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Ran Yakumo
Ran Yakumo jakɯmo ɽaɴ (♫) | |
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| Species | Beast, Kitsune possessed as Shikigami |
| Abilities | Using Shikigami |
| Age | Older than 800 years |
| Location | Boundary of Gensokyo |
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Ran Yakumo (八雲 藍 Yakumo Ran) is a shikigami who attacks the heroine when her shikigami Chen loses to them and to avoid waking her master, Yukari Yakumo.
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Concept
Name
The characters for Yakumo literally mean "eight clouds", and Ran "indigo". All of the Yakumo family are named after colors.
Ran Yakumo is apparently not her real name, according to Perfect Memento, her name was given to by Yukari Yakumo. Her real name is unknown.
Appearance
Ran has yellow eyes, short blonde hair and she wears a light pink two-tailed hat with many amulets. She has fox ears hidden under her hat. She has nine fox tails and wears a blue and light purple dress with a blue print on the front.
Occupation
As Yukari Yakumo's shikigami, Ran must do whatever Yukari commands her to do, such as doing Yukari's chores or checking the border around Gensokyo for problems. Apparently, Ran's own shikigami, Chen, is too unreliable to be entrusted with doing chores. In her spare time, Ran often calculates various things such as the width of the Sanzu River. She may also be seen in the Human Village shopping for tofu.
Story
- Perfect Cherry Blossom
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Relationships
- Chen (Shikigami)
- Yukari Yakumo (Master)
Additional Information
Trivia
- Ran is supposed to be a 9-tailed fox (called a "Kyuubi") which, according to ancient Japanese folklore, would be at least 800 years old. Foxes start life with 1 tail and gain an extra tail once every hundred years. So at 100 years old they would have 2, and at 800 would have 9. At this point, assuming Ran follows traditional folklore, she will eventually start losing tails until she has 4 and will be considered a "Tenko" (heaven) type of fox and will then be one step away from divinity.
- The name of one of her Spell Cards, "Princess Tenko," is likely a reference to a famous Japanese illusionist of the same name, considering how foxes are known for their tricks and illusions in folklore.
- Ran is the only stage mid-boss in any Touhou game that is immune to bombs.
Fanon
- A standard fan-name is to call her Ran-shama, where "shama" is a childish mispronounciation of "sama" that Chen would call her by. Sometimes, the "Ran-sha" part of it is rendered as 乱射, which means "random firing," a phrase commonly said whenever it seems like she is about to shoot.
- Ran is sometime portrayed as a flasher in fan works due to the "Suppatenko" (literally, "Naked Heaven-Fox") meme spawned by this page (images on page defunct; archived here). (NSFW)
- According to Ran's spellcard, "Princess Tenko", and the phrase on the first scene of EX stage of PCB, "A mysterious occurrence on the crossing to three countries", some fans of Ran think her as Tamamo no Mae, rather than White-faced Golden Fox of Nine Tails, or that being showed above.
- She's usually portrayed as a motherly figure, especially towards Chen.
- In certain memetic fanworks, Ran is seen to suffer from excessive nosebleeding whenever she sees Chen.
- No one really knows how Yukari met Ran but it is speculated that she was taken in by Yukari as a baby. The reason for this speculation is unknown but this could have something to do with the fact that Ran has known Yukari for some time and that her original name is unknown (as stated by her profile), leading to fans to think she didn't have one originally and that Yukari gave her that name upon finding her. However, as with most fan-works and theories, this completely omits what has been proven as canon and the fact that Ran was older than an infant when she became Yukari's shikigami, as proven in her interview with Aya in the Bohemian Archive.
Spell Cards
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- Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt
