Youmu Konpaku

Youmu Konpaku (魂魄　妖夢 Konpaku Youmu) is a half-human half-phantom who lives at Hakugyokurou in the Netherworld as a gardener and fencing instructor, who also serves for Yuyuko Saigyouji. She first appeared as the Stage 5 boss of Perfect Cherry Blossom, the seventh installment of the Touhou Project, and has since become a recurring playable character.

Appearance

• (Touhou 8,9) Her human half has dark blue eyes and short silver hair and carries a katana with a cherry blossom insignia and flower attached and a wakizashi (short Japanese sword). She wears a dark green and white dress with several ghost insignias along the edges and breast pocket and a black ribbon placed off-center on her hair. Her ghostly half is a formless phantom as large as her human half. The two halves are always seen together. During her Last Word, her eyes are red.
• (Touhou 9, alternative outfit) Same as above, but her outfit is a brighter shade of green.
• (Touhou 7.5, 8, 10.5) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except she wore short sleeves.
• (Touhou 7.5, and 10.5, alternate outfit) Same as above, except her dress in purple instead of green and her hair is pink.
• (Touhou 7) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except she had bright red eyes and wore long sleeves.
• (Touhou 13) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except she has grey eyes, and the ends of her hair are a darker shade of grey.

Personality

As she has a straightforward diligent personality, she is often manipulated by those around her (especially Yuyuko). For this reason, she often fails at her task, but that does not mean that she has no real power, and she particularly excels at instantaneous force and concentration power. In Immaterial and Missing Power, as literally stated by the shishou, "truth-slashing is something which you know," so she often performs tsujigiri-like moves, but Suika Ibuki pointed out that she does not think that Youmu understood her shishou's teachings.

She has strong sensitivity, and in the good ending of Imperishable Night, her human half was unable to resist the insanity-inducing effects of the true Moon, causing her to become "half-insane". She is afraid of ghost stories, dares, and darkness, but she is calm around phantoms since she is half phantom herself. Much further on in Ten Desires, as a result of being mistaken as a hermit, she temporarily mistook herself as being a hermit.

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