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[koishi_komeiji]

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HANDLE: BloodCri
CONTACT: Plurk: BloodCri
OVER 18? Yes
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▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Koishi Komeiji
CANON: Touhou Project
CANON POINT: TH16.5: Violet Detector
AGE: 417
BACKGROUND: Koishi is a satori youkai. A species of carnivorous Japanese spirit monsters known for their mind reading and cunning. Through several unfortunate circumstances, made the choice to sever her third eye’s connection to her brain in an attempt to remove her own mind reading abilities. It worked. Mostly.

Though she’s an adult of her species she’s short compared to humans standing at about 127 cm with physical proportions closer to that of an adult human, though her arms are proportionally longer than they should be by a small amount. She’s built entirely of lean muscle, designed to sprint and spring through and around wooded and mountainous areas. She’s capable of hiding many of her predatory features such as her teeth and claws using simple magic. Any other inhuman features she hides under clothing save for her brightly luminous eyes and third eye. A sphere slightly larger than a baseball connected to her body by two looping artery-like cords that connect at her ankles. All of which floating of their own accord.

She manifested from the shards of a dying mountain spirit in what is modern day Gifu prefecture in roughly 1601. Shortly after her sister, Satori (with a capital S). The two mirrored each other in every way from their color scheme to their personalities to the way they used their powers. Despite this they were as close as could be and took care of each other as best they could over the decades.

As magic began to wane and science replaced superstition it became harder and harder to find food until they were invited to Gensokyo. A refuge for the spirits and magic that humanity didn’t need anymore.

Once there neither sister got along with the residents very well, their mind reading abilities causing them to become outcasts. Even among other youkai. Eventually the judge of the dead offered them a home in the great underground (formerly hell) with the other shunned youkai under the condition they take up managing the remaining wicked spirits. They accepted and moved into the Palace of the Earth Spirits.

Unfortunately, even among outcasts they were not accepted. Everyone from the subterranean youkai to the great oni feared and hated them. Unable to cope with the hatred and worn down by centuries of persecution, Koishi tore out her third eye’s connection to her brain, permanently removing her ability to read minds, destroying her ego, and drastically altering her powers.

Eventually the underground was unsealed when the goddess Kanako fed the yatagarasu to Satori’s pet raven giving her powers over nuclear fusion. This spurred Reimu and Marisa (the protagonists) to go down and sort the problem out before the power of nuclear fusion drove the raven completely insane and caused her to enact widespread destruction.

The unsealing allowed Koishi to escape and wander the surface world once again in a dreamlike state looking for “The Gloomy Power of Love.” Only children were able to see her and would often forget her as they grew up, writing her off as an imaginary friend. This changed when she found the Mask of Hope, reinvigorating her and allowing others to notice her presence. This continued throughout multiple incidents including one where she got to re-enact an urban legend from the outside world.

The resolution of these incidents as well as her joining the local Buddhist temple left Koishi permanently changed for the better. People have started remembering her again. And not just the children.

PERSONALITY: Koishi’s personality shifts depending on how focused or lucid she is as a result of her lack of ego (in the freudian sense.) This absence was caused by the self-inflicted disconnect between her third eye and brain and the damage/scarring to the eye itself

Less lucid she’s energetic and outgoing, often speaking in synesthesia fueled riddles, rambling about whatever strikes her fancy. She is very sensitive to emotions around her which is one of the few things capable of changing the course of her usually whimsical, capricious, and impulsive nature. She likes to get into mischief which is generally minimally harmful, if at all, and can get especially clingy and affectionate with people she likes.

This somewhat obnoxious behavior was developed as a result of her passive ability to go unnoticed. By making a bigger impression she can more easily get people to notice her initially and remember her after the meeting.

When more lucid she’s closer to what she was before the damage to her eye. She is softer spoken. Intelligent and worldly. She will give insight as best she can and will often speak her mind. She’s pragmatic but never intentionally harsh, though she never shies away from stating hard truths when they need to be said.

Regardless of lucidity she is overall very kind and wants people to like her. She doesn’t actually have any emotions of her own and, despite empathetic abilities, has trouble understanding the intricacies of the emotions people around her feel. As a result her overall goal is usually to try and just make people happy so she, in turn, can experience joy through them.

She will often give people she likes affectionate nicknames born from both her often whimsical attitude as well as the difficulty she has associating names with people stemming from the disconnect of her third eye. These names are usually derived from a physical trait of a person or from some abstraction her skewed perception sees when looking at their subconscious.

She cannot be provoked or taunted and will generally walk away from hostile situations using her powers. The exception is if someone she likes or trusts is also in danger in which case she’ll rise to their defense.


POWERS/ABILITIES:
NOTE: For the setting her powers have been further nerfed than what is written below. She is mostly only retaining her empathic abilities in terms of psychic manipulation and cannot passively detect lies. By extension her semi-magical psychic lance attack is less powerful but the physicality of it is still very much present. Her physical abilities, magic, and ability to go unnoticed have NOT been nerfed. (This is subject to change.)

She is a satori youkai. Upon removing the connection between her third eye and her brain her powers changed to focus on the subconscious mind. She’s capable of manipulating the subconscious of those around her in a variety of ways a bit too wide to cover with any sort of brevity. However this manipulation usually comes in the form of going unnoticed. Very similar to The Silence from Doctor Who. Normally passive, she can crank it up when she doesn’t want to be found. This, along with her absent-minded wanderlust, often results in her getting into places she shouldn’t be and poking around, moving objects, stealing snacks... Usually through an unsecured window. This ability to go unnoticed is NOT invisibility and does not work on devices without a mind to trick (you could pull out your smart phone and see her through the camera) or on machines with the capacity for machine learning and thinking

She can tell when someone has lied but not necessarily what they lied about or to what degree. Only that a lie has been told. This only works if the person is conscious of the lie they are telling and doesn’t work on people capable of lying without even having mental tells. She cannot see through lies of omission. Additionally, she herself cannot consciously lie though she can still lie through omission.

She’s also has some empathatic abilities but unlike others of her species she CANNOT read thoughts. Instead she probes the subconscious and is able to manipulate it freely, including doing real damage, though she generally just uses it to try to take the edge off someone’s pain or enhance feelings of joy, calm panic, soothe nightmares, etc. She can also manifest her psychic abilities into more traditional blasts which can cause mental and emotional trauma and can have enough physicality to damage stone or dent metal.

For lack of a better term she’s an inverted psychic who expresses her power psychically. She’s immune to all forms of mental psychic probing such as mind reading, manipulation, mental memetic effects, telepathy, etc. Due to the nature of how her powers she is very difficult to block or disrupt by using force. Exploiting the usual weaknesses of satori youkai (clearing one’s mind and remaining calm) is still effective as her powers have nothing to grab onto.

She’s capable of a short ranged blink and a hardened magical shield she can wrap herself in like a bubble. The shield can be broken with too much abuse though.

Additionally, like all touhou characters, she has very sharp reflexes, is capable of flight, and manifesting basic magic in various forms. Koishi specifically favors kinetic magics and often shapes it into hearts, roses, and thorn vines (though she is not restricted to only those shapes) complete with a faint rose scent.

She also has some physical abilities. As a predatory youkai she generally wears a human guise but without it she has sharp teeth designed for cracking bones and small, shovel like claws for holding small prey, climbing trees, or digging. Additionally she can produce eight tentacles, four from each arm. They are roughly 7-7.5 meters long ending in a heart shaped spade. They are soft like velvet and are strong enough to lift or even throw an average human with ease. Beyond this she’s very agile when moving through trees, woodlands, or similar environments.

Should she drop her human guise entirely she does have an otherworldly presence around her but this does very little. It can be a little unsettling for some but it’s more to do with her nature as a spirit creature than any intentional ability on her part. Her status as a spirit monster also gives her a variety of very minor abilities such as being slightly tougher or recovering more quickly from injuries (weeks instead of months kind of thing).

Because of her nature she does have special dietary needs. “Human” flesh (real or manufactured) soaked in emotions. Especially fear and sorrow.

INVENTORY: Medium hunting/utility knife, a small drawstring bag containing homemade taffy, a silver hair comb decorated with carved seashell, a coin purse containing about ¥200, a belt pouch packed with dried deer meat.

MOONBLESSING: Cordis

▶ SAMPLES

link #1 (Koishi comes in like halfway down)
link #2
link #3 (Fully Lucid)