Benikurage

A powerful quori spirit who takes on a humanoid form, and the second member of the Dream Gang, as well as the internal trio master of the Cosplayers sub-group within the Dream Gang. Benikurage is a big fan of the Touhou game series, and spends all of her time cosplaying as Reimu Hakurei, the game's main protagonist. She is distinguishable by the cracks on her face from which essence spill forth from, and her heterochromatic eyes, as well as her unique Hands-based fighting style. She is a powerful arcanist who seeks to copy Reimu's style and abilities. In the past, Benny had a pact system whereby she could be summoned by another Dream Gang member, and in exchange she would regularly receive gifts (mostly in the form of clothing, merchandise and food), but now she has neither been summoned nor received many gifts.

## Personality

A little shy. Benikurage gets informal around her friends, but is both quiet and formal around strangers. She likes to go on long tangents, particularly when it involves stuff she likes, of which her interests mostly revolve around Touhou, fashionable clothes and food. She possesses a casual and unworrying demeanor towards most things, and is generally willing to cooperate with others.

When dressing up as Reimu, she will often wear the most luxurious dress she can for the occasion. She is usually depicted in her casual outfit, but will show up with a more poofy dress for formal events.

## History

She was created as the second of many spirits that lurked at the heart of Dal Quor by YEOZ, succeeding Ellie Mark and coming into existence at roughly the same time. It was shortly thereafter that she invented the pact system and gained her interest in Touhou.

In The Magnum Opus, she briefly converses with Reimu by exploiting her link to the characters, and particularly Tsutsuji Kawasemi-Shitodo, to drag Reimu's dream self into Dal Quor.

In Lucid, due to the actions of Ellie Mark and YEOZ, she is briefly banished from Dal Quor. To avoid being cast into obscurity and eventual total annihilation, she takes refuge in Steven Universe's mind, simultaneously enhancing his powers in a sort of mutualistic relationship.

## Relationships

### YEOZ

In the past they used to be fairly close and YEOZ would always call upon Benny via their pact, but now they don't really talk much. Neither of them particularly like or dislike each other.

### Ellie Mark

Essentially sisters in their origin, Ellie counted Benny as her one and only ally prior to the former's disappearance from Dal Quor. They grew distant as Benny gained her own friend group, and eventually Ellie was cast into the material world, so now the two don't talk ever. Should she return and a War in Heaven occur though, Benny would side with Ellie.

### Rei

She thinks he's cute almost romantically, and likes to tease him. Rei puts up with her tricks and feels discomfortable around Benny, but also sees that she's one of two people who he finds familiarity in, so he will often confide in her or seek her comfort.

### Paseri

These two have a very best friends-y relationship, but neither of them are particularly active, and they're both the type of person who doesn't really care what they get up to with their friends and more or less just enjoys the experience of being physically in the same location as their friends, so while they chill out together almost all the time, they don't actually get up to much.

### Matsuko Deushi

As the third, Matsuko and Benny used to hang out quite a bit, but Matsuko hides in the smoke now, and Benny has her own friend group, so they, like her relationship with YEOZ and Ellie, are kind of estranged.

### SunSky

Although not many other people in Dal Quor can tolerate SunSky, including Benny's friend group, Benikurage herself maintains a solid friendship with her. They are quite experimental and open with each other, and have dabbled in all sorts of mortal pleasures, from gaming to eating food to shopping for clothes together. SunSky appreciates her for being there when nobody else was, and being more understanding than anyone else.

## Abilities

Benikurage is born from the same template that produces usvapna quori, and thus has all of their same powers. She is far stronger than an ordinary usvpana and has mythic abilities. Her form is seemingly illusory, and she has something of a hidden second form which can be "felt" if she focuses on it but not seen. This second form feels more like an usvapna and has the physical pincers that can daze others with a sting. She can use this form to manipulate objects, and it is large but takes up her space and moves with her, so her reach is only somewhat extended. She is naturally psionic and possesses a power point pool which she utilizes to manipulate her spells with metamagic-like techniques called psi-spell techniques, which do things like ignite unstable ectoplasm in place of normal elemental fire and stick to enemies, or harden some of the elemental energy of her spells into pure telekinetic force. She also has other conventional metamagic abilities, like the ability to empower her spells, quickening them to cast them faster, and inflicting damage to the physical form or mind of a target, all at the cost of requiring more power to cast them. She can see in darkness, and her telepathy is enhanced to be able to detect thinking creatures within its range, acting as a form of blindsense.

Benny is an natural prodigy at replicating things with her arcane powers (detailed below) and has used said powers to replicate the abilities of Reimu Hakurei, as well as the Hands of Gaster from Glitchtale, due to visions she received during her creation. She uses these hands as a focus for her wild talents, and they can act as the origin points for her spells, invocations and eldritch blasts.

Working together with Ellie during their early life, Benny developed techniques common to hellfire warlocks, and merged her warlock powers with her witch powers which she acquired as a result of gaining an immense amount of arcane power from her creator, much like how Ellie merges her warlock powers with her ur-priest powers. As a warlock, she has a repertoire of magical attacks, defenses and utilities that require her to focus but not expend the wild energy that suffuses her soul, and thus can be used at will. These abilities are known as invocations, and she also possesses the ability to detect magic at will and to fire off moderately strong rays of energy known as eldritch blasts; these blasts can be modified further with some of her invocations. Along with being a decently powerful witch with the ability to curse others with misfortune, she is a particularly potent sorcerer who channels a dreamspun, void-like energy that runs through her soul. She can apply the effects of her arcane spells to her eldritch blasts to affect those she attacks with said spells, and she has other fiendish abilities like the power to utilize magic items designed for others easily (she uses this ability to activate her gohei, a staff of life, which uses divine magic and thus is normally inaccessible to her), and damage resistance that is overcome by cold iron, a metal which is effective against fey and fiends. She is heavily resistant to fire and lightly resistant to sonic energy, and possesses the fortitude against acid, cold and electricity-based attacks of quori.

As a sorcerer, she has power over dreams and the void, and can do as follows; lulling others into a trance, manipulating the dreams of others to access their subconscious mind, tampering with memories or extracting information, projecting her consciousness as an arcane eye which can be activated to be seen and put others that look at it to sleep, and most powerfully, floating away from reality and becoming incorporeal, an ability learned from copying Reimu. She can also summon a weak hailstorm of meteors, create an aurora-like sheet of cascading colors that freezes others who get too close and fascinate those that stare at it, and teleport creatures into the void of space where they must concentrate to return while affected by the cold and airless void. Her spell selection as a sorcerer is very treacherous and illusory, and she can produce frighteningly vivid manipulations of the mind such as mindscapes and hallucinations. She can also dominate the minds of others and give them suggestions, particularly when they are asleep. She has access to a limited amount of evocation spells to deal different kinds of damage such as AOE blasts and damage over time effects. She has access to the most powerful forms of magic, and can do things like grant wishes and create perfect duplicates of others out of ice, or mostly-real conjurations out of shadow.

When destroyed, Benny's soul, beholden to its creator, is whisked away to Dal Quor where it reforms out of the essence of that plane. If destroyed on Dal Quor, she teleports somewhere random and reforms. She is essentially immortal for this reason.

In terms of skills, Benny is not particularly skilled in much aside from arcana, but she can draw digitally and play the piano, and she is competent at the skills that her abilities require her to be able to do effectively, such as disguises. She is also incredibly skilled at bullet hell games (most familiar with Touhou but can adapt to almost anything from the same genre), and her reaction speed is honed enough to actually apply in real situations.

## Trivia

* Her pre-Scratch self is Benikurage (pre-Scratch). None of her abilities have changed much, although she has gained new abilities from being converted to Pathfinder.
* Her name Benikurage comes from a Reimu voice actress. Look it up if you want more details, I can't possibly explain what's going on there.