The Touhou Original Character Compendium

So she can manipulate glass and steel, or practically anything with a reflective surface? Not just mirrors? That's interesting...

Yeah, basically.

Mirrors are just her preferred and most common way of doing it.

Hmmm....just coming back to comment on something:

2. I think that the "3 sentences" should be expanded to four or five. I really think that some entries(Sen and Elrich mostly) suffered from not really having a lot of room to explain stuff. It seems like this would work out nicely(It would probably work out as 2 sentences of personality/back story, 2 of powers, 1 of misc, as opposed to a more 1/1/1 now).

I really agree with this. The three sentence limit is way too restrictive. It hits me rather hard, since a lot of my OC's at least four sentences to sound interesting.

Just look at Elrich. I wasn't able to explian so many things about him due to that 3 sentence limit. (By the way, I'm NOT complaining about Elrich not winning, regardless of what those douches Stark and Hylarn probably gonna say)

....eh, you can just ignore this and keep on going if you want.

Please don't call people douches.

I think we all want to keep this a friendly atmosphere, myes?

Hey, they gave me no reason to respect them.

Shrug. Okay then.

Any thoughts on the current character, Chagen?

edited 25th Aug '10 3:37:59 PM by RukiMotomiya

Actually, running her potential dislike of Remilia and ability to manipulate shiny weapons together gives a somewhat interesting scene:

• Remilia: (bored) Sakuya, remove this nuisance.
• Sakuya: With pleasure, my lady. (ZA WARUDO)
• Glace: (Snap.)
• All the knives fly for Sakuya instead.
• Sakuya: AUGHHWHAT!?
• Remilia: Hmhmhm... we might be able to have more fun than you than I thought.

It might work as a Final Boss Preview, especially if Remi's storyline were set after Nitori's.

Now I have to plot out a Remilia route so that can happen.

EDIT: Also, when the posts are eventully linked, should a note be added to say who their original creator was?

edited 25th Aug '10 11:09:16 PM by RukiMotomiya

Mirror reflects lasers (supposedly). Master Spark is a big-ass laser.

• Marisa: *Love Sign "Master Spark"*
• Kagamichi: *holds up mirror*
• Marisa: OSHI—

Yeah, I know, it probably won't play out like that.

If that went at the start of Marisa's storyline and our heroine got to administer some humiliating comeuppance at the end, it still might work.

Obviously, Marisa's storyline is to create a laser SO big and powerful it absolutely cannot be reflected, because of that.

And, of course, she does at the end. It's just really slow and can be hit out of in-game for balance reasons.

Well, Kagamichi discussion seems to have stalled. Unless anyone has some long discussion in their heads to get out, I believe it's Nozomi's turn.

One last note on Glace - it occurs to me that the way a super-powerful laser like Marisa's would defeat a mirror would probably be by melting it enough so that it can't reflect anymore.

Would this create a Warped Glace to fight Yukari? Or would she be just fine after a quick trip to Eirin's?

Well in my opinion I think it matters more of how BIG the mirror is, if the laser exceeds the mirror's total area by at least 4 times then having it is mostly a moot point, and knowing the general depiction of master spark it probably is.

So a game with a Kagamichi boss would have a Reimu, Marisa, Nitori and Remilia story mode? I'd play it.

Only a mirror that's absolutely FLAWLESS would reflect a powerful laser like the Master Spark without melting. Most mirrors have tiny imperfections and things in them that'd cause them to heat up and melt if you aimed a beam like that at 'em.

edited 28th Aug '10 10:25:05 AM by Zudak

(Looking through this thread, I realised that my own Original Characters are merely similar to the girls in Touhou, but they mostly have Singaporean origins and will most likely have non-Japanese names. It's probably just that because I gave them motifs of a sort (and nice hats, and ribbons, AND spellcards even!) that they fit reasonably well into Gensokyo without looking too out of place. Of course, some of them are clearly local "bootlegs" of existing characters, like the pidgeon who works in a Fish n' Chips restaurant, but she will probably end up with completely different traits from Mystia.)

Amongst my characters include:

• A boxcutter-turned youkai, following an obscure old European superstition about tools going vampiric after 7 years of being unused - she's based on a real cutter I own, and has physical limitations on her cutting power. Has shrapnel danmaku that looks like fragments of boxcutter blades.
• A well-used pencil-shaped extending eraser (boxcutter style extension) who gained a spirit after constant use over several years of my life, based on my actual eraser. She has the power to erase words, pencil and ink marks, and paints.
• A Leatherman (crossbreed of a balisong-like pliers and a Swiss Army Knife) that became a youkai due to unexplained supernatural circumstance, also based on an actual leatherman I own. She has the utility powers of her component tools.
  • The Stationery Girls are part of an incomplete pile of notes I have for laughably bad fiction subtitled Youkai in Disguise. Yes, you may laugh and/or groan at my terrible pun.
• The aforementioned pidgeon "bootleg" of Mystia, who is a blank slate of a character apart from the fact that she works in a fried shop fast-food joint by day and has a pleasant mid-low frequency harmonic to her voice. I designed her for fun.
• A ghost of a person who lost a kidney to the modern urban myth of organ thieves. Has a bandage white ribbon tied around her middle with a blood-red patch on it representing the hole in her body.
• A fragrance spirit with the motif of frangipani, often mistaken for a pontianak because she's silly enough to let her bangs cover her eyes. Her original story has her being invited to move to Gensokyo from Pasir Ris Park by Yukari. Has the power to manipulate frangipani petals and clouds of frangipani fragrance.

edit: Concerning our Mirror friend - she should totally have a spellcard that lets her replicate the effects of Hikari to Yami no Mai.

edited 28th Aug '10 10:32:52 AM by AceOfScarabs

Looks like fun, Ace. Be sure to enter one of them the next time we're voting!

^^^^ @Bocaj: Actually, the original idea had the following story modes: Nitori, Wriggle, Mokou, Kaguya(A story path for each of the four fighters "cut" from UNL, which I figure would be in the next game, though I debated cutting Mokou and Kaguya's because it's disjointed from the plot. But then again, Meiling's story mode was basically unrelated...), Sasha and Mitori. I figured that the game would be like UNL, in that there is no Reimu or Marisa path. Later, Remilia was added thanks to this topic.

^^^^^^ @ Duranzo: She'd probably be fine. Youkai can apparantly survive some nasty stuff. When in doubt, I'll defer to The Eirin Factor.

EDIT: Xion, you talked earlier that the game earlier with Amber would involve the final boss stealing that crystal. Do you happen to have a Final and Stage 5 in mind for that game?

edited 28th Aug '10 1:54:37 PM by RukiMotomiya

I have Amber (stage 1), Jol'Bihro (Stage 3), Thunderbird (Stage 4 midboss & Stage X midboss), and Saigora (Stage 5) as toons based off of actual aliens (Amb & Sai are traditional Touhou youkai, Jol & Bird are male, & straight portrayals of their respective critters).

I know the stage 6 boss is going to be an oni, notable in being a dark-skinned character, But I haven't developed much farther than that. I also have a stage X boss (two, to be exact) made, but I want to release as little info as possible on them before I reveal them. Then there's Audri, a random fairy with storm-related powers that serves under Jol'Bihro (like a shikigami, for one too weak to have a real shikigami), as a stage 3 midboss.

I have a definite idea for what kind of stage stage 2 is (showcasing Beach Quills and Electrophytes), but nothing for a boss. Stage 4 is a complete blank, I only know that Thunderbird (to be described later) is the midboss. I want the stage 2 & 4 bosses to be not very alien-themed, so as to establish that we are still in Gensokyo.

edited 16th Sep '10 4:43:55 PM by XionGaTaosenai

It might be Nozomi's turn now that we're drifting away from Glace.

I concur on the beginning of the Nozomi discussion.

Well then, here goes!

鶴見　望(Nozomi Tsurumi)

Overview

A youkai of lost wishes and failed expectations. She is said to be the spirit of an ambitious young girl that fell to illness before she could achieve her life's goal. Is often seen surrounded by a countless number of paper cranes. It is also said that if one were able to count them all, they would count exactly 999, just one short of a wish.

Appearance

Pale blue eyes, long bluish-black hair. Wears a loose powder blue long-sleeved robe/dress-thing, and a red sash around her waist. Apart from being surrounded by paper cranes in assorted colors, she also wears a white one in her hair (or possibly on a headband in her hair), which represents the last crane she was able to make just before she died.

Abilities

Has the power to manipulate despair. Nozomi often tries to sow doubt into people's minds, so she has something to manipulate in the first place.

She is also able to control the paper cranes surrounding her. In battle, it's what she uses to attack with.

Backstory

Long ago, there was an ambitious young girl, who also had a strange illness that no one could cure. One day, she began making paper cranes, hoping that if she were able to make one thousand of them, her illness would be cured so she could fulfill her life's dream.

Sadly, she succumbed to her illness just before she was able to fold the last crane. She was confused and furious, unable and unwilling to accept her fate—it is said that this caused her to become the youkai of lost wishes and unfulfilled expectations.

One thing that bothers Nozomi is that it's been so long since her death that she no longer remembers what it was that she struggled so hard for when she was still a living human.

Personality

Often seen in the outskirts of the Human Village. Encounters with her are risky, as it often ends in one feeling lost, both literally and metaphorically. This wouldn't seem to be so bad, if there weren't the other dangerous youkai one can encounter while still feeling the side-effects of the encounter. She starts off by using what she percieves as important to someone, and uses words of discouragement to induce despair, which she can then manipulate until that person is overwhelmed with bad feeling.

Showing optimism, on the other hand, ends in a different kind of encounter. If, despite her efforts, a person refuses to doubt themselves and their beliefs, she turns aggressive, claiming to "wanting to test their conviction" while attacking with paper cranes. The stronger the optimism perceived, the more intensely she attacks.

Game Info

• Theme: "Requiem for a Forgotten Dream"
• Spellcards:
  • Despair Sign "Cage of Doubt" — Cranes shoot parallel rows of lasers, that turn into rows of bullets that leave single-file from the play area... eventually. The angle changes each time, and no row is ever hit twice.
  • Despair Sign "False Hope" — Cranes up above shoot a wall of bullets that move downward. Sometimes killing one releases a 1-up... except it turns into a crane when you get close to it. On harder difficulties, it shoots before flying away.
  • Eternal Regret "999 Paper Cranes" — Probably something similar to Alice's "Red-Haired Dutch Dolls", only more... frenetic? If you let this spellcard time out, exactly 998 cranes will have appeared.  ^*
    ^{(Remember that the last one is sitting on Nozomi's head)}
• 'I'm in despair! Nozomi's spellcards have left me in despair!'

Possible relations with other characters

• The things she does to people gets people wandering around in a stupor and getting themselves lost. Might clash with Mokou, who rescues lost humans.
• ...?

edited 29th Aug '10 6:52:41 PM by KylerThatch

First three thoughts in a tired state...

1. For some reason, the manipulation of despair makes me think of Koishi and Satori. Probably because both seem emotionamental.

2. For some reason, I imagine her with Persona 4's Margaret's battle stance. Floating in the air, arm outstretched, surrounded by countless cranes, perhaps flapping...

3. Hopeless Bleak Despair.

More when it's not 6:30 AM with no sleep.

Ok, I'm in love with this character now.  ^*

Does the paper crane resting on her head have a special meaning to her?

edited 29th Aug '10 12:57:43 PM by Skygraze