Cirno

Cirno, also known as ⑨, Ice Fairy of the Lake and Nine-Ball, is a character from the Touhou Project series.
== Charactah Account ==
Cirno is an ice fairy who can manipulate the cold who lives at the lake surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and one of the series most persistent sources of comic relief. Her favorite hobby is freezing frogs and watching them thaw. She boasts that she is the strongest fairy of them all, though considering how weak fairies are in general, it gives you a good indication just how bright she is.
Cirno has the ability to manipulate cold to the point of being able to freeze water. However, even while saying "manipulate", when coldness is in an omitted state, it seems like her surroundings are chilly even in summer. In battle, she uses this ability to attack others with icicles, huge ice cubes, or wieldable weapons like swords, but also to freeze her opponents or their danmaku. However, despite being able to freeze something hot like flaming danmaku, she is unable to freeze lasers.
How Cirno exactly manipulates cold is unclear, but Reisen Udongein Inaba, in one of her quotes in Touhou Hisoutensoku, speculates that when Cirno does it, she warms up inside as a result. This would mean that she just absorbs the heat in the surroundings instead of "creating" cold from nothing.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm
=== Manga ===
* Go For It Gensoukyou: Four Seasons
* Touhou Ibara Kasen: Wild and Horned Hermit
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Oriental Sacred Place
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Strange and Bright Nature Deity
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Visionary Fairies in Shrine
=== Video Games ===
* Danmaku Amanojaku: Impossible Spell Card
* Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet
* Touhou Hisoutensoku: Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol
* Touhou Kaeitzuka: Phantasmagoria of Flower View
* Touhou Kishinjou: Double Dealing Character
* Touhou Koumakyou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Fairy Wars
* Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade
* Touhou Tenkuushou: Hidden Star in Four Seasons
* Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom
== Trivia ==
* Even though Cirno isn't the final boss of Touhou Hisoutensoku and Great Fairy Wars, she appears as the silhouette on both jewel cases. Along with Sumireko Usami, she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.
* Cirno is one of two characters that gained a new portrait in a mainline game despite not being playable in it. The other is Yuyuko Saigyouji in Ten Desires.
* Cirno's alternate color palette in Touhou Hisoutensoku resembles that of Alice Margatroid's and Reimu Hakurei's color palette from PC-98 era.
* Shibata Masahiro's manga series "Sarai" seems to be a big inspiration for many of the characters from EoSD . Sarai is a manga about superpowered maids fighting youkai and monsters in a dystopian future. The series was published from 1997 to 2007 in Japan only.
** Cirno shares the same name with Cirno from Sarai.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Cirno at Touhou Wiki
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