Rumia

ルーミア Rumia ɽɯːmʲia (♫)
Rumia in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Youkai of the Dusk
Alternative Namen	Lumia
Spezies	Youkai
Auftritte	Offizielle Spiele: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (Stage 1 Zwischenboss, Stage 1 Boss) Shoot the Bullet (Stage 1-2, 1-4, 1-6 Boss) Hopeless Masquerade (Hintergrundcharakter) Literatur: Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red Silent Sinner in Blue (Prolog Cameo, Kapitel 9 Cameo) Perfect Memento in Strict Sense Oriental Sacred Place (Unbedeutender Charakter, Kapitel 12 Cameo) The Grimoire of Marisa
Musik	妖魔夜行 Apparitions Stalk the Night (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil)

Rumia (ルーミア) ist ein Youkai, der Dunkelheit manipulieren kann. Sie ist eine der wenigen Youkai, die keiner besonderen Spezies angehören.

Allgemeines

Offenbar ist sie einfach gestrickt und mag kein Sonnenlicht oder Sommerhitze. Eigentlich nutzt sie ihre Kraft, um eine dunkle Masse um sie herum zu sammeln und sich so vor Hitze und Licht zu schützen. Es wird gesagt, dass sie die Fähigkeit nur als unterstützende Kraft benutzt. Wenn sie andere attackiert, benutzt sie vor allem ihre reine Stärke. Es scheint so, als würde sie bei Tag und Nacht ziellos durch die Gegend fliegen. Manchmal prallt sie gegen einen Baum, weil sie durch ihren Schleier aus dunkler Masse weniger in der Lage ist, Hindernisse zu erkennen.Trotz ihres unschuldigen Aussehens, isst sie Menschen und denkt, dass es ihre Aufgabe als Youkai ist, diese zu jagen. Sie scheint aber recht faul zu sein und meinte, dass es allgemein eine Qual für sie ist, das zu tun.

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Fähigkeit

Manipulation der Dunkelheit

Rumia hat die Fähigkeit die Dunkelheit zu manipulieren. Indem sie sich in pure Dunkelheit umhüllt, kann sie verhindern, dass das Sonnenlicht zu ihr durchdringt. Es ist magisch in der Natur und kann traditionelle Lichter und Taschenlampen unbrauchbar machen. Aus diesem Grund können die Leute nichts sehen, die in diese Dunkelheit geraten. Rumia kann aber ebenfalls nicht in dieser Dunkelheit sehen, weshalb sie beim Fliegen auch in Bäume hinein kracht. The appearance of the darkness outside its region looks like a spherical circle that is moving. Rumia says "I'm fine in moonlight" meaning she doesn't need such ability at night, and it also appears that she doesn't use it all year-round, as she was seen without darkness in broad daylight during New Year's eve.
Should also be noted that while her field of vision is reduced by her own ability, she is used to it enough to be able to read Aya's newspaper even with almost no light, while Aya herself couldn't write notes nor reading her notebook. At that time, she has also shown that she can control how much light can pass through the darkness, as she let only a bit of it entering to be able to read the newspaper.
Additionally, judging from one of her spellcards in Shoot the Bullet, she seems to be able to turn into some sort of dark mist.
The names of her spell cards are also related to night and darkness (Moon Sign, Night Sign, Darkness Sign).

Konzept

Herkunft

ZUN has mentioned in an interview that because it was the first Windows game, he set one of the concepts of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil as a deochi (出落ち, lit. "punch line on the entrance"), such as bringing Western youkai as bosses, even though the title is named Touhou ("Eastern"). Her ability "manipulation of darkness" is one of that instance. It sounds like if it was that of a final boss, yet she is only a stage 1 boss.

Aussehen

Rumia's design shows that she has red eyes and short blonde hair. She wears a black vest and skirt, and white blouse with a red tie bordered by two large red beads around her neck. She also has small red ofuda tied to the left side of her hair, making it look like a ribbon. However, she can neither touch nor remove the amulet. According to ZUN, her height is that of a human in her early teens (from 10 to 14 years old).

Rumias Auftritte

Spiele

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Hauptartikel: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Story

In the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Rumia bumps into either Reimu Hakurei or Marisa Kirisame near the Hakurei Shrine during her aimless wanderings and attacks them, as other youkai won't do. She is defeated quickly.

Spin-Offs

Rumia in HM

Shoot the Bullet

Rumia appeared in Shoot the Bullet as a stage 1 target. Aya Shameimaru commented that she had some trouble dealing with her, since she attacked suddenly while in the darkness, and complained about how the photos she got were no good because it was too dark.

Hopeless Masquerade

Rumia appears as a background character in Hopeless Masquerade, on the Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum stage. She is seen looking at the fights while still mantaining her "crucifixion pose".

Literatur

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Hauptartikel: Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Rumia

When interviewed by Aya, Rumia complained that other youkai were coming into her darkness because the article Aya had written suggested they could also avoid the light and heat like her by doing so. She also complained when Aya requested there be enough light for her to take notes, as it seems that being often in the darkness makes Rumia's eyes very sensitive to light. Aya was a bit disappointed that Rumia has no goals in life.

Oriental Sacred Place

Rumia appears in Oriental Sacred Place to participate in a test of guts being held at the Hakurei Shrine, along with Sakuya Izayoi, Youmu Konpaku, Yuyuko Saigyouji, Wriggle Nightbug, Mystia Lorelei, and Cirno. At that time, she is first seen talking with Mystia and Wriggle, and then within her sphere of darkness while chasing Youmu. She also reappears later in a similar crowd when the Three Fairies of Light were preparing a festival at the Hakurei Shrine. Rumia, however, did not seem like she was part of the preparation and wasn't visible during the festival itself.

Silent Sinner in Blue

She appears in Silent Sinner in Blue, participating to the party given in the Scarlet Devil Mansion by Remilia Scarlet to celebrate the completion of the rocket that will send Remilia's group to the Moon. While at the party, Rumia is noticed to be talking to Wriggle Nightbug.

Galerie

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  Rumia in her mass of darkness (from Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red)
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  Rumia and Reimu during the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (from Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red)
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  Rumia wondering why Aya Shameimaru doesn't like the pitch-black darkness
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  Rumia and her magical mass of darkness (from Oriental Sacred Place)
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  Rumia's sigil in The Grimoire of Marisa.

Spell Cards

Name	Übersetzung	Anmerkung	Spiele	Stage
月符「ムーンライトレイ」	Mond Zeichen "Moonlight Ray" (dt. Mondlicht Strahl)		EoSD	Stage 1: Hard/Lunatic
夜符「ナイトバード」	Nacht Zeichen "Night Bird" (dt. Nachtvogel)		EoSD GoM	Stage 1: Easy/Normal/Hard/Lunatic —
闇符「ディマーケイション」	Dunkelheit Zeichen "Demarcation" (dt. Ab-/Begrenzung)		EoSD	Stage 1: Easy/Normal/Hard/Lunatic
闇符「ダークサイドオブムーン」	Dunkelheit Zeichen "Dark Side of the Moon" (dt. Dunkle Seite des Mondes)		StB	Stage 1
夜符「ミッドナイトバード」	Nacht Zeichen "Midnight Bird" (dt. Mitternachtsvogel)		StB	Stage 1

Trivia

• Rumia is known for the memorial "First to Use the Spell Card System™" in the history of shooting games.
• She is also the first official Windows boss of the Touhou Project.
• She is usually drawn with her arms spread out, claiming the pose appears to say, "The saint was crucified." Of course, this just makes her look more childish.
• Rumia's non-spell card attacks and her spell card Moon Sign "Moonlight Ray" are similar to the attacks of Mystic Square's first stage boss, Sara.
• Marisa references the phrase "人類は十進法を採用しました" (Mankind adopted the decimal system) in her scenario of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. It comes from MORI Hiroshi's novel "誰もいなくなった　～Thirty Little Indians" (Then There Were None ~ Thirty Little Indians) from "まどろみ消去 ～Missing under the Mistletoe" (Slumber Erasing ~ Missing under the Mistletoe).

近づいて、フカシとヨーコが手を振ると、西之園萌絵は、
両手を顔の横で広げてみせた。
人類は十進法を採用しました、というジェスチャではない。

Coming closer, Fukashi and Yōko waved their hands, then Moe Nishinosono
spread her hands next to her face.
This wasn't the gesture of Man adopting the decimal system.

The author commented this phrase was put in to show that she didn't spread her arms to the full extent like the character 十, but that she spread her ten fingers as if she'd counted to 10.

• Also, her sigil, shown on The Grimoire of Marisa depicts mistletoe.

Fandom

Hauptartikel: Fandom: Rumia

Offizielle Profile

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - おまけ.txt

	○宵闇の妖怪 　　ルーミア 　　能力：闇を操る程度の能力 　　１面ボスです。妖怪です。 　　ストーリー上重要な位置に居ません。何の為に生きてるのか不明です。 　　実は髪の毛に巻いているリボンは御札で、リボンは取りたくてもルー 　　ミア本人では触れることすら出来ないのです。 　　実際、闇を操ってる場面を見れないですが、本当はルーミアの周りは 　　いつも夜になっています。	Youkai of the Dusk Rumia Ability: Manipulating darkness Stage 1 boss. A youkai. She is of no importance to the story, and isn't up to anything in particular in her life. The ribbon tied to her hair is actually a charm; she can't touch it even though there have been times when she wanted to take it off. There is no evidence of her ability in the game, but in truth, places around her are always as dark as night.

Offizielle Ressourcen

• 2002/08/11 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Stage 1 dialogue; Omake.txt (official profile)
• 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Rumia
• 2005/12/30 Shoot the Bullet - Stage 1 spellcard comments
• 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Youkai of Twilight: Rumia
• 2007/05/09 Silent Sinner in Blue - Prologue
• 2008/02/09 Silent Sinner in Blue - Chapter 9
• 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Rumia's Spell Card
• 2009/09/26 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 4
• 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12