Touhou OC created and played by
Solan. Please be respectful of player preferences.
Sakan's (unofficial)
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A newborn youkai, Sakan is, like Medicine Melancholy, a tsukumogami, a youkai formed of a possession that was lost for over a hundred years. In this case, that possession was a grimoire belonging to none other than Gensokyo's resident purple beansprout,
Patchouli Knowledge. During a sudden outburst from Flandre, Koakuma accidentally mis-shelved Sakan, and from there he was buried and lost in the depths of the great library of Voile. Until, as one might expect, he awoke and became a youkai. Worried that Patchouli might claim him as her servant like Koakuma, he kept himself hidden where he had fallen, until at last he was suddenly discovered and picked up... not by Patchouli or any other resident of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but by the infamous black-white thief, Marisa Kirisame herself.
Having been absconded with by Marisa, Sakan soon found himself in one of the many, many piles of clutter scattered around the witch's house. By moving about while the witch wasn't paying attention, Sakan ended up learning quite a lot from Marisa and her rare visitors. Eventually, however, Marisa found and went to carry him to see Alice. Knowing the puppet-magician would recognize him for what he was, and feeling it was time to move on out into the world regardless, Sakan slipped out of Marisa's bag mid-flight and landed in the middle of the Forest of Magic.
A few hours later, Sakan found himself picked up again... this time by Chitose Izumo, a girl who had been spirited away and found herself trapped in Gensokyo... Though the fledgling magician had no idea what she had found, she began to take special care to keep the book she had found safe, until at last Sakan revealed himself for the first time to protect her from an overzealous tengu. Since that day, he's been by his "aneechan's" side almost constantly, always happy to be around her as he learns slowly about this world he's woken into.
As for what he looks like? Being a tsukumogami, technically he
is the book, but he has a human appearance as well, able to generate a more living body for himself. His human appearance usually manifests as him leaning (or, more often, peeking) out of the middle two pages of the grimoire, though occasionally he'll appear fully emerged and just holding the book in his hands. Sakan is a cutie, with messy red hair down to his shoulders, shading pale lavender eyes, and an adorable face that looks almost like it belongs to a five-year old. Beneath that, he has shorts that are almost never seen due to him rarely emerging past the waist, and an oversized T-shirt that covers his hands unless he's really raising them up or waving them wildly.
Sakan is a real sweetie, but because he's still a newborn youkai, he's still quite naive and doesn't fully grasp certain things. He's rarely found away from his partner and "big sister's" side for much that reason (and the fact that he dotes on her and she on him). He's not very combat-oriented, although he's got a spellcard or two if the danger arises, sending fire danmaku in all directions to chase off the foe. Mostly though, he's friendly and rather scared to engage in battle without Chitose backing him up, though he'll do it if he needs to, trembling and stammering all the way. Above all, though, Sakan is a newborn, and he's curious! He's made a number of friends on the mountain, and now he wants to branch out a little now that both he and Chitose have grown, and make some more!