from the player character, and now she maintains her new temple in Gensoukyou.

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* AbsoluteCleavage: Yes really, during her Last Word in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' she has a costume switch where she dons a biker suit but with the zipper slightly undone exposing her cleavage.
* AllLovingHero: She tries, at least.
* AllMonksKnowKungFu: Her style of fighting in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', with no other explanation. At least it makes sense since her magic is all about improving her physical abilities.
* 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.
** Though if her [[CallBack attack patterns]] are any indication, a certain god may have been keeping her company.
* ArchEnemy: There's no love lost between her and Miko, though they can be civil towards one another.
* BadassBoast: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'', she absolutely loves doing this. So much with the Gandhi image...
* BareFistedMonk: She's one of the most ''physical'' characters in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', not unlike Meiling in ''Hisoutensoku''.
* BecomingTheMask: She originally protected youkai to maintain the source of her powers, but as she gradually learned of their stories she sincerely committed to help them.
* BeingGoodSucks: Her reward for aiding both youkai and humans? Sealed for a millennium in Makai.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Very common in fandom. She has a very nice personality, but pissing her off with result in a [[StepfordSmiler fake smile]] not unlike [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Yuuka's]].
* BikerBabe: Can summon and ride a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBFD6GZ9tw8 motorcycle]] in ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqH6BEEDsI Last Word variation]] even comes with a brief costume change. This is in reference to the Japanese UrbanLegend of [[http://urbanfolkores.blogspot.com/2017/04/urban-legends-turbo-bachan.html "Turbo Granny"]].
* BlackMagic: It's probably not the magic by itself since it doesn't differ much from other magic, but the fact it completely violates what her beliefs actually stand for, making her a {{Hypocrite}}. Also, faith is a ''very'' powerful source in Gensoukyou so whatever would spite it is naturally evil by default.
* 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 endeavor 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.
* BoobsOfSteel: As with many sixth stage bosses, she's pretty strong, and has a noticeably physical fighting style. In her first playable appearance in 13.5, she doesn't ''just'' have the biggest bust in the game, it ''[[{{Gainaxing}} jiggles]]''.
* ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Whenever Kosuzu tells a fairy tale in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'', the monk characters will be portrayed by Byakuren... [[NoInnerFourthWall who is fully aware that she's playing a role and will occasionally break character to comment on it]].
* 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.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Gag fanon made her into this (along with just about every other member of her crew). May stem from being sealed for so long.
* CallBack: Among her spell cards is a faithful reproduction of one of Shinki's most distinctive attacks. Some fans who didn't like the the PC-98 era characters' suffering from ChuckCunninghamSyndrome did not take it well. If you still view the PC-98 games as canon, however, then she was in the right place to swipe attacks from Shinki. As a result it's not uncommon for fanworks to depict Shinki and Byakuren as old friends, since they had about a thousand years to get to know each other.
* CaptainOblivious: She appears ([[SelectiveObliviousness deliberately]] or not) ignorant to the fact that many of her followers do not actually follow her vows (no drinking, no eating meat, no attacking humans, etc.)
* ChargedAttack: How her physical enhancement magic is depicted in ''Hopeless Masquerade''. Her special attacks are extremely powerful, but entering the command only builds up a charge; it must be entered a second time before the attack is released. Some attacks also grant minor bonuses while held.
* CrisisOfFaith: Struggles with her belief in Buddhism in her backstory. Although it's questionable how many of her current beliefs would be accepted in mainstream Buddhism.
* CultOfPersonality: It's unclear whether her followers are truly devoted to Buddhism, or if they just go through the motions because they love being around her.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of her little brother Myouren caused her to abandon the teachings of her faith and pursue immortality at the cost of her humanity. Although her character arc where she overcomes it and regains her idealism all happens within her backstory.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her powers and spells have roots in dark magic, yet her motivation is the salvation of humans and youkai alike.
* DetectEvil: Can apparently sense that Seiga is ridiculously evil. She also manages to sense that the god of the Hakurei Shrine has become angry from [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly lack of faith]].
* DeathFromAbove: Her spell ''Heaven Card "Five Elements Mountain of Shakyamuni"'' has her charge up and '''[[MegatonPunch let a huge hand strike the enemy from above!]]'''
* DuelingMessiahs: With Toyosatomimi no Miko; Byakuren is the more idealistic one, truly believing that humans and youkai can live in peace.
* EmpathicWeapon: Her scroll is made from Makai materials and possesses its own will. Mostly it just doesn't let anyone but Byakuren use it.
* EnemyMine:
** [[spoiler:Unites with both [[ArchNemesis Toyosatomimi no Miko]] and Reimu in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' in hopes of defeating Kokoro in Kokoro's story.]]
** She does it again with [[spoiler:Miko]] in ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' in order to take on the Yorigami sisters.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' and Miko and Futo's story in ''Urban Legend in Limbo''.
* FlashStep: Accelerates to frightening speeds in her spell card ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DAApMrtEiU Superhuman "Byakuren Hijiri"]]''. ''Hopeless Masquerade'' makes it a standard part of her arsenal.
* FlowerMotifs: Lotuses [[FrickinLaserBeams that shoot lasers.]] Her name [[MeaningfulName means "white lotus"]], to boot.
* FluffyTamer: Many of the youkai she houses in her temple are still dangerous and aggressive towards humans (and most likely have had large body counts in the past, like Murasa), and yet she still treats them as a kindly old grandmother would, an attitude which Akyuu finds repulsive.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Her ''Hopeless Masquerade'' sprite is well-endowed and jiggles in the wind.
* TheHeretic: As a result of BecomingTheMask when it came to helping youkai and being on the receiving end of BeingGoodSucks, her Buddhism is decidedly non-standard, though it appears that she still has the favor of Bishamonten regardless.
* HeroAntagonist: Even among ''Touhou'''s general lack of evil characters, she bears special mention. Her goal is to bring peace and harmony to humans and youkai. Of course, Akyuu thinks she's deluded for this, as many people believe youkai are eldritch things that rely on eating humans. It's also a metaphysical fact that ceasing to antagonize humans would cause youkai to lose their purpose in life and vanish in a PuffOfLogic. Arguably she's just teaching them to accept their own deaths, which is after all very Buddhist.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Formerly. Although given that she changed her tune ''after'' successfully becoming immortal...
* KungFuWizard: She's not only good with spells, but is also an incredible physical combatant due to enhancing her strength with magic.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: PlayedWith. She's quite collected and graceful, wears a feminine black dress, but instead of casting destructive spells from afar she uses her BlackMagic to enhance her physical attacks in combat. She can cast traditional spells though.
* LaserBlade: Can pull one out in ''Hopeless Masquerade'', generated by a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajra vajra]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlXhaS3OkU "Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind"]]. Later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zL4e_WpZM remixed]] in ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* MagicEnhancement: Her specialty as a magician. One of her spellcards is even called ''Superhuman "Byakuren Hijiri"''.
* MeaningfulName: "Hijiri" literally means "saint". Given that Buddhist monks of her era were expected to abandon their family names, it's very likely that it's actually a title that she's earned rather than her real name.
* MessianicArchetype: To the point where her Fan Nickname is "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Youkai Jesus]]".
* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse example. Yamame and Orin like her temple because of the (delicious) stressed humans and corpses respectively. Another youkai enjoys listening to Buddhist sutras because he's a fan of horror stories.
* TeamMom: Is often depicted as one for the entire Myouren Temple in stories centering around them, being very nurturing.
* MulticoloredHair: Brown hair with a purple gradient from the top. For a while there were some fans who thought it was just a lighting effect from her scroll, but the gradient was eventually [[WordOfGod confirmed by ZUN]] to be part of her hair.
* NiceHat: In ''Hopeless Masquerade'' and ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' she wears an ''ajirogasa'', a monk's traveling hat. In all her other official appearances, however, she's one of the few ''Touhou'' characters who are completely bareheaded (that is, no hats, {{Hair Decoration}}s or [[LittleBitBeastly animal ears]]).
* PoesLaw: Yes, there are even youkai that actually follow her devoutly simply because they do not prefer aggression.
* ThePollyanna: Some fanon turns her into this.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Or in this case, a lotus petal.
* SealedBadassInACan: Whether she's good or evil actually gets debated in the game dialogue. Although this being Gensoukyou, of course the answer leans towards the former.
* StatuesqueStunner: Is often depicted as one of the taller characters in the series.
* {{Status Buff}}s: [[AllThereInTheManual Her profile]] says Byakuren specialises in magic that enhances her physical abilities. Without them though, she's a SquishyWizard, so Akyuu recommends catching her off guard. If you want to fight her for some reason.
* ShockAndAwe: One of her spells in ''Hopeless Masquerade''.
* ShoutOut: Her Last Word in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' is a WaveMotionGun-induced one to ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''.
* SpellBook: Her "Sorcerer's Picture Scroll" is a magic construct she created using materials from Makai, containing the sutras she must recite to cast spells. It's at least somewhat intelligent, being able to recite spells by itself and prevent others from using it.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: K-S romanization - "Hiziri".
* StupidGood: Miko accuses her of this for trying to reform youkai and Akyuu is of the same opinion.
* ThouShaltNotKill: For religious purposes. She won't even eat meat due to the animals having been killed.
* TranshumanTreachery: The crime that got her sealed into Makai in the first place.
* 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. (It's possible she has grown out of this however.)
* WhatTheHellHero: She will voice her objections to the player character's behavior before the battle commences. What exactly her objections are will vary depending on the chosen character and scenario.
* WitchSpecies: Like Alice, this is what Byakuren became, though interestingly she personally still thinks of herself as human, albeit a "youkai-like human" like how Marisa and Reimu are described.
* 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, calm, collected and warm on the inside, and [[SilkHidingSteel boy does she put up a fight]].
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[[folder:Myouren]]

::'''Myouren'''

Byakuren's little brother, a monk who taught Byakuren Buddhist magic. His death made her fear her own, and drove her to seek eternal youth.

WordOfGod is that Myouren was originally intended to be the final boss, but, as amusing as it would have been to have an "old man" be the final boss of a ''Touhou game'', ZUN decided to [[PanderingToTheBase play it safe]] and made Byakuren instead.

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* {{Bishonen}}: Myouren's appearance is never described in any canon source, but most fanart depicts him as a handsome man with the same MulticoloredHair as his sister. Given that he was a Buddhist monk, it's more likely that he would have a completely shaved head.
* DeathByOriginStory: Myouren's death is the catalyst that eventually put Byakuren where she is at the start of ''[=UFO=]''.
* PosthumousCharacter: While long dead even before Byakuren and her followers were sealed away, it was his death that led Byakuren to try to figure out a way to gain immortality for the purely selfish reason of preventing her own death, which would eventually lead her to try making humans and youkai coexist after learning to sympathize with the latter.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Based on a famous Buddhist monk believed to be born in what is now ZUN's home prefecture of Nagano.
* ShoutOut: Myouren is a reference to a famous Buddhist monk who was the star of 12th-century tales such as the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigisan-engi Shigisan-engi]].'' Byakuren may be a shout-out to the unnamed Buddhist priestess mentioned in the story.

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[[folder:Nue Houjuu]]
[[quoteright:263:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_th12nue.png]]

::''The Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl''
::'''Nue Houjuu'''

-->''"You human who's forgotten the fear of night! Die from the terror of this unidentified flying object!!"''

Nue is a youkai who has the ability to hide her true form, and thus all accounts of her appearance vary wildly. When she got tired of frightening humans, she hid away underground, although her dialogue indicates a human sealed her after discovering her true form. After getting caught up in the rising of Byakuren's ship she decided to tag along and attempt to cause trouble for them.

Currently living in Byakuren's temple.

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* BerserkButton: As she's trying to get along with Byakuren's folks, she doesn't like to be called an "outcast" most of the time.
* BonusBoss: The EX boss of ''Undefined Fantastic Object.''
* DoppelgangerAttack: "Purple Mirror" in ''Double Spoiler''.
* FangsAreEvil: Her ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' design includes impish enlarged canines to go with her PointyEars.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Not her clothing, but her wings, which are completely different from one another.
* FateWorseThanDeath: "Now, human! Boil me! Bake me alive! Do anything you wish! Oh, but please, just don't seal me underground again." She's shocked when the main characters let her go.
* FlyingSaucer: Some of her attacks involve the very [=UFOs=] you've been blowing up for powerups the whole game.
* ItAmusedMe:
** The entire reason for her presence, deciding to have some fun by disrupting Minamitsu's group's search and involving the player characters. She later regrets this, though.
** She and Mamizou also spread the Bull's Head rumor in ''Forbidden Scrollery'' for similar reasons.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMPHa-ncZk "Heian Alien"]]
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to her power, Reimu never does figure out her part in the Bull's Head rumor.
* MasterOfIllusion: She disguised the Palanquin Ship as a UFO, and appears as a floating orb of light as a midboss in stages 4 and 6. She confirms that what we see is her true form, and attacks the heroine in order to keep it a secret.
* MeaningfulName: Nue is the name of her species. Houjuu translates to "sealed beast", because, like most of the other characters, was sealed away before the events of ''Subterranean Animism''.
* MonochromaticEyes: Her eyes are all dark red in her [[http://www.giantbomb.com/nue-houjuu/94-11959/all-images/52-360532/nue2/51-1110842/ official artwork]]. What makes it creepier is that you can still see the outline of where her pupils should be.
* PointyEars: More visible in her ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' appearances.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: Her main weapon is a trident.
* RecurringBoss:
** She's the midboss in stage 4 and 6, though she doesn't appear in her true form until the extra stage.
** She's also the Extra Stage Midboss of ''Ten Desires''.
* ScrewySquirrel: She enjoyed messing around with Byakuren and the other girls, tagging along and interfering every so often because she thought it would be funny if they failed in their goal. In fact, she attached "Seed[s] of Non-Identification" to the ship and the Tobikura fragments, making them appear as [=UFOs=] to the untrained eye. When she found out that their mission would help her as well, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she felt guilty about it]].
* ShoutOut: One of her spell cards in ''Double Spoiler'' makes danmaku in the shapes of [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation green triangles, red circles, pink squares, and blue X-s]].
* SpeciesSurname: More given name in her case, but 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.
** Her ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' profile implies she's '''the''' nue from the legends.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While most other members of Myouren Temple at least ''claim'' to be working towards enlightenment, Nue is an unambiguous CardCarryingVillain who seems to stick around only out of respect for Byakuren... and because religious faith is closely related to fear of the unknown.
* TsurimeEyes: In ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery''.
* UrbanLegends:
** What most of her ''Double Spoiler'' spell cards are based on.
** She ends up using the Bull's Head urban legend in ''Forbidden Scrollery'' in order to collect fear and for trolling out of jealousy for missing out on ''Urban Legend in Limbo''.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: So much so that no one has ever seen what she really looks like, since she takes great pains to hide her true form.
* WingedHumanoid: And with very odd wings indeed; not only are they different colours on either side, but they look nothing like most wings would. Her red ones at least look vaguely like wings, but her blue ones look more like arrow-shaped tentacles than anything else.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Her power is exactly this. She can also imbue other things with the same characteristic by attaching a "Seed of Non-Identification" to them.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She is the first character to be seen with zettai ryouiki in official art. Although Suwako is commonly depicted as having zettai ryouiki in fanart and her ''Hisoutensoku'' portrait, her artwork in ''Mountain of Faith'' shows her with knee-high socks as opposed to thigh-highs.

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** You probably didn't think much of Kogasa when you first saw her, but later, [[spoiler:she comes back as the game's Extra Stage mid-boss. And TheGlovesComeOff. Surprise!]]

** You probably didn't think much of Kogasa when you first saw her, but later, [[spoiler:she comes back as the game's Extra Boss. And TheGlovesComeOff. Surprise!]]

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Unites with both [[ArchNemesis Toyosatomimi no Miko]] and Reimu in ''Hopeless Masquerade'' in hopes of defeating Kokoro in Kokoro's story.]]
** She does it again with [[spoiler: Miko]] in ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' in order to take on the Yorigami sisters.

** 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.

* BikerBabe: Can summon and ride a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBFD6GZ9tw8 motorcycle]] in ''Urban Legend in Limbo''. Her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqH6BEEDsI Last Word variation]] even comes with a brief costume change.

** The only human she ever seems able to surprise is ''you'', the player. Aside from her being the Extra Stage midboss, she's also the character whose picture is on the game CD, instead of one of the major characters. Even though [[WordOfGod ZUN]] had already said during the demo's release that Kogasa was [[ExactWords irrelevant to the story]]. Thus, she surprises you when you open the case.

* WarGod: Bishamonten sphere falls under war, though she's not actually that good at fighting, and focuses more on Bishamonten's treasure aspect.

* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:Surprise]]!

* UnexpectedCharacter: Hands up, who expected her to be playable in 13.5?

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

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The only human she ever seems able to surprise is ''you'', the player. Aside from her being the Extra Stage midboss, she's also the character whose picture is on the game CD, instead of one of the major characters. Even though [[WordOfGod ZUN]] had already said during the demo's release that Kogasa was [[ExactWords irrelevant to the story]]. Thus, she surprises you when you open the case.

* PublicDomainCharacter / HistoricalDomainCharacter