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>>45380642
>Most of them have very similar personalities and motivations.
Incorrect. Even Fairies, who by nature of their race, extremely similar to one another, have different goals in mind. The three faires are the posterchild of generic fairy behavior. Cirno is described as unnatural, and wants to be known as the strongest around. Clownpiece is a hell fairy that's far more unhinged than the regular fairy, but Hecatia wants her to have a more peaceful life in Gensokyo in comparison to hell. Eternity is a mysterious, enigmatic character, who while playful, seems to be far more than just a normal fairy. Especially if Okina is to be believed.
And those are just the fairies.
>Making some of them actually motivated by wanting to do good or even just not being terrible people would fix that.
But some of them already do. Their version of good. That's Byakuren and Keiki in a nutshell. Hell, Keiki is as good of a god as you can get. She's literally protecting and trying to make great lives out of sinners that got sent to hell. Meanwhile, good people in real life can't even forgive the smallest slights dealt to them.
>1: They kind of already are. 2: That is 100% how the fandom threats them.
Hilariously incorrect. This observation might've been correct if you were talking the early days of Touhou when NND reigned, but this couldn't be more wrong now. This is true for both western fans and japanese fans.
>The problem is they don't. In fact, they don't have many motivations at all
Except they do, else incidents would never occur, and the games wouldn't exist at all. You want me to list them? Tell me if you want to list them, because I can go for a long time about it.
>and what you will mostly find in the Touhou fandom as well, is porn and slice of life.
I can tell you don't know much about what Touhou doujinshi non-h writers write about. There's also very little porn of Touhou in comparison to other doujin works.
See >>45379209
>To make matters worse, actual drama doesn't work because nobody really cares if bad things happen to cannon characters.
Ah, you're that cannon person people keep talking about. And I'm pretty sure people care. If they didn't care about the characters, then there wouldn't be separate Touhou conventions for each Touhou character done weekly in Japan.
>Literally the most emotionally resonant part of all of FS
That's wasn't "emotionally resonant". It was a surprising event, because it's the first time we've ever seen Reimu execute a youkai before.
>Anon, we literally have a in universe justification for why characters would fight randomly.
But they don't fight randomly? They fight for a reason. The spellcard rules aren't set in place for "random fights". It's set in place because a real fight between two powerhouses would destroy Gensokyo. The spellcard rules just make it easier for people to fight as a downtime, but most fights shown in Touhou have a reason behind them.
>When? Most of the cast picks fights with each other for no reason. Again, it's just a game to them. It's literally just a game to them.
lmao
So instead of having any semblance of a plot whatsoever, you just want characters to show up and fight randomly? Then they'd all have a good time at Reimu's veranda and eat some BBQ afterwards.
How moronic.
>Well, yeah, most of them are just straight up irredeemable serial killers.
Sure thing, buddy. You sound like you would make a great vegan.