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Revision as of 01:39, 18 March 2011
Main Profile
Name: | 封獣 ぬえ (ほうじゅう ぬえ)
Nue Houjuu
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Species: | Nue | |
Abilities: | Power to hide true form by Seeds of Non-Identification (this includes changing her form to energy ball and pieces of Soaring Vault to UFOs) | |
Age: | Unknown, More than 800 Years old | |
Occupation: | Scaring people | |
Location: | Temple of Myouren | |
Description: |
Has short black hair and dark red eyes. Has three red metallic-looking wings on the right side of her back, and three blue arrow-shaped tails coming out from her left side. Carries a trident, has a snake on her right arm (which might be the Seed of Non-Identification), and also wears a black wristband on her left wrist. Her dress is all black with blue and white trim in the middle, a red bow on the front, and a small, yin-yang-like tomoe design at the bottom corner of the skirt of her dress. She wears black thigh-high stockings and red shoes with bows on them. | |
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Titles: | See Character Titles |
General Information
She is said to be one of the most mysterious and feared youkai in many years, yet has been defeated by Humans many times. There are many differing legends according to her appearance because she hides her "true form". At some point she was sealed underground, and because of the events of Subterranean Animism, resurfaced in Gensokyo.
Story
During the events of Undefined Fantastic Object, she found out that Murasa and the other youkai who were also sealed underground made it above ground and were planning something. Not knowing exactly what, she decided to had some "fun" by putting Seeds of Unknown Form in the fragments of Tobikura, one of the elements needed to revive Byakuren. The snakes contained in the seeds caused the fragments to scatter into the air; the characters initially believe that the geyser from Subterranean Animism was the cause. These becomie the iconic UFOs that the player encounters during the game
During stages 4 and 6 she sees the heroine collecting them and decides to secretly follow her, either helping or getting in her way. She eventually realizes what the plan of the other youkai is, and figures that it would benefit her, so she settles on helping the heroine achieve that goal. She appears in the Extra Stage during the heroine's investiagtion of the Seeds of Non-identification.
After Sanae B's scenario, it is implied that she and Sanae have their picture taken by Aya.
Based on one of Reimu's quotes in Touhou Hisoutensoku, as well as chapter 12 of Oriental Sacred Place, she is currently living with Byakuren in her temple.
Relationships
Nue appears to have known Murasa and Ichirin before the events of Undefined Fantastic Object. She is also currently living at Byakuren's temple near the Human Village, because Byakuren was too nice to ostracize her.
Other
Name and Concept
- Like Satori, her first name is also the name of her species.
- A nue is a legendary beast that has "the head of a monkey, the body of a raccoon dog, the legs of a tiger, and a snake as a tail". Nue's family name, Houjuu, literally means "sealed beast" as written.
Trivia
- Similar to Kogasa, she tends to scare off people by using the fear of the unknown, or the fear of her true form.
- Nue is the first(?) character ZUN himself has drawn with thigh-highs, and she seems to appeal to "zettai ryouiki" fans, referring to the area of bare skin between a skirt and thigh-highs. There is a slight shadow of doubt over this since Suwako's sprite in MoF clearly shows her wearing thigh-highs while her drawn portrait shows her wearing socks long enough to be thigh-highs but are slightly folded down to where her knees should be. Mystia also seems to be wearing stockings reaching above her knees in her drawn portrait in Imperishable Night.
- Nue's spell cards are heavily reminiscent of other characters', such as Flandre, Yukari, Rumia, and Hina. Specifically, they tend to act as combinations of spell cards, often using one element from one, and one from another.
- Nue is the only Extra Stage boss to appear as a midboss in multiple stages. Ran has been a midboss in one stage.
- Nue's appearance as a ball of light midboss on stages 4 and 6 is similar to the stage 2 midboss of Mystic Square. Yuuka also turned into a ball of light during her battle in Lotus Land Story.
- However, she bears the most similarity to the midboss of Lotus Land Story's extra stage. Their appearances are identical, and both drop items when leaving the screen, each ending with an extra life.
- Nue has the tag "Heian" on her song and a couple of her spell cards. Heian may be referring to the Heian period (794 AD to 1185 AD) of Japanese history (traditionally depicted as a Golden Age in Japanese History) and/or to a former capital city of Japan (794 AD to 1868 AD), 平安京 "Heian-Kyo", which is now the city of Kyoto. Her age of approximately 800 years also places her origins at the end of or during the Heian period.
- Her theme song's name might refer to 平安京エイリアン "Heian-Kyo Alien", a game developed in 1979.
- The bass line on the first part of her theme music is borrowed from UFO, the best hit song of Pink Lady.
- Nue's "Danmaku X from a Wandering Star" spell card in Double Spoiler has danmaku in shapes resembling that of the PlayStation's button logos.
- In Kyoto, the streets are laid out in grid-like pattern. You can see her survival spell card is referring to this.
- Nue is the first Extra stage boss in the Windows series to have not met the final boss prior the start of the game she first appears in.
- Nue's first non-spell card attack resembles Vivit's first attack in her second form in Shuusou Gyoku
Fandom
- Due to her character design, theme song, and the fact she is an Extra stage boss, some fans have compared her to Flandre Scarlet. This has led to her fan nickname, "U.F.O-wen."
Spell Cards
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Official Profiles
Undefined Fantastic Object - Settings and Extra Story.txt
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Official Sources
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- 2009/08/15 Undefined Fantastic Object - Extra Stage dialogue; Settings and Extra Story.txt (official profile)
- 2009/08/15 Touhou Hisoutensoku - Reimu's VS dialogue with Marisa
- 2009/12/25 Interview on Undefined Fantastic Object with Kyara☆Mel
- 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler - Stage 12 spellcard comments
- 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
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