Gensoukyou:Sakuya Izayoi

Background
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Personality
Sakuya is an enigmatic individual that, despite claiming to be a human - suspiciously often, at that - she bears almost none of the qualities that a normal human would possess. For starters, she doesn't even seem to like humans that much, having more of a neutral opinion than anything else. For a youkai, this might be considered standard fare, but for a human, it's just plain odd. Many of the people that have interacted with her would not describe her as human, despite the lack of any solid evidence that proves otherwise.

More on the normal side of things, she has a very servant-esque attitude when on duty, speaking to Remilia, Patchouli, and even Flandre in a very formal way, but she generally takes on a far less formal tone when speaking to other people, excluding guests. Almost like a mask that comes on and off, these two personalities that she shows are surprisingly different. One side is the incredibly formal, elegant, and refined. The other side is seemingly playful, but rather steel-nerved at the same time.

The thing people find disturbing is how quickly she could go from serving you tea to slitting your throat with no warning at all. Not that this has ever happened, as she's generally rather pleasant in most instances, but the thought that it could happen at any time is ever-present.

Power/Combat
Sakuya is a rather talented time mage, though she doesn't look the part. Indeed, she plays the part of a maid rather well. But, practice makes perfect in that regard, and she's had far more practice being a killer. After such a long time, she is able to handle knives to an excellent degree, being adept at both throwing them, and handling them in more close quarters situations. She is able to create danmaku knives as well, and mostly uses those for friendly duels in which killing the other person is a bad thing.

But, her specialty lies in her time manipulation, of which there are two different kinds. First, there is the lower level magic that can be cast near instantly, but is only capable of stopping or slowing time for a handful of seconds. The second is a more complete style of casting that requires the use of her stopwatch. This special timepiece greatly amplifies Sakuya's abilities, allowing her to stop or slow time for extended periods, usually up to 12 hours at a time.

She is capable of speeding up and rewinding time, but these abilities serve as more supplementary, support abilities, since there are major limits on both of them. For example, rewinding time is limited by the fact that once something has happened, it cannot be undone, so it will be equivalent to just watching a recording of what happened. Speeding time up is also limited in that its influence on people is limited to the same 12 hour cycle. Although on non sentient things, speeding up time has a far greater affect.

Spellcards
Conjuring "Illusional Misdirection"

Illusion Existence "Clock Corpse"

Illusion Image "Luna Clock"

Maid Secret Skill "Marionette"

Illusion Ghost "Jack the Ludo Bile"

'''Illusion World "The World"

Maid Secret Skill "Killing Doll"

Conjuring "Eternal Meek"

"Indiscriminate Killer Doll"

Time Sign "Perfect Square"

Time Sign "Private Square"

Illusion Sign "Killing Doll"

Buriallusion "Phantomic Killer in Night Mist"

"Sakuya's World"

Wound Sign "Inscribe Red Soul"

Scarred Soul "Soul Sculpture"

"Serial Killer Doll"

"Checkmaid ~ Checkmate"

Jugglery "Cross-Up Murdering Demon"

"Deflation World"

Time Sign "Private Vision"

Time Sign "Mysterious Jack"

Time Sign "Tunnel Effect"

Void "Inflation Square"

Silver Sign "Perfect Maid"

Silver Sign "Silver Bound"

Speed Sign "Luminous Ricochet"

Time Sign "Sakuya's Special Stopwatch"

Illusion "My Knife's Recursions"

Time Sign "Silver Acute 360"

Time Sign "Imaginary Vertical Time"

Watch "Lunar Dial"

Light Speed "C. Ricochet"

Bewitched Weapon "Silver Dimension"

Time Sign "Dual Vanish"

Time Sign "Time Stopper Sakuya"

Time Sign "Changeling Magic"

Major
-Remilia Scarlet: The mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion and Sakuya's employer. It isn't well known what keeps Sakuya in service to Remilia, but given the fact that Sakuya seems willing to protect Remilia, even if it means bodily harm to herself, Sakuya's loyalty runs rather deep.

-Patchouli Knowledge: The mistress' friend and the librarian of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Similarly to how she treats the non-employees of the mansion, Sakuya shows Patchouli the utmost respect.

Minor
-Hong Meiling: Since Meiling is a fellow employee of the mansion, she does not put on the servant mask when speaking to her, defaulting to her more casual tone. As long as Meiling does her duties, there are no strained relationships between them.

-Flandre Scarlet: While Sakuya puts on that same servant mask as she does when addressing Remilia or Patchouli, Sakuya is usually on edge around Flandre, knowing how dangerous that power of hers can be.

-Marisa Kirisame Regardless of whatever Patchouli may think of Marisa, Sakuya doesn't seem to mind her too much, despite the fact that Marisa is a human. Perhaps Marisa herself is different enough from normal humans to be seen in a different light. Generally, Sakuya is happy to serve her tea or to cover for her when Patchouli is around. Whether or not this is because of Remilia's own opinion of the magician is not known.

-Reimu Hakurei: Similarly to Marisa, Sakuya does not seem to recognize Reimu as being human, and as such welcomes her into the mansion whenever she should come to visit.

Trivia
-There are a great number of knife types that Sakuya has used over the years, but one of her favorites seems to be balisong knives. Not for throwing, of course, but they are fun to play around with.