Touhou Doujin: Grimoire of Dawitsu
Curse Godess of Misfortune, Hina Kagiyama
Hina is a Curse Godess- this doesn't mean she causes curses, rather the opposite. She gathers up misfortune from humans who happen to stumble upon the dangerous Youkai mountain, and reduces the amount they have. So she's kind of like an inverted Black Cat. She's also kind to humans, not wanting them to get hurt. However, she doesn't always show that in the best way...
Personality
Hina Kagiyama is possibly the most human-loving Curse Godess around. Most Curse Gods hate humans with a passion as they want to unleash all their stored misfortune onto the frightened mortals. But she simply takes it in, and seems to not mind effectively being a dustbin for bad luck. She spends most of her time scaring off visitors from the Youkai Mountain, trying to stop them venturing into a ridiculously dangerous place.
She does this by, what else, using her amazing Danmaku. Not the finest in the world, but fairly cool. She seems to like dancing around a lot, too. Perhaps it's her way of coping with all the misfortune she's taken in. Do you reckon an anvil or a piano has fallen on her head yet? Several humans worth of bad luck must be... pretty unfortunate. Next section, please.
Notes on Mimicry
Her human-frightening Danmaku consists of... flawed formation. Seriously, you can kind of tell what the Danmaku is supposed to be, but over time, the attacks become slightly disarrayed and harder to predict. This is because of her bad luck, but quite frankly, this makes her a more difficult opponent... so her bad luck is sort of giving her good luck... if that makes any sense whatsoever.
The thing is, she has an inferiority complex because of it. She perpetually tries to make her patterns more regular and more predictable, with a set rhyme and reason, but she always fails in those attempts. If I were her, I'd be happy with her current set of moves... they're formidable, and it's solely because she's failing in her aims.
Seriously, 'Wound Sign: Perfect Flow' is a... uh, perfect example of how imperfection makes her a fun opponent, and thus a fun mimic routine. She starts off flinging typical crystal-type Danmaku in columns, forming a circular barrage with an obvious set of spaces for the opponent to dodge through. But, as she begins to form it wrongly, the spaces get filled with the occasional off-angled bullet. These stray bullets get more and more frequent, until eventually you have to actually plan your dodging properly.
So thus I use her 'degenerate over time' technique all the time- not necessarily copying her attacks in particular, but using that style on some of the other denizens of Gensokyo's spell cards. This makes things more interesting for everyone.
Yutaka, anything to say?
Author's Notes: People say the origins of Curse Gods are from discarded voodoo dolls used to store the maker's previous sins... spooky and spiritistic. Not a light-hearted matter at all.
Being born into sin like that must be maddening. Just like humans who are in extreme branches of Christianity... even though they merely are indoctrinated that they're born a sinner, that's enough for them to believe it genuinely, and thus have the same sad mentality of a Curse God.
I kind of feel sorry for poor Hina, she doesn't seem to be appreciated by the humans at all despite doing nothing but help them, really. But when she does it by such callous means, I guess she kind of brought it on herself.