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Updated on 02/04/20
Name: Rumia
Aliases: The Darkness Youkai, The Youkai of Darkness, the Shadow Demon, the Shadow Youkai.
Race: Youkai?
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Abilities/Powers: Rumia is capable of manipulating the shadows and the darkness at will. In her base form she surrounds herself in ball of darkness that she uses to not cause lights to enter or pass through. Her darkness can't let anyone, but also affects her to the extent that she will sometimes crash into trees. Rumia is also able to turn herself into dark mist made of shadows.
In her unsealed form, her manipulation of the darkness and shadows are much more powerful and dangerous. Her sphere that surrounds herself can now act as a shield to prevent projectiles and attacks from hurting her. Rumia is able to teleport using the shadows to get away from upcoming attacks. Her regeneration during her unsealed form is very fast almost akin to a Hourai Elixir immortal. She is able to strike her enemies within her mist form and actually use the mist to hide her projectiles. Like the sphere of darkness she is able to use the mist to shield herself from attacks.
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Personality/appearance: Rumia is very simple minded and dislikes the sun and heat, which is why she likes to cover herself in a sphere of darkness most of the time. She is also not very smart, because she always aimlessly roams around Gensokyo for no reason and typically bumps into trees. She also seems to be in early teens.
Rumia wears a black vest, and skirt, with a white shirt under the vest. Her eye color is red and her hair color is blond but size is short. She also wears a red ribbon on her head that acts as the seal that limits her power.
In her unsealed form, she now appears to be in her twenties. Rumia wears a black long skirt and woven vest, with a white long sleeved shirt underneath the vest. Her eyes glow a deep red and her hair extends midway to her torso. Two big long red wings come out of her back. For unknown reasons a red halo appears on her head too.
Her personality also changes, she now acts much more mature and smarter in her unsealed form. She is also more knowledgeable when it comes to using her powers and comes with tactics when it comes to taking down her opponents.
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Possessions: The ribbon on her head acted as a seal to limit her powers. Rumia originally couldn't take off or remove the seal with any means. Although for a few centuries of time, the seal has weakened to the point where she is able to remove the seal to gain all her power back.
Rumia wields a stormbringer after her ribbon was removed. The blade is black with some unknown demonic red symbols on it and the guard has the ribbon that was Rumia's seal.
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Backstory: It is unknown what Rumia was, but it is theorized that she may have been a fallen angel or a demon from Makai or possibly hell, but this theory has never been proven yet. Rumia before her unsealing, was originally a very weak, and simple minded youkai that could be defeated by stronger opponents.
During the scarlet mist incident, Rumia was easily defeated by Reimu Hakurei, while the miko was busy finding the source of the red mist.
At some unknown period in time Rumia ends up becoming a member of Team 9, which is made of Cirno, Daiyousei, Wriggle Nightbug, and Mystia Lorelei. All of them are considered to be the dumbest people in all of Gensokyo by everyone.
A few years after the Scarlet Mist incident, Rumia was able to take off her ribbon, and release all of her powers that were sealed up in the seal. Rumia, then challenged Reimu Hakurei to a spell card duel. Reimu sarcastically does and thinks Rumia would be very easy to deal like a certain ice fairy.
However, during the duel, Reimu had to suddenly deal with brand new and very hard to dodge danmaku from the formerly weak youkai. Although Reimu won the duel, she was very surprised that the 'weakest' youkai can create an interesting and also challenging fight to begin with in the first place.
Despite being smarter and much more intelligent, Rumia still hangs out with Team 9, because they are her first friends and plans on not leaving them anytime soon.
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Relationships;
Cirno: The ice fairy is Rumia's first ever best friend in a while. The darkness youkai also likes to participate in all sorts of shenanigans with Cirno.
Daiyousei: Despite being a fairy, Rumia is surprised by her friend's smart intelligence. The darkness youkai and her are both members of Team 9.
Wriggle Nightbug: Wriggle is Rumia's friend and a fellow member of Team 9.
Mystia Lorelei: Rumia is best friends with Mystia. The darkness youkai visits the night sparrow's grilled lamprey stand, because she goes there to eat the delicious lamprey there. It is worth to note that Rumia, and Mystia are the only two youkai that have to eat humans of Team 9.
Reimu & Marisa: Rumia was originally considered weak in their eyes, but their opinion changed after she unsealed her true strength. After her duel with Reimu, both the shrine maiden and magician are very surprised that a youkai considered to be not strong or powerful can handle and directly even the playing field with some of the more powerful people of Gensokyo.
Catori Valencia: Rumia and Catori immediately became friends, because of their desire for eating human flesh. The darkness youkai goes to see the wendigo at the Crypt of Alexandria to both see how she's doing and get some human flesh that Catori has in her bag.
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Theme Songs:
Apparitions Stalk The Night (base form Rumia's theme song)
Shadows Stalk Through The Dark (Ex - Rumia's theme {danmakufu})