Yuyuko Saigyouji

“	In a gathering of corpses there is beauty. Same goes for the cherry blossoms and spring...	„
	~ Yuyuko Saigyouji

Summary

Yuyuko Saigyouji is the ghost princess of Hakugyokurou, the shrine of the Netherworld. In life, before she became a ghost, she was the head of the Saigyouji clan. Possessing the powerful ability to manipulate departed souls, after this power developed into the ability to kill anything, Yuyuko was overwhelmed by the power of her ability and, terrified, she committed suicide. She was buried under the Saigyou Ayakashi, sealing away its blossoms, and she returned as a ghost, incapable of vanishing or reincarnating as long as the seal still stands.

A thousand years later, Yuyuko has long forgotten of her past and grows curious of the girl she hears is buried underneath the tree. To satisfy her curiosity, she sought to unearth and revive this mysterious corpse and break the Saigyou Ayakashi's seal to see its blossoms, unaware that the corpse was her own. Without the seal and with the resurrection of her old body, she would've ceased to exist as she does now, and so all of her efforts failed due to an unconscious sense of self-preservation.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 2-C

Name: Yuyuko Saigyouji

Origin: Touhou Project

Age: Around 1,000 years old

Gender: Female

Classification: Formerly human, Ghost Princess

Powers and Abilities:

• Powers and Abilities
• Resistances
• Optional Equipment

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Danmaku, Spirit Manipulation, Limited Creation & Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; The process of creating a spell card requires giving it a 'name' to define its form and power, not unlike how the gods gave 'names' to everything at the beginning of reality to give them form from nothingness, albeit on a much smaller scale), 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), Magic, Extrasensory Perception (Magic users are sensitive to changes in temperament), Acausality (Type 4; 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), Acrobatics, Death Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (She has control over the spirits of the dead), Forcefield Creation, Empathic and Mind Manipulation (All ghosts can affect one's heart with just their words), Dimensional Travel (She seemingly can come and go at will between Gensokyo and the Netherworld, and it's hinted that she can travel between the Outside World and Gensokyo), Aura, Space-Time Manipulation (Caused the eternal night in the Netherworld Team Scenario of Imperishable Night. 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), Vibration Manipulation (All characters in Immaterial and Missing Power are capable of generating shockwaves to push their opponent back), Teleportation (As seen here), Portal Creation (Can create a gate to the Netherworld), Water Walking (Walked across the surface of a lake), Resurrection ("Resurrection Butterfly" has the power to bring back the dead), Weather Manipulation (Gathered the essence of Spring alongside Youmu), Light Manipulation (Can generate beams of light, or throw out beads of light), Duplication (Can perform a cloning technique to duplicate herself), Enhanced Senses, Information Analysis (Detected a corpse buried beneath a tree and was able to accurately deduce how long it'd been decaying for), Stealth Mastery (Ghosts are able to act and move without leaving any traces of their presence), BFR (Can send souls back to Higan), Possession (Can fire ghosts that possess her opponent), Animal Manipulation (Frequently utilizes butterflies and moths in her danmaku), Plant Manipulation, Air Manipulation (Can create cherry petals as danmaku and blow them towards her opponent with a gust of wind), 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), Incorporeality, Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm Phantoms and Evil Spirits with her regular attacks), Immortality (Types 7 and 8; reliant on the seal of the Saigyou Ayakashi and cannot reincarnate or vanish as long as it's unbroken)

Immunity to Pain Manipulation (Ghosts do not feel pain), Resistance to Madness Manipulation (Was unaffected by the true Moon, which can drive humans insane and kill them if they look at it), Illusion Creation, 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), Mind Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (Unaffected by being near phantoms, which can passively change the emotions or slowly destroy the minds of anybody they come near), 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), Soul Absorption (Survived Tenshi absorbing the souls of all living things across Gensokyo and various Otherworlds such as the Netherworld)

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 (Superior to Youmu and comparable to other high tiers such as Reimu and Marisa. Her status as the master of the Netherworld likely makes her comparable to Kishins like Suiki. She, alongside Youmu in the Netherworld Team's extra scenario in Imperishable Night, inflicted so much pain onto Mokou to where she couldn't fight anymore despite her immortality). She can ignore conventional durability by inducing death.

Speed: Infinite (Comparable to other high tiers 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: Unknown

Striking Strength: Low Multiverse level

Durability: Low Multiverse level. Being a ghost makes her hard to destroy.

Stamina: Superhuman

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), Planetary with her ability (She has control of all the spirits in the Netherworld, a place larger than Hell, which is 200,000 kilometers in height, and she was able to weaken the Netherworld's barrier).

Standard Equipment: Her fan

• Optional Equipment: Abilities offered by Player System Cards.

Intelligence: Despite her eccentricity and apparent ditzy nature, Yuyuko is incredibly perceptive and intelligent, with an intellect comparable to that of Yukari Yakumo. She was the first to correctly identify the culprit behind the incident in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, even before Yukari.

Weaknesses: Can be repelled by churches or temples

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Manipulating death: Yuyuko has the ability to end the life of any living being, from humans to Youkai. No resistance is permitted against this ability, and there are no exceptions in who it affects. It is a simple and exceptionally powerful ability.

Manipulating departed souls: Yuyuko can manipulate ghosts and spirits, and it is a power she has possessed even when she was alive. While the specifics of this ability are unknown, it allows her to manage the Netherworld and control the flow of departed spirits. She can also use them in fights and as danmaku.

Skill Cards:

• All Things Wandering: A ring of ghosts appear around Yuyuko and then rise up slowly.
• Dance of the Butterfly Dream: Yuyuko steps forward and spins, attacking with both of her fans.
• Ghostly Butterfly: Yuyuko releases ghostly bullets that transform into butterflies and home in on her opponent.
• Gifts to the Deceased: Yuyuko jumps into the air, grabs her opponent, and throws them to the ground.
• Lance of the Swallowtail Crest: Yuyuko fires a piercing blast of concentrated mist that leaves butterflies spreading in its wake.
• Land of Death: A swarm of ghosts flies towards Yuyuko's opponent.
• Lights of the Unborn: Yuyuko fires a laser that branches into five separate beams.
• Reverse Screens: Yuyuko backflips away from her opponent, scattering cherry blossom petals behind her.
• Sense of Elegance: Yuyuko spins in place and slashes her opponent with her fans.
• Sphere Bloom: Yuyuko sweeps her hand, whipping scattering beads of light at her opponent that shift into falling cherry blossoms.
• Spirit-Luring Nectar: Yuyuko creates a floating orb that attracts spirits.
• Spirits that Died Well: Yuyuko sends ghosts that drift forwards before turning into lasers, firing at her opponent.

Spell Cards:

• Butterfly Sign "Deadly Lance of the Swallowtail Butterfly Crest": A large fan opens up behind Yuyuko and fires a wall of beams and butterflies forwards.
• Cherry Blossom Sign "Sense of Cherry Blossom": Yuyuko focuses, and then step forwards and swings her fan upwards, releasing a massive wall of energy.
• Deadly Butterfly "Eternal Sleep in Dreamland": Yuyuko unleashes a storm of butterfly danmaku that spiral around her.
• Death Sign "Ghastly Dream": Yuyuko releases a ring of butterflies that fly around her, going further and further.
• Ghostly Elegance "Light Trap of Passing Away": Yuyuko summons a ring of ghosts that slowly close in on her opponent from all directions.
• Lifespan "Ticket to the Ageless Land": Yuyuko sends ghosts to plague her opponent, which slowly around them and disappear one by one, ticking down to a final, sinister impact.
• Lost Again "Gensokyo's Rise from Yomi": Ghosts flood from below Yuyuko's opponent's feet, trapping them in place and swarming them.
• Nether Sign "Path to Yomotsu-Hirasaka": Opening up a passage to the land of the dead, Yuyuko summons a small swarm of ghosts that fly all around.
• "Resurrection Butterfly": Yuyuko fires sweeping lasers from beneath her while releasing swarms of spirit butterflies.
• Spirit Butterfly "In the Moment When a Butterfly's Wings Flap": Yuyuko releases a wall of spirit butterflies that attack her opponent from all directions.
• Spirit Sign "Ageless Dream": Yuyuko sends forth a ghost that latches onto her opponent and curses them, draining their strength.

Gallery

Yuyuko in Perfect Cherry Blossom

Yuyuko in Immaterial and Missing Power

Yuyuko in Imperishable Night

Yuyuko in Touhou Hisoutensoku

Yuyuko in Ten Desires

Yuyuko in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Yuyuko in The Grimoire of Marisa

Touhou 7 - Yuyuko Saigyouji's Theme - Bloom nobly, Cherry Blossoms of Sumizome ~ Border of Life

Bloom Nobly, Ink-black Cherry Blossom ~ Border of Life, Yuyuko's boss theme in Perfect Cherry Blossom

Touhou 7 - Yuyuko Saigyouji - Border of Life (Final Spell)

Border of Life, Yuyuko's final spell theme in Perfect Cherry Blossom

Track 04 - Ghost Lead Touhou 13 Ten Desires OST

Ghost Lead, Yuyuko's boss theme in Ten Desires

Others

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