Cirno

**Cirno** (チルノ *Chiruno*) is the main protagonist of Fairy Wars. She's a ice fairy who first appeared on the second stage of *Embodiment of Scarlet Devil*. As a fairy, she is exceptionally strong for her kind, matching the power of some weak youkai. However, compared to most of Gensokyo's residents, she's quite weak. Her personality is childish and she is sometimes considered stupid.

## General Information

Cirno first appeared as Stage 2 Boss in *Embodiment of Scarlet Devil*, then again as the Stage 1 midboss in *Perfect Cherry Blossom*. She then again later appears as one of the many playable characters in *Phantasmagoria of Flower View* and again in *Touhou Hisoutensoku*. She made an appearance as a background character in *Hopeless Masquerade* and then appeared as the Stage 1 midboss in *Double Dealing Character*. She also was a Day 1 Boss in *Impossible Spell Card* and later became a playable character in *Hidden Star in Four Seasons*.

While her age is unknown, she is one of the only characters in *Phantasmagoria of Flower View* that realized what was going on had happened sixty years prior as well. This implies that she has been around for at least sixty years.

### Personality

Cirno is a childish, confident fairy who appears to have a superiority complex in regards to others. She proclaims herself to be "the strongest" on three separate occasions in *Phantasmagoria of Flower View*. In the game's manual, she is labeled as "9. baka" (⑨. バカ, lit. "9. Idiot") in an explanation of the game screen's layout. She was again labeled as such in the manual for *Touhou Hisoutensoku*. This implies that Cirno may be some kind of idiot, which does seem to be the case on some occasions - in Oriental Sacred Place, she is quite confused as to why nobody wants to buy her water-flavored shaved ice.

Despite this, she is smart enough to know when she is in deep trouble, such as her battle against Yuuka in Phantasmagoria of Flower View's story mode. She can also read, unlike some of her peers, such as Mystia Lorelei. She can also count (she shows knowledge of rounding and fractions in *Fairy Wars*).

Among other things, she greatly enjoys using her abilities to freeze frogs, then watch it revive while thawing out in the water. However, about one in every three attempts fails, shattering the frog to pieces. This has earned her a warning from Reimu Hakurei, who cautioned that she could be set upon by Suwako Moriya for her actions.

### Ability

Manipulating cold
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. She is even able to create blocks of icicles and ice within an instant. Since she served the role of the main character in *Fairy Wars*, she was able to freeze danmaku that came flying with her ability but there were also some danmaku that were unable to be frozen. However, since it is actually an ability that only freezes things by removing heat and doesn't affect momentum (frozen things would keep traveling in a "ice coat" instead of stopping suddenly in mid-air), that may be just a gameplay feature.

How she 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.

### Strength

In the games as she generally only shows up as stage 1~2 bosses, she isn't that strong. In particular, fairies have an existence below that of humans.[1][2] However, among fairies she possesses unusually strong power.[3] She was playable in *Phantasmagoria of Flower View* and was able to defeat Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi, etc. Technically when she "defeats" Aya Shameimaru and Yuuka Kazami, she didn't really defeat them as they still appeared unhurt after battle, implying that it was Cirno who ran away. In *Fairy Wars*, even though she wins when she battled Marisa, the one whose illustration showed to be "defeated" was Cirno; it was a simple case of Marisa letting her guard down.

In *Perfect Memento in Strict Sense*, according to the other fairies, while such things are written as "if she schemes, she is caught, so it is good even to refresh oneself of one's habitual anger," among it, there does exist the warning "if you meet her, you should flee." Furthermore, Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu commented on her saying "although you are a fairy, you possess great power". Since she goes beyond the limits of fairies, there may be the possibility of dying.

If humans were to fight her gracefully, it would seem that the weapon would become frozen and it wouldn't be possible to win to begin with, but if we were to just run away, if we poke at the point that she is an idiot, we are able to run away immediately, since she is not able to answer even simple riddles.[4]

## TMNT X Pokemon

Cirno is an ally of the Turtles. During their first meeting, she attacks them. But soon became an ally to them after some explanation.

## Additional Information

* Even though Cirno isn't the final boss of *Touhou Hisoutensoku* and *Fairy Wars*, she appears as the silhouette on both jewel cases. With this, she's the only character to appear as the silhouette for two games' jewel cases in the Windows games.
* A palette in *Touhou Hisoutensoku* resembles Alice Margatroid during the PC-98 era. Another palette resembles Reimu Hakurei's hairstyle.
* In *Hidden Star in Four Seasons* Cirno acquires a tanned appearance.