Main Profile
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聖 白蓮 （ひじり びゃくれん） Byakuren Hijiri |
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Byakuren Hiziri | |
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Ability to use magic (specializing in magic that increases her physical abilities) | |
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Unknown, At least 1000 | |
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Monk | |
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Has long, wavy, light brown hair that seems to fade to purple at the top, with hazel or light brown eyes. Wears a black and white dress with long strips of black fabric going across the middle and white fabric across the arms. Along with this dress, she wears a long cape. She also holds a giant, magical scroll-like object. | |
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The stage 6 boss, Byakuren has said that she was once a human and worked with her younger brother as a monk. When he died, she feared death, but she was able to maintain her youth with her power. However, she feared that she might lose her power, so she helped youkai in many ways. But she didn't hate humans either, because she wanted humans and youkai to co-exist. She was ultimately sealed away in Makai by humans. During the events of Undefined Fantastic Object, the youkai she has saved reappear to break her free from the seal. Her fate depends on which heroine is chosen by the player.
Based on events in Undefined Fantastic Object's Extra and later on in Touhou Hisoutensoku, she made a temple near the Human Village.
Fun Facts
- Byakuren's name (聖 "Saint" or "Virtuous Monk" or "Itinerant Monk" + 白蓮 "White Lotus" or "Purity") can be read literally as "Saint of the White Lotus", "White Lotus Saint", drawing upon the cultural reading of the white lotus as a symbol of purity: "Pure and Saintly" or "Saint of Purity", or drawing upon the modern definition of 聖 (read as Hijiri, meaning a world-trekking Buddhist monk), "Roaming Monk of the White Lotus" or "The Pure and Itinerant Monk".
- Written in ZUN's hand on her final cut-in is 南無三！, which is short for 南無三宝 - roughly, "Hail to the three treasures of Buddhism" (the Buddha, dharma, and the clergy). It's used to request salvation in a moment of danger.
- Myouren, Byakuren's younger brother, was a real Buddhist priest born in Shinano Province, which is ZUN's hometown, and trained at Chougosonshi Temple (朝護孫子寺) on Mount Shigi (信貴山). He appears in several stories, but the most significant one is Shigisan Engi, which is one of the most popular emakimono. In its third volume, there is an unnamed Buddhist priestess who wants to meet Myouren, who is her younger brother. She is the inspiration for Byakuren. The priestess is looking for Myouren because she is worried about him not coming back, so she stays at Toudaiji, where Myouren had made the vows for priesthood. Daibutsu tells her in a dream that there is a purple cloud over the side of the mountain southwest from where she is. She goes there the next morning, and finally she is able to meet and live together with him.
- Because of her and Minamitsu Murasa's relationship and character designs, some fans have described them as newer versions of Yumemi Okazaki and Chiyuri Kitashirakawa.
- A theory is starting to develop that Byakuren has a broken arm, because it's depicted at such an awkward angle.
- Because she is a bit more mature-acting, and possibly because she is a Stage 6 boss like Eirin, Kanako & Yuyuko (who are often portrayed as much older than the norm for the Touhou girls), some fan artists portray her as being an "old lady", or lumped into the same grouping as such. This is perhaps a bit ironic in Byakuren's case, considering how her profile states that she became a Magician to retain her youth.
- Curiously, at one point in her stage, the fairies move in a "Space Invaders" or "Galaga" pattern: shooting bullets, then slowly moving down.
- Some fans have suggested that Byakuren's clothes are similar to Rozen Maiden's Suigintou's.
- Byakuren's first non-spell is very similar to Remila's first non-spell card, her first spell card strongly resembles Yukari's "Bounded Field 「Boundary of Life and Death」", her third has a similar name to Marisa's Milky Way spell card, and her fourth looks like one of Shinki's attack patterns. ([1] [2]). Perhaps Marisa isn't the only thief-type magician now?
- She is considered something of a saint among some fans, especially when compared to the ruthless and self-centered nature of the heroines, who reject her ideals for peace. Other fans have argued that from the point of view of someone from a world where humans are oppressed, her appeals for human-youkai equality wouldn't make much sense.
- Some western Touhou fans compare her to Jesus Christ because she fought for youkai but got sealed away for their sins. Because of this, fans have affectionately dubbed her "Youkhrist" or "Youkai Jesus".
- Byakuren appears on the cover of the UFO case.
- During her second-to-last (fourth) spell card on Easy, the stars under the health bar show she has two lives left. She does, but only on higher difficulties.
- Byakuren's actual hair color is somewhat up in the air. Most fans depict it as it appears (purple on the top, fading to brown), but other fans believe her hair is entirely brown, and it was the lighting of the stage or her scroll glowing that made it appear purple.
Undefined Fantastic Object - Omake.txt
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○６面ボス 封印された大魔法使い 種族：魔法使い 白蓮の弟、命蓮は伝説の僧侶であった。 白蓮は、年老いてからその弟に法力を学んだ。 しかし、命蓮は白蓮よりも早く亡くなってしまった。 若返りを自分の物にし、寿命が亡くなった彼女が次に怖れたのはその 妖術が失われる事、それは人間が完全に妖術を排除する事に他ならない。 彼女は妖怪を敬ったが、それは人間と敵対する為ではない。 突然現れた若い僧侶。 そして、彼女の思いと人間達の期待とのギャップが、悲劇を生んだ。 |
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○Stage 6 Boss The Sealed Great Magician Species: magician Byakuren's sibling Myouren was a famous monk. Myouren's days were spent easily tossing around enormous pots that contained great storehouses and curing sick people's illnesses in remote places. Byakuren, getting along in years, learned Buddhist magic from Myouren. She normally lived on Tobikura, which was packed with Myouren's Buddhist power, and so naturally Byakuren gained power of her own. However, Myouren died before Byakuren. After having mastered the power of youth and left behind a normal creature's lifespan, the next thing she came to fear was someday losing her power. The only way to lose that black art was for Humanity to reject it entirely. She had great respect for youkai, but not because she disliked humans. This youthful monk who'd suddenly appeared before the youkai... And so the gap between her wishes and the expectations gave birth to a terrible tragedy. | |