#although what if monkey paw hears me and touhou pulls a boruto or something (i've never seen boruto but Imagine what that'd be like)

[freshlybakedspiderbread]

augh. (< sound I make when random touhou thoughts flood my head)

I kinda get why touhou ‘canon’ might not ever acknowledge the passage of real time for its established characters. reimu and marisa and so on aren’t just team shanghai alice’s characters, but they belong to all of doujinshi culture. so they and everyone else or even the setting itself won’t or can’t go through any dramatic change of status quo because not everyone might accept those changes.

But I can still wish it wasn’t like that! And I still hold out hope zun will just change his mind on a whim one day regarding that ‘sazae-san’ comment!!

though truth be told this is really only really relevant to me when it comes to two specific characters.

The first is Sumireko, who I would love to get even a hint that she’s carrying her chunni dreams after being done with high-school. You can even excuse her still wearing the same outfit and still calling herself a high-schooler around the rest of the cast because she thinks explaining why she’s not one anymore would be too much trouble.

The other is Akyuu which I uh, have much more complicated feelings over. For the record, I don’t want or think zun should be like ‘and now shes dead’ or anything like that. 😨 But i dunno, her whole thing about having a reduced lifespan feels too thematically important to the character to just ignore with ‘oh medince in todays age is a lot better. But but, like i said above about established characters not going through any *dramatic* changes, its not like canon could ever give some kind of reason for her fate changing. But but but, if she just shows up again in like five years and nothing about her fate is commented on, that would really make all the fans double down on the idea that the passage of time is truly meaningless, so...

...Maybe the best case scenario really is for Akyuu to just never show up again and we just all make up our own ideas of what she’s up to 😅❓ Maybe that why Kosuzu and Kasen have both just disappeared... Their stories in canon are capital o, Over, and so its up to fans to decide what to do with em... Miyoi needs to hurry up and do more stuff before she’s gone too!!

Side note that’s barely related: Reisen needs to be playable in the next game wearing another new cute pink/white outfit and her every other line needs to be about how she loves embracing being an Earthling so that more people at large can remember her character development and also stop drawing her in that blazer!

Side note that’s not related: Aya needs to be playable in the next game and talk more about being weary of her life as a middle-aged corporate woman and I think she should wear maple-leaf themed socks.