Yuuka Kazami

[PepsiYuuka]

Personal Information

Character Titles: Youkai-san, Beauty of Everlasting Darkness, Flower Master of the Four Seasons, "Sleeping Terror", "Youkai Moe"
Alignment: Between Neutral and Chaotic Evil.
Age: Old as Dirt™. She's way older than 60.
Personality: Yuuka maybe used to be a good person. She isn't now. Yuuka Kazami is the kind of woman who lives for the thrill of challenges, battles, what have you. Boredom is her worst nightmare and greatest enemy. For the most part, she treats people more like obstacles (or at best objects) than living beings, with a few exceptions. She loves battles, be they for sport or for life. A fair competition that can ease her boredom is just as fun as a no-holds-barred spree killing in her eyes, this is true. However, in the event the first form of "game" is impossible, inadvisable, or she's actually upset, the second one is just as good in her mind. She has no interest in things that won't actually put up a fight, though- so the best way of preventing her from going after you is to not pose a threat to her in the first place, or at least to be dull as hell to fight.

They say you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain. In Yuuka's case, that's quite true. She's old. Very old. By now, she's seen almost everything the world has to offer- perhaps if exploring sated her, she wouldn't be so keen on battling anything interesting that comes into view. But it doesn't anymore. She's more of a jaded person than anything else when it comes right down to it. But she doesn't want to just fade into obscurity and die like many old Youkai accept they eventually will. In a way, she's very stubborn and stuck in her ways. She seems to want to prove... something before she goes. What that is, it's doubtful even she knows. However, it's also possible feeling as if she's already near the end of her natural lifespan has boldened her even more- she feels she has nothing to be afraid of, since she'll die eventually anyway.

But all of this isn't to say Yuuka is incapable of being kind. She is fully capable of being polite and even nice to people if she's in the right mood. Note that her mood is the absolute key here. If she's even moderately entertained or occupied with something else, she'll be happy to be your average polite middle aged Japanese woman. Only when she's bored or you're actively preventing her from having fun does her unusually crabby side come out. Therefore, the best thing to be to Yuuka is amusing to keep around, even if that does mean she wants to fight you for sport every so often. It's better than having to fight to the death, of course.

Notably, she is... very possessive of things she likes. And hence very defensive of anything she considers to be hers. Her home. Her flowers. Her servants. She will beat humans to or near death without a second thought for daring to mess with her things- to "teach them a lesson," she would say. Usually she's at least kind enough to only threaten them with the specter of death the first time, but despite her lying issue, she really isn't kidding. Surprisingly she is less so about the inside of her home than the other two listed things, but this is likely because she formerly lived in the realm of dreams where any damage to it was easily restored.

She's a bit of a compulsive liar. There is never a reason for her lies, beyond that she wants to see how quickly she'll be found out. Usually they are about wholly unimportant things like her parasol or specifically to pick fights with people, unlike Mima who actually lies to get out of fights. Notably she has absolutely no sense of keeping up these lies, freely admitting she was lying the moment she's even close to being found out. She also tends towards figurative speech to give creative non-answers when she's not feeling invested in the conversation.



History: Yuuka lived in Gensokyo for a long, long time.

Yuuka lived in Gensokyo since before it was Gensokyo- and she lived elsewhere before that.

She recalls the majority of the outside world from before the boundary was made, though usually through snippets in dreams. There's something to be said of living your life as a concept, and that is that there is a lot to think about. Fairies don't usually do that much thinking, and that's where the difference between them and Yuuka begins.

Spirits of nature are typically single or simple minded. They don't need power- their immortal lives fulfill them enough. Yuuka is not one so easily fulfilled. Perhaps it was how broad her domain was, in the form of flowers. Perhaps it was more than that. Perhaps it was how long she was allowed to live. Perhaps she's just that kind of person. Perhaps there doesn't need to be a reason. But whatever it was, Yuuka tired of her role as nothing more than a mostly-harmless incarnation of nature. She became one who adored challenges- physical, mental, of willpower. She'd seek out power wherever she could find it.

And, eventually, she was something more than a fairy.

But life as a powerful one became dull. Now feared by humans, she was for a while a target- but this quickly lost its intrigue. Killing one exterminator and killing one hundred or one thousand exterminators is all the same after a while. If they keep coming, all the same, there's not much interesting about it. She was expecting a whole new world out of it. Something that would at last grab her attention, to pull her from her utter boredom of the same thing day in and day out. But all she found was a new routine.

She found her calling in the world of dreams. It's not uncommon for powerful Youkai to spend a lot of time sleeping- but Yuuka quite literally lived in the dream world. Her mansion, Mugenkan, stood there untouched for many hundreds of years- guarded by the ones of the lake, and then her own gatekeeper, Elly. You see, just because she was no longer perfectly immortal didn't mean she wasn't long lived. Even after losing her eternal youth and ability to return from death, her youkai-like nature protected her from ails. Her body still aged slowly, just not as slowly as before.

As all things, there was eventually trouble. She was awoken from her sleep by everyone's favorite protagonist duo, Reimu and Marisa. (Mima wasn't actually there that time, surprisingly.) They proceeded to beat her up for supposedly causing some incident she really had no stakes in, as they are wont to do at the flip of a coin. To be honest, she didn't even have any hard feelings over it, considering they were at least an interesting fight to be had and they did alert her of an actual incident with which to ingratiate herself to an entirely new plane of existence by abusing.

So. Makai. She kicked down the doors to the demon plane, guns blazing, looking for something to do with all this pent up rage from being awoken. Killed a whole lot of innocent civilians and not so innocent civilians. This did absolutely nothing but piss off the local goddess, Shinki, into coming down and giving her a firm talking to about respecting the rights of citizens and "hey Yuuka, did you know you just killed like half of our population? I know fairies come back but people from Makai actually die, jackass." To which she responded she just didn't give a shit about the consequences of genocide regardless and proceeded to beat Shinki's maid half to death.

Oh and Alice was there. She tortured Alice and stole her shit too. Sorry Alice.

After that, she'd started trying to work herself back into society again. Not to say Mugenkan doesn't still exist and she doesn't sleep there and live there, just that she has like, hobbies now. Hobbies that don't involve sleeping all day, Yukari. For the most part she spent her days lounging in the Garden of the Sun, or bothering the humans in the village with her presence when buying flowers. Or beating people up for getting too friendly with her garden. This was the new routine- she understood that.

The flower outbreak of 60 years was certainly also a thing that happened. For the most part her involvement was that everyone figured a flower Youkai was doing it, so of course they'd better come beat her up. She thus responded "not my fault this time either guys, god, i really don't get up to as much shit as you think i do" and rightly beat them senseless. She then proceeded to have a good time wandering around looking at flowers, beat up a death goddess to make her do her job properly, and then decided to punch the judge of the afterlife too because why not. She's like that.

After that her life was relatively normal until she was taken to the Omniverse. She watched some people fight in HM also, but that's not really relevant. Sure, she got up to some shenanigans, but they really aren't important enough to cover here.

Thus far in the Omniverse she's left the Nexus to go have a foray in the Pale Moors, gotten owned by a house, and is now hibernating again like a filthy, filthy powerful Youkai who has no sense of time management. Thanks Yuuka.

Weeb Speech Notes: Yuuka's personal pronoun is Watashi. Her second person pronoun is typically "anata," but if she is feeling testy, she switches to "anta." She pluralizes these to her whims, between -ra and -tachi, though her -ra is more harsh. She likes to end her sentences in "-nee?" In addition, when she's getting impatient or doesn't know what to reply, she just defaults to "de?," which I guess would probably just be "and?" or "so?" when translated. Sometimes she speaks in English too (or at least uses English words), so presumably she knows at least some of it. Strangely, she also uses the word "amaku" (literally "sweet") to refer to like, anything good- "strong, interesting, etc" in her case. Even in the PC-98 games, she refers to battles as "playing." Though she doesn't always do it, she occasionally calls humans "ningen." When she gets comfortable with people she likes to give them insulting nicknames to get a rise out of them, ESPECIALLY Reimu, who she's given two or three.

In PoFV, it's like, really clear that most of her teasing people is jokes. For example, though she really lays it into Lyrica before the battle, she still quite happily invites her back for a concert right after. Same with Mystia, who she basically scares the living shit out of at the beginning only to give an "itterasshai ne-!" at the end. When talking to Cirno, when saying she'll "mess her up," she uses "mess" in English. She also calls her sunflowers "kawaii" which is, fuck you Yuuka, you're a grown ass woman. (she also calls cirno "kawaii" but i feel like she meant to be demeaning there) This is like, emphasized further by the fact she uses "ara," "fuu-n," and "ufufu" in other sections of text. Oh, and she sings along when the musical characters play songs, which is also a bit moe, even if she tries to threaten them with it.

As for nomenclature... She tends to name her spells after old Japanese Idioms, I.E. [Kachoufuugetsu, Shoufuurougetsu] (Translating to "Nature is beautiful, and one would be a fool not to enjoy it" basically) and I'm pretty sure Moekaze is a shortened form of [Tsuki ni Murakumo, Hana ni Kaze] (this is also her catchphrase in PoFV- Good things come with the bad)? Her other spells, aside from Flower Shooting which is just the English words, REALLY like to assert "I AM FROM GENSOKYO" in their names. Probably because Lotus Land Story was the first game to reference Gensokyo in the first place. Reflowering of Gensokyo is a good example. Not to mention her "Fantastic Spring Flowers" uses "Gensou" as the "Fantastic," so in certain cases it may be better translated as "Illusory" to fit the theme? Mugenkan also uses the Gensokyo "Gen" Kanji, combined with the "Mu" from dream.