#summer-cirno

[movable-object]

best touhou cosplay ever. 11/10

[tennco]

zun making cirno, the ice fairy, the summer representative, giving her a tan, and pitting her against okina fucking matara is still one of the funniest things ever

[ariane-ashen]

"C'mon! Get out of bed, Ms. Yakumo!" Yukari was flung from her cool abode into the warm Summer air. How long had it been? Did she even wake during last year's August? She could no longer recall. In times where the thousand painful thoughts and memories in her mind boom at once, all she can do is sleep.

A surprised Ran and Chen could be seen peeking from behind a door, but they didn't feel like they had stop the ice fairy. Yukari's smiling shikigami faded into the distance as an unusually powerful Cirno took the tired mistress by her arm. "What is...?" Yukari couldn't find the strength to offer much resistance, feeling particularly shocked by the energy of the joyful girl in front of her. Cirno simply giggled in excitement.

"Hoy! Didn't you know there's a festival today? The lady with all those doors even let me gain all those powers like before! She said it's been too long since you had some good food and fun! Maybe you'll even watch me beat Ms. Hakurei with all this power~" Yukari couldn't help but be swept up in the emotions of Cirno's sparkling voice, and smiled as she gripped her palm. "Matara...Fufu, what a piece of work you are."

[yuurenkyouko]

Cirno figure study (Summer Frost ver.)

[impeack]

dripple drip drip

i love my graysona heheh, hes so fun to draw

he have DW variation to just to spite my friend also yeah cirno dripple cuz i think the color fits him and he like cold

he prefer cold than hot cuz he afraid of burn to crisp and heatstroke tho he enjoy summer day for sometimes only to avoid sunlight

once in a life time tanned dripple (he turn back to normal by now-)

[clubpenguinkiller]

Summer cirno!

[occasionaltouhou]

theory: fairies are capable of generating their own belief and non-fairies misinterpret this as them not requiring belief to exist. they're nigh-impossible to kill because they're in a logical loop where they're alive because they believe they're alive and the reason they believe this is because they're alive. they tend to be stupid for the same reason because an introspective fairy could interrupt the belief loop and cease to exist. the three fairies are smarter than most because even if one of them briefly gets existential the other two still believe in the third enough for them to shrug and go "well I exist" and resume the loop.

evidence: in visionary fairies in shrine the three fairies and clown go to visit cirno in the middle of summer. she's a half-melted slush pile at first but they amp her up and tell her she's the strongest and as she begins to remember she's cirno (strongest) she reforms and builds up energy and freezes a decently large part of the misty lake in an outburst of power. she's unique in that she's cirno and she doesn't just believe she's alive but also that she's incredibly powerful but I don't think she's unique in that her self-belief or lack thereof has an effect on her (for lack of a better term) physical form (even if youkai and fairies are more conceptual than physical)

so fairy are just like, minor nature kami. like, right out the gate, let's put that on the table.

the phenomenon that you're actually talking about is something that i've mentioned before, and it's something that's been brought up a few times (mostly by kanako, who's the one actively utilising it) - youkai and kami can provide one another with faith, but not with belief. there's a fiddly but important distinction between those, because whereas faith informs how powerful a fictional entity (kami, youkai, etc.) is, belief informs whether that entity exists or not. you can believe in fairies, but not have any specific faith in any of them, which is how you end up with a bunch of minor nature kami who can't really do anything. the greater fairies (cirno, the three fairies) presumably just have that little bit more faith that comes from having a defined identity and being moderately well-known; and of course, as mentioned, they can provide little bits of faith to one another.

[not-articulated]

sweaty cirno in a hot summer day..

[sachi]

☆ Cirno // Touhou Project “Devil ver.” ☆ Resin kit / Yutaka House ☆ Wonder Festival 2013 [Summer] ¥10,000 ☆ Sculpt Machizou

[fairiesofgensokyo]

Fairy combat

Not very good in a fight, but good at reading other people's tactics and body language. Her True Lesbian Soul gives her a bonus against men. The maids' queen of Rock-paper-scissors.

Weak in danmaku, strong in a fistfight. All those years of copying Meiling's training as best she could has made her a hard fairy to hit, and while she doesn't have as much physical strength as a youkai, she's stronger than a human... and has brass knuckles in her gloves.

Brutal, overwhelming force. Very un-fairy-like, Salty comes at you directly, with no special tactics. Just a lot of Salt, freely manipulating to cut, flay, and suffocate. Her high melting point means that fire is night useless against her. Despite the jokes, she isn't water soluble.

For a gourd fruit fairy, she's weirdly good at teleportation. She relies on fast respawns and ambush tactics. Open a cupboard, there's Summer with a knife. Open a medicine cabinet, there's Summer with a knife. Turn around after killing her, there's Summer with a knife. You have to restrain her without killing her or letting her take her own life.

Doesn't like fighting, dangerously prone to getting carried away. Her ability to manipulate Silver is with the same ease that Cirno manipulates Ice. She's sweet as sugar, but unknown to even her she's actually a huge sadist. The most unlikely berserker.

The Scarlet Devil Mansion's Armoured Maid Corps... I feel like I don't really need to explain this one.

Eliza is a commander of fairies. She's good at directing them to take on opponents that a fairy would normally stand little chance against. Prefers swift and brutal tactics, taking advantage of every weakness she can feasibly exploit. The most aware of the power of fairies, and their own limitations.

[gensokyogarden]

Actually Cirno and Summer have in common that they're two of the only fairies in Gensokyo who can read. I never thought of that before.

[ryo-maybe]

Too bad, Aki. I work at NextNinja and thus shall delight in showing you these upcoming units that we've concocted by haphazardly tossing named darts at a roulette wheel inscribed with all 108 evils of mankind:

McDonald's Cashier Clownpiece

Prom Queen Mokou

Summer Advent Cirno

Yet Another Damn Remilia But Even More Powerful Than The Last One

Coffee Shop Date Koishi

Patchouli With The Modelo

Astronaut Shion But She's Still Inexplicably Barefoot Somehow

Kana Anaberal (Alter)

Halloween Maribel Who Dresses As Yukari Because Can You Imagine? The Riots? The Schadenfreude?

Blonde Kanako

Rumia With Tits Or Something Idk

[megamidevice]

Cirno (Summer Frost ver.) • Touhou Project 1/7 Scale Figure by Solarain Toys

[anueutsuhos-touhou-profiles]

Hidden Star in Four Seasons

Artwork by GiantCaveMushroom

Touhou 16: Hidden Star in Four Seasons came out in 2017.

In this game, the seasons are out of whack in Gensokyo! Different places are stuck in different seasons!

• The Hakurei Shrine is in spring, with cherry blossoms abound

• The Forest of Magic is in winter, in a constant snowstorm

• Misty Lake is in summer

• Youkai Mountain is in fall, making it look pretty much like it did in Mountain of Faith

Reimu was actually unwilling to solve this at first, since the Hakurei Shrine was in an eternal mid-spring, so she was cozy enough and got a lot of visitors from it, but Marisa yelled at her enough that she finally realized her own selfishness and went to do her job.

There are four playable characters in this one, each representing a different season:

• Reimu, with the season of Spring

• Tanned Cirno, with the power of Summer (yep, the ice fairy is overflowing with the power of the hottest season.). She and all the other fairies in Gensokyo have gone berserk from the seasonal imbalance, and she's trying to conquer Gensokyo in her madness.

• Aya, with the season of Autumn

• Marisa, with the season of Winter, and a new Frozen Master Spark to go with it.

If you're wondering what the "correct" season is, it's mid-summer.

Uniquely among Touhou games, the bosses in this game are largely unaffiliated with each other, living in completely different areas of Gensokyo. Instead, each of the first 4 bosses have a connection with one of the main characters.

The fans seem to prefer bosses being one big "cast herd", though, and as such this game is one of the least popular games in the series.

Hidden Star in Four Seasons was the first Touhou game to be released for Steam, making it the first game to be officially released worldwide. Previously English-speaking fans had to either buy them secondhand or through piracy. Mostly the latter.

[deepseacityunderground]

cirno is like a little fly looking for crumbs or treats

putting down a bottlecap full of cold sugar water for cirnos to drink from in the summer

[touhoulostword-journal]

Glistening Summer Days | Artist: tsukimoto aoi

Story 1 A sunny day sometime in August in the Garden of the Sun. Summer is hot―everybody knows that. But summer is also beautiful―not so many know that. The bright blue sky soared above. Sunflowers stretched up to the sun with glee. Splashes of water leaped up and twinkled in the light. Butterflies danced with grace, flapping this way and that. Soft gusts of wind blew and sent music through the trees. Summer days like these melt all of one's troubles away. As such, a certain youkai could be found, doing something she wouldn't normally do.

Story 2 Wriggle Nightbug is a firefly youkai who suffers in the cold. However, since fireflies are summer insects, she has no trouble in its ferocious heat. She's often seen hovering in the night sky, but today, she's playing under the sun. After defeating the swallowtail butterfly fairy, Cirno declared summer to be her own. Capable of manipulating ice, she does tend to struggle in the heat, but today, she's off to play with a straw hat on her head and a popsicle in her hand. Despite the fierce summer sun, she's full of energy.

Story 3 This summer, Gensokyo was struck by a terrible heat wave and was hotter than ever. There was once an incident that disrupted the four seasons and smothered some parts of Gensokyo… but this time around, it was unclear if someone was up to no good or if this was all part of nature's plan. However, considering how the shrine maiden and the magician played in the sun and cooled off indoors while waiting for autumn's arrival, it seems there was no great incident to be resolved. Apparently, there's another world where Gensokyo is in the midst of a never-ending summer. Perhaps the Wriggle and Cirno of that Gensokyo see glorious summer days like today as nothing out of the ordinary. Or maybe not…

Story 4 Beneath the crystal blue sky, cool water sprinkled down on sunflowers in bloom. Perhaps spurred on by the beauty of the summer day, Wriggle was busy watering all the flowers, a joyful grin on her face. Nearby swallowtail butterflies swooped under the droplets and cooled themselves off with a pattering of their wings. But suddenly, Wriggle felt droplets of water slashing on her head."Is it raining? But it was such a nice day!" she exclaimed. Starting to feel like one of the flowers she was watering, she looked up to see Cirno flying above her through the bright blue sky.

Story 5 Munching away on her popsicle, Cirno called down to Wriggle, "Hey, whatcha doing?" The frosty air around her turned to water droplets in the heat, which were raining down and dampening the ground below her. "All the flowers are in bloom, so I thought I'd water them," replied Wriggle with a giggle. She adored the beauty of nighttime but was amazed at just how pretty the daytime could be too. "I see… Well, be sure not to get a sunburn!" chuckled Cirno. The two may not be the closest friends, but their conversation bloomed like the sunflowers around them. Even the butterflies seemed to enjoy listening in as they flapped their delicate wings a little livelier than before.