Name:Kaguya Houraisan
Age:Ageless
Gender:Female
Appearance:
Canon, AU, or OC?:Canon
Universe of Origin:Touhou Project
Personality:Cheerful and pleasant, if somewhat ditzy. Her long isolation has made her quite lonely.
Her friendly nature is at complete odds to what someone would expect of such a sheltered character. One can describe her as a person who's existence has been spent hoping to interact with people other than the tight knit group at the Eientei and those who frequent it. If given the chance for such an adventure as this, detached from Eientei, detached from the bamboo forest, detached from Gensokyo, She's not gonna feel homesick, she's not gonna cower in a corner hoping Eirin or what have you save her, Nope, she's gonna make the most of this chance to actually LIVE LIFE. She existed... now she has a chance to live.
Abilities/Weapons:Flight, General magic.
Danmaku, which is basically a sport which invovles firing innumerable magical bullets at one another and dodging and weaving and all that. Aesthetics is as important as difficulty.
Manipulation of eternity and the instantaneous. (will elaborate when requested)
Redundant Retroactive Immortality.It's redundant because her ability gives her retroactive Immortality... And then just because she was curious, she went and drank the Hourai Elixir (which is basically her ability in a bottle). Well the result is more or less the same... except there's now two of em.
It's not "Complete Immortality" however.
The Hourai Elixir Explained:"The elixir of immortality was created by Eirin Yagokoro using Kaguya Houraisan's power of the manipulation of eternity." (told ya it's a bottled version of her ability)
"According to Fujiwara no Mokou, the first taste of the medicine makes the drinker incapable of growing up or aging. The second taste makes them incapable of becoming ill. The third taste makes one completely immortal to the truest sense." (She cocked up on that because as shown below It isn't Complete Immortality, but she did get the gist of it)
"Anyone who drinks this forbidden elixir will cease to age, never become ill, and will never be able to die. One will be as frail and vulnerable as before, but every injury shall cease; critical injuries will be healed in a matter of days. Complete destruction results in complete restoration."
"...the Hourai Elixir itself isn't a power that keeps one immortal, but makes one an existence completely independent of even the concept of reality, thus making one not subject to the bounds of life, death, or even manipulation, although the pain of injuries can still be felt."
"...the soul is made invincible"
"...immortality casts away the physical body, and the soul is constantly reborn in new flesh. This medicine indeed makes one truly invincible, and forced to live out their existence forever."
As evident from the excerps from its description. Death is possible... It's just it isn't permanent.
Also:"Reportedly, the ingredients of the elixir remain in the liver of whoever drinks it. Eating the raw liver of an immortal is said to grant the same immortality as drinking the elixir, though it will not deprive one from their own because they have already been rendered deathless." (Disgusting but yeah... why not?"
And as for items... She has her five treasures with her at all times. (Magical storage...)
"the stone begging bowl of the Buddha from India"
"jeweled branch of Hourai"
"the legendary robe of the fire-rat of China"
"a colored jewel from a dragon's neck"
"the legendary Cowry treasure of the swallows"
Also known as "The Five Impossible Requests" and has invariably been incorporated as some of her Spell Cards.
Backstory:"She was exiled to Earth over a thousand years ago for the crime of using the forbidden Hourai Elixir to make herself immortal. Arriving on Earth one day, she was found by a bamboo cutter and dwelt among the humans she had once despised. Though the Lunarians looked upon humans with contempt, Kaguya came to love her new home. Tales of her unearthly beauty led men from all across the land to seek her hand in marriage, Fujiwara no Mokou's father being one of them, but none could successfully complete her trial of the Five Impossible Requests.
The first was to bring her the stone begging bowl of the Buddha from India. The second was to retrieve a jeweled branch from the island ofMount Hourai. The third was to seek the legendary robe of the fire-rat of China. The fourth was to retrieve a colored jewel from a dragon's neck. The final task was to find the legendary Cowry treasure of the swallows. These potent treasures were eventually revealed to already be in Kaguya's possession in the final stage of Imperishable Night.
After years of exile, powerful emissaries arrived from the Moon; Kaguya had been forgiven of her crime and it had been decided that she should return. Kaguya, however, had grown to love life on Earth and had no desire to return to the lunar capital permanently. Enlisting the help of her friend Eirin, Kaguya escaped from the emissaries and fled to Gensokyo. Taking refuge in an ancient manor called Eientei hidden deep within a secluded bamboo forest, the two Lunarians began a new exile. After several centuries of isolation, she was eventually reunited with Mokou, who had also used the Hourai Elixir to become immortal, and the two continued their feud, murdering each other on a nearly daily basis." (Copasta Since I'm busy)
Faction:Unaligned
