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>>20339449
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Medicine's frilly clothes and living-doll theme may possibly be based on the living dolls of Rozen Maiden. Oh yeah, and Medicine is specifically a tsukumogami (a type of youkai that a tool becomes when it's been untouched for a long time). Medicine was a ventriloquist doll, a dummy, before becoming a youkai after laying in the Nameless Hill for years. Since Gensokyo is a small time capsule of Feudal Japan it's unlikely that a frilly European-style ventriloquist puppet/dummy/doll would have been made or owned by any human living in Gensokyo. Therefore, it's entirely possible that Medicine slipped through the Hakurei barrier and fell into Gensokyo as a doll after her owner forgot her. PMiSS even states in the article for the Nameless Hill that, long ago, it was common for lost children from the Outside World to slip into the Nameless Hill. Perhaps Medicine was owned by a lost Outside World child who dropped her on the hill only to forget her there.
Attacks/Spell Cards
>ポイズンビー (Poison Bee)
Medicine's charge attack in PoFV. Medicine can freely control any poison ever. It seems she is using the poison of a bee, melittin.
>スウィートポイズン (Sweet Poison)
Medicine's EX attack in PoFV. The lily of the valley is said to smell extremely sweet. Medicine is probably using the poison of that flower, convallatoxin, in this attack.
>毒符「神経の毒」(Poison Sign "Nerve Poison")
An spell card referencing a common type of poison; a nerve agent. The most famous nerve poison in Japan is that of the fugu pufferfish, a delicacy with a extremely important preparation. If the poison of the fugu is not removed correctly then the consumer will die or be seriously injured by the puffer's tetrodotoxin.
>毒符「憂鬱の毒」(Poison Sign "Melancholy Poison")
A high amount of black bile (melan cholia) in the human body caused depression and irrational thinking according to the Greeks. Black bile could be considered poison (although it doesn't exist).
>霧符「ガシングガーデン」(Fog Sign "Gassing Garden")
Gassing = "to kill or harm by exposure to poisonous gas"
Medicine commonly expels purple clouds of poison gas in her danmaku. The card could refer to the Nameless Hill's garden of lilies of the valley or to the poisonous garden in "Rappaccini's Daughter". Green, yellow, and purple "rice-shaped" bullets are Medicine's danmaku of choice in nearly all her spell cards. Green and purple are common colors that symbolize poison. Yellow is the color of the seeds of the lily of the valley. Also, besides white, the flower can come in yellow and lavender.
>毒符「ポイズンブレス」(Poison Sign "Poison Breath")
Medicine uses lots of poison clouds in this card. The name doesn't seem to reference anything in particular but it is worth noting that a skill in Dragon Quest of the name name has appeared in the series every since Dragon Quest V (released in 1992). ブレス (buresu) means both "breath" and "bless". As noted previously, Medicine has various connections to Christianity through the crosses on her clothes, Saint Bartholomew/Saint Bosco, and the lily of the valley's connection to the Virgin Mary.
>譫妄「イントゥデリリウム」(Delirium "Into Delirium")
Touhou wiki translates 譫妄 as "confusion" but that's completely wrong. 譫妄 means delirium and only delirium. Medicine's omake.txt in PoFV states that she can use poison to make animals and humans mad and can manipulate them that way. There is also a Belgian beer called "Delirium Tremens" (named after the medical condition delirium tremens). In PMiSS one of the many poisons named that Medicine can manipulate is alcohol.
>毒薬変じて甘露となる (Poison Can be Medicine in the Right Doses)
Medicine's "motto" in PoFV. Indeed, the lily of the valley is the medicine for melancholy.
Music Theme
>ポイズンボディ ～ Forsaken Doll (Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll)
Medicine's body is said to be poisonous to the touch and simply touching her will irritate your skin. She was abandoned on the Nameless Hill, thus the usage of the word "forsaken".
Titles
>小さなスイートポイズン (Little Sweet Poison)
The lily of the valley is known to smell very sweet.
>体に優しくない人形 (Doll Unpleasant to the Body)
Medicine's very presence can cause you to be itchy all over. Her poison is very unwelcoming.
Spell Card Background
Psychedelic purple flowers.

And that's it for Medicine. Such a minor character yet ZUN didn't skimp out on her at all. ZUN is truly an artist.

>>20339449
cont.
Medicine's frilly clothes and living-doll theme may possibly be based on the living dolls of Rozen Maiden. Oh yeah, and Medicine is specifically a tsukumogami (a type of youkai that a tool becomes when it's been untouched for a long time). Medicine was a ventriloquist doll, a dummy, before becoming a youkai after laying in the Nameless Hill for years. Since Gensokyo is a small time capsule of Feudal Japan it's unlikely that a frilly European-style ventriloquist puppet/dummy/doll would have been made or owned by any human living in Gensokyo. Therefore, it's entirely possible that Medicine slipped through the Hakurei barrier and fell into Gensokyo as a doll after her owner forgot her. PMiSS even states in the article for the Nameless Hill that, long ago, it was common for lost children from the Outside World to slip into the Nameless Hill. Perhaps Medicine was owned by a lost Outside World child who dropped her on the hill only to forget her there.
Attacks/Spell Cards
>ポイズンビー (Poison Bee)
Medicine's charge attack in PoFV. Medicine can freely control any poison ever. It seems she is using the poison of a bee, melittin.
>スウィートポイズン (Sweet Poison)
Medicine's EX attack in PoFV. The lily of the valley is said to smell extremely sweet. Medicine is probably using the poison of that flower, convallatoxin, in this attack.
>毒符「神経の毒」(Poison Sign "Nerve Poison")
An spell card referencing a common type of poison; a nerve agent. The most famous nerve poison in Japan is that of the fugu pufferfish, a delicacy with a extremely important preparation. If the poison of the fugu is not removed correctly then the consumer will die or be seriously injured by the puffer's tetrodotoxin.
>毒符「憂鬱の毒」(Poison Sign "Melancholy Poison")
A high amount of black bile (melan cholia) in the human body caused depression and irrational thinking according to the Greeks. Black bile could be considered poison (although it doesn't exist).
>霧符「ガシングガーデン」(Fog Sign "Gassing Garden")
Gassing = "to kill or harm by exposure to poisonous gas"
Medicine commonly expels purple clouds of poison gas in her danmaku. The card could refer to the Nameless Hill's garden of lilies of the valley or to the poisonous garden in "Rappaccini's Daughter". Green, yellow, and purple "rice-shaped" bullets are Medicine's danmaku of choice in nearly all her spell cards. Green and purple are common colors that symbolize poison. Yellow is the color of the seeds of the lily of the valley. Also, besides white, the flower can come in yellow and lavender.
>毒符「ポイズンブレス」(Poison Sign "Poison Breath")
Medicine uses lots of poison clouds in this card. The name doesn't seem to reference anything in particular but it is worth noting that a skill in Dragon Quest of the name name has appeared in the series every since Dragon Quest V (released in 1992). ブレス (buresu) means both "breath" and "bless". As noted previously, Medicine has various connections to Christianity through the crosses on her clothes, Saint Bartholomew/Saint Bosco, and the lily of the valley's connection to the Virgin Mary.
>譫妄「イントゥデリリウム」(Delirium "Into Delirium")
Touhou wiki translates 譫妄 as "confusion" but that's completely wrong. 譫妄 means delirium and only delirium. Medicine's omake.txt in PoFV states that she can use poison to make animals and humans mad and can manipulate them that way. There is also a Belgian beer called "Delirium Tremens" (named after the medical condition delirium tremens). In PMiSS one of the many poisons named that Medicine can manipulate is alcohol.
>毒薬変じて甘露となる (Poison Can be Medicine in the Right Doses)
Medicine's "motto" in PoFV. Indeed, the lily of the valley is the medicine for melancholy.
Music Theme
ポイズンボディ ～ Forsaken Doll (Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll)
Medicine's body is said to be poisonous to the touch and simply touching her will irritate your skin. She was abandoned on the Nameless Hill, thus the usage of the word "forsaken".
Titles
>小さなスイートポイズン (Little Sweet Poison)
The lily of the valley is known to smell very sweet.
>体に優しくない人形 (Doll Unpleasant to the Body)
Medicine's very presence can cause you to be itchy all over. Her poison is very unwelcoming.
Spell Card Background
Psychedelic purple flowers.

And that's it for Medicine. Such a minor character yet ZUN didn't skimp out on her at all. ZUN is truly an artist.