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*She may have been inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne's] short story, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappaccini%27s_Daughter Rappaccini's Daughter], where the title character, Dr. Rappaccini, keeps his daughter, Beatrice, confined in a garden of poisonous flowers, until she became poisonous herself. | *She may have been inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne's] short story, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappaccini%27s_Daughter Rappaccini's Daughter], where the title character, Dr. Rappaccini, keeps his daughter, Beatrice, confined in a garden of poisonous flowers, until she became poisonous herself. | ||
*She may have also been inspired by Agatha Christie, whose favourite flower was non other than the Lily of The Valley. This is backed up by ZUN's obvious love for Agatha Christie's stories as seen in other characters like [[Alice Margatroid]], [[Letty Whiterrock]] and above all [[Flandre Scarlet]]. | |||
==Official Profiles== | ==Official Profiles== |
Revision as of 08:26, 2 December 2010
Main Profile
Name: | メディスン・メランコリー
Medicine Melancholy | |
Alternate spellings: | Medicin Melancory | |
Species: | Doll gone youkai | |
Abilities: | Manipulation of poison | |
Age: | Unknown, but young for a youkai | |
Occupation: | Unknown | |
Location: | Nameless Hill | |
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Titles: | See Character Titles |
Medicine Melancholy is a doll youkai that lives on Nameless Hill surrounded by poisonous suzuran (lily of the valley) flowers. In Medicine's first appearance, Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she attacks the player with suzuran's poison for no apparent reason other than because they happened to be in her field. Because some of her attacks create clouds of poison in the player's side of the field which slow the player's movements and make dodging difficult she can be a very troublesome opponent to those that don't take care while near poison. Though supposedly not especially powerful or experienced among youkai, the fact that the right poison can affect even very strong people (or large numbers of people at once) makes her someone best avoided.
Fun Facts
- It is sometimes assumed that "the tiny doll" might be her, who is in fact controlling the human shape beside her...the truth is yet to be seen.
- Her name is derived from A Medicine For Melancholy by Ray Bradbury.
- Although she is labeled as a youkai, Medicine's true nature may be that of a tsukumogami, as described in Perfect Memento: Eight Million Gods.
- The term Konparo (コンパロ) is associated with her, due to her having said "Konparo konparo, poison gathers" in her ending in PoFV. Konparo is an incorrectly abbreviated romanization of convalloside, a poison found in lily-of-the-valley flowers (it should have been Konbaro or Konvaro).
- She is associated with Alice Margatroid in fanworks for obvious reasons.
- Though a playable character and opponent in one of the Touhou games, she tends to end up behind most Touhou Windows characters in popularity polls, and like Shizuha Aki and Minoriko Aki has become somewhat notable for her relative unpopularity.
- She is sometimes depicted with Yuuka Kazami in fanworks because they are both related to flowers.
- She bears a striking resemblance to Nameless Midboss Demon.
- She may have been inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, Rappaccini's Daughter, where the title character, Dr. Rappaccini, keeps his daughter, Beatrice, confined in a garden of poisonous flowers, until she became poisonous herself.
- She may have also been inspired by Agatha Christie, whose favourite flower was non other than the Lily of The Valley. This is backed up by ZUN's obvious love for Agatha Christie's stories as seen in other characters like Alice Margatroid, Letty Whiterrock and above all Flandre Scarlet.
Official Profiles
Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt
○小さなスイートポイズン
メディスン・メランコリー Medicine Melancholy
能力:毒を操る程度の能力
妖怪化してからはまだ数年程度しか経っていない、妖怪の新米。 毒を操る程度の能力を持つ。
験的に知り、人間を自由に操る方法を確立した。
願うが、賛同する人形は居なかった。そもそも他の人形は自らの力で は動かなかったのだ。
ころか、一緒に咲くはずのない秋の花も咲き始めたのだ。彼女は幻 想郷には未知なる力が存在する事を強く思い知らされた。 |
Little Sweet Poison
Medicine Melancholy Species: Doll Ability: Manipulation of poison A doll thrown away into a lily-of-the-valley field; over the long years she became a youkai. As only a few years have passed since then, she is a novice youkai. Her ability is manipulating poison. Certain kinds of ingredients, taken from a plant, can drive an animal mad. She learned that through experience, and established a method of manipulating humans as she pleases. In addition, as she is not a living being, poison is harmless against her. Dolls are usually manipulated by humans. Because of this, she wishes for doll emancipation, but there aren't many dolls who agree with her. To begin with, other dolls don't move on their own... The lilies-of-the-valley, which weren't expected to bloom, have begun blooming all at once this year. In addition to that, even autumn flowers which weren't supposed to bloom are blooming too. She learned that there are many powers she has never seen in Gensokyo. |
Book Synopsis
Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
- Main article: Perfect Memento: Medicine Melancholy
- Medicine is a very young youkai who has not yet matured mentally.
- She is believed to originally be a large doll used in ventriloquism before becoming a youkai, and still has that form now.
- After being left on Nameless Hill for a long time with poisonous flowers she gained the ability to control poison.
- She puts poison on food, uses it to attack, and is probably covered in poison herself.
- Even touching her will inflame your skin.
- The poison she uses is not a single type, but could be any number of poisons and venoms.
- Even strong youkai could be at risk from her poison, and it may cause after effects too.
- It's feared that she may try to spread poison at the Human Village.
- She hates humans, but pretending to be a human that also hates humans may spare you.
- She has very limited experience dealing with humans and probably hasn't seen many or many at once.
- No matter who she fights she lacks the experience to know when or if to hold back, and she will always fight at full force.
- Her lack of experience is both her weakness and what makes more likely to attack with deadly force.
- She's also less intelligent than a human.
- Avoiding her is the best and safest thing to do.
The Grimoire of Marisa
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