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十六夜 (いざよい)  咲夜 (さくや)
Sakuya Izayoi
izajoi sakɯja (♫)
Sakuya Izayoi
Sakuya Izayoi dans Unconnected Marketeers
Servante du Manoir du Démon Écarlate
Plus de Titres des personnages
Espèce

Humain

Capacités

Manipulation du temps

Âge

Dite avoir entre 13 et 20 ans, insinuée avoir bien plus.

Occupation

Servante

Résidence

Manoir du Démon Écarlate

Thèmes musicaux
Apparitions
Jeux officiels
Œuvres Littéraires
Divers

Sakuya Izayoi (十六夜 咲夜 Izayoi Sakuya) est la servante-en-chef de Remilia Scarlet, la propriétaire du Manoir du Démon Écarlate. C'est la seule humaine vivant dans le Manoir du Démon Écarlate.[1][2]

Informations Générales

Sakuya est apparue pour la première fois en tant que boss du Stage 5 dans Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Elle est apparue dans Perfect Cherry Blossom en tant que personnage jouable et dans Imperishable Night en tant que partenaire de Remilia ainsi que dans le nouveau jeu de combat Immaterial and Missing Power. Plus tard, elle est à nouveau apparue en tant que personnage jouable dans Phantasmagoria of Flower View, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody et Touhou Hisoutensoku. Elle était ensuite jouable dans Double Dealing Character, ainsi que dans Unconnected Marketeers.

Elle a essentiellement comme rôle de gérer le Manoir du Démon Écarlate. Elle est "grande" ; plus grande que Reimu Hakurei et Alice Margatroid mais fait à peu près la même taille que Yukari Yakumo et Hong Meiling.[3] Elle n'est pas née à Gensokyo, et le nom "Sakuya Izayoi" lui a été donné par Remilia Scarlet.[3] Dans Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, Akyuu suppose qu'elle aurait pu originellement être une chasseuse de vampires.

Personnalité & Âge

Sakuya a tendance à être un peu déconnectée de la réalité, mais on ne sait si elle le joue ou non. Elle est polie et plaisante envers sa maîtresse Remilia Scarlet et avec ceux de qui elle est proche, comme Patchouli Knowledge, tout en étant moins formelle avec les autres. Envers ceux qui l'énervent fréquemment, comme Marisa Kirisame, elle peut être plutôt dure et directe avec ses insultes et ses provocations, notamment lors de duels.

Sakuya ne semble pas connaître certains concepts scientifiques de base, tels que "les humains ont besoin d'oxygène pour respirer", comme l'on peut le voir dans Silent Sinner in Blue ou dans sa route dans Unconnected Marketeers. Ironiquement, elle a aussi déclaré être une "athée" à plusieurs occasions, comme dans Wild and Horned Hermit, malors qu'elle vit dans un monde dans lequel les dieux sont littéralement réels.

Pour ce qui est de son âge, ZUN a directement déclaré qu'elle "jouait le rôle d'une servante humaine d'entre 10 et 20 ans"[4] et "peut-être est-elle un personnage d'une grosse douzaine d'années"[5], et dans Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, d'après Hieda no Akyuu, "elle dit avoir presque vingt ans", mais agit avec les manières d'un adulte mûr et le niveau de ses capacités semble être celui de quelqu'un qui a vécu au moins une centaine d'années. D'après une citation de Remilia Scarlet et l'ending de Sakuya dans Imperishable Night (Good Ending #3), Sakuya a travaillé au Manoir du Démon Écarlate pendant si longtemps que Remilia ne trouve pas convenable d'appeler Sakuya humaine. Avec un tel commentaire, il semble convenable de suppose qu'elle a été au Manoir pendant particulièrement longtemps.

Pouvoir

Manipulation du temps
Sakuya arrêtant le temps dans Silent Sinner in Blue

Sakuya possède la capacité de manipuler le temps, en l'occurrence contrôler l'écoulement du temps, comme l'accélérer, le ralentir, le supprimer, et l'arrêter. Elle peut aussi compresser l'écoulement du temps pour faire exister le passé et le futur au même moment, faisant apparître le même objet de plusieurs instants différents appraître plusieurs fois au même endroit[6][7]. Sa capacité ne lui permet pas seulement de contrôler le temps là où elle se trouve, mais aussi d'influencer l'écoulement du temps de quelqu'un, d'un objet spécifique ou d'une certaine zone si elle le désire, comme en arrêtant le temps d'un objet et le faisant ainsi flotter dans l'air, ou en créant des champs particuliers dans lesquels sa capacité est active ; elle peut aussi accélérer ou décélérer le temps d'un objet d'une vitesse ridicule à une extrêmement grande, voire jusqu'à la vitesse de la lumière. Cependant, elle n'est pas capable de retourner le temps, étant ainsi par exemple incapable de réparer un objet qui a été brisé.[1][8] Cependant, elle est capable d'utiliser son pouvoir pour faire revenir quelque chose à sa place antérieure.[1] Elle a déjà été vue capable d'effacer le temps d'un objet d'un ligne temporelle spécifique ; comme en effaçant des projectiles à la fois du passé et du futur, les rendant non-existants.[9]

Elle est aussi capable de manipuler l'espace,[1][10] et peut le rendre plus étroit ou plus large ; elle a rendu le Manoir du Démon Écarlate, qui était déjà fort spacieux, encore plus abondamment spacieux. ZUN a également déclaré que "Manipulation du Temps" était synonyme de "Manipulation de l'Espace". En manipulant l'espace-temps, Sakuya est également capable de créer une autre Sakuya et de la faire apparaître en face d'elle, qui sera capable de bouger différemment de l'originale. Ceci est apparemment lié à un "autre temps", bien que ce ne soit pas expliqué dans les détails. [11]

D'après Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, le pouvoir de contrôler le temps est un pouvoir qu'un humain est capable d'avoir, mais qui n'est pas acquis simplement par un entrainement. Dans les jeux, grâce à cette capacité, elle rassemble un très grande quantité de couteaux. Pour ne pas révéler son secret, elle arrête le temps et place assidûsement les couteaux un par un.

Hieda no Akyuu pense que Sakuya a été capable de vivre si longtemps tout en ayant toujours l'air si jeune en manipulant le temps. Il est vrai que Sakuya peut augmenter la vitesse à laquelle quelque chose vieillit, comme en faisant fleurir instantanément les fleurs de bambous dans l'ending de Marisa A dans Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, alors que ce processus prend normalement six ans. Il semble convenable de supposer qu'elle est également capable de décélérer le temps d'un objet d'une manière similaire.

Malgré les effets potentiellement terrifiants que semble avoir la manipulation du temps, Sakuya admet elle-même que sa capacité n'est qu'en fait elle bougeant à de très grandes vitesse sans masse, et qu'elle est incapable d'arrêter le temps de quelqu'un d'autre. Ceci pourrait bien être un effort dans le but que Reimu laisse le Manoir tranquille et lève ses suspicions de kidnappings.[12]

Profession

en tant que servante-en-chef, elle gère toutes les fées servantes en tant que seule servante humaine. Les autres servantes ont beaucoup de permissions concernant leur travail et décident rarement de partir (bien qu'elles ne soient pas payées et n'aient pas de vacances) ; cependant, elles sont essentiellement inutiles et Sakuya se retrouve toujours à faire tout le travail, ce qui aurait été impossible sans sa capacité d'arrêter ou de ralentir le temps. Elle magasine au Village Humain, mais elle est froide envers les autres humains et n'a aucun ami là-bas. Cependant, depuis que Remilia Scarlet a été battue par les protagonistes de Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Sakuya a commencé à s'ouvrir un peu plus aux autres.

À l'époque de Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, elle travaillait au Manoir simplement en échange d'être nourrie. Continuant ainsi dans Imperishable Night, elle ne s'inquiétait aucunement de ses tenues, de ses repas ou de sa façon de vivre et se sentait satisfaite.[13] Pendant ce temps, elle est particulièrement dévouée à sa maîtresse.[14] Elle recherche en permanence de nouvelles variantes de thé pour faire goûter Remilia, comme on le voit dans divers livres. Par exemple, elle mentionne dans Phantasmagoria of Flower View qu'avec autant de fleurs aux alentours, elle pourrait faire autant de thé et autant de pâtisseries qu'elle le voudrait.

Théoriquement, Sakuya est le cinquième personnage à avoir servi de servante dans Touhou Project. Les précedentes sont Ruukoto, Mugetsu, Yumeko et Alice Margatroid. Cependant, comme Mugetsu n'est probablement pas une servante, Sakuya serait alors la quatrième.

Possessions

Sakuya plaçant ses couteaux, illustrée dans The Grimoire of Marisa.

Elle possède une grande quantité de couteaux de lancer en argent[1][14] et est particulièrement douée pour les manipuler, et grâce à sa capacité d'arrêter le temps[15], elle est douée pour les faire apparaître de nulle part.[1][16][17]

Sa portée est dite être 20 ken (à peu près 36 mètres) et est suffisamment précise pour planter une pomme sur la tête d'une fée. Grâce à son talent pour manipuler les couteaux, elle est également très douée pour la cuisine.[16] Elle est aussi capable de rassembler des couteaux en tant que danmaku dans un duel. Dans les jeux, malgré ses animations donnant l'impression qu'elle fasse apparaître les couteaux magiquement, son illustration dans The Grimoire of Marisa montre qu'elle les place physiquement un par un.

Histoire

ZUN a déclaré dans ses e-mails que "Sakuya Izayoi" n'était pas son vrai nom et qu'elle ne venait pas de Gensokyo. D'après son profil dans Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, sa capacité à contrôler le temps l'a éloignée des humains, et elle a éventuellement abandonné le fait d'être amicale avec eux.

On ne sait pas comment elle s'est retrouvée à travailler au Manoir du Démon Écarlate.


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Character Basis

Name

Her full name is Sakuya Izayoi (十六夜 咲夜), which was given to her by Remilia Scarlet. The characters for Izayoi (十六夜) literally means "Sixteenth night" (the night just after that of the full moon), and Sakuya (咲夜) literally means "Flowering night". The Japanese word for "last night" (昨夜) can also read as Sakuya, which would point towards the night of the full moon. The word for "night of the new moon" (朔夜) can also read as Sakuya, which is possibly related to the ability to manipulate time. The word Izayoi (十六夜) has come to mean "sixteenth night" from the expression "izayou tsuki" (いざよう月), where "izayou" means "not to progress/proceed forward at all", which might have a deep connection to her ability as well.

Design

Sakuya was first seen in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. In this game, she was seen with bright red eyes, silver hair worn in long braids on both sides of her face with green bows at the ends and a white maid headband. She wears a pink/white and dark blue French maid's outfit with an apron, short sleeves and a green ribbon. She is also seen carrying three knives and the phrase "Red Magic" appears to be embroidered on her left sleeve.

Later in Perfect Cherry Blossom, when choosing a player, Sakuya appears to have grey eyes, blue colored long sleeves and a red scarf. She also has red shoes and two knives, one blue and one red. However, her appearance in-game shows her having blue eyes. She's wearing such clothing because it was effectively winter during the game.

Her appearances in Immaterial and Missing Power, Imperishable Night and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody are very similar. Sakuya is seen with grey eyes and once again wearing short sleeves. She appears to the have a thin black ribbon on the maids outfit. However in Imperishable Night she holds a knife and an old stopwatch, where as in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she has three knives and a plate with cups and a teapot on it. The colour of her eyes changes with each work.

In Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she has dark blue eyes and long sleeves. The Roman numerals for I (1) through XII (12) line the bottom of her apron.

In Double Dealing Character and Unconnected Marketeers she additionally wears stockings.

Alternative Outfits

Her alternative outfit in Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is mainly light blue with a white apron and her hair is light green. In Phantasmagoria of Flower View, her outfit is mainly dark red instead of dark blue.

Mystery and Theory

Sakuya Izayoi est un personnage de bien des mystères. Voici une ou deux théories de la fanbase de Touhou Project qui pourraient ou pourraient ne pas être vraies dans la majorité des cas. Cette section s'intéresse à un mystère bien connu de Sakuya Izayoi. Notez que ces théories n'utilisent que du matériel officiel, et soyez averti qu'il ne s'agit notamment que de conjectures. Hieda no Akyuu states there are several theories regarding Sakuya's origins and/or behaviour (including she is a homunculus, a zombie, or an eccentric).[1]

Sakuya's Species

ZUN's E-mails has referred to her as human, as do most of her official profiles. In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, Hieda no Akyuu considers Sakuya as a human, but wonders if she is not actually from Gensokyo, but perhaps one of many other worlds including Higan, the Netherworld, the Lunar Capital, and the outside world. Reimu Hakurei questions her humanity in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, but throughout the series Sakuya insists and refers to herself as a human very often. Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states her ability to control time is an extremely powerful ability for a human to possess. Sakuya doesn't seem to react abnormally regarding to either the Lunarians from the Moon or the Moon itself in any official work, nor does any "alien" in regards to Sakuya. For example, Watatsuki no Yorihime doesn't show any recognition of her.

In relation to Sakuya's eyes been red

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, and possibly Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody's spell cards, there are parts when her eyes become red. In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, it may possibly be due to the Scarlet Mist Incident, but it was inferred that those were to manipulate the eyes of insanity. In Imperishable Night, at the scene where Remilia Scarlet worried that Sakuya might become insane at the time Kaguya cast the light of the true full moon, even when Sakuya looked at the true full moon there did not seem to be any abnormality caused by the full moon. However, Imperishable Night's Good Ending #3 indicates Sakuya went a bit mad. Additionally, ZUN drew Sakuya with red eyes shortly after the release of IN, and answered a fan's question about her red eyes in the picture, stating that they should play through the game to understand. The implication here is that Sakuya did indeed go mad. That being said, Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame passed through seeing the moon just fine, although they had their own reasons as to why they don't become insane.

In relation to Konohana-Sakuyahime

ZUN has said that the contents of Touhou Bougetsushou contained a hint as for the reason why Eirin Yagokoro was surprised at seeing Sakuya. In Cage in Lunatic Runagate, there appeared another character with the same first name, Konohana-Sakuyahime. If Eirin is indeed Yagokoro Omoikane no Kami, she would know Konohana-Sakuyahime since the latter is the wife of Ninigi-no-Mikoto, Omoikane's nephew. Thus, the fact that Sakuya shares the same name as her nephew's wife would be a reason why Eirin was surprised.

Since the two share the same first name though, there's a possibility that Sakuya is based off of Konohana-Sakuyahime or at least in some other way related. In the Kojiki, Konohana-Sakuyahime was written as "木花之佐久夜", where the "" corresponds to the "ya", therefore making every part of the name "Sakuya" with a basis in Konohana-Sakuyahime. Furthermore, there were tales related to Konohana-Sakuyahime where she can be seen to be controlling time like Sakuya, like the tale of the one-night pregnancy and the delivery in the middle of fire.

Vampire Hunter

Sakuya being a vampire hunter is a theory that's the widely accepted by Akyuu, based on the fact that her silver knives are the same kind used to slay vampires and other demons. Silver is one of the prime weaknesses of vampires.

The theory that was said by Akyuu claims that long ago, a young vampire hunter was training herself, defeating smaller demons in an unknown location, but never had the chance to fight a vampire. Confident in her abilities, she decided to set out on a journey to slay vampires and ended up at the Scarlet Devil Mansion. There she saw Remilia Scarlet, who was surprisingly strong, and Remilia easily defeated her. However, Remilia wanted the girl's power for herself, so she spared her life and gave her a new name, which also gave her a completely opposite fate: Sakuya Izayoi. Sakuya then became the head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion before it was moved to Gensokyo. This may also have some relation to her species theory.

Human Cuisine

Sakuya shown cooking in Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 15.

Sakuya's involvement in the human cuisine of the Scarlet Devil Mansion is unknown. All official details regarding this topic can be interpreted both ways. In other words, there exists neither confirmation nor denial that Sakuya prepares humans. The Scarlet Devil Mansion has humans to eat. While Sakuya has never been shown preparing humans, it's stated that all other maids in the mansion are practically useless and Sakuya is the one who does all the work. This heavily implies that she is involved in cooking as well since it's one of the biggest duties in a household.

Flandre Scarlet confesses to Reimu Hakurei in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil that she has no idea who prepares her human food, but doesn't think it's Remilia. Her profile confirms the pastries she eats are made from humans, but doesn't say who prepares the pastries. In Wild and Horned Hermit Chapter 11, Sakuya comments at the flower viewing party, "It's been a while since I've seen such seedy-looking food. I usually see steaks dripping with blood."

Music comments in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil by ZUN state that Remilia's tea is blood. In Strange and Bright Nature Deity, Sakuya asked Remilia if she thought her latest (not humans) tea tasted like blood. Also, Sakuya's ending in Immaterial and Missing Power mentions that tea time is usually "red tea".

In chapter 35 of Wild and Horned Hermit, faced with Reimu's accusation that she's the one behind the sudden disappearances of the Human Village people because of Remilia's need for blood, Sakuya jokes that it didn't occur to her to kidnap people that way and then denies her involvement in the case on the basis that the kidnapped people come back unharmed the next day with no recollection of what they were doing during that time, stating that her time manipulation powers cannot stop the flow of time for people other than herself.

Story

Games

the Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil
Sakuya's sprite in EoSD

During Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Sakuya attempts to prevent the heroine from reaching her mistress, but fails.

Sakuya is cleaning when Reimu interrupts her and demands Sakuya to bring her to her mistress. Sakuya refuses to put Remilia in danger and faces against Reimu.

Sakuya is cleaning when Marisa comes in and muses at Sakuya's maid position. Sakuya deadpans about Marisa's magician class and after a rather amusing discussion on Marisa "application", the ruse is uncovered and they fight.

Perfect Cherry Blossom
Sakuya's back sprite in PCB

Later, during Perfect Cherry Blossom, Sakuya is able to show more of her true character, even if her main reason for trying to solve the problem is that the delayed Spring will affect her too. Sakuya wants no distractions and to quickly find the culprit, unfortunately for her, she gets into a full fledged adventure.

Imperishable Night
Sakuya's back sprite in IN
Sakuya's sprite in IN, PoFV, StB and ISC

Remilia gets fed up at Sakuya's inability to catch her subtle hints to fix the Moon. Sakuya faithfully follows her disgruntled mistress into the night.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Sakuya's back sprite in PoFV

Sakuya wanders about but this time more for her inquiring nature rather than actually solving the incident.

Double Dealing Character
Sakuya's back sprite in DDC and UM

Sakuya discovers that some of her silver knives started acting up and have become independent. Meanwhile, youkai at the Misty Lake have been running a rampage, so Sakuya goes out to test her new knives.

Unconnected Marketeers

In Unconnected Marketeers, Sakuya was ordered by Patchouli to investigate the ability cards in order to purchase some for her mistress, Remilia. Eventually, she invites Chimata Tenkyuu to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, where she holds a special market in Remilia's honour.

Spin-off

Immaterial and Missing Power

Sakuya realizes the air is charged with some strange power and investigates on what could it be.

Shoot the Bullet

In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Sakuya on stage 7 and took photos of her danmaku.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

During the events of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she is initially commanded by Remilia Scarlet to find possible suspects behind the strange weather. After Remilia grows tired of "questioning" suspects, she orders Sakuya to personally find and deal with the culprit. After doing so, Sakuya tells Reimu where to find the culprit, and latter helps to rebuild the Hakurei Shrine after it is destroyed for the second time.

Touhou Hisoutensoku

If connecting SWR with Touhou Hisoutensoku, then Sakuya can become a selectable character to play with, although she appears in no scenarios.

Hopeless Masquerade

Sakuya appears as a background cameo in Hopeless Masquerade on the Hakurei Shrine stage. She standing with Remilia Scarlet and Patchouli Knowledge holding a tray with tea on it.

Impossible Spell Card

After apparently reading the newspaper by the tengu about a mischief-making amanojaku, she becomes one of the many strong youkai and humans to try and stop Seija Kijin. She uses spell cards that are considered impossible to dodge.

Literature

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
Main article: Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Sakuya
Sakuya as seen in Wild and Horned Hermit chapter 21

The article reports of Sakuya sneaking into Marisa Kirisame's house and stealing various objects with the intent of building a rocketship to travel to the moon. Sakuya explains her odd behavior by claiming she is only carrying out Remilia's request.

In the interview, Aya Shameimaru asks to speak to Remilia to find out why she wanted those items, but in stalling Sakuya, she is late in delivering tea to Patchouli Knowledge, who arrives to see what the hold-up is. Patchouli explains that they were going to use the items for a magic spell which would send them to the moon, but it ultimately proved useless in the end. The interview ends with Sakuya inviting Aya to join them for tea-time.

Silent Sinner in Blue

Sakuya is ordered by Patchouli to gather information on how to construct a "Saturn V Rocket" that would be able to bring Remilia to go to the Moon. After receiving information from Rinnosuke Morichika on its construction, she visited the Hakurei Shrine to convince Reimu Hakurei to help "fuel" the "rocket" by lending a God's strength.

Sakuya joins Reimu, Marisa Kirisame, and Remilia in their adventure to the moon, where she is the first to fight (and lose) against Watatsuki no Yorihime.

Wild and Horned Hermit

Remilia reacts to Reimu's new event of Mamemaki for Setsubun (an event where people throw beans to drive away the onis) and decides to make her own festival without the beanthrowing in which Sakuya aids with the preparation. Kasen learns that the vampire is also weak against beans and decides to pay them a visit in which Sakuya kindly welcomes her and tell her about the festival. After Reimu's change of mind, the Scarlet Devil Mansion cancels its own festival and sets up a sushi stand at the Hakurei Shrine.

Forbidden Scrollery

Sakuya goes to the Hakurei Shrine looking for Remilia's new pet, a supposed Tupai, which seems to have disappeared. Later, she goes along with Reimu to Suzunaan to research about the creature. After Hieda manages to capture it and reveal it was actually a Chupacabra, Sakuya returns it to the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Relationships

As a playable character in several games, Sakuya has met a large number of characters. Generally, she treats everyone with professional politeness fitting of a perfect and elegant maid, but youkai that get in her way while she is resolving incidents are coldly exterminated.

Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Sakuya is loyal to Remilia Scarlet and serves her as the Head Maid without question, a servitude in which no one knows why either trust each other so much. She follows Remilia's requests even when she knows it won't work, such as catching Lily White to restore Spring in Strange and Bright Nature Deity, as requested by her mistress. When Remilia playfully criticizes Sakuya for her failure to catch spring, she takes it in good stride and doesn't disagree. She will also do things for Remilia which she won't even ask, like accompanying her in Imperishable Night and Immaterial and Missing Power (or trying to, in the latter case), or putting on a sleight-of-hand magic show for Remilia without warning in Curiosities of Lotus Asia. Remilia has said that Sakuya is an excellent cleaner, though not before contrarily stating that humans are useless. On occasion, she's more a babysitter than a maid. She chastises Remilia in her Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Immaterial and Missing Power victory quotes for sneaking out food or playing around too much.

Hong Meiling is a fellow employee who she pesters about her work productivity as shown in Immaterial and Missing Power and Touhou Hisoutensoku victory quotes. Meiling seems easily frightened when Sakuya shows even a slight bit of anger as shown in Strange and Bright Nature Deity. However, in Meiling's Touhou Hisoutensoku ending, when Meiling is found passed out and asleep, Sakuya takes Meiling inside because she is worried Meiling will get heatstroke.

She also serves Patchouli Knowledge since Patchouli rarely leaves her room. Sakuya has the highest authority as chief maid[1], yet Patchouli's rank is noticeably higher within the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Sakuya may also be serving her because Patchouli is Remilia's friend, though she does care for Patchouli personally. In Silent Sinner in Blue, she takes a private moment to watch and smile at Patchouli, who's blissfully unaware as she's researching a new magical breakthrough.

Koakuma is simply a fellow employee of the Scarlet Devil Mansion and presumably nothing more.

On top of serving Remilia, she presumably serves her younger sister Flandre Scarlet, who is usually not allowed out of Scarlet Devil Mansion due to her emotional instability. Someone prepares Flandre's food, which are humans prepared in the shape of pastries and other pleasant things, but it is not directly stated to be Sakuya.

As the head maid, Sakuya has precedence over all the other Fairy Maids of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She is familiar with every each one and notices any abnormality such as the Three Fairies of Light dressing up as three maids. Due to the poor work productivity of the fairies, Sakuya presumably does most of the work. An advertisement in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red states that Sakuya interviews for recruiting, so she may have interviewed the majority (if not every) of fairy maids herself.

Marisa Kirisame

Despite Marisa Kirisame's tendency to "borrow" books from the library, Sakuya has shown on a few occasions (mainly endings) to be quite friendly with Marisa, going so far as to serve her snacks and tea and hiding her from Patchouli. This may explain Patchouli's low "catness" rating in Immaterial and Missing Power.

Residents of Eientei

From the events of Imperishable Night, Sakuya is one of the few people who know that Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan are from the moon, and presumably keeping it a secret. Eirin's profile states Eirin is surprised to see Sakuya, but only Eirin knows why. Sakuya has not shown any abnormal interactions or familiarity with Eirin that could hint at what this is (she was suspicious of Eirin during the rocket party in Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth, but so was everyone who knew Eirin was from the moon).

ZUN's only hint in regards to this can be seen above in the section about Konohana-Sakuyahime.

Minor Relationships

Three Fairies of Light

Sakuya met them in an omake in Eastern and Little Nature Deity, where she stops their prank by throwing some knives at them. In Strange and Bright Nature Deity, at the mansion, she saw through their maid disguises but didn't say a word and let them stay. She eventually kicked them out (according to the fairies' conversation) or frightened them out by telling them if they don't work, they don't eat. Sakuya was smiling, so she may have been speaking as-a-matter-of-factly.[Ref. Nécessaire] Later, when they're spying on Sakuya and others at the Hakurei Shrine, she sees them, revealing she can see through their abilities to hide themselves even though Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame cannot. She cheerfully invites them to join, but this only scares them into running away, which disappoints her.

Alice Margatroid

Sakuya attacks her in Immaterial and Missing Power to release stress. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she says it's to punish Alice for intruding even after Alice has already left. In both cases, Alice thought it was a poor reason. In comparison, Marisa Kirisame and Youmu Konpaku don't even get into trouble when caught intruding in the mansion (in fact, they usually get tea, instead)[18].

Cirno

Sakuya has trouble understanding why Cirno finds freezing frogs or flowers fun in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, but at least came to understand fairies' recklessness from watching Cirno fight in Touhou Hisoutensoku. Cirno does not want to be a fairy maid.

Gallery

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Artworks

Sprites

Illustrations

Screenshots

Others

Skills

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Fandom

Sakuya is one of the most popular characters in the Touhou Project. She sometimes appears to be an icon for the Touhou Project and has appeared in many fangames, mostly as a playable character or a boss, and in other fan-made anime and artwork. She is also a target for various memes and jokes.

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Sources Officielles

Références

  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 et 1,7 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Sakuya Izayoi
  2. 『三月精 第2部』「上海アリス通信 三精版 第5号」(『月刊コンプエース』Vol.7 p.275。実質的には「第6号」なのだが誤植で「第5号」になっている。単行本未収録)
  3. 3,0 et 3,1 ZUN's E-mails
  4. Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: おまけ.txt
  5. インターネットラジオ「萎えラジDNA コミケット72直前スペシャル」(2007年8月11日放送)でのZUNの発言
  6. Imperishable Night - "Deflation World"
  7. Grimoire de Marisa - Spell Cards de Sakuya Izayoi
  8. Curiosities of Lotus Asia: Chapitre 4–5
  9. Double Dealing Character
  10. réponses de ZUN aux messages sur l'ancien Gensou Bulletin Board 2
  11. "Alternate Skill Cards - Time Paradox"
  12. Wild and Horned Hermit : Chapitre 35
  13. Imperishable Night: キャラ設定.txt
  14. 14,0 et 14,1 Imperishable Night : Manuel
  15. réponses de ZUN aux messages de l'ancien Gensou Bulletin Board 1
  16. 16,0 et 16,1 Perfect Cherry Blossom : Manuel
  17. Immaterial and Missing Power : 上海アリス通信.txt
  18. Cage in Lunatic Runagate Chapter 7
  19. Immaterial and Missing Power Sakuya's Scenario: "Too bad. I don't believe in gods."