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Name: Kogasa Tatara
Aliases: The Umbrella Forgotten Forever, Umbrella Youkai, the Yellow Lantern Ring User
Species: Karakasa Obake (Tsukumogami)
Occupation: Scaring people, blacksmith
Abilities/skills: Kogasa can surprise humans though it is more of a profession than an actual power. Kogasa's usual way to surprise humans is by saying boo whenever she attempts to surprise them in several ways. However, most of those attempts fail as she isn't really scary.
After getting an object known as the Yellow Lantern Ring by the Absolute Dragon God, Ryūjin, she gained a new set of powers. Kogasa can fire blasts of yellow energy or create weapons such as projectiles of them. The youkai can create various force fields of various sizes and shapes to protect herself and others around her.
Kogasa can make constructs of yellow energy that are made out of pure fear. She can instill fear and can amplify it to the point of making people be irrational. The youkai can render herself invisible by willing the ring to bend light waves around her, as well as that of the power ring. The Karakasa Obake can also phase through walls if she so pleases. Kogasa is also able to absorb and store energy into her ring in which allows her to replenish the power of the ring.
There are many other abilities that the ring gives besides the aforementioned above.
Personality/appearance: Kogasa is a cheery happy youkai who does like to go and scare people. Unfortunately for the Karakasa Obake, she has some bad self-esteem problems whenever something doesn't go her way. She is also known to be very depressed as she doesn't know what her true purpose is and of course for being called useless by everyone else.
Kogasa's personality changed as she still is a cheery youkai, but now with a better self-esteem level after receiving the yellow lantern ring. She is no longer depressed and is now full of confidence.
Kogasa has turquoise hair, one turquoise eye, and one red eye. The youkai wears a blue-green vest with white sleeves and a light blue skirt.
Kogasa wears yellow and black colored clothing when she wears the yellow lantern ring. Though her hair and eye color don't change.
Possessions: Kogasa possesses an umbrella that is herself and it is purple with an eye and a tongue protruding from it. The umbrella itself changes color when she uses her Yellow Lantern Ring like her clothes.
Backstory: Kogasa was once an umbrella that was thrown away by her owner leaving her alone for 100 years in which she became a Tsukumogami, or more precisely a Karakasa Obake. The youkai tried her best to scare people as her new profession to gain attention for herself and fulfill her purpose but was not really all that successful as they weren't scared at all of her attempts.
During the Boat Incident, Kogasa tried and failed to surprise Sanae, Reimu, and Marisa. Kogasa ended up engaging Sanae in a fight and lost, all while being bullied by the green-haired shrine maiden. She then left in tears as a result. Kogasa later appeared and try to get her revenge on Sanae in the incident, but lost once again.
During the Divine Spirits Incident, Kogasa met the same incident resolvers from the previous incident but Youmu was there as well. Kogasa ended up losing again, but before being knocked out, she tells them about her problem regarding the jiangshi, Yoshika Miyako.
Kogasa would later be trained on how to become scarier under Nue Houjuu.
During the Dragon Incident, Kogasa was with the Buddhists to help with the Battle of Youkai Mountain. Kogasa is one of the very few people to have somehow survived the final battle conscious. As a result of her surviving, Ryūjin ends up gifting her the Yellow Lantern ring as a gift.
Kogasa didn't participate in the first Gensokyo Tournament as she was practicing the use of her yellow lantern ring to get stronger. She was eventually able to master it with some help from Nue and Mamizou.
In the second tournament, Kogasa participated in it and came out victorious against her bully and exterminator, Sanae. Though Kogasa lost to Marisa.
Kogasa would later make herself out to be a very feared youkai even coming close to Nue herself.
Relationships:
Nue Houjuu: Nue is Kogasa's trainer on how to get better at scary people. Kogasa also is known to have feelings for Nue, and the nue was able to confess her feelings for the Karakasa Obake.
Mamizou Futatsuiwa: Mamizou is another friend of Kogasa and she helps her with getting good with scaring people. It is known that Kogasa accompanies Mamizou with pranking people.
Sanae Kochiya: Sanae exterminates Kogasa numerous times and does so without any reason whatsoever. It could be said that Sanae is simply bullying the Karakasa Obake. Sanae herself would lose to Kogasa in the Second Gensokyo Tournament.
The Buddhists: Kogasa is neutral with the Myouren Temple as she isn't interested in religion. Though she is friendly with the Myouren Temple due to Nue and their general kindness towards youkais.
Theme Song(s):
[Touhou]-Kogasa's Theme: Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever ~Remix
A/n: As you can see here. Kogasa just a got a huge buff after getting the yellow lantern ring. Yeah, I bet she's going to make things easier on herself by making people fearful of herself now.
