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Star Sapphire
| スターサファイア Star Sapphire stɑ˞ səˈfaɪɚ (♫) Starsaphire More Alternative Spellings | |
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 Star Sapphire in Fairy Wars Showering Star LightMore Character Titles | |
| Species | |
| Abilities |
Detection of moving things |
| Age |
Unknown, immortal |
| Occupation |
Member of the Three Fairies of Light |
| Location |
Near the Hakurei shrine (formerly Forest of Magic) |
Music Themes | |
Appearances | |
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Star Sapphire (スターサファイア Suta Safaia) is a fairy and one of the members of the Three Fairies of Light, along with Sunny Milk and Luna Child. She currently lives in a tree close to the Hakurei Shrine with her two partners. She often pranks humans along with her two partners, using her ability to sense animate objects from a distance to her advantage.
General Information
Star first appeared in the manga Touhou Sangetsusei's first work Eastern and Little Nature Deity as one of the three main protagonists, and had the same role throughout the sub-series. ZUN stated that the reason why he chose Star, Sunny, and Luna as main characters is because the three of them have little fighting ability, yet are much more outgoing than Rinnosuke, making them ideal characters for introducing various aspects of Gensokyo's daily life that Rinnosuke Morichika does not participate in.[Ref. Needed] She later made an appearance in a game as a boss in Fairy Wars and a background appearance in Hopeless Masquerade.
Star, much like her partners, isn't very powerful. Her power is to sense animate objects from afar, usually allowing her to know when trouble is coming or when to act during a prank. Unlike her two partners, her power does not weaken at any time, as stars are always present in the sky, even during the day. During Strange and Bright Nature Deity, Star moves from her residence from the Forest of Magic to a new home near to the Hakurei Shrine.
Personality
Star is often described as having more common sense than other fairies, being calmer, a bit wiser, often avoiding fights, letting her two partners do all the hard work for her, and making her getaway while her friends are busted in their pranks. As with her two other partners, she is rather fond of alcohol.
Unlike her partners, she has the most bizarre sense of perception. Sometimes, things that would cause Sunny and Luna to panic, such as an imminent incident or seeing a mountain of human skulls, Star seems to find fun and exciting.
Just as bizarre are also her interests, which include examining strange rocks, or keeping a mushroom bonsai tree as a hobby.
Keeping to her namesake, she loves all things Star related such as the Star Spangled Banner and Tanabata.
Abilities
- Detection of moving things
Like a radar, she is able to sense things that exist from afar. In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it became "moving things", but according to her speech and conduct as well as Shanghai Alice Correspondence Three Fairies Version, she is "only able to know moving things, and unrelated to being among that, living things" (for living things, she isn't able to make distinctions other than size). That said, she was able to detect Eternity when she was hibernating.
There hasn't been a depiction of concretely what range she is able to grasp things, but if she isn't preoccupied with other things, it seems that she's able to grasp a reasonably wide range, but it also seems that if there are a very large number of living things, then the important information gets buried. Also, she wasn't able to recognise Reisen Udongein Inaba who was invoking her ability.
There's hardly any instance where this ability caused direct damage in mischief, but as it's support orientated, in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, it was even written that "when she is on observation duty, she can be a threat." If Star were not to slack off, then the the three fairies' pranks would become quite nasty. That is, if she doesn't slack off.
As for recovery from injury – different from Sunny Milk and Luna Child's case – she isn't affected at all by the weather and constantly recovers at ease. As for how she slacks off, different from the other youkai and shinigami who are beaten, she uses her ability and skillfully slacks off.
Character Design
Name
Her full name is Star Sapphire (スターサファイア). Star's name is based on the element which she draws power from: the stars. Her name may also relate to the "Star SAFIRE® series", an imaging gyro-stabiliser used for detection. Probably a coincidence, there's a villain known as Star Sapphire in DC Comics.
Design
Star's appearance goes through some changes throughout the series. At first, in Eastern and Little Nature Deity, she's described having long black hair, a blue ribbon attached to it, and gray eyes, as well as butterfly-shaped wings. She wears a white and blue dress, the top part being mostly white, having a blue shoulder cloth, and the bottom part being blue. She has long sleeves and a blue piece of cloth attached around her waist, attaching as a ribbon in her back. She also wears boots.
From Strange and Bright Nature Deity onwards, Star's hair is brown, and her eyes are now yellow. She wears a frilly blue dress, having a white shoulder cloth and white long sleeves. She also has a small blue string attached as a ribbon at neck-level. In Fairy Wars, her dress is depicted as having stars on it, but these don't appear in her later appearances in Strange and Bright Nature Deity or Oriental Sacred Place.
Appearances
Spin-offs
- Fairy Wars
In Strange and Bright Nature Deity, during New Year's eve, Sunny Milk decides that she wants to bond all the fairies together to cause an incident. Sunny then crushes Cirno's home, along with her partners including Luna who follows Sunny's plan and leaving a flag showcasing images of their faces to show their superiority. Afterwards, Cirno sets on sending them a declaration of war, but the fairy trio believes that it's from the humans and train for the months to come everyday, believing they would soon fight Reimu Hakurei.
The next spring, they are confronted by Cirno, who was reminded by the fairies flag that they had destroyed her house months prior, resulting in the Fairy War.
- Hopeless Masquerade
Star made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Hakurei Shrine, Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum and Youkai Tanuki Forest stage. On each stage, she is seen with Luna Child and Sunny Milk floating and cheering.
Literature
- Eastern and Little Nature Deity / Strange and Bright Nature Deity / Oriental Sacred Place / Visionary Fairies in Shrine
These graphic novels follow the daily occurrences of Star Sapphire, Sunny Milk, and Luna Child.
- Forbidden Scrollery
The three fairies of light makes a few appearances in Forbidden Scrollery. Notably in chapter 22 whereby Star Sapphire is stealing Reimu Hakurei's water ladle.
- Lotus Eaters
Star can be seen playing around the Hakurei Shrine during the events of Lotus Eaters.
Relationships
Star lives with Sunny Milk and Luna Child in the same house. They often go out together when playing pranks, although Sunny Milk is usually the mastermind of their plans. She, along with her two partners, met a lot of the residents of Gensokyo in their daily adventures.
Reimu is often the target of the Three Fairies' pranks. Once, Star took the prank to another level by placing bombs inside of snowmen to blow Reimu up.
They are also one of the few customers who actually used the services of Marisa's Kirisame Magic Shop, its owner sometimes help the trio, and the opposite as well, although she's also prone to their pranks.
They are also impressed by Cirno's ability to control ice, asking her to help with some pranks, but soon after end up in a small war against her. Cirno is also part of their hot summer counter-measure, creating free ice blocks for them.
Clownpiece is their neighboring fairy after moving into the Hakurei Shrine. She goes along with their shenanigans from time to time.
During the events of Hopeless Masquerade, Star Sapphire was working with Luna Child and Sunny Milk at Nitori's stall, near the Hakurei Shrine.
Alice is one of the few Youkai the Three Fairies would seek assistance from.
Gallery
Artworks
Star artwork from Fairy Wars
Illustrations
Star with Sunny and Luna from Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Everlasting Edition
Screenshots
Star in Eastern and Little Nature Deity
Star in Eastern and Little Nature Deity
Star cooking outfit in Strange and Bright Nature Deity
Spell Cards
Star Sapphire
| Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total: 10 | ||||||
| 流星「プチコメット」 | Shooting Star "Petit Comet" | FW | A1-2: E/N/H/L | |||
| 星粒「スプリンクルピース」 | Stardust "Sprinkle Piece" | FW | A1-2: E/N/H/L | |||
| 星符「トゥインクルサファイア」 | Star Sign "Twinkle Sapphire" | FW | A1-2: E/N/H/L | |||
| 星光「スターレーザー」 | Starlight "Star Laser" | FW | A2-3: E/N/H/L | |||
| 流星「コメットストリーム」 | Shooting Star "Comet Stream" | FW | B1-2: E/N/H/L | |||
| 星粒「スターピースシャワー」 | Stardust "Star Piece Shower" | FW | B1-2: E/N/H/L | |||
| 星符「シューティングサファイア」 | Star Sign "Shooting Sapphire" | FW GoU |
B1-2: E/N/H/L — | |||
| 星光「スターストーム」 | Starlight "Star Storm" | FW | B2-3: E/N/H/L | |||
| 星符「スターライトレイン」 | Star Sign "Starlight Rain" | FW | C-1: E/N/H/L | |||
| 星符「レッドスター」 | Star Sign "Red Star" | FW | C-1: E/N/H/L | |||
| Name | Translated | Comments | Games | Stage | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total: 17 | ||||||
| 光符「ブライトナイト」 | Light Sign "Bright Night" | Led by Luna Child | FW | B1-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 月熱「アイスディゾルバー」 | Moonfire "Ice Dissolver" | Led by Luna Child | FW FW |
B1-3: E/N/H/L C1-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 空符「ブレイクキャノピー」 | Sky Sign "Break Canopy" | Led by Luna Child | FW | B1-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 光符「フルムーンナイト」 | Light Sign "Full Moon Night" | Led by Luna Child | FW | C1-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 降光「トリプルライト」 | Falling Light "Triple Light" | Led by Luna Child | FW | C1-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 光符「トリプルメテオ」 | Light Sign "Triple Meteor" | Led by Star Sapphire | FW | A2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 星熱「アイスディゾルバー」 | Starfire "Ice Dissolver" | Led by Star Sapphire | FW FW |
A2-3: E/N/H/L B2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 光星「オリオンベルト」 | Bright Star "Orion Belt" | Led by Star Sapphire | FW GoU |
A2-3: E/N/H/L — | ||
| 光符「エクステンシブメテオ」 | Light Sign "Extensive Meteor" | Led by Star Sapphire | FW | B2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 光星「グレートトライアングル」 | Bright Star "Great Triangle" | Led by Star Sapphire | FW | B2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 光符「ルチルフレクション」 | Light Sign "Rutile Flection" | Led by Sunny Milk | FW | A1-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 日熱「アイスディゾルバー」 | Sunfire "Ice Dissolver" | Led by Sunny Milk | FW FW |
A1-3: E/N/H/L C2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 空符「エルフィンキャノピー」 | Sky Sign "Elfin Canopy" | Led by Sunny Milk | FW | A1-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 光符「ハイパーインクレクション」 | Light Sign "Hyper Inflection" | Led by Sunny Milk | FW | C2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 激光「サンバースト」 | Violent Light "Sunburst" | Led by Sunny Milk | FW | C2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 協力技「フェアリーオーバードライブ」 | Team Tech "Fairy Overdrive" | Appears at the end of all routes. It slightly varies depending on who is leading it. | FW | A1-3: E/N/H/L A2-3: E/N/H/L B1-3: E/N/H/L B2-3: E/N/H/L C1-3: E/N/H/L C2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
| 「スリーフェアリーズ」 | "Three Fairies" | Appears at the end of all routes. It slightly varies depending on who is leading it. | FW | A1-3: E/N/H/L A2-3: E/N/H/L B1-3: E/N/H/L B2-3: E/N/H/L C1-3: E/N/H/L C2-3: E/N/H/L | ||
Additional Information
- Star, Sunny and Luna are the first characters in the series to originally appear in a comic, then later in a game.
- Star Sapphire's non-spells bear a striking resemblance to Flandre Scarlet's final spell card, both in appearance and mechanics.
- Star Sapphire in her Eastern and Little Nature Deity iteration bears a striking resemblance to Kaguya Houraisan.
Fandom
Official Sources
- 2005/05 ~ 2006/05 Eastern and Little Nature Deity
- 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Three Fairies
- 2006/05 ~ 2009/01 Strange and Bright Nature Deity
- 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Pouring Starlight: Star Sapphire
- 2009/01 ~ present Oriental Sacred Place
- 2010/08/14 Fairy Wars - Game dialogue
References
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