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takerfoxx · 4 years ago

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Notes on Restless

A day overdue, but here it is! My thoughts on writing Restless.

Restless is, in many ways, the most important arc in the story, not because it is the most plot or character significant (though it definitely is very important to both), but because it was one of the first, if not the first story arc I planned out, and have been cooking up in the back of my mind and working toward ever since this story started. And, as indicated by the title, it is one big reference to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Restless, which is my favorite episode and also featured all of the main characters trapped in their little dream worlds.

What can I say; I like dream sequences!

In fact, and I know I have mentioned this a few times already, but it bears repeating the first chapter of this arc was literally the very first scene I thought up for this story, back when I was still in post-episode 9 depression and wanted nothing more for Kyoko and Oktavia to reunite somewhere and be happy together (well, the story definitely gives us the former, but, um, not really the latter, because I am still a sadist). If memory serves, my original vision had the two of them and Mami relaxing in a fantasy-world hot spring that had a bunch of big crystals everywhere (because I like crystals), only for them to be interrupted by the sound of something moving nearby, and, upon inspection, they would find the doll version of Charlotte watching them.

Obviously that scenario’s gone through a lot of fine-tuning, especially when it comes to Charlotte. And the crystals got moved to the end of the story after the hot spring had been removed, but hey, they still made the final cut. Regardless, I did settle on a finalized version some years ago, and the final cut came out more-or-less exactly as I envisioned, down to Mami and Charlotte going off alone for some, ah, quality time.

The only new addition was Jerky’s little scene and the Sayaka/Oktavia flirting sequence, and, well, that happened. I honestly don’t know if I’m even allowed to say much about it without getting into trouble with someone, even though I wrote it, but let’s just say the time has come to finally kick things into high gear on that end.

Okay, so onto the dreams!

Kyoko’s dream was of course the one I came up with first, and yet ended up being the shortest. I guess it’s because while she’s white-hot mess of issues, she’s at least a straightforward white-hot mess of issues, and honestly, it came out more-or-less how I initially planned years ago, with very little addition.

Now, Mephisto gave us a pretty clear breakdown of what the individual girls’ dreams meant thematically when she started torturing them directly, but it bears repeating that Kyoko’s dream was mainly dealing with her poor reaction to loss (the concept, not the meme), specifically the loss of Sayaka to Oktavia, and her stubborn and yet misguided quest to bring Sayaka back at any cost.

We start with a perfect repeat of her dream from waaaaaaaay back from chapter five, when she was first waking up from being drugged. I was originally just going to begin with the continuation, but it had been so long since that chapter that I just copied and pasted the original dream so we can have it in its entirety, which included the all-important image of Sayaka dissolving into silver fishes.

From there it’s mainly Kyoko’s singleminded quest to find Sayaka at any cost. And from there, we see her think that she’s found her time after time, only to be disappointed, from thinking that Madoka was Sayaka (and it’s a shame that they never interacted more beyond that single episode, as they had a good dynamic), to nearly catching the silver-fish Sayaka only to have her torn away, to finally finding the fake fish-faced conductor Sayaka, further establishing her inability to accept Oktavia as not being Sayaka. The hole that her father left in her heart and how deeply she misses him even with what he did does come up, but she abandons catching him once Kyubey makes it clear that doing so is impossible, as well as showing that while she still loves her father, part of her still does not forgive him and she truly believes that he went to Hell.

Also, was that the first time I’ve had Kyubey show up and have original dialogue? Because it might be!

Mephisto’s first appearance has her occupying the same role that she would in everyone’s dreams, that of a surly gatekeeper. She’s a bouncer in Kyoko’s dream, a ticket-taker/ride operator in Sayaka’s, a hostess in Mami’s, and a receptionist in Charlotte’s. And in each one, she lets the dreamer pass while making it clear that doing so is probably a bad idea. Her design was a lot of fun, though there truly is no significance to her rainbow dreadlocks, punk-rock aesthetic, or denim outfit, other than I liked the way they looked. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Annabelle Lee and the dockengauts have very short appearances in the nightclub, as despite all the pain they’ve put Kyoko through, she is still so singleminded in her pursuit that she considers them nothing more than obstacles to be overcome, which Annabelle Lee would probably be annoyed to hear.

As for Mami’s weird striptease, well, Kyoko is just now having to grapple with her own budding sexuality, and it stands to reason that Mami would have been an early crush for her. The “ending” though shows that while she’s more-or-less okay with Charlotte, she is still very aware of how Mami died.

Like Annabelle Lee, Elsa Maria would have the same role in everyone’s dream, the same role she had in Annabelle Lee’s feverish dream during the Help arc, that of the person who points the way to what the dreamer is seeking while still advising against it, which is always ignored. Though don’t read too much into her working with Mephisto in the end, as it’s not the real Elsa Maria and Mephisto is still the one in control.

And what better place for Kyoko, now Ophelia, to start her quest to find Sayaka for real than the same train station that she originally lost Sayaka in?

Anyway, while this chapter came out basically as originally envisioned, there are a couple things that I wish I had included, firstly a scene where Kyoko loses her necklace while being swept along by the current for Sayaka to find it later, and to have the sound of the crying child from the beginning to continue throughout the whole chapter, showing that she still hadn’t forgotten her quest to find her sister, as impossible as it might seem now.

Sayaka’s dream had largely to do with her and Oktavia’s issues with personal identity, and the dichotomy that Oktavia feels at all times, but translated through Sayaka’s eyes. In fact, bits and pieces of both their personalities are present through the circus (and given that Rumia’s dream took place in a circus in Imperfect Metamorphosis, it does just seem to be a recurring theme with me). The whole knight in shining armor for Sayaka is obvious, as is her sense of righteous justice as what Lily did. But her dynamics with the various characters that she comes across, her memories in general, her growing attraction to Kyoko, and her annoyance at being addressed incorrectly is all Oktavia.

It’s the two Kyoko encounters I want the highlight. The first at the shooting gallery shows that while Oktavia does love Kyoko, she is getting quite fed up with the constant nicknames in place of her actual name, while the second in the dunking tank shows her growing concern that Kyoko’s dogheaded persistence is only going to keep getting her hurt until there’s nothing left, as well as show her growing sexual attraction to Kyoko as she is progressively more stripped.

Mami and Charlotte’s brief appearance was in part to get them on the dream, and so show that that while Oktavia cares for them deeply, she’s not nearly as worried about them as she is Kyoko, hence why they’re here so briefly. Also, them pushing Ticky Nikki around in a stroller, aside from being Nikki’s only appearance this whole arc, was also a tip of the hat to the original Restless episode from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Giles’s dream had him and his girlfriend pushing a stroller around through a carnival in the middle of a graveyard.

The Freakshow was a mixture of the traumatic monsters both Sayaka and Oktavia had to encounter, from the various witch familiars and to Gertrud, the first witch Sayaka ever saw, to the witch form of Charlotte, who traumatized Sayaka deeply, to Brooklyn, who briefly showed up earlier and was sort of Oktavia’s nemesis in The Heist and targeted her specifically, which left a mark.

And that whole business with Annabelle Lee “pouring” Kyoko into the tank was to lean more into dream logic, where deeply personal fears tend to be translated through nonsensical imagery. I’ve had plenty of dreams where I’d “lose” a close friend or family member because they got turned into a jar of dried corn or something and I’d just be so devastated and obsessed with turning said corn back into my loved one, and it’d be very serious and emotional, and it wouldn’t be until I had woken up that I’d realize, “Dude, dried corn?” Plus, her guilt about stabbing Annabelle Lee was a reference to Sayaka’s own increasing guilt when she realized that she wasn’t the shining hero she had wanted to be.

The clown dance is pretty self-explanatory, in that Sayaka spent so much time killing witches and treating them like monsters only to become a witch herself. Plus, given how quick her downfall was, it serves to reason that she would think of herself as a clown. Plus, I just like Lily as a character, and wanted any excuse to use her as much as possible.

The whole bit with the train station acting as the loading gate for the roller-coaster is also fairly obvious. That’s where Sayaka became Oktavia, hence the cart turning into the wheelchair, or the coaster track leading into Oktavia’s barrier. I’m honestly not too thrilled about the coaster going through Genocide City, because while having it make an appearance makes sense, since it’s literally Oktavia’s first memory, but if I recall, I had the hardest time settling on a location for the rollercoaster to ride through before heading into the castle. I tried Freehaven, the outside of the high school, and returning to the circus itself before just settling with Genocide City, which honestly was chosen mainly because the deadline was coming up and I had to go with something. I guess it works though.

There really isn’t much to say about the reversed Kyoko/Oktavia fight, as it’s literally just a perspective flip of their final battle. Incredibly important and significant as it embodies the entirety of Sayaka’s aspect as the “Monster” of her dream and hammered in her connection to Kyoko? Absolutely. Has much that I can explain that isn’t literally sitting right on the surface? Nope.

We do get Mephisto basically spelling out Sayaka’s contradictory identity in her final days though, in which she was the valiant knight she always wanted to be, she was the damsel in distress that Madoka and Kyoko tried and failed to rescue, and she was the monster holding that damsel captive. No doubt that part was inspired by the meme of the Dragonborn princess paladin who was hired to rescue herself from herself.

From there, the “Monster” is slain, and the cute mermaid Oktavia von Seckendorff is born, the only time during her own dream that she makes a full appearance. She then is treated to a montage of Sayaka’s memories, but of course, they mean nothing to her.

However, I would like to point out what amounted to the payoff of a joke I had set up literally years ago. Readers of all my stuff might remember that way back in Rhapsody of Subconscious Desire, another story that took place in a dream world, Kaguya Houraisan was split into two identical copies of herself, called Head and Body, who encountered Oktavia swimming around in a large aquarium, who in turn shot them a rude gesture and swam off. Here, we finally see the inverse of that scene, which is why a couple of previously unseen twin girls showed up with no explanation.

Next is where the dreams start to converge. Oktavia finds Kyoko’s necklace (which, again, I wish I had included in Kyoko’s dream. Maybe in time I’ll go back and edit it in) and meets the silver fish’s from Kyoko’s dream, absorbing them and turning fully into the princess and, as a result, Sayaka Miki finally returns in full.

Funny thing about that.

At this point, I didn’t know how much the whole Sayaka thing would play out, and originally she would just be Oktavia in a dress. But after having Sayaka’s memories intrude again and again, I thought, “Huh, wouldn’t it be fun if she just became Sayaka again for a short time? Have a weird inverse of the Oktavia situation?” and went ahead and did it.

This choice led to…major consequences.

Mami’s dream is next, and despite being the one that I literally had planned out the least ahead of time, ended up being the most fun to write. Naturally, her dream dreams with her immense guilt over having been Kyubey’s poster girl for so long, helping him ensnare several innocent girls into his scheme as well as kill them off herself when they became witches. Also, it served as a little nod to Candeloro’s job as a baker in WN. Anyway, the whole thing was heavily influenced by Sweeney Todd, in that victims are misled into doing something they think is innocent, only for them to be gruesomely murdered and sent off to be turned into food.

The world of candles is just something I thought would be neat imagery, so infer from it what you wish. However, it is interesting to note that Mami is the only one to have a dream that features Annabelle Lee as the persistent antagonist that she is, showing up over and over to antagonize her. There wasn’t an intended reason for this, but come to think of it, with Kyoko focused on her endgame, Oktavia just wanting her friends to be safe, and Charlotte obsessed with what was lost, Mami would be the one most living in the nowness of their situation, convinced that she is finally in Hell for her sins.

In the restaurant, Mami is indirectly guilt-tripped by Shizuku for essentially abandoning all of her responsibilities to help Kyoko, and is then given a choice: abandon her quest and stay with her loved ones, or continue on with her “duty” despite all warning signs, thereby sealing her own destruction. Charlotte even goes so far as to beg her directly to not go on, but Mami refuses, saying over and over again that she is, “On the clock,” signifying how being a magical girl essentially took over her entire life after her parents’ death, and how full she threw herself into it to shield herself from her own loneliness.

And from then on, her fate is sealed.

While descending the long staircase, the father of Mami’s occasionally mentioned former crush Ryu Hagane shows up to chastise her for throwing her life way in making her contract, and then Mami’s actual love Charlotte shows up on the big TV to remind Mami of what she was now throwing away, and curiously, when she brings out the doll version of herself, it’s not to remind her of how Charlotte kill Mami (though the worms coming out of the doll’s mouth shows that Mami still hasn’t forgotten), but to remind her of how Mami had tried to kill Charlotte upon their first meeting, as her own guilt is more powerful than even the trauma from having her own head bitten off. Annabelle Lee emerges again, and in the process, the staircase is destroyed. Mami’s choice was made. There is going back.

Sure enough, when she enters the classroom, the marionette corpse of Kazuko Saotome (a reference to how she was killed and eaten in the Oriko timeline, in addition to just being very creepy) spells out to Mami’s face what an idiot she was for trusting Kyubey, how many lives she had ruined by doing so, finishing with Homura showing up to basically say, “I told you so.”

Annabelle Lee attacks again, and Mami is sent into a montage of battles she has fought since their disastrous adventure begun, but with each of her assailants being replaced at the last second by one of her friends, showing that even after forgiveness, she still feels like she’s their murderer, as well as driving home the point that in all of her battles to defend herself over the course of this story, she was still just fighting and hurting other magical girls, and regardless of which side they were on, they were all still victims of the same scam.

Annabelle Lee is finally defeated and put down, but there is no victory, only horror at what Mami had done. She flees, but finally finds herself in the Hell she always felt that she deserved, pursued by the zombified corpses of all the monsters that had defeated her, from Lily, who had stolen her mind and made her commit atrocities, to the wild girls, whom she had slaughtered, to the Worm, whom had killed her in her arrogance.

She escapes, but that just leads her back to the bakery, signifying that no matter what, the second she had made that contract she had been doomed. It didn’t matter if she was leaping through the sky in an extravagant outfit, effortlessly defeating monsters with her magic, or if she was sinking into her own despair with a darkening soul gem, it was all the same. She was just food for the Incubators, to be chewed up and discarded, thrown into the mouth of the Worm and run down by the same vehicle that had killed her parents.

She then wakes up in the hospital, reliving a twisted version of when she had been recovered from the car wreck that had taken her parents, taking her back to her first sin that still haunted her: only saving her own life with her wish and letting her parents die. And thus, she is turned into the same monster she had spent the last few years fighting: the witch, Candeloro.

The whole bit in the hospital was a twisted version of what it must have been like for the original Mami to wake up in the hospital and learn that her parents had died. No doubt Mephisto’s dream doctors would have continued to further twist the knife had Ophelia and Sayaka not violently intervened (which gives us a rare case of blood instead of mist). And Candeloro is brought into the party, and with a Cyberpunk reference no less!

Charlotte’s dream comes last, and in my opinion, is the most multi-layered. The bulk is focused on how bitter she is at having her perfect life with her wife stolen away and how many people she resents for it, her own feelings of helplessness at being unable to prevent it, and also it addresses her own guilt at having killed Mami to begin with and how much she fears the return of the Worm that did it, but also she seems to be the only person that has some subconscious awareness of how Homura is timelooping them over and over again, forcing them to relive the same torturous sequence of events (probably has something to do with Homura being the one who killed her after she ate Mami).

In the first loop, Mami is taken by Annabelle Lee, and Charlotte is totally helpless to stop her. This is pretty obvious: Annabelle Lee has been a thorn in her side since day one. It was because of her that they were ambushed in Cloudbreak and forced into their horrible adventure. And more directly, it was because of Annabelle Lee that they fell into the Etherdale to begin with, leading to them all being enslaved by Lily and Charlotte and Mami being forced to commit atrocities.

Also, it’s hinted that the city that Charlotte is forced to march through is the same one Kyoko had been following her father through in her dream, indicating that their minds are already crossing over.

The second is a little more complicated. Yes, Charlotte and Kyoko are on better terms. Yes, they’re getting along. Yes, Kyoko apologized and they bonded. But if it weren’t for Kyoko, then none of this would have ever happened. If it weren’t for Kyoko, Charlotte wouldn’t have lost her home, wouldn’t have been targeted by Reibey, and wouldn’t have to suffer being pursued by dockengauts and valks, two creatures that she has an acute phobia of. So there is still some hard feelings there.

The third is when Charlotte is forced to confront something about herself, that no matter how many people she blames, her own actions still played a part as well. Now she is the one riding the Worm. She is the one who cost Mami her life. And in the hospital, it was her misguided wish that cost her her mother, whether she knows it or not, as well as why she became a witch in the first place.

Couple notes about the hospital: first, the cheese slices do signify how Charlotte threw her wish away for something as stupid as cheesecake, but are also another reference to the original Restless, in which a man carrying cheese slices shows up in each of the characters dreams, just to be weird.

Also, Charlotte’s magical girl outfit was in part inspired by a 4koma MamiLotte doujin from before The Rebellion Story, in which Charlotte becomes human again and crushes on Mami big time. And her outfit consists of a double-breasted coat and skirt. Also there were parts taken from the character notes from Walpurgisnacht, in which one of her familiars is an early draft of Human!Charlotte, before Nagisa had been designed, and she’s depicted holding a staff topped with the wrapped candy charm.

The final loop is where Charlotte fully becomes Nozomi (a name I think I just took from another fanfic that gave her that name) and finally defeats the Worm, this time ridden by Homura Akemi. After all, Homura Akemi is the one resetting things over and over again, forcing Charlotte to relive the same terrible events over and over. And as for that rooftop meeting…well, explaining that would be telling, so infer what you will.

The next chapter is mainly spent playing catch-up, gathering all the characters together and pushing toward the final battle with Mephisto. Here, things get less symbolic and more character based, so there’s a lot less to explain. Ophelia’s path of destruction through Sayaka’s carnival and Mami’s school are basically in line with lucid dreaming, in that once you know that you’re in a dream, everything just feels so much less solid, leading Ophelia to take down the ravaged versions of Brooklyn and Annabelle Lee with ease. Also, that scene with her talking to the dying Lily was an American Gods reference, which featured a similar scene.

So let’s talk about the big thing with this chapter. Let’s talk about Sayaka.

Originally the plan was to go straight from Charlotte’s dream to the fight with Mephisto, but then I realized what a bad idea that is. I mean, Sayaka was back! It’s something that’s been hinted and talked about all through the story’s run, but now it’s actually a thing. The original Sayaka Miki, the one that fell into despair and became a witch, is now back, and without having merged with Oktavia and gaining her memories. She’s thrown literally into the middle of things, during the gang’s weirdest adventure yet. And, it should be noted, her most recent memory is literally sitting with Kyoko in the train station, right before she became Oktavia. That is one hell of a bad day.

Obviously she reacts poorly, and who can blame her? And give her credit, she pulled herself together pretty quickly. However, she did pick up very quickly on Kyoko’s feelings for her. And why shouldn’t we just start saying it? It’s obvious to everyone! But obviously, as short as it was, Sayaka’s brief return will have major consequences that will play out over time.

Anyway, obviously everyone else has their own identity crisis. Mami turns fully into Candeloro, which provides a measure of relief from her own shame, while Kyoko as Ophelia is the rare witch that remembers everything while still sticking fully to her witch identity.

As for Charlotte, her case as Charzomi is easily the weirdest, with her constantly shifting back and forth between Charlotte and Nozomi, and her own memories fading in and out, forcing her to work extra hard to stay focused. It’s been suggested that this might serve as a metaphor for gender fluidity, and while this wasn’t the intention and thus I can’t speak to its accuracy, I can see and support the applicability. Still haven’t worked out what the long-term consequences of that will be, but I do want this to play into her future character development.

The walk up the tongue was mainly me realizing that the fighting was going to start soon, and Sayaka was going away right after, so I had one last opportunity to make the most out of her presence and I was determined not to waste it.

So we ticked off the boxes on everything we ought to address with her. She cleared the air with Charlotte over having to watch Mami get eaten. She finally got to hug Mami (well, Candeloro anyway) and got everything she wanted to say off her chest. And with Ophelia, she naturally wants to know more about exactly what Kyoko has been getting up to with Sayaka’s other self.

Sayaka again confronts Ophelia about how she feels about her (or, well, Oktavia, or maybe Sayaka? It’s weird), and naturally she is kind of freaked out by it. Remember, from her point of view, her relationship with Kyoko had been nothing but antagonistic. Whether Kyoko had been attacking her or trying to help her, Sayaka always resented her presence, so now suddenly being dropped into the middle of things and learning that her one-time rival now has a thing for her? Well, can you blame her for getting a little freaked out?

Also, it’s worth pointing out how the script had been flipped with everyone’s new identities. Now it’s Ophelia and Candeloro with the witch names, while Sayaka still thinks of them using their old names, causing them discomfort, but she has no problem calling Charzomi whatever because they had just met and she didn’t care.

And then we get to the fight, and of course it has to be a pro wrestling match. I’d also like to point out that there were a lot of songs I wanted to use for this chapter but was unsure of where to put each one. Originally the climb up the tongue was just going to have generic thrash metal playing the background, while Mephisto’s entrance theme was going to start with Mr. Sandman, only to transition into Bad Reputation (which is Ronda Rousey’s RL entrance theme), but then I was like, I should put Welcome to My Nightmare in there somewhere. And then I remembered that Cult of Personality is a thing, which is also CM Punk’s entrance theme, so I finally decided to move the first three songs to the tongue scene and have CoP as Mephisto’s entrance music.

And finally, we come to the last chapter. The magical girl fight scene was another one of those checklist things I wanted to have so long as I had Sayaka around. That way, I could actually build some real KyoSaya moments to make the KyoTavi angst all the more potent, as Sayaka realizes that she is developing an attraction to Kyoko as they fight side-by-side, letting me recreate that magical little moment from The Rebellion Story in which Sayaka basically confesses in the middle of the battle, complete with Charlotte ruining the mood.

I’ll admit, I kind of skimped out on Mephisto’s witch design and didn’t give it as much thought as I could have, but that part was never important. The important part was to recreate a classic witch fight and let the girls interact during it. I am proud of the Charlotte’s Web joke though.

What happens next is to establish that it doesn’t matter how hard they fight or how smart they are, they simply cannot beat Mephisto now. She’s taken complete control, enough to flick them through their various personas on a whim turning them into Puella Magi, then to human!witches (basically the Walpurgis Nights girls), then to full witches, then to the classic squad from the bulk of the story (bringing Oktavia back briefly), then to vanilla humans. It doesn’t matter. Mephisto has them, and can do whatever she wants.

From there, she separates them again and subjects them to a condensed version of their previous dreams, with the same themes but different imagery. Kyoko is subjected to a sermon about her poor responses to loss from her dead father, as he really lays into her over how much damage she had done. And I gotta admit, even I felt pretty bad just for writing that scene. Because I know torturing Kyoko is kind of this story’s MO, but damn.

Sayaka is a little more nuanced. Yes, the identity issues from her own dream are brought up, but it’s more focused on a new issues: mainly, now that Sayaka is back, she not only has to grapple with all the weirdness that she’s been thrust into, but also with essentially having been replaced. We see the vision of her friends getting along happily without her, the friends she had pushed away and alienated having moved on without her, Madoka basically having replaced her entirely with Homura. Of course this is not reflected in reality, as by this point in the world of the living they probably haven’t even found Sayaka’s body yet due to the time difference, but it is definitely that Sayaka would easily believe.

The next part is basically the whole reason for bringing Sayaka back in this manner. Mephisto then shows Sayaka a real memory that of Oktavia spending time with Kyoko, Mami, and Charlotte and being loved and accepted by them.

Sayaka’s character arc in the original series was driven by her letting her insecurities cause her to overcompensate and destroy herself, and Oktavia has largely been characterized as what Sayaka would be like if she didn’t have those insecurities. Sure, she’s had the shadow of the original Sayaka hanging over her, but for the most part this hasn’t seemed to bother her much, aside from getting annoyed at being called the wrong name, but it’s been taken for granted that sooner or later being thought of as Sayaka instead of herself by Kyoko was going to come to a head.

But here we have one of those happy unplanned gold veins, something I hadn’t planned on doing but am thrilled gets to happen now: we have Sayaka being forced to come to terms with living in Oktavia’s shadow.

Yes, they’re the same person. Yes, Oktavia is just Sayaka with her memory wiped and many of her self-destructive issues cleared away. But as WN demonstrated, it’s not as clear cut as that, and there is still some degree of separation between the two. And the infamously self-loathing Sayaka would most certainly be messed up by being confronted by a version of herself that people like and enjoy being around, that doesn’t feel the need to prove anything. And this is coming right off the heels of her realizing that she might have feelings for Kyoko after all (even if that is in part because of her empathetic connection to Oktavia), only to have it thrown in her face that it was Oktavia that Kyoko really loved, when she herself never did anything other than push Kyoko away. Granted, she had good reason for doing so, given that the first thing Kyoko did was try to kill her, but the point stands.

The Kyoko/Oktavia dynamic has always been messy due to Sayaka’s constant presence, but I kind of feel that that was unfair to Sayaka herself, as she deserves better than just being a memory, and I wanted her to have an actual voice in the whole deal, to be able to express her own feelings about it, even if it does complicate an already incredibly complicated situation.

Anyway, the next bit is pretty self-explanatory, with Mephisto further twisting the knife by replaying Sayaka’s last conversation with Madoka and really driving home what a wreck Sayaka had been at the time. Remember, from Sayaka’s point of view, that whole moment was only a few hours ago, at most!

Mami’s was very interesting, because the whole trial bit is self-explanatory, but it’s actually a reference to the bizarre trial that made up the final episode of the classic mindscrew TV show The Prisoner, which featured a jury wearing masks, the plaintiff sitting on an ornate chair on a raised platform, witnesses being pulled out of steam-filled holes, and an extended singalong of Dry Bones. Granted, I mainly knew about it because Reboot, one of my favorite shows, also referenced it in a dream episode of their own, but I liked that episode, and wanted to rip it off.

For the witnesses, we first get the expected faces from the show itself, but we also get a few new ones. Brooke Alexander was already named once before when Mami was reflecting on the various girls she had trained, Janice Goldberg was made up specifically for this scene, but we also get Michiru Kazusa, from the really weird spin-off manga Kazumi Magica, who was established as having a past with Mami. Kazumi Magica had its problems, but I did like a lot of the characters (i.e. The Twins), so this seemed like a good time to bring in another one.

Charlotte’s dream is the most straightforward, as it’s basically just her first dream condensed into a claw machine. What I wanted to put focus on was that Charlotte is the one character that knows who Mephisto is, as her role as the team scholar who does the most reading, she would actually have heard of the Ideal Witches, and thus would really understand just how much trouble they were all in.

And at the end of each segment, Mephisto gives each of them the same offer: submit willingly and be given a pleasant fantasy while Mephisto digests their souls, or continue to resist and get digested anyway, only in eternal torment. And her offer would give them each what they wanted the most. Kyoko wants her loved ones back, Sayaka wants to be loved and appreciated, Mami wants forgiveness, and Charlotte just wants to go home. And in light of what they were facing, can any of them be blamed for wanting to take Mephisto up on her offer?

Enter Jerky.

Jerky was a ton of fun to write for, and judging by the overwhelming positive response to his segments, bringing in the baby space raptor was a good idea. Like I’ve said before, his bits were one big love letter to Raptor Red, a novel by paleontologist Robert Bakker which tells of the life and times of a female Utahraptor from the Utahraptor’s point of view. And the nice thing about Jerky is that he’s smart enough to know the does and don’ts, but simple enough to be uncomplicated. He’s an animal. An exceptionally smart animal, but still an animal. He knows that he loves Kyoko and is loyal to her, he’s been made to understand that he can’t let Charlotte, Mami, and Oktavia see him, and he knows that Kyoko’s skin is softer than his and he needs to be careful, but beyond that he couldn’t care less of their various issues. It’s refreshingly simple.

As such, when confronted with a complete inexplicable threat such as Mephisto, something well beyond his ability to comprehend, he’s worried, he’s scared, he doesn’t know what to do, so he defaults to his predatory instincts.

When in doubt, start biting.

And it does the trick, because something that needs to be said is that while the Ideal Witches are powerful, they’re not omnipotent. Mephisto needed to lure the girls in and submerge them fully in her dream in order to control them the way that she did, but in the real world, she was vulnerable once she had manifested fully, allowing Kyoko to break free long enough to fire the final shot.

In the end, everyone escapes, but not unscathed. Kyoko especially had been scarred even further, in part from the dream of her father, but also from having to watch Sayaka basically die again, leading to her reaching what very well might be her breaking point. Mami’s slipping deeper into depression, having been forced to once again confront all the damage she unwittingly did as a magical girl, Charlotte is fully fed up with everything that had happened to them. And Oktavia? Well, now that it’s been shown that Sayaka Miki can and has come back, suddenly her own identity issues are going to become worse. She’s really going to have to grapple with Sayaka being an actual person with a legitimate claim to her body, especially since when Sayaka came back, she effectively traded places with Oktavia instead of merging with her. That’s gotta be scary.

At the very least, Kyoko did not reject Oktavia. In some way, she does understand that Oktavia is her own person, and she’s coming to respect that. But there are some deep wounds having to do with Oktavia’s creation, and they’re both going to have to come to terms with a great many things in the days to come.

And at the very end, it’s shown that Mephisto is weakened but still alive, and she’s pissed! We also learn that one of the girls did accept Mephisto’s offer before she was defeated, so that’s definitely going to come up later. And we meet the rest of the Ideal Witches. Obviously there is more to come with them, so I will say nothing further.

Anyway, I guess that’s it. Feel free to message me if you want anything explained further, or just make your own interpretations. Either is fine.

#resonance days #restless

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evilisk · 5 years ago

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Reading Len’En Profiles Pt 1

Just realized that except for Jun, Shou and Hibaru, I’ve been making judgments on characters purely off the games and also my gut. I’m gonna go through the profiles and see if they can change my mind. This part is for the Evanescent Existence characters.

Yabusame Houlen

Original Opinion: Except for that one line when talking to ‘Tsubakura’ in EE, Yabusame seemed perfectly sensible, if a little boring, as a character. Then EMS comes along and they are consistently portrayed as ‘dumb as Sukune’ in EMS and RMI. I find it hard to like a dumb protagonist, though RMI pairing them with Tsuba made them more tolerable.

Profile Details:

Apparently Yabu was always meant to be dumb, JynX just didn’t do a good job of showing it in EE

I find it hilarious that line 1 is “Yabu can be described is plain and boring” but then line 2 is “Yabu is outrageous weirdo”

I did pick up on “Yabu is a cross dimensional thing” but I did not know they were *not* spirited away to Senri in this game... that explains one line during their convo with Tsuru.

New Opinion: Eh, I still don’t like ‘em. Their profile makes it seem like they’re a satellite character to Tsubakura and I don’t really like one of the series protags having that kind of attitude.

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Tsubakura Enraku

Original Opinion: I had no opinion on Tsuba in EE since you spent almost no time with them. EMS and RMI made me realize I do like Tsubakura... thought not as much as I like Kuroji. My impression of them is “lazy, entertaining jerk’ with strong emphasis on the lazy part.

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“Young genius scientist” is not what I was expecting to read in Tsuba’s profile. The “slave to sponsorships” and “suspicious research” makes them sound really shady tbh.

It’s zany that a young genius scientist was Tsuru’s first pick for their successor / substitute.

Why is their power described as ‘controlling ink’ only for ‘ink’ to actually be frigging nanomachines? Why do you write profiles like this JynX?

Enjoying things which are enjoyable is my ability too.

New Opinion: Tsuba is way more interesting than I gave them credit for, though I can’t believe “the greatest prodigy in all of history” is supposed to be one of their titles. Now I can understand Kuroji’s salt.

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Kurohebi

Original Opinion: I have no opinion on Kurohebi (I typically don’t have opinions on Stage 1 bosses even in Touhou) other than ‘the comparisons to Rumia make me very angry’ because Rumia makes me angry. (NOTE: My opinion is that Rumia is a PC98 character who stumbled out of a PC98 game and lucked out into being the Stage 1 Boss of the most popular Touhou game ever)

Profile Details:

So you’re telling me that Kurohebi is this super Frankenstein and is such an ultimate assassin that you can’t detect them by sound or even touch, only by sight, and that they’re actually a “fake assassin” only because they haven’t been given an assassination order yet? What the hell, I love Kurohebi now, why the hell are they only a Stage 1 Boss?!

New Opinion: No seriously, how could you make the character with the coolest backstory the Stage 1 Boss, Jynx?!

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Aoji Shitodo

Original Opinion: I don’t like them for being a wimp, and also for being Absurdly hard for a Stage 2 Boss (seriously, even on Easy, they’re too Hard!)

Profile Details:

Wow, this profile has nothing! Seriously, it describes their powers and that’s it. There’s only two lines describing their personality, and they’re details you can easily pick out from the game (they’re the youngest Shitodo sibling, and they’re hesitant)

New Opinion: I have the exact same opinion as before, as reading their profile is like adding 0 to an existing number.

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Hooaka Shitodo

Original Opinion: They’re also pretty hard (I hate that spell card where they summon a bullet maze that you have to scale before it fires downwards) but at least they’re on Stage 4 instead of Stage 2. And I guess they have some funny lines too.

Profile Details:

Wait, their species is “Magician”? What? Are we operating on Touhou rules here? (In Touhou, Magician is a subspecies of Youkai)

I’m also not getting a whole lot out of this profile (talk about powers is useless to me). All I’m really getting is that Hooaka can read the mood (literally) and that they’re quite adaptable.

I’ve heard that Hooaka is a lazy bum, so I’m a bit surprised it’s not referenced anywhere. Is Hooaka in Brilliant Pagoda then? Cause they’re sure as hell not in EMS or RMI.

New Opinion: I don’t know what to do with the information that they’re very adaptable. And that they’re species is “Magician”, but I guess I still like ‘em more than Aoji (who, by comparison, is still my least favourite EE character).

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Kuroji Shitodo

Original Opinion: I didn’t really like this character for feeling like discount Seija, but I slowly came around on them. I can’t hate on this dashing and competent scamp in purple who is ready to shakedown everyone and everything. It helps that they’re basically the underdog MC (now if only they’d stop problematically blackmailing poor Snek Kid)

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Continuing the weird bit on Species, we have Kuroji’s species as “Scholar of Prehistory” (though they’re listed as Human in the subsequent description.

Their backstory is sounding a lot like discount Tsubakura tbh...oh, okay, I get it. No wonder they see Tsuba as their rival.

With how many mentions of Tsuba there is in their profile, it’s no wonder they ended up being a player character in EMS. Because besides Tsubakura themselves, the other two characters that focus on Tsuba on their profile are also the two player characters in *this game*.

I didn’t really pick up on the Historian theme (I don’t have “Historian” in the same mindspace as “Archaeologist”) though in hindsight, their two themes do have “History” in their titles.

I think if I read their profile as I was playing EE, I probably would have liked Kuroji even less (bc of the discount Tsubakura angle)

New Opinion: Kuroji’s still my favourite MC though I empathize with them a little more with this profile.

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“Clause”

Original Opinion: This fella gives me big Rinnosuke vibes. I do not like this fella.

Profile Details:

Ah I see, so Clause is exactly what they appear to be (they’re that one annoying person you know, who is now so much worse now that they have actual superpowers)

Thank God Wilhelm von Clausewitz etc. isn’t their real name. Now if only some character got to rib ‘Clausewitz’ about this.

“Species: Annoyance” okay yeah, JynX is totally joking around here.

This isn’t in the profile, but the one good point I’ll give to Clause is that even Suzumi gets annoyed by their talk.

New Opinion: So, basically, what you’re saying is, I am totally justified in not liking this fella. Got it.

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Tsurubami Senri

Original Opinion: Tsuru’s easily the coolest character in this game, but is that any surprise? I mean, they’re one of the two original player characters, they have a cool fight, they have one of the best tracks in the game AND they have the best smack talk too. They even BTFO Suzumi in her own Extra route. They’re basically the complete package.

Profile Details:

I actually know a lot about Tsuru just because they seem to be such an integral part of Len’En’s setting, and most lore bits that you see repeated ad nauseum (e.g. Tsuru is a militant tyrant) seem to be ripped directly from Senri’s profile.

With that said, uh, what the hell does “ability to raise poultry” mean?! Is Tsuru a farmer? Or is this referencing the final two lines where Tsuru can “raise latent potential in others” and then use it for themselves? (If it’s the latter, ‘poultry’ is an incredibly unsettling way of describing that power’)

Wait, are you telling me that Tsuru did all of this so they could go on VACATION?! What the hell. Tsuru really is “tired Reimu”

New Opinion: This character just got a little more interesting. I’m hoping they get to be playable in Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle, but in their true form instead of their disguised form.

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On Suzumi

I already mentioned them a bunch of times, but yeah, I sort of get what their deal is, just from in-game conversations and from general popular knowledge of the series (e.g. you can’t not watch a video with her theme without all the commentators losing their shit, talking about how spooky she is).

Since this is about profiles and since I also don’t specifically remember what reveals about Suzumi were in EE, I’ll hold off on writing about her until she gets an in-game profile I can comment on.

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And that’s about it. Aside from Aoji, Clause and Yabusame (who were like my bottom 3 EE characters already), I have a much better appreciation of EE’s cast. I’ll get to doing EMS and RMI’s casts soon.

#len'en #len'en lore #evanescent existence #len'en mugenri evanescent existence #len'en project #kurohebi len'en #aoji shitodo #hooaka shitodo #kuroji shitodo #clause len'en #tsurubami senri #tsubakura enraku #yabusame houlen #len'en profile review #len'en content #not a reblog

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hardman5509 · 6 years ago

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@touhousecretsanta This is my gift for one kitsugai:

One second, she’s sitting with her best friend in their shared study, flipping through some old dusty tome that they recently located within this old shrine at the edge of town, the next she’s returned to a familiar location in a completely different world. As she once overheard from an another uninvited guest once, this place is called the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Hopefully, she returns back home soon. She’s missing out on her and Renko’s Christmas.

Maribel’s eyes adjusted to the eerie light of the mansion. A look around showed that she ended up in some study somewhere in the mansion on a higher level, seeing how the top of a tree just poked slightly above the bottom of the room’s window. There’s a desk facing the wall opposite of the window, a small three-shelf cabinet full of books next to it. It seemed like a quiet area for a servant.

Suddenly, some weird noises came from down the hall to her right. Maribel jumped, despite knowing full well that no-one should be able to hear her or even interact with her during one of these mysterious projections of hers. Maribel quickly recollected herself before someone walked inside into the room.

In walked, or rather floated, a little short-hair blonde girl clad in black. She held out her arms outward, much like a child would while pretending to be a airplane. This little girl did a little spin before turning back towards the hall from where she came from and called out: “What kind of room is this, Flandre?”

“A little study that Patchouli uses to hide in for a while.” In flew this creature that gave Maribel a jump back. She had these crystalline wings and this foreboding presence about her; complete with a blood-red dress. Maribel could also make out small fangs in the girl’s, Flandre’s, mouth. A vampire! “But she’s busy elsewhere…”

“What are we going to do here?” The first girl asked, putting her arms down to her sides.

“This, Rumia…” Flandre giggled as she pointed up towards the ceiling. Both Rumia and Maribel looked up and noticed a sprig of mistletoe hanging from the ceiling.

Flandre walked forward towards Rumia, who was still looking at the sprig to try to figure it out, with this auspicious smile on her face. As Rumia tilted her head sideways, Flandre suddenly darted forward and placed a kiss right on Rumia’s lips. Maribel let out a small shriek, thinking that Flandre had taken this Rumia as a victim…but then Rumia returned the kiss, even wrapping her arms around Flandre to continue the kiss.

Maribel’s terror quickly faded away as she looked on…with a little bit element of jealousy. This sort of kiss implied a great deal of intimacy between these two, and Flandre mentioning that the study was used as a private place also implied a secret relationship. Maribel’s face, once frozen in fear, became flushed with color.

“Oh my…” She ended up admitting out loud.

But soon, the world became hazy. The sight of Rumia and Flandre engaging in a kiss, floating in air and doing a little twirl, became blurry as Maribel seemingly got yanked back into her old reality. It didn’t hurt her in any regard, unlike other times in which it felt like her head was being ripped off. This one felt more like a wind blowing her back; a bit forcibly, but still she got yanked away as things were getting steamy.

“Hey, you okay?” A actual familiar voice asked her as someone shook her by the shoulder. Maribel let out a mix between a yawn and a yelp as she opened her eyes to find herself back home in the dusty study. A song playing on their jukebox was thankfully not playing some repeat of a old Christmas song, but rather a song that best personified the time of autumn.

Maribel’s eyes flickered open and she found herself looking right at a concerned Renko. “Hey, speak to me.” Renko asked again, giving Maribel a small shake.

“I’m fine, I was just…” Maribel started to speak, then having to stifle another yawn. “Just over there for a bit.”

“Man, again.” Renko muttered to herself before asking Maribel in an audible voice, “So, what did you see this time?”

“Oh?” Maribel let out another yawn as a rather interesting idea formed in her head. “What did I see?” She parroted the question with a devious smile starting to form on her lips.

“Yeah, what did you see?” Renko asked with a furrowed brow and growing slightly agitated.

Maribel completed her smile before she suddenly leaned in and pressed a kiss right on Renko’s lips. Renko’s eyes shot wide for a brief second out of surprise, but as the kiss continued, she relaxed and closed her eyes. Maribel held the kiss for as long as she had breath, letting go when her lungs were ready to burst.

Both went quiet and stared at each other for a good long minute. “Wow.” Renko did a fake cough. “What brought that on?”

“It’s what I saw in Gensokyo.”

“Wow.” Renko repeated as she rubbed a hand around her lips. “Must have been pretty hot.”

“It was…” Maribel sighed as she looked away with a growing blush. “…they even did it under the mistletoe…”

“Like that one?” Renko pointed over to the doorway of the study, with Maribel looking over. “I found one, so I decided to hang it up.” Renko shrugged. “I mean, I couldn’t find a tree, a wreath, or even some lights. Some Christmas, huh?”

“It’s perfect.” Maribel softly told. “We don’t need much.”

“I guess so.” Renko sniffed out a small but satisfied sigh. “Merry Christmas, Maribel.”

“Merry Christmas, Renko.” Maribel replied as the two got up and went over to the mistletoe to continue their little kissing fest. Those two weird blonde girls definitely had the right idea on how to enjoy Christmas.

Enjoy your story and your Christmas!

#touhousecretsanta #kitsugai #rumia #flandre #maribel #renko

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stcrdancer · 6 years ago

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🧠+ love

Any that the girl shows you is likely either faked or a ploy to get something from you. That’s not to say that she is incapable of it, but Rumia prefers to keep her emotional distance from others for the sake of maintaining some degree of respectability as a youkai. Of course, you probably wouldn’t notice this if I hadn’t told you- for she acts quite pleasant typically… Which is a trait she picked up from her ‘origin form’.

#Anonymous #䷣ ᴰᵃⁿᶜⁱⁿᵍ {Answered Asks} ䷣#alternatively: she's in a relationship with a wriggle right now- which so far remains her only lasting ship #though not for lack of trying #sorry friends my drive flip flops like a fish ;w;#sfw

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rian-threeden · 6 months ago

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Friend inside Me brainrot From back In july.

Saki mug root beer

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strayrumia · 11 months ago

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Road to Relationship Background/Profiles

Masterlist for Road to Relationship Main Masterlist

Hello, all!

Just a reminder that this series is a semi-social media au, meaning it will use some social media emblems but it will not be the main medium. It will be mostly fake texts and a written story format with additional social media elements.

If you understand that, I will show how the profiles look for the most part!

A/N: The other members and profiles will not be uploaded until they have a bigger role in the story. In addition to this, others' information will be updated as the story continues on. This is essentially a School!SKZ AU, but their passions and relationships with each other remain.

[Y/N] -> Childhood best friend of Minho. Good friends with Chan, Felix, and Seungmin. Has been in one situationship, but otherwise no other relationships. Begins to crush on her classmate, Jeon Jungkook, which leads to her begging for Minho to be her wingman.

Lee Minho -> Childhood best friend of [Y/N]. Dance major. Best friends with Jisung, Hyunjin, and Felix. Never supported her situationship, but was there for her regardless. Stays the sarcastic, teasing best friend while being a caretaker to her but starts to become more possessive as she looks at other guys.

Bang Chan -> Big brother figure and good friends with [Y/N]. Once used to like her with unreciprocated feelings, but worked better as friends. Have been close since. Basically her therapist friend.

Seo Changbin -> TBA

Hwang Hyungjin -> TBA

Han Jisung -> Same friend group as Chan and Changbin due to mutual musical interests. Best friends with Minho. His own therapist friend.

Lee Felix -> TBA

Kim Seungmin -> Close friends with [Y/N], Chan, and Felix. Has been showing more interest lately... (More info TBA)

Yang Jeongin -> Younger brother figure to [Y/N], though he does often try to get her attention.

Jeon Jungkook -> Best friends with Taehyung. Classmate and eventual friend of [Y/N] who ends up taking the same lower division general education classes as her.

Kim Taehyung -> Best friends with Jungkook.

Happy reading and I hope you enjoy 🫶 ~Rumia~

#road to relationship profiles #again wont be tagging everything until more info releases lol

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clarste · 7 years ago

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Are "mainstream" youkai such as Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and Demons in any danger of being forgotten compared to the average youkai of Gensokyo? Obviously any youkai is susceptible to being forgotten, but for the ones I mentioned it looks like they are in the best position possible.

We’re not talking about “awareness of the concept,” we’re talking about belief. Belief that they exist in reality. No amount of mainstream popularity in fiction could amount to actual belief, and if anything only further solidifies them as something that belongs in the realm of fantasy. No amount of Harry Potter will make magic real again. The opposite of belief isn’t to be forgotten, it’s to be doubted.

The youkai ZUN uses in Touhou aren’t exactly obscure either. Oni and tengu and kappa oh my. These are the bog-standard mainstream youkai that you will encounter in any remotely Japanese-themed fantasy work. They may not have as much worldwide popularity as vampires, these youkai aren’t in danger of being forgotten anytime soon. But again, popularity is irrelevant if it’s not accompanied by actual belief.

For reference, belief isn’t something that can be faked, it’s a primitive mental state. Even attending a ceremony to worship a god doesn’t demonstrate belief on its own, they might just be going through the motions out of tradition. Gensokyo works by making the existence of gods and youkai a matter of common sense, not by making them more “mainstream” among the human village. Actually, the people there seem to care about them even less than we do out here. Probably because while they may be dangerous, they’re not considered exotic or interesting. They’re more like pests.

That said, something totally forgotten certainly can’t be believed in either, but the only candidates for that in Touhou would be the youkai without a listed species, like Rumia, Meiling, or Yukari. I guess you could something with that for a story, at least.

Edit: Ghosts and demons might have plenty of belief, but vampires and werewolves wouldn’t.

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dr-oshawott · 7 years ago

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Made up Fake EoSD Smash Tier list

SS tier: Sakuya Izayoi

S tier: Flandre Scarlet, Marisa Kirisame

A tier: Remilia Scarlet, Patchouli Knowledge, Cirno

B tier: Reimu Hakurei, Koakuma

C tier: Rumia, Hong Meiling, Daiyousei

#cirno a tier: wut?#of course flan's s tier #idk i wanted to do something dumb #tier lists are always funny

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magolor-starcutter · 7 years ago

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My friend reacts to some Touhou characters

Marisa: She’s pretty cute, actually. I’m still kinda mad that she has orange eyes, because it’s just stupid.

Elis: If I see one more blonde red-eye, I’m gonna scream. And for some reason, she has a weird silver lollipop, but if she casts a spell on me, I’m gonna be real mad. There’s a big… something on her back.

Ellen & Sokrates: I don’t have anything to say. She’s just, hot. She’s cute. But why is there a cat there? What’s with her dress, too? What is up with that? It’s dumb.

Kotohime: Why does she look like a man? She kind of reminds me of a really bad otome I played.

Kana: She’s cute. She looks like she could be cute if any person with artistic talent drew her. But what’s with her hat? What is she trying to protect herself from?

Sara: Red-dress girl. I don’t like her already. Girls with pink hair also suck.

Luize: White dress with the purple accent who also looks like a guy. Her fedora is kinda cool but she looks like an annoying businesswoman. She has a weird french thing going on with her clothes.

Alice: Blue dress lady looks like a lost girl. I don’t know what’s going on little girl, but you need help. She’s also an Alice in Wonderland rip-off.

Yuki & Mai: They look like gay. White-dress girl looks like she’s about to stab someone. She’s wearing those surgery boots for some reason. The blonde… is just… I know I’m a hypocrite for saying this, but blondes look bad in dark clothing. She looks stupid and she needs to wear her colors, which are light colors. Why can’t people just have normal eyes in this series?

Rumia: She looks like Danny (Angels of Death). She’s gonna scoop out my peepers. She looks very heterosexual.

Cirno: Oh, she’s cute, I don’t have any complaints about her. She looks like she’s gonna pierce ice directly through my soul, and I don’t really mind.

Meirin: Ahh… okay… I’m pretty sure she has a communist Russia hat. That means that I have a communist on my hands. Honestly, that means she has to die. She’s a commie.

Yuyuko: She also looks like a man. She looks like she’s gonna take my soul. I wouldn’t be surprise if that’s accurate. She also kinda looks like a nurse. But like a fake nurse. She’s gonna steal my soul while I’m injured. Also, her pink hair is gross.

Reisen U. Inaba: She looks like she’s gonna sacrifice me to her rabbit god on the blood moon. I cannot describe the tribal fear when I see her.

Kaguya: First of all, she reminds me of someone who I knew from first grade; she has hair that bridged on her ass. She looks annoying. Maybe she could cut her hair. Calm yourself, Rapunzel.

Aya: She’s pretty cute. Apparently she has wings, but on her ass, and that’s… she’s got booty wings, so that’s pretty cool. For some reason, she has a little mini hat on.

Medicine: Ellen’s emo older sister. The fairy is her OC.

Kisume: The girl in the bucket is clearly really small. We both know how I feel about small, green gremlins. I like her already. She’s on my good Touhou character list.

Yamame: Weird blonde girl is wearing brown for some reason? She has yellow highlights on her dress? She has a bad fashion sense, she’s ugly. She has brown eyes, though. That’s a rarity.

Sunny, Luna, & Star: Alright, so, blue… wait, is this Heathers? Where is Duke? Did Veronica kill her? Anyway, blue-dress girl looks cute. I bet her name is Sakura. Redhead looks like eight. Her clothing adds to it. Blonde hair girl looks like I just killed her dog. Screw you, too, curly nuts.

Wakasagihime: Blue and green girl is just… I don’t know… her hair is too bright and her dark-forest green dress doesn’t go well whatsoever. She has like a.. tail? I’m not sure what that is. She’s ugly, though.

Sekibanki: I… what… she looks like a cheap magic trick that went wrong. This stupid girl is walking around carrying her head. Little Red Riding Head.

Kagerou: Then there’s the furry. She’s the biggest furry, she has weird ears or something. She’s sinful.

Benben & Yatsuhashi: They’re both cute. The blue-hair girl has a weird guitar thing, but it’s cute. She has a mullet apparently, a really long one, too. She’s not wearing shoes, either. Brunette, I really like her, she has good fashion sense. She has that purple that accents with her friend… she just looks good.

Seija: Upside-down emo girl.

Shinmyoumaru: She has like a Dream Catcher… and there’s like a fish in her hand? There’s a loop thing down there. I don’t know what it is. It’s like a fish catcher. Her hat is dumb. She looks like she does some embarrassing stuff. Her dress is open, which is weird.

Raiko: Now for hot girl. I don’t know her power is, but it looks like she controls planes. Her hair goes with her jacket. I love her tie, and it makes her way hotter. The tie goes with the boots, which goes with the boots. She’s just cute. She looks like she’s 12, but I’m 14, so it’s okay.

Seiran: She looks like she likes really long black dick. I don’t know, it’s just what I’m thinking of. The blue hair versus the red eyes is so ugly. Also, she’s a furry. Her outfit is so…

Ringo: Oh no, she’s hot. Red doesn’t go with blonde, though!

Doremy: What is… what is going on? First of all, she has a tail situation down there, and then she’s like… I think that’s a bubble gum bubble there. And then she’s got like a Santa hat on, even though she’s clearly not Santa. This is cultural appropriation. She’s got blue hair, which doesn’t go with literally anything she’s wearing. She has blue eyes, though - that goes.

Sagume: She looks like an angel, but she also looks like she’s gonna kill me. I don’t trust her. Her stupid red bow doesn’t go with her dress. She looks like she needs to calm down. Why do you have boots with a dress? She’s annoying.

Clownpiece: Weird patriot girl looks really annoying. She looks like an annoying straight girl who attends 4th of July parties. She’s waving around a sparkler.

Junko: Crazy-flowy hair girl looks hot. But her eyes and sleeves are lame. She’s really pale. REALLY pale. She looks like she’s a white as a sheet.

Hecatia: She’s hot. She’s just hot. I want her to crush me with her world-holding hands. I don’t know about her fashion sense, but it’s okay. I don’t know your punk things, but whatever floats your boat. But she has a third world on her head or something.

Eternity: I don’t like fairies. I never have. She looks especially dumb. She has like a bowl cut. She’s got a weird thing coming out of her head. Can you just not show me this again? She’s gross and ugly.

Nemuno: Cleaver girl seriously needs to calm down. Her dress is like… teared. She has a scarf that’s all over here or something. The question is her sleeves. They aren’t connected to anything. Maybe she’s coming them up with magic. At least she’s aesthetic.

Aunn: Uh, she’s pretty cute, but like she has a Hawaiian shirt-looking thing going on. Also, she’s got a horn thing. I think multiple horns. That’s cool, I guess. If she wants to stick up my ass, that’s perfectly fine with me. Her hair is weirdly curly.

Narumi: That’s snow-hat girl. I know that she tries to kill you, so I’m kind of skeptical.

Satono: Stupid pink girl. Ugly shade of pink, no fashion sense. Is that a maid outfit? It’s ugly. She has like a bean bag on her head, too.

Mai: Slightly less annoying clone of the pink one. I feel like she will actually run you through with that bamboo.

Okina: She looks like a mommy. I don’t care if she tries to kill me. Okay, but why is she wearing a Mickey Mouse hat? That’s so weird. And she has this weird fire but I thought her thing is doors. Her clothes are kinda dumb, so… whatever.

Sumireko: She’s got like, Pagan symbols on her cloak, which scares me. She has knobby knees. She has too-high socks for like what’s going on; if you wear socks, you have to wear pants that cover them, or with a dress long enough that cover them. She looks like a cheapskate magician.

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