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>>16249764
>Males do exist, but they're mostly bumbling idiots doing muggle things in the human village.
Don't you talk about my boys fortune teller and salt mansion owner that way

In my opinioin, the fighting games, especially the ones with aerial combat, are what would be closest to reality when they confront each other.

>>16249764
>Males do exist, but they're mostly bumbling idiots doing muggle things in the human village
Just wait until season 16

>>16249764
>Males do exist, but they're mostly bumbling idiots doing muggle things in the human village.
I dunno these two canon human males look pretty smug going about their day.
>muggle things
Please kill yourself out of /jp/

Yukari hit the reset button at least once. That's why PC98 is no longer canon.
Only Reimu and Marisa were meant to remain from the old universe, but Yuuka was too strong to simply cease to exist. The two Alices are different characters.

>>16250003
Good headcanon, secondary.

PC98 is actually a distant future
Alice in touhou 7 is a human, she then gets possesed by the grimoire making her child and reseting the universe
PC98 happens backwards
Shinki is the first boss, she destroys the city in Makai, since we don't see it again in th 4,3,2 and 1
Yumeko and Orange are Sakuya and Meiling hiding from lunarians because war or some shit
Our current Marisa is actually Mima
PC98 Marisa is Marisa's and Rinnosuke's child
Yuuka in touhou 9 is a child with short hair while in touhou 4 she is a teenager
Yumemi is older Sumireko
Ellen is Mokou's child made by Eirin since she is immortal, but she ages backwards
Mokou recently shows up in a lot of games (ISC, Ulil), she is now sealed in a bronze disc under the name Kikuri
Kotohime is Kaguya (??????????)
Anaberal is actually poltergeist of Koishi (of a mentally retarded girl as said in cannon)
Dunno who Sariel and Konngara is
Shingyoku is the last boss, the God of Hakurei Shrine

>>16250053
Even though we have several hints about Windows happening after PC98, I chuckled at Shingyoku being the final boss of the series.

Nue cute girl form is actually her true form

Kokoro goes between the Buddhist and Taoist temples like a child of divorce.

Shinmyoumaru lets a bunch of Tsukumogami that were created by the mallet live in her castle.

Gensokyo is looked upon with disdain by youkai in the outside world- it's somewhere you go when you can't cut it anymore, it's a retirement home at best or a nature preserve at worst.

Raiko made a really lopsided deal with Yukari to get quick access to the outside world so she could save herself and the other temporary tsukumogami. Yukari has not come to collect yet, but Raiko's keeping her head down for now.

The interpretation/mis-translation of Yukari's PMiSS article was actually accurate, and the best countermeasure against her really is to approach her in a gentlemanly fashion. Despite having an image to maintain, she would secretly love nothing more than to have a handsome guy bring her some flowers and a box of chocolates and maybe ask how her days was once in a while.

Seiga didn't participate in being entombed with the rest of the Taoists, and fucked around in the outside world until the events of TD.

Hence why she knows so much about Santa, says hip things like "Yo!", and holds a strong grudge against the Buddhists since they've been actively hindering her attempts at resurrecting Miko for the last 1400 years.

>>16249764
>Males do exist, but they're mostly bumbling idiots doing muggle things in the human village.

What about Rinnosuke? He's not on the village, but he actually did the Mini Hakero for Marisa and the Purification Rod of Reimu.

I guess this is strongly implied in game, but Louise (Luize? I see many different spellings) gets killed in her boss battle and later returns as a ghost as midboss in stage 4.

yukari wonders about her struggle on maintaining order in Gensokyo
while more fragile beings attain much more results with less time

I don't think you read the mangas that often.

koishi has autism

>>16256292
it's way beyond this

Cirno is a Karelian who fled to Gensokyo during the Winter War. She doesn't know that the war is over, or that the Soviet Union has collapsed, and Russo-Finnish relations have been repaired.

Kanako while lacking a head cannon has shoulder cannons as she is a violent Guncannon.

Wriggle is a girl.
Youmu is not a dork.

Ichirins reads battle shounen and imitates the stuff she reads secretly with Unzan and makes spellcards based off of those sick attacks she sees.

my favrit 2hu loves me very much

Mokou and Kaguya actually hate eachother.

Komachi is the oldest Touhou character, since the shinigami are as old as life and will last until the very last thing dies.
Yamas are born, live, and die over a span of 400,000 years, but death gods are the end of everything.

Parsee is one of the nicest touhous.

Aya and Momiji dislike eachother.

Murasa's actual name is Minamitsu.

Sukuna's name is actually Shinmyoumaru.

Cirno's power level compared to Marisa is laughable. She is not the strongest.

>>16271630
>and will last until the very last thing dies.
Hourai exists.

>>16271672
Mystia and Kyouko have a punk band
Sakuya reads bedtime stories to Remilia and has to impersonate the characters
Reimu owns a nuclear-powered robot maid. She also was on jail once

>>16271678
And they won't die. The shinigami will leave them on the near side of the Sanzu when they sail off for the last time.

>>16271762
>She also was on jail once
For what, though?

pc-98 reimu, marisa, and alice are just younger versions of the windows versions. they're probably about 10~12 during that time.

marisas hair was red at first because of mimas magic.

china is orange. after getting beat up by marisa/reimu she started working at sdm to get stronger.

time doesn't flow right in gensokyo, what they consider to be a month could be just a few days in our time (this would kinda explain why marisa, raymoo, and arisu are still only in their mid/late teens).

everyone is a lesbian.

reimu is her own god.

marisa's hair is really poofy and tangled, she's just a messy person in general.

alice is really straightedge.

that it

>>16271605
Woah, anon, this is too far away from cannon even for a headcannon!

I have a lot regarding the Hakurei family as a whole, mostly because I play CK2 too much.

>Ran is or was responsible for looking after Hakurei mikos who inherited the position while they are still young children. Yukari programmed her with a more motherly personality to facilitate this.
>The extended Hakurei family have the status of nobility in the Village, and is the only human group permitted to bear arms outside of wartime.
>Bastards cannot inherit the Hakurei Shrine, nor can children born before a Hakurei miko and her husband's marriage, even if they are the miko's daughters.
>A Hakurei miko has the right to raise a militia, deputise people, take control of Village resources at will, and is the only person who may legally act against Yukari to preserve the balance of Gensokyo.
>Reimu's mother had an affair with one of Marisa's aunts. Yukari allowed it to happen because there could be no children as a result of the affair, and Reimu was already born when it started. Reimu's father allowed it to happen because he hated his wife and only stayed to raise Reimu. The incident was hushed up by the Hakurei family to avoid further embarrassment. The Kirisame family were less fortunate, and this combined with Marisa learning magic and the subsequent fight between Marisa and her father almost ruined the family completely.

Any youkai whose species is unknown (think Rumia) actually have their true ability sealed by some means, either by their own volition or other's.
Removing said seal will effectively restore their true power, thus making their species known.

>>16291044
>He doesn't legitimize bastards
man you're an asshole

Yumemi is Renko
Yukari is Maribel (pretty obvious, just wanted to mention it to go along with the first one)
Sumeriko is an ancestor of Renko
Shingyoku is the Hakurei god

That's all the realistic ones I can think of for now

>>16250332
Isn't this canon by virtue of Memorizable Gensokyo showing Yukari as the editor?
It can be inferred that she wrote it in out of a desire for people to treat her nicer.
Despite being the spooky G-man of the series, she is shown desperately craving attention several times.

>>16250379
She had a shonen action battle off screen, complete with gimmick defeating gimmick.
The results could be seen the next morning from across the land.
Somewhere in hell is a badass male water-controlling oni who got punked by niang-niang.

Yuyuko is actually the smartest character in the series, from the direction of wisdom and intuition.
She masks it with practiced dissembling, seemingly operating on random whim and making nonsense comments while understanding complex situations at a glance.
She solved the incidents in both her fighting game appearances before any of the other characters investigating (and in Tenshi's case forced her to keep going because Yuyuko was having so much fun making snow out of soulstuff), brought fear to the elder god Omoikane (while having a fun lunar vacation), and didn't even bother getting off her porch when she sensed the revival of an emperor.
Despite not having the same head for number crunching as her demon sorceress BFF, she easily understands every plot from small hints and obscure references.

Her "ability to invoke death" is just the ability to control souls, full stop. She kills you by pulling your soul out. Reality was her plaything during the soul fog of Tenshi's incident, and the Hourai really bother her with their invulnerable golden souls.

She's also one of the best dancers in Gensokyo, as most of her combat moves involve spins, dashes, and backflips with her fans.

She sees ghosts as they were, so all the souls hanging around the Netherworld are like her personal harem of dead poet-samurai. The big soul midboss during her Ten Desires stage is actually a white knight defending his lady.

>>16292713
>The big soul midboss during her Ten Desires stage is actually a white knight defending his lady.

Okay, I liked this one. Imagining some kurosawa-level speeches going unheard as Reimu/Marisa hold down Z.

>>16292713
>She's also one of the best dancers in Gensokyo
If there's one headcanon I wanted to be true, it would be this.

Part of the reason Celestials such as Tenshi are so tough is because they have mathmatically sublime bodies, with muscles, bones, organs etc -as if a god took the human body back to the drawing board and decided to shore up some issues.

With full control over sleeping patterns, hyperflexible joints, lack of sweat/appendix/nonstandard body hair, and excellent night vision, they are quite a step away from the standard human template.

This leads to them being mildly unsettling to humans, who seem dumpy and ungraceful in comparison. It's like if one of those airbrushed, photoshopped models from a magazine were like that 24/7. This gap is the reason why Celestial-Human relationships seem to break down after a while ( Like in Iku's article in the Symposium book)

The fact that Tenshi acts how she does actually makes her more personable than most others of her kind as a result.

(Lunarians are more akin to ''optimizing'' the human form for peak and pure performance rather than something entirely different.)

In typical moonscum hypocrisy, the Lunarians have been experimenting with Moon Rabbit bloodlines for years,in an attempt to bend the native species towards their will. This has resulted in some massive but inimitable successes (Reisen), and some weirder achievements (Ringo). Efforts were considerably hindered after Erin left.

The reason why the Lunarians were so eager to send rabbits down to Gensokyo recently (Instead of just continuing with the robots) was to act as a testbed - with the ultimate hope of making batches of loyal supersoldiers once they are able to isolate and replicate the right combination of abilities and temperment.

No wearing a head accessory without a good excuse is a matter of public taboo in Gensokyo, just like how it used to be in the outside world. Consider the bare-headed Windows characters:

-Kaguya does not go into public often
-Kogasa wants to surprise people
-Nue disguises herself constantly
-Parsee is something of a social misfit and lives underground
-Raiko has the excuse of being both young and having outside-world experience
-Yuuka purposefully does not do so as a testament to the fear and respect her strength fosters.

Remi and Flandre were based in West Europe before coming to Gensokyo, it was in the 1500s when vampire and witch hunting was at its peak. The Scarlet family was killed while the two children were able to escape

Meiling, who happened to be a human-looking youkai blending as a part of the Chinese diaspora in France, picked them up and took them in

Shortly after, they saved an accused witch from burning at the stake. The accused witches is Patchouli, who really was studying witchcraft and magic, and was already a magician.

They settled down in an abandoned mansion, with some effort and under Remilia's name they painted it red and fixed it up

Patchy was trying out summoning spells and summoned a succubus, who was actually OK with doing it with another female. Patchy had none of that shit and disciplined her until she started getting attached to her/the place, becoming her assistant Koakuma

There was a lost smol kid who wandered into the mansion and Remi picked her up, gave her a new name "Sakuya" and got her to work for the mansion. Sakuya later grew to love the mansion and its owner to an extreme degree

Because of the grand red color, the building attracted a lot of raiders, and Meiling/Patchy had to fight them off. Sakuya wanted to help fight too, so she learned some combat skills from Meiling and some magic from Patchy. Her strong desire desire to protect the mansion, on top of spending too much time with people with spiritual power, caused her to develop a new ability: to do time shenanigans. She practiced with throwing knives to help with her time powers and eventually became a very dangerous opponent

If ZUN won't add details then I'll think some up on my own

True to her name, Daiyousei is in fact a great fairy. That is, she's Mother Nature herself.
However, she's still as playful as any other fairies are, and prefer playing around with the others - all the while disguised as the smaller Daiyousei.
She is very close to Cirno because she fears that Cirno might become a youkai, and thus leave her side. So she monitors Cirno as much as she can, trying to keep her grounded to the reality of their existence as a fairy.

>>16266817
>Youmu is not a dork.
Sorey anon, but that's 100% incorrect.

Hong Meiling is the last practitioner of an effectively dead martial arts style, which was in turn part of a larger group of legendary styles. These followed the Five Chinese elements, plus the Sun/Light and Moon/Dark similar to Patchouli's magic, in combination with the animal-styles common to China.

Meiling's is the Shining/Radiant Dragon Style, which focuses on mastery of your own Qi in order to wield it directly in combat, and to improve one's self. Most users and students of the style are only capable of projecting a single color in their aura, while the rainbow of colors Meiling is seen wielding is the result of a distinct level of mastery, rarely seen even among Grandmasters. This is because, while Qi naturally takes on the rainbow hue when inside the body, forcing it outwards dilutes it to a degree. Only through significant focus and training can someone become a direct conduit for their internal energies to flow freely.

Meiling came to learn this style after being confronted by a woman who had been sent to hunt down and destroy her, but instead chose to show Meiling mercy. With no other prospects and really no place else to go, Meiling was taken in as a student, both of the style and to expand her knowledge as well. She was taught how to read and write, much of China's history and mythology, about the gods and other spiritual creatures, and given a much better understanding of herself as a yaoguai and what that meant for her place in the world. After her master passed on, she was left the golden badge that was the mark of her school, and took on the name "Hong" to honor her memory.

Fast forward quite some time to the modern day, and these events play a major part influencing Meiling to try and reach out to Flandre, who hopes to in a way recreate her Master's act of kindness. While Flandre's situation is not nearly as desperate nor is she as miserable as Meiling was at the time, she goes along with it simply because she's glad to have the playmate, and it seems to make Meiling happy (for reasons she doesn't really understand).

>>16297303
>Patchouli, who really was studying witchcraft and magic, and was already a magician
Patchouli was born a magician.

I always thought sanae was jewish, nothing too interesting or elaborate

>>16300056
But she's a Shinto shrine maiden

>>16300068
Don't believe her lies she's a zionist cryptojew!

>>16300056
But SanaexHitler is a thing.

- Koakuma looks innocent but is actually a mean spirited prankster that likes to tear down those she sees as beneath her.

- She has an inferiority complex towards the main residents of the SDM whom she believes are innately more special than she is, but at the same time she finds joy in asserting her superiority over the fairy maids.

- She is capable of doing many things but is not good enough at anything to ever be praised for it.

- Despite her foul personality she has a deep love for her master Patchouli and lives to make her happy.

>>16300709
KKHTA pls

>>16300709
>Koakuma looks innocent but is actually a mean spirited prankster
I'm pretty sure this is canon.

>>16300056
drsunshine, is that you?

>>16301052

>Moves to Gensokyo
>Immediately tries to subvert the population, bring about consumerism from technology, and depose the rightful authority because she did not bow down to Moriya's demands.

Sanae confirmed Israeli agent.

None of the girls in Gensokyo are gay.
All of them will find a boyfriend sooner or later.

>>16301343
Youkai boyfriends?

>PC98 happened several years before EoSD and "Eastern Country" was Gensokyo, they're one in the same
>Imperishable Night's titular endless night was in fact local to Gensokyo, through a combination of uber-spells by the main girls and Yukari's non-Euclidean spacetime magicks. Hence why astronomers in the outside world weren't freaking out. Same with PCB's endless winter incident and EoSD's scarlet mist blocking out the sun.
>There are Youkai and similar mythical creatures outside Gensokyo and Japan, though in extemely small numbers. Gensokyo might not be the only fantastic nature preserve out there. My estimate is that there are 3 in the world: Gensokyo for East and Southeast Asia, another one for European myths and legends, and another one for Native Americans. Africa, who knows or cares.
>Reimu is nicer in person, we only ever see her resolving incidents.
>Most of the girls are gay or bi, per Yukari's preferences and manipulations.

>>16301483
>only see her resolving incidents
Read the manga, each one gives a very interesting view of her. It's certainly worth the time.

>>16300001
>Patchouli was born a magician.
how does that even work?

>>16302075

I would assume it means being born with an inherent capability with magic.

Like a normal human would have to go through a significant amount of training to properly tap into whatever source is required to wield magic in Touhou's setting, while naturally born Magicians can do it with relative ease.

>>16300975

I don't think there's any actual canon involving Koakuma, even her name is just something ZUN went with after everyone started calling her that if I remember right, and even then its only mentioned in interviews.

How does "Hell" even start to become "unused" and become "Old"? There's like old Hell, new Hell, Chinese Hell, Greek Hell...

>>16302075
Magician is a race as well. She was born of that race.

>>16302075
>how does that even work?
Well son when a daddy magician and a mommy magician love each other very very much they do this sacrilegious ritual called "holding hands" the dark energies from this ritual is gathered in the mommy magicians womb where these energies incubate for about 9 months to form a new magician that the mommy then gives birth to.

Hopefully this answers your question sonny.

>>16272435
>they're probably about 10~12 during that time.
They still are.

>>16302383
The Ministry pulled out and left to go to another one. Thus the Hell of burning fires became the Former Hell of Burning Fires thus Old Hell.

They're not creative when naming things.

>>16301483
yeah, this >>16301498
and she's not all that nice, but more like constantly irritated/sometimes cares more than you'd expect

>>16302368
ZUN gave Koa a short profile a long time ago that says she is a prankster but most people ignore it.

>>16302456
>>16302388
who the fuck are magicians even, smart asses? demons are demons, humans are humans, celestials/hermits are former monks, and who the fuck are magicians supposed to be? where do they come from? we know that alice is a former human lich and she the only other magician.
>>16302368
how was she born a magician then? she would be just a magically sensitive human.

>>16302724

Then you're gonna have to give me a link or something because checking the wiki at least comes up with nothing.

>>16303201

>how was she born a magician then? she would be just a magically sensitive human.

I would assume she had a set of Magician parents who one day decided to do the dew and out came Patchouli 9 months later.

But really it seems as though there isn't much difference between Magicians and humans, as it seems to just come down to specific classification based on ability.

>>16303201
>who the fuck are magicians supposed to be?
"youkai"

It's just magic and shit, I think. Patche's parents were magicians and made a baby.

The other way is to become a magician through spells/potions/etc.

>>16303201
>>16303626
to be clear, pic related

"Youkai" is like a catch-all term for magical/supernatural beings in Touhou, it seems, therefore magicians are youkai

but moon rabbits are NOT youkai

so I guess they're also a bit evil and are mortal?

I don't know

Give me your headcanon theories on why Marisa doesn't have a good relationship with her father

>>16303640
If practically feels canon, but basically Marisa's pops h8 magic. He doesn't hate youkai, because he's pals with Kourin, but he does hate magic. Why? Not sure at all, really.

Marisa fucking LOVES magic, though, so naturally they had huge disagreements over it until Marisa finally decided to leave absolutely.

>>16303640
marisa has daddy issues

>>16303640

At several points throughout Gensokyo's history, Hakurei mikos have had Kirisame partners, either as deputies, retainers, militia commanders, or even lovers. Most ended up killed or maimed in action, with a minority walking away on both legs.

Mr. Kirisame's younger sister was Reimu's mother's retainer and lover. When Reimu's mother was killed in action, her retainer chose to follow her lord into death, committing suicide.

Mr. Kirisame forbade Marisa from magical study in an effort to protect her from becoming yet another Kirisame killed in Hakurei service. However, Marisa rebelled, joined up with Mima as a mercenary, and then ultimately met Reimu.

A significant portion of resentment against Reimu comes from Marisa's father, who used to be a community leader in the village until Yukari sabotaged him by making his family troubles public knowledge so that he would not get the support to incite a popular uprising against Reimu.

Kourin chooses not to stick his nose in where it doesn't belong and mostly keeps out of the conflict despite his close ties to the Kirisame family. He also does this because he is aware of Yukari's actions and doesn't want to lose what little business he has.

All of this is complete bullshit, I'm aware. I just like making up conflicts

>>16249764
I will preface this by saying that I haven't gotten around to reading the manga yet, and I haven't played any of the games post-Subterranean Animism, so if any of these contradicts canon, I apologize.

>Yuyuko is a time-displaced Renko in the same way that Yukari is a time-displaced Maribel. When Yukari reaches the point where her younger self went back in time, she'll do the same to Renko. Renko gets adopted by the Saigyouji clan, dies, and hangs out with her best friend for the rest of eternity.

>Mokou and Kaguya don't actually hate each other, but say they do because it's easier than explaining to people that they kill each other for the lulz and to pass the time.

>Sakuya is actually Dio Brando's daughter from one of the many women he probably raped in Phantom Blood. She's actually over a hundred years old, and uses her timehax to stay young.

>Yukari is secretly grooming Reimu to eventually become a youkai

>Gensokyo is only a temporary measure to try and teach youkai to get along with people, and to teach the outside world how much it needs the supernatural. At some point, once both sides have learned how much they need each other, the Hakurei barrier will come down and humans and youkai will live side by side.

>>16249764
>The P and Score Icons aren't really there, but more of a visual metaphor for the area's ambient mana.
Sanae literally refers to them in UFO
Try again

>>16292713
Great post, made my day
Add that she can also send a little part of her to be present at different place without even leaving her mansion.

>>16293338
Should mention that Byakuren wasn't wearing anything on her head until she was released and Seija is a revel.
You are on to something anon

>>16303719
>Kourin chooses not to stick his nose in where it doesn't belong and mostly keeps out of the conflict despite his close ties to the Kirisame family. He also does this because he is aware of Yukari's actions and doesn't want to lose what little business he has.

>>16303729
>>Gensokyo is only a temporary measure to try and teach youkai to get along with people
This goes against, like, everything we've seen in Touhou. Gensokyo exists to allow youkai too weak to survive in the Outside World to be cunts to a limited and superstitious population of humans in order to maintain their existence.

Gensokyo literally exists to allow a bunch of weaksauce youkai to bother a bunch of humans. Nobody is teaching anybody to get along.

>>16304325
I don't think it's only weak youkai. Only famous youkai such as tanuki are even still relevant in the ever-advancing scientific spree of the outside world, so all others "pass into fantasy" and go to Gensokyo.

>>16303640
Coulda been a good girl, take over the shop when he dies. No just had to run off with that creepy ghost into the forest and start learning magic.

Remember this was before spell cards. So the guy's going gray terrified that Reimu or Keine's gonna deliver the news that Marisa's dead. She won't come home all he asks instead stays in that forest. Goes solving all sorts of incidents.

Why won't she come home?

It went from probably worrying himself half to death to kinda resentment.

>>16304467
If they can't maintain a presence, they're weak.

>>16304814
I guess? But I thought you were talking about power.

>>16305356
Mythological power.
If people forget about you, you're a shitty weak god or demon.

>>16303201
>nd who the fuck are magicians supposed to be?
Magicians. Think of them like reptilians

Rinnosuke is more capable than he lets on. Not the badass or ultra powerful youkai when the "limiter" on his neck is taken off, as is seen sometimes, but more than enough to handle himself.

However, he is as unyoukailike as it gets otherwise. He doesn't really have much of an instinct for fighting, in fact having a distaste for conflict owing to everything he's seen but especially because of his human side, giving him empathy other youkai lack. He's more hardy than a human, but serious effort and physicality takes a toll on him so he needs to watch his health and so prefers to take it easy.

It's because of this he developed his skill for negotiation and willingness to look the other way, not get involved, blend in, etc.

Before meeting the Kirisames he made a meager living as a traveling salesman, craftsman, blacksmith, etc. took odd jobs, rummaged for valuables, etc. In his much younger days he was a little rougher around the edges, though, taking on more dangerous jobs and challenges.

Forever in the background, he's managed to unwittingly see and involve himself in a lot and has previously met many citizens of Gensokyo, including Yukari, but either doesn't remember or they don't remember him. This includes previous generations of the Hakurei line, becoming acquainted with them and eventually making their tools.

>>16303640
Her mother died early. Her father and Rinnosuke were the only two remaining. After Rinnosuke left to open Kourindou, her father wanted her to live a safe, ordinary life in the village, and eventually take over the family shop. However, she was too enamored with magic and youkai and too carefree and and such to follow along, so she studied magic on her own. Years later, over her father's objections to her wishes, she left and settled near big brother Rinnosuke who watched over her and studied under Mima. Both father and daughter care for each other, but are each too stubborn to turn back and admit it or that they were wrong and reconcile.

>>16250379
I imagine her (or her jiangshi in place of her) as the woman in the shadows behind a lot of leaders after Shoutoku, involving herself in numerous historical moments, but especially wars, coups, revolutions, and such, all for the heck of it.

With each success or failure she just moves on to the next powerful person she finds to influence them.

>>16302368
>>16303256
It's under Koakuma's Official Profiles heading.

>Like Daiyousei, she is carefree and mischievous, often behaves thoughtlessly.

- https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/ZUN%27s_former_blog_%22Touhou_Shofu%22_6

The endgame boss of entire Touhou series is Izanami.

>>16297964
Daiyousei is a fairy type and could kick the Dragon God's ass

>>16305946
Would you call Yuuka weak, then?

The bakeneko Chen is installed on doesn't really mind being controlled. The shikigami grants her body power well beyond anything she could achieve on her own in such a short time, plus being a loyal tool means she has a powerful benefactor.

Whenever Ran comes to the human village to shop or perform some other duty, local children gather to look at the "fox lady" from afar. Despite their parents' warnings, they follow her around, and occasionally some of the braver kids approach her and even try to start conversations ("Where do you live, fox lady?", "You're very pretty. I want to be just like you when I grow up!", "Are you Tamamo no Mae? My mom told me that you take bad children away", etc). Ran finds them strange yet somewhat amusing and cute and does her best to answer them.

Yukari Yakumo, "Youkai that lurks in the boundary", is better known in the outside world as Yog-Sothoth, "Lurker at the Threshold".

Among more civilized youkai, eating human flesh is actually considered inappropriate behavior these days. Youkai who still do it are looked down upon as savages who can't control their urges, and most of them prefer to hide in the wilderness and barely have any meaningful interactions with known characters. Also, it's one of the reasons Remilia encourages Flandre to stay inside, preferably in the basement - if word gets out that she feasts on prepared human flesh instead of drinking reasonable amounts of blood, SDM's reputation will plummet.

the hags regularly hold meetings at Yukari's place

>>16292571
>Somewhere in hell is a badass male water-controlling oni who got punked by niang-niang
Must be hard to talk to your pals after you got beaten up by someone with sexual euphemism for a name.

Flan's crystal wings are magic-stabilizing/memory-suppressing crystals made by Patchy at the request of Remi, since Flan's overflowing magic energy was what was damaging her mind and body.
Remi had Flan's original bat wings taken out (read: ripped off) and had her stay in her room for the past 100+ years to prevent her from hurting others, or remembering the horrible thing that Remi did

Yukari is basically team mom for Youkai everywhere. If Youkai believed in Santa, they probably imagine they're like Yukari.

Picture this, you're an average Youkai who lives inna woods and basically, you wanna eat humans. But if you eat villagers, the Shrine Maiden will kick your ass.

So Yukari in all her gracious Youkai loving kindness, drops some punk ass kid no one would miss literally right in your lap to do what you wish with, eat or not, whatever.

And then after you're done, she disposes of the remains and pats you on the head for doing good and being what she considers a good Youkai (Spooking humans/eating them)

Basically she's Youkai God to the average, nameless Youkai. Sure Byakyuren is Youkai Jesus, but you don't see her going out and feeding the masses, she just has them come to her to 'pray' and 'live in harmony'

>>16306301

>It's under Koakuma's Official Profiles heading.

>>Like Daiyousei, she is carefree and mischievous, often behaves thoughtlessly.

>- https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/ZUN%27s_former_blog_%22Touhou_Shofu%22_6

Not that I don't believe you or even disagree with this description of her character (which is pretty much what I always figured anyway), you just linked a page of solid moonrunes.

>>16306972
They rape shotas there?

>>16307204
There's surprisingly still old untranslated stuff like this. Searching for her name brings up the relevant passage.

>２面中ボスは大妖精。４面中ボスは小悪魔です。
妖精は人間以下の存在ですが、その中でも力のある者が大妖精です。
その性格は他の妖精と変わらず、陽気でいたずら好き。単純で表情豊かです。
>悪魔は吸血鬼や魔法使いなどと同じ物で強大な種族ですが、その中でも力の弱い物なので
>小悪魔です。
>性格は２面ボスと似たところも多く、気まぐれでいたずら好き、後先考えずに行動します。

>２面中ボスは普段から湖に棲んでいて、４面中ボスも普段から紅魔館に住み着いて
>いたりします。
>こういった、雑魚クラス（ボスクラスではない）のキャラは、基本的に沢山います。
>何かの役割を持っているとかも無い、自由気ままなキャラ達ですね。


The summary is basically what her wiki page says. When running through Google...

>Boss in two sides is a fairy. Boss in 4 sides is small devil.
>Fairies are less than human beings, but among them those with power are great fairies.
>Its character is the same as other fairies, it is cheerful and fond of mischief. It is simple and expressive.
>The devil is a mighty tribe with the same things as vampires and wizards, but because it is a weak power among them
>It is a small devil.
>Character is similar to the two-sided boss in many places, likes mischief by capricism, acts without thinking afterwards.

>Bosses in two places usually live in the lake, and bosses in four places usually live in the Kurenaikan
>I will do it.
>Basically there are a lot of characters of these fishes classes (not boss classes).
>It is free-air characters that do not have a role of something.

>>16301483
>Gensokyo might not be the only fantastic nature preserve out there

After reading the hobgoblin chapter, I thought this as well. That'd actual be pretty cool.

>>16308315
>Gunnerkrigg Court/Nightside/Etc.

I want to see a GC/Touhou crossover

>>16301343
None of them will be with Rinnosuke.

>>16250332
I would love to be nice to Yukari-sama. I would bring her flowers and give her footrubs everyday, and tell her she is beautiful and special to me!

>>16249764
Yukari doesn't actually spend all her time sleeping. She's actually spending time in the outside world.

>>16303640
Marisa's father expects Marisa to get married, have kids, and continue the family line. Marisa, being the teenager she is, doesn't want to settle down yet and wants to just have some fun. The disagreement lead to Marisa leaving home.

>>16271852
for no reasons, and the "jail" was more a cage that anything

>>16316562
I thought it was something more creative. Such as using magic might get her family into trouble and remain incognito. Or made a deal with Mima and Mima is among the most infamous beings in the village. But a cliche explanation is fine too.

>Cirno would be a fucking monster if she were to train diligently and learn some strategy. But being childish (kind of an idiot) and believing herself to be the strongest prevents her to work hard

>Rinnosuke is as much of a mastermind as Yukari, manipulating from afar.

>>16249764
My headcanon is that this is all just the autistic daydreams of that St. Elsewhere kid.

>>16319229
More seriously, Remilla and Flandre are sparkle-vampires, but they're so embarressed that they avoid sunlight even if it won't hurt them.

>Keine helped make Clownpiece the strongest fairy to spite Cirno after Cirno made fun of her hat
>Kaguya plays fighting games with the Watasukis
>The god of the Hakurei shrine is the original Hakurei. Yukari works very hard to keep her from returning.
>Moon rabbits have begun to adopt American culture as a means of rebelling against their Lunarian ruling class
>Nitori makes all of her money manufacturing and selling Marisa-brand merchandise

While there's very little in canon to support this, I prefer to believe that the Lunar War was a regular war involving both the US and Soviet Union temporarily allying to fight the Lunarians, mostly because space war is cool.

The war started in 1969 following the Eagle Lander Skirmish, which ended with zero US losses and three Lunarian KIA when Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin broke a Lunarian soldier's neck on the Eagle's landing gear, and Commander Neil Armstrong seized a Lunarian rifle and returned fire, killing two Lunar Rabbit soldiers. The footage showed to the world was emergency false footage prepared by the CIA in the event of alien life being discovered.

The Lunarians established contact with President Richard Nixon and issued a declaration of war in response to the invasion of Lunarian soil. The existence of hostile extraterrestrials confirmed, Nixon authorised the creation of the United States Extraterrestrial Command - USXCOM. By the end of July, the USXCOM had launched an offensive onto the Sea of Tranquillity and were holding steady.

The war reached stalemate as the Lunarians had a home and technological advantage. This changed when the Soviet Union offered to assist the US in the war in 1970, as the Soviet leadership felt that the Lunarians were a global threat that threatened the Soviet Union as much as it threatened the US, and that the US was the lesser of two evils.

By 1972, however, the war had become too expensive to continue, both economically and in terms of human casualties that had no reasonable explanation. Therefore, on June 6th, 1972, the US and Soviet Union made the decision to jointly launch nuclear weapons at military and civilian targets on the Lunar surface, as the Lunarians at the time did not have a second strike capacity. The Lunarians realised something was wrong when human forces began rapidly retreating, and raised magical shields over major cities. However, the nuclear detonations managed to shatter most shields, as while the Lunarians believed the shields would protect them, humanity collectively believed that nuclear weapons were world-ending superweapons - Humans believed in the destructive power of nuclear weapons far more than the Lunarians believed that their shields could protect from them - The Cold War had ironically saved Earth. Over 70% of Lunarian civilisation was destroyed in the nuclear strikes and the Lunatic Kingdom surrendered three hours later.

That is why the Lunar Capital is the only Lunarian settlement seen in canon, as it was the only city not destroyed in the Lunar War.

>>16318243
I realize this is a headcanon thread but Cirno's motivation and power level has actually been discussed before in PoFV.

Eiki has told her that she really is very strong for a fairy, and has already pushed herself to the upper limits of the power a fairy can have. If she goes further, she will become a low-level youkai. However, she would lose her immortality and her fairy-born powers of nature. Knowing that seems to rattle Cirno.

She definitely believes herself to already be the strongest so your idea seems pretty plausible, but it's not just that, she likely doesn't want to actually have to face mortality by pushing herself too far. Fairies are already weaker, pushing herself into low youkai territory and getting herself killed is probably not the wisest thing to do.

>>16319615
Not being a constantly respawning fairy might be bad, but she wouldn't be killed just because she became a regular youkai. She would still be protected by spell card rules and so it would be very unlikely she would die.

>>16319642
Well it didn't help that the Yama was telling her she was going to die and then be judged.

ZUN is an actual character, the head priest of the Hakurei Shrine, and helps tend to the shrine. He appears Snicket-style and talks to Reimu when she's alone in the Shrine, about training or incident stuff. Reimu doesn't see him as a ghost or a divine god, just a regular human, and talks to him normally. He never had that much of a big or influential presence that Reimu had to bring him up or ask about his whereabouts whenever there are other people at the shrine.