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occasionaltouhou · 11 months ago
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For a random stage 2 boss to rotate for a little while, how about Nemuno Sakata? One of the major themes of the HSiFS characters was that they had relationships with established characters rather than to eachother. However, while I can easily envision the other three bosses of the first four stages hanging out with their associated seasonal protagonist, Nemuno seems to be characterized more by how she doesn't spend time with Aya, to the point where her (or anyone else, for that matter) even visiting is unwanted. At the same time though, she gives us a better idea of politics on youkai mountain. There are places even tengu aren't allowed, for one. Makes me wonder how she'd react to Sanae showing up if she'd been playable, or perhaps her relation to Nitori/the kappa in general.
first, it's still really funny to me that the other three protags get a new friend but aya doesn't. too insufferable
ANYWAY yeah i think that nemuno is a really interesting addition to the politics of youkai mountain because like, we kind of knew there were other youkai up there but they hadn't really gotten any focus before. the fact that the yamanba are explicitly kind of isolationist also makes you wonder how many of them are up there
the thing about nemuno though is that unlike most of the rest of the hsifs, she didn't get a follow-up later, so we only really have what she says and does in the game. which tells us that she's relatively friendly and easy-going, but also that she's firm about the tengu's contract with her and that she attempts to kidnap reimu. the reimu thing is actually the most intriguing to me - she seems to not have heard of the hakurei shrine maiden before (though you can argue if that's the best translation of "知らんな" for that statement), which is incredible for someone who in another route is discussing negotiations of land with aya. the implication here being that she simply doesn't have any interest in the world outside her world, and that whatever happens at the bottom of the mountain doesn't affect her - which is, of course, true, and plays into the problem. she simply isn't the type of character who shows up to things.
in terms of her relationship to others... again, that's the problem, isn't it? she kind of doesn't have one. maybe she does some trade with the kappa, but it would be business on both sides of the arrangement. for sanae, it could be something dismissive along the lines of sannyo's "what are you, a cop?" or complete disinterest at the machinations of the mountain god. she's a tricky one to use, unfortunately. i do actually wonder somewhat if that's why zun introduced sannyo - a second crack at the same idea, but who's a bit more connected to everything else
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sukimas · 1 year ago
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After reading a lot of your posts about Reimu's role within Gensoukyou and how the status quo operates, I had a hypothetical question/thought exercise: if there was a particularly intuitive human villager who was able to intuit that the youkai of Gensoukyou aren't allowed to attack the human village, then was able to extrapolate from there that the purpose of the human village is for them to believe in youkai, and then begin to try to convince the other villagers of this and that they could hypothetically destroy the youkai by not believing, would Reimu be compelled to address this, and on what grounds in her stated official capacity? Or would this be handled differently in order to maintain the status quo?
I realize there's several dozen reasons that something like this wouldn't/couldn't happen in the first place, and it could easily be easily solved by "powers that be stage villager's murder by unwitting smalltime youkai and then Reimu Resolves The Incident" but the nature of Reimu's role is new information to me (most of my familiarity with Touhou is through fan games, which seem mostly interested in doing EoSD) so I was wondering if you could provide any more insight.
Reimu would theoretically be compelled to address this as part of her duties, yes. This is part of the reason for basically every conflict in Forbidden Scrollery, but especially the final one; Kosuzu has been becoming less and less afraid of youkai (and indeed close to becoming one herself). Humans becoming youkai is not necessarily a problem in that they’d all change for the personal benefits, but that they’d go “Oh, youkai are my neighbors. They can’t be that bad.”
In general it would be pretty hard to convince the villagers not to believe in youkai, since their lives are affected by them to such an extent; it’s like telling them to not believe in the sun, or the weather. That’s the reason that an isolated little village in the mountains was chosen in the first place; everyone there still believed in youkai even in 1885, so the boundary of common and uncommon sense could form around it. It’s the type of place the stories in Kwaidan sprang from.
Even though it would be hard to convince the villagers not to believe, though, it would still be a problem. Likely one addressed by the youkai rather than by Reimu, though, like how the Vampire Incident (not EoSD, a different one) was solved by the sages. The Hakurei shrine maiden can’t go out and kill people for no (seeming) reason; she has to be believed to be on the side of humans. But she would be compelled to look the other way at whatever happened and clean up afterwards.
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Dolls in Pseudo Paradise:
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Maybe I should have posted this one earlier, seeing as it came out simultaneously with Embodiment of Scarlet Devil way back in 2002.
Dolls in Pseudo Paradise was ZUN's first album. It actually did not feature Maribel Hearn or Renko Usami. Instead, it told a murder mystery story about 8 thieves who found their way into Gensokyo through a hole in a peach tree, only for one of them to become a youkai and slowly kill the rest, one by one. At the end the killer tries to hang themselves out of guilt, but is unable to because being a youkai made her too strong to be hung. A Hakurei Shrine maiden reports on the events as if they're a regular occurrence. Gensokyo is the titular "pseudo paradise", after all.
It's arguably one of the darkest stories Touhou has ever told, but the soundtrack itself is beautiful and harrowing. It also has a somber reality subtext to it, since almost all of the Touhou tracks on it are from the PC-98 games, making it a sort of last hurrah for them. It also features tracks from Seihou Project, an indie game series ZUN worked on, but only as a composer. Additionally, "U.N. Owen Was Her?", Flandre Scarlet's boss theme from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, is towards the end of the album. One of my personal favorite songs from it is its rendition of "Eternal Shrine Maiden", the first level theme of the first Touhou game.
ZUN also rereleased the album the following Comiket, but with the story removed and replaced with shorter stories for each song. They're no less macabre, however, and contain things such as dolls with human eyeballs, or a half-bird man being used at a circus freak show.
The girls in the above images have no names. They are on the jacket and CD label of the album, respectively, so fans just call them Jacket Girl and Label Girl. It's usually theorized that Jacket Girl was the killer in the story, since they're described as a blonde girl, and that Label Girl is a previous generation Hakurei Shrine maiden, considering her outfit's colors. However, other people suspect the killer in the story is someone who appears regularly in the main series, such as Flandre Scarlet or Alice Margatroid.
Apparently, ZUN actually made the entire album without any intention of restarting Touhou Project, and had finished it in 2001. However, he was unable to get the proper license to distribute it at Comiket that year. In between conventions, he decided to make a game to go along with the album, and the rest is history.
Listen to it here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCDF30B0282398468
"There are eight less people in this paradise, "Gensokyo", and seven corpses were carried off by youkai. Gensokyo has lost these honest men forever. It's just a change in the population count.
Not important news in the least."
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originspeed · 1 month ago
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Yapping about story stuff for my Red x Reimu crackship, read on if you're interested :3
Been thinking about stuff for my Red x Reimu stuff and the thought of writing a story has been on my mind for a bit. I kinda see that comicy thing I was doing as a sort of test run of sorts so I wonder if I could handle actually making a proper story for it. The thing is though, I'm not quite sure where to place the story in the timeline for both series. The idea has been Red gets plucked off Mt. Silver after his defeat by the Gen 2 protagonist which would place the year at minimum at 1999. If I am to say the Pokémon world for this story is just Gensokyo's outside world and not bother with multiversal shenanigans then Touhou's story would be after Mystic Square but before Embodiment of Scarlet Devil; if the year those games released are to be the year they also take place anyway. I'm kind of just wondering how I'd write that. I think it'd be okay to use some characters from the Windows era purely for Red's stuff, at least to get him from Muenzuka to the Hakurei Shrine / generally traverse Gensokyo. I think that's all I got, kinda just felt like typing as I think. Don't wanna give away too much of what I got planned... that is, if I actually end up putting pen to paper. Let me know what y'all think, I'm always open to new ideas and suggestions for the things I do and that's especially true for my writing. Don't really know how I'm actually gonna post the story tbh, I guess I'll just type it in a Google Doc and then screenshot it? I'll figure something out lol.
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evilisk · 5 months ago
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Another year, another Touhou Popularity Poll.
My picks and reasoning below. (Wall of text warning)
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Seiga / Miko / Mamizou: They're still my favorite characters in the series, though Miko had my favorite canon appearance this year in Lotus Eaters. Very impressive of Miko to, not only outsmart Mamizou, but to also immobilize Suika for a few days.
Oni lore in Touhou (until now) was that "oni are basically impossible to deal with, since the art of fighting/exterminating oni has been lost to time". Even Touhou's specialest girl couldn't do anything in WaHH's climax, so this is a pretty big glow up for Miko (yeah, I know Futo actually did that. But we all know who Futo takes orders from and stans.).
At this point, I believe that the only reason Foul Detective's nostalgia train only goes up to Touhou 12 is because if you go up to Touhou 13, you'd have to involve Miko, and between her hyper-competence AND her desire reading ability (which would be a hard counter to Mizuchi's possession) she'd have Mizuchi caught in under 10 minutes. /miko tangent over.
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The other votes were a lot harder. I haven't gotten to play ANY new Touhou games, official or fanmade, since I was banished to MacBook. Seriously, almost nothing works. (Bless Chinese Touhou fangame developers for usually having Mac compatibility).
The other votes:
Nitori Kawashiro:
When I was first getting into Touhou, I was kind of a Nitori hater. It's not hard to understand why. She's basically that one money hand sign as a character. You know the one:
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Though she's still not a character I find subjectively appealing, I have to admit she's a decently written Touhou character overall.
I still find her a bit annoying, but I realize now that's probably a bit intentional. Whenever Nitori appears, it's usually in conflict with other characters. (I'm going off memory here but) I don't think we ever really start with Nitori's perspective first. It's some other character, like Reimu, Marisa or even Mamizou, noticing a scheme and then learning later it was a Kappa conspiracy.
We only see her when she's in the middle of a scheme, and it feels like her schemes are consistently successful, so it's easy to see her as constantly getting her way. After re-reading a few chapters, I realize it's not that simple. Is she motivated by money? Sure. But she also does things that benefit her species. E.g. the Seven Wonders chapter in Forbidden Scrollery, where they just want to scare away humans so they can access one of their warehouses because of the weather. If ZUN ever did a full Kappa manga, and we got to see the highs and lows of Kappa society, I think we'd be more sympathetic to Nitori vs seeing her as a little money gremlin constantly "winning".
The one thing that's really unique to Nitori is that she's completely open to doing mercenary work. She's worked for both the Hakurei and Moriya Shrines, which the other youkai schemers don't usually do. She's collaborated with Reimu without any extra motives beyond "gimme a cut too". I actually respect how practical Nitori is in general. She's not a 4D chess master like Mamizou, Yukari or Miko. It's just "yeah, we don't need want any trouble, we just need to access our warehouse close to the Human Village".
I also think Nitori getting a *little* owned in Foul Detective Satori helped a lot too:
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It's funny out of context and very cathartic if you're a Nitori hater. But if you're sympathetic to Nitori, it's actually humanizing to see that Nitori is a good enough leader for the regular Kappa to have this kind of reaction.
I don't think you need to like Nitori, and you certainly don't have to vote for her. But I do think you have to appreciate what she brings to the series. Because it's a lot more than most of Touhou's popular characters (seriously, who are these Momiji fans voting her so high in the Popularity Poll?!)
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These other votes aren't going to be as in-depth but
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Sannyo Komakusa
She's just a neat character.
We get a lot of extra worldbuilding from her (she has a Gambling Den on the Youkai Mountain, she's from a subspecies of Yamanaba that was introduced in Touhou 16), I like that she's joined the Lotus Eaters gang and Sannyo X Mamizou has become my favorite Mamizou ship.
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Komachi Onozuka
This vote was carried by my Labyrinth of Touhou 1 playthrough. She's a very useful character in that game, and she's also useful in LOT2's main game, even though she falls off in both game (and is generally a lot worse in LOT2).
I've also really started to love her theme, Higan Riverside, specifically the mix on one of the Hifuu CDs.
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Nemuno Sakata
My underrated fave from Touhou 16. Like Sannyo, we got some worldbuilding for the Youkai Mountain. I also just love her design. She looks like "a Cavewoman but Touhou", which is super unique and also really fits her backstory (she's from a very isolated youkai race). I also love the completely unnecessary ribbon on her knife.
It's crazy that I didn't vote for her once until now.
The Runner Ups?
I didn't really have any because of the Mac Gaming problem I mentioned earlier. The only games I've been able to play are Touhou Mystia's Izakaya (which is fine, but hasn't changed my opinion on specific characters), Touhou Lost Branch of Legend (same deal) and Labyrinth of Touhou 1 and 2 (thankfully able to emulate on Mac, but I've played those games to death).
I guess I could have voted Akyuu instead of Komachi, but then all the recent stuff hadn't happened. Call me a hipster, but I hate all the recent attention she's gotten. I know most of you didn't even know who Akyuu was before this week.
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paradise-in-k4 · 4 months ago
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The Gap in the Evening, Report Entry 0: “Retrospective in Retrograde”
The night was dark. But then again, the nights are always dark here. Darker than they were in the last month. But that didn’t stop us from trying to uncover the mystery behind the mega crater that was a thousand times the diameter of Lake Suwa. I had made the hypothesis that this was part of a rogue meteor shower that wiped a whole town and the surrounding mountains off the map, but that couldn’t have been more wrong. Using her ability to see the boundary between what I inferred at the time as past and present, Maribel had realized that the area was alive and well. The story we had heard about a meteor wiping out a whole prefecture and then some was a cover-up, and we had to see this through as we crossed the boundary.
What we had witnessed was beyond belief. We bore witness to a practically untouched Japanese civilization that could date back to feudal times while boasting limited technology that could match the 21st century’s technological advances. Perhaps this was the land that Maribel had talked about visiting so much in her dreams. Was this a discarded second satellite whose mission was to compensate the assumed total loss of the TORIFUNE? Or maybe a botched attempt to test anti-gravity theories with cutting-edge technologies?
Our musings were cut off by one of the residents who claimed to have built her house in the nearby forest, introducing herself as Marisa Kirisame. As genuine as she sounded, her attire just screamed “modern day witch” with her cone-shaped long-brimmed hat accompanied by a poofy dress adorned with ribbons accompanied by a matching broomstick and what I can only assume- from one tabletop gaming session- is a magic focus of her own design. She said that something was wrong with her friend- a shrine maiden whose charge protected this whole region- and one of the authority figures of the land, asking us to help her out with some research in a parallel world where her sealed land of fantasy hadn’t yet gone through an incident of this magnitude. Using a parasol that she had been given from the aforementioned authority figure, she opened a second rift similar in quality to the one that Maribel had found. After being given a list of names of people who were said to belong in both worlds, we stepped headlong through the boundary into a parallel world. One that many called Gensokyo.
-Renko Usami
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msgameandcake · 9 months ago
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Thinking about the old "Reimu is Mario and Sanae is Luigi" meme.
Thinking about how Marisa, with her black and white outfit, matches some of Wario's early appearances, alongside her blonde hair giving her yellow in her color scheme too.
Thinking about Marisa having a Sanae-like rival, and Sanae having a Marisa-like rival. The Waluigi of the quartet. Some sort of Ordinary Magician Of The Outside World who could visit the Moriya Shrine near-daily.
Maybe Sanae met her in Former Hell, while the Moriyas were setting up the nuclear reactor, somewhat mirroring how Reimu met Marisa in/near Makai for the first time in TH2; SoEW.
Maybe the repeated mirroring of Reimu's attributes results in this new girl circling back around to being rather Reimu-like again, but under a different context. Sometimes it seems like Reimu wouldn't go about resolving incidents if it weren't her job. She is certainly down for violence when need be, but it seems like she'd much rather relax. This is in contrast to the much more outgoing Marisa and Sanae who practically jump at resolving any incident they catch sight of. This new girl, in turn, gives an idea of what Reimu might've been like if she hadn't been given the responsibility of the Hakurei Shrine. She is legitimately good enough at magic to generally keep up with the protagonists in danmaku, at least as much as any typical playable character, but she just isn't that into incident resolving. Maybe Reimu and Marisa even met her during the events of 11, SA, Marisa getting her new rival just after Reimu got her own with Sanae, but then this girl just proceeded to hang out occasionally and not actually do any notable combat. At least, not any that would warrant being depicted from our perspective. She is just offscreen, just outside the panels, which would be fitting for someone I previously described as a Waluigi to round out the quartet.
Another way she might mirror Reimu enough to circle back around to being Reimu-like is potentially a connection of some sort to one of the sages. Specifically, with her being consistently offscreen, I think of Okina. Maybe Okina brought her in specifically to see how Outside World humans function these days when given a legitimate chance, helping her get started on learning magic before letting her go off on her own. I don't envision Okina as her boss exactly, I think being a free operative makes her a better counterpart to Marisa in comparison to Reimu and Sanae both having people they work for, but rather this gal is Okina's experiment. After Okina got the ball rolling she has kept an eye on the girl, but doesn't substantially interfere with her shenanigans unless she thinks it would be really funny/cool/interesting.
There are definitely more elements to consider for her. Like, I mentioned her meeting the characters in Former Hell, but I don't think that is where she lives. She probably just trained there, similar to how its been stated that magicians train in Makai. This girl just didn't have access to Makai so she tried to find the next best option available to her. If she isn't learning magic to work towards resolving incidents, then why is she doing it? Maybe Okina convinced her that she'd need to in order to survive? Maybe she has a particular goal mirroring Marisa's desire for immortality? Maybe where Marisa says "I want to live forever!" this girl is going "I'd really rather not die tomorrow."
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system-sixteen · 1 year ago
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my ideas for the miyadeguchi's relationship with the hakurei
unknown family (five generations) > miyadeguchi (two generations) > hakurei (final six gens to this day)
they, by a certain definition, have each served the hakurei shrine, with the next clan starting off as loyal students just before the previous folks are completely done
mizuchi did everything just plain perfectly and looked down upon the entire hakurei clan, back when she was alive and it used to be the "miyadeguchi shrine". allowed the power and lofty status to get to her head, you see. unfortunately, one day, mizuchi never came back, so the hakurei took it upon themselves to pick up the slack. fast forward to when reimu's in her early teens, learning the ropes on being a shrine maiden.
mizuchi intervenes while reimu's actual moms (one of whom remarried a long time after losing her husband/reimu's dad to a natural disease) hold a festival just to torture all the hakurei and reshape gensokyo into her own kingdom
it all descends into fucking CHAOS
amidst the now smog-covered skies, reimu fights like heck but mizuchi zaps the girl's worst fear into reality - not to toy with her or drive her mad, but to atomize her and then do the same to all the humans and youkai who've been friendly with each other
after mizuchi's intervention, reimu's left buried under rubble, comatose as her great-great-great grand aunt breaks her mommies down and sadistically one-shots them, before wiping out so many innocent youkai that they practically lose their minds. only an old turtle, amidst the destruction, comes along undetected and pulverizes some of the debris to snag the bloodied, beaten girl and drag her away from further harm. eventually mended by magic, the 13-or-14-year-old reimu snaps awake in a frenzy screaming for her parents.
genjii calms her down, then reimu explains all she remembers was going in for the kill against great-aunt mizuchi. genjii doesn't remember it that way: all he saw was mizuchi legitimately defeating the yakumos, kasen, and okina. all he could even do was dig reimu out of the rubble. he points out that her heart seemed to have stopped and he revived her several minutes before she bit the dust. reimu thinks it was her own fault and lets out a deafening...something constituting as a yell as she grieves.
the new hakurei miko, after three years of so-painful-it's-ridiculous training only interspersed by odd jobs to get supplies for her new "gramps", notices something is sus with the hakurei shrine. from there, soew plays out, except reimu mistakes mima for mizuchi at first. this doesn't earn her any favors with mima (whom i headcanon as being similar to the gashadokuro) or her most loyal student, marisa. however, by the end of pc-98, reimu gets to know both of them better now that she and marisa are young adults. and the rest is history.
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perfectvoidofnothing · 2 years ago
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Introductory Post! (My God I can't believe I'm doing this)
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Hi! I'm Clarissa! Briar is fine too. I go by She/They. When I was young I used to scavange through ask blogs and other things on this website, and today's the day I finally made an account.
Interaction Rules!
My Interaction Rules can mostly be found in my carrd but the gist is that I am really shy and introverted, so please be patient with me. Tone tags are appreciated! But please use tone tags when joke flirting with me (I can get confusing signals lmao)
DNI!
Obivously, don't interact if you go against any minority, don't interact if you support problematic people, don't interact if you sexualize any minors/alternative fashions, and don't interact if you are a proshipper. (Again, check carrd for more details)
Interests!
Touhou: Imperishable Night is my favorite game, while my most favorite character is a tie between Marisa Kirisame, Reimu Hakurei and Alice Margatroid. Fun Fact that famous Bad Apple video is what got me into Touhou in the first place.
Pretty Cure: I got into the entire franchise just last year and I'm currently watching the entire seasons from start to finish (By the time I'm typing this I'm in DokiDoki Precure). The OG and Max Heart have my heart while Cure Black and Cure Blossom are my favorites. I also love the All Star movies cause I'm a big sucker for crossovers.
Sailor Moon: I watched Crystal and the Eternal Movie on Netflix, and I'm currently reading the Manga! I would get into the 90s anime since I seen so many clips on Youtube (its so funny) but considering how many Precure episodes I have to watch, I can't. (Maybe someday!) I love Hotaru Tomoe. Can't say the same thing for Mamoru Chiba (especially during the first arc of the manga/crystal UGH-)
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The intro slaps and I'm also currently in the middle of watching the series. I know all about the dark themes and enjoy the symbolism even if I dont get it at first. (I could ramble about how the show is amazing tbh)
Ib: One of my favorite games of all time, please tell me people remember this game.
Mad Father: Same vein as Ib, again please tell me people remember this game.
Lolita Fashion: I have a few skirts and blouses (still need to get a petticoat lmao). I particularly like Gothic and Classic Lolita Fashion.
The Garden (OC World): My Toyhou.se is pretty bare bones about the world, and partially making this Tumblr is to talk about more about my OCs (in general). Either expect very long blocks of text or half-lazy art (thats what I see my art atleast).
Editing: Besides drawing, I also make video edits! Check out my Instagram to check them out (My instagram page also links to my tiktok page so check that out if you want).
Honorable Mentions! (/other interests that do kinda count but they aren't really that big)
Doki Doki Literature Club!: Monika is Best Girl
Undertale/Deltarune: Yes, I was an Undertale person during that big boom. I also used to hate Chara, but now I love them and believe that Chara and Asriel deserve the world.
Monster High/Ever After High: They were my childhood. I really don't mind GEN 3, and I actually find it fascinating (we don't talk about GEN 2).
Portal: The first game I bought on steam, and played both of them. We need more content (not a 3rd game, just new content).
BFDI: Also a childhood show I grew up. Something about objects competing for an Island really stuck with me.
Alright, that's enough typing. I'm not even sure if this is too long but it feels like it. If this didn't repel you from me, feel free to stick around!
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khajiit-journal · 10 hours ago
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Sundas, Morning Star 05, 2025
( Sunday, January 05, 2025 )
Dream interpretation first.
So. Alucard was there. My only knowledge of Alucard is from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged (but I need to watch the original anime).
So like. Me and him were heralded as gods because we lived in a very quiet world and we had very loud cars (I hate loud cars by the way), so these four guys heard our cars in the distance and went "Yup. That's divine." But the problem is, they were essentially fascists, so Alucard shot them. Which, fair. I don't like the idea of being heralded as a god either so they deserved it for two reasons.
I lived in this recurrent tower that had a giant mall attached, and I lived at the very top and a key was needed to get to there from the elevator.
As well, in a prior dream, I was cooking and messing with materials and came across a snail. Now, a previous dream gave me a previous snail. So now my snail has a buddy. In my recurrent setting I have a bunch of terrariums and I keep a lot of different creatures.
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So, today, I mostly started and opened up two new sideblogs (I apparently have a penchant for doing that in twos) for Touhou Project and Pokémon PCP/PCW respectively.
It snowed today. Not terribly much, but I collected some snow together. I got a full jar of snow which will be about a third of a jar of water, because snow is mostly air. I wasn't expecting to get so much so easily. I labeled it to not forget, and to not accidentally drink it.
I honored Letty Whiterock and Articuno for the snow. I thank them and appreciate them deeply.
I think that I'm gonna work more on quick starts, because I have plenty of time and want to.
I know how to do it for Pokémon, the spirits that aren't Gods, as a more general thing. Talk about the Pokémon, talk about what you can work with them for, etc, because with something like that everyone is gonna get an entirely different experience.
I'm mostly working on my TES one though, I wrote some for Reimu's quick start before giving up and working on Meridia's.
I haven't done anything much else today. I did the two readings I had to do, and I just got another one that I'll do tomorrow morning, and other than that I've mostly just been setting blogs up and chilling. Until bedtime I think I'm gonna work on Meridia's quick start. It's already partially done, so I just need to finish it, but I won't pressure myself to do so tonight. Then I'll try and work more on Reimu Hakurei's and maybe start Kanako Yasaka's in preparation for year of the snake. But I gotta make sure I get Haki done by the 24th, at least I want to have it done by then. Because I have to put arbitrary binds on myself in order to be properly productive.
I've gotten some more stuff done for the 13 days of January that I do for my TES religion. Just general cleansing. Cleaned my room up some. That was good, makes me feel a bit better.
I think that's all for today. No deep thoughts, no musing, no nothing. Just a sweet and relatively short post tonight.
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grimoiresofseveralmagicians · 5 months ago
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Section I, Chapter I - “Friends in Different Gensokyos”
“Gensokyo is full of many different kinds of people. Humans from outside… seemingly ageless youkai… practitioners of magic and medicine… people from the Moon… magicians like me… there’s a little bit of something for everyone. But with the Lost Word Incident going on, we’ve met a lot of different faces in a lot of different worlds. Some of them look the same as our friends back home, but could easily have a completely different story altogether!” -Marisa
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“When you first start your journey in Gensokyo (as a new account), you’ll have L1 Reimu and Marisa to compose the basics of a new team. However, you’ll also get a third L1 friend from a very limited group depending on your decision in Remilia’s Roll of Fate (the opening deal to start your collection) composed of six 3-Star Story Cards, four 4-Star Story Cards, and one of the following L1 characters: [Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Reisen Udongein Inaba, Cirno, Sakuya Izayoi, Sanae Kochiya, Youmu Konpaku]. If you aren’t satisfied with Remilia’s dealt hand, you can always decline and roll again until you have something you’re happy with! As this is a new account you’re working with, there’s no limit or currency penalties keeping you from re-rolling over and over again until you get what you want.” -Marisa
“Ayayayaya, here’s something else to consider too. Pick Reimu or Marisa in the roll, and you’ll already have a copy to use for your first Limit Break!” -Aya
“If this starter base isn’t convincing enough, a new player login calendar provides an Exchange Ema for a standard L1 character of your choice, while L1 Medicine Melancholy will also eventually follow you after you finish Chapter 1. These opportunities and more provide generous opening formulas for useful starting teams, but knowing their limits is key to knowing where and when you need someone else to resolve your latest incident. Depending on when you create a new account, events and Prayers exclusive to new players containing high-tier characters are made visible to you in order to gather the resources you need to resolve the incident in its early stages.” -Patchouli
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“Buuuuut… just know that the playable friends you have differ from the story’s main cast when they actually appear in the story. How? It’s explained early on that our Incident Resolver from the outside world has a journal that she uses to summon them like shikigami to join the fight. And those friends also aren’t gonna just drop all their story-based plot points on you just because you know them well… usually. There are a few exceptions that aren’t meant for this opening and more appropriate for the characters’ pages themselves because of specific spoilers.” -Yukari
Friends, also referred to as Units, are the playable characters in Touhou Lost Word. While all of them have different abilities and capabilities, they each have their own kit that makes them unique. Although everyone has their favorites there’s a catch. Just like any other live gacha game, there’s always someone out there that outshines the others and is more preferable for late-game content for simply having a better kit. The real challenge is building a team that works based on what you get in the gacha. And one more thing. Powercreep implied through release sometimes results in more recent characters doing better in gameplay compared to others of matching or similar rarities… but not always. Characters sometimes just resist being powercrept by newer ones because they fill all the right roles for content back then, right now, and in the future.
Guide to Understanding Your Friends
Page 1: Understanding Their Kit - The Uniqueness of Friends & Danmaku
Page 2: Leveling Up - Experience in the Field
Page 3: Enhancements - How to Use Incense
Page 4: Upgrades - Expanding Boundaries & Skillsets
Page 5: Limit Breaks & Parting Ways - Duplicates & You
Page 6: Awakening - Trust in the Heart of the Spell Cards
Page 7: Equipping Story Cards - Bolstering your Spell Cards
Page 8: Fantasy Rebirth - There & Back Again
Page 9: Customization - Creativity in Design
Page 10: Bonds of Friendship - Becoming Closer with New Friends
Page 11: Capacity - Did You Buy Enough Pages?
Page 12: Rarity - You Checked the Specifics, Right?
Page 13: Feeling Lucky? - The New Section on Luck as of Valentine’s 2024
[Character List and light Universe Descriptions begin beneath the break. Heads up, it’s long. All characters are sorted in lists by universe, so some (un)expected spoilers might follow by universe association.]
Total Known Playable Characters: 290
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“As for the universes themselves, each of them has a letter/number combo denoting the specific universe. This is usually followed by a number that represents the divergence factor of that universe within the larger multiverse. The higher the number, the lower the stability and the further a universe and associated person diverges. At least, that’s the cipher we came up with. It just stuck with a number of other people, and then we adapted the version in-game to publish here based on that cipher. However, upper management’s breakthroughs are making these codes slightly more complex to record, although I’m sure they had a reason for it.” -K4 Marisa
Friends here will be sorted alphabetically.
Universe L1 - Our Gensokyo
“Home sweet home. This is where you’ll usually meet a lot of Gensokyo’s residents who’re willing to help out and resolve this incident like how we resolved countless other incidents in the past. Several masterminds behind those past incidents are even willing to help, although some are less cooperative (and usually more annoying) than others.” -Reimu
“This universe has the most stability of this series, although universal convergences and divergences are VERY commonplace here. Is it due to the looming Lost Word Incident and the constant stream of Events that happen here? Or the fact that the costumes meant for your Friends in this universe can cause larger deviations? Everything has an explanation as to how those things aren’t tearing this universe apart, but it’s most likely due to its stability factor of 1 and how everyone in this Gensokyo’s gone through every recorded incident and event recorded on the internet. It’s almost as if there’s other outside people like Sumireko that are documenting everything going on here in this Gensokyo! Maybe even the fan-made conceptual works as well…” -K4 Marisa
Universe L1 features many, MANY characters from the “canon” universe of the series. Roughly half the roster of playable characters come from this universe. Every standard Friend can be found here and pulled from any Prayer pool, but a few of them are Festival characters and only appear in certain banners and events, as well as the “My First Exchange Ema” which allows you to choose a friend from this universe to meet directly with some restrictions. Eika specifically appears in two permanent banners which you can only access after gaining special tickets from Divergent Spirit boss fights. Yuuma is simply just a Festival-limited friend. But regardless of whether they’re General or Festival, you can always use Paper Dolls to Limit Break them, which makes them relatively to max out at level 100 depending on how much you play the game and clear tasks if you don’t pull any duplicates.
Known Entries: 121
Alice Margatroid
Aunn Komano
Aya Shameimaru
Benben Tsukumo
Byakuren Hijiri
Chen
Chimata Tenkyuu (FES)
Cirno
Clownpiece
Daiyousei
Doremy Sweet
Eika Ebisu (Divergent)
Eirin Yagokoro
Eternity Larva
Flandre Scarlet
Fujiwara no Mokou
Hata no Kokoro
Hatate Himekaidou
Hecatia Lapislazuli
Hieda no Akyuu
Hina Kagiyama
Hong Meiling
Ibaraki-Douji’s Arm
Ichirin Kumoi
Iku Nagae
Joon Yorigami
Junko
Kagerou Imaizumi
Kaguya Houraisan
Kanako Yasaka
Kasen Ibaraki
Keiki Haniyasushin
Keine Kamishirasawa
Kisume
Koakuma
Kohasa Tatara
Koishi Komeiji
Komanchi Onozuka
Kosuzu Motoori
Kutaka Niwatari
Kyouko Kasodani
Letty Whiterock
Lily White
Luna Child
Lunasa Prismriver
Lyrica Prismriver
Mai Teireida
Mamizou Futatsuiwa
Marisa Kirisame
Mayumi Joutouguu
Medicine Melancholy
Megamu Iizunamaru (FES)
Merlin Prismriver
Mike Goutokuji
Minamitsu Murasa
Minoriko Aki
Misumaru Tamatsukiri
Momiji Inubashiri
Momoyo Himemushi (FES)
Mononobe no Futo
Mystia Lorelei
Narumi Yatadera
Nazrin
Nemuno Sakata
Nitori Kawashiro
Nue Houjuu
Okina Matara
Parsee Mizuhashi
Patchouli Knowledge
Raiko Horikawa
Ran Yakumo
Reimu Hakurei
Reisen
Reisen Udongein Inaba
Remilia Scarlet
Rin Kaenbyou
Ringo
Rumia
Sagume Kishin
Saki Kurokama
Sakuya Izayoi
Sanae Kochiya
Sannyo Komakusa
Satono Nishida
Satori Komeiji
Seiga Kaku
Seija Kijin
Seiran
Sekibanki
Shiki Eiki, Yamaxanadu
Shinmyoumaru Sukuna
Shion Yorigami
Shizuha Aki
Shou Tomamaru
Soga no Tojiko
Star Sapphire
Suika Ibuki
Sumireko Usami
Sunny Milk
Suwako Moriya
Takane Yamashiro
Tenshi Hinanawi
Tewi Inaba
Toyosatomimi no Miko
Tsukasa Kudamaki
Urumi Ushizaki
Utsuho Reiuji
Wakasagihime
Watatsuki no Toyohime
Watatsuki no Yorihime
Wriggle Nightbug
Yachie Kicchou
Yamame Kurodani
Yatsuhashi Tsukumo
Yoshika Miyako
Youmu Konpaku
Yukari Yakumo
Yuugi Hoshiguma
Yuuka Kazami
Yuuma Toutetsu
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Universe L10.1 - Neverending Music Festival
“Eh?! Is that… US?!” -Reimu
“I think so! That’s you and Marisa right there! And they’re… holding a rock concert like the ones in the outside world! We gotta find out more about this!” -Sumireko
Universe L10.1 is a sub-universe that was added a few weeks after LostWord’s 3rd anniversary containing two Epic Friends. More research is needed to understand their kits. However, we can assume they’re gonna perform highly based on their rarity, their release date, and the fact that this theme exists because of an IRL concert based on music from this game and possibly the greater Touhou series.
Known Entries: 2
Marisa Kirisame
Reimu Hakurei
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Multiverse L? - Hifuu Investigations
“This is where our examinations into this side of the situation began.” -K4 Renko
“Examinations? Situation? What are you anyway, some kinda incident resolver?” -Reimu
“It’s a complicated process that I’ll talk with you about later in private. Too much to explain, and I don’t think some of the people here would understand the entirety of this side of the incident, nor the reasoning for how these codexes were drawn up. But to answer your question directly, yes I am indeed an incident resolver in my home universe.” -K4 Renko
The answers found in the characters of this multiverse can be found mainly in the “Hifuu” story of the game; a side story that follows another presence of the protagonist that is actually a different perspective of the whole plot altogether, as well as her interactions with Hifuu Club members Renko Usami and Maribel Hearn. Their side story also includes interactions with Universes B3 and E9, both of which also have a role to play in the main story somehow… but that’s for you to find out until we make spoiler pages. This sub-divided multiverse features kits that are known to take top tiers in both the discontinued Wiki’s tier list and current tier lists found in the official Discord server.
Renko Usami
Maribel Hearn
Sanae Kochiya specifically is the only “Pure” character in the game so far as of May 10th, 2024, where you can Limit Break her with ONLY her own duplicates. This will make things very difficult for you if you have Shion’s bad luck with her banners or don’t have enough money to force-buy her pity prize when she appears.
For Renko and Maribel, they are “Genic” characters that only appear in highly selective Prayer pools and form tag-teams with other characters. How does that work? The Hifuu Club member interacts with you in the lobby while the being they’ve teamed up with does the actual fighting with a kit slated to their lore… so in actuality you’ve got PC-98 characters Shinki and Mima and Gengetsu and Mugetsu as playable characters while Renko and Maribel are just here for lore reasons. Their rarity is stated as equal to Relic characters, so they also use Relic Paper Discs to Limit Break. Consider it an advisory on the potential difficulty on maxing them out if you don’t prepare properly for their banner (or buy/stockpile some spare paper discs).
Known Entries: 9
Renko Usami & Gengetsu (LR1)
Maribel Hearn & Mima (LM1)
Maribel Hearn & Mugetsu (LM1)
Sanae Kochiya (L0g - Broken Line of Forsaken Rites)
Renko Usami & Shinki (LR1)
Universe Lr - [Shikigami Unclear]
“This was always a bit of a tricky one for us back in our office, but we’re doing what we can to make sense of it… I hope. What did they say the ‘r’ stood for again?” -K4 Marisa
“Idk lol. Ran?” -Sumireko
“Don’t put those shorthand expressions in these grimoires. But seeing how the Violet Detector Incident went as we review the feasibility of your actual answer… the others might let it slide anyway.” -Patchouli
Universe Lr has four Ultra Festival Friends that are currently exclusive to Ultra Festival events and specific Prayer banners. They tend to do much better in battle than their L1 counterparts due to their abundant breaks and modifiers, but situations may dictate who’s the better parallel presence for the job. Their temperaments have changed to adjust to two separate temperaments coming together: their own, and the shikigami they’ve inherited.
They all have special roles in both sides of the plot, but I’m not saying what those roles are here. What I can say here though is that they’ve essentially become the servants of another universe’s Yukari Yakumo (Aya/Nitori) or Okina Matara (Kokoro/Flandre).
Aya Shameimaru (Pseudo-Shikigami: Zendouki Gugaku)
Flandre Scarlet (Pseudo-Servant: Nishita)
Hata no Kokoro (Pseudo-Servant: Teireita)
Nitori Kawashiro (Pseudo Shikigami: Myoudouki Giken)
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Universe L80 - The Edge of Oblivion
“There it is… the End of the Line. This is what happens when the Lost Word Incident erases a massive part of a world and sends it into forgotten oblivion. But these ladies aren’t going down quietly. No, not yet. Far from it. Once you put the pieces of their stories together, they’re just getting started, and they’re on the hunt for the mastermind behind this entire Lost Word Incident. And I think we’ve found their paper trail…” -K4 Marisa
“And each one comes with a super rocking music video from a dev-side massive collaborative MV project! That’s what makes the appeal UBER COOL!!!” -Sumireko
“Their stories and elemental resolve indicate multiple factors. They are all Relic Friends that exclusively require Relic Paper Disks to Limit Break them as substitutes. Their power through danmaku is almost unmatched by anyone else in any Gensokyo, often featuring a large amount of bullets with elemental breaks, shot add-ons, and multiple killer-bound critical factors. Two such killer modifiers seen on almost every shot they have are ‘Parallel Presence-Killer’ and ‘Mastermind (LW)-Killer’ which pinpoints their intentions to find the mastermind or masterminds of the Lost Word Incident… whoever they are.” -Patchouli
“Wanna cross-examine who might be the mastermind? Enter a danmaku battle- er- ‘battle of bullets’ with anyone from this list against someone who you think seems suspicious, then check their bullet lines while you’re targeting the one you think seems suspect. If the ‘Mastermind (LW)-Killer’ modifier on any of their bullet lines flashes red while you’re targeting someone who has this trait, then AYAYAYAYAYAYAYA! You just found a bad guy potentially before they do their big reveal!” -Aya
Universe L80 is completely composed of Relic Friends that only appear in specifically-listed Prayer banners and Exchange Emas. The soundtracks which play by default when they play Spell Cards are based on music videos produced as part of a collaborative project with the LostWord development team, and the specific song associated with each character is also that character’s title.
They perform significantly better than their counterparts in almost every other universe- often breaking the EX-tier- and have exclusive access to the “Mastermind (LW)-Killer” modifier, which targets “Someone Else” who is revealed in the main storyline to be the mastermind of this game’s main incident. Their abundance of breaks, modifiers, (de)buffs, barrier status controls, and skill depth make them stand out as primary top-tier characters, but their reliance on Relic Paper Disks as stand-ins for dupes for Limit Breaking makes them significantly difficult to limit break for free, often resulting in lengthy grind fests for the few events that offer these Paper Disks for free.
This universe has not directly appeared in any part of the main plot, but each character has their own story which you can access for free in the “Ruins of Memory” section of the Special subheading in the Explore menu. Each of those levels feature the highlighted character as a Guest, which allows you to experience their playstyle to certain extents depending on their release date (because they changed the accessibility/power of those guest kits over time, EX: Remilia’s abilities being extremely limited in her guest level since she was one of the first characters of the rarity to be introduced) on your first round in said stage. These stages explain a different story featuring other characters who you really shouldn’t know about until you go deeper into the main storylines.
Known Entrants: 20
Alice Margatroid (Sporadically Margaret)
Flandre Scarlet (I’m Alright!)
Fujiwara no Mokou (Silver Gale)
Hong Meiling (Be the change)
Kaguya Mouraisan (Moonlit Festival!)
Kanako Yasaka (Blue Goodbyes)
Kasen Ibaraki (PHANTOM PAIN)
Koishi Komeiji (Moon Reverie)
Marisa Kirisame (Night-Splitting Light)
Okina Matara (Sorrow’s Exit)
Patchouli Knowledge ((TT) Precious Words)
Reimu Hakurei (Karma Speed)
Reisen Udongein Inaba (Moonlit Festival!)
Remilia Scarlet (The Heat of My Fingertips)
Sakuya Izayoi (The Moon and Izayoi)
Sanae Kochiya (Hand in Hand With a Miracle)
Satori Komeiji (NAЯAKA)
Suwako Moriya (TataeLost)
Youmu Konpaku (Disillusion)
Yuyuko Saigyouji (Boundary of Time)
Universe AA - Take it Easy
“Don’t ask, I’m just as confused as you are.” -Kit
Universe AA is a rather… unusual case. Unlike everything we’ve seen before, they’ve added Yukkuris to the game in a special story called “Yukkuri, Yukkuri, & You” on September 13th, 2024. You can only meet them through a special permanent prayer banner, which has tickets available from said story. They can only Limit Break using copies of themselves, which is a simple ask compared to L0g Sanae since the new banner is permanent and only drops them. They still act as full playable characters, and they’re all capable of taking it easy.
Known Entries: 2
Yukkuri Marisa
Yukkuri Reimu
Multiverse Type A - Alternate Incidents
“This universe class requires a different approach regarding the cipher we use to refer to those universes. The number that is attached after the A doesn’t refer to a universe divergence scale. It instead refers to the number a game holds in the canonical Touhou series starting with 6, also known by the outside world as the start of the ‘Windows Era.’ A1 to A5 do not pose any threat in terms of universal stability and inhabitant behavior, to which everyone in what the outside world refers to as the ‘PC-98 Era.’ Most of the people we have on this list come from a universe that indicates their first notable appearance, but numerous exceptions are also present. But one question still remains across every universe here: did each universe’s source incident get resolved at all? Or are they still going…?” -K4 Marisa
“Nue’s recent presence as of June 13, 2024 as our first EX friend with a sub-codex in universe A12 is making everyone’s job that much harder. But then again, she is unidentified for a reason. However, Eternal Larva’s appearance on our radar with the same “&” symbol in her universe codex as a subset of universe A16 might suggest a correlation on how these EX-grade people appear.” -K4 Renko
“Wait… if Rumia appears as an EX character from universe A6& or something, that’ll cover a popular fandom interpretation on a lot of people’s lists!” -Sumireko
“You’ve jinxed it.” -Patchouli, several weeks later
All A-Type Friends with a simplified universe code are considered Festival Friends who only appear in select Prayer pools and events such as Forever Prayers. They tend to do better when compared to their L1 counterparts due to their increased shot modifiers and elemental breaks, but these cases can sometimes be situational depending on the roles you need to fill on your team. Their Killer modifiers will often target opposing factions depending on their role in their introductory/highlighted game, while their dialogue often refers back to them during the events of a specific universe. Some characters might appear multiple times and even in universes featuring games before their own formal introduction.
As for the characters with a “&” symbol in their universe code, they are Festival EX friends with currently exclusive prayer banners that feature them in a completely different light. Specifically, they are portrayed as their potential grown-up selves. To Limit Break your EX characters, you either need a duplicate of them or a Jumbo Paper Doll found in very specific events and exchanges.
Known Entries: 54
Universe A6 - Embodiment of (Scarlet) Devil
Alice Margatroid
Cirno
Daiyousei
Flandre Scarlet
Hong Meiling
Koakuma
Lunasa Prismriver
Lyrica Prismriver
Marisa Kirisame
Merlin Prismriver
Patchouli Knowledge
Reimu Hakurei
Remilia Scarlet
Rumia
Rumia (A6&)
Sakuya Izayoi
Sunny Milk
Tenshi Hinanawi
Youmu Konpaku
Yukari Yakumo
Yuuka Kazami
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Universe A7 - Perfect (Cherry Blossom)
“If some of them appear twice here, it’s no mistake. It’s the conception of multiple ideas held by the same person which manifests in two completely different kits.” -K4 Marisa
“This is also a reference to how each playable character had two different shot types which you would choose from before starting a new game of Perfect Cherry Blossom.” -Meringue
Alice Margatroid
Chen
Cirno
Marisa Kirisame (A7A - Magic)
Marisa Kirisame (A7B - Love)
Ran Yakumo
Reimu Hakurei (A7A - Spirit)
Reimu Hakurei (A7B - Dream)
Sakuya Izayoi (A7A - Illusion)
Sakuya Izayoi (A7B - Time)
Youmu Konpaku
Yukari Yakumo
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Universe A8 - Imperishable Night - (Eternal)
Eirin Yagokoro
Fujiwara no Mokou
Reisen Udongein Inaba
Tewi Inaba
Universe A9 - Phantasmagoria of (Flower) View
Aya Shameimaru
Universe A10 - Mountain of (Faith)
Kanako Yasaka
Nitori Kawashiro
Sanae Kochiya
Suwako Moriya
Universe A11 - (Subterranean) Animism
Koishi Komeiji
Satori Komeiji
Universe A12 - Unidentified (Fantastic) Object
Byakuren Hijiri
Nue Houjuu (A12& - The Unidentified, Overly Fantastic Flying Girl - Fantastic EX)
Universe A13 - Ten (Desires)
Seiga Kaku
Toyosatomimi no Miko
Yoshika Miyako
Universe A14 - Double Dealing Character - (Shining)
Seija Kijin
Shinmyoumaru Sukuna
Universe A15 - Legacy of (Lunatic) Kingdom
Clownpiece (A15&)
Universe A16 - (Hidden) Star in Four Seasons
Eternity Larva (A16& - The Butterfly Fairy Who Approached God - Hidden EX)
Multiverse Type B - Another Lunar War
“The B-Series Multiverse is a complicated universe of significant progress in mechanical engineering and technology. For some, this is due to their abilities being sealed away by a Lost Word. For others, it is to keep their abilities concealed while living within the heavily-advanced Lunar Capital.” -K4 Marisa
“Did another Genso-Lunar War break out?” -Reimu
“We can assume some conflict is happening due to the nature of the people in this subheading, including another Reimu, although we can’t necessarily draw battle lines or assume endgames yet due to the changing nature of this region, the large number of factions at play here, and the incompleteness of the ongoing investigations we’re conducting. The only conclusions we’ve drawn so far include the major point of deviation- Universe A8- and the events that happened in that universe. Besides that, this multiverse tends to converge with a LOT of other universes, so we can assume that a definitive conclusion would happen somewhere.” -K4 Marisa
“Reports from the L1 Secret Sealing Club have also turned up here as their first point of interest after meeting with our Incident Resolver… or at least that’s what we think. Incidents are still happening there at this moment.” -K4 Renko
All B-Type Friends are considered Ultra Festival Friends that only appear in Ultra Festival events, specific Prayer banners, and for some of them, in Exchange Emas. Their shot modifiers will often include common Killer modifiers with other members of their faction- usually depending on the faction a specific character is aligned with and their roles in said faction- although other Killer modifiers are also present in their kits. Most of their temperaments are modified to specifically resist one element (and that element resistance is- once again- mostly shared by everyone in the same faction) and remain neutral to the rest, drastically reducing their chances of taking a Barrier Break or being Full-Broken.
Universe B3 is also the first universe studied by the Secret Sealing Club on the Hifuu storyline, where they learn more about the everyday life of the people in that world on multiple sides.
Known Entries: 28
Universe B2/B3/B5 - Kaiju and Moon Enemies
Junko and B5 Reisen Udongein Inaba remain as outliers in the temperament template in Multiverse B because of Junko’s purification ability. Neither of them have elemental weaknesses nor resistances.
Hecatia has no allegiances, as she is an ancient goddess who was banished from the Lunar Capital, but she has a killer modifier set for the Capital’s residents. Her temperament boasts three resistances and one weakness.
Junko (B2 - Nameless Space Terror)
Hecatia Lapialazuli (B3)
Reisen Udongein Inaba (B5 - Lunatic Space Youkai)
Universe B3/B5 - Lunar Base
All Lunar Base combatants resist Moon Essence and have killer shot modifiers that name the Lunar Capital’s inhabitants as targets.
Marisa Kirisame (B3 - Lunar War Enchanter)
Sakuya Izayoi (B3 - Lunar War Servant)
Sanae Kochiya (B3 - Lunar War Oracle)
Reimu Hakurei (B3 - Lunar War Shaman)
Reisen Udongein Inaba (B3 - Lunar War Soldier)
Youmu Konpaku (B3 - Lunar War Gardener)
Fujiwara no Mokou (B5 - Defiant Blue Phoenix)
Universe B3/B5 - Underground Waste Ward
Many of the Underground Waste Ward’s inhabitants resist Moon Essence AND resist Star Essence. They also boast multiple killer shot modifiers that target multiple subfactions aligned with the Moon ranging from the Lunar Capital to Moon Rabbits in general in additions to other modifiers that mark targets based on their canon lore. As an added bonus, some characters like Komanchi and Medicine have modifiers that allow them to target Kaiju.
Benben Tsukumo (B3)
Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (B3)
Hata no Kokoro (B3)
Komanchi Onozuka (B3)
Kutaka Niwatari (B3)
Yatsuhashi Tsukumo (B3)
Alice Margatroid (B5)
Lunasa Prismriver (B5)
Lyrica Prismriver (B5)
Medicine Melancholy (B5)
Merlin Prismriver (B5)
Universe B3 - Lunar Capital
All Lunar Capital inhabitants of this universe resist Earth Phase and have killer shot modifiers that can target opposing Kaiju, whom are mostly present in Universe H5 if not in this multiverse. Why? That’s a spoiler alert if I have to say it.
Kaguya Houraisan
Reisen
Sagume Kishin
Seiran
Ringo
Watatsuki no Toyohime
Watatsuki no Yorihime
Multiverse Type C - Eternal Seasons
“Wow…! That’s a lot of water! Is that what the sea looks like?” -Nitori
“Only someone like Yukari could be so chill on the beach, yet retain a team-healing kit so broken that they put her at the very top of EX-Tier. She oughta see the beaches of the outside world someday, they can be really cool! …and usually very expensive to think about. I bet if I mind-read one of those hoteliers, they’re thinking about their trending profit margins.” -Sumireko
“How’d a beach form there? I thought Gensokyo was landlocked…!” -Aya
“That’s the main feature of this Gensokyo stuck in an eternal summer. After much of the land flooded for an unknown reason an unknown amount of time ago, a lot of the residents moved out quickly and settled down by the beachfronts, which turned the area into a thriving beach town. What still remains underwater is under investigation as we speak, although we might know where on the original Gensokyo landmass everyone moved to. Recent reports also suggest that this universe converges with a lot of other universes, but this report is subject to further study. Points of divergence can’t be determined either, as there are just too many divergence points and not a lot of other reference universes that we can use for comparison. This is because the universes of Multiverse Type C are filled with a tremendous amount of water, as if there’s enough water to swim from the shoreline to Hell or maybe even the Moon. As for everyone else that hails from that world, they’ve never been so carefree and relaxed in their new lives on the beach. It makes me wonder how they’d fare in an actual emergency… but I’d rather not imagine the worst case scenarios. That’s for our research team and that other Marisa to work on.” -K4 Marisa
“What about Universe C5> then?” -K4 Renko
“That… well… we just started that file on May 10th. Y’know… the 3rd Anniversary. I don’t know why the office decided on creating the codex for C5> with that symbol. I gotta check in with them with that since Cz1 is self-explanatory enough with Marisa from Universe Z1 coming to Universe C3. As for the > symbol, that was stated by a close friend that this refers to a major shift in temperaments. In this case, C5> is stuck in perpetual spring instead of summer.” -K4 Marisa
The Multiverse C Friends are considered Epic Friends and only appear in specific Prayer banners, with some of the newer ones having yet to appear more than once. They tend to do significantly better than Standard and (Ultra-)Festival Friends due to their increased stats and shot modifiers. Their temperaments are modified to suit their everyday lives in their universe instead of usual elemental attributes, affecting what elements are strong and weak against them. This usually results in multiple resistances and one weakness.
All Friends in Universe C3 have one things in common: they all have the “Swimsuit” attribute. Despite their lax lifestyle, a lot of their kits have gotten some really high-tier ratings according to various tier lists. Yukari in particular was singled out as the best character in the game at least once. Curiously though, Miyoi is playable here while the one in L1 isn’t.
Most of the “newer” characters of universe C3 (and Cz1 Marisa) are playable on select stages in chapter 4 (including the EX stories) as guests until your first win in case you missed their trial event, as that chapter takes place in that universe.
Koishi and Flandre from Universe C5> have only appeared in events since their debut and have not appeared in the main story yet.
Known Entries: 21
Alice Margatroid (C5<)
Aya Shameimaru (C5<)
Byakuren Hijiri
Flandre Scarlet
Fujiwara no Mokou (C3=)
Hecatia Lapislazuli
Joon Yorigami
Kasen Ibaraki (C3)
Kogasa Tatara
Koishi Komeiji
Komanchi Onozuka (C3)
Marisa Kirisame (C3 - Magician on Vacation)
Miyoi Okunoda
Reimu Hakurei
Remilia Scarlet
Satori Komeiji
Sekibanki
Shion Yorigami
Tenshi Hinanawi
Youmu Konpaku
Yukari Yakumo
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Flandre Scarlet (C5> - Vibrant Sister of the Devil)
Koishi Komeiji (C5> - Blossoming Eyes of Love)
Marisa Kirisame (Cz1 - Witch of Scarlet Dreams on Vacation)
Multiverse Type E - Pseudo Paradise
“What do we have here…” -Alice
“This looks like more trouble than the Scarlet Mist Incident.” -Reimu
“Is that… is that me?” -Patchouli
“We can confirm that one of them is indeed another Patchouli. Many residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion are reflected much differently here, although Remilia in particular is a subject of concern because she has a divergence factor of 9 while the other residents are much lower.” -K4 Marisa
“What we do know is besides Remilia being rated as a 9 on the divergence scale, everyone else in this timeline is at a 1. This can theoretically generate a suggestion that something there took place before the events of Universe A6.” -K4 Renko
“The L1 Secret Sealing Club has investigated this universe as their second point of contact, although claims are surfacing that the residents of this timeline are getting involved in other affairs found in other universes.” -K4 Maribel
E-Type Friends are all Ultra Festival Friends exclusive to Ultra Festival events, select Prayer banners, and Exchange Emas. Their performances compared to their L1 counterparts tends to be better, but certain situations regarding their roles and traits may suggest the employment of different schools of thought. The nature of the Scarlet Devil Mansion as a whole makes almost all of them weak against Sun essence, but each of them has one resistance based on a defining trait they each have… with some exceptions.
Patchouli blocks out both Sun and Moon essences to defend Remilia as her best friend, while Sakuya- who stands against them- solely resists the Moon because of her unclear stance on accepting/denying the existence of mysticism and the occult while being completely neutral against Sun essence. Both of them are instead weak to Star essence instead for their own reasons.
Universe E9 in particular is the second universe showcased in the Hifuu side storyline, where the Secret Sealing Club gets a firsthand glimpse into the life of the inhabitants of this alternate Scarlet Devil Mansion.
Known Entries: 6
Cirno (E7)
Flandre Scarlet
Hong Meiling
Koakuma
Patchouli Knowledge
Sakuya Izayoi
Remilia Scarlet (E9)
Universe F1 - Formulas to the Gods
“That’s the one where the Blue Reimu came from?!” -Marisa
“That’s the one. Our investigation and research teams haven’t gotten around to studying this universe yet, as we only have three useful leads from their universe to observe: Reimu, Sanae, and Koishi. However, recent reports traced back from the Resolver’s journal- which we could do thanks to our Yukari and yours- suggest that we might be putting Suwako and Kanako in a similar yet different list as tiny versions of important figures like their ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️.” -K4 Marisa
“What the- Yukari, did you tamper with her journal again?!” -Reimu
“Perhaps. How else would we trace her findings back here?” -Yukari
“Due to the low divergence scaling of 1 and almost identical divergence points reflecting those of Universe A10.3 (Silent Sinner in Blue), we can infer that this universe closely follows the timeline where Yukari taught Reimu how to summon gods. This is a reminder that ‘Silent Sinner in Blue’ is a manga and not a game, so you’ll have to read through it for reference… like how me and Meringue haven’t read it in full yet and just skimmed through the summaries of both the Touhou and LostWord wikis to write out these articles. If we’re summarizing this wrong, tell us ASAP.” -Kit
“Don’t worry about trying to find a physical copy of the manga, there’s an article of it on the Touhou Wiki (click here to access the wiki’s article on SSiB 🔗).” -Meringue
Universe F1 is composed of Epic Friends which only appear in specific Prayer banners. While they have less- if not as many- shot modifiers and status effects as their counterparts of Universe L80, their kits as of now are so highly-rated that I could consider them to be OP in their field. Something to use to T-Pose over a number of annoying bosses you face. Their temperaments have shifted due to their circumstances to portray their stories only to be slightly held back by something else, resulting in 3 resistances and 1 weakness.
Known Entries: 3
Koishi Komeiji
Reimu Hakurei
Sanae Kochiya
Universe H5 - Kaiju Central
“K-kaiju?! Like those things in those giant monster movies?!” -Sumireko
“It’s a long story. For some reason we’ve tracked some of their movements to universe B3, which may explain the nature of some of those inhabitants’ behaviors and bullets. Reports trying to study their own universe have come up completely empty. The definition of kaiju has changed from what you probably knew in the outside world.” -K4 Marisa
Universe H5 consists of Ultra-Festival Friends that only appear in Ultra Festival events and specific Prayer banners. Their presence in Exchange Emas has not been mentioned much. They perform on-par with other Ultra-Festival characters and generally do better than their counterparts of L1. Everyone in this list also has the “Kaiju” attribute, which is specifically listed as a “Kaiju-killer” shot modifier seen on multiple characters of Multiverse B. The reason for this can’t be explained without spoiling part of a side story in the overarching plot. With the exceptions of Yuuka and Letty, the others are featured in mainline Touhou games that involve the moon (Imperishable Night & Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom)
Known Entries: 6
Doremy Sweet
Keine Kamishirasawa
Letty Whiterock
Mystia Lorelei
Wriggle Nightbug
Yuuka Kazami
Multiverse Type R - Hakugyoku Arena
“Finally! A place we recognize!” -Marisa
“Alright now, let’s not forget that we’re going low spoilers for the chapter headings, remember? We’ve got a major part of our research team covering this universe, and they’ve got a lot to unpack.” -K4 Marisa
“…right. Things got very complicated, but we always somehow end up back here for incense.” -Marisa
“For newer players reading this part, this banter will make sense soon enough. But as the parallel Marisa said, minimal spoilers on this heading.” -Yukari
The R-Type Multiverse has two Ultra Festival Friends that are exclusive to Ultra Festival events, select Prayer banners, and Exchange Emas. Their performances are on-par with other Ultra Festival Friends, but their temperaments have changed due to their associations with various concepts pertaining to life and death. This change translates to at least three elemental resistances and as little as one weakness (3 and 1 for Youmu, 4 and 2 for Yuyuko) defined by their stories.
Hakugyoku Arena also appears as two permanent challenge modes after you clear Act 1 of Chapter 3, as that chapter takes place in that universe. In these modes, you can find randomly-generated daily and weekly gauntlets that you can take on for extra superior incense and incense burners among other miscellaneous rewards. It’s also the only mode where you can take on regularly changing weekly gauntlet battles in Phantasm difficulty- one step higher than Lunatic- as a callback to Perfect Cherry Blossom’s Phantasm stage, where seriously meticulous planning and high-ranking character progression is necessary to win and not get stomped in one turn.
Known Entries: 2
Youmu Konpaku
Yuyuko Saigyouji
Multiverse Type S - Synonym in Former Hell
“Did Satori change the way she rules the Palace of the Earth Spirits, or are her friends’ new uniforms my next big scoop?!” -Aya
“I doubt those outfits are new to them, so there’s nothing new to report on for our world.” -Reimu
“But despite having minimal defining or exceptional elements in her universe, Satori DID show up in latter ongoing investigations as a subject of interest as of now. Her multiverse shares many identical divergence points with Universe A11.” -K4 Marisa
“Field notes suggest that only the Underworld exists in this multiverse, thus changing their temperaments. Thus, the outside world is… gone…? I don’t know why I was assigned to research a region where my ability doesn’t work.” -K4 Renko
The S-Type Multiverse has three Ultra Festival Friends that are exclusive to Ultra Festival events, select Prayer banners, and certain Exchange Emas. Their performances seem to surpass other Ultra Festival Friends based on the amount of breaks and modifiers listed, but their temperaments have changed due to their entire lives being in Former Hell- and by extension the Underworld. This makes them all resistant to Sun, Moon, and Star essences, but each of them is still vulnerable to one phase element that represents a hindrance in their daily lives.
Known Entries: 3
Rin Kaenbyou
Satori Komeiji
Utsuho Reiuji
Universe T5 - Wasteland Track
“Ayayayayaya?! Why are they going so fast?” -Aya
“And what’s with those loud metal machines making them go that fast? Clearly those aren’t kappa-produced! Can’t they just settle things with bullets?” -Nitori
“Doubt it! Looks like those two are having a motorcycle race to settle something. And with a setting like that, things have already begun to get real.” -Sumireko
“And the fact that they’re doing this in a desert of all places when there’s clearly no desert in your Gensokyo has raised eyebrows with our scouting team. Research beyond these two divine people being deadlocked in a desert motorcycle race hasn’t started yet, although a footnote regarding Crazed World Temperaments has been made known by our scouts.” -K4 Marisa
Universe T5 has two Ultra-Festival Friends exclusive to Ultra Festival events, select Prayer banners, and certain Exchange Emas. They both have the “Racer” attribute (and “Racer-Killer” modifier) and an unusually high number of shot modifiers and killers with barely any shots that don’t have an element attached to them. Their temperaments have changed to allow them to survive in the “Crazed World” which results in two elemental resistances representing specific hardships they’ve learned to overcome in their world’s harsh conditions. They don’t have any elemental weaknesses, which makes it considerably harder to Barrier-Break and Full-Break them, more or less allow a similarly-leveled opponent to do any serious damage to them.
This universe has not appeared in the main plot yet.
Known Entries: 2
Byakuren Hijiri
Tenshi Hinanawi
Multiverse Type W - New Land of Youkai Mountain’s Former Hell
“Don’t ask much about this one yet, we just started a new wing of our research here recently.” -K4 Renko
“Besides the number of oni declarations here, Sanae appeared at the end of chapter 🔳 act 🔲 and ended up getting grouped here due to her matching aesthetic and factions.” -K4 Marisa
“Uh oh! Looks like I’m gonna have to gap those numbers out there and there… and also in Section F. This isn’t me trying to cause a Lost Word Incident, it’s just a matter of late end spoiler prevention, but I’ll put the words back after later story updates. If you know the words, you know. We’ll also put spoiler story content inside individual pages beneath other breaks.” -Yukari
“Was the use of that much ink really necessary to block out a few words?” -Marisa
“Yes. I’ll get those spots off the page later when details roll out.” -Yukari
The W-Type Multiverse has seven Ultra-Festival Friends that have only appeared in their premiere Prayer banners so far, as the characters showcased in this universe have only been introduced recently. Some of the earlier characters have appeared in special UF banners and forever prayers.
Known Entries: 7
Suika Ibuki (W1)
Kanako Yasaka (W2)
Suwako Moriya (W2)
Parsee Mizuhashi (W3)
Kasen Ibaraki (W5)
Sanae Kochiya (W5)
Yuugi Hoshiguma (W5)
Universe Y5 - Bunny Rebellion…?
“There’s not much to say here. It’s just Tewi, but she’s a rabbit from a world of divine hermits.” -K4 Marisa
“Almost no research has been conducted successfully on this universe due to lacking resources, as our supervisor put all our resources in other research areas. Besides our surface files on this Tewi, investigations confirm that she has aligned herself with the Lunar Base of Universe B3/5. But that’s just about it. We haven’t completely crossed the boundary into this universe yet.” -K4 Maribel
Tewi Inaba is the only friend (and an Ultra Festival one) who we know of in this universe. Unfortunately, her scarce presence in events and banners makes her harder to find than most characters of this class. But despite being from a completely different universe, she has aligned herself with the Lunar Base faction of Multiverse Type B and shares most of their shot modifiers and attributes… but mostly with B5 Mokou because the Killer modifiers she has can cover every major faction of B3’s storylines, including the Lunar Base. Is this because they’re trying to train their teammates to win? Or is there another endgame I don’t know about?
Known Entries: 1
Tewi Inaba
Multiverse Type Z - The Scarlet Devil Tower
“I remember this one. The residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion turned the whole building into a tower.” -Reimu
“Yeah, you did. This was the second incident in our Lost Word Incident Portfolio that you- the you of your universe specifically- resolved. But there are a few more things here you missed that we covered that we can easily file into one category: Magical Girls.” -K4 Marisa
“Magical what now? Aren’t those just magicians like you and my world’s Marisa?” -Reimu
“Oh… those. As in, like those characters seen in anime from as early as the 90s. Colorful transformation sequences and girls wearing costumes filled with magic, hearts, ribbons, and stuff like the power of friendship. My classmates from school talk about them sometimes, but it’s hard for some people to choose a favorite, especially when some of the newer shows of that genre tend to delve into considerably darker topics. Meri! You’re what I think is a tengu that came from the outside world, so you know what I’m thinking of, right?” -Sumireko
“Meri-?! Uh… Yes I do, but I might need to look into that genre a bit more and watch some full-length episodes. And don’t look now Alice, but there’s you.” -Meringue
“Me as a magical girl themed after constellations and western-style knights… interesting… but I love the way the outfit matches those of her dolls!” -Alice
Multiverse Type Z consists of multiple Ultra-Festival Friends, of which only Marisa appears in consistent Prayer pools and Exchange Emas. Everyone else just appears periodically, which makes it hard to find them. As such, this multiverse is split into two distinctive parts.
Universe Z1 primarily focuses on the Tower itself and someone’s changing role in the story of this universe, which has barely deviated from the original story seen in A6 and the original EoSD. As such, the rest of the SDM residents haven’t changed much as a result of this and appear more like their L1 counterparts. After finishing Chapter 2 Act 1, a challenge mode with its own story which takes place post-Chapter 2- also named Scarlet Devil Tower- unlocks for you to take on at your leisure (although you’ll want a decent team if you want to make significant progress in one day). A side story in the “Special” tab also named Scarlet Devil Tower allows players to take a short look at this universe and its events after the events of Chapter 2, and although it’s available from the beginning and has both very low level enemies and a full set of Guests for new player lore accessibility, you should really finish Chapter 2 before attempting either side mode so this universe’s story makes sense and to avoid early spoilers, as Chapter 2 of the main story takes place in this universe.
Universe Z3 primarily looks at the concept of magical girls and the influence that the Witch of Scarlet Dreams had in turning some people into magical girls. Not much is known about this universe canonically beyond what we know about this universe’s Remilia and Alice. However, the real question is why Flandre isn’t here, but every parallel presence of her in every other universe in this game exists with the “Magical Girl” attribute like these two. In any case, both of them have had their temperaments changed to harbor Z1 Marisa’s temperament as a result of her influence while also retaining their own at the same time. This universe does not appear in the main plot yet.
Known Entries: 4
Marisa Kirisame (Z1 - Witch of Scarlet Dreams)
Alice Margatroid (Z3 - Magical Girl of Constellations)
Remilia Scarlet (Z3 - Magical Girl of Scarlet Stars)
Satori Komeiji (Z3 - Astrological Magical Girl)
Extras Subheading
“We’ve yet to see their bullets as playable characters yet, but they appear somewhere in our investigations of the Lost Word Incidents. Sometimes as enemies that haven’t been added to the playable character list yet, while some don’t do danmaku battles at all. One of them might even be a mastermind…! Universe cipher denominations might not be accurate.” -K4 Marisa
This section is simply an extras list for universes that haven’t been elaborated on significantly for their miscellaneous characters who aren’t “playable” yet, appear as an NPC, or have only been introduced on the Japanese version of the game, although bosses can also get lumped in here. However, due to the LW Wiki unexpectedly going down without a backup… we *might* have some trouble finding accurate data. Once data goes up on these, view with caution since they might be major plot spoilers. And by “might be spoilers” I mean “will be spoilers.” The entries here will not count into the total playable character count.
Recorded Entries: 21
Aya Shameimaru (L?)
Eirin Yagokoro (B3)
Hata no Kokoro (C3)
Kanako Yasaka (L?)
Koishi Komeiji (L?)
Marisa Kirisame (??) - glasses?
Marisa Kirisame (??!?!?)
Marisa Kirisame (L?) - the purple one
Reimu Hakurei (L?) - her first design
Reimu Hakurei (…?) - ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
Rin Kaenbyou (L?)
Rinnosuke Morichika (L1) - also appears in C3
Sakuya Izayoi (??!?!?) - ⬛️⬛️⬛️
Sakuya Izayoi (hold on what now??!!!)
Sanae Kochiya (L?)
Satori Komeiji (L?)
Suwako Moriya (L?)
Utsuho Reiuji (L?)
Yukari Yakumo (??) - tiny, also appears in some side events
Yumemi Okazaki (??)
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aomine-in-gensokyo · 2 years ago
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Hey guys, Daiki Aomine here
I've been watching Reimu compete in this tournament, and I gotta say, she's pretty good. It's not easy going up against absolute powerhouses back to back, but she's beaten 'em all and made her way to the finals. She might even give off similar vibes to the Generation of Miracles. I wonder if she can go into the Zone... Anyways, now that she's here, do your best to support her.
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REIMU IN SMASH!!! as a disclaimer i absolutely adore the kirby series to death but as my blog is (theoretically) 50% touhou, reimu has my support!
so why should she be in smash?
did you know that reimu debutted back in 1997?? (or technically 1996 if you count when ZUN first displayed the game, but not selling it) so she's been around for a WHILE!
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She's come a long way from those days. You can see just how much her design has changed since then! And I think it's crazy to think about that she was introduced about 2-3 years before Smash 64! It's kinda funny to imagine her there.
now you might be wondering: but touhou is a PC game! that's true! HOWEVER! barring fan games that have made their way to consoles, Touhou 17.5 - Sunken Fossil World, actually IS on the nintendo switch! it was released last year!!
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while it's not exactly a mainline touhou game, the official sidegames are still incredibly important for touhou as a whole! it can introduce new characters or expand on things in previous games!! if sans and steve can get in with their games being on switch (i love these 2 as well), then so can reimu!!
finally... and i mentioned this one before, but reimu has been in a few fighting games!! other touhou side games, such as 7.5, 10.5, 13.5, 14.5, and 15.5, were all fighting games!
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[Image ID: A picture of Reimu Hakurei (on the left) and Marisa Kirisame (on the right) fighting. The game this screenshot was taken from is Touhou 10.5 - Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. End ID]
and i think we all know how much Sakurai loves to take inspiration from a character's source game these days! so id think reimu has ALOT of material to draw from, if we are ONLY looking at fighting games!
so please vote for reimu!! shes been around for a very long time and also a highly requested smash character!! plus, as big as touhou is, its still an indie title! more indie reps in smash would be fantastic!!
Daiki Aomine heading out
FINAL ROUND
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(NOTE: Read the Palutena's Guidance for Reimu Hakurei HERE and for Bandana Waddle Dee HERE, and their movesets HERE and HERE)
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rabbiteclair · 2 years ago
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new Yukari/Maribel theory: there's no direct link between them at all, but Yukari has predicted Maribel's future existence and is deliberately manipulating things to make it look like the two are related somehow. This is all in service to a generations-long practical joke that's really gonna pay off two or three Hakurei shrine maidens from now
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The Giant Catfish:
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Hell yeah.
Anyway, the Giant Catfish (he has no name) is an evil servant of the demon god Taisui Xingjun. He sent many demons disguised as people of Gensokyo to attack the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and he himself came in the form of Reimu Hakurei. However, they were all defeated by the legendary gatekeeper: Hong Meiling! The giant catfish revealed his true form, and an awesome final battle commenced... where the background seemed to devolve slowly into a child's crayon drawing.
It turns out the whole thing was nothing more than a dream Meiling had after reading one too many manga and then falling asleep on the job. Oops.
Even if he wasn't real, he's still notable because, well, look at him. He sticks out like a sore thumb among this cast of cute and/or pretty ladies.
The Giant Catfish first appeared as the final boss of Hong Meiling's story mode in Touhou 12.3: Hisoutensoku, and is the closest thing to a new character introduced by the game. He also made a cameo appearance in Touhou 15.5: Antinomy of Common Flowers, during the time when the Dream World spilled over into the real world.
In battle, he has the ability to cause earthquakes and launch rocks about, as well as the ability to generate electricity. These are abilities commonly associated with catfish in Japanese folklore. He also can grow even bigger than he already is!
Taisui Xingjun is an evil god in Chinese mythology. He is said to represent the planet Jupiter and has vast curse powers.
Apparently at one point a giant catfish was planned to be the main villain and final boss of Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, but Tenshi the celestial became that role instead.
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canigetuuu · 2 years ago
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Inuyasha x Bnha BkDk AU
A lot of the time I’ll see AUs like this that just replace the Inuyasha characters with those from another story, which is fun in its own way, but I don’t think it really takes the possibilities of this AU to its fullest potential.  (not to mention that trapping different characters into another character’s arc always seems really…confining? to me?)  Inuyasha has a lot of really interesting characters and world-building on it’s own, and putting characters you love from other stories in that setting as themselves allows for a lot of character development and some really complex story arcs, as long as you’re willing to follow the thread.  My goal in this AU is to develop Bakugou and Midoriya’s relationship in a similar pattern as canon, just with a different setting, with different stakes and different characters surrounding them. I also want to see how bkdk would affect the narrative of Inuyasha and the characters therein, because??? These two are ridiculous??? And inflicting them on other people amuses me. (Also, I just really love Kitsune Katsuki ^^’) So, with all that said…
This is the set up and general gist of the AU as I’ve developed so far:
(physically, Katsuki is around 12 to start.  Kitsune tails are earned by completing certain trials, or by otherwise overcoming difficult situations)
Izuku is 4 years old growing up in the age of quirks, and is, unfortunately for his poor mother, extremely susceptible to shenanigans.  During a special new years visit to a temple in Tokyo with his mom, he ends up falling down an old well in a derelict shrine. After crying a reasonable amount and managing to climb out of the well (then crying a little more), he finds the shrine has disappeared, and someone with a very interesting mutant quirk is sitting across the clearing and watching him, large wings twitching.  Izuku, already being a quirk fanboy, and also 4 years old, immediately approaches the only adult around to ask for help (and about their quirk).  The yokai, being hungry, kidnaps the child.  
So begins a series of baffling events, interspersed with much wailing and an alarming amount of tears, which results in Izuku somehow not eaten and instead carried hundreds of miles away from the Bone Eaters Well and onto the holy mountain Hakurei, where a powerful young kitsune has recently begun a hundred years of training and meditation to achieve his third tail…
Instead of the quiet solitude Katsuki had been expecting on the lonely mountain, he instead has this inexplicable human child following him around everywhere, calling him amazing.  Any attempts to dump the child off with the nearest humans results in the little flea somehow making its way back to him.  Katsuki would just squish it, but it’s almost too pathetic to kill…and also the stipulation set by his mother for earning his next tail is that he not kill anyone for the requisite century.  Withstanding the holy aura of the mountain for that long is only half the struggle, it seems–but earning a tail has to be hard; otherwise all foxes would have nine tails.  And Katsuki is no mere fox.  Damn hag.
So, Katsuki accepts Izuku, who he dubs Deku, as another facet of necessary suffering for the sake of getting stronger.  Doesn’t mean he can’t yell at the twerp though.  And maybe kick him. Just a little.
Consequently, a number of months pass with that damn twerp Deku going back and forth between leeching off the humans* and bothering Katsuki.  He jabbers about “quirks” and “heroes” and a god named All Might, (who Kastuki immediately declares he will defeat in combat, to the twerps complete indignation. “You can’t kill All Might, Kacchan!”), and performs much oohing and ahhing and “Amazing, Kacchan!”-ing at the slightest demonstration of Katsuki’s prodigious and awe-inspiring and super cool abilities. 
Katsuki finds himsef almost impressed by the humans sheer determination to annoy the fuck out of him.  He then performs the tricks again to rapturous applause, and pretends not to preen.
Katsuki even deigns to teach the squirt a few things, to various levels of success.  Skipping rocks and origami both go similarly terribly.  Wood carving ends in disaster.  Tracking goes alright for a while, even if he is still pretty shitty, so when Katsuki challenges Deku to track him down and hides away, it takes Katsuki until sundown to realize that something might have gone wrong.  He would never admit to worrying, but the mountain is dangerous at night, and Deku, being Deku, and therefore both stubborn as well as stupid, wouldn’t have given up and just gone back to the village when he couldn’t find Katsuki.  He knew Deku would still be on the mountain.  Annoyed, Katsuki emerges and goes scenting for Deku. With a spike of fear, he recognizes the scent of human blood. Katsuki runs. 
“Kacchan!” 
There, tangled and dangling in the vines of a willow, with a bloody nose and scraped knees, is the one and only Deku, who, true to form, immediately bursts into tears.
“Kacchan!” he blubbers past the blood and mucus. “I was so worried about you!”
Katsuki looks up at him in disbelief and mounting rage.  Why the hell was shitty Deku worried about him?  He was a Bakugou, a Kitsune of the Bursting Flame, and Deku was just a weak human child.  Why was he apologizing about getting stuck and leaving Katsuki alone?  Why was he asking if Katsuki was alright?  Why, why, why?
And how did he even get up there in the first place?
“Er, Kacchan?  Could you help me down, please?”
Katsuki explodes.
Eventually, Katsuki cools off enough to get Deku down, call him stupid nine different ways, and then drop him off at the village like a sack of potatoes.  When Deku comes back to him again, Katsuki sits him down and teaches him to weave. Katsuki braids a bracelet made from strands of his own silken fur and one of his fangs, and then casts a spell on it.  He then lugs it at Deku’s fat head and tells him to wear it and never take it off.  “I’ll always be able to find you with that thing.  And you’ll always be able to make your way back to me.  So don’t go being an idiot and losing it!” 
Cue gross sobbing and adamant promises from the resident 4 year old.  Deku eventually is able to braid a bracelet out of some ribbon and a twinkling bell he finds in the village to give to Katsuki. Katsuki calls it ugly, but wears it anyway. Life goes on.
Over time, Izuku develops a certain melancholy.  He still follows Katsuki like a dumb puppy, but there is a certain shuffling to his gait and dullness to his dumb doe eyes that somehow annoys Katsuki even more than his usual stupidity.  He demands Deku tell him what’s wrong, and with much nervous fiddling and mumbling and only a little bit of Katsuki grabbing him by the scruff and shaking, he tells him.  
Deku misses his mother.  It’s been a really long time, and she’s probably really sad right now.  He doesn’t know what to do.
Katsuki goes quiet. His own mother left him here to train for a hundred years on his own.  He doesn’t think ill of her for it, since he wants to be strong, and this is the best way to do it.  But he can’t say that when it’s dark, and the wind is strong and howling outside his makeshift den, that he doesn’t sometimes wish he could burrow into his mothers golden furs and block out the night, warm in the comfort of her protection.  
And here Deku is, openly missing his mother after only a few measly months. The coming decades stretch out before Katsuki like the horizon over a cliff’s edge.  He shivers.  Then pauses.  Katsuki will be alright.  He’s strong, he doesn’t need his mother around to take care of himself.  But Deku?  He’s a total wimp.  And in any case…
“Do you want to see her again?”
Deku nods.
Katsuki doesn’t say anything for a long moment. Then he takes a long look at Izuku, sitting quietly and staring earnestly back up at him, small and weak and precious, and comes to a decision.
“I can send you home.”
So Katsuki uses his magic to send Izuku, his only friend, away from the mountain, towards home.  And as the light engulfing Izuku races him away like a shooting star, Katsuki stands alone, three tails hanging limp behind him, his only reward for a selfless act.
“Goodbye, Izuku.”
Izuku, released from Katsuki’s magic and falling down a well, hopes he hasn’t worried his mom too much, and can’t wait to tell her all about his new friend.
Inko Midoriya receives a phone call 9 months after her son went missing at the old Higurashi Shrine
No one believes Izuku’s story as he tells it, but investigations into possible cults and quirks including large wings in northern Japan abound
Izuku tries to convince his mother to go back to the well, since Kacchan probably really misses him by now, but Inko refuses.  
A year later, after worries that trauma from his experience may have stunted quirk development, Izuku is officially diagnosed Quirkless.
When Izuku turns six, he boards a bus from Musutafu to Tokyo on his own, determined to visit Kacchan.  When he gets to the well, he breaks his wrist hitting the bottom, and worsens it trying to dig down into it.  The shrine keepers find him sobbing in the dark, and rush to get him out and home.  Inko grounds Izuku forever and ever, and Izuku doesn’t react.
Izuku grows up.
In middle school, Izuku meets his hero
All Might finds his successor. 
Centuries in the past, Katsuki hates his third tail.
But since he’s already here anyway
He decides to stay on the mountain and complete the century of training to achieve his fourth.
He’s gonna have to start the count over again though
Fuck
Fifty years later, a Hanyou falls in love with a priestess.  
An evil man becomes a demon.
A betrayal transpires.
A seal is pierced against a tree.
In 20th century Tokyo, Kagome Higurashi is pulled down a well.
50 years after the death of the Shikon Priestess, the Shikon Jewel shatters and scatters across the land
In 2XXX, Izuku is interning with Endeavor alongside his friend, Shouto.
As a treat for the winter holiday, Enji takes his family and his son’s friend to Tokyo.
Izuku visits a familiar shrine.
He absently fiddles with the fang on his bracelet.
The well opens up
And he Falls 
In
CUE THE GODDAMN MUSIC
Haven’t decided Izuku’s full timeline yet, or the many ways the absence of a Kacchan in the story would change the course of events in Deku’s era from the canon My Hero plot.  Deku going missing for months in the winter of his first year would definitely derail a whole bunch of shit, but that’s what’s happening in this au.  The only thing I'm pretty sure would stay mostly the same is USJ.
Izuku stops wearing the bracelet after his visit to the shrine, but takes it up again when he is accepted into UA.  Somehow, it still fits.
*Also just a misc. note, but the villagers who took in Izuku when he was four were all at least half certain he was demonic in some way due to his unnatural green hair and eyes.  He was such a sweet, earnest kid, though, that they mostly just shrugged and took care of him anyway.  When Izuku gets the chance, he definitely mourns them and pays respects to them in the ruins of Mt. Hakurei.
Physically, Katsuki ages to be around sixteen, approaching seventeen over the course of the century
Anyway
Plot
Katsuki wouldn’t leave Mt Hakurei until around the time Naraku infests it.
Katsuki, transformed into his true form as a black and tan fox with four tails and face markings like a black mask, searches for his mother, who he expected to be there to meet him as soon as the century was complete.
Worryingly, there’s no sign of her.
Naraku, trying to take advantage of a powerful Kitsune practically falling into his lap, approaches Katsuki the same way he did Sesshomaru–with gifts and advice–to turn him against Inuyasha.  Since Katsuki is near Sesshomaru in strength, this might be something Naraku would do, instead of immediately absorbing Katsuki, which is the alternative.
Naraku would probably tell Katsuki about the genocide of the kitsune (an act that in reality was performed by the thunder brothers for their own amusement, as well as by Naraku himself to gather power) and pin the blame on Inuyasha and his allies
Katsuki, being a kitsune, would sense the trickery, and approach the situation with caution.
He’d seek out Inuyasha to try to get a feel for him directly.
Disguised as a normal fox, Katsuki makes a nuisance of himself to a young kitsune boy and his companions, including the half demon inu.
He’d follow the group around, occasionally playing tricks and stealing their food, and cackling his fox laughter at them.
He forms a bond with Shippou, who reminds him a great deal of Izuku, and very sneakily teaches the boy more advanced fox magic.
He’d only reveal his true form upon Izuku’s arrival to Feudal Japan, an event which he sensed in the aching of his fangs as soon as it happened. He would part ways with the group at that point to seek Izuku out.
Due to the bracelet, this, at least, is very simple.
The shenanigans he finds Deku embroiled in when he gets there are anything but.
CUE THE MUSIC AGAIN, BUT DIFFERENT THIS TIME
The overarching quest for these two would be to find Katsuki’s mother, who is a fully realized golden nine tails, aka a being as close to divinity as a demon can get.
Also aka, someone who is VERY HARD TO KILL
And therefore, most definitely not dead
I’m considering giving them a third companion, but I’m on the fence about it, and I’m not sure who it would be anyway?
They travel around with very few leads, but they do end up running into Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, and Kohga’s groups often, and are willing to join the fight against Naraku with them, due to both personal and altruistic reasons.  Deku is a hero after all.
Oh
And Katsuki and Izuku fall in love
The end.
So yeah! That was a lot of words.  Again, this was just the general direction I want to go with this. I’ve got a lot more to say about actual character dynamics and the ways BkDks presence in the Feudal era would impact what's going on there, but this is already really long so I’ll stop here ^^’  Tell me what you think in the comments or tags.  I really love this AU and want to share it with you guys, so please feel free to ask questions and tell me what you might want to see in this AU too! Kisses!
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aomine-in-gensokyo · 2 years ago
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Hey guys, Daiki Aomine here
As my blog suggests, I've been stuck in Gensokyo. But at least I've been able to meet these two. Gotta say, they're pretty cool.
First of all, we gotta talk about just who exactly are Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame! To anyone who doesn't know, Reimu is THE protagonist of the Touhou Project! She's been around since at least 1995, and has been playable for almost all of the mainline games since then. Marisa on the other hand is essentially the deuteragonist of the Touhou Project. She was introduced in 1997, and she's usually the second playable character for all mainline games!
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Shown above is basically the first time Reimu and Marisa showed up in a game together! This was in Story of Eastern Wonderland, the second game in the Touhou Project! Though, in this game, Marisa was a boss Reimu had to defeat, so initially, the two were kind of enemies. Oh, but I should mention that the first five Touhou games aren't technically in the main canon, and that's why the two of them look so different here compared to how they look in the poll's picture.
So now you're probably thinking about what the two are like in what can be considered as "canon" Touhou, right? Well... They hang out! Like, a lot. Seriously, in both canon and fanon works, Marisa is like ALWAYS hanging around the Hakurei Shrine, the shrine that Reimu is the shrine maiden for. The two of them are just generally always hanging out with each other. Maybe they'll be chatting about something! Maybe they'll be partying! Or maybe they'll be working together to solve some sort of youkai related incident that's occurring! Needless to say, they're close, and are practically each other's greatest ally.
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However, we can also say that they're each other's greatest rival as well! But to understand this, we have to know more about what they do.
For Reimu, she is the Hakurei Shrine Maiden. In Gensokyo (the land where Touhou primarily takes place), this is an extremely important job! She's one of the primary figures to keep the balance between the youkai and humans that live in Gensokyo, which basically means that Reimu has to keep all the youkai in check from hunting the humans and keep the humans from becoming youkai. She is also in charge of maintaining the "Great Hakurei Barrier," an important seal that keeps Gensokyo hidden from the outside world. Needless to say, Reimu is really important!!
What does Marisa do? Well, her official title is "Ordinary Magician." When it comes to an official occupation, she does own a shop that sells random magical objects, but she's barely around so it's not a very efficient shop. Other than that, Marisa doesn't officially have anything to do... Amongst the residents of Gensokyo, she's pretty standard. But that's why she tries so hard to also solve major problems between youkai and humans! In fact, she does a pretty good job at it, rivaling Reimu in terms of efficiency and success! But clearly, there's a pretty big difference between the two...
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This leads into their rivalry! Because Reimu is such an important figure in Gensokyo, Marisa tries her absolute hardest not to be left behind! She's constantly creating new spells and other magical techniques to stand on even footing with the legendary Hakurei Shrine Maiden. In fact, what makes Marisa's determination all that much stronger is that Reimu is pretty naturally gifted. Because of her lineage, Reimu has access to some really powerful techniques that most people can't do. But that doesn't deter Marisa! It's just more fuel to drive her to become even stronger!
As for Reimu, she has enough pride not to let herself be overtaken by Marisa as the primary "incident resolver" in Gensokyo. Reimu, just like Marisa, values what she is capable of. As such, even though Reimu can be lazy at times in her training, she'll never let herself get any weaker. Having Marisa around all the time pushes Reimu to keep herself on her toes and become stronger! And since Reimu has to ensure the balance of Gensokyo, this rivalry between the two actually helps everyone out in the long run!
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But even outside of their strength in fighting youkai, in a lot of other works, the two can bicker about anything. Nevertheless, despite all the quarreling they do, at the end of the day, they're always go right back to being close!
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So yeah! Honestly that's just a general overview of how these two function as a duo. I didn't really get to mention what the specifically do in the games or the written works, because there would just be SO much to talk about! But go out there and vote these two silly girls!! Daiki Aomine heading out
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