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>>45379572
To expand on this a bit further, let's give an example that's very popular. Reimu.
Turn Reimu into a good person. Like, imagine a hero from My Hero Academia.
Do you know how much the setting would break?
First off, a lot of people don't realize seem to realize this and seem to think characters just get created out of thin air, but could you think of how 98% of Touhou start off as?
They... start off as enemies. Almost all of them, even Marisa.
Ironically enough, in order for Reimu to be a good person, you would have to write the setting as more bleak and dark than it already is. You would have to write most characters as more evil, because if Reimu was a good person and exterminated (killed) youkais because "some people resurrected their priest", then she wouldn't be much of a good person. Every character Reimu runs into and beats up while on her way to the incident would HAVE to be written as a more evil character. Else Reimu wouldn't be a very good person, wouldn't she?
Either that, or the Reimu would settle very many of the game incidents... by talking. She wouldn't need to fight at all. The plots of 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18 could be theoretically be resolved by just talking to people. How exciting and very much like Touhou, to talk things out.
For the games to still be a thing, you'd have to write more intrinsically, actually evil people as antagonists.
Next is character relationships. If all 2hus but Raymoo were unchanged, Reimu would interact with extremely little characters from the games. The only characters in the Hakurei Shrine would be Kosuzu, Keine, human villager #17 and maybe Kogasa and Hina.
You wanted each character to still have the same relationships the same way they do before Reimu became a "good person"? Then you'd have to write some convoluted and probably retarded redemption arc for each of them.
Eiki? Wants Youkai to be more proactive on doing youkai things. Moriya Shrine? Allies with Tengu. Yuyuko? Best friends with Yukari. Byakuren? A youkai symphatizer. Miko? Keeps Seiga and Yoshika around.
There's far more to it than you think, and this could continue. Reimu's personality and goals are what keeps Touhou, Touhou.
A lot of people like to pitch ideas thinking it would be "better" without realizing how much would change with that idea. It would be far more hilariously worse if all the human characters were good instead of just Reimu.
>>45379757
What do you mean? If anything, FS reinforced the idea of 2hus being self-serving.