"The Small Ice Fairy"

Stage 2 boss of [[Touhou]]'s [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]] and later a recurring playable character. She has [[short hair|short]] [[blue hair]], [[blue eyes]], [[ice wings]], and wears a [[blue dress]] with [[puffy short sleeves]]. She appears in [i][[Hidden Star in Four Seasons]][/i] as a playable character, "[[Tanned Cirno]]."

An ice fairy living in the [[Misty Lake]], near the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]. A relatively weak fighter, but nevertheless claims to be the strongest of all (somewhat justified, as fairies are low-tier generic enemies in the series). One of her hobbies is [[frozen|freezing]] [[frog|frogs]] and watching them thaw (a third of which ends up shattering), leading doujins to portray her at odds with the frog-themed goddess [[Moriya Suwako]].

Her large ego and childish incompetence earned her the nickname "[[circled 9|⑨]]" (pronounced "maru kyuu"/"nine-ball"), based on an "elements of play" screenshot from the game manual of [[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]] in which she was labelled 「9.バカ」 ("baka"/"idiot"). Another contributing factor to her portrayal as an idiot is her [[Icicle Fall]] spell card from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, which (on Easy difficulty only) fails to hit a "safe zone" directly beneath/in front of her. Doujins also portray her as de facto leader of [[Team 9 (touhou)|]] (also known as the "baquartet"), a posse of "insignificant" Touhou characters.

h4.Typical Tags
[b]Person:[/b] [[short hair]], [[blue hair]], [[ice wings]], [[fairy wings]], [[blue eyes]], [[bangs]], [[flat chest]], [[small breasts]]
[b]Outfit:[/b] [[white shirt]], [[collared shirt]], [[puffy short sleeves]], [[blue dress]], [[pinafore dress]], [[red ribbon]], [[neck ribbon]], [[long dress]], [[short dress]], [[white legwear]], [[socks]], [[shoes]], [[brown footwear]], [[barefoot]]
[b]Accessories:[/b] [[blue bow]], [[green bow]], [[hair bow]], [[bow]], [[frozen frog]] 

In Russian she is known as [i]Сырно[/i] (Sɨrno), which literally translates as "cheesy" (in adverb form). In Finnish she is known as [i]Sirkku[/i] (post #673220).

h4. See also

* [[Cirno Day]] (9th September)
* [[Cirno-nee]], an [[aged up]], much more mature rendition
* [[Advent Cirno]], a series depicting her in the style of [[Cloud Strife]] of [[Final Fantasy VII]]
* [[Achi Cirno]], a fire-themed [[alternate element]]
* [[Ikazu Cirno]], a lightning-themed [[alternate element]]
* [[Mizu Cirno]], a water-themed [[alternate element]]
* [[Hapa Cirno]], a leaf-themed [[alternate element]]
* [[Tanned Cirno]], as she appears in [[Hidden Star In Four Seasons]]
* [[Nineball=Cirno]], a [[M.U.G.E.N]] character which changes Cirno's color palette to match [[Armored Core]]'s [[Nineball Seraph]]
* pool #1567: Cirno - ⑨⑨⑨x⑨⑨⑨ (Cirno images with dimensions exactly 999x999)
* pool #4616: Cirno Is Not So ⑨ (Cirno portrayed as smarter or cleverer than usual)

h4. External links

* "Touhou Wiki: Cirno":http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Cirno
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