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Yin-Yang Orb
Note: This article is both an Items entry and a Character.
| 陰陽玉 Yin-Yang Orb | |
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| Species | Spirit?? |
| Abilities | Spiritual Power |
| Occupation | Reimu's aid |
| Location | Hakurei Shrine |
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The Yin-Yang Orb (陰陽玉 Onmyou-dama or Onmyou-gyoku) is an orb with the appearance of a yin-yang symbol. In the PC-98 canon, it is the biggest treasure of the Hakurei Shrine, and are only able to be used by those of the Hakurei lineage. Thus, they have been passed down through the generations. They are an extremely effective weapon against non-humans (youkai). Because Reimu is the only living member of the Hakurei lineage, she's the only one that can use them. In the windows canon, it is a weapon that Reimu uses and it also functioned as a communicator.
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Concept
Appearance
The Yin-Yang Orb simply looks like a typical yin-yang which suppose to be made of some type of crystal. It's true form is unknown.
In Highly Responsive to Prayers Makai route good ending, the ball transformed into a tiny fairy, who wore a white dress with pink hair, and appeared with transparent wings. In the Hell route good ending, the ball transformed into a strange ball creature, which was a white spherical body with a red top hat and two beady eyes. It had stick legs and it seems to be well taller than Reimu.
Story
In the endings to Highly Responsive to Prayers, the Orb appears to transform into either a tiny wish-granting fairy or a joyful spherical creature. In Makai route good ending, Reimu thought the tiny fairy can grant wishes, so Reimu wished for money, a cake, a hot meal, "the truth of the Universe", and the "destruction of Earth", with a response from the fairy: "Who'd wish something like that!?". In the Hell route good ending, the joyful creature starts destroying parts of the Hakurei Shrine and Reimu gets angry.
In Story of Eastern Wonderland, depending on which ending you get Genjii will explain the orb's "true power", each of which is hilariously mundane and is never spoken of again in the series:
- The ability to eat sweets and not get fat
- The effect of giving its user whatever scent they desire
- The ability to turn into a cat whenever the user chooses
In Subterranean Animism, Yukari modified the Yin-Yang Orb to act as a communicator to stay in touch with the other youkai while Reimu went to Former Hell. In Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 10, the Yin-Yang Orb is shown to still have this function and was thrown onto the ground by Reimu in disgust; later in Chapter 17, even without Reimu, the Yin-Yang Orb destoryed one of Kasen Ibaraki's arm simply by picking it up.
After this, the Yin-Yang Orb stayed as Reimu's weapon all the way up to Ten Desires and may stay like this for all of Reimu's life.
Relationship
- Reimu Hakurei (Owner)
- Genjii (Unknown)
- Mima (Unknown)
Additional Information
Trivia
- The Orbs function by constantly draining the user's power bit by bit. Once they have been filled with the user's power, they can release all the stored energy at once - and as Mima puts it, it can be used for good or for evil.
- They appear next to Reimu Hakurei in several games and are used in many of her attacks, either as danmaku or as part of her Spell Card.
- All the Windows games does not have a portrait of the Yin-yang Orb (including Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream) and can only be seen by sprite next to Reimu, a shield use in the fighter spin-offs, and as Danmaku bullets. Even large sized Yin-yang bullets are classified.
- Yin-Yang Orbs are somewhat a generic enemy in Imperishable Night as they are destroyable.
Fanon
- For many years, not many fans saw this character as being classified as a returning PC-98 character.
- For some reason, many fans were mistaken the little fairy in Highly Responsive to Prayers to be Sariel, where Sariel died and was reincarnated into this fairy. Please fully note that this is speculation and there's no proof to back this up.
Official Profiles
- Highly Responsive to Prayers - 靈異伝.TXT
- Story of Eastern Wonderland - 封魔録.TXT
All the Windows games don't have profiles for the Yin-yang Orb, or even a portrait.
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- Highly Responsive to Prayers
- Characters
- Characters in Highly Responsive to Prayers
- Characters in Story of Eastern Wonderland
- Characters in Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
- Characters in Lotus Land Story
- Characters in Mystic Square
- Characters in Shuusou Gyoku
- Characters in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
- Characters in Perfect Cherry Blossom
- Characters in Immaterial and Missing Power
- Characters in Imperishable Night
- Characters in Phantasmagoria of Flower View
- Characters in Mountain of Faith
- Characters in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
- Characters in Subterranean Animism
- Characters in Undefined Fantastic Object
- Characters in Touhou Hisoutensoku
- Characters in Ten Desires
- Generic Enemy Characters
- Items
- Non-humanoid Characters
- Returning 1st Windows Generation Characters
- Returning PC-98 Characters
