yakumo ran
The "Nine-Tailed Strategist". Extra Stage boss and Phantasm stage midboss of Touhou's Perfect Cherry Blossom.
Yakumo Yukari's 800+-year-old kyuubi kitsune shikigami who specializes in black magic. She is also powerful enough to have her own shikigami, a nekomata named Chen, to whom she is portrayed to act motherly towards prominently in fanworks.
In volume two of Strange Creators of Outer World, it has been revealed that Ran is actually a shikigami parasitically taking host of a nine-tailed fox youkai so strongly that the host's personality never shows on the surface; leading people to not have any difficulty seeing her as a kitsune. However, this seemed to be subtlely hinted at in Yukari's Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red article where Yukari constantly repeats to Aya that Ran is a shikigami and not an animal.
In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, Ran (or maybe just her host body) is revealed to have once been an inhabitant of the Animal Realm, and to have been friends with Toutetsu Yuuma.
Ran has been described to have a gentle personality and to share her host's species-wide love of fried tofu. She excels at mathematics and is able to solve nigh impossible equations instantly; simply seeing it as a hobby to kill time. She is rather robotic in nature when it comes to following Yukari's orders whereas Ran herself describes them as "Yukari's programming". Due to her master's prominent sleeping habits, Ran is usually doing her bidding at a constant. However, Yukari herself has stated that she would like to see Ran do something other than simply follow her orders.
Ran is simply seen as a tool that's loved in Yukari's eyes. If she is to ever stray away from her duties as a shikigami or to forget that she is one, she is to be violently disciplined, such as being beaten on the head by her parasol.
She is notorious in many fanworks as a streaker, earning her the nickname Suppa Tenko ("Naked Heavenly Fox"), and for bursting into an excessive nosebleed if Chen does anything exceptionally cute.
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The following tags implicate this tag: yakumo_ran_(elegant_vice_president), yakumo_ran_(fox), yakumo_ran_(white_youkai_flame_in_procession), and yakumo_ran_(zodiac_race) (learn more).
八云由香里是拥有 800 多年历史的九尾狐式神，擅长黑魔法。她也足够强大，拥有自己的式神，一个名叫陈的猫又，在同人作品中，她被描绘成对她表现出母亲般的态度。
在《奇怪的天外世界的创造者》第二卷中，兰实际上是一名寄生在九尾狐妖怪身上的式神，寄生程度如此之强，以至于寄主的性格从未在表面上表现出来；导致人们不难将她视为狐。然而，这似乎在《日本红》由香里的波西米亚档案馆的文章中微妙地暗示了这一点，其中由香里不断地向绫重复说兰是式神而不是动物。
在《未完成的众生鬼梦》中，兰（或者可能只是她的宿主）被揭露曾经是动物界的居民，并且与东铁游马是朋友。
据描述，兰性格温和，与主人一样热爱炸豆腐。她擅长数学，能够立即解出几乎不可能的方程。只是将其视为消磨时间的爱好。在执行由香里的命令时，她本质上相当机械化，而兰本人将其描述为“由香里的编程”。由于主人有着显着的睡眠习惯，兰平时总是按她的吩咐行事。然而，由香里本人表示，她希望看到兰做一些事情，而不仅仅是听从她的命令。
在由香里眼中，兰只是被视为一种被喜爱的工具。如果她偏离了作为一名式神的职责，或者忘记了自己是一名式神，她将受到严厉的纪律处分，比如用阳伞殴打她的头部。
在许多同人作品中，她因裸奔而臭名昭著，这为她赢得了“Suppa Tenko”（“裸体天狐”）的绰号，并且如果陈做出任何异常可爱的事情，她就会流鼻血。
以下标签暗示此标签：yakumo_ran_(elegant_vice_president)、yakumo_ran_(fox)、yakumo_ran_(white_youkai_flame_in_procession) 和 yakumo_ran_(zodiac_race)（了解更多）。