Son Biten

孫 (そん) 　美 (び) 天 (てん) soɴ biteɴ Son Biten
Son Biten in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost Great Sage of the Small Sanctuary More Character Titles
Species	Sarugami
Abilities	Manipulating wild monkeys
Music Themes
タイニーシャングリラ (Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost)
Appearances
Official Games
Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost (Possible opponent, playable character)
Print Works
Lotus Eaters (Chapter 48 Cameo, Chapter 57)

Son Biten (孫 美天, Son Biten) is a character who debuts in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost.

General Information

Personality

Biten's lines in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost indicate that she has a carefree, juvenile, & nonchalant personality, often taking situations at a surface level and lacking a sense of critical thinking. She also displays a sizeable amount of confidence, shown before her battle with Sanae Kochiya. She also uses minor details or jokes as an excuse to start a battle, which only adds more to her carefree and full of confidence personality.

Abilities

Control Wild Monkeys

Biten has the ability to telepathically control wild monkeys. Nothing specific is known about this ability.

Possessions

Biten wields what appears to be an elongated test tube, most likely designed to be used as a polearm.

Background Information

Origin

Biten's namesake and parts of her demeanour are based on the legendary Monkey King, Sun Wukong. She further references this with her weapon of choice, imitating the Ruyi Jingu Bang (如意金箍棒) and her ability to control wild monkeys, making her a "Monkey King" of sorts.

Name

Biten's full name is Son Biten (孫 美天), a Chinese-derived name in reference to the character Sun Wukong (孫悟空, Sūn Wùkōng, pronounced Son Gokuu in Japanese) from the Chinese novel Journey to the West (西遊記, Xīyóujì, pronounced Saiyūki in Japanese). Using western name order, her name would be "Biten Son", but the original eastern order is used here for the sake of familiarity.

Her last name Son (孫) is a common Chinese surname that translates to "grandchild/descendant". Her first name Biten (美天) literally means "Beautiful Sky/Heaven". The first word (美 Bi) means "pretty" or "beautiful" while the second word (天 ten) means "sky/heaven". Her name when pronounced in Chinese is Sun Meitian. During her introduction when fighting against Sanae, she introduces herself as Gensokyo's Great Sage Equal to Heaven, referencing one of Sun Wukong's titles.

Her first name was likely taken from two of Wukong's titles, Handsome Monkey King (美猴王, Měi Hóuwáng, pronounced Bikouou in Japanese) and Great Sage Equal to Heaven (齊天大聖, Qítiān Dàshèng, pronounced Seiten Taisei in Japanese). In the original story, the former is used to refer to Wukong, while the latter was granted to him by the Jade Emperor after he caused havoc in Heaven over displeasure with his title.

Design

Biten has crimson eyes and short brown hair styled into dense pigtails, adorned with a golden tiara. She dons a dress colored lime, orange, & blue, with her dress's colors seperated by slim black frills. Biten wields a transparent avant-garde rod-like weapon. She has a presumably organic monkey tail growing out of her lower back, of which she often has wrapped around the mentioned weapon.

Story

Games

Sprite of Biten as an opponent in UdoALG

Sprite of player controlled Biten in UdoALG

Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost

Main article: Biten's Scenario

After Yachie Kicchou checked that Biten was strong enought to fight in conditions, Biten goes out to defeat anybody that she meets, which includes Seiran and Sanae Kochiya. Afterwards, she meets Reimu Hakurei, who admits that she knows that Biten is working under the orders of Zanmu Nippaku; and Hisami Yomotsu, who guides her to Hell after she beats her. There, she bumps into Suika Ibuki, who start a fight due to the past of Biten and the implications they imply in relation to Hell.

Relationships

Yachie Kicchou

As a member of the Kiketsu Family, Yachie is Biten’s boss. The reason Biten is part of the family is because Yachie promised her that she will avoid her falling to Hell, so she is someone she trusts at first, although she knew that everything was part of Zanmu’s plan. After the plot of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, she decided to join back the Kiketsu family as she felt sorry seeing Yachie as “a shell of herself”.

Zanmu Nippaku

It is known that Biten was in contact with Zanmu when she was still a monkey , but no more is known apart from the fact that Biten thinks that Zanmu is cool and that she wants to keep up with her.

Sanae Kochiya

Although at first she attacks Sanae with the excuse of a rumor in Sanae’s Scenario, after their fight they became good friends. Biten affirmed that she wanted to “bridge the gap between the Kiketsu Family and the Moriya Shrine” and Sanae thought that Biten was “pure and innocent”.

Gallery

Covers

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  Cover of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, featuring Chiyari, Biten and Enoko's silhouettes.

Spell Cards

Spell Cards

Name	Translated	Comments	Games	Stage
Total: 1
猿撃「モンキーマジック」	Monkey Strike "Monkey Magic"		UDoALG	Use

Additional Information

• The silhouette of Son Biten, Enoko Mitsugashira, and Chiyari Tenkajin, appears on the jewel case for Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Son Biten

Official Profiles

Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost - omake.txt

○小さな聖域の大聖 　種族　　猿神 　名前　　孫 美天孫 美天[sic]（そん　びてん） 　能力　　野生の猿を操る程度の能力 　　自分のことを、伝説の猿、孫悟空の生まれ変わりだと吹き込まれている。 　幻想中の領土の所有権が失われたかと思ったが、一部は権力を持った霊が 　収めたままの場所があった。 　その場所は、聖地ヤマンバの地。 　妖怪の山の麓にあるアンタッチャブルな聖地である。 　そこの所有者だった幽霊が、所有権を返却しようか逡巡していたところを、 　彼女が喰らい、鬼と化した。肉体を持ったまま、鬼として目覚める。 　そのままだと確実に地獄へ落ちて、責め苦に遭うだろう。 　そこで地獄に落ちるのを防ぐという名目で、吉弔八千慧が近づいてきた。 　しかし実際は、鬼傑組の地上進出の足掛かりだ。 　しかし、吉弔八千慧に彼女を紹介したのも、彼女が幽霊を喰う嵌めに 　なったのも、全て残無の仕業だったのだ。 　掌の上で踊っているのは、孫悟空なのか、畜生どもなのか。

○The Great Sage of Small Sanctuaries Species: Sarugami Name: Son Biten Ability: Capable of manipulating wild monkeys Has been convinced that she's the second coming of the legendary monkey, Sun Wukong. It was assumed that all the ownership of Gensokyo's land had gone up in smoke, but there was actually one region that authority-holding spirits still had on lock. Namely, the Yamanba's sanctuary land. An untouchable sanctuary in the Youkai Mountain's foothills. While the phantoms that owned that land were going back and forth on whether they should give up the ownership rights, she came along, ate them, and transformed into an oni. She awakened as an oni while still having her physical body. At this rate, she would certainly fall into Hell, and be met with awful torment. Then Yachie Kicchou made contact with her, under the pretense of preventing her from falling to Hell. But in reality, she was used as a foothold for the Kiketsu Family's above-ground advance. Yet her introduction to Yachie, and the circumstances that led her to eat the phantoms, were both Zanmu's doing. Was it Sun Wukong who was dancing atop her palm, or the beasts?