#lunar peace ~ toyohime

[gensokyogarden]

"So we're not related to Kaguya, right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well she's the lunar princess, right?"

"Yes?"

"But we're the lunar princesses, right?"

"Your point being?"

"Well there's only one lunarian society, we're all united."

"You're just stating things we both already know, please get to the point."

"But a princess is the daughter of the emperor and the one set to inherit the throne. We only have one emperor so if we're not siblings why do we have so many princesses?"

"..."

"Why are there so many princesses?"

[gensokyogarden]

"Kaguya what are you talking about? Yorihime and I have both been married for AGES. It was waaaaaaaaay before you left. You know, Eirin is my aunt-in-law. I'm pretty sure it's howe we met! I mean my grandson was the first emperor of Japan so the marriage is older than Japan."

"Yes and as the mother of the first emperor, my marriage is nearly as old."

"...Yorihime got married? That's news to me..." Probably because she hasn't been on the moon in ages.

[evajellion]

KKHTA: Timeline and Plot Summary for newcomers

I noticed that this series is getting a resurgence through funny memes and recreations on YouTube, so for anyone who is new to this Touhou fan-series, I’m gonna lay out a summary of each event so no one gets lost. (because there are several parts and chunks of videos that are flashbacks)

I am going to keep things brief as I possibly can, but a lot happens in this fan-work.

Some things to note:

A majority of powerful Touhou characters are nerfed/killed. So take off your “Touhou power level” goggles for this. (which you should for fan works in the first place)

PC98 is not canon to this, so do not expect Mima to appear.

This series was created before Touhou 14 and the current entries, so certain characters do not appear until near the end or at all. (ie: Okina)

Billions of years ago, the Moon and Earth are people with third eyes that meet and fall in love. They do the deed, which causes the big bang, Earth goes into a sleep and is invaded by “closed eyes” which become life on Earth.

A heartbroken Moon goes to rest, hoping to open the Earth’s eyes despite how far apart they are. This leads into the Moonlight Descent, a plot created to reunite the Moon and Earth.

Fast forward- Satori and Koishi, a pair of third eyes (who are sisters in name only, not by blood) have lost their vessels. They temporarily take the corpses of a dog and cat respectively as hosts. At first, Koishi enjoys witnessing a budding romance between a man and woman. After they are married and have a child however, it falls apart.

The man leaves his wife and the woman drowns her infant child. Koishi, traumatized by the event, takes the drowned child and her postpartum mother to be her next hosts. Following this, Koishi reads the minds of several onlookers (including people watching on TV) who call her a freak, then forcefully closes her third eye.

A bloodbath created by Koishi ensues. Watatsuki no Toyohime, one of the Lunarian sisters, gives Satori and Koishi new bodies. They are then brought to Gensokyo in hopes of getting Satori to aid in the Moonlight Descent plan.

Eirin Yagokoro, a traitor to the Lunar Capitol, creates a rain that filters out toxins from the Moon that drive all living creatures into insanity. This madness is in part due to the (fictional) peace on Earth, and things that no longer exist get transferred to Gensokyo.

Sanae is born to a young couple outside of Gensokyo while two goddesses, Suwako and Kanako, watch over her. Being able to communicate with the two goddesses leaves her relentlessly bullied by her fellow classmates by the time she enters high school. Said bullies end up killing her parents, and Sanae ends up slaughtering them all. Soon after, Sanae, Suwako, and Kanako are moved to Gensokyo.

Before the main story events, the Lunarians make one final deal with Patchouli’s familiar; Koakuma. They gift her with the power to absorb abilities of the deceased, which will aid them in the Moonlight Descent. In exchange, Koakuma can have Patchouli to herself with no one else in the way.

Remilia has a conversation with Reimu, in which she wants to give Flandre a parasol so she can finally go outside, as she has improved in her destructive tendencies. 

The story truly begins when Koishi leaves the Palace of Earth Spirits to go play outside and catch a fish for dinner. This results very poorly, as she just so happened to be near the Misty Lake and Scarlet Devil Mansion. After being refused to acquire a fishing rod and her hat destroyed, Koishi leaves Meiling and Flandre horribly mauled.

Sakuya brings Meiling to Eientei, Koakuma brings Satori to the SDM. After a rainstorm (the last one that would be had), Satori punishes Koishi’s violent behavior by locking her in a room.

Eirin is subdued by the Lunarians for her work, unable to keep the rain going. The Lunarians and Koakuma experiment on the fairies by the Misty Lake, making them all murder each other. Thanks to Koakuma’s newfound power, they cannot re-spawn like normally.

The next morning, Remilia talks to Flandre, only to be immediately kicked out by the little sister who only views herself as a burden. Satori visits the mansion, and offers herself to be punished in Koishi’s place. In an act of betrayal to the Lunarians, Satori suggests Patchouli cut her contract with Koakuma.

Refusing to listen to her, Satori attempts to kill Koakuma herself in a diversion, but a fight breaks out which gets Okuu involved.

Meanwhile, during the rest of the day, Gensokyo goes absolutely bonkers. Mokou burns the human village, Byakuren goes full dictator, Yuyuko devours her servant, and Sanae tortures Kogasa before being killed. Koakuma obtains the abilities of anyone who passes.

Koakuma makes her escape while Okuu is fighting the SDM residents, and manipulates Flandre by belittling her. After enduring torture, Koakuma tells Flandre to destroy the Hakurei Barrier.

Yukari, noticing that Ran is acting unusually, ties her up and goes to investigate what could be the source of everyone’s conscious getting messed with so badly. She deduces that Koishi must be the source, and goes to the Palace of Earth Spirits. They battle with, Yukari as the victor, decapitating Koishi. It’s a short-lived victory as the Lunarians captured Ran and Chen while Yukari was distracted, turning them into living bombs.

Since her third eye was not destroyed, Koishi takes Yukari’s body as her own, fusing the two of them together with a proper conscious. Sharing her soul with another, Koishi begins to feel regret over her past actions.

Reimu has the incident already figured out and confronts Koakuma in battle. Satori gives a mercy kill to Orin who tries to get her away from the mansion, and returns to the Watatsuki sisters for the Moonlight Descent plan. She defies them one last time, but her body is destroyed and she is caged.

The plan is now in full effect with Flandre on her way to destroy the barrier and the Lunarians having their super powered, youkai-killing ships fully prepared. Patchouli sees Koakuma’s true colors and is kidnapped by her own minion. 

Kanako rushes to Reimu to warn her about what’s happening, and returns to the Hakurei Shrine, alongside Remilia, Reisen, and Koishi Yakumo. Unfortunately, Yorihime has beaten them there.

Reisen attempts to reason with Yorihime, but is immediately sliced in half. In a rage at the Lunarian’s arrogance, Reimu, Remilia, Kanako, and the God of Gensokyo itself gang up on her. Sadly, not even gods are a match for the overpowered Lunarians ships. Remilia and Kanako are slaughtered soon after.

Out of seemingly nowhere, an imprisoned Kaguya gives Koishi Yakumo an antidote version of the rain Eirin created, supposedly able to cure one person under madness.

The dark side of the Moon is shown fully with no rain filtering it, transforming most of residents, most importantly Flandre, into kaiju monsters. Flandre proceeds to destroy the Hakurei Barrier with her maximized power. This forces all of the Gensokyo inhabitants to Earth, where they are viewed as nothing but mindless kaiju monsters.

With the country officials of Earth being tricked by Toyohime into thinking the Lunarians are their allies that will protect them from the kaijus, all of Gensokyo’s residents and a majority of the Earth humans are slaughtered. But not before Reimu and Marisa take Yorihime down in one last shot.

(One of them being Junko, who had terrorized the Lunarians in the past and was not even a kaiju but still required several ships to take down… that’s how badly she needed to be nipped in the bud before it was too late.)

With all of the kaijus slaughtered and most of mankind gone, the Moon is able to descend to Earth and forcefully open its “eye”. All sentient life on Earth now have opened their third eye, even the animals and insects.

An uncertain amount of time later, only a depressed Yukari and a cheerful Koishi are seen living together on Earth. After a harsh talking to, Koishi opens her third eye for the first time in years by cutting it open.

Toyohime, Satori, Koakuma, Patchouli, and Kaguya are most likely still alive as of this part. (although Kaguya could have been executed the same way Mokou was)

…

The series has not updated since late 2016, which is unfortunate, but I find Koishi opening her eye after a conga line of destruction to be a satisfying note to end on. I was going to add my own thoughts overall to this series, but this is getting long as is.

[gensokyogarden]

"Les go!!!! Eirin-Sama fixed the red ring of death on my xbox."

[gensokyogarden]

"Hey Mu-mi-may-mu." What kind of nickname is that? "The weather's nice up on the moon this time of the year, you should visit soon!"

[gensokyogarden]

"I don't know how to tell you but sisters are sisters even if they have different fathers."

[gensokyogarden]

"Lol, lmao"

[gensokyogarden]

"Oh look! It's my dear cousin Kaggers!"

[gensokyogarden]

"Nah, I'd win ~"

"I wouldn't."

[gensokyogarden]

❣ Toyohime

Dating pros and cons

Pros:

-Dating someone that can teleport means that you can go just about anywhere in the world for dates.

-Toyohime is incredibly chill and carefree which makes her a great bit of fun to be around.

-She's a dragon & a princess. What's not to love?

Cons:

-Bro I hope you like peaches because you're gonna be eating so many peaches.

-Yorihime will criticize each and everything that you do.

-Her chill nature means that she's just kinda gonna put off problems instead of properly addressing them.

[gensokyogarden]

"I'm eating Honey Bunches of Oats to wash it down."

[gensokyogarden]

"Gawt it Rachael Rei, absolutely no problem. I'll make room in the budget to get you an inflatable pool. You and your rabbit friends will have plenty of fun!"

"Rei-what- I mean, yes, I mean, I was imagining one you can inflate and move from place to place. Aha, something like that..."

[gensokyogarden]

"WHY ARE YOU EATING CEREAL AT 3AM?"

"I ate something that used to be a peach in the fridge and now my tummy hurts."

[gensokyogarden]

♪We used to run wild in the streets♪

♪Now we complain when witches fly by too fast♪

♪And the music is insanely loud♪

♪Now our sigils are fading away♪

♪And looking back it was all worth it♪

♪The truth is getting old sucks but everybody's doing it♪

♪Now the movies are cartoon and remakes♪

♪Of shit that was better ~ when we played our music too loud♪

♪Now our memories are fading away♪

♪And looking back it was all worth it♪

♪The truth is getting old sucks but everybody's doing it♪

[gensokyogarden]

"I think I'd win the Tournament of Lis."

"..."

"Oh right..."

[gensokyogarden]

"It's okay. I'm sure your powers will reach my level at some point. Anyways, want a peach?"

"Come now... Toyohime and Yorihime are cheaters~"

"Junko? nah, she's cool~"