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15349467 No.15349467 [Reply] [Original]

Why do Yukari's gaps have eyes in them, anyway? And what do they even do?

>> No.15349567

watch

>> No.15349572

That's the real Yukari
The cute girl is just her avatar/reproductive organs

>> No.15349588
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>>15349572
This is false.

>> No.15349760

>>15349467
Stare into the abyss and it stares back

>> No.15349847

>>15349760
This is the best answer, even if I don't know whether it's true or not.

>> No.15350141

>>15349467
Her original artwork also has hands sticking out of it. I guess that's where dead /jp/sies end up.

>> No.15350223

>>15349467
To know the answer to this is to know what a 'Gap' is.

It is unfathomable. Yukari is to Touhou what Giyhas is to Earthbound. You cannot comprehend.

Also; you think eyes is all that's in there? Look at her PCB artwork. There's HANDS as well.

>> No.15350277

>>15350223
This magical shit is part of why I've always had so much trouble getting into fiction, and why 2hu lore has always made me cringe. As much as I love 2hu.

>why does XYZ work that way?
>because magic
>why does magic work that way?
>cuz we're we can't comprehend it

Every time.

>> No.15350310

>>15350277
To add to that:

>why can't we comprehend it?
>cuz humans just can't fathom it; it is beyond them
>and cuz mankind is arrogant and wants to know everything and conquer everything

>> No.15350651

>>15350277
>>15350310
If magic was explainable it wouldn't be magic in the first place. Also there's some info there and there in the written works, specially when Lunarians or Renko and Mary are involved.

>> No.15350718

>>15350651
Hmm, this reminds me though. Star Wars explained what The Force was, and that was infinitely more cringe than just never explaining how it worked.

I must stop being a biggot and just accept 2hu's brand of magic.

>> No.15350934

I thought the eyes represented desire for those who want to see what they can't attain.

>>15350718
>>15350277
You sound like a teenager or just an idiot.

>> No.15351015

>>15350934
Is "teenager" this board's go-to insult or something? The problem I have with it is that it's neither insulting nor funny. Can we come up with a word that has more kick to it?

>> No.15351035

>>15351015
No, it's straight to the point.

>> No.15351104

>>15350141
Oh, no. I'd be a terrible gap-ghoul.

The gap would open and I'd insistently make exaggerated spooky noises, "Ooohh! Gaaaap!" etc. Yukari would have to lay me off.

>> No.15351332
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It might be hard to find a culture that hasn't used eyes as symbolic of the unknown and imperceptible.
You've got like 3 billion people in Asia that seek to awaken their "third eye" and here in the US we have it on our currency.

More importantly, though, is that it looks cool and every Japanese fiction has to have them in it.

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>>15349760
That's a pretty cool way of looking at it.

>> No.15351656

>>15351104
Sounds like Kogasa.

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>>15351656

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>>15351656
Smells like Team Spirit.

>> No.15352011

They're for scaring the innocent children she gaps.

>> No.15352673

>>15350277
You do realize there are things that with our current methods that we won't ever understand, right?

>> No.15352765

>>15349467
>Why do Yukari's gaps have eyes in them, anyway? And what do they even do?

Answer: No one knows and fills in the gaps with headcannon, memes, and lies.

>> No.15353202

>>15349572
This is my fetish

>> No.15353572

>>15350277
>magic is *so* stupid, i can't like this piece of fiction because its physics makes no sense

>> No.15354532

>>15351332
So the currency of the US is imperceptible?

>> No.15354543

>>15349760
I am ZUN and this is canon.

>> No.15354727

>>15354532
Yes, and that's why Ron Paul was going to fix it.
RON PAUL 2012, /jp/!

>> No.15354806

>>15349572
Or bait. You know, like those monsters who live in deep sea

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A vampire

>> No.15364726

>>15355357
The lives she has left

>> No.15365819

>>15354806
this

>> No.15369537

>>15355357
I just tried doing that pose with my hands in real-life.

I felt as stupid as it looks.

>> No.15369548

>>15369537
It works better if you have some fingerless gloves and sunglasses on, trust me, I know these things

>> No.15369566

>>15369548
I already have fingerless gloves, though I only use them when I'm on my bike, or lifting at the gym. I've also test-driven wearing them on cold days a few times as well, so I think I have it in me to wear them everywhere if it really needed to come down to that.

What do you guys think of me getting a katana for self-defense?

>> No.15369582

>>15369566
>What do you guys think of me getting a katana for self-defense?
Get two, dual wielding or gtfo

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>>15369582
Good advice, Anon.

Though I'll need a good guide to mast their usage. Do you have any recommendations?

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>>15369616
Of course, only the finest

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>>15355357
Vampires are moe. Is Yukari considered moe now?

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>>15369999
YUKARI WAS ALWAYS MOE

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>>15370546
lewdkari>>moekari

>> No.15380657

>>15350223
Allow me to interject. Gaps are perfectly comprehendible, and, infact, if Touhou were real, you too would be capable of using a crude form of 'boundary manipulation'. The Gap, or the 'universe' Yukari Yakumo personally uses, is accessed via gaps, but is not one itself.

According to the Secret Sealing Club booklets which come with Zun's music CDs, string theory is correct, and seperate brane universes exist with it. Gensoukyou is a small brane-world created by Yukari Yakumo to act as a world for Youkai, linked to the Outside World brane-world mainly via an area in the Yatsugatake mountain known as the Hakurei Shrine.

However, there are also other links to other brane-worlds in Touhou, of which shrines are usually built over, which also allow travel between brane-worlds. Maribel Hearn, a skilled manipulator of branes, had seen a 'boundary' manipulating Youkai cat at one of these shrines.

Also, for some reason, ZUN attempted to throw people off, by implying that he fell for the common misunderstanding of Schrodinger's Cat. Upon closer reading, however, it is clearly written the bakeneko is "not a normal cat but a phantom cat, one that lurked in the gaps between quantum particles."

Related to this, Maribel Hearn also crossed between brane-worlds many times while sleeping (opening a gap, in a way), and is now said to be able to do it at will. Though she often shows up as a ghost-like being.

Sumireko Usami and Renko Usami were also able to do this, despite not being able to see 'boundaries' like Maribel Hearn. Though Renko required assistance from Maribel to be able to do it, and both Renko Usami and Sumireko Usami were only visible as ghost-like beings. Renko Usami was also visible to Maribel Hearn while as a 'ghost', despite Maribel Hearn being in the location in full physical form.

Also, Youkai are described as beings dominated by different particles from the one common here (photons), implying that they get their magical stuff from that. But that's not important.

To sum it up, a gap is a direct entrance to another brane-world. There are other methods of doing it, but they do not give you precise control that Yukari Yakumo's gap method has. The Gap, the eyes and hands in it still unexplained, and still incomprehendible, is a brane used by Yukari Yakumo to jump to other areas in the Gensoukyou and Outside World branes. Interestingly, she'd also be able to open a direct gap to the Outside World and Gensoukyou if this were true, as they are seperate branes.

Please call me out on anything I have written that is false, and I will correct it. Also this is a dumb post.

Sources: ZUN's music CDs and https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/, as the Touhou wiki translations are crap.

>> No.15380705

>>15380657
You're really picking your brane for this one.

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>>15372799
Skari

>> No.15389555

>>15380657
What the hell did I just read, Anon?

>> No.15389728

>>15355357
This. The arms coming out are from the humans she ate

>> No.15391749

>>15380657
Bravo

>> No.15391757

they watch me masturbating to touhou prolapse doujins

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