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Reisen Udongein Inaba is a character from the Touhou Project games.
Reisen is one of the legendary moon rabbits who fled from the Moon to Earth as a refugee from the "Lunar War" between the two worlds that began in 1969 A.D. after the Apollo 11 "invasion". Making her way to Gensokyo, she was surprised to meet the notorious fugitives Kaguya Houraisan and Eirin Yagokoro, and asked for asylum in Eientei. In exchange, she works for and protects Kaguya and Eirin.
In the AWA fics, Reisen is a student at the AWA Academy and is part of Class 5.
Appearance[]
Reisen has red eyes, long light-purple hair and long rumpled rabbit ears - like all members of the Lunar Defense Corps, her ears stand up straight and are decorated with two accoutrement-like buttons. Her outfit consists of a long-sleeved black business suit over a white shirt, along with a beige skirt, white socks and red shoes. Her left lapel is decorated with a crescent moon-shaped insignia, and a pocket square in her left shirt pocket.
In Phantasmagoria of Flower View Reisen's jacket is removed and she wears a purple skirt. There is a clip on her necktie in the shape of a carrot, identical to Tewi Inaba's. Her alternate outfit makes her shirt black and her tie yellow.
In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she wears a short-sleeved white shirt, a red belt and a blue skirt. Her alternate outfit gives her a dark green dress, ears and eyes, and a light green shirt and hair.
In Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, she wears the same short-sleeved shirt, but with a violet belt and a light red skirt.
In Urban Legend in Limbo, she wears an outfit similar to her previous playable appearance, with the exception of her skirt, which now has a white horizontal stripe near the bottom of the skirt, and her belt, which is now red. The carrot-shaped necktie clip is larger compared to her previous one. Her hair now reaches past her legs and her socks are now unfolded and reaches her knee. Her tail is noticably large in her artwork in the game.
Personality[]
Reisen seems to have one of the more stable and balanced personalities in Gensokyo despite her insanity-inducing powers.
Throughout the Touhou Project, she has always being referred to as moon rabbit. However, in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, only someone with impurity can confront Junko. Reisen realizes that living on Earth for too long has tainted her with impurity, thus allowing her to save the Lunar Capital. Knowing that she can no longer return to being a moon rabbit again, she now proudly proclaims herself to be an earth rabbit of Gensokyo.
The Multiverse Adventures While Riding On A Bus[]
Reisen is a member of the Multiverse Rescuers.
History[]
In Chapter 4, Reisen, alongside Juugo Yama and Rex Salazar, arrives in a stream located between two forest where they came across Edd the Sockhead, Rolf the Son of Shepherd and Youji Itami, and everyone decided to travel together afterwards.
In Chapter 5, Reisen, alongside Edd the Sockhead, Rolf the Son of Shepherd, Youji Itami, Juugo Yama and Rex Salazar, met up with Ed the Lump, Eddy the Scammer, Kevin the Jock, Luz Noceda, Amity Blight, Undine Wells, Heartful Punch, the Goblin Slayer, Musashi the Brave Fencer, Tadakuni, Ryuuko Matoi and Ichigo Momomiya in an area filled with train cars. Afterwards, everyone had a discussion and agreed with Edd's idea of luring people to their location.
In Chapter 6, Reisen, alongside everyone, witnessed Ed the Lump and Rolf the Son of Shepherd finished building a fort, much to their awe and disbelief. After taking shelter inside the fort, she witnessed Edd the Sockhead creating a gigantic holographic projection of himself while calling everyone to their fort.
In Chapter 8, Reisen, alongside the rest, are seen gathered inside the fort when Naruto Uzumaki's group, Yuna's group, Yami Sukehiro and Mereoleona Vermillion arrives in the area and got inside the fort. After introducing themselves to each other, they witnessed the arrival of a large mysterious creature and everyone decided to flee by getting inside the multiverse-travelling bus and then escaping through a portal.
In Chapter 9, Reisen, alongside everyone, are seen crammed inside the bus after escaping the dangerous world before proceeding to enter the backdoor of the bus which led them to the rather grand base operation in the Watchers' Realm, much to their awe. After meeting with Konata Izumi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, Kagami Hiiragi and Miyuki Takara, they all decided to get some rest.
In Chapter 10, Reisen is present in a conference-like room inside the main base of the Multiverse Rescuers where Jason the Watcher explained to everyone the details about the next mission in the island of Elsaragozademontelban.
In Chapter 24, Reisen, alongside Erza Scarlet, Gajeel Redfox, Happy, Jinbe, Kevin the Jock, Naoto Shirogane, Naruto Uzumaki, Natsu Dragneel, Youji Itami and Yousuke Hanamura, are seen hidden on top of a very tall tree in the desert area somewhere in the island of Elsaragozademontelban. After concluding their conversations, everyone decided to move out when they came across a group of speedo-wearing unicorn warriors. After defeating the creatures, he told everyone that Edd the Sockheard is about to do something.
In Chapter 25, Reisen is mentioned to have returned to the bus in the deep and narrow valley between two canyons in a desert that is located somewhere in the island of Elsaragozademontelban after witnessing Edd the Sockhead's gigantic holographic projection of himself.
Abilities[]
- Manipulation of Insanity
Reisen has the ability to sense and manipulate waves of all kinds, localised in her "Lunatic Red Eyes". Her signature use of this ability is manipulating brain waves through eye contact, allowing her to induce madness or hallucinations depending on the strength of her opponent's will. By increasing the frequency of brainwaves she can make a person short-tempered and irrational, or by reducing them can leave her target apathetic and depressed.
Reisen can also manipulate light and sound waves to deceive the senses indirectly, from concealing the paths of her danmaku, to creating after-images of herself, to casting wide-area illusions that cause people to get lost. Finally, she is capable of releasing waves from her eyes in a destructive blast.
Reisen is immune to the abilities of the Three Fairies of Light (seeing an invisible Sunny Milk, hearing a silent Luna Child, and escaping Star Sapphire's detection) since they are based on waves, though she seems unable to replicate Star Sapphire's abilities with her own.
- Moon rabbit abilities
Moon rabbits can send "ESP waves" and receive them with their ears, forming a sort of psychic network where they share feelings and rumors. Reisen can still participate in this network despite the physical and spiritual distance between Gensokyo and the Moon. Reisen has been depicted transmitting ESP waves from her eyes, but it is unknown whether this is the usual method or an example of her general wave manipulation abilities (or indeed, if her wave manipulation is just an advanced form of this ability).
Trivia[]
- Reisen is the first character from Touhou Project to be introduced in the AWA fics.
- Reisen's right hand is often depicted to be making a gun shape, which leads to fan assumption that she shoots danmaku in this manner, and she indeed does in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. Some fans even depict Reisen holding an actual handgun in artwork. Those are all based on ZUN's word that her normal shots were modeled after a bullet. The revelation in Silent Sinner in Blue that all Moon Defense Corps Rabbits are drilled with rifles suggests that Reisen can also use the real thing.
- In Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom she is effectively seen holding what seems to be a bunny-themed handgun. Same goes for the PlayStation 4 version of Urban Legend in Limbo where she is seen holding a rifle, complete with a magazine, that resembles her bunny-looking handgun. In both Urban Legend in Limbo and in Antinomy of Common Flowers, the handgun is seemingly able to transform into several different variants, including an automatic rifle and shotgun. Reisen is also seen dual-wielding the handguns in some attacks, so it's likely she has more than one. It's unknown whether she took them from the Lunar Capital when she fled or if somebody else made them.
- Reisen's alternate outfit in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Touhou Hisoutensoku is a homage to the Vocaloid Miku Hatsune. Her other alternate outfits in Hisoutensoku are also homages to fellow Vocaloids Rin and Len Kagamine, Luka Megurine, Meiko, Kaito, Gakupo Kamui and Gumi.
- In her official profile of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, despite Reisen being a moon rabbit, she is marked as a human. This was stated to be an error by ZUN on the 28 May 2015 session of Nikenme Radio.
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