Yukari Yakumo

“	Ah, the dull... The dull go through so much trouble, don't they?	„
	~ Yukari's usual reaction to victory

“	Ha... People born to be hated like you don't know even what true happiness is. You've never known happiness, so your personalities have become twisted. But rejoice! I'll grant you the happiness they call a total loss. What joy! It's time to begin the special concert that will change your lives!	„
	~ Yukari to Joon Yorigami

Summary

Yukari Yakumo is a legendary youkai with the power to manipulate boundaries, and one of the youkai sages who created Gensokyo. Often called the "gap youkai," she is a remarkably youkai-like youkai who spends most of her time sleeping and relaxing. However, she is quite brilliant and is aware of most things happening within Gensokyo.

Yukari's origin is unknown, and her name is known to be something that she chose for herself. She is an old friend of Yuyuko Saigyouji, having known her when she was alive, and lead the youkai invasion of the moon over a thousand years ago.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 2-C

Name: Yukari Yakumo

Origin: Touhou Project

Age: At least 1,200 years old (Older than the history of Gensokyo itself)

Gender: Female

Classification: Gap Youkai

Powers and Abilities:

• Powers and Abilities
• Resistances
• Optional Equipment

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Flight, Magic, Extrasensory Perception (Magic users are sensitive to changes in temperament), Acausality (Types 1 & 4; Unaffected by Keine erasing the human village from history, despite the fact that youkai rely on the continued existence of the human village in order to sustain their own existence. Exists within the Hakurei Barrier, which created a world with a different flow of time and different physical laws. Could act normally within Eientei, which exists outside of time and causality), Danmaku, Spirit Manipulation, Acrobatics, Forcefield Creation, Onmyoudou, Empathic Manipulation (Can be used for Divination, which requires manipulating emotions), Creation, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; Her boundary manipulation can affect the fundamental boundaries between everything and the conceptual borders that exist between two things; it's been stated that without boundaries, everything would exist as a singular, massive object, not unlike the state that the world was in before Gods separated everything by giving names and concepts to them. The process of creating a spell card requires giving it a 'name' to define its form and power. Yukari is also stated to be able to create new existences), Power Modification (Spell card users are capable of changing the traits of any attack or ability by naming it, being able to turn ordinarily lethal attacks into nonlethal ones, or severely restricting the potency of an ability by 'gameifying' it), Immersion (Can use her gaps to enter pictures, dreams, or stories), Subjective Reality (She can manipulate the boundaries between dreams and reality or reality and illusions), Matter Manipulation, Antimatter Manipulation (Can manipulate the boundary between matter and anti-matter), Mind Manipulation (Can implant the mind of a shikigami into a physical body, overwriting the original personality and making them completely subservient to her), Law Manipulation (Can alter the rules of spell card duels and perfect possession at will), Fusionism, Fissionism (Boundaries separate all things in reality, and removing the boundaries between things make them indistinguishable from one another, while adding boundaries designates things as two distinct objects), Life Manipulation, Death Manipulation (Can manipulate the boundary between life and death), Void Manipulation (Can manipulate the boundary between form and emptiness), Darkness Manipulation (Can manipulate the boundary between light and dark), Physics Manipulation (Capable of manipulating wave-particle duality), Space-Time Manipulation (Capable of separating physical places from the space-time continuum to create their own Brane, such as with Gensokyo. Can manipulate the border between day and night at will. All spell card users are shown to possess magic circles, which have the properties of slowing anything within their radius down to a near stop. Via the ability to name their spell cards, spell card users are able to distinguish things within space and time), BFR (Responsible for the phenomenon of spiriting away, where people disappear from the outside world and enter Gensokyo. Made Ran and Chen disappear with a clap of her hands), Limited Sealing & Soul Manipulation (Created a drink that, upon drinking it, will cause the drinker to have their soul sealed within the bottle), Existence Erasure & Nonexistence Erasure (According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, she is capable of negating an object's existence by destroying its boundaries. This would extend to the boundary of form and emptiness, allowing her to erase even the concept of nothingness), Invisibility (Can turn invisible while using "Boundary of Humans and Youkai"), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm Phantoms and Evil Spirits with her regular attacks. Can interact with and "kill" abstract genres of things like video games, changing certain narrative elements in the process), Curse Manipulation, Dream Manipulation (Via Barrier "Curse of Dreams and Reality", which allows Yukari to attack using dreams. Sealing someone's soul forces them to undergo constant nightmares), Portal Creation, Dimensional Travel (Can create gaps that lead to other brane worlds and locations), Precognition (Was capable of predicting the events of Subterranean Animism and telling Patchouli to watch the underground for her), Summoning (Can summon her Shikigami and her Shikigami's Shikigami), Teleportation (Can teleport across several brane worlds, or into fictional stories and even lower dimensions), Time Travel (Scaling to Maribel, who traveled several hundred years into the past), Sleep Manipulation (Can manipulate the border of asleep and awake, as well as cause sleepwalking. Those sealed away by Yukari have their physical bodies placed in a deep sleep), Light Manipulation (Brightened a lamp to the point of it causing Luna Child to pass out), Paralysis Inducement (Can create a web of lasers that paralyze anyone who comes into contact with them), Limited Statistics Amplification & Statistics Reduction (When one of Yukari's shikigami follows her orders, they'll be empowered to the point of matching Yukari herself, but if they go against her orders they'll be severely weakened), Telepathy (Luna Child still heard Yukari's words in her heart even after she cut out all sound around her), Weather Manipulation (Stated she could easily manipulate the border between Winter and Spring), Durability Negation (Can open gaps inside people, cutting them in half from within. Boundary of Intellect and Feet states that there is nothing she cannot cut in half with her boundary manipulation), Vibration Manipulation (All characters in Immaterial and Missing Power are capable of generating shockwaves to push their opponent back), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Was aware that Momiji's Fourth Wall-breaking spell card was targeting "some observer from another world". Possesses the same ability as the ability card Screen Border, which lets her teleport through the edge of the game screen), Clairvoyance (Has eyes across all of Gensokyo, allowing her to instantly know what's going on at any given time), Damage Reduction (Meiling noted that when physically striking her, she met an odd resistance that seemingly softened her blows. When Rinnosuke swung a mallet at her, he stated that it felt like hitting a soft pillow), Energy Manipulation, Dimensional Storage (Can siphon off portions of her own energy and store it away in a gap for later use), Immortality Negation & Regeneration Negation (Type 5 & Mid-Godly, possibly High-Godly; Could make Mokou cross the boundary of life and death), Astral Projection, Perception Manipulation (Should possess the same abilities as Maribel Hearn, as both of their powers stem from the manipulation of boundaries, and Yukari has been shown to have a far greater degree of mastery over this ability), Power Nullification (Effortlessly dispelled Reimu's illusion. Forced Suika out of her mist form, making her visible and tangible), Attack Reflection (Rest on Stone, Rinse in Rivers sucks up her enemy's projectiles, and Rinse with Stone, Rest in Rivers shoots them back out), Gravity Manipulation (Can suck her opponents in with Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier"), Biological Manipulation (Can manipulate the boundary between humans and youkai, and stated that she could determine one's species using this), Vector Manipulation (Can control the boundary of motion and stillness, and create perpetual motion machines), Mathematics Manipulation (Similarly to Ran, she can "control" math equations and numbers in the same sense that one would control a shikigami), Animal Manipulation (Can utilize butterflies in her danmaku), Dimensional Manipulation (Can manipulate the boundaries between 2D and 3D space), Limited Pain Manipulation (Fujiwara no Mokou, who has adapted to living her life in constant agony, had to give up while fighting her due to the pain caused by her attacks), Longevity (Youkai lifespans are longer than that of humans, and half youkai such as Rinnosuke seemingly do not age at all), Enhanced Senses (Yukari can see the flow of energy. Youkai can see better than humans in the dark of night), Shapeshifting (Upon entering Gensokyo, youkai gained the ability to change their form as they please, often choosing to take forms more closely resembling that of humans), Intangibility (Can become intangible while using Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Bounded Field". Youkai can break themselves down into, or regenerate from, a sort of black mist. They are also repeatedly shown to form from this mist out of thin air), Incorporeality (Youkai are stated to be unbound from the confines of the material world, and are made of Spirit), Regeneration (Mid-Godly; Youkai are able to recover from bodily destruction, despite being made of Spirit. They can also quickly recover from their Spirit being drained or destroyed), Aura, Sense Manipulation, Fear Manipulation (Induced fear in Eirin and left permanent mental scars just by smiling. All youkai possess 'youkai energy' that takes the form of an aura. This aura can make one feel pins and needles throughout their body, can make one start to tremble, and is powerful enough to deliver these effects even while sealed away. Successfully inducing fear in a target also allows a youkai to absorb their Spirit), Aura Suppression (Youkai commonly infiltrate the human village without their auras affecting nearby people, and are shown to be able to mask their auras from Kosuzu, who can naturally detect such auras), Empowerment, Resistance Modification (Youkai are empowered by human's belief in the rituals that can be used to combat or exorcise them, using them as a basis to solidify their existence and influence. However, youkai are not bound by this, and can simply choose to be unaffected by such weaknesses on a whim, at the cost of the aforementioned empowerment. Youkai are even further empowered by the light of a full moon)

Resistance to Madness Manipulation (Youkai can resist the effects of the true Moon, which can drive humans insane and kill them if they look at it), Illusion Creation (Easily saw through one of Reimu's illusions. According to ZUN, youkai are able to see illusions. During the events of Imperishable Night, all youkai noticed the moon was illusory), Biological Manipulation (Youkai lack DNA and brains), Matter Manipulation (Youkai are described as a fluctuation and seem to be composed of different particles ), Disease Manipulation (As youkai are beings comprised mostly of spirit, they are unaffected by physical illnesses), Subjective Reality, Transmutation (Youkai were once bound to the imagination of humans, with the myths and stories about them defining their forms and characteristics. However, after moving to Gensokyo, youkai were unbound from this system, and became capable of changing on their own), Power Bestowal, Corruption (Youkai are unaffected by the Hourai elixir, which grants immortality and taints the drinker with impurity), Fear Manipulation, Sense Manipulation (Youkai are unaffected by the passive auras of other youkai), Extreme Heat (Youkai are not affected by heatstroke), Mind Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (Unaffected by Suika's ability to gather minds during the events of Immaterial and Missing Power. Unaffected by being near phantoms, which can passively change the emotions or slowly destroy the minds of anybody they come near), Space-Time Manipulation (Unaffected by the effects of Keine's spell card Reincarnation "Ichijou Returning Bridge", which is stated to reverse time. Unaffected by the magic circles used by other spell card users, which cause things near them to passively slow down to a near stop), Time Stop (Can move inside Eientei unrestricted despite it having a frozen flow of time), Poison Manipulation, Perception Manipulation, Transformation (Can withstand the effects of the Forest of Magic, which is filled with poisonous spores in the air, is filled with mushrooms that cause hallucinations in whoever comes near them, and has the power to change the nature of anything living there), Sleep Manipulation, BFR, Soul Manipulation (Can withstand getting hit by dream souls in Doremy's Antinomy of Common Flowers route, which can instantly put a person to sleep and send their soul to the Dream World), Power Mimicry (Boundary manipulation can only be used by those who are either a weird youkai like Yukari herself, or by those who can withstand the pressure it exerts on the user), Power Nullification (Can use her boundary manipulation inside the Hakurei Shrine, which passively nullifies boundaries), Death Manipulation (Can survive being near Yuyuko, whose mere touch can cause death and who passively causes all living things near her to die), Soul Absorption (Survived Tenshi absorbing the souls of all living things across Gensokyo and various Otherworlds such as the Netherworld), Unconventional Resistance to Energy Absorption, Power Nullification (She can store spare energy inside gaps, which can then be used to temporarily negate the aftereffects of possession, which depowers youkai and drains them of their magical energy), and Necromancy (Youkai do not leave corpses behind when beaten)

Additional abilities granted from Player System Cards: Time Stop (with Stopwatch), Soul Manipulation (with Soul Torch and Spell-Breaking Drug), Air Manipulation (with Tengu Fan), Poison Manipulation (with Spell-Breaking Drug), Power Nullification (with Spell-Breaking Drug), Space-Time Manipulation (with Yesterday's Money), Weather Manipulation (with Sword of Scarlet Perception), Healing (with Illness Recovery Charm), Ice Manipulation (with Frozen Frog), Chi Manipulation (with Dragon Star), Radiation Manipulation (with Control Rod), Invulnerability (with Three Heavenly Drops and Divine Raiment of the Dragon Fish), Summoning (with Catfish's Great Earthquake), and Statistics Amplification (with Tengu Fan, Left-Handed Folding Fan, and Control Rod)

Attack Potency: Low Multiverse level (Capable of easily destroying all of Gensokyo, which is infinite in size after it was merged with the infinitely large Netherworld, which is an Otherworld and therefore another dimension with its own space-time. By removing the boundary between Gensokyo and the Outside World, she would cause the two to merge together into a singular space. Has fought Suika many times in the past. She, alongside Reimu in the Barrier Team's extra scenario in Imperishable Night, inflicted so much pain onto Mokou to where she couldn't fight anymore despite her immortality. Stated to be the "strongest youkai". Implied to be the Youkai who ended the Vampire Incident long before the Spell Card Rules were implemented. Far above Ran, and stronger than Reimu, Marisa, and Sakuya). Can ignore conventional durability with Boundary Manipulation (By erasing an object's boundaries, she can negate its existence. She can also directly attack one from inside using her gaps, and it is stated that there is nothing she cannot cut in two).

Speed: Infinite (Superior to characters such as Reimu. Flew to the end of of Kaguya's corridor, which is composed of infinitely-linked pieces of the space-time continuum and is repeatedly stated to be infinite and endless)

Lifting Strength: Class Y (Comparable to Suika)

Striking Strength: Low Multiversal

Durability: Low Multiverse level, her ability seemingly makes her difficult to kill (She has stated that shooting, cutting, stabbing, hitting, and killing her is useless)

Stamina: Superhuman, possibly Infinite

Range: At least Tens of Meters with Danmaku (Her firing range should be comparable to Sakuya's, who can throw knives at least 36 meters), Multiversal with Boundary Manipulation (Yukari can travel across Otherworlds and separate things from the space-time continuum to form new Otherworlds)

Standard Equipment: Her umbrella and fan, her shikigami Ran and her Shikigami, Chen, along with a bunch of crow familiars

• Optional Equipment: Abilities offered by Player System Cards.

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius. Yukari can perform complex calculations with 1000 variables in seconds. Her Shikigami, Ran, was able to create a mathematical formula to ascertain the width of the ever-changing Sanzu River and stated that if it were Yukari, she could also include the depth of it. Akyuu described her intelligence as "superhuman" in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, noting that she's particularly skilled in mathematics. Yukari is often well-informed of the major events occurring in Gensokyo and, in many cases, was the mastermind of many of these events in some shape or form and is knowledgeable enough to accurately predict future incidents that would arise in the wake of those that had just been resolved. She was even able to outwit Eirin, a genius even among geniuses, at some point

Weaknesses: Yukari is quite lazy and rarely fights seriously, and her boundary manipulation can sometimes be overpowered or considered not enough to reach certain areas instantly, such as Heaven or the Lunarian Capital. She is vulnerable to spiritual damage.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Boundary Manipulation: Yukari can manipulate boundaries. The most common application of Yukari's boundary manipulation abilities is opening "gaps," which act as portals between two places. Yukari can create gaps through which only she can pass, or through which anything can pass. She can use those gaps to get items from other universes and attack her opponents with items from within them. Yukari can also use them to attack opponents directly, fire danmaku, and even open them within her opponents to split them apart.

Aside from that, Yukari can also control boundaries in a more general sense. Since the nature of all things is defined by its boundaries - for example, a lake can only exist as it is because there is a boundary between it and the atmosphere, the surface of the water itself. Yukari’s ability can, in theory, be used to achieve a considerable amount of different effects. She's described to be capable of manipulating the boundary between all things, but there are several exceptions to her power. She can't create gaps to the Moon, which is inhabited by beings far superior to any youkai, nor can she manipulate boundaries near the Moriya shrine, which is inhabited by two gods, though the exact reasons aren't specified.

She is known to be able to manipulate several fundamental boundaries, however, such as the boundaries between truth and falsehood, reality and fantasy, human and youkai, slave and master, life and death, awake and asleep, day and night, or winter and spring. By manipulating the barrier between reality and fantasy, she was able to aid in the construction of the Great Hakurei Barrier, making Gensokyo distinct from the Outside World, and she was able to repair the boundary between the world of the living and the Netherworld, or the boundary between life and death itself. By manipulating the boundary between "slave" and "master" in regards to possession, she can undo its effects.

Onmyōdō: Yukari is a skilled practitioner of Onmyōdō, a Japanese occult art descended from Taoism, which is used in divination and other magical abilities.

• Shikigami: The manipulation of shikigami could be considered another of Yukari's unique abilities. A shikigami is programmed, similarly to a computer, "installed" with new software that replaces their minds. She uses shikigami to cover for her sleep habits, and they're mostly stuck handling odd jobs and errands for her. Shikigami are strongest when following orders or near their masters, and Yukari utilizes complex equations to direct them and boost their power. While she employs several shikigami, the one she makes the most use of is Ran Yakumo.

Skill Cards:

• Bewitching Bait: Yukari opens up a gap that fires random projectiles at high speeds.
• Boundary of Intellect and Feet: Yukari opens a gap and runs along with it, pulling powerful objects from it that slam into her opponents.
• Chimera Wings: Yukari hides in a gap, and then lunges out, attacking her opponent.
• Eyes that View Change: Yukari opens up a gap, in which an eye glares at her opponent, firing danmaku at her enemy. She can open up several of these gaps at once to attack at different points in time, such as when an opponent moves or whenever an opening presents itself.
• Fantasy Maniacal Rift: Yukari disappears into a gap and moves within it to reappear wherever she pleases.
• Fantasy Manji-Parasol: Yukari focuses her spiritual energy into the form of a manji and fires it forwards.
• Flesh Dismantler: Yukari disappears into a gap and reappears wherever she pleases, spinning her umbrella.
• Ghostly Butterfly Hidden in the Zen Temple: Yukari attacks by spinning her umbrella around.
• Home is Where One Lays One's Head: Yukari opens up a gap in front of her and fires debris in a fan shape.
• Rest on Stone, Rinse in Rivers / Rinse with Stone, Rest in Rivers: Yukari uses a gap to suck up projectiles, and she can release them whenever she pleases using another gap.
• Universe of Matter and Antimatter: Yukari creates a gap, which does not affect its own, but when it comes into contact with another of the same kind, it causes an explosive reaction.
• Urashima's Box, Filled With Lament: Opening a gap above her opponent's head, Yukari drops debris and garbage onto them.
• World's Most Agile Torso: Yukari opens a gap inside her own body, causing her upper body to reappear elsewhere to attack her opponent from there.

Spell Cards:

• Abandoned Line "Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station": Yukari opens up a gap, from which a train speeds out, slamming into opponents with exceptional force.
• Aerial Bait "Addictive Bait": Yukari opens up gaps above her surroundings, firing a large number of high-speed projectiles over a wide range.
• Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier": Yukari creates an extensive series of overlapping boundaries that draw in her opponents, harming them greatly once they're caught within.
• Barrier "Objective Barrier": Yukari fires four linked boundaries that travel across every edge to surround her opponents and cut off their escape.
• Border Sign "Boundary of 2D and 3D": Yukari fires a boundary that travels over edges to strike her opponent.
• Border Sign "Quadruple Barrier": Yukari creates a series of several overlapping boundaries that harm nearby opponents.
• Boundary "Overflowing Flotsam": Yukari slashes her fan, opening up a gap in front of her that fires out a barrage of fast-moving danmaku.
• Fantasy Nest "Flying Glow Worms' Nest": Yukari opens up numerous gaps around her, which fire danmaku at her opponent, no matter where they are.
• Fantasy "Perpetual Motion Machine of the First Kind": Without Yukari's input, danmaku spirals around and closes in her opponents, leaving a trail of scattering shots behind each projectile.
• *Lend Me Those Beautiful Legs!*: Catching her opponents with gaps that open up across her surroundings, Yukari transports the two of them to a small pocket dimension. Then, with a slash of her fan, Yukari opens up a gap within their body, cutting them in half at the waist. If she so pleases, she can allow these two halves to reconnect, so that her opponent can survive.
• Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon": Yukari opens up many gaps, all with eyes glaring out at her opponents, firing projectiles whenever an opponent presents an opportunity. This is apparently how Yukari stays aware of Gensokyo's happenings.
• Outer Force "Infinite Superspeed Flying Object": Yukari catches everything around her in a complex net of lasers that leave nearly no open space as they fire again and again.
• Shikigami "Chen": Yukari summons Chen, who spins and jumps around her surroundings.
• Shikigami "Ran Yakumo": Yukari summons Ran, who lunges forward with a spinning attack.
• "Unmanned Abandoned Railroad Car Bomb": Yukari opens up a gap above her opponent, from which a train speeds forwards, slamming into them before exploding.
• Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Barrier": Yukari entraps her opponents in a ring of danmaku that prevents them from escaping out of this small area while firing wave after wave of danmaku at them, slowly closing the barrier around them to limit their movement more and more.

Note: Although Akyuu has stated that Yukari's power can theoretically be used to affect all of existence and even reduce all of it to a primal state, the statement was likely exaggerated in-universe or merely a metaphor to explain the vast range of objects she can affect. Thus, it isn't usable as a real feat higher than what she already showed.

Gallery

Yukari in Perfect Cherry Blossom

Yukari in Immaterial and Missing Power

Yukari in Imperishable Night

Yukari in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

Yukari in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Yukari in Antinomy of Common Flowers

Yukari in Antinomy of Common Flowers, again

Touhou 7 - Yukari Yakumo's Theme - Necrofantasia (Phantasm Boss)

Necrofantasia, Yukari's boss theme in Perfect Cherry Blossom

Touhou 7.5 Night Falls ~ Evening Star

Night Falls ~ Evening Star, Yukari's theme in Immaterial and Missing Power

Track 42 - Yorimashi Between Dreams and Reality ~ Necro-Fantasia Th 15.5 AoCF OST

Yorimashi Between Dreams and Reality ~ Necro-Fantasia, Yukari's theme in Antinomy of Common Flowers

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