Yukari Yakumo

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

Summary

Yukari Yakumo (八雲　紫, Yakumo Yukari) 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 exceptionally intelligent 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: 11-C

Name: Yukari Yakumo

Origin: Touhou Project

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

Gender: Female

Classification: Youkai

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Danmaku, Magic, Teleportation (Can teleport across several branes worlds, or into fictional stories and even lower dimensions), Barrier Creation, Onmyoudou (Can be used for Divination), Mind Manipulation (Can replace someone's mind, as she did with her shikigami, but it is likely not easily applicable in combat), Summoning (Can summon her Shikigami), Intangibility, Boundary Manipulation (Capable of manipulating the boundary between objects or vague concepts such as stories or day and night), Spatial Manipulation (Capable of separating physical places from the space-time continuum to create their own Brane, such as with Gensokyo), Time Manipulation (Can manipulate the border between day and night at will), BFR (Can teleport her opponents away), Sealing (Can seal her opponents into other worlds, fictional stories, dreams or the 2nd dimension), Invisibility, Precognition (Was capable of predicting the events of Subterranean Animism and telling Patchouli to watch the underground for her), Creation, Existence Erasure (According to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, she is capable of negating an object's existence by destroying its boundaries), Matter Manipulation (Can manipulate the boundary between matter and anti-matter), Conceptual Manipulation (Her boundary manipulation can affect the fundamental boundary between everything. It's been stated that without said boundaries, everything would exist as a singular and massive object, not unlike the state that the world was in before the Gods gave names and concepts to everything and separated them into different things. Can affect the border that exists conceptually between two things), Resistance to Illusions, Mind Manipulation (As a youkai she should be able to resist the mind-affecting effects of the moon, which can kill humans and drive them insane), and Death Manipulation (Resisted the Saigyou Ayakashi's effects), Longevity, Regeneration (Low-Godly. Can regenerate solely from her Non-Corporeal "mind")

Attack Potency: Point Level (Scarlet Weather Rhapsody implies she is superior to Suika. Her Imperishable Night Profile states that she is capable of destroying everyone in Gensokyo and even Gensokyo itself. Repaired the border between the Netherworld and Gensokyo, the former being much larger than Hell. Implied to be the Youkai who ended the Vampire Incident long before the Spell Card Rules were implemented. Far above Ran. Stronger than Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya)

Speed: None (Superior to characters such as Reimu)

Lifting Strength: None (Superior to Cirno)

Striking Strength: Point level 

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

Stamina: At least superhuman, seemingly limitless

Range: Several dozen meters, multi-universal with boundary manipulation

Standard Equipment: Her umbrella, Her shikigami Ran, her Shikigami's Shikigami Chen, crow familiars, apparently a cell phone, A Gameboy Advance, and an iPod

Intelligence: Genius, capable of performing 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. She was even able to outwit Eirin, a genius even among geniuses, at some point.

Weaknesses: Yukari is quite lazy and rarely fights seriously, her border manipulation can sometimes be overpowered or considered not enough to reach certain areas instantly (Celestial heaven or the Lunarian Capital for example). Vulnerable to spiritual damage.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Boundary Manipulation: Yukari has the ability to 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.

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 huge amount of different effects. She's described to be capable of manipulating the boundary between any and all things, but there are a number of 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 a number of fundamental boundaries, however, such as the boundaries between truth and falsehood, reality and fantasy, human and youkai, 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.

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 special abilities. A shikigami is programmed, similarly to a computer, "installed" with new software that replaces their mind. 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 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 has no effect on its own, but when it comes into contact with another of the same kind, 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.

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 amount of high-speed projectiles over a wide range.
• Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier": Yukari creates a large 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 which 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 harms nearby opponents.
• Fantasy Nest "Flying Glow Worms' Nest": Yukari opens up numerous gaps around her, which fire danmaku at her opponent, no matter where they are.
• 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.
• 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.

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, it is likely that the statement was exaggerated in-universe or simply a metaphor to explain the vast range of objects she can affect. Thus, it isn't usable as a true feat higher than what she already showed.

Gallery

Yukari in Perfect Cherry Blossom

Yukari in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Yukari's Theme - Necrofantasia

Necrofantasia, the theme of Yukari's fight in Perfect Cherry Blossom

IaMP - Yukari Yakumo's Theme - Night Falls ~ Evening Star

Night Falls ~ Evening Star, the theme of Yukari in Immaterial and Missing Power

Others

Notable Victories:

Yuki Terumi (BlazBlue) Terumi's profile (Note: Speed was equalized)

Gilgamesh (Fate/stay night) Gilgamesh's Profile

Notable Losses:

Inconclusive Matches:

Rick Sanchez (Rick & Morty) Rick's Profile (Note: Speed was equalized, and they both had 3-4 days of prep time)