Reimu Hakurei

= Reimu Hakurei =

Reimu Hakurei is the main protagonist of the Touhou Project series. She's the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, and is a prolific exterminator of youkai. She is also the one that stabilizes the Great Hakurei Barrier, which hides Gensokyo from the Outside World. Reimu does these things while travelling across timespace for an investigation on the phenomenon of other universes. This is in order to prevent incidents such as the Night Terrors incident to ever happen again.

Personality/Traits
Reimu is somewhat lazy for someone whose supposed to be a shrine maiden. She sleeps for long periods of time, doesn't train because she thinks it'd be a waste of time, and dreads having to go out of her way to do something. Reimu believes that trying her best is a lost cause, as the effort will not be rewarding.

The miko is also somewhat easy to anger, and doing so will probably earn you a hotheaded, unhappy Reimu. Usually she's in a decent mood, going with the flow of everything around her, but if something disturbs that good mood, she can also be very grouchy and petty.

In terms of solving incidents, she wants to get it over with, usually wanting anyone standing in her way to get out of it. Reimu tends to not ask questions before straight up attacking someone in her way, and doesn't care what they have to say either. Reimu treats everyone around her the same way, with her being slightly more strict when it comes to youkai. Thus, this is what attracts youkai and humans alike to her shrine, though she commonly doesn't get all that many donations than she would like. One would expect for her to loathe all these youkai, and she might act like it, but really, she just wants peace between youkai and humans.

She cherishes her job as a Hakurei shrine maiden, and tries to fulfill this duty, but her own desires tend to get in the way. These selfish desires such as her own greed, lust, and wrath all seem to distract her from what her job is supposed to be, and it seems as time goes on, Reimu seems to be led astray from her obligations more and more. Nowadays, combined with the countless things that have traumatized and disturbed her over the past two years, this has led her to have previously unseen self-loathing and depressive behaviors, along with, if pushed far enough, extremely violent behavior.

Experience through RP
Reimu, although confused that she was dropped into a place like Haven at first, grew to like the place and the friends that she was getting from there, even getting a few learning experiences herself, not to mention the fights that she'd also get into. She would police Haven and help take down villainous youkai, calm down fires, and run the shrine that resides in the place. The friends she made in that place consisted of people like Walter Westwood, Kirby, and a few people from home that she had run into. However, the enemies she had made stacked up higher and higher, and eventually, it'd do her in, Reimu getting drugged and raped by the likes of DIO and Victor Westwood. This was one of the reasons she would flee from the place.

Eventually, she would travel to Roundabout much in the same fashion she did with Haven, and making even more new friends through there. This is when the Night Terrors incident started, a plot devised by Dark Raven and their cronies to cover the entirety of Roundabout in darkness and take over. She teamed up with various others to stop this incident, befriending Jotaro, The Engineer, Chisvo, Cotton, and Madotsuki that way. Eventually, they'd confront the mastermind himself, but he would retreat into The Nexus, where they all would follow him. Though Reimu and the others underestimated what kind of place The Nexus was, as it was an interuniversal plane at that point. Thus, they would be stuck there for months, trying to search for where Dark Raven had gone. Being stuck in a place such as White Desert with no escape didn't do any favors for a person like Reimu's sanity, so she had suffered through this. They would find him eventually, but he would end up fleeing once more, the group ending up back in Roundabout soon after.

Reimu would stay in Roundabout for awhile, mingling with her new friends and whatnot. She bought groceries often to Cotton of the Glenwild in particular, since she was another nearby shrine, and Reimu had respected what the shrine had followed. Through this, they had eventually developed a romantic relationship, marrying and loving each other for about a year and a half.

Then, Madotsuki would bring Reimu and some others to Starcross, where Dark Raven had fled to. This, along with traversing the various macrocosms of the Nexus would give Reimu all the insight she needed to learn how to travel through universes with her own powers, and her understanding of how borders work. Eventually, she would set up transports to go between Gensokyo, Haven, Roundabout, and Starcross using complicated barrier networks to breach through the ends of the universe and go to her destination, along with her own floating abilities to keep herself stable. In Starcross, Madotsuki, Reimu, and Zod had formed the "Sol Pact" in order to solve the Dark Raven incident.

In Starcross, Reimu had run into another version of herself. It didn't sit well with her for a moment, but soon, they basically became best friends in that place, doing ... basically Reimu things in the Hakurei Shrine that was in Starcross. These two Reimu's had differences in their personalities, their frame, their hair, but surely enough, they both were Reimu Hakurei. Reimu met and befriended many people there, many from Gensokyo. In fact.. Starcross is where she finally reunioned with Marisa once again, and Marisa, Reimu, and Reimu all had fun in that place together. Even when Dark Raven had risen again and tried to take Starcross, and after their eventual defeat along with the World-Eaters that were also quelled, the three were just vibin' there. Though difficulties would arise there as well, and things would not always be peachy in Starcross, as is with incidents such as Reimu and Cotton's separation, and Reimu and Madotsuki fighting over Madotsuki's fleeing from the Starcross Tournament, and that ending in Reimu snapping, and mercilessly raping Madotsuki. Madotsuki and Reimu would strife further after this incident, before the two just decided to stop talking to each other in general

Reimu and Marisa would soon go back to Haven, where things were different from how Reimu had remembered the place. Here, Reimu and Marisa would develop a romantic relationship as well, them both upkeeping the Hakurei Shrine at Haven and making alot of new friends and enemies at that place. Here, Madotsuki would come and fight Reimu for vengeance, as she'd sexually assaulted her previously. An intense battle would happen that Reimu would end up direly losing, and it would drastically end up hurting her reputation in Haven. Reimu already had depressive episodes before, but this would make it even worse, and she would only linger there, dealing with the consequences of her various actions that she had committed months before as Marisa had supported her throughout.

Reimu and Marisa would eventually get explorative, discovering a place named Skyward. This is the place that the two are currently residing in and exploring. There is no shrine in this place, so they decided to settle at a house instead.

Marisa Kirisame
Reimu has known Marisa since her childhood, and they have been best friends since. In Gensokyo, there was barely a moment where you couldn't see the two together since they were that close. They spend most of their time together, and when they reunioned after two years, it's been the same way. Sometimes they would argue and have fights with each other, though, but that only happened in Gensokyo.

Currently, the two are in a romantic relationship, and have mostly the same dynamic except on a much more romantic scale. Marisa supports Reimu whenever she gets in a depressed state, which Reimu appreciates very much. The miko thinks that she'd be way worse off if Marisa wasn't around, and that fact might actually be true. They've been through a lot even when they had each other, but there's almost nothing that would set them apart.

Reimu Hakurei (SC)
During her time at Starcross, Reimu would have become good friends with the Reimu that was native to that world, usually wasting time inside of the shrine or outside of it. They had helped each other during the Night Terrors incident, and are on very good terms. Despite both being Reimu Hakurei, though, the two have their differences. Their frame is slightly different, as in one of taller than the other. NT!Reimu is more laidback and apathetic than SC!Reimu, who is more responsible. They both seem to have different haircuts as well.

Cotton of the Glenwild
Reimu's now ex-wife, who had been with her for a year and a half. The shrine maiden and the aphyr got along well due to the fact that both of their shrines were somewhat close to each others, and they seemed to respect each others lifestyles. Cotton would have planted many flowers and plants in the Hakurei Shrines yard, which Reimu liked very much. Cotton also nagged her whenever Reimu was lazy or greedy, which the miko acted annoyed at first, but it at least helped her curb the problems she had as a shrine miko.

Along with this, though, their relationship was very sexual, it getting to the point where they'd have relations for long periods of time during the night, and in mornings, very often during the week. While this happened, Reimu had visited Yukari Yakumo to give her the ability to bend the border between male and female. Because of this, Reimu had eventually gotten the aphyr pregnant, which the miko is somewhat concerned about, now awaiting to see what the aphyr human hybrid is going to be like.

Ichirin Kumoi
One of the other people whose come from Gensokyo. Ichirin likes to help Reimu and Marisa anytime they happen to run into her, bringing them water, giving tomes, et cetera. Reimu is just relieved that there are at least some people she knows from Gensokyo around here. Despite this, though, Reimu probably isn't going to appreciate it if there are any rival shrines around her after what happened with the Moriya Shrine.

Floating
This isn't just normal flying. Reimu has the ability to make her body literally "go with the flow", as in to float through any obstacle that stands in her way. While she does this, her instincts increase, and her luck increases as well. She can only do this while focused, though, and her mind is not focused on anything malicious. This is an ability that happens naturally for Reimu.

While she does this, Reimu can dodge attacks as if she was a cloud of mist. This ability can go the extent so that Reimu can walk outside in the rain or in a river, and not one inch of her body would be wet. It's all just her "going with the flow" and the surroundings around her changing because of this.

The ultimate aspect of this is an ability Marisa has named "Fantasy Nature", where Reimu floats beyond the fabric of reality and becomes almost impossible to hit. Reimu can use this as a mere spell card, though it's given a time limit due to how powerful it is.

Barriers
Reimu can open magical ofuda barriers in midair, derivative of her job of stabilizing and guarding the Great Hakurei Barrier. She can use these to teleport, to bounce against enemies, as a platform, as a shield, and various other purposes. Reimu uses this ability in order to traverse universes after she understood how the border between universes worked, and the time she got to think about it while being stuck in the White Desert.

This is done by creating an entangled, piled set of ofuda barriers intended for teleportation, with a single point so that they are all touching. Reimu then puts something durable, such as titanium, into the point where all of the barriers are touching. This is done so that the space between the condensed piece of matter, and the space of the barriers putting the titanium, matter condensed substance into an infinite loop of teleportation. The gravity between the matter and the space pull of the barriers would grow overtime and eventually create the gravitational singularity known as a black hole. One thing of note is that the condensed piece of matter being thrown into this singularity point must be reinforced, which Reimu does with reinforced layers of barriers. Otherwise, the object would get torn apart immidiately from the amount of space pulling at it. Once the mini-black hole is created, this must be done again, and the two black holes created through the complex network of barriers must be pulled apart, as the space between two black holes is enough to create a wormhole. Reimu enters the wormhole, using her floating abilities meanwhile to avoid getting spaghetified, and likely ends up outside the bounds of the universe. This is where she makes her universal hub, using various other complex networks of barriers to make entrance waypoints to other universes.

You can see why she does not feel like explaining it most of the time.