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PLAYER
[journal] gonsai
[age] Nov. 15 1985 (25)
[previous characters] Aya Shameimaru
[character journal] echoes_sutras
CHARACTER
[series] Touhou Project
[full name] Kyouko Kasodani
[age] Unknown, but probably young as far as youkai go. What defines "young", however, tends to change between species. Anywhere from fifty to at least a hundred years. She looks to be about teenaged, appearance wise.
[gender] Female
[canon point] Just after her defeat in Ten Desires.
[reference] Touhou Wiki
[personality] NOTE: I am aware that the full game of Ten Desires is not yet released. However, Kyouko's full personality, profile, and stage are available in the demo and there is nothing to suggest she will have a larger role in the greater plot of the game.
"She lives in the mountains, and when she hears a joyous sound, she replies back with a loud voice. A good youkai with kind heart."
Kyouko is among a race of youkai called yamabiko which don't partake in the normal terrorizing of humans that some youkai do. In spite of her jokes about "filling the morning with their screams", Kyouko is generally nice to the heroes of the story (except for Youmu, for reasons to be described later). She is kind spirited and will try to help out anyone that needs it. It's just her way, really.
Being a neophyte of the Myouren Temple, Kyouko studies Buddhism quite extensively, and tries to reflect the principles of that faith. She can echo sutras from memory, and will often quote various sutras and precepts as the time calls for it ("Greetings are the heart's oasis.") when going about her duties. Given her primary duty is to greet temple visitors, her audio memory comes in great handy. It also helps that she's cute.
Kyouko is also very enthusiastic. It may be because she's young, but she has great energy, even for as early in the morning as her scenes in canon take place. Before dawn she is sweeping, cooking, greeting visitors, accepting challenges from interlopers, and basically preparing the whole temple before anyone else is even awake. Her energy channels into her greeting, giving a hearty "Good morning!" to the heroes, far louder than some would expect (much to Marisa's annoyance, actually). She goes about everything with this sort of gusto, and is all smiles during.
One thing she doesn't tolerate is killing. When Youmu shows up at Myouren with her swords drawn, Kyouko treats her far faaar differently than she did the other heroes. She becomes aggressive and righteous, shaming Youmu for daring to kill anyone, be they fairies or youkai. Youmu, of course, hadn't killed anyone at all, but Kyouko jumped to the conclusion anyways and attacked with a fury the other heroes were not subject to. Whether this had to do with her Buddhist training or something deeper in her past is unknown.
Now for a bit of headcanon/filling in the blanks.
There is something of a depressing point to be made about the matters that drove Kyouko (and others like her) to Myouren Temple to begin with. Given it's a temple for youkai, they often take in those with nowhere left to go. Human reason and science forced Kyouko out of her home in the mountains, her entire existence threatened by the denial of the supernatural. Even with her constant smile and high energy, there is that weight still carried with her. She doesn't show it often, and prefers to not talk about it, but it's still very much reality.
It is thought, perhaps, that her darker treatment of Youmu has something to do with this. The idea of dying, of being killed or wiped out, frightens her deeply. Existence for youkai born outside of Gensokyo is extremely grim. They have no protection from xenophobic humans, who would wipe out youkai either directly or indirectly by no longer respecting their existences. Kyouko is no exception to this, as she was likely born outside Gensokyo.
She attached herself to Buddhism because she honestly had nothing left. The emptiness of secularism was frightening, threatening to pretty much unmake her. Now, with spirituality on her side, she echoes sutras in the mountains of Gensokyo, retaining her place in the way of the world as a youkai. And it scares some humans, too. That's always a nice bonus. But what she really wants is for them to believe again...
[orientation]
Touhou Project rarely if ever gives a canon orientation to its characters, as the subject of romance very rarely comes up. Therefore Kyouko, like most of the characters, defaults to "unknown" as far as orientation is concerned.
[appearance]
Kyouko is a yamabiko, and therefore shares some of their traits, namely the long floppy ears. While it is not canon that she has a tail, huge amounts of fanart depict her with one (mostly because some of the ancient artwork of yamabiko have them. also probably because she resembles a dog). She will have both in GND.
[wish]
Kyouko wishes for people to turn away from the emptiness of secularism and believe in things like youkai and spirits once more.
[requested house]
Henshu, please!
[misc notes]
As a yamabiko, Kyouko has power over echoes. She can reflect back sound, and create echo chambers. Her danmaku is also all sound based, as are her spellcards. And, like most characters in the series, she can fly. AND SHE'S PRETTY AWESOME WITH A BROOMSTICK
SAMPLES
[sample 1#] [thread link]
Thank you, Dharmapedia
[sample 2#] [smut drabble]
Kyouko's voice was nothing if not exceptional. It took a lot of vocal power to reflect echoes in the mountains, after all. So it was no wonder that practically the entire house could hear her as she cried out. Which was likely something of a problem, given she wasn't an entertainer. And outclassing the house's entertainers? Not exactly something she should have been doing, all things considered. But in that moment, in that heated moment where she sang the praises of the lover beneath her? Kyouko could not possibly care.
It was so amazing, so intimate. Hardly her first time, to be sure, but something just struck her deeper about this. It would have had to, after all. Her vows to the temple discouraged pretty much... all of this. But for this person, this person that made her body burn and her heart race, she could forget that in the moment. Her thoughts were jumbled, no longer able to be completed in the wake of their love. It was pretty much perfect...
... Until someone banged on the door, demanding she shut the hell up. Oops...
[journal] gonsai
[age] Nov. 15 1985 (25)
[previous characters] Aya Shameimaru
[character journal] echoes_sutras
CHARACTER
[series] Touhou Project
[full name] Kyouko Kasodani
[age] Unknown, but probably young as far as youkai go. What defines "young", however, tends to change between species. Anywhere from fifty to at least a hundred years. She looks to be about teenaged, appearance wise.
[gender] Female
[canon point] Just after her defeat in Ten Desires.
[reference] Touhou Wiki
[personality] NOTE: I am aware that the full game of Ten Desires is not yet released. However, Kyouko's full personality, profile, and stage are available in the demo and there is nothing to suggest she will have a larger role in the greater plot of the game.
"She lives in the mountains, and when she hears a joyous sound, she replies back with a loud voice. A good youkai with kind heart."
Kyouko is among a race of youkai called yamabiko which don't partake in the normal terrorizing of humans that some youkai do. In spite of her jokes about "filling the morning with their screams", Kyouko is generally nice to the heroes of the story (except for Youmu, for reasons to be described later). She is kind spirited and will try to help out anyone that needs it. It's just her way, really.
Being a neophyte of the Myouren Temple, Kyouko studies Buddhism quite extensively, and tries to reflect the principles of that faith. She can echo sutras from memory, and will often quote various sutras and precepts as the time calls for it ("Greetings are the heart's oasis.") when going about her duties. Given her primary duty is to greet temple visitors, her audio memory comes in great handy. It also helps that she's cute.
Kyouko is also very enthusiastic. It may be because she's young, but she has great energy, even for as early in the morning as her scenes in canon take place. Before dawn she is sweeping, cooking, greeting visitors, accepting challenges from interlopers, and basically preparing the whole temple before anyone else is even awake. Her energy channels into her greeting, giving a hearty "Good morning!" to the heroes, far louder than some would expect (much to Marisa's annoyance, actually). She goes about everything with this sort of gusto, and is all smiles during.
One thing she doesn't tolerate is killing. When Youmu shows up at Myouren with her swords drawn, Kyouko treats her far faaar differently than she did the other heroes. She becomes aggressive and righteous, shaming Youmu for daring to kill anyone, be they fairies or youkai. Youmu, of course, hadn't killed anyone at all, but Kyouko jumped to the conclusion anyways and attacked with a fury the other heroes were not subject to. Whether this had to do with her Buddhist training or something deeper in her past is unknown.
Now for a bit of headcanon/filling in the blanks.
There is something of a depressing point to be made about the matters that drove Kyouko (and others like her) to Myouren Temple to begin with. Given it's a temple for youkai, they often take in those with nowhere left to go. Human reason and science forced Kyouko out of her home in the mountains, her entire existence threatened by the denial of the supernatural. Even with her constant smile and high energy, there is that weight still carried with her. She doesn't show it often, and prefers to not talk about it, but it's still very much reality.
It is thought, perhaps, that her darker treatment of Youmu has something to do with this. The idea of dying, of being killed or wiped out, frightens her deeply. Existence for youkai born outside of Gensokyo is extremely grim. They have no protection from xenophobic humans, who would wipe out youkai either directly or indirectly by no longer respecting their existences. Kyouko is no exception to this, as she was likely born outside Gensokyo.
She attached herself to Buddhism because she honestly had nothing left. The emptiness of secularism was frightening, threatening to pretty much unmake her. Now, with spirituality on her side, she echoes sutras in the mountains of Gensokyo, retaining her place in the way of the world as a youkai. And it scares some humans, too. That's always a nice bonus. But what she really wants is for them to believe again...
[orientation]
Touhou Project rarely if ever gives a canon orientation to its characters, as the subject of romance very rarely comes up. Therefore Kyouko, like most of the characters, defaults to "unknown" as far as orientation is concerned.
[appearance]
Kyouko is a yamabiko, and therefore shares some of their traits, namely the long floppy ears. While it is not canon that she has a tail, huge amounts of fanart depict her with one (mostly because some of the ancient artwork of yamabiko have them. also probably because she resembles a dog). She will have both in GND.
[wish]
Kyouko wishes for people to turn away from the emptiness of secularism and believe in things like youkai and spirits once more.
[requested house]
Henshu, please!
[misc notes]
As a yamabiko, Kyouko has power over echoes. She can reflect back sound, and create echo chambers. Her danmaku is also all sound based, as are her spellcards. And, like most characters in the series, she can fly. AND SHE'S PRETTY AWESOME WITH A BROOMSTICK
SAMPLES
[sample 1#] [thread link]
Thank you, Dharmapedia
[sample 2#] [smut drabble]
Kyouko's voice was nothing if not exceptional. It took a lot of vocal power to reflect echoes in the mountains, after all. So it was no wonder that practically the entire house could hear her as she cried out. Which was likely something of a problem, given she wasn't an entertainer. And outclassing the house's entertainers? Not exactly something she should have been doing, all things considered. But in that moment, in that heated moment where she sang the praises of the lover beneath her? Kyouko could not possibly care.
It was so amazing, so intimate. Hardly her first time, to be sure, but something just struck her deeper about this. It would have had to, after all. Her vows to the temple discouraged pretty much... all of this. But for this person, this person that made her body burn and her heart race, she could forget that in the moment. Her thoughts were jumbled, no longer able to be completed in the wake of their love. It was pretty much perfect...
... Until someone banged on the door, demanding she shut the hell up. Oops...