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Shinki

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Shinki Name: 神綺(しんき)

Shinki


Species: Goddess
Abilities: Unknown
Age: Unknown, probably immortal
Occupation: Goddess and creator of Makai
Location: Pandæmonium, inside Makai
Description:
  • Light-blue eyes, white hair, wears red robes. Sprouts six white wings during the boss fight, which later turn purple with red markings.
Relationships:
Appearances:
Titles: See Character Titles

Shinki is the creator of Makai, a world of demons whose entrance is located near the Hakurei Shrine in a mountain cave. 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. Various heroines from Gensokyo traveled to Makai to put an end to this intrusion, defeating Shinki.

Fun Facts

  • The name "Shinki" means "wonderful god".
  • Pandemonium was the capital of hell in Paradise Lost. Thus, Shinki is sometimes compared to Satan.
  • Some of Shinki's attacks were replicated in UFO and a Touhou/Seihou inspired game called Samidare.
  • Shinki is compared to Satan and has a sword-throwing maid (Yumeko). Remilia is also compared to Satan and has a knife-throwing maid (Sakuya) ... Possibly the first idea for the Remilia/Sakuya pair?
  • One of Shinki's final attacks is also used by Alice in Moedan.
  • Because of Shinki's dialog in which she mentions that everything in Makai is her creation, it is thought that Alice is Shinki's daughter. However, there's been no further mention of this since then, and Perfect Memento states that Alice was once a human who became a youkai magician. It is unknown whether this is a retroactive change of continuity, merely a mistake by Akyu, or if fans were mistaken from the beginning when thinking Alice was Shinki's daughter. The doujin entitled Grimoire of Alice by Ear House attempts to reconcile this by portraying Alice as a human baby abandoned near or inside of Makai, adopted by Shinki, and turned into a youkai by her grimoire during the Mystic Square EX battle. But since there has yet to be any official statement by ZUN, this is merely speculation.
  • Fans have taken her hairstyle to be an ahoge, literally "idiot hair", which influences fanon portrayals. This itself has produced another meme of it sprouting legs and detaching it from her head.

Official Profiles

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