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===Pouvoirs===
===Pouvoirs===
;Neither aging nor dying
;Jeunesse éternelle et immortalité
[[File:GoMIllus-Mokou.jpg|thumb|200px|Illustration de Mokou  dans ''[[Le Grimoire de Marisa]]'']]
[[File:GoMIllus-Mokou.jpg|thumb|200px|Illustration de Mokou  dans ''[[Le Grimoire de Marisa]]'']]
Mokou's inability to die allows her body to receive an indefinite amount of punishment. No matter whether she's beheaded, incinerated or has taken any other form of strike, she'll always revive without exception. Mokou will recover within a few day's time if she takes a non-fatal blow. Due to the nature of the [[Hourai Elixir]] she drank over 1300 years ago, she's also incapable of contracting any form of disease or illness. This includes the natural process of aging.<ref name="INMTEx">[[Imperishable Night]]: [[Imperishable Night/Translation/Magic Team's Extra|Magic Team's Extra]]</ref> It is said she can completely recover even if a single hair remained<ref name="PMiSSMokou">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]: [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Fujiwara no Mokou|Mokou]]</ref>, although it seems redundant because those who taste the elixir will recover regardless.
L'incapacité de Mokou à mourir permet à son corps de recevoir une quantité indéfinie de dégats. Peu importe qu'elle soit décapitée, incinérée ou qu'elle ait pris toute autre forme de blessure, elle ressuscitera toujours sans exception. Mokou récupérera en quelques jours si elle prend un coup non mortel. En raison de la nature de l'[[Élixir d'Hourai]] qu'elle a bu il y a plus de 1300 ans, elle est également incapable de contracter toute forme de maladie. Cela inclut le processus naturel de vieillissement.<ref name="INMTEx">[[Imperishable Night]] : [[Imperishable Night/Translation/Magic Team's Extra|Magic Team's Extra]]</ref> On dit qu'elle peut complètement récupérer même s'il ne restait qu'un seul cheveu<ref name="PMiSSMokou">[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]] : [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Fujiwara no Mokou|Mokou]]</ref>, bien que cela semble redondant car ceux qui goûtent l'élixir s'en remettront malgré tout.


Mokou's immortality, however, doesn't prevent her from being susceptible to fatigue. Even though she is incapable of dying, she still feels pain when injured just as a normal [[human]] does. It's said that since she doesn't die, feeling the sting of death when she reaches the brink of oblivion brings her a great deal of pain and fatigue when she immediately revives. For this reason, she can be defeated in [[spell card]] matches with [[danmaku]] even though she's invincible. It should be noted though, that this fatigue may be completely mental since she needs no sustenance such as food or sleep to stay alive.
L'immortalité de Mokou, cependant, ne l'empêche pas d'être sensible à la fatigue. Même si elle est incapable de mourir, elle ressent toujours de la douleur lorsqu'elle est blessée, tout comme un [[humain]] normal. On dit que puisqu'elle ne meurt pas, ressentir la soudaine douleur de la mort lorsqu'elle atteint le bord de l'oubli lui apporte beaucoup de douleur et de fatigue lorsqu'elle ressuscite immédiatement. Pour cette raison, elle peut être vaincue dans les matchs de [[spell card]] avec [[danmaku]] même si elle est invincible. Il convient de noter cependant que cette fatigue peut être complètement mentale puisqu'elle n'a besoin d'aucune subsistance comme la nourriture ou le sommeil pour rester en vie.


;Manipulation of fire
;Manipulation du feu
Though never clearly described, Mokou appears to have some sort of control over fire. Many of her spell cards symbolize phoenix imagery, though this is most likely an aesthetic choice by Mokou (due to the phoenix being symbolic of immortality) rather than having any real meaning. The fact it took the combined efforts of her, Kaguya, and several rabbits to put out a forest fire in her ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' article implies that while she's capable of starting and increasing fire, she might not necessarily be able to ''extinguish'' it.
Bien qu'il n'ait jamais été clairement décrit, Mokou semble avoir une sorte de contrôle sur le feu. Beaucoup de ses cartes de sorts symbolisent l'imagerie du phénix, bien qu'il s'agisse très probablement d'un choix esthétique de Mokou (car le phénix est le symbole de l'immortalité) plutôt que d'avoir une signification réelle. Le fait qu'il ait fallu les efforts combinés d'elle, de Kaguya et de plusieurs lapins pour éteindre un feu de forêt dans son article de ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'' implique que même si elle est capable d'allumer et d'augmenter le feu, elle ne pourrait pas être nécessairement en mesure de l'''éteindre''.


;All sorts of sorcery
;Toutes sortes de sorcellerie
According to ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', in her long life it seems she's mastered various kinds of sorcery to the point in which she can handle [[youkai]] lightly. She uses all kinds of [[spell card]]s in addition to her ability of manipulation of flames, which may also be a kind of sorcery she has mastered. However, it's never been stated exactly what kinds of sorcery she has mastered.
D'après ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', au cours de sa longue vie, il semble qu'elle ait maîtrisé divers types de sorcellerie au point de pouvoir gérer les [[youkai]] avec légèreté. Elle utilise toutes sortes de [[spell card]]s en plus de sa capacité de manipulation des flammes, qui peut aussi être une sorte de sorcellerie qu'elle maîtrise. Cependant, il n'a jamais été précisé exactement quels types de sorcellerie elle maîtrise.


===Occupation===
===Occupation===

Version du 21 mai 2022 à 09:40

藤原 (ふじわら)   () 妹紅 (もこう)
Fujiwara no Mokou
ɸɯd͡ʑiwaɽa no mokoː (♫)
Huziwara no Mokou, Mokou Fuziwara
Fujiwara no Mokou
Fujiwara no Mokou dans Antinomy of Common Flowers
Figure de la Personne d'Hourai
Plus de Titres des personnages
Espèce

Humaine

Capacités

Jeunesse éternelle et immortalité, résistance et manipulation du feu

Âge

Immortelle; existe depuis plus de 1300 ans

Occupation

Sauve les personnes perdues, guide de la Forêt de Bamboo, prétend diriger un stand de yakitori

Résidence

Quelque part dans la Forêt de Bambou des Disparus

Thèmes musicaux
Apparitions
Jeux officiels
Œuvres Littéraires

Fujiwara no Mokou (藤原 妹紅) était autrefois une humaine ordinaire devenue un être immortel après avoir bu l'Élixir d'Hourai il y a environ 1300 ans. Elle ne peut plus jamais mourir, bien qu'elle ressente toujours la douleur des blessures comme un être mortel. Elle est considérée comme très puissante, compte tenu de sa longue vie, du pouvoir qu'elle a acquis tout au long de sa vie et de son statut d'immortelle puisqu'elle peut continuer à se battre jusqu'à ce qu'elle ne puisse plus supporter la douleur.

Informations Générales

Mokou est apparue pour la première fois en tant que boss du Stage Extra d' Imperishable Night et Shoot the Bullet. Elle a également fait une apparition caméo dans Hopeless Masquerade et en tant que boss du troisième jour dans Impossible Spell Card, et est ensuite devenue un personnage jouable dans Urban Legend in Limbo.

Personnalité

Peut-être parce qu'elle a longtemps été ostracisée, Mokou est devenue une personne solitaire par nature et choisit de ne pas socialiser avec les humains ou les youkai. Elle escorte les humains perdus qu'elle trouve dans la Forêt de Bambou des Disparus, se donnant un travail similaire à celui d'un guide de la forêt de bambous, et même après avoir escorté entre le Village Humain et Eientei, elle part sans dire un mot. Néanmoins, elle parle franchement avec une personnalité vive à ceux qu'elle connaît. Dans le Stage Extra d' Imperishable Night , par exemple, elle a été facilement réveillée et se lance dans une diatribe sur la façon dont Kaguya est ennuyeuse. On ne sait pas grand-chose d'autre sur elle car elle ne parle pas vraiment à beaucoup de monde.

Son style peut être décrit comme garçon manqué - elle porte une chemise habillée avec des bretelles et un karusan (un type de vêtement hakama généralement porté par les hommes) noué à la taille, plutôt qu'au-dessus de la taille comme c'est la norme pour le hakama féminin. Bien qu'elle ait utilisé un parlé féminin japonais dans Imperishable Night, à partir de Urban Legend in Limbo, elle utilise un parlé typiquement masculin.

Elle entreprend le devoir d'escorter les gens dans la Forêt de Bambou des Disparus. Bien que cela puisse lui permettre une plus grande opportunité de socialiser avec d'autres personnes, elle reste toujours très réticente envers elle-même. Par exemple, lorsqu'on l'interroge sur son passé, elle ne répond rien d'autre que "Je suis une maniaque de la santé ordinaire qui tient un stand yakitori" (on ne sait pas si elle tient vraiment un véritable stand). Cependant, elle semble écouter avec joie les conversations des autres. Ainsi, même si quelqu'un ne s'égare pas, il lui serait possible d'être animé par une conversation.

Elle semble actuellement très satisfaite de sa vie contrairement à ce que l'on pense généralement d'une personne ayant un style de vie pessimiste. Avec un corps qui ne vieillit pas et qui ne meurt pas, elle et Kaguya Houraisan s'entretuent tous les jours, et son profil dans Imperishable Night le souligne même avec la phrase "Et elle est vivante pour en profiter, que c'est magnifique !"

Pouvoirs

Jeunesse éternelle et immortalité
Illustration de Mokou dans Le Grimoire de Marisa

L'incapacité de Mokou à mourir permet à son corps de recevoir une quantité indéfinie de dégats. Peu importe qu'elle soit décapitée, incinérée ou qu'elle ait pris toute autre forme de blessure, elle ressuscitera toujours sans exception. Mokou récupérera en quelques jours si elle prend un coup non mortel. En raison de la nature de l'Élixir d'Hourai qu'elle a bu il y a plus de 1300 ans, elle est également incapable de contracter toute forme de maladie. Cela inclut le processus naturel de vieillissement.[1] On dit qu'elle peut complètement récupérer même s'il ne restait qu'un seul cheveu[2], bien que cela semble redondant car ceux qui goûtent l'élixir s'en remettront malgré tout.

L'immortalité de Mokou, cependant, ne l'empêche pas d'être sensible à la fatigue. Même si elle est incapable de mourir, elle ressent toujours de la douleur lorsqu'elle est blessée, tout comme un humain normal. On dit que puisqu'elle ne meurt pas, ressentir la soudaine douleur de la mort lorsqu'elle atteint le bord de l'oubli lui apporte beaucoup de douleur et de fatigue lorsqu'elle ressuscite immédiatement. Pour cette raison, elle peut être vaincue dans les matchs de spell card avec danmaku même si elle est invincible. Il convient de noter cependant que cette fatigue peut être complètement mentale puisqu'elle n'a besoin d'aucune subsistance comme la nourriture ou le sommeil pour rester en vie.

Manipulation du feu

Bien qu'il n'ait jamais été clairement décrit, Mokou semble avoir une sorte de contrôle sur le feu. Beaucoup de ses cartes de sorts symbolisent l'imagerie du phénix, bien qu'il s'agisse très probablement d'un choix esthétique de Mokou (car le phénix est le symbole de l'immortalité) plutôt que d'avoir une signification réelle. Le fait qu'il ait fallu les efforts combinés d'elle, de Kaguya et de plusieurs lapins pour éteindre un feu de forêt dans son article de Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red implique que même si elle est capable d'allumer et d'augmenter le feu, elle ne pourrait pas être nécessairement en mesure de l'éteindre.

Toutes sortes de sorcellerie

D'après Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, au cours de sa longue vie, il semble qu'elle ait maîtrisé divers types de sorcellerie au point de pouvoir gérer les youkai avec légèreté. Elle utilise toutes sortes de spell cards en plus de sa capacité de manipulation des flammes, qui peut aussi être une sorte de sorcellerie qu'elle maîtrise. Cependant, il n'a jamais été précisé exactement quels types de sorcellerie elle maîtrise.

Occupation

Mokou frequently escorts anyone wanting to go to Eientei through the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. She also claims to run a yakitori stand. In addition, she regularly fights with Kaguya, and has for many years. As a powerful human (or a being who was once human), one of her main jobs is also youkai extermination.

Upon receiving escort from her, it is impossible to get lost in the bamboo forest. Also, there's no life-threatening danger in the forest since youkai would not attack. Because of that, it's a myth in the Human Village that if it's necessary to go to Eientei, that Mokou should immediately be contacted.

Histoire

Une comparaison entre la version passée et présente de Mokou dans CiLR

Mokou was born as a daughter to the Fujiwara family during the Asuka and Nara periods. It's been estimated that it was around 700CE (i.e., currently about 1300 years old). It seems that she was an unwanted child because she wasn't allowed to go out in public.

Around 1300 years ago, Kaguya Houraisan embarrassed Mokou's father – and entire family – by presenting him with an impossible request when he asked for her hand in marriage (as had happened with many other young men). Mokou grew to resent the moon princess, and searched for a way to spite her, but Kaguya disappeared, apparently returning to the moon before Mokou could take revenge.

She finally found a way, by making an attempt to steal the Hourai Elixir for herself that Kaguya left for the Emperor of Japan of that time because it was something very important to Kaguya. She followed a group of soldiers led by a man named Iwakasa in secret, who were going up what is now Mount Fuji. However, it was difficult for the young girl to climb the mountain alone without proper equipment, so she quickly ran out of energy. This was then Iwakasa realized that she was present, so he helped her and they continued on, reaching the summit as one group. Once there, Mokou discovered that the group of soldiers planned to fling the jar into the fires of the volcano to destroy it, on orders from the current Emperor of Japan. As they were about to throw it in, the goddess Konohana-Sakuyahime, who calms the eruptions of Mount Fuji, appeared and forbid the group to throw the jar into the volcano because Mount Fuji's volcanic activities would restart should they do so. She explained to them that it was in fact the Hourai Elixir, the elixir of immortality. She gave the command to go to Yatsugatake where her older sister Iwanagahime handles immortality and unchangingness dwelt.

The soldiers tried to light the jar on fire, but Sakuyahime's powers prevented it. What happened after is unclear; Mokou believes that Iwakasa's men were killed by Konohana during their night watch because they tried to take the elixir for themselves as Iwakasa and Mokou slept. As the two got further down, Mokou was finally possessed by the desire for immortality, so she murdered Iwakasa and stole it from him, consuming it and thus became immortal.

After achieving immortality, she had an undying body, but humans who don't grow older aren't able to live as an ordinary humans, so until she drifted to Gensokyo, she moved from place to place, never stopping to dwell in one location. She spent three hundred years in isolation, away from the hateful eyes of people. For three hundred years after that, she would destroy anything that crossed her path, but after that, she spent three hundred years in boredom as the youkai couldn't hold her interest any longer. It's assumed that during these six hundred years she appeared in Gensokyo. It's unknown exactly when Mokou came to Gensokyo, but after nine hundred years total, she found out that Kaguya did not actually return to the moon but continued a life of escape, and that Kaguya also became one with an undying body.

Mokou was ecstatic in discovering someone who was in the same mess she was in. Since then Mokou and Kaguya have mutually killed each other day in, day out for about 300 years. After the incident of Imperishable Night, perhaps due to the influence of Eientei accepting patients who come for medical examinations, she also started creating her own connection with the humans of the Human Village by taking the position of an escort and guiding people through the bamboo forest who want to go to Eientei. She remains very reticent, however.

On Maribel Hearn's trip to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost of several hundred years ago she met a girl who seems to be Mokou.[3] She rescued her from a mouse or rabbit youkai, which then ran away and hid after "a girl entirely on fire" chased the youkai away without a word exchanged between the two. In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, Hieda no Akyuu speculates that Mokou is a descendant of a hidden group of "youkai-killing ninja". People in general are doubtful of the clan's existence. Akyuu claims that Mokou feigns ignorance when asked about it.

Apparence du Personnage

Mokou, telle que vue dans Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Origine

Considering Mokou's surname and her back story as a daughter of an aristocrat charmed by the Kaguya-hime of legend, Mokou's father is strongly implied to be Kuramochi no Miko (車持皇子), who was given the quest for the Jeweled Branch of Hourai by Kaguya. However, many people also say that her father was Fujiwara no Fuhito (藤原不比等), the most plausible candidate based on his surname and the factual founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan that existed between the 9th century and 13th century, but this person is only a candidate for whom Kuramochi no Miko could have been modeled after, and it must be warned that it's not a clear matter of the original The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Incidentally, Fujiwara no Fuhito had nine children, four sons and five daughters, and among the five daughters, it is unclear who the mother of the fourth and fifth daughters are, and for the fifth daughter, her name is even unknown.

If Kuramochi no Miko were Mokou's father, "Miko" ("prince") would mean a blood relationship with the Emperor of Japan, but as this has been used to refer to the sons of the emperor, it has been said that she's an offspring of a direct descendant of the emperor of that time (As a certain historical fact, all of the Miko ("princes") other than Kuramochi no Miko were enthroned as emperors, and thus Mokou's family would have a collateral relation, but in the time of the marriage proposal to Kaguya, Mokou's grandfather would be the emperor, implying that she would have had a direct relation at that time).

Nom

Her full name is Fujiwara no Mokou (藤原 妹紅). Her last name Fujiwara (藤原, lit. "Wisteria field") is an actual and a common surname used in Japan - it should be noted that while this is one of the evidence which proves the political influence of the Fujiwara Clan, there are some Fujiwaras that aren't related to the Fujiwara Clan.

The characters for Mokou (妹紅) literally mean "Scarlet (younger) Sister". According to ZUN, however, Mokou can also mean "Paint me red" and her name has no connection to Flandre Scarlet. In the right context, Kou can also be translated as "female phoenix bird", which is fitting, while Mo can be translated as "mourning". Her name would mean something similar to "Mourning female Phoenix bird", a name somewhat fitting for her exiled life and events of her past. One of the kanjis is also shared in the Japanese name for the great burnet (吾亦 Waremokou), a plant that's known to cool the blood, stop bleeding, clear heat, and heal wounds. Specifically, the root is used to stop bloody dysentery, nosebleeds, and is applied topically to treat burns and insect bites.

Another noteworthy fact is that Mokou's last name is not actually a "family name" (苗字 myouji), but a "clan's name" (氏/本姓 uji/honsei) given by the Emperor. In ancient Japan times, it was common for aristocrats with uji to have the hiragana character (no) between their uji and first name. The no used here indicates the "belonging", thus the English equivalent of her name would be "Mokou of the Fujiwara (Clan)".

Titre

Mokou's character title hourai no hito no katachi (蓬莱, "Figure of the Person of Hourai") is a Japanese style transcription of hourai ningyou (蓬莱人形, "Hourai Doll"), a name of a spell card she uses. The word "hourai" used here is probably a reference to Mount Penglai (Penglai is the Chinese reading of Hourai): A legendary land in the Chinese mythology where hermits said to have lived.

The name Hourai Doll is also used in the Japanese main title of ZUN's music CD Dolls in Pseudo Paradise and Alice's spell card "Curse 'Hourai Doll'" (咒詛「蓬莱人形」). Considering ZUN's comment in her card, the connection between these and the story of Dolls in Pseudo Paradise is likely to be intentional. But the connection between these and Alice's card is probably irrelevant (at least directly), because Alice's Hourai Doll is probably only to be connected with the Dolls in Pseudo Paradise itself.

Spell card #199 in Imperishable Night is "Forgiveness: Honest Man's Death", which could also be a reference to the story in Dolls in Pseudo Paradise (where several honest men die).

Design

Mokou has red eyes and ankle-length white hair. She wears a light brown shirt that appears as if it's been discolored from fire, and dark red sashinuki hakama that are randomly decorated with paper charms. Her hair's tied with these same red and white paper charms. The paper talismans on Mokou's hakama and hair ribbons might be wards to protect her from being burned by fire. Her shirt, which lacks such talismans, appears to have been burnt repeatedly, while the ribbons and hakama show no such wear.

As depicted in the fourth chapter of Cage in Lunatic Runagate, Mokou is shown as having had short, dark hair before she drank the Hourai Elixir, though whether her current hair color was somehow caused by the Elixir is unknown. Mokou's hair had a blueish tint in Imperishable Night and continues in other spin-offs like Shoot the Bullet, Hopeless Masquerade and Impossible Spell Card, but changed to a reddish tint in Urban Legend in Limbo and Antinomy of Common Flowers .

Mokou is one of the few people in all of Gensokyo to wear relatively masculine clothing. This, along with her somewhat forceful way of speaking, often leads to her being depicted as something of a tomboy (perhaps why her parents kept her out of public view). However, because conditions in Gensokyo still resemble those of feudal Japan, patterned hakama are hard to come by and must be made by a skilled tailor and presumably are much more expensive than skirts or plain hakama. This makes patterned hakama a status symbol, and given Mokou's status as a daughter of the old Japanese aristocracy, she may have also affixed the charms to her hakama to distinguish her heritage.

Apparitions de Mokou

Jeux

Imperishable Night
Sprite de Mokou dans IN

The heroines are all sent into the Bamboo Forest of the Lost for a "test of guts" by Kaguya Houraisan, but Mokou knows that she did it to get at her. Once she realizes this, her anger is bridled, and they engage in combat.

Spin-offs

Shoot the Bullet

In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Mokou on the Extra stage and took photos of her danmaku.

Hopeless Masquerade

Mokou made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Human Village stage. She is seen sitting next to Keine Kamishirasawa with her legs crossed, yawning.

Impossible Spell Card

Presumably from hearing or seeing a wanted sign about the mischief-making amanojaku Seija Kijin, Mokou appears to be one of the many humans and youkai that tries to capture her. She uses spell cards that are considered impossible to dodge.

Urban Legend in Limbo

Mokou is a playable character in Urban Legend in Limbo. After discovering that Reimu possesses the Occult Ball of Yomotsu Hirasaka, she sets out to collect them all.

Antinomy of Common Flowers

In Antinomy of Common Flowers, Mokou tags along with Mamizou Futatsuiwa in hopes of having fun with Perfect Posession. The team encounters the culprits of the incident, Joon and Shion Yorigami. Joon steals Mokou away with her spell and forces her to fight Mamizou.

Mokou is one of few who prefers to fight as the slave in Perfect Posession instead of the master.

Littérature

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

When Aya Shameimaru happened to notice a mysterious fire in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost near Eientei she decided to investigate. Two girls, Fujiwara no Mokou and Kaguya Houraisan, were already present fighting the fire to put it out. Shortly after Aya began asking what had started the fire, Mokou suggested it might have been a cigarette butt from kids while Kaguya suggested it was yakitori. In her interview, Mokou used Kaguya's yakitori rumor to frighten Aya to running with no further questions. Aya ended the article in wonderment over the true cause of the fire.

During her interview with Mokou, Aya comes to the conclusion that it must have been Mokou who did it. However, Mokou first repeats that a cigarette butt caused it and then later insists that there never was a fire and threatens that Aya may just end up as yakitori if she keeps saying there was.

Cage in Lunatic Runagate, chapter 4

Mokou goes to Keine Kamishirasawa to ask her about the smoke rising from the Youkai Mountain. Keine gives her a lecture on the subject, which makes Mokou reminisce about her past and how she became immortal.

She also worries about the moon rocket that Remilia Scarlet was building - that Kaguya Houraisan could possibly be returning to the Moon, and the only other one like Mokou would be gone forever. After eavesdropping on a conversation between Kaguya and Eirin Yagokoro at Eientei, she discovers that they never planned on going back to the Moon in the first place, and is somewhat relieved.

Foul Detective Satori

While lazing around at the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, Mokou meets an anxious Marisa. After learning about the vengeful ghost haunting Reimu, she, at Marisa's request, guides her to Eientei. They then meet Reisen who existing the current situation at hand. At the same night, Mokou and Marisa break into Eientei to further investigate. While Marisa was incarcerated, Mokou was next seen in the Bamboo Forest, confronting the culprit. She proceeds to fight her, but was ultimately possessed. Her body was later found in the Human Village after the culprit left her body.

Relations

Kaguya Houraisan

Mokou has despised Kaguya Houraisan for reasons mentioned in her backstory. When she surprisingly found Kaguya in Gensokyo after so many years of exile, and so close to where she lived, she was ecstatic that Kaguya was in the same mess she was. The two spent about 300 years slaughtering each other on a daily basis; Mokou described those days as "the joys of killing each other over and over" in Cage in Lunatic Runagate Chapter 4. Mokou's official profile also describes those days as "wonderful days", but she's grown rather annoyed at Kaguya's persistent attempts of trying to kill her, assassins or otherwise.[4][5]

When Mokou suspects Kaguya is returning to the moon in Cage in Lunatic Runagate, she is initially worried that the only other immortal person who was in the same situation as her would no longer be on Earth[6], although she does eventually come to terms with the possibility of her leaving. She also comments that had she not taken the elixir, another immortal would have been lonely, implying that despite their feud, she cares for Kaguya in her own way. This was further shown in Foul Detective Satori as not only she kept quiet about Kaguya sneaking into the village but would often show her around.[7]

Keine Kamishirasawa

Mokou seems to have befriended Keine Kamishirasawa, describing her as the one of the few people who can understand her in the fourth chapter of Cage in Lunatic Runagate. Keine's sense of duty to protect all humans is no exception to Mokou, as she proclaimed to Kaguya's assassins in Imperishable Night's extra stage that she won't allow them to lay a hand on Mokou. Keine also traveled together with Mokou to see a flower viewing at the Hakurei Shrine in the continuation of Chapter 0 of Eastern and Little Nature Deity at the end of chapter 3.

Sumireko Usami

Initially annoyed by the high schooler, Mokou wins the battle finding herself appreciating the girl's power, and feeling a mutual fondness for her. After Sumireko dropped some of her zener cards, Mokou decided to give them back to her as a pretense to meet again. Sumireko feels at ease around her.

Relations Mineurs

Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi, Yukari Yakumo, Remilia Scarlet, Alice Margatroid, Yuyuko Saigyouji, and Youmu Konpaku

Some humans and youkai that were tricked by Kaguya into fighting Mokou during the extra stage of Imperishable Night. Mokou doesn't have any particularly notable feelings towards most of them (besides being impressed with Alice's knowledge of the Hourai Elixir), but she was flabbergasted with the humans crazy enough to go to the bamboo forest the night of a full moon. Cage in Lunatic Runagate shows that Mokou thinks Sakuya, Reimu, and Marisa are airheads. Mokou was one of the (many) attendants at Remilia's rocket party in Silent Sinner in Blue. When Alice fell into the three fairies' trap in the continuation of Chapter 0 of Eastern and Little Nature Deity at the end of chapter 3, Mokou and Keine both walked by without freeing her.

Mononobe no Futo

Mokou takes an interest in Futo after learning she also had "experienced death once before." Mokou is thrilled by the idea of meeting other immortals, and gives the Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum a visit.

Other Residents of Eientei

She has a good relationship with Eientei despite her feud with Kaguya, working with the rabbits to stop that forest fire, and is known to lead people to and from Eientei.

Iwakasa

Iwakasa was murdered by Mokou in order for her to steal the Hourai Elixir and become immortal. She notes that one day, she wants to travel to the top of the Youkai Mountain, presumably to see Iwanagahime, the goddess of immortality, and to apologize to her for what she did to Iwakasa. (NB: The Youkai Mountain was once the mountain Yatsugatake, which is the mountain Konohana-Sakuyahime suggested to Mokou and Iwakasa to bring the elixir to instead.) Spell card #199 is likely to be referring to Iwakasa, as she implied she felt regret over causing his death. In the fourth chapter of Cage in Lunatic Runagate, it's shown that her immortality was derived indirectly from Iwakasa as well, as he saved her life prior to her immortality.

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Trivia

  • Mokou appears on the cover of Imperishable Night, silhouetted against the moon beneath the silhouette of Kaguya.
  • Mokou can actually be observed dying and resurrecting after each spell card in Imperishable Night.
  • Mokou would be 1340 years old, give or take 10, to be more precise. The roughly 15 year span that Fujiwara no Fuhito had children in would be accurate enough to call Mokou to have been born in this timeframe.
  • Mokou was planned to debut as a playable character in Touhou Hisoutensoku, but the plot involving her and Kaguya was eventually scrapped.[8]
  • Coincidentally, Soga no Tojiko is based on the rival Soga clan that the Fujiwara clan took down, known as the Isshi Incident. This is further implied by Tojiko's lightning powers, which is a joke on how Fujiwara was "cursed" by the Soga clan after Nakatomi no Kamatari, the founder of the Fujiwara clan, was mysteriously struck by lightning after the incident. Whether or not this rivalry is important remains to be seen.
  • In the original Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the immortality elixir given to the Emperor by Kaguya was successfully burned at the top of Mt. Fuji. This made the fire itself immortal, and serves as the mythological explanation for Mt. Fuji's volcanic activity. As this elixir was instead stolen and drunk by Mokou in Touhou canon, she can be thought of as a personification of the flames of Mt. Fuji, which would provide a thematic explanation for her control over fire (if not an in-universe explanation.)
  • One of her alternate color palette in Urban Legend in Limbo resembles Sora(Astil Codex) from Trinity Seven

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