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[unpleasantries]

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Duo
Contact: karakasafever @ AIM
Age: 23
Current Characters: Run & Susanoo from Akame ga Kill!, Yuuna Yuuki from Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Satori Komeiji
Age: Unstated, but presumably very old.
Canon: Touhou Project
Canon Point: Post- Urban Legend in Limbo, the newest fighting game

Background: The Backstory section is so dismally small but that's about the most concise way to sum it up. If you need something else I can try writing it out for you, but that's the important stuff.

Personality: The one thing that's made the most abundantly clear from her dialogue is that Satori Komeiji really likes to fuck with people.

Touhou Project is largely about a bunch of girls beating each other up over literally nothing important, so the basis of her personality as far as this app is concerned is based on things she says, supplemented with guidebook material, and all of that points to Satori getting her kicks out of tormenting people. She can read minds, and has no qualms about interrupting the people she's talking to in order to parrot their thoughts aloud or answer them directly, sometimes having an entire conversation by herself by combining these two things, either greatly disturbing or irritating everyone involved. She's stated by several characters to be stubborn and difficult to deal with; one character, a literal god, goes behind Satori's back to cause some trouble because she doesn't think she'd be able to come out on top through honest negotiation. This is not only a good example of Satori's difficult personality, but another important aspect of her being: her species.

Satori is perhaps the least creatively named character in the series. She is a satori (so, it's like the equivalent of naming your child Human), a being from Japanese mythology that has the ability to read minds; the third eye wrapped around her body is where this ability comes from. If she can see you, she can read your surface thoughts, and she's capable of using a special kind of hypnotism to drudge up bad memories in people around her to take advantage of them. Satori are detested for these abilities, and this Satori especially so, because she doesn't have any reservations about using and abusing these powers to their full extent. Her gimmick in the fights against her is that she uses the special attacks from characters in previous games, slightly altered, after finding them in the protagonists' memories, and this is her most feared ability. This goes far beyond a need for self-defense and crosses the line into sadism, because when Satori first reveals this ability in-game, she remarks on how traumatic it will be for the protagonist. In other words, she's doing it not just to win the fight, but to begin mental warfare with her opponent by bringing up their own memories to use against them. People have shown her no love, so she has no fondness for them, either, especially when they come barging into her house all of a sudden. Even most other youkai are terrified of Satori, to such an extent that she had no other option but to live underground, where Hell used to be before it packed up and moved - and the denizens of Former Hell, all of whom were rejected by above-ground society for whatever reason, all avoid her. In other words, she is so reviled that even the outcasts have deemed her an outcast. Despite her apathetic-at-best attitude toward other people and the surface in general, she seemed to be against the idea of it being destroyed when she found out what was going on, so at the very least, she's not so irredeemable as to want the surface to die for wronging her.

She does have some good points, though, and the most obvious is that she loves animals. She has numerous pets, though at least one of them is so intimidated by the thought of her getting angry that she lies and avoids her whenever possible after her friend swallows a sun god and goes nuts, so it's probably safe to say her temper is terrifying. However, since Satori had no intention of getting mad or punishing the pet in question, it's just as safe to say she rarely, if ever, brings this temper out toward her beloved animals. She seems upset, almost distraught when she mentions her pet cat avoiding her, and her character bio mentions she had so many pets it became difficult to keep up with her responsibilities - she was devoting so much time to them that she let her job of maintaining the fires of Former Hell slip by the wayside. Patchouli mentions that it seems like she doesn't take very good care of them, but her pets adore her, and Satori generally lets them run around and do what they want, so occasionally they get into trouble. Rather than not taking good care of them, it seems more like she just doesn't discipline them very often.

She is also fiercely devoted to her sister, who sealed her third eye some time ago. Satori has lots of Thoughts and Opinions on this which can be summed up as "Koishi needs to open herself up to others again." (Somewhat ironic, coming from a shut-in.) Koishi sealed her personality and conscience away when she sealed her third eye, and as a result, she can only be seen by people when she's right in front of their faces, and they forget her the instant they look away, or she leaves. Satori, however, is one of the only people in Gensokyo who remembers her clearly at all times, despite the fact that it is not an exaggeration to say that Koishi only exists to someone when she's right in front of them. That speaks volumes about her love for her sister - she remembers her even when it shouldn't be possible.

Moving out of the dialogue and into the more solid information books, we know that Satori's favorite pastime is to read. This is one of the only ways a mind-reader like herself can be entertained, because books have no mind to read. It's such a favored hobby of hers that she's written several books, as well, and it's implied some of them, written anonymously, have made it to the surface. Her preference is the kind of story that goes deep into psychologically profiling the characters, further cementing the importance she places on her third eye and the workings of the minds of the people around her. Aside from reading and spending time with her pets, she doesn't really like to do anything else. She's a shut-in, completely avoiding all contact with people, having given up on communicating with them completely a long time ago. In that sense, she is just as broken as her sister. While her sister sealed her abilities away, Satori sealed herself away, but rather than inside her own consciousness, inside a spacious mansion underground.

Abilities: Aside from standard Touhou danmaku and spell cards, which are basically pretty patterns of bullets, Satori's third eye allows her the ability to read the minds of those in her direct vicinity. She is also capable of employing a sort of hypnosis which she can use to dredge up memories of the people around her, as normally without it she is only capable of reading surface thoughts.

Alignment: Elios. She's hated, so she understands that emotion the best out of any emotion - but she's never lost her ability to love, in spite of being hated and coming to hate so much about the world around her. That she still holds so much love for her pets and Koishi is a testament to that.

Other: n/a


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: Test Drive! (there's two threads here, because one is better at showcasing her usual personality but lacks emotional enviromental effects.)

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