Flandre Scarlet

Flandre Scarlet (フランドール・スカーレット Furandōru Sukāretto) is a vampire and the younger sister of Remilia Scarlet. She resides alongside her sister at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Flandre first appeared as the Extra Stage boss in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. She later became a playable character—and a potential opponent—in Sunken Fossil World.

Flandre Scarlet
Main RenderPrinted WorksGames Perfect Memento in Strict SenseFoul Detective Satori First Generation WindowsThird Generation Windows Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Sunken Fossil World RegularBattle
Origin
Origin	Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Creator	ZUN
First Appearance	Touhou 06: Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil
Voiced by	Fan-made Series: Rina Hidaka, Oma Ichimura, Misaki Watada, Nozomi Kasuga, Minori Ozawa, Emiri Iwai, Akari Kito, Maaya Uchida, Sachika Misawa, Rei Matsuzaki, Hitomi Ōwada, Takako Tanaka, Ikumi Hasegawa, Haruka Terui, Larissa Takeda Tago, Honoka Inoue, Natsumi Murakami, Iori Saeki, Hiyori Kono, Erina Goto, Mai Kadowaki, Yukari Kokubun, Noriko Shitaya, Eri Tomizawa, Chiko Mizumori, Haruno Yuzuki, Mao Shouji, Natsumi Oshita, Reina Kawamura, Saki Kobari, Yui Ogura, Hisako Kanemoto, Momo Asakura
Characteristics
Species	Vampire
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her
Sexuality	Unknown
Age	495
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Short
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Western European
Status	Alive
Alignment	Chaotic Neutral
Archetype	Wildcard, Secret Boss
Occupation	N/A
Time Period	Non-linear
Language	Japanese
Combat Style	Magical Fighting
Homeworld	Gensokyo
Relationships
Affiliations	Remilia Scarlet, Sakuya Izayoi, Patchouli, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame
Enemies	Reimu Hakurei (Formerly), Marisa Kirisame (Formerly)

Background

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Flandre Scarlet’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Flandre has existed for at least 495 years, yet according to available information, she has never left the grounds surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She rarely steps outside the building itself, if she ever does at all. Because she never tried venturing outdoors, she appears to have grown up knowing nothing about the world beyond the mansion. Still, following the incidents of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she began showing some curiosity about going outside. Her first attempt to leave was stopped by Patchouli Knowledge, who used rain-summoning magic during the Extra Stage to keep her inside. However, she has since been seen outside the mansion—on at least one occasion while destroying a falling meteor. First Generation WindowsThird Generation WindowsPrinted Works Embodiment of Scarlet Devil English TranslationJapanese “ Eastern Scarlet Devil Land ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - 0 - Every day in Gensokyo was more noisy than expected. Any mysterious visitor would be confused with a ghost of summertime. All of that equates to just a normal summer. The outskirts were enveloped in scarlet illusion. - 1 - In the eastern mountains, far from any human habitation, is where the isolated Hakurei Shrine lies. This mountain was never occupied by humans, and even now no one ever goes there. Thus the place was called Gensokyo. And even now, as usual, non-human creatures and just a few humans lived freely with pride. People blindly accepted the advance of culture, and aggressively tried to eliminate any of the darker parts of their lifestyles. In truth, that was a comfortable environment for the creatures living in the dusk. They did not have to get involved with humans. And one summer day, without a sound, a turbulent, mysterious mist began to envelop Gensokyo. It was almost as if Gensokyo itself was loathing the light of day. - 2 - The shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, Reimu Hakurei was living a mostly peaceful life. At this shrine, seldom visited by those come to pray, she was sometimes bored, sometimes not bored, and generally living in a carefree manner. On that day, Reimu was just a little less bored than usual. Reimu: "Geez, what is all this? If we're not getting any light, then the weather is not going to clear up at all." At the rate it was moving, the mist would reach past the shrine and descend to where humans lived. Gensokyo interfering with its peoples' lives would most likely cause Gensokyo to be eliminated by the hands of humans, too. Reimu: "Well, finding the cause of all this is a shrine maiden's job (isn't it?). For some reason, that lake back there is pretty suspicious, so let's go there!" With her body surrounded by the mysterious mist, The sharp-witted girl, relying on her senses, set off in the direction of the lake. - 3 - As one of the few residents of the forest, the normal girl Marisa Kirisame normally flew through the sky. When she realized that she couldn't see any of the lake all of a sudden due to the mist, the normal-witted girl thought that there might be something happening on the island floating in the lake. Marisa: "Well, humans usually create communities close to water, after all." Monsters wouldn't be able to live without water, either. That was her very human-like way of thinking. Marisa: "It looks like she'll be doing something pretty soon, so why don't I go take a look?" The girl set off as if there might just be something valuable to find. Or, rather, she actually went looking for it. - 4 - The lake was entirely covered by the mysterious mist. This mysterious energy was so strong that a normal human would only survive for about 30 minutes, but less ordinary humans too would have about thirty minutes. The center of the mist barely receives any light during the day, and filters out moonlight as well. From within the mist, a full moon looks hazy and several times larger. If we suppose the mist is the work of a human, one could say that the human must have eaten belladonna flower. In the very center of it all is an island, rejected by mankind simply because they could not live there. On that island is a mansion; one of few windows. Inside the mansion that knows neither day nor night, "she" was there. „ ~ Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Prologue English Translation “ 東方紅魔郷　～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. - 0 - 幻想郷は、予想以上に騒がしい日々をおくっていた。 　謎の来訪者に、夏の亡霊も戸惑ってるかの様に見えた。 そんな全てが普通な夏。 　辺境は紅色の幻想に包まれた。 - 1 - ここは東の国の人里離れた山の中。 　博麗（はくれい）神社は、そんな辺境にあった。 　この山は、元々は人間は棲んでいない、今も多くは決して足を踏み入 　れない場所で、人々には幻想郷と呼ばれていた。 　幻想郷は、今も相変わらず人間以外の生き物と、ほんの少しの人間が 　自由に闊歩していたのだった。 人々は文明開化に盲信した、人間は生活から闇の部分を積極的に排除 　しようとしていた。 　実はそれは、宵闇に棲む生き物にとっても、人間との干渉もなくお互 　いに気楽な環境だったのだった。 そして、ある夏の日、音も無く、不穏な妖霧が幻想郷を包み始めたの 　である。 　それは、まるで幻想郷が日の光を嫌っているように見えたのだった。 - 2 - 　博麗神社の巫女、博麗霊夢（はくれいれいむ）はおおよそ平穏な日々 　を送っていた。 　滅多に参拝客が訪れないこの神社は、退屈だったり退屈じゃなかった 　りして、楽しく暮らしているようである。 　そんな夏の日、霊夢は少しばかり退屈以外していた。 　　霊夢「もー、なんなのかしら、 　　　　　日が当たらないと天気が晴れないじゃない」 　このままでは、霧は神社を越え、人里に下りていってしまう。 　幻想郷が人々の生活に干渉してしまうことは、幻想郷も人の手によっ 　て排除されてしまうだろう。 　　霊夢「こうなったら、原因を突き止めるのが巫女の仕事（なのか？） 　　　　　なんとなく、あっちの裏の湖が怪しいから、出かけてみよう！」 あたりは一面の妖霧。 　勘の鋭い少女は、直感を頼りに湖の方向へ出発した。 - 3 - 数少ない森の住人である普通の少女、霧雨 魔理沙（きりさめまりさ）は、 　普通に空を飛んでいた。 　いつのまにか、霧で湖の全体が見渡せなくなっていたことに気づくと、 　勘の普通な少女は、湖に浮かぶ島に何かがあるのでは？と思ったのだった。 　　魔理沙「普通、人間だって水のあるところに集落を造るしな」 　化け物も水がないと生きてけないのだろうと、実に人間らしい考え方である。 　　魔理沙「そろそろ、あいつが動き出しそうだから、ちょっと見に行くか」 　少女は、何かめぼしい物が無いか探しに行くかのように出発した。 　むしろ探しに行ったのだった。 - 4 - 　湖は、一面妖霧に包まれていた。 　普通の人間は３０分はもつ程度の妖気だったが、普通じゃない人もやはり 　３０分程度はもつようだった。 　妖霧の中心地は、昼は常にぼんやり明るく、夜は月明かりでぼんやり明る 　かった。 　霧の中から見る満月はぼやけて数倍ににも膨れて見えるのだった。 　もしこの霧が人間の仕業だとすると、ベラドンナの花でもかじった人間で 　あることは容易に想像できる。 　中心地には島があり、そこには人気を嫌った、とてもじゃないけど人間の 　住めないようなところに、窓の少ない洋館が存在した。 　昼も夜も無い館に、「彼女」は、いた。 „ ~ Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Prologue Japanese Following the main storyline of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Flandre leaves the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement while Remilia happens to be away at the Hakurei Shrine. Left with no other option, Patchouli conjures a rainstorm around the mansion to keep Flandre contained within the grounds. Not long after, the player character arrives to confront her. When Reimu encounters Flandre, she demands to know why Remilia has been causing trouble for her at the shrine. The two settle the matter with a danmaku battle, which Reimu ultimately wins. Afterward, Flandre seems to become more composed. Marisa, on the other hand, tries introducing herself as Reimu, but Flandre immediately sees through the deception—she seems to already know who the magician really is. Following Marisa's victory, the two exchange quotes adapted from a specific book, reshaping the lines to fit their own circumstances. Shoot the Bullet English TranslationJapanese “ 1. Special Story ——Bunkachou. The mysterious notebook where the tengu wrote material for stories. Marisa "Oh, I found this creepy notebook a while ago, I don't know whose it is, though." Reimu "Oh, did you burn it?" Marisa "Why do I have to burn it? Anyway, it's got photos pasted everywhere in it, and there's explanations scribbled all over, like someone talking to themselves. Creepy, huh?" Reimu "That is creepy. So, did you burn it?" Marisa "Yeah, I burned it. In my mind. The photos of just youkai or danmaku have things like "This picture is no good" or "This picture will be useful" written on them. Isn't that creepy?" A crow calls. Soon the sun will set. It's a good thing it's not a cuckoo calling. Reimu "So, where is this notebook?" Marisa "It was creepy, so I was all excited about taking it home, but all of a sudden it was gone. Dammit, I wonder if a crow stole it." Reimu "That's the creepiest part of your story. Maybe I'd better burn you instead of that notebook." The tengu races across Gensokyo at the highest speed together with the crows. As the newspaper extras fly about, Gensokyo's newspaper girl Aya Shameimaru looked for youkai to serve as story material. „ ~ Shoot the Bullet Prologue English Translation “ ■１．おまけのストーリー 　――文花帖。 　　　　それは天狗が記事のネタを書き留めた不思議な手帖。 　魔理沙「そう言えば、この間気味の悪い手帖を拾ったんだ、誰のもんだか 　　　　　判らんが」 　霊夢　「そう、燃やしたの？」 　魔理沙「何でいきなり燃やす必要があるんだよ。で、その手帖には写真が 　　　　　びっしり貼ってあって、それぞれに独り言みたいな解説が書かれ 　　　　　ていたんだよ。気味悪いだろう？」 　霊夢　「気味悪いわね。それで燃やしたの？」 　魔理沙「ああ燃やしたさ。心の中で。 　　　　　妖怪と弾幕ばっか撮影した変な写真ばかりで『この写真は使えな 　　　　　い』とか『この写真はネタになる』とか書かれていたんだよ。 　　　　　な、気味が悪いだろう？」 　　鴉が鳴いている。もうそろそろ日が落ちようとしていた。 　　鳴いているのは閑古鳥で無くて良かった。 　霊夢　「それで、その手帖はどこにあるの？」 　魔理沙「気味が悪いから持ち帰ろうと思ってウキウキ気分で歩いていたら、 　　　　　何故か既に手に持ってなかったんだ。 　　　　　くそ、鴉に持って行かれたかもしれん」 　霊夢　「そっちの方が気味が悪い話ねぇ。 　　　　　燃やすのは手帖じゃなくて、あんたね」 　　鴉と共に天狗は最速で幻想郷を駆け抜ける。 　　号外が飛び交う中、幻想郷のブン屋　射命丸文（しゃめいまるあや）の 　ネタ集めの為に妖怪を探していた。 „ ~ Shoot the Bullet Prologue Japanese In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru comes across Flandre during the Extra Stage and photographs her danmaku patterns. Sunken Fossil World After Reimu, Marisa, Kanako Yasaka, Minamitsu Murasa, Joon Yorigami, and Shion Yorigami all fail to defeat Yuuma Toutetsu—whose ability lets her absorb any attack thrown at her—Okina Matara approaches Flandre. Seeing that Flandre's power to destroy anything might be the key to stopping Toutetsu, Okina explains the situation. Excited by the chance to leave the Scarlet Devil Mansion and unleash her abilities on an enemy no one else could handle, Flandre agrees to help. However, because she is a vampire, water poses a serious weakness for her. To prepare, Okina arranges several sparring matches against different opponents so Flandre can grow accustomed to fighting near water, using backdoors to teleport her directly to each fight. After these warm-up battles, Okina takes Flandre to the Sea of Petroleum in Former Hell to face Toutetsu. Before they can find her target, Flandre runs into Reimu, who feels ashamed of her own failure and wonders aloud whether simply leaving Toutetsu alone might be acceptable. Disgusted by Reimu's lack of resolve, Flandre attacks her in hopes of reigniting the shrine maiden's fighting spirit. Flandre wins the match but finds herself pleased with the ferocity Reimu showed during the fight, then leaves satisfied. When Flandre finally meets Toutetsu, the opponent tries to convince her that she poses no real threat. Flandre responds by clarifying that she is no hero of justice—she simply wants to unleash her full power and overcome an enemy that nobody else could beat. She defeats Toutetsu once, but Okina appears and warns her that fighting that way will not be enough to truly destroy Toutetsu. Okina then reveals that the Sea of Petroleum is actually a transformed version of the Abandoned Hell of Blood Pools and uses its power to strengthen Toutetsu further. Flandre defeats her opponent a second time, forcing Toutetsu to inhale massive amounts of blood to recover. Flandre then absorbs blood herself, shaping it into apple-like bullets that can destroy anything, and throws them down Toutetsu's throat, finally defeating her. In the aftermath, Toutetsu strikes a deal with Okina and the surface dwellers, agreeing to share the petroleum instead of hoarding it all for herself. Flandre worries that letting Toutetsu survive means she failed her mission, but Okina reassures her otherwise. According to Okina, the version of Toutetsu that had absorbed the greed of the Abandoned Hell of Blood Pools was destroyed. The remaining Toutetsu has only taken in the greed of the surface dwellers, making her far less dangerous. Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red In April 2006, Aya Shameimaru writes about a strange meteorite explosion that occurred above Gensokyo. She discovers that Flandre was responsible for destroying the falling object, though her confusion only grows when Flandre explains the method: she squeezed the meteorite's eye in her hand until it broke apart. Even more puzzling details come from Flandre's older sister, Remilia Scarlet. According to Remilia, the entire event had been planned in advance—the meteorite was meant to target the Scarlet Devil Mansion specifically, with Flandre intended to destroy it. Without any clear explanation, Aya ends her article by simply noting that spring has arrived. In a follow-up piece, Aya speaks directly with Flandre about the explosion and Remilia's strange claims. Flandre repeats the same description of how she destroyed the meteorite. When pressed about her sister's involvement, she suggests that Remilia simply acts as though she knows everything without truly understanding the situation. Remilia then interrupts the interview—something Aya admits she is grateful for—and confirms that Flandre's account is accurate. She implies that Aya lacks the capacity to truly comprehend what happened, while offering cryptic information about where the meteorite originally came from. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense Flandre has an encyclopedic article written apart of the Gensokyo Chronicle by Hieda no Akyuu. The Grimoire of Marisa Marisa documents Flandre's spell cards and their patterns, considering imitating them. The Grimoire of Usami When the Hakurei Fireworks Festival ends, Flandre is seen with Remilia performing a spell card together for fun. Foul Detective Satori The other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion locked Sakuya Izayoi in the basement alongside Flandre. Not long afterward, Flandre freed her by smashing the lock on the basement door. This action revealed that Flandre stays underground simply because she finds it comfortable there, not because anyone could actually keep her locked in—even if they tried. Later, Flandre sensed what she described as "powerful malice" coming from inside Hong Meiling and moved to "exterminate" her. The other mansion residents quickly stepped in and explained that the cause was actually Mizuchi Miyadeguchi having possessed Meiling recently. Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine After an incident, Reimu writes a fortune slip for Flandre.

Name Meaning

As Flandre is Remilia Scarlet's sister, her full name is Flandre Scarlet (フランドール・スカーレット). The first name comes from a modern French term referring to Flanders, the region that covers the northern area of Belgium. Interestingly, the katakana rendering of her name sounds closer to "Flandoor" or "Flandoll" than to "Flander" or "Flandre." The more direct katakana for "Flandre" would have been フランドル, which was not used. Generally speaking, there is no single correct or incorrect way to pronounce these names when speaking languages other than Japanese.

The surname "Scarlet" describes a bright red hue with a faint trace of orange and also functions as a variant of the surname "Scarlett." The middle dot placed between her first and last name follows the standard convention for writing foreign names in Japanese, marking where one part ends and the next begins. In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Patchouli Knowledge refers to her as Imouto-sama (妹様), which roughly translates to "your honorable little sister" in reference to her being Remilia's younger sibling.

Scarlet is also likely a reference to her being a vampire.

Appearance

General Description: Flandre is a figure with short blond hair and red eyes. Her hair is tied into a single ponytail on her left side. She has eight crystalline wings arranged on her back, which are an irregular shape unlike any living creature, youkai, ghost, or vampire's typical bat-like wings.

Facial Features: She has short blond hair tied into a ponytail on her left side. Her eyes are red. She wears a pink mob cap with a red ribbon attached.

Clothing/Outfit:

• Primary Outfit (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil): A red dress and vest, with a pink shirt underneath. Pink socks are worn.

Items:

• A matching wand, possibly the mythical Lævateinn.

Physical Traits: Eight crystals extend from her back to the tips of her wings. The wing colors in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil are presented in seven colors: light blue, blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow, light green, and light blue again.

In Sunken Fossil World, the arrangement shifts to: blue, purple, pink, light pink, yellow, green, light blue, and blue again, with more variation in hue within the crystals.

According to Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine, Flandre's wings originally were bat-like like her sister Remilia's, but due to being countlessly destroyed and regenerated, they ended up in their current crystalline form, which was easier to regenerate.

In an interview, Reimu states, "I doubt she can fly with those wings." Hieda no Akyuu notes that there are plenty of beings in Gensokyo who can fly without wings.

Alternate Forms/Disguises: This character does not have other widely recognized alternate forms.

Personality

• Strange and Eccentric: Flandre is described as being quite strange and eccentric, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.

• Docile but Unpredictable: Flandre is normally docile and generally pleasant to be around, but becomes a loose cannon if left unwatched.

• Poor Social Skills: Flandre is not very good at talking to other people. Her friendship toward humans is very low. She can get sassy and uppity when talking with her sister.

• Impolitely Informal: In Foul Detective Satori, Flandre spoke in a very casual tone and did as she wished without considering consequences, though she stopped short of seriously injuring anyone.

• Fun-Seeking: In Sunken Fossil World, Flandre appeared to only care about "destroying the indestructible" against Yuuma Toutetsu. She displayed willingness to work with Okina Matara as long as it let her have some fun.

• Potentially Joking About Human Consumption: Flandre claimed she had not seen any humans other than when they were prepared for a meal before meeting Marisa or Reimu. It is left vague whether this was a dark joke.

• Willing to Leave the Mansion: Flandre left the mansion grounds for an extended period to fight Yuuma Toutetsu, marking her first major departure since her introduction.

Goals

• Destroying things (Ongoing).

Relationships

Touhou Project/Remilia Scarlet

Flandre is Remilia's younger sister. She is stated to respect and idolize her sister, and Remilia cares for Flandre, as shown when she considers getting her a good tutor in Imperishable Night, though it is unknown how often the two actually interact.

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states that it is rare, but not nonexistent, to see the sisters together. Despite this, they have been depicted together on many occasions, including:

• Forbidden Scrollery Chapter 7, where they are looking at their pet Tupai
• Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, which also shows that Remilia at least allows Aya Shameimaru to interview Flandre
• The Grimoire of Usami, where after the Hakurei Festival they played together shooting a spell card.
• Violet Detector
• Foul Detective Satori

The interview in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red reveals that while Flandre may respect her older sister, it is to the extent one would expect from a snarky child. She is willing to outright state when she believes Remilia is spouting nonsense, at which point Remilia interjects with a comment that Flandre should not talk about her older sister that way.

Sakuya Izayoi

As part of her duties serving Remilia, Sakuya also tends to her younger sister Flandre, who remains in the mansion due to her lack of control over her strength. Although never directly stated, Sakuya is implied to be the one who prepares Flandre's meals—humans shaped into pastries and other pleasant things.

Hong Meiling

Flandre is Remilia's younger sister and thus Meiling also serves Flandre. The full nature of Meiling and Flandre's relationship, remains unknown.

Reimu Hakurei

Though the shrine maiden promises to come play with Flandre every so often during their dialogue in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the two have been seen together only a few times since then.

In Sunken Fossil World, Flandre is at first annoyed at the idea that Reimu has gotten weaker but then after fighting her realizes she's still the same destroyer she fought back in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Marisa Kirisame

Flandre's conversation with Marisa in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil leaves the impression that the two are quite friendly. However, Marisa later commented: "Sometimes when I sneak into the Scarlet Devil Mansion, I run into the little sister. I had to slip by without drawin' her attention, but after goin' through all that to get into the place, I was hopin' I wouldn't run into her."

Which implies she normally tries to avoid her, though this is likely due to not wanting to be caught more then anything.

Okina Matara

During the events of Sunken Fossil World, Okina convinced Flandre to become an assassin tasked with taking out Yuuma Toutetsu and thwarting her plans.

General Information

Name: Flandre Scarlet

Other Names: Frandle Scarlet

Titles

• The Devil's Sister
• Sister of the Devil
• Sister of the Devil

Origin: Touhou Koumakyou (Scarlet Devil Land) ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Overall Series: Touhou Project

First Appearance: Touhou 06: Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil

Latest Appearance: Foul Detective Satori

Company: Team Shanghai Alice

Creator: ZUN

Actor: The following voice acted roles are all from fan-made series not apart of any canonical Touhou works.

• Japanese Voice Actors: Rina Hidaka (Hifuu Club Activity Record ~ The Sealed Esoteric History), Oma Ichimura (Touhou Azure Reflections), Misaki Watada (Touhou Spell Bubble), Nozomi Kasuga (Touhou LostWord (Flandre Scarlet)), Minori Ozawa (Touhou LostWord (Flandre Scarlet)), Emiri Iwai (Touhou LostWord (Flandre Scarlet)), Akari Kito (Touhou LostWord (Vampire Pursuing The Hunter)), Maaya Uchida (Touhou LostWord (Vampire Pursuing The Hunter)), Sachika Misawa (Touhou LostWord (Vampire Pursuing The Hunter)), Rei Matsuzaki (Touhou LostWord (Scarlet)), Hitomi Ōwada (Touhou LostWord (Scarlet)), Takako Tanaka (Touhou LostWord (Scarlet)), Ikumi Hasegawa (Touhou LostWord (Vampire's Sister Prepared for Splashes)), Haruka Terui (Touhou LostWord (Vampire's Sister Prepared for Splashes)), Larissa Takeda Tago (Touhou LostWord (Vampire's Sister Prepared for Splashes)), Honoka Inoue (Touhou LostWord (I'm Alright!)), Natsumi Murakami (Touhou LostWord (I'm Alright!)), Iori Saeki (Touhou LostWord (I'm Alright!)), Hiyori Kono (Touhou LostWord (Pseudo-Servant: Nishita)), Erina Goto (Touhou LostWord (Pseudo-Servant: Nishita)), Mai Kadowaki (Touhou LostWord (Pseudo-Servant: Nishita)), Yukari Kokubun (Touhou LostWord (Vibrant Sister of the Devil)), Noriko Shitaya (Touhou LostWord (Vibrant Sister of the Devil)), Eri Tomizawa (Touhou LostWord (Vibrant Sister of the Devil)), Chiko Mizumori (Touhou LostWord (Beast EX), Touhou LostWord (Vampire Pursuing the Hunter's Vacation)), Haruno Yuzuki (Touhou LostWord (Beast EX), Touhou LostWord (Vampire Pursuing the Hunter's Vacation)), Mao Shouji (Touhou LostWord (Beast EX), Touhou LostWord (Vampire Pursuing the Hunter's Vacation)), Natsumi Oshita (Touhou LostWord (Imprisoned Dark Peacock Dragon)), Reina Kawamura (Touhou LostWord (Imprisoned Dark Peacock Dragon)), Saki Kobari (Touhou LostWord (Imprisoned Dark Peacock Dragon)), Yui Ogura (Touhou Gensou Eclipse), Hisako Kanemoto (Koumajou Remilia II: Stranger's Requiem), Momo Asakura (Touhou Spell Carnival)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: She/Her

Handedness: Right-Handed

Age: About 495 (She is listed as 495 years old in the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil おまけ.txt, and has noted to Reimu and Marisa she has lived for 495 years)

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: The world of Gensokyo itself is in a non-linear time period

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Gensokyo

Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion

Story Role

• Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: Extra Stage Boss
• Sunken Fossil World: Playable Protagonist

Legacy: Global Legacy (The Scarlet Devil Mansion is well known across Gensokyo)

Influence: Event Influence (Has aided in solving incidents within the events of Sunken Fossil World)

Language: Japanese

Ethnicity: Western European (Uses European esque naming)

Religion: N/A (Youkais lack faith, not caring about religious related values)

Classification: Sister of the Mistress of Scarlet Devil Mansion

Species: Vampire

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Vampire Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: N/A

Combat Style: Magical Fighting

Affiliations: Remilia Scarlet, Sakuya Izayoi, Patchouli Knowledge, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame

Enemies: Reimu Hakurei (Formerly), Marisa Kirisame (Formerly)

Height: Short (It's noted by ZUN that he does not have an official height listed for characters, though generally speaking they are about as tall as height of a human in her late teens or older)

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive

Alignment

• Innate Youkai Nature: Neutral Evil (Youkai carry about one thing in common, that they attack and prey upon humans, they only think of themselves, and they are the most dangerous enemies to humans)
• Vampires Nature: True Neutral (Vampires are forbidden to directly assault humans, so they instead cause many disasters that affect the whole of Gensokyo, creating abnormalities in everything including natural phenomena with no warning, for selfish reasons, which always lead to endangering human life no matter what is affected. Though most of these reasons are out of mere curiosity and they will cease once they tire of it)
• Unique Nature: Chaotic Neutral (Flandre is only concerned with playing and breaking things)

Threat Level: Street Threat (Flandre likes to destroy and play with whoever she sees, everything that is made for Flandre to play with ends up broken)

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Fixed Potential
• Level of Potential: Fixed
• Description: Hasn't had any real statements to showcase anything beyond the standard potential.
• Limitations: Standard limitations.

Archetype: Wildcard / Secret Boss

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: At least 8-C, Far Higher with Spiritual Power

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Magic

Attack Potency: At least Building level (Potency) (Noted that Flandre's destructive power far exceeds that of Remilia's. Vampires are among the strongest of the youkai, strong enough to take part in the power-balance of Gensokyo, making them comparable if not superior to Oni who are able to cause nearby buildings collapse with just a step), Far Higher with Spiritual Power (Noted how even Yumemi Okazaki's scientific magic truly pales in comparison with the real thing, which Yumemi noted to not make light of the power of her science as she could blow up the planet at any moment). Can ignore covnentional durability with Magic (Magic exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory, a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic. Yumemi also explains that in the world of Gensokyo, magic unifies everything. Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion. The second layer of reality is spirit and magic, while the first layer is where all things within the laws of physics presides, putting attacks with magic outside of the conventional laws of physics)

Durability: At least Building level, Far Higher with Spiritual Power. Her existence as a Vampire makes her difficult to kill (Reimu realized that only the Yin-Yang Orb was effective against non-human creatures, with it being noted that Reimu using her ofuda, her spirit power, and her martial arts all prove to be useless against her enemies, meaning Youkai cannot really be harmed by regular or standard weaponry. It's noted that one cannot defeat spirits or devilish powers without a weapon with an unnatural amount of spiritual power such as the Yin-Yang Orb. Physical attacks such as a whacking a sake bottle over the head are considered violent methods that wouldn't work on youkai, with it only being spiritual attacks that cause fatal wounds to youkai. When attempting to exterminate a youkai, one does not use weapons that cause physical damage, instead weapons with an "origin" are more preferable. In the world beyond (Gensokyo), physical form has no meaning for all non-human entities)

Striking Strength: At least Building Class (Potency) (Vampires are strong enough to crush boulders)

Lifting Strength: At least Class 5 (Vampires have tremendous physical abilities, being able to uproot a thousand-year-old tree single-handedly)

Travel Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic+ (Vampires like Remilia are able to fly around the moon. Vampires are able to run through the human village within the blink of an eye, reaching these speeds. Vampires are noted to be faster than the eye can follow), likely Speed of Light (Vampires are the only species that are noted to possibly be able to keep up with Tengu, this should make them relative to Aya Shameimaru, where her spell card has her move so fast she starts becoming a beam of light)

Attack Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic+, likely Speed of Light. Magic Attacks lack a defined speed (Magic exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory, a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic. Yumemi also explains that in the world of Gensokyo, magic unifies everything. Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion)

Reaction Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic+, likely Speed of Light

Stamina: Superhuman (Fought repeatedly for a long while shooting out a multitude of danmaku attacks without tiring)

Range: Standard Melee. At least Tens of Kilometers with Attacks (Easily destroyed a meteor in the sky without moving a muscle), Cross-Dimensional with Battlefield Removal (Ordinary youkai, can send themself and their opponent to a different battlefield)

Intelligence: Average Intelligence

Knowledge: Novice level (Flandre has only ever seen humans in the form of a drink, never going out once in 495 years, thus she does not have much knowledge. Despite this, she is for some reason able to tell Marisa was lying about being a shrine maiden)

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Powers and Techniques

Standard Fighting Game AbilitiesYoukai AbilitiesUnique Abilities

Immaterial and Missing PowerScarlet Weather Rhapsody/Touhou HisoutensokuSunken Fossil World

• Air Dash (Can perform dashes while in the air)
• Acrobatics (Every fighter has three high jumps they can use in combat to get around their opponent while fighting)
• Second Wind (All characters after their health bar is drained can recover with a second health bar for a second round)
• Counter (All characters have counter hits, which cause wall slams and ground slams)
• Guard Break (All characters have two Guard Crush attacks that can break through guards if not blocked correctly, and cause the fighter to instantly lose all spirit)
• Aerial Recovery (Fighters can recover in the air while being combo'd in the air)
• Autopilot (All fighters can instantly bomb right after being time stopped by Sakuya to defend themselves)
• Invincibility Frames (Grazing allows the fighter to pass through all of the projectiles hitting them, taking no damage)
• Restoration (When a fighter loses spirit, they enter a state of Guard Crush where they need to wait for the spirit bar to refill)
• Transmutation (When fighters attack another fighter, they automatically turn all of their projectiles into points that refill their spirit bar)
• Invulnerability
  • Physical Invulnerability: When activating a spell card, the character becomes completely invincible as their lost health regenerates.
    • Regeneration
• Spirit Manipulation (Special Attacks and techniques utilize the spirit bar)
  • Statistics Boost (Spirit bars are also used to block attacks, meaning characters are enhancing themselves with spirit in order to defend themselves)
• Vibration Manipulation (All fighters can use bombs in order to cause a massive shockwave that pushes the opponents back)
  • Restoration (Bombs can instantly restore a fighter's spirit bar).

• Resistance to
  • Black Hole (Fighters can outrun the pull of a black hole)

• Acrobatics (Fighters are able to jump high into the air and do somersaults and backflips. Fights can also perform a super jump, to jump far higher into the air)
• Guard Break (Through Guard Crush, breaks the opponent's guard)
• Second Wind (Fighters can get back up and fight against for a second round even after their health has been depleted)
• Aerial Recovery (Fighters can recover from being launched through the air)
• Counter (Fighters can perform a Guard Reversal to parry an attack while guarding to send the opponent flying away)
• Invincibility Frames (Throgh grazing, allows fighters to dash through projectiles)
• Statistics Boost (With Spell Amplifier, grants 2 spell cards if uninterrupted)
• Healing (With Illness Recovery Charm, heals a small bit of health if uninterupted)
• Restoration (With Magic Potion, spirit recovers temporarily faster. With Grimoire, spirit recovery is permanently faster)
• Damage Reduction (With Sacrificial Doll, a doll that absorbs some damage taken)
• Ability Optimization (With Ibuki Gourd, grants two cards if uninterupted)
• Nullification
  • Power Nullification: With Spell Breaking Drug, an attack that removes an enemy card. Spell Cards can end weather immediately when used. Characters can cause a spell break, nullifying the glyphs and effects of an opponent's spell card.
• Statistics Boost (With Control Rod, deals more damage but also takes more damage)
• Super Armor (With Dragon Star, grants hyper-armour that breaks after 2 hits)
• Invulnerability
  • Metaphysical Invulnerability: With Three Heavenly Drops, grants invulnerability after the third card.
• Summoning (With Catfish's Great Earthquake, summons a giant catfish to crash into the ground)
• Ice Manipulation (With Frozen Frog, creates an icy floor that causes anyone to trip over it by dashing or jumping into it)
• Air Manipulation
  • Statistics Boost (With Tengu Fan, increases the user's speed)
• Energy Manipulation
  • Energy Projection (With Soul Torch, summons three slow projectiles)
• Time Manipulation
  • Time Stop (With Stopwatch, stops time for a short moment)
• Forcefield Manipulation (With Custom Parasol, protects against most projectiles with a forcefield in front of the character)
• Spirit Manipulation
  • Flight (Through the use of spirit, all characters are able to fly)
  • Regeneration (With Spirit Regenerator, restores spirit orbs if uninterrupted. With Health Regeneration, restores a chunk of health if uninterrupted)
• Vibration Manipulation (All fighters can use bombs in order to cause a massive shockwave that pushes the opponents back)
• Weather Manipulation (With Temperment Manifestation, changes the weather. With Sword of Scarlet Perception, changes the weather. During story mode, all fighters have a mysterious mist around them and said mist changes the surrounding weather suited to each person's temperment), which induces the following effects:
  • Sunny: Statistics Boost & Ability Optimization (Let's one fly longer and turn quicker, Border Escapes also cost nothing)
  • Drizzle: Statistics Boost (Spell Cards deal more damage)
  • Cloudy: Ability Optimization (Spell Cards now cost 1 card less)
  • Blue Sky: Ability Optimization (Special attacks can be cancelled into each other. 4Special-Special cancels cost half an orb)
  • Hail: Ability Optimization & Statistics Boost (Projectiles hurt more and spirit regenerates quicker)
  • Spring Haze: Attack Nullification (Melee attacks are disabled), Power Modification (In Hisoutensoku's Spring Haze, melee attacks can be used but now they can easily be grazed through) Ability Optimization (Spirit regenerates faster)
  • Heavy Fog: Damage Manipulation (Dealing damage gives health)
  • Snow: Spell gauge decreases with damage taken
  • Sunshower: Guard Break (Incorrectly blocked melee attacks instantly guard crushes. In Hisoutensoku's Sun Shower, no orbs are lost on guard breaks)
  • Sprinkle: Statistics Boost (All special moves are upgraded to level 4)
  • Tempest: Ability Optimization (Can fly 3 times in the air, all melee attacks can be jump cancelled), Statistics Boost (Dash speed and distance increased)
  • Moutain Vapor: Perception Manipulation (All spell cards are hidden), Power Modification (The current deck is randomized)
  • River Mist: Spatial Manipulation (Both fighters are kept a fixed distance from each other. In Hisoutensoku's River Mist, the characters slide back and forth), Space-Time Manipulation (Noted by ZUN that manipulating time also means manipulating space and vice versa)
  • Typhoon: Nullification (Removes hitsun and removes the ability to block)
  • Calm: Healing (A healing beacon on who hit last)
  • Diamond Dust Technique Nullification (Disables the use of ground teching, damage is taken on wakeup)
  • Dust Storm: Counter (Everything is a counter hit)
  • Scorching Sun: Statistics Boost (More damage in the air but the air hurts)
  • Monsoon: Wall and Ground bounce more
  • Aurora: Probability Manipulation (Any random weather effect can happen).

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Colds (Characters can fight while in a hail)
  • Environmental Hazards (Characters can fight in Typhoons)
  • Electricity Manipulation (Fighters can take electricity attacks and keep fighting)
  • Energy Manipulation, Essence Manipulation, Soul Manipulation & Absorption (Fighters are unaffected by the scarlet mist of Tenshi, which are causing the number of phantoms to decrease, where those who died are not turning into ghost and seem to have simply vanished, with it being found out that the all living things temperaments are rising up and being sucked into the sky, with the scarlet mist being non-perceptive qi, the essence of living things' temperamnets)

• Acrobatics (Characters are able to implement various high jumps and spinning jumps)
• Non-Standard Damage (Can interact with an break glyphs, allowing them to break an enemy's defenses)
• Invincibility Frames (Characters are able to dash through attacks without taking any damage)
• Erasure
  • Physical Erasure: Characters are able to successfully erase danmaku right before it's about to hit them.
• Water Manipulation (Characters are able to collect water to use as a method to activate their spell cards)
  • Transmutation (Characters can change their danmaku shots into water-based projectiles)

Standard YoukaiVampire Youkai

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength (Youkais can easily kill humans, with it being noted that if it came to open conflict between humans and youkai, they would probably wipe out the village in the blink of an eye. Youkai have stronger bodies than humans. Youkai are noted to be physically stronger than humans)
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Enhanced Senses (Unlike humans, youkai can see in the dark to the point that it's a way for them to spot a human)
• Extrasensory Perception (Youkai are able to see the human village that Keine made essentially invisible from history from humans)
• Longevity (Marisa notes that youkai live a really long time, beyond even human years. Youkais have longer lifespans than humans)
• Aura (Noted that Youkai possess an aura, along with an energy source called "Youkai Energy")
• Invisibility (Youkai are noted to be life-forms that are invisible to humans, appearing to them via fluctuations. Noted that all objects within Gensokyo were all hidden in the invisible gaps of the quantum world)
• Non-Standard Damage (Youkai's attacks are spiritual based whereas having standard durability against them does not help. When a youkai has injured someone, they need special recovery from youkai practitioners otherwise they cannot recover normally)
• Non-Standard Defenses (Reimu realized that only the Yin-Yang Orb was effective against non-human creatures, with it being noted that Reimu using her ofuda, her spirit power, and her martial arts all prove to be useless against her enemies, meaning Youkai cannot really be harmed by regular or standard weaponry. It's noted that one cannot defeat spirits or devilish powers without a weapon with an unnatural amount of spiritual power such as the Yin-Yang Orb. Physical attacks such as a whacking a sake bottle over the head are considered violent methods that wouldn't work on youkai, with it only being spiritual attacks that cause fatal wounds to youkai. When attempting to exterminate a youkai, one does not use weapons that cause physical damage, instead weapons with an "origin" are more preferable. In the world beyond (Gensokyo), physical form has no meaning for all non-human entities)
• Absorption
  • Information Absorption: It is noted by Reimu that youkai can be swallowed up by information which can turn them into an "omnipotent youkai" due to the impurity which is the information of living things which overwhelms a youkai's existence when it's swalloed up by that information.
• Regeneration
  • Types: Passive
  • Source: Metaphysical Regeneration
  • Capabilities: Youkai have stronger bodies than humans, thus even if they're torn limb from limb they can heal right away. Youkai can heal wounds like tiger slashes in no time at all. Non-Humans within Gensokyo do not have much demand for medicine for physical illnesses as they are comprised mostly of spirit, thus they can always regenerate from their spirit.
• Transformation
  • Shapeshifting: Youkai are able to transform into mist or clouds and reform themselves from said objects.
    • Reforming
• Acausality
  • For Their Physiology
    • Irregular Causality
    • Contradictive: As Non-Humans within Gensokyo as comprised mostly of spirit, they embody the second layer of reality which is spirit and magic, while the first layer is where all things within the laws of physics presides.
  • For their Magic
• Reliance
  • On Fear: Youkai are reliant on the fear of humanity, if humanity fears them less, they will cease to exist.
• True Sight (It's noted by ZUN that Youkai can see through illusions that humans can't)
• Propagation (Youkai are able to sever their heads from their body and multiply them)
• Incorporeality (Youkai's bodies in truth are just their souls. Youkai's do not possess DNA, with the concept being foreign to them, noting how humans for some reason are under the control of them)
• Empowerment (Youkai are amplified by the power of the moon, Mima specifically reqested Yumemi in an ending to stop the moon so that she could always be empowered by its light)
• Battlefield Removal
  • Application Based: Ordinary youkai, can send themself and their opponent to a different battlefield.
• Magic (Youkais have developed a civilization of magic, making it a common ability used by them. Magic exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory, a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. Yumemi also explains that in the world of Gensokyo, magic unifies everything. Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion)
  • Extrasensory Perception (Noted by Patchouli that those who use magic are sensitive to changes in temperment)
  • Transferal (Magic users can transfer their magic into a tool, having the tool change depending on the user)
    • Transmutation
  • Acausality
    • For their Magic
      • Irregular Causality
        • Unknown: A youkai's magical power exists outside of the Grand Unified Theory, a theory with any model that merges electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force at high energies, unifying gravity with the electronuclear interaction, providing a more comprehensive theory of everything. It's further explained that magic is a force that cannot be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, with Yumemi even proposing a "Non-Unified Magic World" theory. Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic. Magic does not exist in Yumemi's world, which is a Probability World, a different world, but in the same dimension.
  • Holy Manipulation (Magic is noted by Yumemi to have close ties with religion)
• Temperature Manipulation (Youkai being released caused the room to get more cold)
• Emotion Manipulation (A youkai's Noh is able to take away people's emotions)
• Portal Manipulation (The denizens of Makai found out about the human world and managed to obtain the power to make a hole in the barrier)
• Forcefield Manipulation (Youkais use their magic in order to strengthen and reinforce the great barrier with an ever stronger power to prevent invasion by humans)
• Curse Manipulation (Youkai energy naturally curses people)
• Quantum Manipulation (Youkai are naturally in a state of lurking within quantum gaps, were they can exist in both the human world and Gensokyo freely while not being noticed in the human world and passing through objects, being compared to the idea of Schrödinger's Cat).
• Spirit Manipulation (The bombs used are referred to as spiritual attacks, being directly called spiritual attacks)
  • Explosion Manipulation (When bomb users are cornered from attacks they cannot repel with regular attacks they can release a massive spirit explosive that destroys all objects on screen, along with killing all enemies on screen)
  • Magnetism Manipulation (When using a bomb, all items on screen will be attracted towards the user)
  • Perception Manipulation (When using a bomb the screen flashes white and an image of the bomb user can be seen)
  • Logic Manipulation (The Great Hakurei Barrier is a boundary of common sense, which things with high spiritual power in the cause to waver)
  • Nullification & Erasure
    • Projectile Nullification & Physical Erasure: Bomb users can use a bomb to nullify & erase all projectiles on screen. This makes the enemy incapable of shooting out any further projectiles until the bomb's duration is done.
  • Invulnerability
    • Physical & Metaphysical: When a character uses a bomb, they are temporarily invincible to all attacks and is allowed to attack freely herself
• Link Manipulation (Strong Emotions can be contained in objects that can connect between the main world and the netherworld).
  
  
• Resistance to
  • Extreme Temperatures (Youkai are unaffected by things such as heatstrokes)
  • Sealing (Youkais can overtime break out of seals. Youkais use their magic in order to strengthen and reinforce the great barrier with an ever stronger power to prevent invasion by humans)
  • Observation & Subjective Reality (Once a youkai/non-human enters Gensokyo or if a youkai/non-human is a native, they are liberated from the spell of human imagination and obtain true freedom, being able to develop their own characteristics, though the observations of the humans from within Gensokyo can have some effect on them to a degree)
  • Probability Manipulation (Yumemi explains that on her world, all power can be explained by the Grand Unified Theory, however she posits an existence of a power not covered by the Theory: the power of magic. Magic does not exist in Yumemi's world, which is a Probability World, a different world, but in the same dimension)
  • Madness Manipulation (Unaffected from the affects of the Lunarian Full Moon, a hypnosis that drove the humans who came to the Moon insane, further being noted by Reisen that the moon drives people insane)
  • Illusion Manipulation (Youkai are unaffected by illusions as they can easily see through them)
  • Disease Manipulation (Non-Humans within Gensokyo do not have much demand for medicine for physical illnesses as they are comprised mostly of spirit, thus they are always fit and robust with no diseases)
  • Matter Manipulation & Physics Manipulation (Youkai are noted to be fluctuations that exist in worlds which are not dominated by concepts such as photons, but instead other types of particles not explored by humans in the Outside World, with the grand unified theory being the reason for all pheneomna in the human world, which does not apply to Gensokyo. Gensokyo is a brane world dominated by particles with different properties, not following the standard physics of the real world)
  • Gravity Manipulation (Noted by Maribel that in the world of Gensokyo, they the gravitons likely have a different structure and the world's properties are likely different too, likening it to being one of the brane worlds)
  • Information Manipulation, Biological Manipulation & Disease Manipulation (Youkai's do not possess DNA, the hereditary material and information of DNA that is stored as a code made up of all things that make an organism, unique through biological instructions and controls all cells in one's body, where normally one that lacks DNA would have adominal pain, nausea dizziness, rapid immune system collapse into systemic infection and system-wide organ failure leading to death)
  • Mortality Manipulation & Mortality Manipulation (Youkai cannot be affected by the Hourai Elixir, which removes death from part of one's existence, where being without death is being without life, being free from the boundaries of life and death)
    • Soul Manipulation (Immortality casts away the physical body, only the soul becomes invincible so it will be constnatly reborn in new flesh)

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength (Vampires are among the strongest of the youkai, strong enough to take part in the power-balance of Gensokyo. Vampires have tremendous physical abilities, being able to uproot a thousand-year-old tree single-handedly. Vampires are strong enough to crush boulders. ZUN describes vampires as having "superhuman toughness")
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed (Vampires are able to run through the human village within the blink of an eye. Vampires are noted to be faster than the eye can follow. Vampires are the only species that are noted to possibly be able to keep up with Tengu)
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Social Influencing (Due to Vampire's immense powers, they have charisma of the highest class)
• Magic (Vampires are noted to possess magical power)
• Immortality
  • Biological Immortality: Vampires possess immortality, with their mist being inhaled making the inhaler immortal.
• Regeneration
  • Types: Passive
  • Source: Metaphysical Regeneration
  • Capabilities: Vampires can recover within a single night even when their body is blown away so long as their head is intact. Noted in later games that vampires can regenerate at any time as long as some bit of their remains, such as a little bat, meaning vampires can regenerate even as long as their familiars are around.
• Transformation
  • Transformative Arsenal: Vampires can turn into either bats or mist to intrude anywhere they please.
• Bestowal (If a vampire gets vaporized by the sunlight, their mist will spread and if inhaled, the one inhaling it will become immortal)
• Zombification (When a vampire has sucked a human of their blood, they will neither die nor become a ghost, instead they will turn into a zombie for a while before evaporating under the sunlight)
• Summoning (Vampires can summon many devils with a single word, vampires are powerful enough to manipulate demons)
• Calamity Manipulation (Vampires are the cause of many disasters that affect the whole of Gensokyo, they can create abnormalities in everything including natural phenomena with no warning)

• Breaking the Fourth Wall (Touhou characters constantly acknowledge being a stage boss. Flandre notes to Marisa that she cannot use a continue)
• Cartoon Physics (Gensokyo is a world that lacks and defies common sense, where characters can explode, this is even acknowledged with ZUN roleplaying as the characters in-universe that they explode upon defeat. Despite this they will still come back, even human characters that do not have regeneration)
• Non-Standard Interaction
  • Metaphysical Interaction: As a non-human that can only be truly harmed from powerful spiritual attacks, they should also be able to harm other non-humans.
• Flight (Flew into the battlefield)
• Power Modification (Spell Card Rules allows someone to apply meaning and a name to an attack to form it, allowing for people to use abilities like Sakuya's time stop)
• Nullification
  • Power Nullification: Through the use of "Last Words", nullifies the usage of bombs.
• Destruction
  • Absolute Destruction: Flandre possesses the ability to destroy absolutely anything without even touching them. Her method of destroying has her pouring power into the "eyes" of any material where its tension is the highest, she can use her ability to cause these "eyes" to move into the palm of her hand and then crush the "eye" causing the thing to break. With a mere squeeze easily destroyed a meteor without touching it. Okina notes Flandre's ability to destroy everything, with it being confirmed that she destroyed Yuuma Toutetsu's infinite stomach. Destroyed Yuuma Toutetsu's original self on such a scale that they became a completely different individual. Noted in Reimu's fortune slip that Flandre's ability may even destroy misfortune itself
    • Deconstruction
• Invisibility (With Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?" disappears as she fires a large amount of danmaku)
• Duplication (With Taboo "Four of a Kind", creates four clones of herself that all attack at once)
• Curtain Fire
  • Multi-Directional & Rapid Fire: Shoots out dozens of bullets in all directions forming multiple circles. Has four gylphs slide across the four corners of the screen shooting out energy projectiles in multiple directions. Shoots out dozens of lasers in a clockwise direction followed by a multi-spread of bullets behind it. Dashes across the screen with a giant laser that spawns dozens of bullets that close in on the opponent if the laser missed. Creates four clones of herself that all shoot out bullets in all directions forming a multitude of circles, along with shooting out multiple massive green energy orbs. Shoots out dozens of blue energy orbs in all direction forming three circles. Forms energy orbs across the entire screen and then has them move toward the opponent while firing giant yellow orbs. Shoots out hundreds of bullets in all directions repeatedly with a rapid fire of bullets moving in a clockwise or counter-clockwise motion. Shoots out a barrage of rainbow colored energy orbs that cover the entire screen and repeatedly fall towards the opponent. Shoots out five giant blue energy orbs that are followed by multiple smaler orbs and bounce around the screen spawnning more orbs. Rapidly shoots out dozens energy orbs in all directions while spawnning two glyphs shooting out lasers on four sides that spin around the screen. Transforms into a light orb and travels around the screen shooting out dozens of energy orbs behind them causing it to cover the entire screen while also fire energy bullets from every corner of the screen. Fires hundreds of energy bullets from every corner of the screen.
• Energy Manipulation
  • Energy Projection (Shoots out lasers in a clockwise motion)
• Glyph Manipulation (Can form a glyph around herself that is likely used for a multitude of spells)
• Fire Manipulation (With Taboo "Lævateinn", a gigantic flaming sword).

• Resistance to
  • Smoke Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, & Poison Manipulation (Can absorb the mist into herself to spawn some attacks, , where it's noted that the mist carries a mysterious energy that was so strong that a normal human would only survive for about 30 minutes)
  • Transmutation (Flandre is unaffected by the Forest of Magic, where the Forest of Magic has the power to change the very nature of the beings within it)
    • Abstract Manipulation
  • Mind Manipulation (Flandre is unaffected by the Forest of Magic, a place with a wide number of hallucinogenic mushrooms where simply being near them will make hallucinations appear as if one was entranced by magic)
  • Fungus Manipulation (Flandre is unaffected by the Forest of Magic, where it's noted that the forest's environment is extremely ill-suited to human life, with th espores of monster mushrooms dancing about in the air, even breathing there would be hazardous to the health of a normal human, having "noxious miasma")
    • Poison Manipulation
  • Temperature Manipulation & Radiation Manipulation (Unaffected by the mass fires and radiation from Utsuho, where Utsuho's Atomic Fire "Nuclear Fusion" causes mass amounts of radiation)

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Equipment

Regular EquipmentSpell Cards

Lævateinn

• Description: A giant sword of flame, notably oversized, it's also impplied to be a twisted clock needle.
• Appearance: It is a giant oversized sword that is also implied to be a clock needle that's been twisted. It has flames around it.
• Usage: Flandre uses it during her extra stage boss in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
• Function: Everytime Flandre swings her sword it fires out bullets.

Name	Translated	Comments	Works	Stage
禁忌「クランベリートラップ」	Taboo "Cranberry Trap"		EoSD	St. Ex
禁忌「レーヴァテイン」	Taboo "Lävatein"		EoSD GoM	St. Ex —
禁忌「フォーオブアカインド」	Taboo "Four of a Kind"		EoSD GoM	St. Ex —
禁忌「カゴメカゴメ」	Taboo "Kagome, Kagome"		EoSD GoM	St. Ex —
禁忌「恋の迷路」	Taboo "Maze of Love"		EoSD GoM	St. Ex —
禁弾「スターボウブレイク」	Forbidden Barrage "Starbow Break"		EoSD	St. Ex
禁弾「カタディオプトリック」	Forbidden Barrage "Catadioptric"		EoSD GoM	St. Ex —
禁弾「過去を刻む時計」	Forbidden Barrage "Clock that Ticks Away the Past"		EoSD	St. Ex
秘弾「そして誰もいなくなるか？」	Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?"		EoSD GoM	St. Ex —
ＱＥＤ「４９５年の波紋」	Q.E.D. "Ripples of 495 Years"		EoSD	St. Ex
禁忌「フォービドゥンフルーツ」	Taboo "Forbidden Fruit"		StB GoM	St. Ex —
禁忌「禁じられた遊び」	Taboo "Forbidden Games"		StB GoM	St. Ex —
紅魔符「ブラッディカタストロフ」	Scarlet Devil Sign "Bloody Catastrophe"	Co-owner with Remilia	VD GoU	Nightmare Sunday - 1 —
紅神符「十七条のカタストロフ」	Scarlet Divine Sign "Catastrophe of Seventeen Articles"	Co-owner with Miko	VD	Nightmare Sunday - 4
紅星符「超人カタストロフ行脚」	Scarlet Star Sign "Superhuman Catastrophe Pilgrimage"	Co-owner with Byakuren	VD	Nightmare Sunday - 6
禁忌「レックレスバレット」	Taboo "Reckless Bullet"		SFW	Story
禁忌「ケルベロスクリッパー」	Taboo "Cerberus Clipper"		SFW	Story
「掌中の破壊者」	"Destroyer in the Palm of One's Hand"		SFW	Story
スカーレットニヒリティ	Scarlet Nihility	Mentioned in Flandre's Ending A dialogue, usable against Yuuma's final spell card in Flandre's Scenario C	SFW	Use-Story Final

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Notable Techniques

Main TechniqueBoss FightsStandard Fighter Techniques

Destroying Absolutely Anything and Everything

Flandre can destroy anything she wants, a frightening ability with no real weaknesses. By moving the "eye" of an object, the point where tension is highest, and attacking that eye, she destroys the target. She can move the eye of anything into the middle of her hand, then crush it to unconditionally destroy the target with just a squeeze.

She states that everything has an eye and that she holds the eyes of everything in her right hand. She destroyed a meteor with a single hand without touching it, stating that she "went squeeze and it went boom". When Sakuya was locked in the basement with Flandre, Flandre destroyed a lock simply by holding its handle, with no visible explosion.

Everything made for her to play with ends up broken, which may explain why she has few playmates. It is recommended to never meet with her.

Cloning Herself

Flandre can create clones of herself. In one spell card, she creates three clones that join her in battle. The clones attack independently, suggesting they can think to some degree on their own. The spell card is categorized as "Slave Type", indicating the clones remain under the original Flandre's command.

Embodiment of Scarlet DevilShoot the BulletSunken Fossil World

Spell Card 55

禁忌「クランベリートラップ」 (Kinki "Kuranberii torappu")
Taboo "Cranberry Trap"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Multiple invisible enemies run along the edges of the screen, shooting either purple bullets that always converge in similar ways near the middle, or blue bullets that aim at the player. Flandre moves all around the screen meanwhile.

Spell Card 56

禁忌「レーヴァテイン」 (Kinki "Reevatein")
Taboo "Lævateinn"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Flandre uses her Lævateinn, which looks like a laser, to leave lanes of bullets as a trail. She spins it or moves along the upper edge of the screen while she aims it downwards. While spinning, she has a large open space behind herself.

Spell Card 57

禁忌「フォーオブアカインド」 (Kinki "Foo obu a kaindo")
Taboo "Four of a Kind"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Flandre creates 3 copies of herself. They all make circles of random red bullets around themselves. One will shoot eight lanes of large yellow bullets around her in the same way each time, one shoots a 7-way of large green bullets aimed at the player, and the "real" Flandre shoots three circles of large blue bullets that alternate spaces. If you deal enough damage to a "clone", it will explode in a similar effect to a fairy and drop a big P item.

Spell Card 58

禁忌「カゴメカゴメ」 (Kinki "Kagome kagome")
Taboo "Kagome, Kagome"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Green square lines are slowly formed from the edges of the screen, while Flandre shoots large, yellow bullets, sometimes in random directions, others aimed at the player. Whenever she shoots a yellow bullet, the green pattern will dissolve and deform in the direction the bullet was shot.

Spell Card 59

禁忌「恋の迷路」 (Kinki "Koi no meiro")
Taboo "Maze of Love"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Flandre places herself in the middle of the screen and begins making a spiral of bullets with cuts in-between, along with layered half-circles of bullets shot in the opposite direction of the holes in the spiral.

Spell Card 60

禁弾「スターボウブレイク」 (Kindan "Sutaabou bureiku")
Forbidden Barrage "Starbow Break"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Flandre flies around as rainbow-colored bullets jump up from a random position and fall down, forming rainbow-like arcs. There are 4 waves, one higher in the middle, one that rises towards the right, one rising to the right, again on the middle, and the pattern repeats.

Spell Card 61

禁弾「カタディオプトリック」 (Kindan "Katadioputorikku")
Forbidden Barrage "Catadioptric"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Flandre shoots large blue bullets that leave trails of smaller bullets behind, similar to Remilia's "Scarlet Shoot", which will then bounce off of walls until they go through the bottom of the screen. She will shoot a 5-way up, go closer to the right wall and shoot a 5-way towards it, then do the same with the left wall, and shoot 5 individual large bullets upwards as she goes back to the right, and she will repeat the pattern slightly lower each time. Flandre takes a slight recoil with each shot she does.

Spell Card 62

禁弾「過去を刻む時計」 (Kindan "Kako wo kizamu tokei")
Forbidden Barrage "Clock that Ticks Away the Past"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Flandre will stay in the top middle, shooting aimed red bullets, as a pattern of 4 lasers that spin around a center go from left to right in multiple orders.

Spell Card 63

秘弾「そして誰もいなくなるか？」 (Hidan "Soshite dare mo inaku naru ka?")
Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Timeout spell card. Flandre will disappear as she is replaced by invisible enemies that follow the player around, leaving trails of blue bullets that expand. Afterwards, square-like shapes will be shot from the sides of the screen as they form shapes by bending over themselves. This last phase will repeat until the spell ends.

Spell Card 64

QED「495年の波紋」 (Q.E.D. "Yonhyaku-kyuujuu-go-nen no hamon")
Q.E.D. "Ripples of 495 Years"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Extra — Extra

Spell Card Pattern Description

Flandre will stay in the top middle, as multiple circles of bullets that bounce on walls produce themselves in random places around the screen and expand, with the speed and rate of appearance of the circles increasing with time passin and Flandre receiving damage.

Spell Card Ex - 1

禁忌「フォービドゥンフルーツ」 (Kinki "Foobidun Furuutsu")
Taboo "Forbidden Fruit"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Level Ex — 1

Comment

取材中にいきなり攻撃を仕掛けてきました。
音もなく不条理が近づいてくる恐怖。
そう言う感じが写真に現れると良いなぁ。

Translation

While looking for news, I was suddenly attacked.
A noiseless and irrational creeping fear.
It is a good thing that feeling comes out in the photos...

Spell Card Ex - 2

禁忌「禁じられた遊び」 (Kinki "Kinjirareta Asobi")
Taboo "Forbidden Games"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Level Ex — 2

Comment

私はてっきり吸血鬼が十字架に弱い物なのかと
思ってましたが、そうではないみたいです。
こんな十字架遊びをしてくるなんて。

Translation

I was fairly sure vampires were weak to
the cross symbol, but it doesn't seem like it.
She just came out and played with it...

Spell Card Story Mode 1

禁忌「レックレスバレット」 (Kinki "Rekkuresu Baretto")
Taboo "Reckless Bullet"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Stage 5 (Yorigami Sisters), Stage 7 (Yuuma)

Spell Card Story Mode 2

禁忌「ケルベロスクリッパー」 (Kinki "Keruberosu Kurippaa")
Taboo "Cerberus Clipper"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Stage 5 (Yorigami Sisters), Stage 7 (Yuuma)

Spell Card Story Mode 3

「掌中の破壊者」 ("Shouchuu no Hakaisha")
"Destroyer in the Palm of One's Hand"

Owner

Flandre Scarlet
Stage 5 (Yorigami Sisters), Stage 7 (Yuuma)

Immaterial and Missing PowerScarlet Weather Rhapsody

Control Scheme

Immaterial and Missing Power can be played using either a keyboard or a gamepad.

For Player 1 using a keyboard, the default controls are:

• Arrow Keys — move the character
• Z — corresponds to A
• X — corresponds to B
• C — corresponds to C
• V — corresponds to D

Character movement is represented using a numpad layout: 7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3

• 6 — forward (toward the opponent)
• 4 — backward (away from the opponent)
• 2 — down/crouch
• 8 — up/jump
• 7, 9, 1, 3 — diagonals (can be simulated by pressing the two corresponding direction keys simultaneously)

Special inputs are performed by quickly pressing a sequence of directions followed by a button. For example:

• 66 — forward dash
• 236B — down, down-forward, forward, then B (default X key)

The number 5 indicates no directional input.

For keyboards without a numpad, diagonals are produced by pressing two directional keys simultaneously. For example, Down + Right = 3 on the numpad layout.

Button notation in most game documentation uses A/B/C/D, though older sources (like readme.txt) may use P/K/S instead:

• P = A
• K = B
• S = C or D (context-dependent)

Movement

Forward Movement

Input: 6 The character is able to advance across the battlefield, allowing them to apply pressure, close distance, or reposition during combat.

Backward Movement

Input: 4 The character can retreat to create space, disengage from pressure, or reposition defensively.

Crouching

Input: 2 The character can lower their stance, granting access to low-profile actions and certain techniques while reducing their hit area against high attacks.

Standard Jump

Input: 7, 8, & 9 The character can leap into the air in multiple trajectories, enabling aerial attacks, evasive movement, and vertical repositioning.

Forward Dash

Input: 6 6 The character performs a rapid burst of forward movement. During this action, they briefly enter a grazing state, allowing them to pass through certain threats while advancing. Some characters will dash farther if 6 is held.

Backward Dash

Input: 4 4 The character quickly retreats with a burst of movement while entering a grazing state, providing both evasive mobility and defensive repositioning. Some characters will dash farther if 4 is held.

Super Jump

Input: 2 7, 2 8, & 2 9 The character executes a powerful leap that carries them higher and farther than a standard jump. This movement also applies grazing, making it effective for evasion and aerial control.

Air Dash

Input: 6 6 or 4 4 while in the air While airborne, the character can rapidly change their position midair. The number of air dashes available is limited until landing, with most characters performing 2 and Remilia being able to perform 3.

Basic Moves

Close Normal Attacks

Input: A / B All characters possess close-range melee attacks that change based on proximity to the opponent.

• A: A fast, light melee strike used primarily for pressure and combo initiation.
• B: A heavier melee attack with greater power or reach, often slower than A and commonly kick-based.

Far Normal Attacks

Input: fA / fB When performed at greater distance, A and B become projectile-based attacks instead of melee strikes.

• fA: A standard projectile used for zoning and space control.
• fB: A secondary projectile with different speed, trajectory, or behavior than fA.

Forward Normal Attacks

Input: 6A / 6B Enhanced melee attacks with increased reach and power compared to their neutral counterparts.

• 6A: A stronger forward-reaching strike.
• 6B: A heavier forward-reaching attack, often slower but more impactful.

Crouching Normal Attacks

Input: 2A / 2B Low-profile melee attacks that hit crouching opponents or strike low.

• 2A: A quick, low-hitting light attack.
• 2B: A stronger low-hitting attack with increased damage or reach.

Aerial Normal Attacks

Input: 8A / 8B Mid-air melee attacks used for aerial combat and pressure.

• 8A: A light aerial strike.
• 8B: A stronger aerial attack, with some characters possessing multiple variations or charge properties.

Directional Aerial Attacks

Input: 86A / 82A / 82B Specialized aerial attacks with directional emphasis.

• 86A: An upward-angled aerial attack available to select characters.
• 82A: A downward-angled aerial attack available to select characters.
• 82B: A downward aerial variant unique to specific characters.

Guard Crush Attacks

Input: 22A / 22B Melee attacks designed to break an opponent’s guard and create openings.

Dash Attacks

Input: 66A / 66B / 6DA / 6DB Attacks performed during a forward dash that extend range and grant grazing properties.

• Dash A/B: Forward-moving melee strikes that pass through certain projectiles.

Some characters possess multiple variants of these attacks.

Low Dash Attacks

Input: 66 2A / 66 2B / 6D2A / 6D2B Dash attacks that strike low while maintaining grazing properties.

Directional Projectile Variants

Input: 6fA / 6fB / 2fA / 2fB Modified projectile attacks with altered angles, trajectories, or behaviors. Availability and functionality vary by character.

Aerial Projectile Attacks

Input: 8fA / 8fB Mid-air versions of standard projectiles.

Directional Aerial Projectiles

Input: 86fA / 82fA / 82fB Directional aerial projectile variants available only to select characters.

C-Type Projectile Attacks

Input: C A distinct projectile separate from fA and fB, often possessing unique properties.

Directional C-Type Variants

Input: 6C / 2C Modified versions of C with altered angles or effects.

Aerial C-Type Attacks

Input: 8C An aerial version of the C projectile.

Directional Aerial C-Type Variants

Input: 86C / 82C Specialized aerial C variants available to select characters.

Bomb

Input: 22C The character deploys a bomb that knocks back nearby opponents. Bombs have limited stock and are replenished through item collection.

Spell Card Declaration

Input: 236D The character declares a Spell Card, entering a powerful state. The declaration grants temporary invincibility, with a brief vulnerable window at the start.

Special Move System

In addition to standard attacks, each character possesses a unique set of Special Moves. These techniques are executed through specific directional input sequences combined with attack inputs. While the exact techniques differ by character, the underlying input structures are largely standardized across the roster.

The available Special Moves and their corresponding input sequences are documented within in-game character profiles and practice interfaces.

Standard Special Move Inputs

Most characters utilize the following core directional sequences for their Special Moves:

• 236A/B/C (🢃🢆🢂)
• 623A/B/C (🢂🢃🢆)
• 214A/B/C (🢃🢇🢀)
• 421A/B/C (🢀🢃🢇)

Each input may produce different results depending on whether A, B, or C is used.

Item Collection

When a character is struck, any active projectiles she has on the screen are converted into collectible items and are immediately claimed by the opposing fighter. These items fall into two categories:

Spirit Items — Small blue squares labeled with “霊” (Spirit). Collecting these increases the fighter’s spirit gauge and they are the most frequently obtained item.

Bomb Items — Large green squares marked with a “B”. Collecting one increases the fighter’s bomb stock, up to a maximum of two bombs at any time.

Additionally, whenever a character is knocked down, the opponent automatically receives multiple spirit items. Roughly every third knockdown also grants the opponent a bomb item.

Blocking

When an attack connects, a character can defend by holding a backward direction (1, 4, or 7). Successfully blocking greatly reduces incoming damage, often negating it entirely, though certain situations may apply penalties.

Melee attacks that are blocked under the correct conditions incur no penalty. However, some melee attacks require a specific blocking state—standing, crouching, or airborne—to be blocked properly. If such an attack is blocked in the wrong state, the block is considered incorrect. In these cases, the block effect appears red instead of blue, and the defending character suffers a loss to health and/or spirit.

Guard crush attacks (22A and 22B) follow special rules. If they are not blocked, they function as strong melee attacks. When blocking, 22A must be blocked while standing, and 22B must be blocked while crouching. Blocking either attack incorrectly results in the immediate loss of all spirit.

Projectiles that can be grazed cannot be blocked correctly. Blocking these projectiles causes minor health damage—sometimes limited to the red portion of the health bar—and also applies a spirit penalty.

In Story Mode, later bosses frequently use Spell Cards that feature unblockable projectiles. These attacks must be avoided through grazing or manual movement. Some Spell Cards include projectiles that cannot be blocked or grazed at all, requiring the character to fully move out of their path to avoid taking damage.

Spirit Power

Spirit Power (霊力) governs a character’s ability to fire projectiles, defend against attacks, execute special moves, and activate Spell Cards. The current amount is shown on the Spirit Gauge (霊力ゲージ) at the lower-left of the screen. Different actions consume different amounts of spirit. If no spirit is spent for a short period, the gauge will begin to recover automatically, with spirit items accelerating this regeneration.

When a character’s Spirit Power is fully depleted, the gauge turns red. While in this state, the character cannot use projectiles or special moves until the gauge has fully refilled. If spirit is exhausted as a result of an incorrect block, the character is also briefly stunned. During spirit depletion, sA and sB lose their enhanced properties and function the same as A and B. Spirit recovery continues normally, and spirit items still restore gauge value.

Blocking behavior also changes while spirit is drained. Melee attacks can only be blocked correctly; even when blocked properly, the character still takes health damage using a distinct block animation. If a melee attack is blocked incorrectly, it will connect as though no block was attempted. Projectiles may only be blocked while grounded; airborne blocking is ineffective, and the projectile will hit regardless.

Grazing

Grazing occurs when a character is dashing, super jumping, or performing specific actions that allow them to temporarily avoid damage. While grazing, projectiles pass through the character without dealing harm, and in some cases, the projectile is destroyed upon contact.

Certain high-level attacks, especially from endgame Story Mode bosses, feature Spell Cards with unblockable and ungrazeable projectiles. These attacks cannot be avoided by standard grazing, requiring the character to manually move out of the projectile’s path to prevent damage.

Spell Cards

Spell Cards are powerful, visually striking attacks that characters can use once they have accumulated enough Sign Power (符力), displayed near the Spirit Gauge. Each character can select two Spell Cards prior to a fight: one for the first (white) health bar, called the First Sign (壱符), and one for the second (red) health bar, called the Second Sign (弐符). Second Signs are typically enhanced versions of the First Sign, though some may be entirely unique.

Accumulating Sign Power is achieved by dealing or receiving damage, as well as collecting items. When a character declares a Spell Card (by pressing 22D), their background darkens, a seal appears beneath them, and a timer starts. If the timer reaches zero, the declaration ends, preventing further Sign Power accumulation for that round.

Activating a Spell Card is usually done with 236D, though some have an alternate 214D input. Certain Spell Cards may require an additional input to deal damage. There is a brief vulnerability window at the start of the animation; if the character is hit, the Spell Card is canceled, wasting one Sign Power. Once successfully activated, the character becomes briefly invincible. Using a Spell Card consumes both Sign Power and Spirit Power, though declarations may continue if Sign Power is depleted, except in specific cases like Marisa's Final Spark, which consumes all resources and ends the declaration after one use.

Spell Card images include corner symbols indicating their function: a circle for ranged, a sword for melee, and a crescent moon for special utility effects. The top right corner indicates whether the card is a First Sign or Second Sign.

Control Scheme

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody can be played using either a keyboard or a gamepad.

For Player 1 on keyboard, the default inputs are configured as follows:

• Arrow Keys — character movement
• Z — A button
• X — B button
• C — C button
• A — D button
• S — A+B input
• D — B+C input
• Q — Pause

Movement notation follows the standard numpad-style directional layout:

7 8 9 4 5 6 1 2 3

• 6 represents forward movement (toward the opponent)
• 4 represents backward movement (away from the opponent)
• 2 represents downward movement or crouching
• 8 represents upward movement or jumping
• 7, 9, 1, and 3 represent diagonal directions

Directional notation always assumes the character is positioned on the left side of the screen. As a result, “forward” and “backward” reverse depending on screen position, but the numerical notation remains consistent.

Diagonal directions can be produced on a keyboard by pressing two directional keys simultaneously. For example, pressing Up and Right at the same time corresponds to 9, while Down and Left corresponds to 1.

Special actions are executed by inputting rapid directional sequences followed by a button press. For example:

• 66 indicates a forward dash
• 236B indicates a down, down-forward, forward motion followed by the B button

The number 5 is occasionally used in notation to explicitly indicate a neutral state with no directional input.

For keyboards without a physical numpad, directional inputs are still represented using this system, with diagonals achieved through simultaneous key presses.

Most in-game documentation uses the A/B/C/D notation for button inputs. However, some older references may instead use P, K, and S:

• P corresponds to A
• K corresponds to B
• S may refer to either C or D, depending on context

Forward Movement

The character can move toward the opponent to close distance or apply pressure. Input: 6

Backward Movement

The character can move away from the opponent to create space or reposition defensively. Input: 4

Crouching

The character can lower their stance, enabling low-profile movement and access to crouching actions. Input: 2

Standard Jump

The character can jump backward, vertically, or forward, allowing aerial movement and attacks. Input: 7 (backward jump), 8 (neutral jump), 9 (forward jump)

Forward Dash

The character performs a rapid forward movement. During this action, the character enters a grazing state, allowing certain projectiles to pass through. Input: 66 Alternate Input: D + 6 Note: Holding the forward direction may cause some characters to dash farther.

Backward Dash

The character performs a rapid backward movement while entering a grazing state, providing evasive mobility. Input: 44 Alternate Input: D + 4 Note: Holding the backward direction may cause some characters to dash farther.

Super Jump

The character executes an enhanced jump that travels higher and farther than a standard jump while applying grazing. Input: 27, 28, or 29 Alternate Input: D + 7, D + 8, or D + 9

Air Dash

While airborne, the character can perform a rapid burst of movement forward or backward. The number of air dashes is limited before landing, with most characters able to perform two by default. Certain conditions, such as Wind weather, may increase this limit. Air dashes do not consume Spirit Power and cover a fixed distance. Air dashes and flight share the same usage limit. Using one reduces the remaining opportunities for the other before landing. For example, performing an air dash reduces the number of available flight actions, and vice versa. This shared limitation also applies under special conditions such as Wind weather. Input (airborne): 66 (forward), 44 (backward)

Flight

While airborne, the character can enter a sustained movement state that allows controlled flight. During flight, the character is considered to be grazing but consumes Spirit Power over time. Flight continues as long as the input is held or until Spirit Power is depleted. Input (airborne): D + direction

Common flight directions include:

• Forward Flight: 6 + D
• Backward Flight: 4 + D
• Upward Flight: 8 + D
• Downward Flight: 2 + D
• Diagonal Flight: 7/9/1/3 + D

While flying, the character can change direction mid-flight by switching directional inputs while continuing to hold D.

Basic Attacks

All characters possess a standard set of basic attacks. Certain attacks change properties depending on whether the input is tapped or held. A tapped A input is referred to as "A", while a held A input is referred to as "[A]".

Additionally, some attacks vary based on distance. Pressing A while very close to the opponent results in one version, while pressing A at a farther distance produces a different version (the exact distance varies by character). The close-range version is referred to as "A", while the farther version is referred to as "f.A".

Inputs

A

A fast melee attack.

f.A

A slightly slower melee attack with increased reach and power compared to A.

6A

A slower but significantly longer-reaching and more powerful melee attack.

2A

A fast, low-hitting melee attack that does not change based on distance.

3A

Functionally similar to 6A, but hits low instead of mid.

8A

An airborne-only melee attack that generally strikes upward.

6[A] / 3[A]

Guard Crush attacks. These are performed by holding the A button while using the respective directional input.

B

A light projectile attack.

6B

A variant of B that is aimed higher.

2B

A variant of B that is aimed lower.

C

A heavier projectile attack with different properties from B.

6C

A heavier projectile attack that is usually aimed straight forward.

2C

A heavier projectile attack that is usually aimed upward.

All of the above attacks also have aerial variants when performed while airborne.

Charged Projectiles

Most projectile attacks can be charged by holding the input button ([B] or [C]). Charged projectiles typically release additional bullets or enhanced effects. An audible sound cue plays when a charged projectile or a Guard Crush attack is successfully executed.

Dashing Attacks

These are attacks performed during a forward dash. They are generally dashing melee attacks that move the character forward farther than standard attacks. Depending on the character, these attacks may also apply grazing.

Attack properties, ranges, speeds, and behaviors can vary significantly between characters, and many general rules have character-specific exceptions.

Input: 66 + A / B / C

Special Moves

The character possesses a set of SpecialMoves distinct from standard attacks. These techniques are executed through specific directional input sequences combined with attack inputs. The exact effects and behavior of each technique depend on the character.

In some cases, the same technique may be executed through more than one input sequence. Likewise, input sequences that produce a technique for one character may not produce the same result for another character.

The following notation is used when listing Special Technique inputs: - “>” indicates sequential inputs. - “Hold” indicates the input is held rather than tapped. - “+” indicates inputs performed simultaneously.

The availability and behavior of these Special Techniques vary by character. This section reflects common input structures rather than guaranteed results.

Grounded Special Technique Inputs

Hold A Hold B Hold C

Front + A Front + B Front + C

Front + Hold A Front + Hold B Front + Hold C

Back + B

Front > Hold Front until condition is met + A Front > Hold Front until condition is met + B Front > Hold Front until condition is met + C

Front > Down > Front + A Front > Down > Front + B Front > Down > Front + C

Back > Down > Back + A Back > Down > Back + B Back > Down > Back + C

Down + A Down + B Down + C

Down + Front + A Down + Front + Hold A

Down > Front + A Down > Front + B Down > Front + C

Down > Back + B Down > Back + C

Down > Down + B Down > Down + C

Aerial Special Technique Inputs

Jump > A Jump + A

Jump > B Jump > C

Jump > Hold B Jump > Hold C

Jump > Down + A Jump > Down + B Jump > Down + C

Jump > Down + Hold A Jump > Down + Hold B Jump > Down + Hold C

Jump > Front + A Jump > Front + C Jump > Front + Hold C

Jump > Down > Front + A Jump > Down > Front + B Jump > Down > Front + C

Jump > Down > Back + B Jump > Down > Back + C

Jump > Back > Down > Back + B Jump > Back > Down > Back + C

Jump > Front > Down > Front + B Jump > Front > Down > Front + C

Blocking

Standard
The character is able to guard against incoming attacks by holding a backward direction. Successful blocking greatly reduces or negates damage, though certain conditions may result in penalties.

Melee attacks can be blocked correctly, preventing penalties entirely. However, some melee attacks require the character to be in a specific state—standing, crouching, or airborne—to be blocked correctly. Blocking such an attack in an incorrect state results in a spirit penalty. Incorrect blocks are visually indicated by a red block effect and accompanied by an audible cue.

Guard Crush
Certain attacks function as Guard Crush techniques. When unblocked, these attacks behave as powerful melee strikes. When blocked, each Guard Crush attack has a required blocking state. Blocking a Guard Crush attack incorrectly results in the temporary loss of a spirit orb and leaves the character briefly vulnerable.

Projectile and Special Attack Interaction
Standard grazable projectiles cannot be blocked correctly. Blocking these attacks results in a spirit penalty. Special attacks and Spell Card techniques additionally inflict chip damage to the character’s health alongside spirit damage when blocked.

Border Escape

The character can perform a Border Escape to disengage while trapped in a guarding state. This action allows the character to reposition by escaping in a chosen direction, creating space or avoiding continued pressure.

Executing a Border Escape consumes one spirit orb as a cost for its use.

Spirit

Spirit is a resource required to fire projectiles and activate certain special techniques. Rather than a single continuous gauge, spirit is represented by multiple individual orbs that are consumed when these actions are performed.

When spirit is not actively used, depleted orbs gradually regenerate over time. However, if the character suffers a guard crush or performs a Border Escape, one spirit orb becomes temporarily disabled and cannot be used until it naturally recovers.

While spirit orbs are disabled, the character retains access to projectiles, special techniques, and flight, but with reduced capacity. As more orbs are rendered unusable, available offensive and mobility options become increasingly limited. In this weakened state, the character is also more susceptible to further guard crushes, as spirit penalties apply regardless of how many active orbs remain.

Grazing

Grazing is a defensive state that occurs during certain movement actions, such as rapid movement or aerial maneuvers. While grazing, incoming projectiles pass through the character without dealing damage.

In some cases, successfully grazing a projectile will also cause the projectile to be neutralized. Grazing is primarily used to bypass projectile pressure while maintaining mobility.

Spell Cards

Spell Cards are powerful, one-time-use abilities that can be activated during combat. Characters assemble a "deck" of 20 Cards, which gradually become available as the character deals or takes damage. Deck composition is customizable in the Player Profile, but must always contain exactly 20 Cards.

Activation is performed by pressing B and C simultaneously. Characters can switch between available Cards by pressing A and B simultaneously.

Cards are divided into three types:

• System Cards: Include bombs, weather changes, and other utility effects that can influence the flow of battle.
• Skill Cards: Enhance or modify a character's special attacks, providing alternate attacks or increased damage output.
• Spell Cards: High-damage attacks that automatically execute once activated, such as Marisa's Master Spark or Reimu's Fantasy Seal.

Some Spell Cards require multiple Cards in hand to activate, while others can be used with fewer. Availability is indicated by a glowing border around the Card's image.

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Other

Standard Tactics

• Under Spell Card Rules: As one cannot kill under Spell Card Rules, Flandre doesn't use her destroy ability directly on a target, though instead will use it on nearby bullets and objects. She will also utilize a variety of different bullet hell patterns along with duplication. Her attacks seem to stretch spell card rules as some of her techniques had to be banned for future rules, such as Taboo "Forbidden Fruit".
• Out of Spell Card Rules: Flandre has shown to immedieatly grab one's eye and crush it when it threatens her.

Weaknesses

• Standard Youkai Weaknesses: Youkai's bodies being destroyed by spiritual attacks, have them take a while to recover. Youkai are more easily affected by belief than humans, and as a result spiritual damage can cause fatal wounds. Youkai are weak to spiritual attacks such as names or legends. Youkai and Ghost are weak to sunlight. Mental Attacks can be lethal to youkai, in some cases one can repel them with a single phrase. The human village acts as a lifeline for the Gensokyo Youkai, if the humans were to perish or if they stopped fearing the youkai, then they would cease to exist. Youkai are weak against psychological attacks.
• Vampire Weaknesses: Vampires are weak to sunlight, making them docile during the day, this weakness however isn't as instant as the common sun weakness in fiction. It is shown with vampires like Remilia that they can be exposed to sunlight for quite a while before dying. Yuuma notes that Flandre is a vampire that can't stand daylight yet she can fight while under the Hell of Blazing Fires' energy, which is the same as the sun which Flandre notes it was hurting her skin, yet it did nto at all instantly kill her. Vampires cannot move through flowing water, making them docile on rainy days, they also cannot cross rivers. Vampires cannot approach a sardine heaed or a broken holly branch. Vampires skin will be burnt if someone throws roasted soybeans at them.
• Magic Weaknesses: Magic users taking too much damage will cancel out their attacks. If a magic users spirit is depleted they enter a state of "Guard Crush" where they can't use bullets, special moves, or spell cards at all. Repeatedly attacking red glyphs will break one's defenses.
• Unique Weaknesses: Flandre cannot control herself, making it where she will accidentally blow humans away without leaving a single drop of blood.

Note

• Any translations from en.tohouwiki.net are considered fine to use as they all fall under Project Translations, a fan translation team that have translation guuidelines and rulesets, along with moderators that directly overlook and proofread English translations to check for machine translations.
• Yumemi's statements can be taken with credibility, not only do the science from her world surpass the main one by 500 years where she notes the science of the main world is much more primitive then hers, but her world has already fully proven the existence of Grand Unified Theory and Yumemi herself notes that her theory was proven right by seeing magic.
• Despite Gensou Narratograph being directly noted to be an "unofficial Touhou tabletop RPG", ZUN has directly participated in the RPG and noted the way Reimu acts during his session is how canon Reimu would act, thus character actions done by him and mechanics are fine to use.
• Even if characters have not showcased using a bomb, they should all be able to use bombs, as bombs are realistically just spiritual attacks and to even be able to fight the non-human entities, requires a weapon with an unnatural amount of spiritual power such as the Yin-Yang Orb, meaning everyone that is non-human or is fighting non-humans is using spiritual energy.

Special Notes

• Many spell card images and descriptions along with translations are heavily helped by the Touhou Wiki.

Explanations

Canoncity of Touhou Project

The Touhou Project franchise canoncity mainly falls under any media worked on by ZUN are official and canon to the overall lineup.

There are various aspects constantly debated about within the canon:

PC-98

Media like PC-98, has been noted by ZUN to be ignored as one can ignore derivative works. He has also said that anything prior to Embodiment of Scarlet Devil can for the most part be ignored and one can think of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil as the starting from a clean slate and starting a new series, he's also referred to Highly Responsive to Prayers as a study product. With this in mind, one would assume that PC-98 is thus non-canon to the Windows continuity of games.

However, ZUN has also directly stated PC-98 games are the same world as the Windows Games, stating that any contradictions that exist from PC-98 can be ignored from the retcon in Windows Era. While one argues ZUN noting the works are derivative works to be ignored and Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil should be seen as the starting point, these statements are moreso telling a fan to not worry about having to play PC-98 games or learn more about their stories.

It's also been noted in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil's おまけ.txt that the game chronologically is not too far from the previous title, which would be Mystic Square, the PC-98 title. ZUN has also directly brought back characters from PC-98 games, noting he wanted to bring back characters from before Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and notes any of the other older characters that don't appear have probably retired by now and are warmly watching over things from various places nowadays. When asked where Mima from PC-98 has gone, ZUN notes that he doesn't bring them back due to making things complicated and having potentially angry fans ask where she has been the entire time, he has also noted that there's not much use for characters like Genji as Reimu can fly now and also notes he is not dead. ZUN has also made mention to Genji probably living in the lake in the back of the shrine. In Touhou Sangetsusei ~ Strange and Bright Nature Deity, Reimu and Marisa were talking about glowing moss with Reimu saying it would be nice to transfer it to the pond in the back of the Hakurei Shrine and Marisa saying that she could make it grow there on the turtles' back, referencing Genji.

In Touhou 07 Perfect Cherry Blossom, when Alice meets Reimu, she tells her long time no see, noting that they've met before calling her "old friend". In Yuuka's mode in Touhou Project - Phantasmagoria of Flower View, Reimu directly references defeating Yuuka back in PC-98. If Yuuka defeats Marisa in the same game, she will note that Marisa has grown up quite a bit, when the last time she's seen her has been in PC-98.

Seeing as ZUN himself has directly said both PC-98 and Windows are in the same world and that characters directly acknowledged PC-98 events and reference characters from it, PC-98 is completely canon and any contradictions PC-98 have can be ignored.

Side Games Time Placements

Touhou 7.5 - Immaterial and Missing Power takes place between Perfect Cherry Blossom and Imperishable Night.

Multiple Playable Routes

In the series, there are multiple playable character routes, including some where the characters fight Reimu herself and defeat her, calling question into what route is canon. ZUN has elaborated that canonically, anytime Reimu and the gang are defeated, they challenge again however many times they want, but on the youkai side, they do not challenge again after being defeated and are not attached to the results of winning or losing.

In terms of how playable routes have went, some examples of canonically noted routes:

• In Reimu's profile on Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it's noted that Reimu resolved the Scarlet Devil Mansion Incident alone.
• Reimu is also acknowledged to have resolved the Spring Snow Incident in Perfect Cherry Blossom, though it is not noted if she did this alone.
• Reimu claims she solved the Eternal Night incident, however if one asks her about the cause or the perpetrator, she'll only respond with ambiguous answers, it is also not noted if she did this alone.

With some of these examples, it is normally assumed that in some way Reimu has some part in resolving every incident and other routes are dubiously canon depending on what transpired.

Spell Card Rules

There are many cases of weaker humans beating stronger Yokai or vice versa within the Touhou series, this has been elaborated on in Reimu's profile on Perfect Memento in Strict Sense. Reimu introduced the spell card rules as the youkai had no way to defeat the Hakurei shrine maiden, making many youkai feel that their meaning to exist have dissapeared. The rules incoporate the following:

• Spell cards are techniques specially-named by the individual, and they must be declared upon use.
• The number of each party's spell cards must be determined in advance of a duel.
• The first party to have all of their spell cards beaten must admit defeat.
• The victor is entitled only to what was agreed upon before the duel. If they're not interested in what their opponent has to offer, they can refuse a duel.
• Winners should generally allow losers a rematch.
• Always prepare for the unexpected.

The original draft held these rules:

• Combatants will give names and meanings to the duel for the benefit of beauty.
• Combatants will declare the number of named duels before beginning.
• Combatants may not repeat attacks by relying on stamina.
• Combatants may not deliver attacks that do not have meaning. The meaning itself becomes the attack's power.
• In the case that a combatant loses a named duel, that combatant will admit defeat, even if he or she has strength remaining. No combatant may kill a human, even upon victory.
• Combatants will write the duel's name on paper in the format of a contract. By doing so, the above-mentioned rules become absolute. These papers will be called spell cards.

These rules allows for duels that feel almost like sport rather then a match, and have allowed for weaker fighters to challenge stronger ones, due to this though, it also has become possible for youkai to freely defeat Reimu without worrying about the consequences.

Due to them being written into cards and essentially affecting the ability and power of an attack, the spell cards are likely the thing binding attacks to specific properties.

Parallel Worlds

Parallel Worlds is a topic brought up at some points in the Touhou Project franchise, they are worlds called "Probability Worlds" by Yumemi, stating that those and parallel worlds are one and the same. This essentially means that parallel worlds in Touhou are based on the concept of probability. Yumemi and Chiyuri use a "Probability Space Hypervessel" in order to travel to alternate worlds and time periods, further showcasing that probabiliy serves an importance.

Magical vs. Physical Strength

There are multiple occasions ofcharacters commenting on humans like Reimu being strong. Despite this Reimu showcases physical strength that isn't superhuman, such as the fact that she cannot cut a bamboo stick while Fujiwara direclty does in front of her.

This is due to the difference between magical and physical strength.

In works like Symposium of Post-mysticism, Yuugi Hoshiguma's profile has Suika directly state that Yuugi is weaker then her in magical powers, but stronger than her physically, lining a clear difference between magical and physical strength.

While one can be physically stronger then another, such as how Onis are physically the strongest, magic users are still able to keep up with them due to using a different form of attack.

An example can be found with Yuugi herself, when Reimu fights against her in Subterranean Animism, with her acknolwedging her strength, something Yuugi only does to those who are truly strong. This establishes even with spellcard rules, Yuugi considers Reimu a strong fighter. Reimu herself is very clearly not at an oni's physical strength, as she cannot do the things they can, however, her magical strength allows her to keep up with them.

To defend against magical based properties requires Non-Standard Defenses as it is acknowledged as not being something of standard physicality.

The Three Layers of Reality

In Chapter 27 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Reimu proceeds to explain how reality works to Rinnosuke and Marisa, where she explains in-depth the three layers of reality.

This conversation started from discussing the mechanism of fortune, where Rinnosuke attempted to posit that the future is predetermined and that Reimu's luck was her being able to calculate in an instant the predetermined future, however Reimu had a different explanation requiring her to lecture on the mechanisms of probability, in her explanation, the world is made up of three layers: the physical layer that moves in accuracy with the laws of physics, the second layer that moves with the spirit, and the third layer of memory which is the recollection of events that lies within all things. The memory layer rejects the loop of the physical and mental layers, the two layers the youkai conceive of the world which is why they believe history repeats itself and the future is predetermined. Since it's only possible to add to the memory layer, it's possible to completely recreate the past.

While the physical layer follows the laws of physics, the mental layer interprets the outcomes and the memory layer alters the probability, essentially creating the future, since it's impossible for memories to raech the same state as a point in the past, the future is not predetermined, thus when Reimu is able to predict how the dice will fall, she's not predicting the fall of the dice, the dice members the fact that she predicted how the dice would fall, thus due to this, Reimu entering the memory of the die-face greatly skews the results in Reimu's favor, where the results side with Reimu.

Thus the memory layer is essentially the most important layer that rejects the notion of loops from the previous two layers.

Dream vs. Reality

In the Touhou Project series, it is made very apparent that dream and reality are in truth one and the same.

In Changeability of Strange Dream, Maribel Hearn has a conversation with Renko Usami about how she is bringing objects out of her dreams, which Maribel posits that truth exists within subjectivity, if one can see the same sights over and over again then that's the kind of place it is as such dreams are nothing like the antonym of reality, where much longer ago people did not draw a distinction between dreams and reality, with Maribel reiterating that dreams and reality are the same.

In Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom it is shown that the Dream World is a separate plane, that in games like Antinomy of Common Flower are shown to have influence on reality.

In the Urban Legends in Limbo finale, Sumireko notes that she is able to travel between the human world and Gensokyo whenver she sleeps, where her dream self enters Gensokyo making her innately unable to be interacted with.

Trivia

• A silhouette of Flandre occupies the front cover of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil's jewel case.

• Flandre is one of the few Windows-era characters who does not appear in the background of Hopeless Masquerade, likely because she dislikes leaving the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

• Since she is around 495 years old during the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Flandre was probably born sometime close to the year 1500.

• The spell card "And Then Will There Be None?" is a reference to Agatha Christie's novel. An extra interesting note, the science fiction genre saw Philip K. Dick write a novel called Counter-Clock World in 1967 and Frederik Pohl write The Gold at the Starbow's End in 1972.

• One end of the Lævateinn that Flandre wields in Shoot the Bullet looks very different compared to the Lævateinn she is seen holding in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

• She used the phrase "that means, you can't use a continue!" when speaking to Marisa Kirisame in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, which constitutes breaking the fourth wall.

• In the Second Touhou Saimoe Tournament, the eighth game of the first round was a battle between Flandre and Suika Ibuki. Although Flandre won, this led ZUN to post a rough, previously unreleased drawing of Suika with a message saying "don't get defeated by a little sister that hasn't even reached the age of 500!"

• The crystals on Flandre's wings bear some resemblance to the crystals shown on Patchouli Knowledge's spell card Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone."

• Interestlingly, when using a bomb against Flandre in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil's Extra Stage, she is shown to have normal wings in her bat form.

• Flandre's skirt features two white ribbons in her Embodiment of Scarlet Devil portrait.

• Masahiro Shibata's manga series Sarai, published exclusively in Japan from 1997 to 2007, appears to have been a major inspiration for many characters from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. The series features superpowered maids fighting youkai and monsters in a dystopian future.
  • In Sarai, there are two small maid girls with red hair and mob caps, which likely inspired Remilia and Flandre.

Gallery

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  Flandre's silhouette on the cover of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

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  Flandre's room in Foul Detective Satori

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  Flandre on the cover of Volume 5 of Foul Detective Satori

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  Flandre introduction in Foul Detective Satori

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  Flandre's fortune slip in Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine

Profiles

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - おまけ.txt

Profiles

Sister of the Devil Flandre Scarlet Ability: Destroying absolutely anything The Extra Boss. Also the Mistress's younger sister. She is a vampiric magical girl and has been the Scarlet Devil's younger sister for about 495 years. She cannot control herself, so generally she isn't let outside. She also doesn't try going out. She idolizes her older sister Remilia, but her destructive power unconstrained far exceeds that of her sister's. Although she doesn't often get angry or anything, she's always peculiar, which makes it difficult for others to understand her. Generally, vampires always attack humans without killing them in order to feed, but Flandre has only ever eaten food that has been served to her, so she doesn't know how to properly attack a human. Because of this, she can't limit herself and ends up blowing them away without leaving a drop of blood. Speaking of which, she doesn't even know that what she always eats were once living humans. Her daily meals are made to look like foodstuffs such as cake and tea, after all... Total of ten card attacks.

○悪魔の妹 フランドール・スカーレット 能力：ありとあらゆるものを破壊する程度の能力 エキストラボスです。お嬢様の妹です。 吸血鬼にして魔法少女で、４９５年程、悪魔の妹をしています。少々気がふれていて、通常は表に出してももらえません。出ようともしません。 レミリアをお姉様と慕うも、その歯止めの効かない破壊力は、遥かにお姉様を凌ぎます。普段はあまり怒ったりしないのですが、常におかしいので他人には良く分かりません。 通常、吸血鬼は食事をするために、人間を殺さない程度にしか襲いませんが、フランドールは与えられたものしか食べたことが無いため、人間の襲い方を知りません。そのため手加減が出来なく、一滴の血の残さず吹き飛ばしてしまいます。 もしかしたら、いつも自分が食べているものが動いている人間と一致しないのかも知れません。 毎日食べているものが、見た目ケーキになってたり、紅茶になっていたりしたのですから... カードアタック　全10種

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

ZUN's comment from Dai Touhouten plaque

Remilia's little sister. Destructive personality with destructive power. The troublemaker of EoSD. She appeared very few times, but she's mysteriously popular among younger fans. I gave Remilia bat wings to make her look like a vampire, then by contradicting the bat wings logic I gave her sister wings with unknown shapes that don't make her look like a vampire. I felt Touhou from this contrarian design, and I felt even more when I brought Nue-like youkai back to Gensokyo. That made me realize how Flandre's design was connected to Touhou's grand scheme later on.

レミリアの妹です。性格も能力も破滅的で、紅魔郷の問題児です。登場頻度は低いのですが、特に若いファンに人気があるという不思議なキャラです。 吸血鬼だから蝙蝠の羽を付けた、というレミリアに対し、正体不明の羽を付けた結果、吸血鬼に見えなくなりました。このひねくれ具合が実に東方っぽく、そして鵺的な妖怪が蔓延る幻想郷に戻ってきた気がして、後の東方の世界観に繋がっているのかなーと思っています。

Dai Touhouten plaque

Misconceptions

Characters Have Flown Through Outerspace

One example of this is believed to be in Touhou 02's Stage 3 Scarlet Dream ~ Scarlet Dream where it displays stars and a space-like effect in the background, however this is actually the World of Fantasies, the world that lies between Makai and the human world, with Genji confirming this is definetely not outerspace as Reimu can breathe just fine there.

All Characters are Children

This is an argument that spawns from how small the characters look in different works, though this is moreso due to the "moe" artstyle Touhou tries to capture, in many of the manga characters look far older.

Majority of characters in the series are outright shown to drink alcohol on a daily basis, where one needs to be at least 20 years old under Japanese law to drink, where Japanese law requires no underaged characters to be shown drinking. This is even acknowledged in the series itself with a note saying alcohol is only for those over 20 years old. Thus if a character is ever seen drinking alcohol in the series, they are an adult.

The only direct non-adults in the series are Sumireko Usami, Chiyuri Kitashirakawa, and Hieda no Akyuu in her first appearance.

Youkai Control the world through both the mental and physical layer

This statement comes from a fan translation that says this in Curiosities of Lotus Asia.

While the statement seems clear cut, there is another translation used instead that makes more sense with the sentence.

It instead notes that most youkai concieve of the world through these two layers, which is why they believe the future is pre-determined and history repeats itself. This falls in line with the earlier disucssion of Rinnosuke claiming that he believes the future to be predetermined and Reimu needing to explain to him why that's not the case.

Songs:

III U.N. Owen Was Her? (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil) U.N. Owen Was Her? (Sunken Fossil World)

Battle Records

11 - 2 - 1

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

Sunken Fossil World

Route ARoute BRoute A/BRoute C

• Marisa Kirisame - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Forest of Magic

• Kogasa Tatara - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Rainbow Cavern of Earth Spirits

• Kanako Yasaka - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Underground Nuclear Fusion Reactor

• Reimu Hakurei - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Forest of Magic

• Yamame Kurodani - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Rainbow Cavern of Earth Spirits

• Joon Yorigami & Shion Yorigami - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Former Hell's Hot Spring Town

• Utsuho Reiuji - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Former Hell of Blazing Fires

• Yuugi Hoshiguma - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Former Hell's Hot Spring Town

• Minamitsu Murasa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Underground Nuclear Fusion Reactor

• Kutaka Niwatari - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Former Hell of Blazing Fires

• Yuuma Toutetsu - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Sea of Petroleum

• Reimu Hakurei - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Extra Stage Scarlet Devil Lunatic ~ Sister of Scarlet
  • Note: Flandre by this point hasn't seen a human or had any real action in over 495 years making her relatively new to this fighting system.

• Marisa Kirisame - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Extra Stage Scarlet Devil Lunatic ~ Sister of Scarlet
  • Note: Flandre by this point hasn't seen a human or had any real action in over 495 years making her relatively new to this fighting system.

• Reimu Hakurei - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Sea of Petroleum
  • Note: Flandre fought Reimu with the idea in mind to reinvirograte her destructive spirit, with the post-battle sprite showing no damage to Reimu and Flandre stating that she can do it after all, thus it seems there was no actual winner to this fight.

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