/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>22048880
To me, Cirno has perhaps one of the most iconic designs of any character, all represented in simple, iconic tricolor. Going into the Suika-poster's example, it also tells you a lot about her character simply by looking at her attire:

Cirno is either barefoot or wearing white socks: this tells you that she spends the majority of her time flying, rarely touching down to the ground level to walk. It also ties into how close she lives next to bodies of water, as shoes would quickly become waterlogged walking next to the lakeside to catch frogs!

Furthermore, the fact that these socks are pure white, and that Cirno is able to dress in and maintain whites like her undershirt and the base of her dress tells you she's actually a bit on the neat side in spite of her tomboyish nature, which is later confirmed in Touhou Sangetsusei when we see the austere interior of her home.

The fact she wears a bow and dress alongside a red ribbon suggests that she's definitely on the girlier end of tomboy, as confirmed by her discussions in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red where she tries to obfuscate her girlishness behind a screen of exaggerated bravado.

That she's willing to include seemingly superfluous ribbons tells you she keeps a certain amount of pride in her appearance in spite, or perhaps accentuating the ridiculousness of the scenario she constantly finds herself in, which is fighting against threats far in excess of her prowess. She wants the goddesses to know she's not pulling their legs when she claims she's the strongest, so she's wearing her best ribbon everywhere.

Her entire outfit is simplistic and relatively easy to maintain, referring to the limited resources she's allotted, living in an igloo in the woods.

Finally, her wings might not seem significant beyond her being an ice fairy, but their unique, symbolic design tells you several things about her from a gameplay perspective, if your first exposure was EoSD: She has six of them, which informs you she's at a higher level then all of those other fairies you faced before, and furthermore, they're unique to her; no other fairy in Touhou has the same wing design, symbolizing her status as seemingly sole ice fairy.