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[ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil ]

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Title: Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

:: Sakuya Izayoi ::

Titles:
Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
Perfect and Elegant Servant
Chief Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
Perfect and Elegant Maid
Dangerous Illusionist
Maid of the Evening Storm

Species:
Human

Ability:
Manipulation of time : Knife proficiency

:: Spells ::

No. 33: 奇術「ミスディレクション」

Conjuring "Misdirection"
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
Description: Aimed bursts of daggers and blades.

An illusionist's skill is that of misdirection.


No. 34: 奇術「幻惑ミスディレクション」

Conjuring "Illusional Misdirection"
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic
Description: Aimed bursts of reflective daggers and blades.

However, Sakuya is not an illusionist. This is her true power.


No. 35: 幻在「クロックコープス」

Illusion Existence "Clock Corpse"
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
Description: The clock freezes with the curtain of aimed daggers.

You can't move when time stops, but neither can the bullets. Plan ahead.


No. 36: 幻象「ルナクロック」

Illusion Image "Luna Clock"
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
Description: The clock freezes with the curtain of random daggers.

Daggers appear out of nowhere. Can she do card tricks too?


No. 37: メイド秘技「操りドール」

Maid Secret Skill "Marionette"
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
Description: The clock freezes with the burst of randomly aimed daggers.

Knives that did not change during one time freeze might change in another.


No. 38: 幻幽「ジャック・ザ・ルドビレ」

Illusion Ghost "Jack the Ludo Bile"
(Ludo bile (лудо биле) is a Bulgarian slang for belladonna (Беладона). Belladonna has the very strong toxicity, and Ludo bile means "mad herb".)
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic
Description: The clock freezes with the curtain of aimed daggers.

The curtain might seem unpassable at first, but that is an illusion.


No. 39: 幻世「ザ・ワールド」

Illusion World "The World"
(幻世 is a pun for 現世 (Gense, real world), and The World comes from Dio's stand in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic
Description: The clock freezes with the curtain of random daggers.

Moving closer forces the knives to appear further away.


No. 40: メイド秘技「殺人ドール」

Maid Secret Skill "Killing Doll"
Owner: Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic
Description: The clock freezes with the explosion of random daggers.

A maid's true power. The desire to protect her mistress is strong.


Age:
Appears to be between 16 to 20 years old

Occupation:
Maid, Manipulator of Time

Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion

Theme Song:

Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial

Flowering Night (PoFV)

Relationships:
Remilia Scarlet (Mistress)
Flandre Scarlet (Mistress's younger sister)
Patchouli Knowledge (Mistress's friend)
Hong Meirin (Scarlet Devil Mansion's gatekeeper)
Eirin Yagokoro (Unknown)

Description:
(Touhou 9) Dark blue eyes, silver hair, has a long braid on each side of the face, carries many knives. Wears a pink and dark blue French maid's outfit with long sleeves, and a white bonnet on her head. The Roman numerals for 1 through 12 line the bottom of her apron.
(Touhou 9, alternative outfit) Same as above, but her outfit is mainly dark red instead of dark blue.
(Touhou 7.5, 8, 10.5) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except her apron has no text and is wearing short sleeves.
(Touhou 7.5 and 10.5, alternative outfit) Same as above, but her outfit is mainly light blue with a white apron and her hair is light green.
(Touhou 7) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except her apron has no text and is wearing blue colored long sleeves and a red scarf.
(Touhou 6) Same as Touhou 9 outfit, except she had bright red eyes, short sleeves, and the phrase "Red Magic" embroidered on her left sleeve.

Stage 5 boss, and a playable character in Touhou games 7-9, 10.5 and 12.3. Sakuya is the only human living in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, yet she is also the head maid. The official fanbook suggests she had been a vampire hunter before she began working in the mansion, but she was defeated by Remilia Scarlet who pitied her and gave Sakuya her current name. Though she looks about sixteen like the other girls, Sakuya has the ability to slow, stop and possibly reverse time. She seems to have been serving Remilia for a long time and may be far older than she looks. Socially, she interacts mainly with the others in the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Her talents are cooking, knife throwing and time manipulation. The latter two abilities characterize her appearances in-game, and led to frequent parodies in reference to Dio Brando of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, who also controls time and throws knives. This reference goes so far as Sakuya using some of his poses in a game. She is often associated with dogs by other characters because she is serving as a demon's "faithful guard dog" even though she is a full blood human. Due to the inconsistent artwork depicting her bust between games, dōjinshi often make fun of her by indicating that she pads her breasts.
Her name "Sakuya" literally means "Flowering Night", the same as her background music theme in Touhou 9 and later appearances.

Easily one of the most enigmatic characters, despite appearing in so many games, Sakuya is the Chief Maid at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She works for her mistress, Remilia Scarlet, and is apparently the only human working at or living within the mansion. She has the power to stop time. She is known to then place knives in midair and resume time to allow these knives to fly towards her targets. Stopping time is also a handy way of doing large amounts of maid work in a short time. Because nearly everyone living or working at the mansion are maids, being the chief of them all means there are few people there with more authority within the mansion than Sakuya.

During Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Sakuya attempts to prevent the heroine from reaching her mistress to whom she is very loyal, but fails. Later, during Perfect Cherry Blossom, Sakuya is able to show more of her true character, even if her main reason for trying to solve the problem is that the delayed Spring will affect her too. During the events of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she is initially commanded by Remilia to find possible suspects behind the strange weather. After Remilia grows tired of "questioning" suspects, she orders Sakuya to personally find and deal with the culprit. After doing so, Sakuya tells Reimu where to find the culprit, and later helps to rebuild the Hakurei Shrine after it is destroyed for the second time.

The characters for Izayoi literally mean "Sixteenth night" (the night just after that of the full moon), and Sakuya "Flowering night."

Sakuya Izayoi is apparently not her real name, according to Perfect Memento, but is only a name given to her by Remilia. Her real name is unknown.

Since Sakuya has tremendous skill with handling knives, she is extremely good at cooking.

According to Sakuya, if she happens to run out of knives, she can freeze time and pick up the ones she threw previously.

According to ZUN, "Manipulation of Time" is synonymous to "Manipulation of Space." She takes advantage of this fact in several ways, from enlarging the space inside Scarlet Devil Mansion, to probably storing an immense amount of knives around. Maybe it's general relativity?

Sakuya can also use her powers to accelerate time, such as making bamboo flowers bloom instantly, even though this would normally take sixty years.

Sakuya is often made to have nosebleed in fanworks over Remilia Scarlet or Flandre Scarlet.

Sakuya "prepares" food for Remilia and Flandre Scarlet. It's a mystery how this is done exactly, although she mentions in Phantasmagoria of Flower View that with so many flowers around, she can make as much tea and as many pastries as she wants. (Flowers have often been used to provide flavoring for tea, especially in the past, and are still the basis of jasmine tea.)

In some fan-produced works, Sakuya is depicted with dog ears and a tail, probably a reflection of various characters referring to her as Remilia's dog. For example, in Sakuya's scenario of Perfect Cherry Blossom the three Prismriver Sisters offer to make her a part of the banquet by eating her. Lyrica starts singing "dog meat, dog meat", implying that Sakuya is a dog. Sakuya is the only one of the three heroines available that the Prismrivers threaten to eat. In that game, Yuyuko names Sakuya "dog of the devil".

Another recurring joke with fans is the idea that Sakuya pads her chest to make it seem bigger than it is and goes to great lengths to hide this secret, even from Remilia herself. The origin of this joke was due Sakuya's portraits in Immaterial and Missing Power, which for some reason showed her with larger breasts than were seen in all of her other ZUN-made portraits (with the possible exception of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil).

There have been several clues spread across the Touhou series that suggest that Sakuya may not actually be human. Most of these occur in Imperishable Night, where Eirin Yagokoro is surprised to see her (according to Eirin's profile). In another scene, she survives staring at the full moon (which should drive humans insane, even though Marisa, Youmu and Reimu survive staring at it as well...). She has silver hair just like Eirin and uses silver knives, both the color and metal silver representing the Moon in many contexts. In Perfect Memento, Hieda no Akyu agrees that Sakuya probably does not come from Gensokyo, and the description of Kaguya Houraisan's powers are quite similar to Sakuya's time manipulation. These all seem to point to the possibility that Sakuya may in fact be Lunarian. (Some doujin artists have attempted to explain the relationship between Eirin and Sakuya in their stories. These range from the ideas that Eirin created Sakuya's Lunar Dial, but prolonged usage erased Sakuya's memory, to the two of them even being sisters.)

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-KochiyoChan-

Report | 04/25/2011 5:14 pm

-KochiyoChan-

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South Sudan

Report | 02/20/2011 8:57 pm

South Sudan

-slacks off more than usual.-
IxXxI Death The Kid IxXxI

Report | 12/06/2010 10:36 pm

IxXxI Death The Kid IxXxI

hello miss izayoi, its a pleasure to meet you
-bows- thank you for accepting me. -smiles-
Xajenn Von Hellsin

Report | 12/03/2010 7:35 pm

Xajenn Von Hellsin

Greetings Fellow Maid. How's the going's on at Scarlet Devil Manor? Just curious.
Tanooki John

Report | 09/20/2010 2:52 pm

Tanooki John

Im always impressed by your skills. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you out like, delivery, or incase you need an extra cook or guard.
ScarIet DeviI

Report | 08/17/2010 5:04 am

ScarIet DeviI

heart
Aniimaaa

Report | 07/19/2010 3:44 pm

Aniimaaa

Nice cosplay. o:
Also may I have the source of that manga page?
Seems like an awesome doujin. D:

*Hopes its not a stand alone image*
Tsuki no Inaba

Report | 07/11/2010 4:47 pm

Tsuki no Inaba

i love your sakuya cosplay. it looks awesome.
Mielyn

Report | 05/16/2010 1:46 pm

Mielyn

Sakuya looks so good now! (:
II iiMusique II

Report | 03/28/2010 3:02 pm

II iiMusique II

Thanks for the buy :3

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