Hakurei Reimu (Touhou)

"Think about what you are saying, Mister President. Think about who is currently holding onto you. Think about what I have already done to your army and your country. Think about what I could do to your beloved country if you were not around."

- HakureiReimu

Hakurei Reimu (博麗　霊夢 Hakurei Reimu), or Reimu Hakurei with western naming, is a human from  and was the de facto leader of  before being  by. She is best known as having been the of.

Appearance
Reimu is brown-eyed female girl, with long dark brown hair tied by a large frilled red bow. Her sidetails have frilled red sleeves.

Her clothes consist of a short red sleeveless shirt with a large frilled collar and a wide yellow neck tie. She also wears a frilled red skirt, usually one of ankle length, though she may wear skirts of other lengths dependent on temperature. On her arms are detached long white sleeves with red ribbons. On her feet, she wears baggy white socks and brown shoes. It is common knowledge she wears bandages round her chest.

Personality
Reimu is a lazy and selfish person but she has a strong sense of tradition and honour at heart. , as the physical connection to her deities, means an incredible amount to her but is prepared to lose it for her friends and country. Reimu has a fascination with money, something she gets terribly disappointed in losing. She is fully aware of a meme about her armpits but she cares little about it.

Policies
Reimu is a upholder of but has concerns about helping anyone who has anti-Gensokyo views.

Powers

 * Reimu is capable of using to power spells and spell cards.


 * Reimu is capable of forming a barrage of with little effort.
 * Reimu is capable of forming a barrage of with little effort.


 * Spell Tags
 * Reimu has a good supply of spell tags that have various effects or uses, such as sharp weapons or effective barriers. This enables her to be nearly untouchable when prepared.

Hakurei Bloodline
 * Reimu is blessed by her goddesses with powers intended to protect from the outside world.


 *  Formation
 * Reimu can form s, a two-dimensional barrier impenetrable to all but light, gravity and abilities that follow such as . Its most famous application was to protect Gensokyo from 's powers. This particular application of the Barrier is colloquially referred to as . If edges of the Barrier are exposed then energy is needed to maintain it, even more if it is also hit by an impact that has the potential to incapacitate Reimu and possibly collapse the Barrier if she passes out. However, if no edges are exposed, the Barrier is self-sustaining and can exist without Reimu's aid. Also as a two-dimensional surface, the Barrier is the ultimate cutting device.

Transvection
 * Reimu is capable of stable flight.

Talents
Melee
 * Reimu is an exceptionally strong melee fighter with incredible instinct, accuracy and power. She was at one point considered the strongest person in Gensokyo, based on sheer power, which is not true, surpassed by and others.

Ranged
 * Reimu is very accurate with her ranged attacks but they are not as powerful as her brute strength.

Reimu was dropped in and attempted to find her  but was confronted by armed officials of. They planned to place s in expensive celebrity accommodation to get on their good side, clearly aware that prison would fail at imprisoning them. While Reimu appreciated offers to search for the shrine in her place, she continued to refuse to move to the accommodation and prepared to fly out of the city. Suddenly, a nearby human observer shouted out a so far undisclosed sentence as a joke. Reimu, insulted by the sentence, attempted to approach the native to scold him. The officials, afraid of Reimu's threatening stance, threatened to shoot but Reimu, having never seen guns before, ignored them. The officials opened fire, Reimu immediately realising the fatal nature of firearms. She fought back, overwhelming the natives, and ended up alerting the American military. Reimu was confronted by tanks and aircraft, one particular aircraft drawing blood. She besieged before the president could evacuate, forcing him to cease all military activity and to pass the country to her, essentially birthing the kingdom that would become, named after  in her own world. This period would come to be called, though it was not called that at the time.

Reimu's activity caught the attention of who rallied her allies and also began annexing countries under the guise of protecting them from Reimu. The two factions came into conflict and a de facto border formed across, splitting into two territories, Gensokyo and Miku's.

However, entered the conflict in, , deep in Gensokyo territory. Her godlike powers took both factions by surprise, Gensokyo losing the most territory. Unable to fight two factions on two fronts, Reimu began forming around Gensokyo's remaining territory to protect from Haruhi's godlike powers. During the erection of The Hakurei Barrier, accidentally touched it while present at the American- border, causing Reimu minor pain. However, to make sure nothing similar happened again Reimu used Alice as an example, removing her pupils and hence her sight and imprisoned her for ten years. Alice remains the only person sentenced by Reimu herself instead of, Gensokyo's. After this delay, Reimu completed the Hakurei Barrier round Gensokyo, ending Gensokyo's active participation in the fighting.

Reimu evicted everyone not from from the entire state of, USA , so she could stay away from natives , making Hawaii Gensokyo's capital.

Reimu ordered anything that had been trapped in Gensokyo that could not be dealt with in a normal fashion to be imprisoned in of, including , ,  and. She then had the hangar covered in several layers of and.

, Post-
At some point, Reimu had Alice's sentence shortened from ten years to one year.

Observing the descent of through  surrounding Yamaha, Reimu suspected Haruhi of having an invasion plan and placed Gensokyo on alert. On finding out that, who had caught the moon, was making his way towards the border crossing , Reimu assembled a scout force consisting of , , , , , , , , , and  to wait by the Hakurei Barrier to counter any plan Yamaha or North High would have. However, the, which was sailing ahead of Atlas, passing through the Sonic Barrier with the aid of its generator and smashed through The Hakurei Barrier with the aid of white noise,  and. The breaking of the Hakurei Barrier caused great pain to Reimu, incapacitating her. Under Marisa's protection during the battle, Reimu waited for Atlas, who was standing in the gap in the barrier, to be pushed backwards before closing the gap. Reimu passed out from the pain right after closing the Barrier.

After the Thunder Child fled the scene and The Hakurei Barrier had been reformed, was ordered to approach the area, with The Sonic Barrier in the vicinity deactivated, on the aircraft carrier  to communicate with the Gensokyo task force and convince them the Thunder Child had been commandeered and would require both Gensokyo and Yamaha to intercept. Reimu agreed to a temporary alliance and the Barriers between the two kingdoms were deactivated.

However, Reimu decided to execute, a plan to absorb Yamaha's section of Africa into Gensokyo by overloading the , , and bringing all connected power systems down. and her dolls sabotaged the African section of The Sonic Barrier, allowing at  to shoot  at the fusion plant, bypassing all security. Once Okuu achieved her objective, Reimu formed the Hakurei Barrier around Africa. Mission completed, Reimu and Okuu began to fly back to Gensokyo's old territory when Reimu fainted in midair, Haruhi smashing through the Hakurei Barrier to the south with her. Haruhi absorbed Gensokyo into North High and brought Reimu to a space station. Without resorting to her godlike powers, Haruhi convinced Reimu that they should work together.

Original Events, Pre-
During the fleeing of, , and  from  and as Haruhi and Reimu were attempting to arrange an alliance,  used  she possessed to plan a story. On Alice's earlier advice based on Solace's own advice, Cirno planned villains first. With the very recent news that Haruhi had taken over Gensokyo, Cirno wrote Haruhi's full name first, causing Haruhi's physical death in front of Reimu.

Reimu and, now acting leader of North High, agreed to an alliance, merging Gensokyo and North High into , to attempt to restore order in the kingdom after Haruhi's death. The two tried to get back down to ground using a drop pod but the pod was intercepted and gassed by the High Gensokyo branch of, a massive group of people devoted to the collapse of. and imprisoned Reimu in, , , , ,  , tied up and weakened by spell tag. In an attempt to gain Reimu's abilities for himself, especially her ability to produce and remove Hakurei Barriers, Ganondorf attached a memory transfer spell tag to her, removing many of her memories.

's Changes
Naluri Sihara and Sasaki successfully used to time travel back to just before Haruhi was killed by the Death Note but Sasaki abandoned Naluri after  was used on Haruhi. Naluri and made their way northwards from, , to Arkham Asylum to recover Reimu by following the drop pod's transmissions. However, they were too late, Reimu's memories already deteriorated. Naluri removed the memory spell tag and freed Reimu but Reimu, still possessing fear of armed personnel from The Bad Apple Incident, attacked Naluri, only stopping after noticing Haruki, whom she mistook as Haruhi. Even more scared of Haruki than Naluri, Reimu retreated and cried herself to sleep, beyond help that Naluri and Haruki could give.

However, later, Naluri and Haruki came across the rest of and, including , who could work with memories. ,, and Haruki with some SOS Thunder Children flew to Arkham Asylum to release Reimu and. However, due to Reimu's mental instability and her sheer power, it was decided that someone of her calibre would be needed to pacify Reimu before Ælious could restore her memories. Ælious, Alice Raymour and successful rescued Marisa off the Thunder Child before her potential death. Marisa confronted Reimu and convinced her, with lies, that she was Reimu's mother, which Reimu fell for. With Reimu's guard down, Marisa knocked her out, allowing Ælious to use the memory tag to restore Reimu's memories.

Once restored, Reimu flew to the battle over the activation of The DeLorean, and fought Magneto, making sure he could not interfere with any other battle with his magnetic powers. She witnessed the death of the future Naluri and the disappearance of the future Sasaki.

Reimu, with Haruhi's aid, found The Hakurei Shrine in, destroyed by the harsh winds, ice and snow. She, again with Haruhi's assistance, founded in, essentially a carbon copy of her old country from her world, rejecting a potential offer from  to have Old Gensokyo placed in its real world equivalent location to continue to stay away from natives. However, as a sign of thanks and goodwill, she invited many of her newfound friends to a week long festival in Old Gensokyo.

, a sentient crystal ball, was briefly released from statis in to allow Haruhi to examine him for danger. As an, he was deemed a harmless object but was placed back in statis just in case. However, in the time he was free, he digitalised the surrounding area, making the statis ineffective. The digitisation spread throughout the universe, including Reimu.

Yggdrasil's digitalisation reached the edge of the universe, inadvertently granting digital access, who infected the world with. This affected all non-immune humans including Reimu, placing them under the control of The Director, recognisable by yellow eyes.

, including who had also been freed by the digitalisation, agreed to stage a fake war to coax  to feel true fear, the last missing emotion of, to allow them to return to their original worlds. Under the guise of a difference in ideals between Haruhi, Miku and Reimu, were refounded. Reimu remained with Gensokyo, said to want a unified world with a single country. As part of the plan, Gensokyo refused to attend goodwill meetings with Yamaha and North High and declared war on both kingdoms.

Reimu fought in, , and was confronted by Miku, who pretended to protect the , which was being transported by the ' and the '. However, Reimu managed to down the Halberd though 'could not' bring down the Normandy due to Miku's efforts.