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WHO SHE IS.
Yuyuko Saigyouji (西行寺 幽々子 Saigyouji Yuyuko) is the ghost 'princess' head of Hakugyokurou in the Netherworld. She first appeared as the stage 6 boss in Perfect Cherry Blossom and appeared in several subsequent works as well. Unlike many departed spirits, she resembles a living human. She is very cheerful and friendly: Her playful, good-humored personality, otherworldly beauty, and courtesan charm can have a disarming effect. She often makes bizarre and apparently nonsensical remarks and sometimes seems to overlook the obvious, leading to her characterization as an airhead or a ditz. As an instance, in Bougetsushou, she toyed with Youmu as a daily occurrence even with Ran Yakumo present.
However, at other times she will reveal an extremely cunning and perceptive side and will also sometimes display an extraordinary level of knowledge. For instance, in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she was the quickest one to identify the culprit as Tenshi Hinanawi when the incident was in the omen stage (Yukari Yakumo spoke of the dwindling of phantoms as Komachi Onozuka's negligence, but Yuyuko guessed correctly). Additionally, in Ten Desires, she obliquely informed the playable character about the location of the incident regarding the divine spirits. She is also known for her incredible appetite and seems to have a food-related metaphor for any situation: Yuyuko is truly "dead and loving it". The mistress of the Saigyouji family who resides in Hakugyokurou in the Netherworld. It is said that she died over 1000 years ago, so she is a spirit with an extremely unusual lifespan. Impressed by her unwillingness to curse people and her ability to control spirits, she was appointed by the great Yama to manage the souls of the dead. In return she was permitted eternal residence in the Netherworld. She is not different from the human in the appearance and shape. It is said that the color of her skin and hair is quite lighter than those when she lived. As her body is sealed away within Hakugyokurou, it is said to be impossible to hold a service for her. Her personality is so extraordinarily easygoing that it is said she doesn't remember how long she's been in the Netherworld. It seems she doesn't even remember what she had for breakfast.
NAME
Her surname Saigyouji (西行寺, lit. ""West journey temple"") obviously comes from her motif as a daughter of the famous Japanese poet Saigyō Hōshi (西行 法師) but adding an extra kanji ji (寺) at the end. Her first name Yuyuko (幽々子) actually doesn't have much meaning but can be literally translated to "ghostly child" or "ghost ghost child". The -ko is a common suffix in Japanese that is used in female names which literally means "child". The symbol 々 is used in the Japanese main title of Perfect Cherry Blossom (東方妖々夢). "々" is often confused as being a kanji, but it's actually a punctuation mark that indicates to repeat the previous letter, thus her name is equivalent to "幽幽子".
HISTORY
Long ago, there was a divinely talented poet in Gensokyo. He loved nature and spent most of his time traveling. When he became aware that the hour of his death drew near, he chose to begin his eternal rest under the most beautiful cherry tree he could find..
That cherry tree has grown even more beautiful since then, charming many people into resting in peace beneath its blossoms. The tree with the mortuary charm developed the powers of a youkai after a while.
A thousand years have passed.
In the garden of the Saigyouji clan, there exists a youkai cherry blossom with a story behind it; it is called the Saigyou Ayakashi. For as long as Yuyuko had been there, this cherry tree has never bloomed, even in spring.
One day, while browsing through the library as usual, Yuyuko found an old record. It looked so old that it was practically ageless; within it, the following was written...
"The girl who bears witness to death, at the time of the Saigyou Ayakashi's full bloom, shall be bound by mortality. So that her soul may rest in peace within the Hakugyokurou, I will seal the cherry blossoms, and make it the barrier. My wish... is that she will never again reincarnate, and never again suffer pain..."
Yuyuko had read that breaking the seal on the Saigyou Ayakashi, making it bloom fully, would cause someone to be resurrected; she started gathering spring's essence out of curiosity.
Basically, almost everything in the netherworld exists as ghosts with no physical body. It is for that reason that she wondered about the corpse lying under the Saigyou Ayakashi with great interest, going as far as to consider breaking the seal. Her ability only enables her to bring death. Bringing life to something already dead would be a first.
Thanks to an all-out effort put forth by Youmu, the gardener, every cherry blossom bloomed perfectly; every cherry blossom except for the Saigyou Ayakashi, which still bordered on blooming. By that point, Gensokyo's spring had almost been completely drained.
No one would have imagined that a living human, bearing a tiny drop of spring, would visit.
A battle for that last remaining bit of spring ensued...
Perhaps it was because of her carefree afterlife, or maybe the record had aged beyond recognition, but Yuyuko ultimately failed to realize that the girl who was written about in the record... was herself.
In the beginning, Yuyuko was only able to control some dead spirits. Unconsciously, that power grew stronger, eventually becoming the ability to invoke death. Terrified by her own ability, she commited suicide.
After becoming a ghost, she thoroughly forgot everything about the time she was alive, and started to enjoy being able to invoke death.
The reason Yuyuko can neither reincarnate nor vanish is because of the seal on the Saigyou Ayakashi. Once the boundary is breached, the time that was frozen will continue to flow, resulting in her death again. Reviving the corpse will destroy Yuyuko's ghost, so it's no wonder that the near-success of the revival ended in inevitable failure.
Yuyuko is only able to bring death after all.
The only person who knew the whole story, Youki Konpaku, grew slowly older due to the nature of half-humans, and disappeared with the belief that Youmu could inherit the truth about Yuyuko.
For all time, Yuyuko will remain as the princess of Netherworld and mistress of long-dead Saigyouji clan.
She shall never bear witness to the blooming of the Saigyou Ayakashi.
STORIES ABOUT THIS GHOST.
Her father was a widely admired poet, and eventually fell into eternal rest beneath a cherry tree, as he'd always wanted. His adoration continued after his death, and now he has ascended into heaven. Every year some grand personage would die beneath that tree when it was in full bloom, just like Yuyuko's father. The tree that continued to suck their blood eventually became a youkai cherry tree with the ability to lure people to their death, and it was called the Saigyou Ayakashi. It is said that the Saigyou Ayakashi is now kept in Hakugyokurou in the Netherworld, sealed thanks to the bodies of countless people, including Yuyuko, who sleep beneath it. So, it never reaches full bloom.
THE GHOSTLY EMIGRATION PROJECT.
This is a story of twenty or thirty years ago. The number of spirits in the Netherworld increased due to limits on ascension. As the already-vast Netherworld beginning to expand due to the pressure of all the spirits, she allowed them to inhabit various places in the world of the living as they were waiting to reincarnate. The places she chose included closed schools and hospitals, abandoned buildings, and places people don't usually visit, but some curious person on the outside caught sight of one of the ghosts, so people started flocking to them. Eventually, the Yama became aware of this plan and decreed that ghosts shouldn't be seen, so it was put to rest. Finally, the Yama increased the size of the Netherworld, thereby removing the necessity for the emigration plan. It's said that the Netherworld today is larger than Hell.
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I'M SO SORRY!
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for not being on this account ;n; i'm sure you all hate me.....but then again no one ever hardly rp'ed with this account anyway. how are you all?
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Omg, yuyuko !
How do you put videos in the favorites? Please tell me!
It's finished! I don't know when to uploud. I'll wait till my friend is ready!^^
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Just sketched the head, shoulders and chest, I will continue at school!
Thanx for the watch!
WOW! You are a BIG Yuyuko FAN!
Would you like me to draw her for you!^^
Would you like me to draw her for you!^^