About
Name:Wriggle Nightbug
Species:
Youkai Insect
Abilities:
Manipulation of insects
Age:
Unknown
Occupation:
Unknown
Location:
Unknown, last seen roaming a typical forest path
Description:
Blue eyes, teal hair, bug-like antennae. Wears a white shirt with stylized short sleeves, a black cape (red on inner side), and knee-length blue baggy pants.
Relationships:
Unknown
Appearances:
Imperishable Night (Stage 1 Midboss, Stage 1 Boss)
Shoot the Bullet (Stage 1-1, 1-3, 1-5 Boss)
Wriggle is a firefly with the ability to control other insects. She likes using her ability to direct concerted performances for her own amusement. She also likes using it to attack humans who underestimate her significance or the importance of insects in general; she seems to take it personally when someone offends insects.
During the events of Imperishable Night, Wriggle attacked a pair of travelers that looked like they would be easy targets, but the pair fought Wriggle off without breaking a sweat. Fun FactsWriggle's appearance and name are both quite androgynous compared to other characters, so it used to be a point of some contention whether Wriggle was a male or female character before the release of full version, her wearing pants certainly didn't help either.
The full version's official profile declared that she is in fact female. However, with lack of male presence in the series she is sometimes converted to male in R-rated fan-fiction, with both writer and readers being fully aware that she is officially a girl. Additionally, she is often made fun of in fan comics as being a crossdresser--either as a girl that dresses like a boy or actually being a boy who's just pretending to be a girl.
Due to insects being near the very bottom of the food chain, Wriggle is sometimes portrayed as "food" in some fan comics. Especially food for Yamame Kurodani, a spider youkai, or for Mystia Lorelei, a night sparrow (who in turn is food for Yuyuko Saigyouji, a glutton).
In fan works, she is often seen with other lower level, childish characters such as Cirno, Rumia, and Mystia. She is occasionally called or labelled "G" (short for gokiburi, or cockroach).
Pairings of her with Yuka have become common. This could be because bugs pollinate flowers, they have similar hairstyles, or maybe ANGELTYPE is to blame.
According to an interview with ZUN, Wriggle could have made an appearance in Touhou Hisoutensoku, however, due to a lack of time, she was removed.
In Imperishable Night, the player can go up to the top of the screen and focus to collect items without being at full power (the Magic Team doesn't even have to focus to do this). For beginning players, sometimes they would be caught off guard in the middle of stage 1 trying to collect point items and lose a life due to Wriggle coming from the top of the screen while the player is at the same location trying collecting point items. This sudden fly-in from Wriggle is sometimes referred to as the "Wriggle Kick" in the fandom and is parodied in fanart and fangames such as Touhou Soccer and Touhoumon.
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Best character in ten desires.
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PLEEEEEEEEEASE
BAKA!
But, I am happy that we are friends! XD It was really worryin' me!
Like we aren't friends at all! That's what it seems like sometimes! Which is annoying.. ! o n o;