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Letty Whiterock
レティ・ホワイトロック
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Letty Whiterock Letty Whiterock in Perfect Cherry Blossom
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Manipulation of cold |
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Winter |
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Letty Whiterock (レティ・ホワイトロック Reti howaitorokku) is a seasonal youkai who's only seen during winter. Although she attacks the heroine early during Perfect Cherry Blossom, she's half-hearted about it, so her true power isn't seen. She seems fittingly cold towards most of the humans she meets, and many humans fear her abilities.
Concept
Name
Letty's name and personality are based on the character Letitia "Letty" Blacklock from Agatha Christie's book "A Murder is Announced".
Appearance
Letty has lavender eyes and curly lavender hair. She wears a blue and white dress, with a white apron in front of it. At the top of her skirt that is a golden lapel resembling the alchemical symbol for silver. Also wears a white cap and a nearly transparent cape.
Ability
Her ability is to manipulate the cold. As she is related to the cold, she goes to an unknown place after winter where she hibernates during summer, in a place where is no sunlight. At the end of autumn she will come back. She is feared by human as she is known to freeze them.
Story
- Perfect Cherry Blossom
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- Main article: Reimu Arc
In Reimu's scenario, Reimu is complaining about the cold. Letty says she will help her have an "eternal deep sleep". But Reimu still complains about the cold and eventually defeat Letty.
- Main article: Marisa Arc
Marisa is lost and encounters Letty. Marisa suggests that winter should be the season where you sleep beneath the cherry trees, and Letty say she also want to sleep for a long time due to the long winter. But Marisa don't want her to sleep and they fight, with Marisa winning.
- Main article: Sakuya Arc
Sakuya is searching for the mastermind behind the events happening but encounters Letty, who states she is the mastermind. Sakuya defeats her and goes search further for the real mastermind.
- Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
- Main article: Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red: Letty Whiterock
Aya finds Letty Whiterock who just had been, for no apparent reason, beaten up by a human and left buried in the snow. They talk about the long winter, and Aya suspects her as the culprit. Letty attempts to explain the fine details of her abilities and the hardships of her life, but fails to earn Aya's sympathy in the end.
Relationship
- Minor or Unknown Meetings or Associations
Nothing is known about her relationship status with Cirno. She appears to dislike being grouped up with her as she explains her superiority when interviewed by Aya Shameimaru in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red. She is also seen talking to Cirno during Silent Sinner in Blue, although nothing is known about their conversation.
Additional Information
Trivia
- The brooch on her dress resembles the alchemical symbol for silver, coinciding with her theme, "Crystallized Silver".
- In her interview with Aya, Letty states that she hibernates during summer.
Fandom
- She is said to have a larger hit box than other bosses, probably to make it easier for newbies. However, this fact led to a fan theory that she is fat. An alternate fan theory is that this indicates her having large breasts.
- She melts at the end of winter in some fan comics.
- In some fan comics, she sometimes is seen in a freezer or refrigerator, typically to hibernate between winters.
- She is often portrayed as Cirno's friend and mentor.
- Due to the shape of the brooch on her dress, she is also sometimes seen wielding a trident in fanart.
- There is confusion over whether she is a snow spirit or the Spirit of Winter, which leads to some conflicting cases when she disappears at the end of winter or just doesn't feel like appearing.
- Some fanfics depict her calling herself 黒幕 (Literally: "Black Curtain", Romanized: Kuromaku, Meaning: "puppeteer", "manipulator", "wire puller", "political fixer", "mastermind") from Sakuya's Scenario of Perfect Cherry Blossom.
- She is sometimes referred to as 白岩さん ("Shiroiwa-san"), which means "white rock."
Spell Cards
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Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
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寒符「リンガリングコールド」 | Cold Sign "Lingering Cold" | PCB | St. 1: E/N/H/L | |||
冬符「フラワーウィザラウェイ」 | Winter Sign "Flower Wither Away" | PCB GoM |
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白符「アンデュレイションレイ」 | White Sign "Undulation Ray" | PCB | St. 1: H | |||
怪符「テーブルターニング」 | Mystic Sign "Table-Turning" | PCB | St. 1: L | |||
寒符「コールドスナップ」 | Cold Sign "Cold Snap" | StB GoM |
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冬符「ノーザンウイナー」 | Winter Sign "Northern Winner" | StB | St. 2 |
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Official Profiles
Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt
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Letty Whiterock PCB | ○冬の忘れ物
レティ・ホワイトロック 1面のボス。冬になると何処からとも無く湧く妖怪。 レティは冬である限り幸せである。霊夢達がこの幸せの時を破ろうと ただ、毎年春というレティ達と花粉症持ちには憂鬱な季節が訪れる為、 春が訪れると、また何処かへ消えていってしまう。 |
What Winter Left Behind Letty Whiterock Stage 1 boss. A youkai of the winter season who can be found in places without heat. Her ability mainly allows her to control cold. Letty is happiest during winter. She gets in the way of Reimu and her companions because they threaten to put an end to her time of greatest happiness. However, Letty and her fellow winter spirits as well as sufferers of hay fever know well that spring, a season of depression, comes every year. She accepts that fact and never attacks players seriously. When spring comes, she will disappear to unknown whereabouts. |
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Official Sources
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- 2003/08/17 Perfect Cherry Blossom - Stage 1 dialogue; キャラ設定.txt
- 2005/08/11 Shoot the Bullet - Stage 2 Spell Card comments
- 2005/08/14 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Letty Whiterock
- 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Youkai of Winter: Letty Whiterock
- 2008/02/09 Silent Sinner in Blue - Chapter 9
- 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Letty Whiterock's Spell Cards
- 2009/02/21 Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth - Chapter 21
- 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
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