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Player Name: Heather
Player LJ: optimistique
Email and/or AIM: Private, please ask in comments.
Timezone: US Mountain
Other Characters: N/A
Character: Yuyuko Saigyouji
Series/Fandom: Touhou
Deviance: 1
Age: 1000+ years dead (She looks to be in her early twenties at most.)
Gender: Female
Species: Ghost
Appearance: Yuyuko has short, bobbed and wavy pink hair, red eyes, and is rather pale due to being, well, dead. She's rather small, about 4'11" in her human form, and clothes herself in a ruffly, blue outfit complete with a cute hat bearing the Dreamcast-- I mean, a ghost symbol. When haunting about, Yuyuko has two spirit companions who orbit her and hang around until she returns to her solid, human form.
Psychology: Yuyuko is dead and loving it. She has very little envy for the living, aside from the fact that they make much better food than ghosts do. In fact, Yuyuko remembers nothing of her living existance, and is thus unburdened and practically carefree. She has very little to worry about, and thus indulges almost constantly in the simple pleasures of life, including viewing cherry blossoms, scaring mortals, and stuffing her face. Yuyuko has a rather flighty and bubbly nature, which she uses to conceal the fact that she's actually rather smart and perceptive, and tends to catch others off-guard when she decides to show it. She's also a bit of a flirt, but that comes along with her carefree attitude. You really couldn't find a more cheerful ghost.
General Skills/Abilities: Yuyuko's abilities lie in the manipulation of spiritual power. Her weapon of choice is a pair of twin fans, which she uses to direct her phantom butterflies toward her target. Yuyuko can also create voids and lasers with spiritual energy, but only when she gets serious. Usually a barrage of butterflies does the trick for less determined attackers. Yuyuko also has the latent ability to invoke death in all living creatures, but something in her past keeps her from using it. She's generally much too upbeat to go about killing people anyway.
General Weaknesses: Food, food, food. Yuyuko has a love for anything edible and will consume it with haste. Her favorite food is eel sushi, but she's not particular, and can be lured, bribed, and subdued with any kind of goodie. Yuyuko also has an inability to take many things seriously, thus making her a bit useless in terms of rallying to solve a problem. She can't carry anything solid when in her ghost form, and can only do things like rattle windows or close doors with a lot of effort. Switching between solid and ghost form a lot is also very wearying, and she'll need to eat a lot to replenish her energy if she does so.
History: A good thousand years ago, Yuyuko was actually the princess of a country that was home to the famous Saigyou Ayakashi cherry tree. She had a connection with the Netherworld even in life, as she was able to control ghosts and, ultimately, death in mortals. Yuyuko was unable to control her powers, though, and people continuously died around her. She took solace in the companionship of a kind youkai named Yukari, who attempted to soothe her fear of her abilities. Ultimately, though, Yuyuko was unable to face up to her fear of herself.
When the Saigyou Ayakashi had absorbed enough human energy to become a youkai tree, people who viewed it began disappearing. Once Yuyuko figured out that the tree was behind the disappearances and was consuming human souls, she took it upon herself to seal it. At the base of the tree, where her ancestor the great poet Gensokyo had been buried long ago, Yuyuko committed suicide, using her death to seal the demon tree. Unaware of what their princess had done for them, the villagers simply buried her body beneath the tree, and spoke no further of it. Yukari, however, wished her friend's story to not be forgotten, and wrote in one of the human books...
"The girl who bears witness to death, at the time of the Saigyou Ayakashi's full bloom, shall be bound by mortality. So that her soul may rest in peace within the Hakugyokurou, I will seal the cherry blossoms, and make it the barrier. My wish... is that she will never again reincarnate, and never again suffer pain..."
And thus, Yuyuko, Princess of the netherworld Hakugyokurou, came to be. She had no memories of her life as a princess, of the demon cherry tree or of her powers and the terror they caused her as a human. There, amid the souls with unfinished business, Yuyuko passed her time enjoying the things she couldn't while living-- poetry, feasts, and carefree living with her half-ghost gardner. The tree had come with her to the afterworld, and even then, Yuyuko couldn't remember its significance. However, Yuyuko's curiosity wound up eventually getting the better of her, specifically when she found that very passage written by Yukari upon her death. She wasn't aware that the passage actually detailed her, and thus she attempted to revive the corpse beneath the demon tree in hopes of having a new companion aside from the formless ghosts that populated her kingdom.
Yuyuko's faithful gardner, Youmu, assisted Yuyuko in her attempts to revive the tree, hopefully reviving the corpse beneath it. Youmu stole spring from the land of Gensokyo, using it to make the tree bloom. It wasn't until a human crossed the barrier between the living world and the dead to seek out the lost spring that Yuyuko finally learned that her plan was for naught. The tree would not return as Yuyuko is only able to create death, not life. Even if she were able to revive the tree, it would result in her own destruction, as she was the one who had sealed it to begin with... After learning this, Yuyuko abandoned her quest and returned spring to Gensokyo.
And then she decided to visit. And then sample human food.
Now the humans can't get rid of her. Whether she's terrorizing the local sushi parlors, haunting up some company here and there, stealing into the Scarlet Mansion's library to read poetry, or simply sitting amid the blossoming cherry trees, Yuyuko has found that she likes Gensokyo about as much as she does Hakugyokurou, and thus attempts to spend an equal amount of time in each...
Kind of, anyway. Maybe Gensokyo sees more of her, but really, what's time to a ghost?
Reality Description: Yuyuko will percieve the world as Gensokyo, but with twists here and there. Basically, Gensokyo is your average feudal Japanese village. It has a shrine, some houses, a magical forest, a mansion with vampires... Okay, maybe not average, but the setting is relatively feudal and Japanese. When Yuyuko is happy, it will be eternal spring, with pink petals in the air and butterflies everywhere. When she's distressed at all, the trees will die and it will be very, very cold and dreary.
Player LJ: optimistique
Email and/or AIM: Private, please ask in comments.
Timezone: US Mountain
Other Characters: N/A
Character: Yuyuko Saigyouji
Series/Fandom: Touhou
Deviance: 1
Age: 1000+ years dead (She looks to be in her early twenties at most.)
Gender: Female
Species: Ghost
Appearance: Yuyuko has short, bobbed and wavy pink hair, red eyes, and is rather pale due to being, well, dead. She's rather small, about 4'11" in her human form, and clothes herself in a ruffly, blue outfit complete with a cute hat bearing the Dreamcast-- I mean, a ghost symbol. When haunting about, Yuyuko has two spirit companions who orbit her and hang around until she returns to her solid, human form.
Psychology: Yuyuko is dead and loving it. She has very little envy for the living, aside from the fact that they make much better food than ghosts do. In fact, Yuyuko remembers nothing of her living existance, and is thus unburdened and practically carefree. She has very little to worry about, and thus indulges almost constantly in the simple pleasures of life, including viewing cherry blossoms, scaring mortals, and stuffing her face. Yuyuko has a rather flighty and bubbly nature, which she uses to conceal the fact that she's actually rather smart and perceptive, and tends to catch others off-guard when she decides to show it. She's also a bit of a flirt, but that comes along with her carefree attitude. You really couldn't find a more cheerful ghost.
General Skills/Abilities: Yuyuko's abilities lie in the manipulation of spiritual power. Her weapon of choice is a pair of twin fans, which she uses to direct her phantom butterflies toward her target. Yuyuko can also create voids and lasers with spiritual energy, but only when she gets serious. Usually a barrage of butterflies does the trick for less determined attackers. Yuyuko also has the latent ability to invoke death in all living creatures, but something in her past keeps her from using it. She's generally much too upbeat to go about killing people anyway.
General Weaknesses: Food, food, food. Yuyuko has a love for anything edible and will consume it with haste. Her favorite food is eel sushi, but she's not particular, and can be lured, bribed, and subdued with any kind of goodie. Yuyuko also has an inability to take many things seriously, thus making her a bit useless in terms of rallying to solve a problem. She can't carry anything solid when in her ghost form, and can only do things like rattle windows or close doors with a lot of effort. Switching between solid and ghost form a lot is also very wearying, and she'll need to eat a lot to replenish her energy if she does so.
History: A good thousand years ago, Yuyuko was actually the princess of a country that was home to the famous Saigyou Ayakashi cherry tree. She had a connection with the Netherworld even in life, as she was able to control ghosts and, ultimately, death in mortals. Yuyuko was unable to control her powers, though, and people continuously died around her. She took solace in the companionship of a kind youkai named Yukari, who attempted to soothe her fear of her abilities. Ultimately, though, Yuyuko was unable to face up to her fear of herself.
When the Saigyou Ayakashi had absorbed enough human energy to become a youkai tree, people who viewed it began disappearing. Once Yuyuko figured out that the tree was behind the disappearances and was consuming human souls, she took it upon herself to seal it. At the base of the tree, where her ancestor the great poet Gensokyo had been buried long ago, Yuyuko committed suicide, using her death to seal the demon tree. Unaware of what their princess had done for them, the villagers simply buried her body beneath the tree, and spoke no further of it. Yukari, however, wished her friend's story to not be forgotten, and wrote in one of the human books...
"The girl who bears witness to death, at the time of the Saigyou Ayakashi's full bloom, shall be bound by mortality. So that her soul may rest in peace within the Hakugyokurou, I will seal the cherry blossoms, and make it the barrier. My wish... is that she will never again reincarnate, and never again suffer pain..."
And thus, Yuyuko, Princess of the netherworld Hakugyokurou, came to be. She had no memories of her life as a princess, of the demon cherry tree or of her powers and the terror they caused her as a human. There, amid the souls with unfinished business, Yuyuko passed her time enjoying the things she couldn't while living-- poetry, feasts, and carefree living with her half-ghost gardner. The tree had come with her to the afterworld, and even then, Yuyuko couldn't remember its significance. However, Yuyuko's curiosity wound up eventually getting the better of her, specifically when she found that very passage written by Yukari upon her death. She wasn't aware that the passage actually detailed her, and thus she attempted to revive the corpse beneath the demon tree in hopes of having a new companion aside from the formless ghosts that populated her kingdom.
Yuyuko's faithful gardner, Youmu, assisted Yuyuko in her attempts to revive the tree, hopefully reviving the corpse beneath it. Youmu stole spring from the land of Gensokyo, using it to make the tree bloom. It wasn't until a human crossed the barrier between the living world and the dead to seek out the lost spring that Yuyuko finally learned that her plan was for naught. The tree would not return as Yuyuko is only able to create death, not life. Even if she were able to revive the tree, it would result in her own destruction, as she was the one who had sealed it to begin with... After learning this, Yuyuko abandoned her quest and returned spring to Gensokyo.
And then she decided to visit. And then sample human food.
Now the humans can't get rid of her. Whether she's terrorizing the local sushi parlors, haunting up some company here and there, stealing into the Scarlet Mansion's library to read poetry, or simply sitting amid the blossoming cherry trees, Yuyuko has found that she likes Gensokyo about as much as she does Hakugyokurou, and thus attempts to spend an equal amount of time in each...
Kind of, anyway. Maybe Gensokyo sees more of her, but really, what's time to a ghost?
Reality Description: Yuyuko will percieve the world as Gensokyo, but with twists here and there. Basically, Gensokyo is your average feudal Japanese village. It has a shrine, some houses, a magical forest, a mansion with vampires... Okay, maybe not average, but the setting is relatively feudal and Japanese. When Yuyuko is happy, it will be eternal spring, with pink petals in the air and butterflies everywhere. When she's distressed at all, the trees will die and it will be very, very cold and dreary.