Chaos Reaper of the Amaryllis Flower
辺川 豊水（へんかわ ほうすい）
Housui Henkawa
Species：Amaryllis flower youkai
Ability：Ability to create unstable energy; Ability to make things unstable
Easily the most notable byproduct of the incident.
The Amaryllis flowers in the Forest of Magic contain a great deal of magical energy, however it isn't really any specific sort of magical energy. It can be considered a sort of magical blank slate. This is what makes them great for potions.
It also means that by default, if a tsukumogami of one of them were to be born, they wouldn't have any ability from the start. It'd need to come from another source.
In the case of Housui, she came to life from the influx of energy from the incident, which is what shaped her ability.
Her ability is simply the ability to create unstable energy, which manifests itself in a few ways.
The main one is that she can transfer this energy into others, allowing their abilities to heighten. Before Marisa found her, she was doing this a lot.
However, the catch is that when she does this, not all of the energy goes to the target, since otherwise, the target would likely die, or at least be irreversibly damaged.
Instead, this energy just gets expelled into Gensokyo's atmosphere. The issue with this is that it was pretty much the same thing Rachel's invention was doing.
In other words, if Housui was left unchecked, then Gensokyo's border would've been destroyed anyways as if the incident was never resolved.
...not that Housui would've ever realized this, nor would she have thought it was her fault if it was to happen.
Due to being a rather recent youkai, she doesn't quite understand everything yet. In fact, she was quite confused by pretty much all of her surroundings at first.
She didn't even quite understand what it was she was doing to all the fairies and youkai passing through the Amaryllis field, she just thought it was cool.
After Marisa's fight, the two of them paired up with the purpose of exploring Housui's ability more. Marisa wound up deducing that her abilities were able to make people stronger, and began collaborating with her frequently for her magic experiments.
In general, Housui and Marisa wound up really hitting it off, and wound up becoming great friends after their fight.
Rachel also frequently attempts to experiment on Housui, but Housui always refuses to do it and is rather annoyed at how frequently Rachel pesters her over this. | |
