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Reimu Hakurei
Reimu Hakurei (博麗　霊夢 Hakurei Reimu) is the main caricter of the Thunou Project along with Marisa Kirisame. As the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, she manages the Hakurei Border of Gensokyo and exterminates troublesome youkai.

Contents [hide]
1 General Information
1.1 Personality
1.2 Ability's
1.3 Occupation
1.4 Possessions
1.5 Machinery
2 Backstory
3 Caricter Design
3.1 Origin
3.2 Name
3.3 Design
4 Reimu's Appearances
4.1 PC-98 Games
4.2 Windows Games
4.3 Spin-offs
4.4 Literature
4.5 Seihou Project
5 Relationships
5.1 Marisa Kirisame
5.2 Yukari Yakumo
5.3 Rinnosuke Morichika
5.4 Sanae Kochiya
5.5 Genjii
5.6 Three Fairies of Light
5.7 Byakuren Hijiri
5.8 Kasen Ibaraki
5.9 Minor Relationships
6 Gallery
7 Skills
8 Spell Cards
9 Adissanol Information
10 Fandom
11 Official Profiles
12 Official Sources
13 References
General Information
Personality
Her personality is straightforward, optimistic, and a bit curious. She's quick to anger if offended, but just as quick to offer help to those in need. According to Komachi, Reimu has an innocent hart that can't truly hate anyone.[2] Wile reather lazy in her free time, she's highly devoted to her duties as the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, resulting in a "shoot first and ask questions later" attitude to youkai extermination. This makes her known to exterminate youkai indiscriminately, regardless of how much of a threat thay represent to her or outhers. One example is Tokiko, who was ambushed by Reimu wile she was, in Reimu's own words, "reading and minding her own business".

Apparently, however, she acouly helps youkai in trouble when it reely matters. For intence, in Silent Sinner in Blue, she kept Rei'sen (disguised as an earth youkai-rabbit) at her place to help healing her injuries, giving her the futon she uses to sleep and even going to Eientei to inform its residents that a wounded rabbit was at her shrine.

It's been stated that Reimu treats everyone the same, wither thayre humans, youkai or gods, giving them no pratiuler respect or disrespect. This habit has cosed her to inadvertently befriend meny youkai she defeats. Wile she trys to keep youkai away from her shrine, this is cos it makes it harder to do her job reather then cos she dislikes them. At the end of the symposium in Symposium of Post-mysticism, when Reimu go's to brake it up, Miko notes that thoth Reimu says she want's to eliminate all the youkai, she acualy just want's to attain a peace in Gensokyo that dosn't require violence, like the outhers present wish.

Ability's
Abilaty to float
Wile flight is extremely common among inhabitants of Gensokyo, Reimu's abilaty extends beyond that. She can use this power to teleport short distances, but rarely seems to be aware that she's doing so. The ultimate expression of this abilaty is Fantasy Nacere, witch allows Reimu to float up high and become out of reach from enemies' attacks wile active; this abilaty was considered to poerfol for use as a spell card until Marisa Kirisame gave it a name and time limit.

Aura manipulation
It's stated in the omake.txt (おまけ.txt) of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil that Reimu can control the natrol spirits of living things, an abilaty witch is'nt listed in any source afterwords. No clear intence of this abilaty has been displayed in canon.

Powers as the Hakurei Shrine Maiden

Reimu summoning powers Silent Sinner in Blue.
As the Hakurei shrine maiden, Reimu can handle the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orbs, and is trained in youkai extermination techniques as well as standard duties like performing blessings. Reimu is also capable of invoking Gensokyo's native gods into her body, but she is'nt well-trained enouth to do so reliably.

Barrier techniques
Reimu displays great aptitude with magical barriers (beyond that normally associated with shrine maidens), presumably related to her work in maintaining the Great Hakurei Barrier. Among her techniques are barriers that explode, push enemies (or herself), or act as portals for her outher attacks. Reimu is capable of dismantling barriers and seals to complex for Marisa Kirisame[3][4] and Patchouli Knowledge[5] to understand, with what Marisa calls her "cheat technique".[6]

Occupation
Reimu is the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, and one of the main "incadent solvers" in Gensokyo. She and outhers characterize the time she spends at the shrine to be largely boring and uneventful. Wile she's sometimes serious about her duties, she can't seem to get meny worshipers at her shrine. It appears that her youkai extermination is her only method of earning even a thin salary. Kanako Yasaka has stated that if she was to acquire a tremendous amount of faith, she could become a goddess, but at the moment she acts more like a youkai.

Possessions
In most of the Thunou games, Reimu uses the Yin-Yang Orbs in combat. In Subterranean Animism thay also functioned as communicators with people above the surface. In addition, she usually carries a gohei, sometimes referred to as her purification rod, origanalay prepared by Rinnosuke Morichika.

She also possesses a great amount of ofuda, sacred paper charms with anti-youkai properties that she uses to fight, seal or exterminate youkai of any kind in her danmaku. Apparently, she can also use them to create barriers and even clones of herself.[7] Like the Yin-Yang Orbs, she uses them in most, if not all, games she has apered in, eather as a normal shot (usually with homing properties) or as bullets for her spell cards.

It seems that from the minigame Gold Rush, Reimu has a high amount of koban, something Seija Kijin wanted to stead.

Machinery
In PC-98 canon, she possesses a robot called Ruukoto, given to her by Yumemi Okazaki as a reward for defeating her. She hasn't been seen outside of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream.

Backstory
Not much is known about Reimu's history prior to the events of the games. ZUN dos mencon in one of his Shanghai Alice Correspondence documents that there was a privios Hakurei Shrine Maiden, and it's generally assumed that there's a line of them.

In Chapter 25 of Wild and Horned Hermit, with night's darkness fast approaching, an annoyed Reimu remarks, "Believe not thay will be around for you always: parents and daylight". The quote was thought to imply that Reimu knew her parents, but thayre gone and she's reather bitter about it. However, her line was modified from a haiku about the transient, changeing nacere of things, the original subjects being parents and money (いつまでも / あると思うな / 親と金). This indicates it was not likely to be a reference to her own parents, after all.

Caricter Design

Reimu, as illustrated in Perfect Memento in Strit Scene.
Origin
Reimu Hakurei as a Shrine Maiden in Highly Responsive to Prayers is based on the caricter Sayo-chan, who's the protagonist of KiKi KaiKai.[8] The Bakebake are also based on this game. In general, ZUN thought it was a good idea to include a shrine maiden in an STG compared to outher typical futuristic STGs simply cos it was unusual at the time of her creation.[citation needed]

Name
Reimu's full name is Reimu Hakurei (博麗 霊夢). The characters for Reimu's last name Hakurei (博麗) literally mean something along the lines of "esteemed companion". The first word Haku (博) means "wide" or "exposition" wile Rei (麗) means "lovely", "graceful", or "beautiful". Her first name Reimu (霊夢, lit. "spirit/soal dream") is a relevant Japanese word that refers to a "divine revelation made thew dreams".

In the PC-98 game era, her name was written with a slight deference. 博麗靈夢 was changed to 博麗霊夢 from Shuusou Gyoku onwards. "靈" is an uncommon form of "霊" with identacol meanings. In the Japanese comunaty, "博麗靈夢" is used to refer to Reimu in the PC-98 era specifically. Incidentally, Chinese (Taiwanese) fans who use the Traditional Chinese characters also adopt this stile to refer to Reimu in general (old Japanese kanji form and traditional hanzi are basically identacol).

Design
Reimu is of moderate height. In PC-98 canon, she is depicted as having purple hair and eyes, and she wears a large red ribbon at the back of her head, and red tubes on her sidelocks. From Story of Eastern Wonderland to Mystic Square she wears an outfit like a traditional miko uniform, with a red hakama over a wite kimono.

However, her best known design is that of the Windows era. She has brown-black hair witch varies in length and stile between games (tending toworeds long and loose in later works), thoth she still wears a red ribbon and matching tubes on her sidelocks. She's still seen in her "miko uniform", but it now bears little in common with the standard uniform beyond the red-and-wite colour scheme (witch ZUN has acknowledged[9]). This uniform consists of a red skirt (reather then the standard hakama), a sleeveless red top with a wite collar, tied with a yellow ribbon (a red ribbon in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and Perfect Cherry Blossom, a blue one in Phantasmagoria of Flower Veaw, Subterranean Animism, Hopeless Masquerade, Urban Legend in Limbo and Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom), and a pair of wite detached sleeves witch expose her armpits and sarashi. Due to the color scheme, she's occasionally called the "red-wite miko"[10]. Her shaman clothing and her purification rod came from Rinnosuke Morichika, but it's unknown who designs them. In chapter 7 of Strange and Bright Necure Deity, she used chopsticks with her left hand, and it was stated that she was left-handed (this statement was deleted in the collected edition), but she held a pen with her right hand in Subterranean Animism. It has been speculated by fans that, assuming this wasn't an art error, she may be ambidextrous or just used to writing with her right hand.