Touhou Doujin: Grimoire of Dawitsu
Nyuudou-wielding Youkai Buddhist, Ichirin Kumoi
Ichirin Kumoi is a Youkai with the quite frankly awesome ability to use Nyuudou. Nyuudou are big, scary creatures so powerful they actually are Danmaku in themselves. Ichirin's personal Nyuudou is named Unzan, and in this article I'll discuss the powers and personalities of both Ichirin and Unzan, as one is rarely seen without the other. In fact, I've never seen them apart...
Personality
Ichirin is a straightforward kind of girl who was devoted to protecting the Palanquin Ship, as her mistress and role model, Byakuren Hijiri was relying on the crew of the Palanquin to revive her. Ichirin was only a Buddhist servant of Byakuren, and had no affiliation with the ship other than both were subservient to the monk. She seems like the kind of person who makes allied work successful, puts any differences aside for a similar cause. In fact, the way she uses Unzan proves she's very into teamwork...
Unzan is one of the few males in Gensokyo, and is, essentially, a great big cloud-man. He has fists of fury, and looks rather angry whenever you see his face in battle. But according to Ichirin, he's like a kindly old man at heart, and is actually only mean to those he considers 'Liars', 'Cheaters' and 'Enemies of Ichirin'. But he never talks much, sort of like Sooty from The Sooty Show, but rather 'whispers' to Ichirin, and lets her speak on his behalf. To be honest, it's strange to see such a big guy have such a problem with speaking to others. Maybe he's got such a booming voice that he's afraid he'll frighten people unintentionally or something. Yutaka, onto the next section!
Notes on Mimicry
When it comes to mimicry, one can only imitate Ichirin. And, to be frank, Ichirin alone isn't that worth imitating. She can make criss-crossing meshes of lasers and lines of pointed Danmaku, but nothing spectacular that can't be dodged by the average opponent. Unzan, on the other hand, can use his head, fists, and eyes in various ways to create Danmaku to hit Ichirin's enemies.
His fists are lethal in themselves, but they also leave behind bullets, and his eyes can shoot lasers. He's sort of like a giant robot- going close to him is a bad idea because he'll crush you with ease and saying far away from him is no good either because he has a good projectile repertoire backing him up. The only possible way to imitate him is by attempting the grow to ridiculously massive sizes. This takes an awful lot of energy if one is becoming massive via regular 'forced biomass' conversion- this means you undergo a period of next to no motion, and give yourself a high-protein, low fat diet. It rarely ever works, and once you start to move again, you become exhausted quickly, hence it's a low-reward, high-effort strategy. However, if successful, you'll maintain your huge size for life, which is always a big bonus. No pun intended. It could be a curse as well, I guess... anyhow, this method is not recommended for merely the imitation of Unzan.
I've heard that there's a mask that allows the wearer to become massive for a short amount of time as long as they can use magic... it's in the same location as the place I acquired my aquarium's 'Zora eggs', in some temple called 'Stone Temple'. Apparently you need to turn the world upside-down or something to get it, so I think that method may also be too much effort for a relatively low reward. Well, if any of you fellow mimickers find a way to imitate Unzan, then please tell me and the mimicker community about this way, you see, we're in it together- us mimickers must know the same amount of tricks, other wise we would be imitators of everyone- we need to imitate each other too! To tell all to our comrades... so is the way of the Mimicker. Hey, we should make a team! Say, if the mimickers reading this got together, we could form an unstoppable guild of elite students of mimicry! We'll be unbeatable! AH HA HA HA!
Typist's Notes: I'm not typing any more, as the Boss is currently having a maniacal laughing fit at the moment, and it doesn't look like it's going to stop.
It seems he got sidetracked, once again. I fear to see him as part of a guild. Knowing him, he'd try to establish himself as a leader. And then there'd be a fight for the pecking order... which would ruin all my hard work at tidying the mansion... oh well, I guess I can always reform the house if it got too bad...
