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[[caption-width-right:350:A story in the Underground Hell a long time ago.]]
Deep underneath Gensokyo, in what used to be hell, {{youkai}} who are [[FantasticGhetto shunned by other youkai are exiled]], living in relative peace amongst themselves, but even these youkai create pariahs. The Komeiji sisters, the elder Satori and the younger Koishi, are hated and feared by the rest of the Underground youkai for their ability to read the hearts and minds of others. They live in the Palace of the Earth Spirits with each other and with the hoard of animals they care for, who are by contrast overjoyed at people who can understand their thoughts. However, while Satori is mostly content with her isolated life, Koishi wants desperately for others to like her as well, and she seals her third eye, locking away her powers and her connection to her sister. This act will start a chain of events that puts their little family through immense struggles, and will forever change them and the Underground as a whole.
''At Chirei'' is a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' {{doujin|shi}} created by [[http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=219099 Karaage Tarou]], serving as a {{prequel}} to the 11th game ''Subterranean Animism''. It consists of three chapters, covering the immediate aftermath of Koishi leaving, the intervention of the Moriya goddesses, and the far larger final chapter detailing Satori and Koishi's reconciliation and Okuu gaining her new power. It can be purchased from [[http://karaageyasan.blog38.fc2.com/ Karaage's blog]] or pixiv.
See the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' page for tropes in the series in general, and Characters.TouhouSubterraneanAnimism for tropes specifically pertaining to the characters appearing in this doujin.
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!!''At Chirei'' contains the following tropes:
* AccidentalMisnaming: Koishi calls Parsee "Percy".
-->'''Parsee''': I'm not some [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends locomotive with a face!]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Why Koishi seals her third eye.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Kisume sleeps inside her bucket.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Why are you crying?"
* ArtificialLimbs: After an accident Okuu loses a foot in bird form. When in human form she manifests a concrete foot as a replacement (in canon she got both the leg of fusion and leg of fission after absorbing the Yatagarasu).
* ArtStyleDissonance: While not completely bleak, ''At Chirei'' is far more intense and sad than Karaage's usual cutesy SliceOfLife and {{Shipping}} doujins, all of which use the same art style.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Koishi only acts on her subconscious after all.
-->"Whoa! 's daark! Where are we? Ooh! The sky! I'm huungry!"
* BandageMummy: Okuu at one point.
* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Parsee.
-->'''Yuugi''': Okay, who's been makin' that one drink?\\
'''Yamame''': You have.
* BeYourself: What Satori says to Okuu to try and convince her not to use her new powers (that, and the possibility [[CallForward that it will end in disaster]]).
* BittersweetEnding: Satori and Koishi will never have the same connection they used to, but they're building a new connection instead.
* BrutalHonesty: Yuugi specialises in this (oni hate liars, after all), but at least she has more tact than Parsee.
* CastHerd: Featuring the Palace of the Earth Spirits cast herd, with minor roles by the rest of the ''SA'' herd.
* CatSmile: Orin has this permanently in cat form, predictably, and she and Okuu do it a several times in human form.
* CoolBigSis: Yuugi, to Satori.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: What the Yatagarasu tries to teach Okuu. [[TheDitz She doesn't listen.]]
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Okuu ''still'' thinks that she got her human form from the god of eggs.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Satori, of course. Canon implies that reading someone's heart and mind is a lot more abstract than simple sentences, however.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Koishi's condition is ''very'' reminiscent of dementia.
-->"The inside of my head is light... like it's gone somewhere. The old me is gone. She's gone somewhere else, far away."
** The drama of Koishi leaving plays out exactly like a divorce, with poor Okuu and Orin as the children caught in the middle.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Okuu shows the early signs of her [[ForegoneConclusion eventual]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity megalomania]] when she express how good it feels to fire off a few rounds from her ArmCannon.
* DysfunctionJunction: Milder than most examples, but they could seriously use some therapists in the Underground.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Yatagarasu, as a sun god, appears as an ambulatory mass of lava.
* EyeScream: Koishi ''tears out'' the connecting wire of her third eye to her head, leaving a bright white scar.
* ForegoneConclusion: Orin and Okuu get human forms, Koishi leaves her sister to explore the surface, and Okuu absorbs the Yatagarasu.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: "Anyone who's liked by animals has gotta be a good person."
* FusionDance: Power Booster form, with the Yatagarasu absorbed by Okuu and living on inside her.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Parsee's response to a crying Koishi is to punch her. And kick her. And throw her off of the bridge...
* TheGlomp: Courtesy of Orin, complete with sound effect.
* GroupHug: All four of them, before they bid Koishi farewell.
* HangingOurClothesToDry: Koishi after taking an involuntary dip in the river.
* [[HotSpringsEpisode Hot Springs Scene]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: Okuu's first attempts to control ThePowerOfTheSun don't go well.
* ImportantHaircut: Koishi gets one of these near the end.
* InSeriesNickname: Okuu and Orin, like canon, with the addition of "Yata-kun" for Yatagarasu.
* IronicEcho: "Back then we had words for just the two of us."
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Non-romantic version, with Okuu and Orin's motivations revolving around doing ''anything'' to make Satori and Koishi happy.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Parsee deals out some good advice mixed in with all the insults.
* JumpedAtTheCall:
-->'''Yatagarasu''': [[AC:All you need to do is ask, young lady, and the power of the god-bird, the great Yatagarasu, will be yours!]]\\
'''Okuu''': Okay, gimme!\\
'''Yatagarasu''': [[AC:[[LampshadeHanging That was fast!]] At least think a bit first!]]
* ManOnFire: Okuu spontaneously ignites after simply touching the Yatagarasu, and afterwards before she gains control of her new power.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: As Satori, Orin and Okuu praise "the god of eggs" for giving Okuu a human form, Kanako and Suwako can be seen hidden in the stained glass windows.
* MoodWhiplash: The shift from silly and irreverent to depressingly serious and back again is as jarring as it is magnificent.
* MinimalistCast: Aside from some animals and some nameless oni in a few panels at the beginning, only twelve characters appear at all -- Satori, Koishi, Okuu, Orin, Yuugi, Parsee, Yatagarasu, Sanae, Yamame, Kisume, Kanako, and Suwako (and Kanako and Suwako's "appearance" is debatable, as it's in a dream and they are represented by abstract stained glass constructs).
* OcularGushers: Many times from nearly all the characters.
* OriginalCharacter: The Yatagarasu.
* OrphanedEtymology: Despite living in a FantasticGhetto in a region that has itself been cut off from the rest of the world since 1885, French toast is still known to them.
-->'''Okuu''': [[LampshadeHanging What's "French"?]]
* OutOfClothesExperience
* PaintingTheMedium: Okuu "yelling" her thoughts is so loud the "speech" balloon stabs Satori in the head. Later, Orin's thoughts shoot through the sky and bounce off of Satori's head.
* ParentalSubstitute: Okuu and Orin very much treat the Komeiji's as their mothers.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Satori gets a nasty one of these when [[spoiler:Koishi briefly closes her third eye.]]
* PuniPlush
* ReactionShot: Koishi embracing [[spoiler:a currently burning Okuu]] is enough to warrant one from three separate characters, with Orin adding a DoubleTake.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Okuu and Orin in animal form.
* RumpRoast: Orin is on the receiving end of this. [[MoodWhiplash Meanwhile]], [[spoiler: Koishi is on the verge of burning to death.]]
* SandInMyEyes: In a variation, Orin and Satori blame the cicadas for Satori crying.
* SerialEscalation: The third chapter is longer than the first and second chapters combined.
* ShoutOut: The hot springs scene has one to ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' and to ''Manga/LuckyStar''. Soon after Okuu and Orin chant "Anime/PrettyCure!" when they transform. And at the end Koishi makes a ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' reference.
* SkewedPriorities
-->'''Okuu''': [Satori and Koishi] mean more than my life. They mean more to me than eggs.\\
'''Yatagarasu''': [[AC:That's really something. [[LampshadeHanging Wait... so is your ranking of eggs!]]]]
* SleepModeSize: Okuu's initial child form, not having enough power for anything bigger. [[spoiler:She gets her full adult form after absorbing the Yatagarasu.]]
* StealthHiBye: How Koishi's PerceptionFilter ability is represented.
* SuddenlyShouting: After continually putting on a brave face, the doijin ends with Satori unleashing a maximum volume tirade of her true feelings.
* TemptingFate: Orin wishes for something, ''anything'', to stall Koishi. Cue '''gigantic''' explosion from one of the furnaces, with Okuu still inside.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Okuu and eggs.
* {{Tsundere}}: Parsee.
* UnsoundEffect: SUDDENLY
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The nameless youkai who fear Koishi, starting the whole plot in motion.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Satori's reaction when Yuugi speculates about zombies.
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[[caption-width-right:350:A story in the Underground Hell a long time ago.]]
Deep underneath Gensokyo, in what used to be hell, {{youkai}} who are [[FantasticGhetto shunned by other youkai are exiled]], living in relative peace amongst themselves, but even these youkai create pariahs. The Komeiji sisters, the elder Satori and the younger Koishi, are hated and feared by the rest of the Underground youkai for their ability to read the hearts and minds of others. They live in the Palace of the Earth Spirits with each other and with the hoard of animals they care for, who are by contrast overjoyed at people who can understand their thoughts. However, while Satori is mostly content with her isolated life, Koishi wants desperately for others to like her as well, and she seals her third eye, locking away her powers and her connection to her sister. This act will start a chain of events that puts their little family through immense struggles, and will forever change them and the Underground as a whole.
''At Chirei'' is a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' {{doujin|shi}} created by [[http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=219099 Karaage Tarou]], serving as a {{prequel}} to the 11th game ''Subterranean Animism''. It consists of three chapters, covering the immediate aftermath of Koishi leaving, the intervention of the Moriya goddesses, and the far larger final chapter detailing Satori and Koishi's reconciliation and Okuu gaining her new power. It can be purchased from [[http://karaageyasan.blog38.fc2.com/ Karaage's blog]] or pixiv.
See the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' page for tropes in the series in general, and Characters.TouhouSubterraneanAnimism for tropes specifically pertaining to the characters appearing in this doujin.
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!!''At Chirei'' contains the following tropes:
* AccidentalMisnaming: Koishi calls Parsee "Percy".
-->'''Parsee''': I'm not some [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends locomotive with a face!]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Why Koishi seals her third eye.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Kisume sleeps inside her bucket.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Why are you crying?"
* ArtificialLimbs: After an accident Okuu loses a foot in bird form. When in human form she manifests a concrete foot as a replacement (in canon she got both the leg of fusion and leg of fission after absorbing the Yatagarasu).
* ArtStyleDissonance: While not completely bleak, ''At Chirei'' is far more intense and sad than Karaage's usual cutesy SliceOfLife and {{Shipping}} doujins, all of which use the same art style.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Koishi only acts on her subconscious after all.
-->"Whoa! 's daark! Where are we? Ooh! The sky! I'm huungry!"
* BandageMummy: Okuu at one point.
* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Parsee.
-->'''Yuugi''': Okay, who's been makin' that one drink?\\
'''Yamame''': You have.
* BeYourself: What Satori says to Okuu to try and convince her not to use her new powers (that, and the possibility [[CallForward that it will end in disaster]]).
* BittersweetEnding: Satori and Koishi will never have the same connection they used to, but they're building a new connection instead.
* BrutalHonesty: Yuugi specialises in this (oni hate liars, after all), but at least she has more tact than Parsee.
* CastHerd: Featuring the Palace of the Earth Spirits cast herd, with minor roles by the rest of the ''SA'' herd.
* CatSmile: Orin has this permanently in cat form, predictably, and she and Okuu do it a several times in human form.
* CoolBigSis: Yuugi, to Satori.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: What the Yatagarasu tries to teach Okuu. [[TheDitz She doesn't listen.]]
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Okuu ''still'' thinks that she got her human form from the god of eggs.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Satori, of course. Canon implies that reading someone's heart and mind is a lot more abstract than simple sentences, however.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Koishi's condition is ''very'' reminiscent of dementia.
-->"The inside of my head is light... like it's gone somewhere. The old me is gone. She's gone somewhere else, far away."
** The drama of Koishi leaving plays out exactly like a divorce, with poor Okuu and Orin as the children caught in the middle.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Okuu shows the early signs of her [[ForegoneConclusion eventual]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity megalomania]] when she express how good it feels to fire off a few rounds from her ArmCannon.
* DysfunctionJunction: Milder than most examples, but they could seriously use some therapists in the Underground.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Yatagarasu, as a sun god, appears as an ambulatory mass of lava.
* EyeScream: Koishi ''tears out'' the connecting wire of her third eye to her head, leaving a bright white scar.
* ForegoneConclusion: Orin and Okuu get human forms, Koishi leaves her sister to explore the surface, and Okuu absorbs the Yatagarasu.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: "Anyone who's liked by animals has gotta be a good person."
* FusionDance: Power Booster form, with the Yatagarasu absorbed by Okuu and living on inside her.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Parsee's response to a crying Koishi is to punch her. And kick her. And throw her off of the bridge...
* TheGlomp: Courtesy of Orin, complete with sound effect.
* GroupHug: All four of them, before they bid Koishi farewell.
* HangingOurClothesToDry: Koishi after taking an involuntary dip in the river.
* [[HotSpringsEpisode Hot Springs Scene]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: Okuu's first attempts to control ThePowerOfTheSun don't go well.
* ImportantHaircut: Koishi gets one of these near the end.
* InSeriesNickname: Okuu and Orin, like canon, with the addition of "Yata-kun" for Yatagarasu.
* IronicEcho: "Back then we had words for just the two of us."
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Non-romantic version, with Okuu and Orin's motivations revolving around doing ''anything'' to make Satori and Koishi happy.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Parsee deals out some good advice mixed in with all the insults.
* JumpedAtTheCall:
-->'''Yatagarasu''': [[AC:All you need to do is ask, young lady, and the power of the god-bird, the great Yatagarasu, will be yours!]]\\
'''Okuu''': Okay, gimme!\\
'''Yatagarasu''': [[AC:[[LampshadeHanging That was fast!]] At least think a bit first!]]
* ManOnFire: Okuu spontaneously ignites after simply touching the Yatagarasu, and afterwards before she gains control of her new power.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: As Satori, Orin and Okuu praise "the god of eggs" for giving Okuu a human form, Kanako and Suwako can be seen hidden in the stained glass windows.
* MoodWhiplash: The shift from silly and irreverent to depressingly serious and back again is as jarring as it is magnificent.
* MinimalistCast: Aside from some animals and some nameless oni in a few panels at the beginning, only twelve characters appear at all -- Satori, Koishi, Okuu, Orin, Yuugi, Parsee, Yatagarasu, Sanae, Yamame, Kisume, Kanako, and Suwako (and Kanako and Suwako's "appearance" is debatable, as it's in a dream and they are represented by abstract stained glass constructs).
* OcularGushers: Many times from nearly all the characters.
* OriginalCharacter: The Yatagarasu.
* OrphanedEtymology: Despite living in a FantasticGhetto in a region that has itself been cut off from the rest of the world since 1885, French toast is still known to them.
-->'''Okuu''': [[LampshadeHanging What's "French"?]]
* OutOfClothesExperience
* PaintingTheMedium: Okuu "yelling" her thoughts is so loud the "speech" balloon stabs Satori in the head. Later, Orin's thoughts shoot through the sky and bounce off of Satori's head.
* ParentalSubstitute: Okuu and Orin very much treat the Komeiji's as their mothers.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Satori gets a nasty one of these when [[spoiler:Koishi briefly closes her third eye.]]
* PuniPlush
* ReactionShot: Koishi embracing [[spoiler:a currently burning Okuu]] is enough to warrant one from three separate characters, with Orin adding a DoubleTake.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Okuu and Orin in animal form.
* RumpRoast: Orin is on the receiving end of this. [[MoodWhiplash Meanwhile]], [[spoiler: Koishi is on the verge of burning to death.]]
* SandInMyEyes: In a variation, Orin and Satori blame the cicadas for Satori crying.
* SerialEscalation: The third chapter is longer than the first and second chapters combined.
* ShoutOut: The hot springs scene has one to ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' and to ''Manga/LuckyStar''. Soon after Okuu and Orin chant "Anime/PrettyCure!" when they transform. And at the end Koishi makes a ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' reference.
* SkewedPriorities
-->'''Okuu''': [Satori and Koishi] mean more than my life. They mean more to me than eggs.\\
'''Yatagarasu''': [[AC:That's really something. [[LampshadeHanging Wait... so is your ranking of eggs!]]]]
* SleepModeSize: Okuu's initial child form, not having enough power for anything bigger. [[spoiler:She gets her full adult form after absorbing the Yatagarasu.]]
* StealthHiBye: How Koishi's PerceptionFilter ability is represented.
* SuddenlyShouting: After continually putting on a brave face, the doijin ends with Satori unleashing a maximum volume tirade of her true feelings.
* TemptingFate: Orin wishes for something, ''anything'', to stall Koishi. Cue '''gigantic''' explosion from one of the furnaces, with Okuu still inside.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Okuu and eggs.
* {{Tsundere}}: Parsee.
* UnsoundEffect: SUDDENLY
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The nameless youkai who fear Koishi, starting the whole plot in motion.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Satori's reaction when Yuugi speculates about zombies.
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