Patchouli Knowledge

Patchouli Knowledge, also known as Patchy, The Girl of Knowledge and Shadow, The Unmoving Great Library, Enigmatic Source of Magic and Witch of the Spring Haze, is a character from the Touhou Project series.
== Charactah Account ==
A witch who has settled down in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Unlike the mistress of the house, she is not weak against sunlight; however, she does not go out much. She spends her days in a library where the sunlight cannot reach. This is so that the books won't be damaged, but the unhealthy atmosphere is bad for her health.
She doesn't have a very proactive personality, but rather always walks her own path. However, she is always interested where knowledge is concerned and will proactively go and try to acquire it. She completely depends on her books, but still makes a lot of mistakes.
Although she is quite skillful, her complete lack of physical fighting ability can't be helped. She pretty much never attempts to directly punch or kick her opponent. She makes up for this with her knowledge of a great variety of powerful magic. She's more at ease using magic than trying to attack physically. Dividing the magic she uses according to the days of the week is a secret hobby of hers, but no one has realized this. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Touhou Unofficial Doujin Anime: A Summer Day's Dream
=== Manga ===
* Touhou Chireikiden: Foul Detective Satori
* Touhou Bougetsushou: Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth
* Touhou Bougetsushou: Silent Sinner in Blue
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Oriental Sacred Place
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Strange and Bright Nature Deity
=== Video Games ===
* Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet
* Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism
* Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night
* Touhou Hisouten: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
* Touhou Hisoutensoku: Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol
* Touhou Kaeitzuka: Phantasmagoria of Flower View
* Touhou Koumakyou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
* Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade
* Touhou Suimusou: Immaterial and Missing Power
* Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom
== Trivia ==
* Patchouli often refers to the science and technology of the outside world as magic. This is actually not ignorance, but more due to her personal beliefs, as she tells Marisa Kirisame in her Touhou Hisoutensoku victory quote that science and magic are the same.
* In Immaterial and Missing Power, Patchouli refers to intruders/thieves (e.g., Marisa Kirisame) as "rats" and guards (e.g., Sakuya Izayoi and Hong Meiling) as "cats". She rates the catness/effectiveness of a guard on a scale of 1 to 96, because that's the highest number under 100 that is divisible by both 2 and 3. After defeating Sakuya in Immaterial and Missing Power, she gave her a rating of 24. As for Hong Meiling, Patchouli compares that cat to a sieve in her Immaterial and Missing Power victory quote.
* The crescent on Patchouli's hat could be the crescent in the Sanskrit "Hum", part of the Mantra "Om mani padme hum". In Buddhism, it stands for knowledge and purity and is associated with the color white—all the 7 colors combined.
* As of Double Spoiler, Patchouli has had appearances in 9 of the 13 Windows games (counting Touhou Hisoutensoku as a standalone). This makes her the third most featured character, behind Reimu Hakurei and Marisa.
* In Touhou Hisoutensoku, one of Patchouli's alternate colors resembles Hina Kagiyama's outfit.
* The books in Patchouli's spell card, Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone", are arranged in a similar way to the Five Magic Stones.
* It's suggested in Immaterial and Missing Power that Patchouli drinks coffee occasionally when she's studying, unlike the other resident of Scarlet Devil Mansion who almost always drink tea.
* In Patchouli's theme Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room when the melody is made into morse code "・－・・ －－－ ・・・－ ・" it spells "love". There's also a song by ShibayanRecords called "・－・・ －－－ ・・・－ ・" that's a cover of the very song.
* Unofficially, Patchouli Knowledge's library was often called "Voile" based on its stage theme. However, due to an official list of errata published for Eastern and Little Nature Deity correcting the name of Patchouli's library from "Voile, the Magic Library" to "a library inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion", the name "Voile" is not considered canon.
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== External Links ==
* Patchouli Knowledge at Touhou Wiki
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