Nitori Kawashiro - Super Youkai Warhead ## Personality Gender: Female Age: Unknown Appearance: Nitori has blue hair tied into twintails and blue eyes in Mountain of Faith. She wears a blue dress with lots of pockets around the hem of the skirt and her upper arm, and a dark aquamarine backpack with a golden key on the strap in front of her. She also wears a green hat with a white wispy symbol on it, blue wellington boots and carries a cattail. As an engineer she carries a lot of tools with her in the pockets. Personality: Nitori is a shy kappa by nature and if she is alone and sees a human, she'll run away. She considers herself to be superior to humans and even other youkai and when she's by herself it's easy to see. However, when among her own circle of friends, she is quite cheerful. As a kappa, she is easily persuaded to leave you alone by a cucumber or two. However, she has a greedy side when it comes to running a stand and is quick to come up with plots to maximize profit. Her ability is to control water. Hobby/Occupation: Engineer Additional Information: ● Nitori Kawashiro is a somewhat shy Kappa who lives in Genbu Ravine on Youkai Mountain. She has the power to control water, and along with the other kappa she is very good with engineering and technology. ● Her ability is to manipulate/control water. Her ability to manipulate water is inherent in the fact that she is a kappa, and has nothing to do with the myriad tools she uses. No one knows the true extent of this power, but she has been seen to use it to shoot water, create fountains, perform theatrical tricks and even summoning colossal tidal waves. ● She’s also aware using tools. Akyuu makes a note that kappa, historically, have had an trait called tsuuhai, which means their arms are connected inside their body and they can stretch one arm by retracting the other. However, it is said that they are actually just using tools to make it seem as though their arms stretch. In Wild and Horned Hermit chapter one, Reimu receives a "kappa's arm" that ends up being a mechanical arm. In Hopeless Masquerade, Nitori is also seen using several arm-like machines to attack. ● As she is an engineer she is very interested in products made by the humans of the outside world. She takes such products apart and puts them back together in order to understand them. However, she has trouble creating magical tools of any sort. She is fond of selling her inventions and other things such as Fish as her story mode in Hopeless Masquerade details her attempts at running a stand before getting sucked into the battle. According to Hina Kagiyama, she is also somewhat of a leader figure for the kappa. ● Nitori possesses many small devices and objects and carries them all in her backpack. ● Nitori's "Optical Camouflage" spell cards may refer to another aspect of kappa that Akutagawa writes about: "But what is most remarkable about kappa is that, unlike human beings, they change colors according to their surroundings." ● Her backpack resembles a tortoise shell, fitting for a kappa. ● As traditional depictions of kappa show a bald spot at the top of their heads, rumor has it that her hat is concealing that bald spot. However, ZUN discredited this rumor during a discussion on 2ch after Mountain of Faith was released. ● Some fan works depict her carrying a Pepsi Ice Cucumber in place of the reed she normally has. She's also sometimes depicted wearing a school swimsuit under her dress. ● Nitori was given an unofficial half-sister called Mitori Kawashiro. ● Nitori is often shown to be friends with the PC-98 character Rika, since both are engineers and that they both work on tanks together. She may sometimes also appear with Yumemi Okazaki or even Rikako Asakura. ● Aside from Rinnosuke Morichika and Yukari Yakumo, Nitori is considered to be the most technologically advanced in the Touhou universe, often showing her capability to construct modern/futuristic weapons and machinery in fan works. ● Even when Nitori doesn't appear in person, fanart often uses "NITORI" as a brand name on electronic equipment, such as Aya Shameimaru's camera. ● One of the earliest fan-made vocal arrangements of Nitori's theme music "Nitori's Song (Moe)" (にとりの唄(萌)) has lyrics that translate as "Kappappa kappappa Nitori, you get more than you pay for with Nitori." The latter part is from the slogan of the Nitori store chain, and several doujinshi have made it into something of an unofficial slogan for her as well, appearing on various products created by her. A reference to "kappappa kappappa" subsequently appeared in Subterranean Animism.