Main Profile
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封獣 ぬえ Nue Houjuu | |
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Power to hide her true form | |
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Unknown, More than 800 Years old | |
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Loves scaring people | |
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Skies of Gensokyo | |
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Has short black hair and dark eyes. Has three red metallic-looking wings on the left side of her back, and three blue arrow-shaped tails coming out from the right side of her back. Carries a trident, has a snake on her right arm, and also wears a black wristband on her right wrist. Her dress is all black with blue and white trim in the middle, a red bow on the front, and a small, yin-yang-like design at the bottom corner of the skirt of her dress. She wears black thigh-high stockings and red shoes with bows on them. | |
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She is said to be one of the most mysterious and feared youkai in many years yet has been defeated by Humans many times. There are many legends according to her appearance when, in fact, she is hiding her "true form." She was just enjoying scaring humans until she got bored of it (although her dialogue suggests she was sealed underground), so she spent most her time underground until the incident in Subterranean Animism where she went above ground to check what happened. She found out that Murasa and the other youkai who were also sealed underground made it above ground and were planning something. She decided to had some "fun" by putting the Seed of Non-identification in the fragments of Tobikura. Eventually, she saw the heroine collecting them and she decided to secretly follow them, either helping or getting in their way before deciding to show up to congratulate the heroine for saving Byakuren.
Based on one of Reimu's quotes in Touhou Hisoutensoku, she is currently living with Byakuren in her Temple.
Fun Facts
- Nue is the first(?) character ZUN himself has drawn with thigh-highs, and she seems to appeal to zettai ryouiki fans. (Zettai ryouiki loosely translates into "absolute territory" and refers to the area of bare skin seen between a skirt and thigh-highs.) This is a slight shadow of doubt over this since Suwako's sprite in MoF clearly shows her wearing thigh-highs while her drawn portrait shows her wearing socks long enough to be thigh-highs but are slightly folded down to where her knees should be.
- A nue is a legendary beast that has "the head of a monkey, the body of a raccoon dog, the legs of a tiger, and a snake as a tail". Nue's family name, Houjuu, literally means "sealed beast" as written.
- Though her name means "sealed beast", Nue often whines about not wanting to be sealed again, preferring by far to be cooked.
- Nue has no visible pupils.
- Due to her character design, theme song, and the fact she is an Extra stage boss, some fans have compared her to Flandre Scarlet. This has led to her fan nickname, "U.F.O-wen."
- In addition, Nue's spell cards are heavily reminiscent of other characters', such as Flandre, Yukari, Rumia, and Hina. Very appropriate given both her power and namesake.
- Nue is the only Extra Stage boss to appear as a midboss in multiple stages. Ran has been a midboss in one stage.
- Nue's appearance as a ball of light midboss on stages 4 and 6 is similar to the stage 2 midboss of Mystic Square. Yuka also turned into a ball of light during her battle in Lotus Land Story.
- Similar to Kogasa, she tends to scare off people by using the fear of the unknown, or the fear of her true form.
- Nue has the tag "Heian" on her song and a couple of her spell cards. Heian may be referring to the Heian period (794 AD to 1185 AD) of Japanese history (traditionally depicted as a Golden Age in Japanese History) and/or to a former capital city of Japan (794 AD to 1868 AD), 平安京 "Heian-Kyo", which is now the city of Kyoto. Her age of approximately 800 years also places her origins at the end of or during the Heian period.
- Her theme song's name might refer to 平安京エイリアン "Heian-Kyo Alien", a game developed in 1979.
- In Kyoto, the streets are laid out in grid-like pattern and it's planned in Heian era, modeled after Chinese city of 長安 "Chang'an". You can see her survival spell card is referring to this.
- Nue is the first Extra stage boss in the Windows series to have not met the final boss prior the start of the game she first appears in.
- She is shown sometimes as a child to the rest of the group in fanart, however this is purely ironic by the fact of her long-lived life(In youkai years).
- Nue is often seen in fanonical artwork usually against Murasa Minamitsu because of her official profile/dialogue with the heroines(Reimu/Marisa/Sanae).
- The reason of her rivalty with Murasa Minamitsu could be the fact that Murasa Minamitsu has the same name of one of the humans who sealed Nue.
Undefined Fantastic Object - Omake.txt
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○エキストラボス 未確認幻想飛行少女 種族:鵺 余りにも不可思議。 幾度となく人間に退治され、その都度、姿形が異なって伝えられた。 しかしそれらは全て作られた伝説である。 それにも飽きて、長い間地底でのんびり住んでいたのだが、今年の 地下にいた時に一緒だったムラサ達も地上に出てきて、何やら企ん 正体不明の種は小さな蛇の様な不思議な飛行体で、決まった姿が無い。 霊夢達には木片が空を飛ぶ筈が無いと思っていたので、未確認飛行物体 ムラサ達には飛倉の破片は、勝手に間欠泉によって散り散りになった どうも、他人が楽しそうに何かをしていると、見えないところから しかし、その正体不明の飛行物体を嬉々として集める人間が現れた。 結局ムラサが行っていた事は、自分にも益がある事だと知り後で 白蓮はそんな自分の復活を邪魔した彼女も受け入れた。 | |
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○Extra boss The Unidentified Flying Fantastic Girl Species: nue A great curiosity. She's been defeated by humans many times before, but each time, accounts of her appearance are different. According to one legend, she had the head of a monkey, the body of a raccoon dog, the legs of a tiger, and the tail of a snake. According to yet another legend, she had the head of a cat, the body of a chicken, and the tail of a snake. These legends were all made up, though. Eventually she got tired of that and leisurely spent a long time deep beneath the earth's surface, but she got mixed up in the turmoil surrounding the geyser incident and appeared above ground once more. She saw Murasa and the others who had been underground with her also come above ground and start plotting something. "Ah, finally I can have some fun again", she thought, and decided to give them some trouble by attaching the Seed of Non-identification to the fragments of the Tobikura. The Seed of Non-identification was a small snake-like flying object with no determined form. Since Reimu and the others didn't think that a block of wood had any business flying in the sky, they thought it was a round UFO of the sort that most exemplified unidentified flying objects. Murasa and company thought that the fragments of the Tobikura had been scattered about by the geyser, but it was in fact thanks to the Seed of Non-identification. In any case, when it looked like others were having fun, Nue would find a way to mess with them from afar. She didn't know what Murasa's group was planning, but she thought it would be funny if they failed. However, humans appeared who seemed happy at the appearance of that unidentified flying object. Eventually she found out that what Murasa was doing would benefit her, too, and came to regret what she'd done. However, Byakuren did not ostracize her for having meddled with her return. | |