Medicine Melancholy is a minor antagonist from Touhou Project, debuting in Phantasmagoria of Flower View as one of the playable characters or an opponent. She's a Doll Youkai who's residing at Hill of the Nameless near Youkai Mountain surrounded by poisonous Lily of the Valley flowers.
Biography[]
Phantasmagoria of Flower View[]
Medicine leaves the Hill of the Nameless after there's an unusual amount of flowers blooming around Genskoyo, and attacking anybody she comes across with her poison.
In her ending, after defeating all her opponents, Eirin and Reisen approach her to collect her flowers. Although Medicine remains focused on her goal of liberating dolls, she starts to consider to creates allies and learning to socialize others for her goals.
Appearance[]
- (Touhou 9) Silver-coloured eyes, blonde hair, wears a black shirt & a red skirt. Has a red ribbon in her hair, and is accompanied by a tiny doll that is similar to her appearance.
- (Touhou 9, alternative outfit) Same as above, but the red highlights in her dress are purple, and her dress is dark blue.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Tewi Inaba
- Eirin Yagokoro
- Reisen Udongein Inaba
Enemies[]
- Reimu Hakurei
- Marisa Kirisame
- Yuuka Kazami
Personality[]
Medicine is described as fairly simple minded with characters such as Eirin, but it would be unwise to group her with most seemingly younger youkai, as despite this, she is known to have a very unpredictable personality. Reisen notes in Medicine's ending that she was attacking her and she is not to be taken lightly. Even Yuuka Kazami states "What where those humans thinking when throwing a dangerous tool in the flower field?" showing that even one of the most powerful youkai is concerned about this doll. Medicine is very unstable and hostile, combined with the fact she is gets stronger within the storyline makes her a youkai much to be avoided.
Fascinated by poisons, she often rambles about them, creeping other characters out much to her sadistic amusement. Vengeful and childish, she wants to destroy the human race to liberate dolls due to her being born isolated and abandoned when she was a non-living doll, thrown into a field humans would prefer to forget about.
Shiki Eiki lectures her about her violent behavior and it somewhat works but she still has sadistic intents, as shown in her ending she wants to trick humans to becoming friends with her so she can poison and kill them, much to Reisen's dismay.
She has a cheerful nature combined with all these traits, make her a usually avoided character due to her general attitude.
Trivia[]
- Her name is derived from A Medicine For Melancholy by Ray Bradbury.
- She may have been inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Rappaccini's Daughter," where the title character, Dr. Rappaccini, keeps his daughter, Beatrice, confined in a garden of poisonous flowers, until she became poisonous herself.
- She may also have been inspired by Agatha Christie, whose favourite flower was the Lily of The Valley. This is backed up by ZUN's obvious love for Agatha Christie's stories as seen in other characters like Alice Margatroid, Letty Whiterock and Flandre Scarlet.
- Her route in POFV implies she is getting stronger with poisons and her abilities due to dialogue, even making Yuuka Kazami tear up if defeated with Medicine.
- Although she is labeled as a youkai, Medicine's true nature may be that of a tsukumogami, as described in Perfect Memento: Eight Million Gods.
- The term Konparo (コンパロ) is associated with her, due to her having said "Konparo konparo, poison gathers" in her ending in PoFV. Konparo is an incorrectly abbreviated romanization of convalloside, a poison found in lily-of-the-valley flowers (it should have been Konbaro or Konvaro).
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