Hina Kagiyama \ Touhou Project \ Reserved pt 2misfortunewheelNovember 21 2010, 05:31:05 UTC
History: Touhou Wikia. I will also be operating on the assumption that she has always been a local kami in Gensokyo, rather than having moved there like some others.
Personality: To say that Hina is a bit of an odd duck would be an understatement. Centuries of working to absorb the misfortune of the humans who put faith in her has lead to a somewhat bizarre outlook on life. Primarily, some might call her a bit "cheerfully gloomy". Or maybe perky goth is a better term for it. Either way, it helps set up the strange girl that is Hina.
Hina is attracted to pain and misfortune. She finds them terrible yet fascinating. The larger the pain, the more she desires to help alleviative it and be surrounded by it. She gets great satisfaction from this, and she thinks of it as a way of bringing happiness to others. However, people who are naturally happy and blessed bore her and she avoids them.
Hina is somewhat shy. She is used to people fearing, if not outright loathing her presence due to all the curses she has stored up inside of her. They often leak out, causing pain and suffering to befall otherwise innocent people. The guilt she carries over this is part of her primary motivation for spreading her "miracles of taking misfortune away" to others. It's as if she has an eternal road of karmic action to make up for. Which is all the more interesting given she's a kami.
For being as self-aware as she is, Hina is... not all that bright. It doesn't come up directly in her script, but ZUN does make comments about her in the music notes that imply that she's not actually all that intelligent. Or at least has a lacking of common sense. This may manifest in the way she talks to people, not picking up on social cues that other people might find obvious, or just generally spouting off strange and seemingly random observations in general.
Finally, Hina has a genuine desire to make friends. But not necessarily to keep them. She wants to make people happy, but not stick around long enough to see them suffer because of her. It's an almost self-inflicted cruelty that she has, forcing herself to make and subsequently end friendships in a cycle like that.
Personality: To say that Hina is a bit of an odd duck would be an understatement. Centuries of working to absorb the misfortune of the humans who put faith in her has lead to a somewhat bizarre outlook on life. Primarily, some might call her a bit "cheerfully gloomy". Or maybe perky goth is a better term for it. Either way, it helps set up the strange girl that is Hina.
Hina is attracted to pain and misfortune. She finds them terrible yet fascinating. The larger the pain, the more she desires to help alleviative it and be surrounded by it. She gets great satisfaction from this, and she thinks of it as a way of bringing happiness to others. However, people who are naturally happy and blessed bore her and she avoids them.
Hina is somewhat shy. She is used to people fearing, if not outright loathing her presence due to all the curses she has stored up inside of her. They often leak out, causing pain and suffering to befall otherwise innocent people. The guilt she carries over this is part of her primary motivation for spreading her "miracles of taking misfortune away" to others. It's as if she has an eternal road of karmic action to make up for. Which is all the more interesting given she's a kami.
For being as self-aware as she is, Hina is... not all that bright. It doesn't come up directly in her script, but ZUN does make comments about her in the music notes that imply that she's not actually all that intelligent. Or at least has a lacking of common sense. This may manifest in the way she talks to people, not picking up on social cues that other people might find obvious, or just generally spouting off strange and seemingly random observations in general.
Finally, Hina has a genuine desire to make friends. But not necessarily to keep them. She wants to make people happy, but not stick around long enough to see them suffer because of her. It's an almost self-inflicted cruelty that she has, forcing herself to make and subsequently end friendships in a cycle like that.
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