Sakuya Izayoi

“	Your time is mine.	„
	~ Sakuya Izayoi

Summary

Sakuya Izayoi is the chief maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Although she is the leader of the fairy maids there, she usually has to do all of the work herself, as the fairy maids are completely useless. She also helps resolve incidents (usually those concerning the mansion), alongside Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame. Her origins are unknown; she is said to have been given her name by Remilia Scarlet, and Hieda no Akyuu theorizes that she was originally a vampire hunter.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 2-C

Name: Sakuya Izayoi (given by Remilia Scarlet, real name is unknown)

Origin: Touhou Project

Gender: Female

Age: Claimed to be at her late-teens in 2006, suggested to be hundreds of years old

Classification: Human / Chief Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Powers and Abilities:

• Base
• Resistances
• Optional Equipment

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Danmaku, Spirit Manipulation, Limited Creation & Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; The process of creating a spell card requires giving it a "name" to define its form and power, not unlike how the gods gave "names" to everything at the beginning of reality to give them form from nothingness, albeit on a much smaller scale), Power Modification (Spell card users are capable of changing the traits of any attack or ability by naming it, being able to turn ordinarily lethal attacks into nonlethal ones, or severely restricting the potency of an ability by "gameifying" it), Magic, Extrasensory Perception (Magic users are sensitive to changes in temperature), Acausality (Type 4; Exists within the Hakurei Barrier, which created a world with a different flow of time and different physical laws. Could act normally within Eientei, which exists outside of time and causality), Acrobatics, Expert Knife User, Homing Attack, Enhanced Senses (Could detect the Three Fairies of Light, even while they were invisible), Vibration Manipulation (All characters in "Immaterial and Missing Power" are capable of generating shockwaves to push their opponent back), Aura, Space-Time Manipulation (Can stop, accelerate, slow, erase, reverse, compress time, create time suspension fields, materialize knife trails through time lag, and can manipulate space. All spell card users are shown to possess magic circles, which have the properties of slowing anything within their radius down to a near stop. Via the ability to name their spell cards, spell card users are able to distinguish things within space and time), Age Manipulation (By accelerating time, she can age objects and beings), Existence Erasure (By erasing the time of something, she can completely erase it from space and time), Explosion Manipulation (Can throw exploding knives), Weapon Creation (Can multiply her knives with Misdirection), Teleportation (Can teleport in stopped time with Vanishing Everything), Limited Pain Manipulation (Fujiwara no Mokou, who has adapted to living her life in constant agony, had to give up while fighting her due to the pain caused by her attacks), Forcefield Creation, Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm Phantoms and Evil Spirits with her regular attacks), Summoning (Can summon alternate versions of herself from other universes), Illusion Creation, Weapon Control (Can make her knives spin around her)

Resistance to Madness Manipulation (Can look at the True Moon without going insane and dying, unlike most humans), Space-Time Manipulation (Unaffected by the effects of Keine's spell card Reincarnation "Ichijou Returning Bridge", which is stated to reverse time. Unaffected by the magic circles used by other spell card users, which cause things near them to passively slow down to a near stop), Time Stop (When facing another Sakuya in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she will be unaffected by her time stop, despite everything else freezing), Poison Manipulation (Unaffected by Remilia's scarlet mist, which poisons humans. Can withstand the effects of the Forest of Magic, which is filled with poisonous spores in the air), Mind Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (Unaffected by being near phantoms, which can passively change the emotions or slowly destroy the minds of anybody they come near), Perception Manipulation, Transformation (Unaffected by the Forest of Magic, which is filled with mushrooms that cause hallucinations in whoever comes near them and has the power to change the nature of anything living there), Death Manipulation (Can survive being near Yuyuko, whose mere touch can cause death and who passively causes all living things near her to die), and Soul Absorption (Survived Tenshi absorbing the souls of all living things across Gensokyo and various Otherworlds such as the Netherworld)

Abilities offered from Player System Cards and the ability cards in Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market, including Statistics Amplification (Ringo-Brand Dango, Law of the Survival of the Fittest, Sutra of Dharmatic Power, Gale Geta, Reliable Tanuki Apprentice, Great Tengu's Barley Rice, Physical Enhancement Jizo, Left-Handed Folding Fan, and Control Rod), Ice Manipulation (Ice Fairy and Frozen Frog), Portal Creation (Back Door), Supernatural Luck (Lucky Rabbit's foot), Resurrection (Death Avoidance Elixir, Money Is The Best Lawyer In Hell, and possibly Phoenix's Tail), Accelerated Development (With Gluttonous Centipede and Indomitable Meathead), Explosion Manipulation (Safe Return Amulet, Bursting Red Frog, Life Explosion Elixir), Intangibility (Pebble Hat), Invulnerability (Gale Geta, Smelt's Scales, Three Heavenly Drops, and Divine Raiment of the Dragon Fish), Self-Sustenance (Type 1 with Sky-Blue Magatama), Teleportation & Breaking the Fourth Wall (Screen Border), Transmutation (Miracle Mallet, Life Explosion Elixir, and Offensive Jeweled Pagoda), Fire Manipulation (Underground Sun), Summoning (Item Season and The Rabbit That Landed), Sound Manipulation (Heavy Bass Drum), Attack Reflection and Telekinesis (Psychokinesis), Mind Manipulation & Empathic Manipulation (Half-Half Ghost and Kiketsu Matriarch's Threat), Animal Manipulation (Safe Return Amulet and Shed Snakeskin Amulet), Clairvoyance (Money Comes and Goes on its Own), Limited Resistance to Spirit Manipulation (Reliable Tanuki Apprentice and Pebble Hat), Homing Attack (Yin-Yang Orb), Existence Erasure (Esteemed Authority, Too-Honest Signpost, and Hasty Detour of the Three Crossings), Subjective Reality (Sheep You Want to Count), Bodily Weaponry (Stimulating Scales), Radiation Manipulation (Offensive Jeweled Pagoda and Control Rod), Durability Negation, Limited Power Nullification (Beauty of Destruction), Petrification, Statistics Reduction (Drenched Giant Snake), Empowerment (Drunkenly Whimsical Ibuki Gourd), Social Influencing (Pristine Self-Confidence), Time Stop (Stopwatch), Soul Manipulation (Soul Torch and Spell-Breaking Drug), Air Manipulation (Tengu Fan), Poison Manipulation (Spell-Breaking Drug), Power Nullification (Spell-Breaking Drug), Space-Time Manipulation (Yesterday's Money), Weather Manipulation (Sword of Scarlet Perception), Healing (Illness Recovery Charm), Chi Manipulation (Dragon Star)

Attack Potency: Low Multiverse level (Should be somewhat comparable to other incident resolvers. She, alongside Remilia in the Scarlet Team's extra scenario in Imperishable Night, inflicted so much pain onto Mokou to where she couldn't fight anymore despite her immortality). She can ignore conventional durability with her abilities (She can erase objects and beings from all of time and accelerate aging rapidly).

Speed: Infinite (Comparable to other incident solvers such as Reimu and stated to move faster than light. Flew to the end of of Kaguya's corridor, which is composed of infinitely-linked pieces of the space-time continuum and is repeatedly stated to be infinite and endless)

Lifting Strength: Class 25 (Comparable to Tenshi)

Striking Strength: Low Multiverse level

Durability: Low Multiverse level

Stamina: Superhuman (Fought for an entire day in Perfect Cherry Blossom and continuously in the fighting games)

Range: Extended Melee Range (Sakuya knife slashes can reach much further than what could be possible), At least Kilometers, possibly far higher with Danmaku (Danmaku is stated to reach from the sky to the ground, and can fill the entire sky in an instant), at least Planetary with Space-Time Manipulation (Controls space and time within the Scarlet Devil Mansion, making it much larger than it looks on the inside, and caused the eternal night in Imperishable Night, keeping the Moon from setting from Earth), likely far higher (She can summon alternate versions of herself from parallel universes and can erase objects and people from all of time and space).

Standard Equipment: Countless silver throwing knives and a silver pocket watch that she can also use to stop time.

Optional Equipment: Abilities offered from Ability Cards and Player System Cards.

Intelligence: As one of Gensokyo's frequent incident resolvers, Sakuya is an experienced and skilled combatant. She is extremely skilled in the use of throwing knives, said to be accurate enough to strike an apple on the head of a fairy from over 30 meters away.

Weaknesses: Her time reversal is limited to reversing objects to where they were before.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Time Manipulation: Sakuya can manipulate the flow of time: she can slow it, accelerate it, erase it, or even stop it. She can also compress the flow of time to make both past and future to exist at the same time, making the same object from different timelines be in many places simultaneously. By doing this, all her attacks will hit the enemy at the same time due to the different timelines existing simultaneously. She can apply her time manipulation on a smaller, more precise scale, on locations and objects.

By accelerating time, she can age objects and things. She can reverse time (to an extent) although this is mostly limited to moving things to where they were before. And by erasing the time of an object, she erases its present and future, essentially erasing it from existence. She can also summon alternate versions of herself from parallel universes. As space is linked to time, Sakuya can manipulate space as well: she can shrink and increase distances, and through her power, increased the size of the Scarlet Devil Mansion while making it look smaller on the outside.

While it's been stated that Sakuya can't actually stop time, but instead move at extremely high speeds without any force, this is very inconsistent with its portrayals.

''Manipulates time and erases enemy bullets from the present and then the future. You can steal a huge amount of green score items.''

"Deflation World": Sakuya's last word, this spellcard allows her to simultaneously manifests the past and future of her knives, making a very powerful danmaku that appears instantly. It is worth noting that Sakuya is still under the spell card rules influence, and it should be taken into consideration that Sakuya is capable of doing this without using a spell card, since a spell card is a manifestation of the user's power.

''One of her secret arts that compresses the flow of time. Compressed time allows the past and future to exist in the present at the same time. You have to deal with all of them, so it's quite a tough move.'' -Marisa Kirisame

"Time Paradox": Time Paradox is Sakuya's power that is worth mentioning since this allows her to summon another version of herself from another timeline, the other Sakuya will appear infront of her, the body can also act indepedently.

''Another Sakuya will appear right in front of the actual Sakuya. If you can input the buttons before she splits bodies, the two bodies will move independently. The reason behind this? Parallel universes, etc, etc.''

Skill Cards:

• Bounce No-Bounce: Sakuya throws a barrage of knives that bounce against the walls and ceiling.
• Close-up Magic: Sakuya jumps whilst surrounding herself with spinning knives.
• Dancing Star Sword: Sakuya releases a barrage of knives, which float around before shooting at her target.
• Magic Star Sword: Sakuya throws a series of knives forwards, accelerating their speed with her time manipulation.
• Misdirection: Sakuya throws several knives, which proceed to multiply and fly towards her opponent, trying to catch them from the sides.
• Parallel Brane: Sakuya throws "phantom" knives that manifest themselves one at a time as they move towards her opponent.
• Perfect Maid: Sakuya counters her opponent's next physical attack, surrounding them with knives.
• Propelling Silver: Sakuya surrounds herself with knives, which orbit around her and can be used as a shield.
• Sight of Distant Blade: Sakuya throws knives, and then stops their time to suspend them midair. They will resume motion after a set amount of time passes, firing towards her target.
• Vanishing Everything: Sakuya stops time to "teleport", reappearing elsewhere.

Spell Cards:

• Buriallusion "Phantomic Killer in Night Mist": Sakuya throws knives offscreen, which then suddenly shoot out at her target.
• Conjuring "Eternal Meek": Sakuya rapidly throws a barrage of knives forwards.
• Illusion Sign "Killer Doll": Sakuya scatters knives in a circle around her, suspending them in the air for a moment before they shoot at her target.
• Light Speed "C. Ricochet": Sakuya throws knives at high speeds, appearing as faded illusions that attack her opponent after a short lag.
• "Sakuya's World": Sakuya completely stops time around her.
• Silver Sign "Silver Bound": Sakuya launches bouncing knives in every direction.
• Speed Sign "Luminous Ricochet": Sakuya throws a single high-speed knife that bounces around at high speeds for quite a while without losing power.
• Time Sign "Imaginary Vertical Time": Sakuya stops time to throw a barrage of knives, which leave trails caused by time lag that proceed to surround her enemy.
• Time Sign "Perfect Square": Sakuya slows down time around her to slow down her opponents so she can easily outrun them.
• Time Sign "Sakuya's Special Stopwatch": Sakuya throws out several time suspension fields around her, freezing those within in time.
• Watch "Luna Dial": Sakuya throws her stopwatch, which freezes her opponent in time if it lands.
• Wound Sign "Inscribe Red Soul": Sakuya slashes her opponent to pieces with a rapid series of knife slashes, expanding her range with them as she does so.

Gallery

Sakuya in The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Sakuya in Perfect Cherry Blossom

Sakuya in Immaterial and Missing Power

Sakuya in Imperishable Night

Sakuya in Phantasmagoria of Flower View

Sakuya in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Sakuya in Hisoutensoku

Sakuya in Double Dealing Character

Sakuya in Unconnected Marketeers

Sakuya in Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition

Touhou 6 - Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Stage 5 Boss - Sakuya Izayoi's Theme

Luna Dial, Sakuya's boss theme in The Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil

Flowering Night (Touhou 9, PoFV) HD

Flowering Night, Sakuya's theme in Phantasmagoria of Flower View

Notable Matchups

Victories:

Losses:

Inconclusive:

Heaven Ascension DIO (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) DIO's Profile (Both were Low 2-C, speed was equalized, and Sakuya was bloodlusted)

Ultraman Zero (Ultra Series) Ultraman Zero's Profile (Speed was equalized)

Son Goku (Dragon Ball Super) Goku's Profile (Third Ultra Instinct -Sign- Goku was used)

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