History Headscratchers / Touhou

** There is something of a sweet spot between [[StopHavingFunGuy stop having fun guys]] and "Watching the bullet vomit and dying." People who actually enjoy these games because they are [[NintendoHard challenging]] without resorting to FakeDifficulty.

** It's how ZUN draws ears. He just normally avoids them entirely, so the fandom notices that they look weird when they show up (yes, that does mean that Parsee's ears aren't canonical).
*** Parsee wears fakes out of jealousy for the more exotic-looking youkai.

* The existence of youkai of non-Japanese nationalities implies the existence of non-Japanese Gensokyo counterparts.

* Youkais eating people. I cant figure out, one canon says this doesnt happen, another says it happens all the bloody time. Gensokyo is pretty much a confirmed happy place with WhiteAndGreyMorality and then all of a sudden we hear that Yukari spirits people in for Remillia to snack on? I dont get it. It feels almost schizophrenic. I prefer a non grimdark gensokyo, but it still bugs me.

** My own theory on this is that Meiling provides a friendly face for the SDM. Think abou it; every other non-fairy there is either creepy and/or a {{Hikikomori}}, but Meiling is a friendly near-human, and will be seen more than the rest of them combined.

* Why does Remilia even bother having Meiling as a gate-guard when she's got Sakuya? I mean, there is just about nothing Meiling can do that Sakuya can't do ([[SelfDeprecation I love Meiling, by the way]]), and Sakuya definitely has enough time to take care of things. If Meiling is as imcompotent as the Stage 3 boss she is, surely Remilia have better tastes for someone who will act as gate guard for the feared SDM than her. Although my guess is that ZUN just needed a Stage 3 boss, so its a kind of a GameplayAndStorySegregation?

** My own theory on this is that Meiling provides a friendly face for the SDM. Think abou it; every other non-fairy there is either creepy and/or a hikimori, but Meiling is a friendly near-human, and will be seen more than the rest of them combined.

** Sakuya is Remilia's chief maid, and her timestopping abilities are useful for more than just throwing knives at people, and is thus quite more important to Remilia. Meiling can keep most humans and youkai out of the mansion, but when it came to dealing with the main protagonists ([[CuteWitch one of whom]] acts as her very own WaveMotionGun and [[{{Miko}} the other of whom]] is just majorly powerful -- a common in-joke has one of her spellcards being "Hax Sign - You Just Plain Fucking Lose"), it turned out that she was ''way'' out of her league. That's the problem with being OvershadowedByAwesome, as well as being primarily a physical combatant in a magic and {{danmaku}}-based series.

** Sakuya is Remilia's chief maid, and her timestopping abilities are useful for more than just throwing knives at people, and is thus quite more important to Remilia. Meiling can keep most humans and youkai out of the mansion, but when it came to dealing with the main protagonists ([[CuteWitch one of whom]] acts as her very own WaveMotionGun and [[{{Miko}} the other of whom]] is just majorly powerful -- a common in-joke has one of her spellcards being "Hax Sign - You Just Plain Fucking Lose"), it turned out that she was ''way'' out of her league. That's the problem with being OvershadowedByAwesome, as well as being primarily a physical combatant in a magic-based series.

** Sakuya is Remilia's chief maid, and her timestopping abilities are useful for more than just throwing knives at people, and is thus quite more important to Remilia. Meiling can keep most humans and youkai out of the mansion, but when it came to dealing with the main protagonists ([[CuteWitch one of whom]] acts as her very own WaveMotionGun and [[{{Miko}} the other of whom]] is just majorly powerful -- a common in-joke has one of her spellcards being "Hax Sign - You Just Plain Fucking Lose"), it turned out that she was ''way'' out of her league. That's the problem with being OvershadowedByAwesome.

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* Alice in {{Canon}}: Deranged, misanthropic hermit whose reaction to anyone who's not Marisa tends to vary from "passive-aggressive politeness" to "open hatred" -- and her reaction to even Marisa is along the lines of VitriolicBestBuds or {{Tsundere}}. Alice in {{Fanon}}: A lonely girl who's desperate for friendship and attention, especially from Marisa. What.