Marisa Kirisam is an ordinary human magician who specializes in light and heat magic and currently resides in the Forest of Magic in Gensokyo. She is considered to be the deuteragonist of the Touhou Project series along with the main protagonist, Reimu Hakurei. She is a greatly informal, boyish type of girl. She has a habit of lying and is a kleptomaniac who loves to go on impulsive thieving sprees, but she is also secretly a very hard worker, a trait she tries to hide meticulously.