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Tsubakura Enraku (燕楽玄鳥 Enraku Tsubakura) is gay stoner
General Information[]
bitch smokes mad loud man. they dont FUCK around. they smokin that mugenri bubba kush with the hooaka hookah pipes. they in the lab inventing ink laced wd-40 senri special brand zaza. you send the opps after them, they gonna turn em into ashes. and then take those ashes, melt them into metal, mold the dope ass bong ever seen this side of the country, and smoke that 12 pack with no regrets. no remorse. i aint ever seen a jit from gensokyo do it like them
Personality[]
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Background Information[]
Origin[]
Tsubakura Enraku (燕楽 玄鳥 Enraku Tsubakura) is a young scientist revered as a prodigy. They're known as highly capable, experienced, and studious, with their research spanning numerous fields from experimental danmaku weaponry to investigating other dimensions. They are the current priest of the Senri Shrine, hailing from the Outside World and tasked with the protection of Mugenri. They are one of the main protagonists of the Len'en Project and a playable character in all games.
Name[]
Their full name is Tsubakura Enraku (燕楽 玄鳥). According to JynX, Tsubakura had over 50 different name candidates during their character development, and 10 had significant meaning before finalising the name.[79] Paired with Yabusame's last name (Houlen, as in Len'en), theirs might be reflected in the name of the game series: Enraku, as in Len'en,The kanji used in their first name, (玄鳥), mean "mysterious bird" when taken literally. It is one of the Japanese terms for the "swallow", a type of bird, although with a different pronunciation (tsubakura rather than genchou (げんちょう)). Their last name, Enraku (燕楽) is homophonous with a word for "partying" (宴楽), most likely a reference to their ability of "enjoying that which is enjoyable". En (燕) is also a kanji that can mean swallow, or even swifts. In addition, 燕 can also itself be read as tsubakura, again referring to the swallow,JynX created a poll on Twitter to revealing some information about the Len'en Project, with one option having a secret meaning to Tsubakura's name revealed. Because it received the least votes, JynX took pity on it and revealed the secret anyway: Each kanji in the name has a hidden meaning of either "black" or "white" (ironically, they already hinted at this in Evanescent Existence's omake[79]). The kanji 楽 and 鳥 contain the 白 kanji in them, giving them the meaning of "white". The kanji 玄 can inherently mean "black". The 燕 kanji is the most complex of the four: Parts of it can be taken to form the kanji for "north" (北), which then plays into the philosophy of the five phases, where the direction of "north" is correlated with the color "black". The name is meant to represent the colors of a swallow, which has a white torso and black wings.[80]
Design[]
Tsubakura has short black hair and black eyes. they wears a big oversized black top hat, a black and white vest, green shorts, geta shoes and a pair of white detached sleeves which expose their armpits (?. Because of the color scheme they is occasionally called the "Loafing Monochrome" and has similarities to Tsurubami Senri.
Appearances[]
Evanescent Existence[]
Real Tsubakura (left) and the impostor Tsurubami (right)
Tsubakura and their friend Yabusame Houren are swept away into the land of Mugenri. they searches for a way to escape and finds out that all their allies and acquaintances are trapped in this land as well and that someone has been impersonating them during most of the game. Because of this impersonator, you don't actually play as Tsubakura during the main scenario of the game, but instead Tsurubami Senri. The real Tsubakura is playable in the Extra stage. There are various clues dropped around the game which imply Tsurubami's true identity during the main events. One example is their talismans against Yabusame, which foreshadow's Tsurubami, since Tsubakura uses technology.
- Main article: Evanescent Existence/Story/Tsubakura's Extra Scenario
Since their impostor and Yabusame have defeated everyone, they crosses into Mugenri with ease. they enters the sun that casts a shadow, which is a portal to the Senri Shrine. Tsubakura barges into the shrine and finds the true mastermind, Tsurubami Senri, a priest who has been impersonating Tsubakura in order to test their powers. they wants a strong person to replace them, and a curious Tsubakura defeats them and agrees into cooperating with them. When Yabusame comes, Tsubakura encourages Tsurubami into attacking them, much to the priest's surprise. The priest was considering for Tsubakura to be their replacement, but after witnessing Yabusame's potential, they hands both of them their job as a youkai exterminator. After that, Yabusame and Tsubakura settle in Mugenri.
Earthen Miraculous Sword[]
- Main article: Earthen Miraculous Sword/Story/Tsubakura's Scenario
Shortly after settling in Mugenri, the two girls live a carefree life at the shrine. The time of peace ended in the autumn, one day, mysterious thick clouds covered the land. Upset, the familiar of the shrine, Jinbei, forces one of them to go. Yabusame and Tsubakura can't acutally decide who should go, so they decide on a game of rock-paper-scissors and they both head out. Annoyed upon losing to Yabusame, they decides to finish the mission quickly, where they deal with a few youkai, angering them with their harsh words and condescension attitude. Tsubakura then finds themself in a ritual chamber, where the orochi Adagumo no Yaorochi is. they was gathering the spiritual energy of the weather to restore a replica of the Tasouken sword, but Tsubakura stops them before they completes it. However, the sword is completed anyway and attacks Tsubakura on its own.
Luckily, the clay vessel was too much for the Tasouken and it stopped attacking. After everything was cleared, Sukune Katano reveals that the clay replica is actually a sword-shaped bottle opener, much to Yaorochi's chagrin.
Reactivate Majestical Imperial[]
Yabusame and Tsubakura are bothered by the abnormal long winter in Mugenri, so they go investigate. After dealing with a few youkai in search for answers, they arrive to the Frost Cavern, where they bump into Yaorochi and Sukune, who tell the humans to go home as they are more interested in the mastermind's identity rather than the long winter. Yabusame and Tsubakura ask them to resolve the incident together, but the youkais refuse. Offended, they defeat them and continue their way. They bump into a strange road, where Taira no Fumikado is, who was trying to collect spirits for their resurrection ceremony. After defeating them, they find out that all the spirits are attracted to a certain location. Finally, they end up in the Withered Grove, where they find the chimera soul Shion, who is the avatar of the soul-eater flower Harujion and was absorbing spirits causing a long winter. Shion decides to absorb the souls they had been collecting through their adventure and they defeat them.
In the end, Yabusame and Tsubakura return to the Senri Shrine, bringing Shion with them. Shion indicated that they was attracted by the essence of the shrine and is particularly interested in Tsubakura.
While the two are flying through the Frosted Cavern, they bumped into Kuroji Shitodo and Adagumo no Saragimaru, much to Kuroji's chagrin, who hates Tsubakura with passion. Tsubakura asks them if they are going to resolve the incident, but Kuroji and Saragimaru refuse to reply. Given Kuroji's unlikeable and arbitrary personality, the humans are surprised that the scholar and the young orochi have teamed up. Upon watching the harsh treatment Saragimaru receives, Tsubakura concludes that they were forced to come and makes fun of Kuroji's inability to get along with anyone. An offended Kuroji and a confused Saragimaru fight against them. In the end, Kuroji and Saragimaru defeat them and continue on their way.
Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle[]
Tsubakura is a playable character in the upcoming game Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle.
Relationships[]
Yabusame Houren[]
Tsubakura has been friends with Yabusame for a long time, but Yabusame being gullible and slow, Tsubakura tends to pick on them a lot. They are often annoyed or unfazed at Yabusame's airhead personality.
Kuroji Shitodo[]
Kuroji Shitodo and Tsubakura seem to hate each other, because of their arbitrary ways of thinking. Kuroji is secretly jealous of their talent.
Jinbei & Tsurubami Senri[]
Jinbei is a familiar of the Senri Shrine while Tsurubami Senri is the priest of the shrine. Tsubakura seems to respect Jinbei a lot and calls they "Sensei", but they are also prone to Tsubakura's pranks. Despite Tsubakura's anger towards Tsurubami for impersonating them, they volunteered to replace Tsurubami as the current youkai exterminator, along with Yabusame.
Tsubakura Mother[]
Tsubakura mother was an enigmatic character who was briefly mentioned in Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle. Not much is known about her, other than the fact that she died at some point prior to the events of Evanescent Existence.
Kuzu Suzumi[]
suzumi is kinda like kanye tbh If you think abt it. and then tsubakura is like. playboi carti.
Trivia[]
- Tsubakura's face is shown on most of the game icons on the .exe files
- Theirsurname, Enraku includes the kanji of the Len'en series. (Houlen-Enraku --> Len-En --> Len'en