Keine Kamishirasawa's usual outfit for her other form. Under the Full Moon, she becomes a history-editing divine beast.
History Eater
Voice Lines
Gacha Pickup
I'm Keine Kamishirasawa. ...Hm? I've got horns, and my hair's a different color? Yeah, this is how I look on nights of the Full Moon.
Introduction
Hey, don't be scared. It's me, Keine Kamishirasawa. This is how I look on nights of the Full Moon... Didn't I tell you about this? As you can see, I'm half-human, half-beast. This is my hakutaku form. I'm in the middle of editing Gensokyo's history. I'll talk to you later, so please give me some space. It's dangerous if you get too close... Why? No, editing history isn't dangerous, but, uhh, I get kinda excited in this form, so I might accidentally headbutt you. It's kinda embarrassing when I say it out loud.
Purple Heart
History is a record of how humans interpret the world.
Blue Heart
This big incident changes how people see history, doesn't it?
Green Heart
Hmm, the more I hear about this big incident, the more it sounds like my history-editing ability. Is the mastermind a hakutaku or some other kind of divine beast?
Orange Heart
The act of editing history is similar to how gods gave names to everything in the ancient past. Both bring order to a chaotic world by setting boundaries around things that were once indistinguishable... Hmm, now that I say it out loud, it makes me sound pretty full of myself, huh?
Pink Heart
When I think back on the past, I remember some things clearly and others not at all. That's normal, but when I talked to others about it, I realized that we all tend to remember and forget the same things.
Autumn
Hm? Wh-What's up? There's an autumn festival in the village? Right, it's that time of year again... Sweet potatoes?! Uhh, didn't I erase that history...? Do you wanna eat one, too?
Login
I'm busy editing history. Go find Mokou if you want to play. But if you can keep quiet, you can stay here and read a book or something. Can you do that?
Enhancement
I'm a bit short on sleep, but I feel fine.
Return
Hmm, I didn't get much work done 'cause of all those battles.
Home 1
Moonlight is strange. Sometimes it purifies the earth, and other times it makes living creatures mad. Thinking about it now... This was all caused by the Lunar Capital.
Home 2
It's strange, but I can't really talk about things that happened long ago, like when I was still a normal human or when I changed into a half-beast... Perhaps I was the only one to realize this. If not, I was definitely the first.
Home 3
There are multiple pasts full of holes that all contradict each other. It's like an unedited history or a purified version of it that has reverted to a state before names existed... I've got a really bad feeling about this.
Reaction 1
The baku who hid the Lunar Capital in the Dream World? You're right. She is kinda like me. I hid the Human Village in a gap in history.
Reaction 2
Wait, what are you doing heading off to the Dream World?
Reaction 3
*sigh* I never said you could sleep on my lap... *pats head*
Task
Skipping tasks? You haven't forgotten my day job, have you?
Task Complete
You got full points on your tasks. I'm glad I didn't have to give you a headbutt.
Mail
Mail, huh? This still looks a bit too difficult for you... Wow, you can read it?!
Errand Finished
Someone's back. Let's go see how they went.
Start of Battle
You've got guts appearing before me on a night like this.
Mid-Wave
I won't let you get in the way of my work. And you're not laying a finger on that human, either!
Victory
History is recorded in the mental layer. You'll be living proof of that!
Defeat
All I can do now is hide the humans within a gap of history!
Spellcard 1 Chant 1
Tonight is the night I edit history.
Like the spirits during the Obon festival...
Spellcard 1 Chant 2
Those returning or going home,
entrust your fate to me.
Spellcard 1 Casted
Reincarnation: Ichijou Returning Bridge
Spellcard 2 Chant 1
Simply recording the
past is not enough.
Spellcard 2 Chant 2
The young make history, and
the old should watch over them.
Spellcard 2 Casted
Future & Past: History of Open Fabrication -Current History-
Last Word Chant 1
Ooh, the glorious moonlight.
This is the light of purification.
Last Word Chant 2
Now, the world will restore itself.
All we can do is try to keep up.
Last Word Casted
Total Purification
Boost 1
Hyaaa!
Boost 2
*roar*
Boost 3
I'm a bit on edge right now!
Graze 1
Haa!
Graze 2
Hmph!
Graze 3
Let me work!
Command A
OK.
Command B
Sure.
Command C
Let's do it.
Command D
Someone's asking for a headbutt.
Skill A
Time to edit.
Skill B
Let's use this.
Shot A
I'll hide it.
Shot B
I'll dig it up.
Damage
Tch.
Heavy Damage
Urgh!
Guard
That won't work.
Graze Activated
You need to study more!
Change to Rear
You can handle this.
Change to Front
I'm up.
Buff/Heal
Thanks.
Knocked Out
I won't finish my work in time!
Voice Sets
Temperamental Moonlit Beast
VA: Mizuno Saku
History-Editing Divine Beast
VA: Fukuhara Kaori
Guards the Bamboo Grove Human
VA: Mori Nanako
Character Information
Temperament: Gekkoukan
Gekkoukan (a Touhou LW original) refers to a Moon ring or Moon halo. This is an apt temperament for Keine, who edits Gensokyo's history on nights of the Full Moon. Keine is endowed with Earth Phase, since she accepts and creates history, and Moon Essence, because she has a total awareness of Gensokyo's history when she edits.
The encompassing and regenerative Earth Phase resists Fire Phase, because fire produces earth, but it is weak to Wood Phase, because wood parts earth.
The cooperative and indecisive Moon Essence resists the alluring and arrogant Sun Essence, but it is weak to the diverse and uncooperative Star Essence.
Ability/Backstory: Capable of creating history
Editing history is Keine Kamishirasawa's ability as a were-hakutaku. In her human form, she is capable of "eating" history, whereas in her hakutaku form, she is capable of "creating" history.
Keine has two forms, and when she changes form, her ability also changes. However, both her abilities complement each other, so they can basically be interpreted as one ability. Once per month, on the night of the Full Moon, Keine adopts her hakutaku form and edits Gensokyo's history.
History is not a true-to-life record of past events, but merely a modern-day interpretation of the past. In fact, a 100% accurate and unbiased record of the past cannot exist. Even if you use scientific methods, creating an exact replication of the past is impossible. This can most easily be seen by how artist renditions of dinosaurs change whenever the leading scientific theory is revised.
We live our lives in the present, believing our experiences to be the one true reality, but as soon as these experiences become the past, they change from reality to memory. Memories can only contain imperfect copies of reality because the universe is made up of more information than can ever be stored within an individual's mind. Even if you put every mind together, there wouldn't be enough storage. That's why history is not stored in memories as exact records, but as interpretations of the past that smartly compact the information.
Hieda no Akyuu once said that countless truths exist within the infinite universe. This also applies to how interpretations of history can create infinite patterns. When you read history in textbooks, it probably feels like a story set in the distant past, but that's only because you live in a small, isolated bubble of a world. For those who accept this history as one of the many truths, it IS the literal past because there are no other ways to learn about the past.
Attacks
Emergency Burial
Keine Kamishirasawa's Spread Shot (a Touhou LW original). She alleviates excessive memories in this attack. Protecting history means teaching history to the humans of today. However, history contains some truths that people don't want to accept. The mark of a good teacher is whether they can explain these truths in a way their students can understand.
Bullets
Emergency Burial
Big Emergency Burial
Huge Emergency Burial
Great Emergency Burial
Extreme Emergency Burial
Ultimate Emergency Burial
Sacred Treasure Excavation
Keine Kamishirasawa's Focus Shot (a Touhou LW original). She deciphers history from tools in this attack. Some history isn't found in books. Sometimes it isn't even recorded with words or letters. Humans have been recording history long before the invention of language. However, ancient things are easily broken, so they must be excavated and examined with the utmost care. That's one of the reasons why researching ruins and artifacts takes so much time.
Bullets
Sacred Treasure Excavation
Big Sacred Treasure Excavation
Huge Sacred Treasure Excavation
Great Sacred Treasure Excavation
Extreme Sacred Treasure Excavation
Ultimate Sacred Treasure Excavation
Reincarnation: Ichijou Returning Bridge
Keine Kamishirasawa's Spell Card. She enacts a complete return in this attack. One of the most interesting things about how Keine edits history is that the past she erases returns each Full Moon when she edits history again. Where does she hide it? Is there an archive of all the past events she erased hidden somewhere in the far reaches of the cosmos? Regardless, it's undeniable that a large amount of information―perhaps even a whole universe's worth―gathers around Keine on nights when she edits history.
Bullets
Ichijou Returning Bridge
Big Ichijou Returning Bridge
Huge Ichijou Returning Bridge
Great Ichijou Returning Bridge
Extreme Ichijou Returning Bridge
Ultimate Ichijou Returning Bridge
Future & Past: History of Open Fabrication -Current History-
Keine Kamishirasawa's Spell Card (a Touhou LW original). She creates history and the future in this attack. It could be argued that everything that exists is history. Humans lack the sensibilities, insight, and mental fortitude to perceive reality as it is. They must soften the blow by interpreting everything through a filter of imparted knowledge. In other words, they are always deluding themselves to some degree. This weakness fuels the imagination and lets humans envision what the distant future might look like. This wouldn't have been possible if humans were stronger.
Bullets
History of Open Fabrication
Big History of Open Fabrication
Huge History of Open Fabrication
Great History of Open Fabrication
Extreme History of Open Fabrication
Ultimate History of Open Fabrication
Total Purification
Keine Kamishirasawa's Last Word. She reconstructs the world in this attack. Gensokyo could be considered a land that has been totally purified. Despite having nothing, it has everything. The purification that occurs when history is edited creates hope for the future by directing how others should interpret the past. It's likely that Keine works so hard, teaching children and editing Gensokyo's history every Full Moon, because she wants to foster this hope.
If history that has been forgotten in the outside world gathers in Gensokyo, then perhaps Keine is the only one who can purify it from the sins of humanity and create a hopeful future.
Bullets
Total Purification
Big Total Purification
Huge Total Purification
Great Total Purification
Extreme Total Purification
Ultimate Total Purification
Skills
Skill: Moon Transformation
Keine assumes her beast form on nights of the Full Moon. Her hair turns white, and she grows a pair of horns.
Skill: Former Human
Keine used to be an ordinary human before she became a were-hakutaku. However, she has yet to tell anyone how it happened.
Skill: Ultimate All-Nighter
The Full Moon only lasts one night each month, and Keine has to finish editing history before the Sun rises.
