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Name: Yuyuko Saigyouji
Aliases: The Departed Ghost Princess. The ghost princess. The ditzy ghost. The glutinous ghost.
Species: Ghost
Occupation: The princess of Hakugyokurou the Netherworld.
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Abilities/skills: Yuyuko possesses the ability of manipulation of death. This means that she can kill anyone without resistance. However it is unclear if she can end a life to the extent of fainting or if she invites one to death gently.
Yuyuko also possesses the power to manipulate the souls of the dead. This power is the main reason why the Yama decided to place the ghost as the manager of the Netherworld due to her ability.
Personality/appearance: Yuyuko is described as having playful, good-humored, cheerful, and friendly personality. She can also a bit of an airhead or ditz, because she sometimes overlooks the obvious, and makes some nonsensical remarks. The ghost is also known for her incredible appetite, despite being a ghost, and will eat anything as quickly as a vacuum.
Despite all of these traits, Yuyuko has displayed in other times of having a cunning and perceptive side to her, and also has shown a great level of intelligence as well. An example being that she was able to know and see through Yukari's plan very smartly.
Yuyuko wears a light blue and white heavily modified kimono with dark blue trim and white designs that looks more for sleeping than a conventional one. She also wears a blue domed shaped hat that had a white paper triangle with a red swirl on the front of it. The ghost girl has short wavy hair, and maroon eyes as well.
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Possessions: None
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Backstory: Around 1000 years ago, Yuyuko was born into a village nearby the Saigyou Ayakashi. She was born with incredible yet deadly powers the manipulation of death. This has led to the town's population to treat her like a youkai, even her own parents shunned their own daughter for her abilities. This is because Yuyuko couldn't control her powers properly and this led to her killing people unintentionally.
At some point in the past, Yuyuko would meet and become best friends with a powerful youkai named Yukari Yakumo. For the first time ever she has a new friend who can't be properly killed by her powers, because of her manipulation of the border of death and life.
Later on, Yuyuko would go to the Saigyou Ayakashi and kill herself with a knife that she brought along with her. The girl was very depressed about what has life been doing to her, so she decides to both end her life to end her suffering, but to also stop the cherry blossom youkai's reign of terror once and for all. Her body was then used by her best friend Yukari and the other bodies as a seal to prevent the youkai tree from luring more people to their deaths. The gap youkai new that her friend would do this, but allowed her to do it with a heavy heart.
After killing herself, Yuyuko would meet the Yama and instead of going to heaven, or being reincarnated she would become the princess of Hakugyokurou, because of her manipulation of dead souls. It is also worth to note that the Saigyou Ayakashi was also moved into that realm of the afterlife as well.
Yuyuko forgot everything, when she was still alive, but she still retained some knowledge of her past life. She knew about her powers of manipulating death, and also about her friend Yukari.
Speaking of Yukari, Yuyuko and the gap youkai met once more and became friends once again.
In the year 2003, Yuyuko would become curious with making the Saigyou Ayakashi bloom, because she read about someone being sealed underneath the youkai tree.
Yuyuko was interested with meeting this once they are alive again, but unknown to her this person is her.
Yuyuko got her servant/gardener, Youmu, to go out throughout the Netherworld to collect all the springs to help make the Saigyou Ayakashi bloom.
Youmu managed to collect all the springs for her master, Yuyuko. However it wasn't enough for the Saigyou Ayakashi to fully bloom out, so she searched for another solution.
Yuyuko, then went to Yukari to get her to manipulate the boundary between the Netherworld and Gensokyo to allow Youmu to go collect all the springs in the land of illusions. Of course, the gap youkai was worried that without the springs there would be an eternal winter in Gensokyo, but was promised by her friend that she would return the springs right after the Saigyou Ayakashi blooms and that person she wants to be revived is done. Eventually the sage agrees to her friend's demands.
Yuyuko has nearly collected enough springs so as to make the Saigyou Ayakashi bloom, and be able to revive the person under its leaves.
However, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, and Sakuya Izayoi arrived to the Netherworld to stop Yuyuko from making Gensokyo into turning the land of illusions into a winter wasteland.
Yuyuko followed the spell card rules and fought hard with the incident resolvers, but while she was fighting them she started to remember her past life, when she was alive.
Yuyuko had a choice either to be alive again or stay dead. She was originally going to go with the former, but remembered why she needed to die in the first place, and refused to be revived.
Yuyuko was ultimately defeated by the incident resolvers and gave back all the springs to Gensokyo and the Netherworld.
During the Eternal Nights Incident, Yuyuko and Youmu travel together to go find out the one behind the incident.
During the Ten Desires Incident, Yuyuko tells the incident resolvers where the divine spirits are going to, which is the Myouren Temple.
During the Dragon Incident Yuyuko becomes the leader of Team Netherworld, which consists mostly of the residents of the Netherworld such as the prismriver sisters, Youmu, and several phantoms.
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Relationships:
Yukari Yakumo: Yukari has always been Yuyuko's best friend before and after the ghost princess's death. Yuyuko is considered one of the few people, who can see through Yukari's plan. The gap youkai was also the one responsible for using Yuyuko's dead body, and the other bodies to seal the Saigyou Ayakashi.
Youmu Konpaku: Youmu is unquestionably loyal to Yuyuko, ever since she was born. The half human half-phantom is also Yuyuko's gardener, bodyguard, sword instructor, and cook. Though Youmu is sometimes playfully teased by her master on numerous occasions even when people are around.
Saigyou Ayakashi: When Yuyuko was still alive she visited the massive cherry blossom youkai on numerous occasions. She would talk to the tree about her problems in life as if the thing was her therapist. But what Yuyuko didn't was that the cherry blossom youkai was listening to her conversations the entire time, and was saddened because they were both like kindred spirits. Yuyuko would later commit suicide under the Saigyou Ayakashi so as to prevent it from luring more people to their deaths.
1000 years later, Yuyuko would try to collect all the springs in Gensokyo to try and make the Saigyou Ayakashi bloom, because she wanted to revive the person dead under the roots, but the deceased one was actually her the whole time. The ghost princess' efforts wasn't successful as she was defeated by the incident resolvers, and gave up being revived, once she recovered her memories.
When Saigyou transferred it's consciousness to a youkai body, Yuyuko along with her servant were hostile to the cherry blossom youkai. But once they learned that the tree youkai wasn't as blood thirsty as they thought, they became friendly to her.
Saigyou Ayakashi, or Sagi Ayouka as she calls herself now is Yuyuko's new friend, and she doesn't hold any grudges toward Yuyuko, instead was very respectful to the ghost girl.
Youki Konpaku: Youki was Youmu's predecessor meaning he too served as Yuyuko's servant. However the whereabouts of him is currently unknown, even Yuyuko doesn't know what happened to him.
Mystia Lorelei and Kutaka Niwatari: Mystia and Kutaka are unfortunate victims of Yuyuko's eating habits. The ghost girl has shown an immense appetite so much so that she will literally eat them whole, but luckily for the night sparrow and chicken goddess they can regenerate from the ghost princess's eatings, afterwords.
Lunasa, Lyrica, and Merlin Prismriver: Lunasa, Lyrica, and Merlin are Yuyuko's performers when it comes to music. They would usually perform magnificent music for Yuyuko's leisure, when she's bored.
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Theme songs:
[Touhou]-Yuyuko's Theme: Border of Life ~ 2ºRemix
Touhou Remix E.8 (Epic) Border of Life
