Name: (This is your nickname, or whatever you wish to be called) Yui Livejournal Username: yui_hime E-mail: crazysheikah@hotmail.com AIM/MSN: isaacmustdie Current Characters at Luceti: N/A, I'm new here. I reserved and tried to apply for Karst in November on LiveJournal, but that didn't really work out.
Character
Name: Yamame Kurodani Fandom: Touhou Project Gender: Female Age: Unknown, but probably measured in centuries Time Period: Post Touhou 12.5: Double Spoiler Wing Color: Dark brown, with yellow markings. History:
Yamame Kurodani is a tsuchi-gumo, a spider youkai with powers of deception and plague. Because of her horrible powers, she and many other especially feared youkai were banished and sealed away in the underworld that was Hell at the time, where they settled to create the Ancient City of the hated youkai and lived in relative peace for many centuries (as peaceful as it can get when the city is full of fight-happy oni, anyway). For the next several centuries, Yamame lived in the Ancient City with the other hated youkai, and learned about parties and fighting and liquor and the ways of civilized creatures from them. When it got cold in the Ancient City and it was hard to find parties to warm herself at, Yamame migrated to the areas of the Underworld closer to the surface lands of Gensokyo so she could stay warm, and became familiar with the youkai stationed there to prevent escape or intrusion.
It was while she was in this area, not very long ago, that Yamame encountered two strange human girls, who were entering the Underworld in search of the source of a mysterious geyser. These girls attempted to bully Yamame, but she only fought with them a little bit before giving them directions to the Ancient City, where the oni Yuugi gave them more help.
And that was that, at least for the while.
Even more recently, two more intruders from Gensokyo's surface arrived, a couple of tengu who had been inspired by the tales of the human girls and were now competing to write stories about the forgotten youkai of Ancient Hell, among others. To these, Yamame gave a trickier fight along with their pictures and interviews, to remind them of why the hated youkai had been sealed away.
For the most part, however, Yamame has been content with her place in the Underworld, and not pestered the youkai or humans of Gensokyo's surface any unless they came to her for a battle.
Personality:
Unlike many youkai in Gensokyo, and vastly different from the common perception of spiders, Yamame Kurodani is a friendly, cheerful, sociable youkai and quite fond of humans. She doesn't seem to mind that she was exiled to the underworld for her terrible powers of disease. She never uses her powers to inflict disease without cause, and if forced to do so will favor diseases that bother someone only for a few days and have no lingering effects, rather than life-threatening diseases. She often takes a form as nearly human as possible to avoid frightening others, though her fashion tastes in her human-like form tend to resemble the appearance of her spider shape.
Yamame likes spellcard battles for many reasons. One is that fighting is fun for youkai, and she's very fond of having fun. Another is that it provides her an easy way to show others, especially humans, that even though she's a spider youkai, she doesn't mean them any harm, since the spellcard battle rules prevent lasting harm to either party. Thirdly, each spellcard is typically designed by its user and can reflect their interests and powers, so spellcard battles can be a good opportunity to learn about one another.
Yamame enjoys parties as an opportunity to and meet new people, and spellcard battles as a way of getting to know them. If she is aware of a party or a festival, she is likely to invite herself and anyone or everyone she meets, and possibly doesn't realize that this mightn't be polite, or if she does know she doesn't really care. This probably reflects her social life in the Ancient City of former Hell, which is largely inhabited by party-loving, rude, roughhousing oni.
Attending parties is also a good way to stay out of the cold. As a spider, Yamame is terribly susceptible to cold and will do anything she can to avoid being out in cold weather, including traveling to warmer areas as quickly as possible, finding a party to crash, or inviting herself into someone's home (or just hiding in their walls, in true spider fashion) and using her powers to make them sick enough to keep the house warm. Being a youkai, she doesn't realize this is a mean thing to do, or just doesn't care.
Yamame Kurodani | Touhou Project | Unreserved | Part 1
Name: (This is your nickname, or whatever you wish to be called) Yui
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Character
Name: Yamame Kurodani
Fandom: Touhou Project
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown, but probably measured in centuries
Time Period: Post Touhou 12.5: Double Spoiler
Wing Color: Dark brown, with yellow markings.
History:
Yamame Kurodani is a tsuchi-gumo, a spider youkai with powers of deception and plague. Because of her horrible powers, she and many other especially feared youkai were banished and sealed away in the underworld that was Hell at the time, where they settled to create the Ancient City of the hated youkai and lived in relative peace for many centuries (as peaceful as it can get when the city is full of fight-happy oni, anyway). For the next several centuries, Yamame lived in the Ancient City with the other hated youkai, and learned about parties and fighting and liquor and the ways of civilized creatures from them. When it got cold in the Ancient City and it was hard to find parties to warm herself at, Yamame migrated to the areas of the Underworld closer to the surface lands of Gensokyo so she could stay warm, and became familiar with the youkai stationed there to prevent escape or intrusion.
It was while she was in this area, not very long ago, that Yamame encountered two strange human girls, who were entering the Underworld in search of the source of a mysterious geyser. These girls attempted to bully Yamame, but she only fought with them a little bit before giving them directions to the Ancient City, where the oni Yuugi gave them more help.
And that was that, at least for the while.
Even more recently, two more intruders from Gensokyo's surface arrived, a couple of tengu who had been inspired by the tales of the human girls and were now competing to write stories about the forgotten youkai of Ancient Hell, among others. To these, Yamame gave a trickier fight along with their pictures and interviews, to remind them of why the hated youkai had been sealed away.
For the most part, however, Yamame has been content with her place in the Underworld, and not pestered the youkai or humans of Gensokyo's surface any unless they came to her for a battle.
Personality:
Unlike many youkai in Gensokyo, and vastly different from the common perception of spiders, Yamame Kurodani is a friendly, cheerful, sociable youkai and quite fond of humans. She doesn't seem to mind that she was exiled to the underworld for her terrible powers of disease. She never uses her powers to inflict disease without cause, and if forced to do so will favor diseases that bother someone only for a few days and have no lingering effects, rather than life-threatening diseases. She often takes a form as nearly human as possible to avoid frightening others, though her fashion tastes in her human-like form tend to resemble the appearance of her spider shape.
Yamame likes spellcard battles for many reasons. One is that fighting is fun for youkai, and she's very fond of having fun. Another is that it provides her an easy way to show others, especially humans, that even though she's a spider youkai, she doesn't mean them any harm, since the spellcard battle rules prevent lasting harm to either party. Thirdly, each spellcard is typically designed by its user and can reflect their interests and powers, so spellcard battles can be a good opportunity to learn about one another.
Yamame enjoys parties as an opportunity to and meet new people, and spellcard battles as a way of getting to know them. If she is aware of a party or a festival, she is likely to invite herself and anyone or everyone she meets, and possibly doesn't realize that this mightn't be polite, or if she does know she doesn't really care. This probably reflects her social life in the Ancient City of former Hell, which is largely inhabited by party-loving, rude, roughhousing oni.
Attending parties is also a good way to stay out of the cold. As a spider, Yamame is terribly susceptible to cold and will do anything she can to avoid being out in cold weather, including traveling to warmer areas as quickly as possible, finding a party to crash, or inviting herself into someone's home (or just hiding in their walls, in true spider fashion) and using her powers to make them sick enough to keep the house warm. Being a youkai, she doesn't realize this is a mean thing to do, or just doesn't care.