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Shinki
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| Species | God |
| Occupation | God and creator of Makai |
| Location | Pandæmonium, inside Makai |
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Shinki (神綺) is the creator of Makai, a world of demons whose entrance is located near the Hakurei Shrine in a mountain cave. She describes herself as a "God".
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Character Design
Name
Her name is Shinki (神綺). Shin (神) means "god", and ki (綺) means "twill(ed silk), figure(d satin), light, color, luster, brightness, beauty".
Appearance
In Mystic Square's official art, Shinki has light-blue eyes with white hair and wears red robes. She's able to summon six white wings, which can turn purple with red markings.
Shinki in other Canon Works
D.N.A Software
Shinki made an appearance in the 2008 fangame Magus in Mystic Geometries by D.N.A. Softwares. Shinki is the Stage 5 boss of the game who mostly shoots spirits at Patchouli Knowledge. Her appearance is, however, unofficial and non-canon to the Touhou Project, but on the other hand, ZUN had involvement with the game and composed the theme "AN ORDEAL FROM GOD", which is Shinki's theme in that game. In official terms, this is thought to be Shinki's official second theme.
Shinki again made an appearance in the 2009 fangame Touhou Unreal Mahjong, again by D.N.A. Softwares. Shinki is one of the many playable characters who is one of the very few PC-98 characters to appear in the fangame. Again, her appearance is unofficial and her theme was composed by ZUN. Her theme is very similar to the one in Magus in Mystic Geometries, except it was renamed to "The Legend of God Demonic AN ORDEAL FROM GOD".
Story
- Mystic Square
During the events of Mystic Square, Shinki allowed a tourist agency in Makai to organize trips for the demons there to the human world of Gensokyo, which caused problems in Gensokyo. Reimu, Marisa, Mima and Yuuka traveled to Makai to put an end to this intrusion, defeating Shinki.
- Main article: Reimu Arc
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- Main article: Marisa Arc
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- Main article: Mima Arc
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- Main article: Yuuka Arc
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Relationships
Alice Margatroid
The relationship between Shinki and Alice Margatroid is never directly addressed. In Mystic Square, Alice appears as a Makai resident, calling herself "The Magician of Makai" and referring to Reimu as "human", implying that she is not one. However, in the Windows canon, Alice was a human before she became a youkai magician, and Makai is never acknowledged. Ignoring the canon rewrite, it can be assumed that Alice from the PC-98 was just another creation of Shinki. However, she does hold the Grimoire of Alice in both PC-98 and windows, so Shinki's creations seem to have been demons. (See also fanon)
Yumeko
Yumeko works as a maid for Shinki. Shinki has also stated that Yumeko is her strongest creation.
Residents of Makai
Since Shinki states that she was the creator of Makai, it can be presumed that all of the residents of Makai were also created by Shinki. Such residents would include Sariel, Sara (the Gatekeeper of Makai), Yuki, Mai, Louise, Elis, YuugenMagan, and the Stage 5 Midboss of Mystic Square. This also includes Yumeko and probably Alice.
Additional Information
- Windows references
Although Makai made a reappearance in the Windows series as stages 5 and 6 of Undefined Fantastic Object, Shinki herself was never mentioned, apart from some subtle references:
- The fairies in these stages have wings with similar colors and markings as Shinki's.
- The same set of fairies can be seen in the Final stage of Fairy Wars, which takes place in Gensokyo.
- Byakuren Hijiri's spell card, Great Magic "Devil's Recitation", strongly resembles one of Shinki's attack forms.
- Miscellaneous
Fanon
- Speculation of her reappearance
Shinki is one of the most popular PC-98-only characters, possibly second only to Mima. Like Mima, her fans hope she will return in a future Windows game, and rumors of this often surround upcoming games.
- These hopes were toyed with in Undefined Fantastic Object when it was revealed in stage 4 that their destination was Makai. However, the only hints of Shinki's existence were the colored fairies and Byakuren's spellcard mentioned above. Even after confirmation that Makai exists in canon, it is possible that she does not.
- Alice's mother
Fanon often portrays Shinki and Alice Margatroid as having a mother-daughter relationship, most likely due to her young age at the time, since technically all of the Makai characters would be her "daughters". Windows-era Alice is sometimes shown going back to Makai to visit her mother, or Shinki may leave Makai to see Alice. The current canon stating that Alice is a former human is ignored in this case.
- Fuantei is particularly infamous for portraying Alice and Shinki in a terribly dysfunctional relationship.
- Miscellaneous
- Pandæmonium was the capital of hell in Paradise Lost, leading some fans to compare Shinki to Satan.
- Fans have interpreted her hairstyle to be an ahoge, literally "idiot hair", which influences fanon portrayals.
- The resemblance between Byakuren's and Shinki's danmaku (See above) could be explained by Shinki teaching her the pattern while she was in Makai.
