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I plan to write a fanfic centering around Yuyuko and Youmu, and featuring other characters from PCB. However, I don't know much about these characters. What official translated books, manga or other material can I read to get a good idea about these characters? Some fan works will be nice, but I'm mostly interesting in the real deal.

>> No.6587411

>expecting personality in official works

>> No.6587417

>>6587411
Who are you quoting?

>> No.6587419

The characters alredy have a personality shaped that can be seen on the game. You can, as an alternative, read as much doujin as you can find, it'll give you a base of what the characters look like for the fanbase.

>> No.6587452

>>6587419
Thanks.

>> No.6587460

Why would you make fanfiction about characters you don't know about?

>> No.6587587

>>6587460
Curious, indeed.

>> No.6587647

>I plan to write a fanfic centering around Yuyuko and Youmu, and featuring other characters from PCB.
>However, I don't know much about these characters.

Thanks for the laugh.

Don't worry about that, though. No fanfic I've ever read suggested their writers worried about characterization, canonical or otherwise. And it's Touhou, characters can literally be whatever you want them to be.

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>> No.6587669

>writing about characters without even being familiar with them

You are part of the reason western doujin works are so awful (read: fanfiction). Get out.

>> No.6587668

>>6587460
probably a secondary trying not to make primaries mad

>> No.6587678

>>6587669
Er, no, he's asking what would be good to find out from. And isn't writing anything until then.

>> No.6587683

>>6587669
He's trying to get familiar with them, nigger.

>> No.6587691

>>6587405
Besides the game dialogues and character profiles, you can't go wrong with reading their entries on BAiJR and PMiSS. Youmu has a nice appearance on CoLA as well.

...this reminds me there is a Yuyuko trait that, for some reason, almost no doujin art/fics notice: the fact that she covers her mouth with her sleeve most of the time.

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6587696

>Fanfiction

>> No.6587705

>>6587691
Not to mention SSiB and OSP.

OP, you know what? Just read all official Touhou printed works, period. (Most of them are translated and to be found on Touhou Wiki.) You'll do yourself, us, and your future readers a favor.

>> No.6587706

>>6587691
It's a pose that fits her role as a high mistress, but she doesn't do it so often. Not in PCB, and maybe once or twice in IN. I can't remember her poses in the ending scenes, though.

>> No.6587716

Also OP: Don't feel restrained by the official works. That's exactly why we have derivatives in the first place. /jp/ will never admit it but they thrive on Touhou fanworks, which are basically the same thing.

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You could, perhaps, play the games? Imperishable Night would be good.

>> No.6589015

QUALITY THREAD

I suggesting killing yourself.

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