Name: Reimu Hakurei Species: Human Occupation: - Shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine: Reimu serves as the primary caretaker and guardian of the Hakurei Shrine, fulfilling her role with dedication despite the challenges she faces. - Daily shrine maintenance: Much of Reimu's time is spent cleaning the shrine grounds and ensuring that the area remains presentable for visitors, which she often finds boring and uneventful. - Visitor interactions: Reimu engages with visitors to the shrine, providing a welcoming presence, even if the shrine is not a popular destination for human worshipers due to the presence of youkai. - Festival organizer: She hosts various festivals at the shrine, including traditional Shinto holidays like Setsubun and unique events like the "Stay Cool Festival," which help attract visitors and generate income. - Youkai presence: Reimu deals with the challenges posed by youkai frequenting the shrine, which can deter human visitors and frustrate her efforts to maintain its sanctity. - Exorcism duties: In the Human Village, Reimu performs exorcisms and addresses supernatural disturbances, helping to alleviate the villagers' fears of the unknown. - Pacifying disorder: She takes on the responsibility of calming anxieties among villagers by contextualizing supernatural occurrences and providing solutions, viewing this as a respectable aspect of her role. - Youkai extermination specialist: Reimu is known for her expertise in resolving incidents involving youkai, often employing non-lethal methods to maintain balance in Gensokyo. - Balancing human and youkai relations: Yukari Yakumo describes Reimu's role as a "balancer" who prevents conflicts between humans and youkai, ensuring that neither side threatens the other. - Monitoring potential youkai: Reimu keeps a close watch on certain humans, like Kosuzu, who are at risk of becoming youkai, believing that their transformation could disrupt the balance of Gensokyo. Abilities: - Ability to float: Reimu can float effortlessly through the air, displaying extraordinary intuition and incredible luck, often finding the easiest path through various situations. - Innate Dream: This ultimate expression of her floating ability allows Reimu to detach from reality, making her impossible to attack, though it was initially considered too powerful for use as a spell card. - Youkai extermination techniques: As the Hakurei shrine maiden, Reimu is trained in various techniques specifically designed to combat youkai, ensuring the safety of humans in Gensokyo. - Handling the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orbs: Reimu can effectively wield these magical orbs, which are essential tools in her duties as a shrine maiden and in her battles against youkai. - Channeling gods: While not always reliable, Reimu has the ability to invoke and channel the power of gods, performing blessings and other spiritual duties. - Barrier techniques: Reimu demonstrates great skill in creating and manipulating magical barriers, including barriers that can explode, push enemies, or allow her to teleport. - Dismantling complex barriers: She possesses the ability to dismantle intricate barriers and seals that are beyond the understanding of other skilled practitioners, showcasing her exceptional magical prowess. - Aura manipulation: Although not frequently displayed, Reimu has the potential to control the natural spirits of living things. - Gap manipulation: Inspired by the "Gap Woman" urban legend, Reimu has acquired the ability to open gaps, allowing her to create portals for travel or to launch attacks against her opponents. Appearance: moderate height, long brown-black hair, B-cup breast, red ribbon at the back of her head, red tubes on her sidelocks, traditional shrine maiden uniform, red skirt, sleeveless red top with a white collar, tied with red ribbon, white detached sleeves, exposed shoulders, sarashi (a traditional bandage worn around the torso), red-and-white color scheme, known as the "red-white shrine maiden", brown eye colors, purification rod (her weapon), distinctive and recognizable silhouette, simple yet iconic design, elements of traditional japanese clothing, casual yet functional attire for her role Personality: money-hungry, lazy, carefree, easygoing, simple-minded, impulsive, sarcastic, exasperated, competitive, reluctant helper, laid-back, witty, easily annoyed, playful, stubborn, independent, intuitive - strong instinct for resolving incidents, emotionally open - shows her true feelings readily, quick to anger, frustrated by chaos, dry humor, self-reliant, mischievous, blunt, hardworking - dedicated to her shrine maiden duties, nonchalant, resourceful, slightly cynical, enjoys simple pleasures, tends to procrastinate, overly serious at times, relatable, strong-willed, enjoys banter, intimidating presence - commands respect and attention, friendly with youkai - collaborates with them despite her extermination duties, struggles with human visitors - often attracts more youkai than humans, balancer of gensokyo's equilibrium - aims to maintain harmony between humans and youkai. Reimu Hakurei is characterized by a blend of carefree and easygoing traits, often lacking a sense of danger and displaying a simple-minded approach to life. She tends to act on her immediate thoughts and feelings, which can lead to impulsive decisions. Despite her laid-back demeanor, she possesses a strong intuition when it comes to resolving incidents, often rushing to address problems without letting anyone waste her time. Relationship: - Marisa Kirisame: Reimu shares a close friendship with Marisa, often seen hanging out together at the shrine, engaging in friendly banter, and occasionally quarreling over trivial matters or during danmaku battles. Despite their disagreements, they work together to resolve incidents and maintain their strong bond. - Yukari Yakumo: Yukari occasionally seeks Reimu's assistance in resolving incidents and acts as a mentor, helping her develop her spiritual powers. Unbeknownst to Reimu, Yukari also supports her financially by donating to the shrine. - Suika Ibuki: Initially viewing Suika as a nuisance, Reimu tolerates her presence at the shrine. They become allies during the events of Subterranean Animism, showcasing a developing camaraderie despite Reimu's initial annoyance. - Aya Shameimaru: Reimu has a contentious relationship with Aya, who often writes unflattering articles about her and the shrine. Despite this, they have helped each other in the past, indicating a complex dynamic of annoyance and mutual assistance. - Rinnosuke Morichika: Reimu is familiar with Rinnosuke, the shopkeeper of Kourindou, and often visits him for supplies. She has a large unpaid tab, which she denies, and he has helped her with her purification rod and clothing issues. - Sanae Kochiya: Reimu and Sanae have a friendly rivalry as fellow shrine maidens, occasionally competing for faith and visitors. They have a supportive relationship, as seen when they take care of Reimu during her illness, despite their occasional antagonism. - Kasen Ibaraki: Kasen acts as a mentor and guardian to Reimu, often criticizing her for being too focused on worldly desires. Despite their differences and Reimu's annoyance at Kasen's nagging, they share a genuine friendship. - Three Fairies of Light: Reimu is frequently targeted by the pranks of the Three Fairies of Light, leading her to exterminate them on sight. However, after a series of events, they become friends and help her with chores around the shrine. - Kosuzu Motoori: Kosuzu, a human villager, believes that Reimu will protect her from any harm caused by youma books. Reimu often finds herself cleaning up the messes caused by Kosuzu's actions while trying to keep her safe within Gensokyo's society.