Clownpiece

[Clownpiece]

General Info

"Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner"

Nicknames: Piece (official), Clown, CP (common in the OV)

Source: Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom

Species: Hell Fairy (though it wouldn't be incorrect to call her a Lampad either)

Age: Unknown (has probably been around since the Greek Empire). Appears to be around 10~11

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Purple

Height: ~3'10"

History: Clownpiece is a fairy of hell, an everlasting embodiment of that world's very nature. As a simple prankster spirit, she lived, bringing mischief, mayhem, and madness wherever she went, while having no true higher goals for herself. She never had a need to aim higher, as her Master, the Goddess of Hell, Hecate, had plans for her. 

Long ago, there was a woman by the name of Chún Hú, who lived as the wife of an emperor of the time. This existence was probably the prime of her life, as soon everything she knew would be thrown into turmoil. A man by the name of Houyi usurped the throne, possibly killing her husband in the process, but keeping Chún Hú around. He wed her, and after a time, she bore him a child. A child that Houyi ended up killing before he absconded from the throne, and from his wife. Houyi fled, eloping with the dancer known as Chang'e.

With both her first husband and child killed, and Houyi abandoning her for another woman, Chún Hú was driven into a rage. She burned with a fury so pure and all-consuming that it overwhelmed her entirely. Chún Hú, former wife to an emperor and mother of one became Junko, a sagacious spirit bearing ill will towards Houyi, Chang'e, and anyone who would dare to get in her way. With time, she managed to track down the man who'd betrayed her, and killed him in revenge, but Chang'e was nowhere to be seen.

It was soon found out that she'd drank the Elixir of Immortality, a gift given to the couple by the new emperor of the realm for their help in solving a problem that plagued the land. Ten suns had once ravaged earth, burning the surface into a wasteland, until Houyi had slain 9 of them, leaving one last one alive, and fearing for its life. The Elixir had been given to the both of them for this deed, enough for them both to drink it and become unaging and immortal. But Chang'e had foolishly consumed both shares of their Elixir. Perhaps out of fear that it would be stolen, perhaps out of selfishness, we don't know. The price for this was ascension. Chang'e floated up and away from her mortal ties on the earth, and soon came to be imprisoned on the moon.

Junko was unsatisfied. For years she'd searched, burning with such a passion for vengeance that she had shed everything else she used to be and become the avatar of her own undying rage. Not even 380,000 kilometers of vast, empty space would keep her from her vengeance. The furious spirit sought council with Hecate, hoping to form an alliance with the Goddess of Hell, who likewise had a grudge on Houyi. Once, the brilliant light of the ten suns also cast deep shadows, the power of hell. But with so many of them shot down, shadows were made weaker, and with it, hell. Thus, the two worked together towards a common goal, an assault on the moon. The Lunar Society was one of purity, absolute purity, disconnected from the cycle of life. Lunarians never aged, never grew old, and only died in the numerous wars that sprung up. They were a society of immortals. On top of that, their absolute purity meant they were incredibly skilled, almost unbeatable in direct combat. But for how amazing the Lunarians were, there was still a way to beat them.

Lunarians could come in contact with impurity just fine. A human from earth just didn't have the impurity necessary to drag them back into the lifecycle. But there was something even more impure than humans. Fairies. Nature incarnate, life incarnate. Fairies were practically made from pure impurity. Thus, Hecate enlisted the help of the hell fairies, with Clownpiece being the chief among them. With her lunacy-inducing torch, she could rile up the rest of the fairies like nobody's business. After being purified by Junko's power from almost pure impurity to absolutely pure impurity, the supercharged, mad fairies were unleashed upon the surface of the moon. The Lunarians, unable to even get near the fairies without falling into impurity, were driven back, out of the Lunar Capital and into the dream world, where they would hide until they could purify the earth and make a new home.

The plan here would have been to attack Chang'e as she was being moved from the Lunar Capital to the dream world. That plan never came to fruition, however, as it turned out the inhabitants of earth weren't particularly pleased about their home being purified. Reimu essentially marched her way up to the moon, and since she was already impure, and thus immune to the pure lifeforce of fairies, she beat up Clownpiece, got them to retreat, and then went on to fight Junko.

In the end, the plan had failed, but as a reward for doing her job so well, riling up the fairies and managing to push back an entire Lunar Society, Hecate brought Clownpiece to live on earth. The fairy may have grown up in hell, but earth was a nicer place, much less dangerous. Plus there was no way that fairies on earth could be as bad of an influence as fairies from hell, right? It was here, after a brief but fun stint on earth, that Clownpiece was grabbed by Omni.

TL;DR: Clownpiece is essentially an eternal hellchild who dicked around in hell doing nothing important until a Chinese lady got so mad at the moon that she became the living embodiment of her own rage and enlisted the help of the Goddess of Hell for the express purpose of Fucking Up The Lunar People. Said Goddess of Hell, Hecate, gathered up all the Lampades under her control, put Clownpiece at the helm of the force, and basically just buried the Lunar Capital under a horde of thousands of problem children. Surprisingly, this worked. So well in fact that it forced the Lunarians to actually abandon their home entirely (at least, until the Hakurei Shrine Maiden marched her way up and put a stop to that nonsense). As a reward for a job well done, Hecate plopped Clownpiece down on Earth (because Hell is no place for children), where she got involved in a lot of nonsense until Omni took interest in her and stole her away to the Omniverse.

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Appearance: Clownpiece is rather small girl, standing just under 4 foot with bright, purple eyes, blonde hair down to her butt, and two, translucent, insect-like wings sprouting from her back. Being fairy wings, these are actually immaterial, phasing right through her clothes, and are in general, untouchable. Most fairies' wings tend to exist more for decoration than anything. Her outfit consists of a short dress with red and white stripes on the right half, and blue with white stars on the left half, with the pattern split right down the middle. Her tights follow a similar pattern, but reversed, with the stars on the right and the bars on the left. She also wears a ruffled collar around her neck, and a jester-like, purple/white polka-dotted cap. Rounding out her image of madness is a wooden torch that glows with a purple light, based off of the torches that the Lampades, loyal servants of Hecate, carried around. During colder seasons, she switches out her short-sleeved dress for something thicker, with longer sleeves, and white, fuzzy cuffs. 

Clownpiece herself came up with the design for this outfit, as before the assault on the Lunar Capital, she found the flag that had been left by the Apollo astronauts. This flag was regarded by the Lunarians as their greatest humiliation, they had been unable to prevent humans from landing on the moon, and now they held the shame of having the impurity of life on their pure world. Seeing this, Clownpiece decided that the best way to become an even bigger affront on the Lunar people was for her, an embodiment of very life and death that they had rejected, to wear the patterns of that flag while she drove them out of their only home.

Personality: Clownpiece is an interesting trifecta of traits, being from hell, a fairy, and being just a little bit mad herself. Like all fairies, she's very childish and playful and more than a bit mischievous, always ready to pull pranks and spread mayhem. Though where most fairies would do things like push someone over or make one lose their way in a forest, Clownpiece, due to growing up in hell, has a bit more of a... twisted view of pranks. In particular, she loves setting things on fire and making people fight each other. Of course, though she loves madness and mayhem and tends to be a bit on the cruel side, she isn't exactly evil, per say. Hell is very different from Earth, and that's just the sort of thing they did down there. People from hell just tend to be jerks. Despite this, when the chips are down and things are getting rough, Clownpiece is one of the most steadfast friends you can have. She's willing to dive into your problem and help you out the best she can, even if there's danger to be found. Genuinely caring and altruistic for a fairy, she just hides it behind an arrogant and abrasive mask. For someone who wields the power to drive people mad, she's surprisingly sane herself. That's not really saying all that much, however, since fairies in general tend to have more than a few screws loose. A lot of her lunacy shows up in the form of pyromania. She loves fire and is not afraid to share the love. Unsurprisingly, she's also incredibly impulsive, as fairies are.

As far as her voice goes, she's excitable, like most fairies, so she sounds high energy a lot. There's also a definite childlike wonder. Clownpiece gets super enthralled by new things. She's got that trademark hellspawn arrogance. She compares almost everything to hell in some way, and tends to use 'hell' and 'hellish' and such to describe things. Failing that, she uses 'brutal' and 'metal' a lot as well. Unsurprisingly, this means she has a very... metal taste in things. If it doesn't have too much leather, spikes, and gore, it ain't good enough.