Archer (Fate/Crossover - Reimu Hakurei)

**Archer** (アーチャー, *Āchā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"You should have done more research. In Gensokyo, a human villager becoming a Youkai is the greatest sin there is. And my job is to make sure they don't."*- Reimu Harukei

## Profile

### Identity

Archer's true identity is **Reimu Hakurei**, shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. She manages the Hakurei Border of Gensokyo and exterminates troublesome youkai.

### Appearance

Reimu is described as being 'fairly tall', having fair skin and dark hair of long-to-short length. She typically wears a red-and-white adapted and non-traditional shrine maiden outfit, white sarashi, white bowed socks and black Mary Jane shoes, while wearing different outfits at times.

### Personality

Reimu is an open and extremely carefree individual who is disconnected with social norms due to having little visitors at her shrine; she simply lives her life on ideas off the top of her head, never taking things seriously and being unattached to the world of living. Highly curious, she is often interested in things, although can be quickly disinterested once she learns about them, leading to her being straightforward. She exhibits entirely separate values and views from others, tending to draw abnormal conclusions to things, oftentimes ignoring what others feel and unintentionally hurting them. By nature, Reimu can use various mysterious powers, but she doesn't use most of them or boast about them, although she is still extremely confident.

She takes her job as the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine very seriously, although she dislikes or hates training as she believes that effort will not be rewarded. Generally, her way of exterminating youkai is fighting first and then asking questions later. Even if a youkai were to be harmless and not trying to hurt anyone, she would still attack them using brute force to teach them a lesson, albeit without killing them. She is not afraid to murder when it is necessary, only depending on if the victim committed a sin great enough to deserve said punishment. It is noted that in contrast to other previous generations of shrine maidens, she lacks a sense of danger and goes through meager training, yet is exceptionally powerful.

She displays a neutral personality; she treats anyone and everyone in an uninterested manner with no particular respect or disrespect, whether or not they are an average human or a god and regardless of social status. This tends to attract visitors to her shrine, whether youkai or human, as well as those who are strong both in power and personality towards her.

As her abilities have changed, so has her personality. In the first few games, she is considered as very optimistic and easily excited, not worrying about any incidents even if they were strange or an emergency, but still enjoyed them. She was confident, believing she could solve every incident she came across with her power, rarely being suspicious about incidents. Described as having a ‘slightly emotional’ and ‘simple’ character, she was often the target of jokes and being dragged into adventures that she didn’t wish to participate in by Marisa, while Reimu pretended to ignore her, thinking she was a hopeless case.

As noted by Komachi Onozuka and Toyosatomimi no Miko, she is a person who is very easy to read.
In the case of Komachi, she knew that Reimu is too simple-minded to have any ill intent and that she would quickly return to normal, while Miko easily deduced that even though she stated that she wanted to exterminate all youkai, she truly wanted to achieve a peace without violence in Gensokyo. Reimu also portrays her emotions exactly as they are: when she's happy, she's happy, when she's angry, she's angry.

## Abilities

Reimu has mostly natural abilities that come from birth and most of these are spiritual abilities, but there are other unrelated skills she has. Her trademark ability is Fantasy Nature.

### Ability to Float

While many inhabitants of Gensokyo are capable of flying, Reimu's ability extends beyond that; she is someone who excels at floating through *life*, displaying a level of oneness with her surroundings that has been compared to a hermit. While she "goes with the flow" Reimu displays superhuman instincts and incredible luck, naturally ending up on the path of least resistance through most situations; conversely, when distracted or acting with impure motives she quickly loses her edge.

### Spiritual Abilities

In earlier games, Reimu's spiritual abilities were highly limited. As time went by, however, she developed her abilities, becoming able to use the Yin-Yang Orb, special amulets, and her own spiritual power in order to fight more effectively. Sometime between Mystic Square and Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, this culminated in her developing the ability to fly under her own power.

* In Touhou Reiiden: Highly Responsive to Prayers, she was in fact unable to harm enemies directly at all.

* Her spiritual power was limited in the PC-98 era games.

* Before being able to fly, she relied on Genjii, her turtle familiar, to fly, and in fact did not fly at all in Touhou Reiiden: Highly Responsive to Prayers.

#### Ability To See and Control Auras

It has been stated in Reimu's Omake text official profile of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she could see and control auras, which was to control the natural spirits of living things. However, there has not been any other official statements regarding this ability itself except a few examples, such as in chapter 16 of *Forbidden Scrollery*, where it explained that she was able to tell if a youkai has been active in an area from the lingers of their aura. She has also used her ofuda to detect if a youkai had any evil. It may mean that she needs a specific item to be able to be capable of this ability, but it's unknown as it is rarely shown.

### Physical Abilities

While her physical abilities are below average compared to her spiritual abilities, Reimu is remarkably athletic for her sedentary lifestyle.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Fantasy Seal "Divinity of Spirtual Maiden"**

Reimu closes her eyes as a blue Circle surrounds her. She gathers energy as colored orbs come to her. She then fires them at the targeted enemy. The six orbs hit each exploding before a final explosion, Reimu floats looking at it before flying away.
Deals damage to targeted enemy.

## References

https://touhou.fandom.com/wiki/Reimu\_Hakurei

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Reimu\_Hakurei