Tenshi Hinanai
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比那名居 天子(ひななゐ てんし)(♫) Tenshi Hinanai | |
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Tensi Hinanawi | |
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Manipulation of Land and Weather | |
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Tenshi is the "final" boss for most of the characters in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and the "Eldest Daughter" of the Hinanai clan (as referred to by Iku Nagae) that resides in Heaven. Due to the boring life in Heaven of constant drinking and relaxation, Tenshi decides to cause a disaster by gathering the thought energy of everyone in Gensokyo in the form of scarlet clouds, threatening an earthquake. Her true intent is to resolve her boredom by attracting others to resolve the incident. This disruption causes a preliminary tremor, which wrecks Reimu Hakurei's shrine, causing several events to unfold from there. Eventually, Tenshi rebuilds Reimu's shrine.
[edit] Fun Facts
- The character of her name literally means this: Hi is "compare, comparative, rather", the former na is "many, comfort, calm", the latter na "name, authority", i "be, live", ten "sky, heaven", shi "master". So literal meaning of her name is "the master of heaven, from the calm family being with authority ". But there is an implication: her name includes hina and nai. Hina isn't clearly unknown, but the official profile says Hinanai clan served Nai clan in their life, so hina could mean "young chicken, small" (雛). In ancient time, na could mean "ground", i or wi could "be, exist, live in", and nai or nawi is an ancient word for "earthquake", which is abbreviation of naifuru (shaking the ground we live on). Then her name means "the master of heaven, from the small family serving Nai clan, who are in charge of the earthquake".
- Tenshi's first name can also be read "Tenko": when the fans were speculating about new charcters on Touhou Project Board before the release of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, an anonymous jokingly uploaded an image that supposedly listed all the names of the characters including that of an unknown character, "緋想 天子" (engl. Tenko Hisou) in the middle. This naming was too easy; adding the most famous Japanese suffix indicating girl's name, "-ko", after that of Japanese title "Hisouten". The name was from then on adopted as a tentative name for the final boss, because the way of naming too easily sounded very funny. Surprisingly, it turned out that she has the same personal name "天子", which has been supposed to be read as "Tenshi".
- As a result of this, Tenko has been a fan nickname for her, and she sometimes participates in Ran Yakumo's Suppa Tenko running gag.
- Many also refer to her as simply "Peaches," for obvious reasons. The Japanese nickname is "Momoko."
- Due to her apparent eagerness to be beaten up by the other characters in SWR's story mode (with dialogue lines such as "Yes, get angry! Because if you don't punish me, Gensokyo shall be no more!"), she has gained a reputation as a masochist. Probably that is why her masochistic feeling of ecstasy is called, instead of "zecchou", "uchouten"(有頂天), which should originally means one's bad mind, "be in excessive glory".
- Tenshi in Japanese can also mean "angel" (天使), a likely reference to her being a Celestial, and an ironic use of the word (considering Tenshi's actual character) by ZUN, in line with the other lampooning of Heaven and Heavenly beings within Touhou.
- That said, if Perfect Memento's article can be taken as a guide, Tenshi was a human and is now referred to as a Celestial, per the Character profile in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
- Tenshi's weapons include innumerable danmaku keystones of various sizes and her shape-shifting sword Hisou no Tsurugi.
[edit] Official Profiles
[edit] Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - おまけ.txt
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○非想非非想天の娘 比那名居 天子(ひななゐ てんし)
住家:天界
緋想の剣の能力:気質を見極める程度の能力
性格:温室育ちで、自分勝手。有頂天。
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Girl of the top of the heaven(<- Up to debate, honestly) Species: Bad Celestial A delinquent celestial living in the heavens. The Hinanai clan used to be a family of priests who were tasked to protect the Keystone, which kept earthquakes under control. However, even with the Hinanai keystone, earthquakes occurred rather often. They occurred so often that it went out of the hands of Oomura-no-Kami, a celestial who was in charge of earthquakes at that time, so the Nai clan, who had been serving the celestials, was ordered to take over the job around the Gensokyo area. The Nai clan was a family of surface priests, but was later enshrined as divine spirits in a small shrine beside a mountain lake known as Nai-no-Kami. The Nai-no-Kami still watches after Gensokyo quietly. At the same time, the Hinanai clan was transferred to heaven as a reward for serving Nai-no-Kami when it was still alive. However, unlike other celestials, the Hinanais became celestials only by serving Nai-no-Kami; that is, not through training. So they didn't have the reputation expected of celestials, and some even called them "bad" celestials. When the Hinanais became celestials, their daughter Chiko Hinanai followed them to be a celestial, even though she was only a mere girl. Chiko renamed herself Tenshi when she moved to heaven. She was not satisfied with how she was treated in heaven, and often looked at Gensokyo with jealousy toward the humans and youkai on the surface. One day, a sudden urge hit her as she saw surface youkai using their power to invoke disaster and enjoy the following events. "Gee, I'm tired of this boring celestial life! I can invoke a disaster too!!" Then she darted out of her home, with the Sword of Hisou, a celestial tool, in her hand...
Ability to invoke or suppress an earthquake. Although effective area is not wide, she can cause an earthquake in a remote area as long as it's inside Gensokyo. This ability also allows her to cause disasters such as subsidence or mudslide. Also, only the Hinanai clan is allowed to put or remove Keystones in Gensokyo. It is said that upon removal of the Keystones, all the ground in Gensokyo will shake.
The Sword of Hisou is a celestial-only item that allows the wielder to exploit the opponent's weakness, no matter what. First, the sword converts the opponent's spiritual nature to scarlet mist, then to the form that everyone can see. As the opponent's nature has surfaced, the sword can change itself to the most effective attributes. Spiritual nature surfaced by the sword takes the form of weather. Spirits slashed by the sword become scarlet mist, then the mist changes the weather. Tenshi thinks that with her Keystone and Sword of Hisou, she can control all heaven, surface, and humans.
She is very earthy for a celestial, and lacks charisma. That's not surprising, however, because she became a celestial only because the entire Hinanai family became celestials when Nai became a divine spirit. Therefore, she lacks awareness of being a celestial. An overly well-endowed environment obviously had a negative effect on Tenshi's childhood. She doesn't consider what her actions mean to other people, for one. She has absolute confidence in her abilities, and gets mad if someone insults them. | |

