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Fan-made characters/Maybell
| メイベル Maybell | |
|---|---|
 Maybell Thought of Dolls 2 | |
| Species | Independent Doll |
| Abilities | Can move, talk and fly |
| Occupation | Looking for someone |
| Location | Alice's house in the Forest of Magic |
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| Print Works | |
| Show Print Work appearances | |
Maybell (メイベル Meiberu) is a fan-made character and an original character created by 葉庭 (Haniwa).
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Concept
Maybell is probebly based on Reiner Rubin from the Rozen Maiden series.
Name
The name Maybell is from old french and it means "lovely" or "to love". It is very rare in modern English for a girl to be called "Maybell".
Appearance
In the comics Maybell appeared in, she has brown eyes, and, green curled hair. She is dressed as an old-styled doll. <add more>
Story
In Thought of Dolls, Maybell appears out of nowhere and forgets everything she remembered, even who she is. The only thing she did remember is that she is looking for someone. Marisa Kirisame was walking about finding some rare items and she appeared to have found Maybell. She took her home and locked her in a cupboard because she was loud. Maybell then found a magic stone and escape with it.
She's now flying in the magic stone that Marisa has been noted to look for, unaware that it is her stone in the first place and that Maybell is hiding inside it. She bumps into Marisa once again, along with Alice Margatroid. Maybell then has a danmaku fight with the two and later fails. Alice and Maybell then greet each other, while Maybell ask Alice to give her a name. They then go home and Maybell seems to have find friends.
In Thought of Dolls 2, Maybell and Alice had a fight, both agreeing Alice is not the person Maybell is looking for. When she leaves Alice's home, she then was in real danger. But then was taken to the Scarlet Devil Mansion by Sakuya Izayoi. The next day, she returned to Alice's house to apologize, then everything was back to 'normal'.
Relationships
- Alice Margatroid (Owner)
- Marisa Kirisame (Enemy)
- Sakuya Izayoi (Support)
Additional Information
Trivia
- She's only a strong doll when she has Marisa's 'magic stone'.
- It is known that ZUN is aware of this character because of his involvement in Touhou Unreal Mahjong and with Maybell's appearance. ZUN has even stated that he likes this character[Ref. Needed].
- In Touhou Hisoutensoku, Iku Nagae and Suwako Moriya seems to have alternate color palettes that somewhat resembles Maybell.
- She's one of the earliest known fan-made characters.
- The reason why Haniwa would want to create an independent-moving doll in the Touhou Project would be because Alice can't create a independent doll for herself.
Fandom
- She has made an appearance in the flash video Artificial Children by IOSYS, being the only doll to cry.
- Most likely because of this, she has made an appearance in Touhou Unreal Mahjong.
- Because of these two appearances, she has become a well known (fan-made) character.
- Most likely because of this, she has made an appearance in Touhou Unreal Mahjong.
- There's a rumor that Hina Kagiyama's design was inspired by Maybell.
- Strange as it sounds for a fan-made character, but some fans have cosplayed her.
