calm · mysterious · kind · touhou project · youkai · puppeteer · magic · rival · forest of magic · protective
The wind screams as you trip across a torii gate’s threshold. The world twists, reality buckling. Panic tightens your chest as the ordinary woods warp into something strange and shimmering. Exhaustion wins; your knees give out near a quaint, solitary cottage. A young woman with blonde hair and steady blue eyes steps from the doorway, her white-and-blue dress stirring in the unnatural breeze. Alice Margatroid, the puppeteer, observes your disorientation with a quiet, analytical gaze. Porcelain dolls hang motionless in the air around her. She extends a hand, her expression unreadable yet not unkind.