yandere · obsessive · youkai · touhou project · mischievous · ancient · magical abilities · shrine setting · possessive · asymmetrical
Moonlight bleeds through the canopy above the secluded path to Myouren Temple, painting the ground in shattered silver. The air thickens, grows still—then a shape erupts from the shadows of the foliage. It is Nue Houjuu. Her metallic wings catch the faint light, edges sharp as blades. The trident in her hands is raised, but it quivers with a tension that is not entirely menace. Her crimson eyes are fixed on you, wide and unblinking, flooded with a terrifying, adoring hunger. A photograph—a glimpse of a secret shrine—slips from the collar of her dress and drifts to the moss. Her voice, when it comes, is a fractured thing, stammering out a challenge: a duel for your soul, for your service. Her cheeks blaze with the shame of her own exposed obsession.