Dream Logical World/Characters

Some of the characters in Dream Logical World are original and non-existent in the Touhou Project. The following twelve are, however, officially part of the Touhou Project and are playable characters in Dream Logical World. All other characters are original.

Descent with Modification Team

博麗の巫女さん Hakurei Shrine Maiden Reimu Hakurei Playable Character 種族：人間 能力：主に空を飛ぶ程度の能力 毎度お馴染みの巫女さん。博麗神社の巫女さん。 修業不足ではあるが、生まれ付きの霊力もある。 神社の繁盛以外に異変の影響をその目で見て いなかったから、別に調べようとは思わなかった。 異変の本質は誰も知らなかったし、解決したら 繁盛が消えてしまうかも知れない。 だが華扇から説教を受けて、自分だけじゃなくて 幻想郷全体のために動こうと見直した。 そしてそれはただの義務感じゃなくて、 本当に心から助けたいと思ったからだった。 どうして今更こんなに善意が湧いてきたのか…… やっぱり夢論理の異変を調べるのが重要なようだ。 Species: Human Ability: Flying in the air The all-too-familiar shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. She lacks training, but possesses innate spiritual power. To Reimu, the clearest sign of the incident was finally running a profitable shrine, so she felt little need to investigate. After all, no one had any idea what was actually going on. For all she knew, resolving the incident would erase that profit. After Kasen talked to her, though, Reimu's conscience began to tell her she should do what was best for all of Gensokyo, not just her shrine. More than reluctant duty, actually, she wanted to help. Why would she have that feeling now, of all times? Maybe the dream logic really did need investigating.

茨木の仙人さん Ibaraki Hermit Kasen Ibaraki Playable Character 種族：仙人？ 能力：動物を導く程度の能力 妖怪の山に住む、どこか不思議だけど 人が良さそうな仙人。 知恵を分けたりアドバイスしてたりするために、 博麗神社や人間の里を常に訪ねている。 ようやく繁盛していた神社のこともあって、 異変解決の責任を果たすように霊夢を 説得しないといけないことが分かったが、 まさか自分も手伝うように頼まれたのは意外だった。 むしろ、霊夢は彼女のことをありがたく思っている ようにすら見えていた。夢論理の影響が人の 性格まで及んでいたのか？そうなれば、 彼女のような人がますます必要かもしれない。 Species: Hermit? Ability: Guiding animals A mysterious but apparently good-natured hermit who lives on the Youkai Mountain. She regularly visits the Hakurei Shrine and Human Village to dispense knowledge and advice. With the shrine being successful for the first time in who knew how long, Kasen knew she'd have to nag Reimu to do her incident-resolving duty, but she didn't expect to be asked to help. Reimu seemed to actually want her around. Could the dream logic really even affect people's actions? If so, this incident could use someone like Kasen.

Aesthetic Relativism Team

光閃と爆発を愛おしむ者 Admirer of Lasers and Explosions Marisa Kirisame Playable Character 種族：人間 能力：魔法を使う程度の能力 魔法の森に住む、自称「普通な魔法使い」。 蒐集癖を持つ。 幻想郷のあらゆるところで、奇妙な植物や新しい 地勢が現れた。 夢論理の影響によって最初からあったと信じ込んだ 魔理沙は別に気にしなかったけど、異変だと 分かった今なら話は別だ。 好奇心が湧いてきた彼女はこの新しい素材に目を 付け、空前の力や魔法を手に入れようと決めた。 まぁ、他の誰よりも強力らしい正体不明の犯人を どうにか止めて現実の書き直しに終止符を打つ のも重要だけど…… とにかく最優先は収集だ！ Species: Human Ability: Using magic A self-described "ordinary magician" living in the Forest of Magic. She has a mania for collecting things. Many new, exotic plants and other environmental features seem to have been placed in Gensokyo. Because of the dream logic, Marisa had believed they were always there, so she didn't take note of properties they might have that could aid in her magic techniques. Now that the dream logic's been unmasked, she's eager to find materials from which she could unlock yet-unheard-of power. Oh, and save her reality from being rewritten at the whim of someone apparently more powerful than anyone she's ever heard of...but first, that other thing.

花鳥風月を愛おしむ者 Admirer of Beautiful Flowers Yuuka Kazami Playable Character 種族：妖怪 能力：花を操る程度の能力 昔から幻想郷に住む妖怪。季節の花が大好きで、 一年中花が咲いているところを目指して移動する。 花の観察が趣味である彼女は夢論理の話を 聞いて混乱してきた。紫色のガラス花は確か、 晩秋に咲くものでしたよね？或いは最初から 存在しなかったか……？ まあどちらにしても、綺麗であることは変わらないが。 奇妙な状態について考え込んでいたところ、 偶然にも新しい植物を魔法材料として求めていた 魔理沙と会った。 きっと二人が力を合わせれば、夢のような謎を解く と同時に素晴らしい光景は見れるはずだろう。 Species: Youkai Ability: Manipulating flowers A youkai that has lived in Gensokyo for a long time. She loves seasonal flowers, so throughout the year she moves to the respective places where the flowers grow. When she found out Gensokyo had become a dream-logical world, her flower-viewing hobby was thrown into disarray. These purple glass flowers were the ones that always sprouted in late autumn, right? Or had they never existed until now? Well, they were certainly beautiful regardless. As Yuuka pondered this unusual situation, she ran into Marisa, who herself was looking for new and exotic plants to use for her magic. Together they could certainly figure out the dream-logical mystery. And see some gorgeous sights while they were at it.

Theory of Everything Team

瀟洒なタキオン Elegant Tachyon Sakuya Izayoi Playable Character 種族：人間 能力：時を操る程度の能力 紅魔館にすむ、人間のメイド長。 時空を操る能力のおかげで、彼女は割と 早い段階から世界の違和感に気付いた。 特に引っかかったのは人間の里と博麗神社の位置 がいつも通りなのに、二つの場所を繋ぐ道が短く なったことだった。 まるで時空の一部が現実から削れたように……。 何とかしなければいけないと強く感じた彼女は 鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバを探しに行った。 二人の能力があれば、きっと黒幕がいる場所を 突き止めるはずだろう。 Species: Human Ability: Manipulating time The head maid that lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Since her powers allow her to control time and space, Sakuya was one of the first to notice that something was amiss with existence. She was particularly unnerved by the fact that the path from the village to the shrine had become much shorter, but their actual geographical locations hadn't changed. It was as if a slice of spacetime on the path had simply been excised from reality. Feeling in her heart that something had to be done, she went to find Reisen. Their abilities combined could surely let them pinpoint the mastermind's location.

ふわふわなマグネター Fluffy Magnetar Reisen Udongein Inaba Playable Character 種族：月の兎 能力：波長を操る程度の能力 迷いの竹林の奥にある永遠亭に住む、月の兎。 波長を操る力のおかげで世界の違和感に気付く のが大抵の人よりも早かったが、皆が異変だと 分かった時までその正体を掴むことができなかった。 人々や自然の波長が変わっただけで十分に おかしかったが、その上で全ての波が「相の樹」に 向かって集まっていた。だから、咲夜と共に動いた 彼女は樹を最初に調べようと決めた。 だが、自分の認知さえも夢論理に影響されて いても、果たしてその樹の意義に気づくことが できるのか？ Species: Moon rabbit Ability: Manipulating waves A moon rabbit living in the mansion Eientei deep within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. Reisen's control over wavelengths made her one of the first to pick up something wrong with existence, but like everyone else, she couldn't tell what it was until the dream logic was unveiled. The altered wavelengths from people and the environment were suspicious enough, but more fundamentally, all the changed waves appeared to be pointing to one location—the Tree of Aspects. Thus Reisen, along with Sakuya, put that location first on her investigation list. But with dream logic corrupting their perception of reality, can they discern what the Tree's significance is?

Intrinsic and Instrumental Value Team

二柱の神に従う人間 Devoted Deified Human Sanae Kochiya Playable Character 種族：人間 能力：奇跡を起こす程度の能力 妖怪の山にある守矢神社に住む巫女さん。 外の世界から幻想郷に引っ越した後、 だんだん妖怪退治に慣れてきている。 彼女は幻想郷の社会をひっくり返そうと異変を 起こした天邪鬼、鬼人正邪を捕まえようとした者 の一人だった。 今回もまさに世界がひっくり返されたような異変で、 彼女の中の第一容疑者も他ならぬ正邪である。 ……というのは建前で、しばらく活動していなかった から妖怪退治したいというのは本音。 でも夢論理異変をこれで解決できたら、 一石二鳥でしょう？ Species: Human Ability: Causing miracles The shrine maiden living at the Moriya Shrine on the Youkai Mountain. She's becoming used to youkai extermination after moving to Gensokyo from the Outside World. Sanae was one of several humans and youkai who attempted to capture Seija the amanojaku after she caused an incident and attempted to turn Gensokyo's society upside-down. With the entire world going berserk again, Seija ran right to the top of Sanae's suspect list. Well, that was mostly an excuse to go youkai-hunting again since Sanae hadn't participated in a major incident in a while. But hey, what if she really could stop the dream logic that easily?

二枚の舌を持つ人物 Double Dealing Character Seija Kijin Playable Character 種族：天邪鬼 能力：何でもひっくり返す程度の能力 人が嫌がることを好み、人が好むことを嫌がり、 人から嫌がられることを好み、そして人から 好まれることを嫌がる天邪鬼。 幻想郷の下克上を企んだ彼女は以前に打ち出の 小槌の持ち主を騙して、異変を起こしたトラブル メーカーである。 その後幻想郷の皆に追い詰められたが、 集めたマジックアイテムの反則的な力を使って 天邪鬼らしく逃げ切った。 それからは別に何もしていないが、夢論理の犯人 だと決めつけた早苗に異変解決を手伝おうと 無理やり連れてこられた。 当然、早苗を痛い目に会わせようと企んでいる。 Species: Amanojaku Ability: Turning anything upside-down An amanojaku who likes what others hate, hates what others like, likes when people hate her, and hates when people like her. She was the troublemaker responsible for Gensokyo's previous incident, where she (indirectly) used the wish-granting Miracle Mallet in an attempt to overturn society and make the weak rule over the strong. Several of Gensokyo's residents attempted to bring her to justice, but true to her nature, Seija cheated her way out of their spell cards with the power of several magic items she'd gathered. She hasn't acted up since then, but Sanae suspected her for the dream logic and dragged her out to investigate. She'll make absolute sure to give Sanae a hard time.

Principle of Non-Contradiction Team

生死を彷徨う半人半霊 Alive and Dead, Human and Phantom Youmu Konpaku Playable Character 種族：人間と幽霊のハーフ 能力：剣術を扱う程度の能力 冥界の館「白玉楼」の庭師兼、 西行寺幽々子の剣の指南役。 常にあの世に住んでいるから、幻想郷で起こる 異変が彼女のところまで広がるのは珍しい。 だが「夢論理」と呼ばれているものに幻想郷の 実相が改ざんされたと聞いたら、彼女も大きな 不安を抱き始めた。 現実を存在レベルで変える者がいたら、幻想郷の 隣の世界だって影響されてしまうかもしれない。 まず知り合いの人を見つけて、事実を確認し合った 方がいいと彼女は思った。 例えば霊夢あたりとか…… Species: Half-human, half-phantom Ability: Handling sword techniques The gardener of the mansion Hakugyokurou, and the swordsmanship teacher for her mistress Yuyuko. Hakugyokurou is located in the Netherworld, beyond death, so Youmu's home usually isn't affected by incidents in Gensokyo. When she caught wind that the fabric of Gensokyo's reality was being altered by something called "dream logic", however, she became intensely concerned. If it could control reality on this existential level, there was no reason to dismiss the possibility it could begin influencing Gensokyo's neighboring realms. The first thing she should do, Youmu thought, was find someone she knew and confirm what she knew about reality with them. Reimu could probably help...

心を読めない読心能力者 Mind-Reader who Can't Read Minds Koishi Komeiji Playable Character 種族：サトリ 能力：無意識を操る程度の能力 心を読む能力のせいで他人から嫌われてしまい、 それを避けるために第三の眼を閉ざしたサトリの 妖怪。眼と共に自分の心を閉ざしてしまい、 誰の目にも映らない放浪者になった。 自ら姿を現わさない限り誰にも認知されない彼女 だが、最近だといつもより注目を浴びているように 感じた。「希望の面」を見つけてその中の感情を 得た時にも同じことがあったが、今回だと自分が 変わったような気もしなかった。 考えていたところで、夢論理を解けるために 霊夢を探している妖夢と出会った。 おお、巫女探しの冒険なんだって！ 今日は別に予定がなかったし、行きましょうか！ Species: Satori Ability: Manipulating the subconscious A satori who closed her mind-reading Third Eye because her ability made others fear and hate her. However, this closed off her own conscious mind, turning her into an empty, unnoticeable wanderer. Normally, no one can perceive Koishi unless she reveals herself to them, but it seemed lately that more people than usual had been noticing her. This had happened before when she'd found the Mask of Hope and gained its infused emotion. As far as she knew, though, there was nothing different about her personality this time. While she wondered about this, she encountered Youmu, who was looking for Reimu to get her help figuring out the dream logic. Well! A search for the shrine maiden! Sure! She wasn't doing anything else today!

Written Language Team

禁断の噂話の供給者 Purveyor of Forbidden Gossip Aya Shameimaru Playable Character 種族：鴉天狗 能力：風を操る程度の能力 妖怪の山に住む、天狗の新聞記者。 現実そのものを改竄する論理？ 皆が夢を見ているように納得してしまい 何が本当か分からなくなる異変？！ こんなに凄いスクープはそうそう来ない！ 人間の里で情報を探していた彼女は稗田阿求と 相談し、阿求の友達である本居小鈴がどうしても 手伝いたいということを知った。 普通ならこういうことをする訳はないが…… 彼女は気まぐれ半分で、未熟の小鈴と 一緒に情報を集めに行こうと決めた。 一体どうして小鈴も連れて行こうと思った？ もしかして夢論理の影響？ まあ小鈴も既に承諾したから、仕方がないでしょう。 Species: Crow tengu Ability: Manipulating wind A tengu newspaper reporter who lives on the Youkai Mountain. Dream logic that alters existence itself and causes everyone to believe it's always been like this, meaning no one can be sure what reality is actually supposed to be like?! This is the mother of all scoops! Aya was combing the Human Village for information when she learned from Akyuu that her friend Kosuzu wanted to help do something about this disturbing incident. Aya normally wouldn't do this, but on a moment's impulse she decided to take the inexperienced Kosuzu along for her info-gathering. What would make her do that? The dream logic? Well, Kosuzu already said yes. Too late now.

禁断の知識の供給者 Purveyor of Forbidden Knowledge Kosuzu Motoori Playable Character 種族：人間 能力：本に触れて文字を読める程度の能力 里の貸本屋「鈴奈庵」で働く愛書家の少女。 危険なレアアイテム「妖魔本」のコレクションを持つ。 この時点で彼女は人間と妖怪の関係を完全に 理解していなく、スペルカードも使ったことがない。 夢論理のせいで友達・稗田阿求の「幻想郷の 歴史を纏める」という仕事が邪魔されたと聞いたら どうしても助けたかったが、どうすればいいか 分からなかった。 そこで射命丸文が家を訪ねて、彼女に調査を 手伝おうと誘った。 そのショットとアスペクトシフトは文にやり方を 教えながら即座に作ったもの。 里の外へ出かけることに緊張を感じているが、 大規模の異変解決を手伝うチャンスだから 興奮は隠しきれない！ Species: Human Ability: Deciphering any book by touching it A young bibliophile who works at the Suzunaan book renter in the Human Village. She has a secret collection of rare and dangerous demon books. Kosuzu does not fully understand the relationship between humans and youkai, and has never used spell cards before. When she found out the dream logic would greatly interfere with her friend Akyuu's duty of recording Gensokyo's history, she wanted to help but couldn't think of how to do so. That is, until Aya heard about her wish and offered to let Kosuzu help out on her investigation. Kosuzu's using a shot and Aspect Shift Aya helped her whip up on the spot. She's nervous about leaving the village, but at the same time can hardly contain her excitement to help resolve a major incident!

Nunokae Yukimura

雪村　布返 (ゆきむら　ぬのかえ) Nunokae Yukimura
Good Fortune for Altruistic Souls More Character Titles
Species	Youkai crane
Abilities	Returning favors
Music Themes
Discernment ～　純粋な心の試練

Nunokae Yukimura (雪村　布返) is the stage 1 midboss and boss.

Concept

Nunokae is based to an extent on the Japanese folk tale Tsuru no Ongaeshi (鶴の恩返し, lit. "Crane's Return of a Favor"). Several variants of the story exist, but the general plot is that a crane is rescued from a hunter's trap by an elderly couple and later visits them disguised as a beautiful girl. In return for saving her life, the crane asks to become their daughter, and plucks out her own feathers to create beautiful cloth for the couple to sell, making them wealthy. After they discover her identity as a crane, though, she is forced to leave.

VYCM's comment on her boss theme states that "while Nunokae has some things in common with the crane featured in 'Tsuru no Ongaeshi', she isn't the same one."

Name

"Nunokae" (布返) is composed of the kanji for "cloth" and "return", the latter kanji being used in the title of the aforementioned folk tale. "Yukimura" (雪村) is an actual Japanese surname with kanji meaning "snowy village".

Appearance

Nunokae has medium-short red hair that suggests the red patch of skin on a crane's head. Her wings and outfit are black and white, the main colors found on a crane's body. She wears a purple scarf around her neck.

Spell Cards

Nunokae's spell cards

Official Profiles

  Dream Logical World - Nunokae Yukimura's Profile

種族：妖怪（鶴） 能力：恩を返す程度の能力 タンチョウから生まれた、好意的な妖怪。 普段は幻想郷の空を当てもなく飛び巡っているが、 彼女に恩を着せた者がいると回帰本能によって その者の元に戻り、恩を返してくれる。 恩返しのやり方は人それぞれ（というか鶴それぞれ） だが、彼女が返そうとする恩はお為ごかしのもの じゃなくて、本当に親切なものだけである。 ……が、少し真面目すぎるところもあって 身の安全を無視するまで返そうとする時もある。 この間、本能は明確な理由もなしに反応して 彼女を「相の樹」まで導いた。 妙なことに反応はちゃんとあったが、人の半分だけ に恩を着せられたように、強さが半分だけだった。 恩人の正体もはっきりと覚えていなかった。 樹の辺りを調べている間、夢論理の原因を 突き止めようとしていた主人公達とも会って、 少しの言葉と弾幕を交わした。 弾幕ごっこの腕がいつもより強いと感じた彼女は、 この最近『自分の無謀な行動に気づいて、 直そうとすること』が多くなったことにも気づいた。 もしかして夢論理の影響で、人の自意識が 強くなったのか……？ が、主人公と相談していたところで どうしてこの場所まで導かれたのか、 これと言った仮説は思いつかなかった。 “いつもの”相の樹以外に、別に何もないでしょう？ そして主人公が先に進んだ後、何も期待してい ないにも関わらず、彼女はやっぱり確認しようと 相の樹を登り始めた。

Species: Youkai crane Ability: Returning favors A friendly youkai whose origin is a red-crowned crane. She can normally be found traveling the land carefreely, but if someone happens to do something kind for her, Nunokae's instinct will guide her back to them in order to return the favor. To other cranes their own, but Nunokae doesn't return favors paid out of selfishness, only genuine acts of kindness. She does, however, take her favor-returning duty so seriously that she occasionally forgets about her own safety. Just recently, Nunokae's favor instinct kicked in without any visible reason, and she was guided toward the Tree of Aspects. Something was not quite right this time: the instinct was definitely there, but at only partial strength, as if she'd been paid a favor by half a person, and she couldn't find who she was supposed to return the favor to. While searching around, Nunokae ended up having a few chats and danmaku duels with some girls who had gone out to investigate the dream logic. Performing better in the duels than she anticipated, she realized she'd been noticing and correcting her recklessness more often, and hypothesized that the dream logic had increased people's self-awareness. No one came to a solid conclusion about why she'd been led here, though. It was just the Tree of Aspects; what would that have to do with anything? Once the incident-resolvers had finished their business with her and continued on their way, Nunokae ascended the tree just to make sure.

Tetsuko Yoruhana

夜花　鉄子 (よるはな　てつこ) Tetsuko Yoruhana
Empath who Never Encounters Emotions More Character Titles
Species	Human
Abilities	Reading emotions
Location	Foot of Youkai Mountain
Music Themes
そよ風に吹かれる栄樹

Tetsuko Yoruhana (夜花　鉄子) is the stage 2 midboss and boss.

Concept

Name

"Tetsu" (鉄) means "iron", and "ko" (子) is a common suffix for Japanese female given names. "Yoruhana" (夜花) means "night flower".

Appearance

Tetsuko has a black dress with flower embroidery and dark hair tied into a long tail by several white bows. Various multicolored leaves and twigs are attached to her clothing.

Spell Cards

Tetsuko Yoruhana's spell cards

Official Profiles

  Dream Logical World - Tetsuko Yoruhana's Profile

種族：人間 能力：感情を読む程度の能力 妖怪の山の麓に住む、孤独を好む人間。 他の人間にも妖怪にも無関心で（あるいは呆れて）、 誰とも関わらないまま過ごすのが彼女の理想。 他人の感情を読み取る能力があるため、割と 皮肉（アイロニック）な生活である。 山腹で木の枝からできた小屋に住み、 そこからあまり動かない。 人と会えることが非常に珍しく、自ら話しかけることが 滅多にないため会った人との会話はさらに珍しい。 話しかけられたらイラっとするが、それ以外の時は 無感情・無関心で、他人から見たら人というより 環境の一部に近い。 人間の里で生まれて育てられたが、子供の頃から 周りと馴染めなかった彼女は人間よりも妖怪との 方が過ごしやすかった。 妖怪が里を訪ねた時だけ顔がぱっと明るくなって、 密かに妖怪と遊んだことも多い。 そして殆どの子供と違って、イマジナリーフレンドだった 古明地こいしのことも少し覚えている。 青年期になってから「職を身につけて、周りの役に 立とう」という社会のプレッシャーを感じ始めた。 里の人間よりも妖怪に近い世界観を持った彼女は 他人を理解することも、人に共感することも、 人生を「役に立つ」ようにすることも 良く分からないまま彷徨った。 妖怪になれる訳じゃないから、人間社会で過ごす には人間っぽく振るまわないといけない。 だから常に他人と関わって行動を観察して、 その秘密を知ろうとした。 他人を理解しようと尽くしていた果てに、 「感情を読む能力」という形で願いが叶えられた。 役に立つものを優先する社会で自分の価値を ようやく見つけた……と思ったら、むしろ逆だった。 サトリの心読能力に比べて適用範囲は狭いが、 心まで読まなくても人にとっては十分な迷惑だった みたい。相手の知らないところで能力を使えば 問題はなかったが、相手に知られたらどうも 上手くいかない。 不気味だの身勝手だの、人の感情を勝手に読む なんてまっとうなことじゃないと言われてしまった。 人間と馴染めるには妖怪っぽくすぎて、 妖怪になれるには人間っぽくすぎた。 この世に居場所がないと感じた彼女は家族も 志望も性格も全部捨てて、里から離れた麓で 一人で暮らそうと諦めた。 木のこと、葉のこと、花のこと、土のこと以外、 彼女は何も想わなかった。 だが夢論理異変が発見された少し前に、 博麗神社へ参拝しに行った。 どうしてそんな心変わりをしたのか？ それは夢論理の影響で、自分の意思にも関わらず 人の思いやりや、他人と繋がりたい気持ちが 強くなっていたから。 真相を明かしたい主人公達に（しつこく）質問された ところで、彼女もどうして神社に行ったかよく分から なかった。 自分の地域への侵入に腹は立ったが、優しさが 増えた件についてどう思うべきか対応に困っていた。 まぁ、前より親切になったとしても…… 夢を見ている時 と同じように、自分らしくない感じも別にしなかった。

Species: Human Ability: Reading emotions A solitary human living near the foot of Youkai Mountain. She is totally indifferent towards other humans and youkai (although that can border on active dislike), content to merely exist without interacting with anyone else. Which is plenty ironic, considering her ability is sensing others' emotions. Tetsuko never travels far from the small twigs-and-branches dwelling she built into the side of a hill. It's rare for anyone to see her, and even rarer for the two to strike up a conversation, as Tetsuko won't speak unless spoken to, and tends to be irritated by anyone who does so. Otherwise emotionless and having no relationships, to other people she's almost more a feature of the environment than a person. Tetsuko lived in the Human Village as a child, and did not exactly fit in there. She preferred the company of youkai to other humans, lighting up whenever one happened to visit the village. It is exceptional that she can recall a few details of her childhood friendship with Koishi. When Tetsuko came of adolescent age, she began to feel society's pressures to pick up a skill and make oneself useful. Viewing the world more like a youkai than the humans of the village, she found it difficult to understand and relate to other humans as she wandered about trying to attach a worthwhile "usefulness" to her life. She realized that unless she became a youkai herself, though (which almost certainly could never happen), she would need to adopt a human mindset to make her way in human culture. So at every waking moment, she interacted with and observed others, hoping to learn the secrets of their behavior. Eventually, her desperate wish to comprehend her fellow humans manifested as a power to read emotions. Finally, Tetsuko had a special ability that gave her potential value in a world that valued skills. Or so she thought at first. Her ability was narrower in breadth than the mind-reading of the satoris, but it seemed that people didn't like their emotions being read without their consent, either. Tetsuko was confident about her talent when she used it on others without them knowing, but things never went right when she made it known. She didn't know how to respond appropriately to particular emotions. People thought her ability was creepy or it made them uncomfortable. She was told that emotion-reading didn't have a good and proper use. Tetsuko was too youkai-like to fit into human society, and too human to become a youkai. Believing she had no place in this world, she left behind her home, her aspirations, and her personality, moved to the remote foot of the mountain, and resigned herself to a solitary existence. She thought about nothing except the trees, leaves, flowers, and dirt. However, a little while before the dream-logical world was found out, Tetsuko visited the Hakurei Shrine to offer her worship. What prompted that change of heart? Why, dream logic messing with everyone's free will and making them more compassionate and desiring of social relationships, of course. When confronted by a stream of incident-resolvers anxious to uncover the truth, Tetsuko couldn't explain why she had felt like doing that. While far from happy about the continual intrusions into her private sphere, she wasn't sure what to think when informed that the aspect of compassion had increased in strength. Maybe she had become more compassionate, but due to the nature of dream logic, she didn't feel any less herself.

Katerina Ring

カテリナ・リング Katerina Ring
Embodiment of Fear and Otherness More Character Titles
Species	Katawa-guruma (?)
Abilities	Taking on the form of things that frighten people

Katerina Ring (カテリナ・リング) is the stage 3 midboss.

Concept

In Dream Logical World's story, youkai have been coming into existence at an increased rate. Katerina represents this by being a youkai with features amalgamated from a variety of sources associated with or sounding similar to her given name.

Name

"Katerina" (カテリナ) is a given name of European origin and a variant of the name "Catherine". "Ring" (リング) is taken from the title of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring.

Appearance

Katerina has short black hair, a beige shirt and a green skirt. Matching the traditional depiction of a katawa-guruma, she rides a large burning wheel. Also attached to the wheel are several instruments of torture or murder, referring to an execution device known as the Catherine wheel, and dripping black tar reminiscent of the well from Ring.

Spell Cards

Katerina Ring's spell cards

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  Dream Logical World - Katerina Ring's Profile

種族：片車輪？ 能力：人を怖がらせる物に姿を変える程度の能力 夢論理の影響で妖怪が生まれる割合が高くなった、 という現象から生まれた妖怪らしい。 姿は片車輪という妖怪に近いが、実際にその種類 の一人か、それが彼女の元になった「相」の一つに すぎないか、彼女自身もよく分からない。 黒幕が焦って現実改竄した結果だろうか？ いくつかの物騒な物を常に持ち歩いてるが、 似た者であるエイサイトアに比べれば 彼女はむしろお化け屋敷の従業員みたいな 感じで、人を「楽しく」驚かせようとする。 その恐怖の武器庫が気になるスリルを楽しむ 人妖が来ると、親しげに話をすることもよくある。

Species: Katawa-guruma? Ability: Taking on the form of things that frighten people A youkai that apparently emerged thanks to dream logic increasing the rate at which youkai come into existence. She appears similar to a katawa-guruma, but even she isn't sure if she actually belongs to the species or if it's just one of the particular aspects she originated from. Could this be a sign of hasty reality-rewriting? Despite the array of unsettling objects Katerina carries on her person, when compared to Acytota she's more like a haunted house employee, making people uncomfortable but doing so in good fun. She even strikes up friendly conversation with thrill-seeking humans and youkai who're impressed by her fear-inducing arsenal.

Acytota

エイサイトタ Acytota
Embodiment of Tales of Disease and Death More Character Titles
Species	Youkai virus
Abilities	Replicating at the expense of energy from living beings
Music Themes
アンデッド・マレヴォレンス

Acytota (エイサイトタ) is the stage 3 boss.

Concept

Acytota is a classical youkai, but based on a virus rather than a typical living creature or macroscopic object.

Name

Viruses are usually considered non-living organic particles, since they are not made of living cells, but a minority viewpoint holds that viruses should be considered a seperate form of life. "Acytota" (エイサイトタ) is a scientific term that would denote the superdomain of non-cellular life, while "Cytota" would denote cellular life.

Appearance

Acytota has purple hair tied into two tails and a purple dress with a triangle texture, including several triangular frills at the bottom, representing the triangular protein units of an icosahedral virus. She carries a long orange rope forming several elements of her outfit and decorated with multicolored squares, resembling a strand of RNA, the genetic material of some viruses. She holds a few triangular virus units.

Spell Cards

Acytota's spell cards

Official Profiles

  Dream Logical World - Acytota's Profile

種族：妖怪（ウィルス） 能力：生命力を奪って複製する程度の能力 どうやら夢論理の結果の一つとして、幻想郷の 皆が「ウィルス」という病原体の知識を得たようだ。 その知識と妖怪の増加が交錯して、 妖怪ウィルスのエイサイトアが生まれた。 妖怪としての存在理由は単に「ウィルスを 増殖させること」。自分一人だとできないから、 ウィルスを組み立てるにはまず他人に近寄って 生命力を奪わないといけない。 対象に近寄るチャンスが少しでもあれば、 一瞬もためらわずに取り掛かろうとする。 特定の人物と状況に作戦を素早く合わせようとし、 演じるキャラもコロコロ変わる。 が、そんな計略や策謀を巡らせても ウィルス作りの成功が少ないらしい。 作戦を考え直す必要があるか…… はたまた 夢論理の影響で皆が優しくなったと同じように、 彼女も無意識にためらっているのだろうか。 って、考慮に入らなきゃいけない事情多すぎない？

Species: Youkai virus Ability: Replicating at the expense of energy from living beings Somehow, dream logic added the knowledge of a disease-causing particle called a virus to the inhabitants of Gensokyo. This, combined with an increased rate of youkai birth, resulted in Acytota, a youkai virus. Acytota's reason for being as a youkai is straightforward: create more viruses. She can't do this by herself, having to absorb energy from other living beings to assemble them. She'll seize without a second thought any opportunity that crosses her path to get close enough to others to steal the required energy. Effortlessly matching her tactics to specific people and situations, she can appear to have a completely different personality from one moment to the next. Despite these devious machinations, it appears that she isn't terribly successful at creating viruses. Perhaps her strategies need more work, or maybe she's unconsciously holding herself back because of that thing where dream logic's made people nicer? Gosh, there's a lot to take into account.