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In addition to its many [[Funny/{{Touhou}} laughs]], [[NightmareFuel/{{Touhou}} horrors]] and [[Heartwarming/{{Touhou}} beautiful moments]], Gensokyo also has quite a few [[TearJerker stories of heartbreak]].
'''''Unmarked spoilers below'''''
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYma2tRjz8 Mokou's]] backstory is tragic enough, especially when paired with her [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]].
** ''[[http://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/2493 Nitori Gets Caught In The Flow]]'' has its own soulcrushingly painful take on the story of Kaguya and Mokou's feud. Mokou's Father secretly never loved her and tried to make use of her bond to Kaguya to marry the Moon Princess, so Kaguya decided to humiliate him and let Mokou hate her. This fanfic goes even further with the sadness, as a time-displaced Nitori [[YouCantFightFate futilely tries to change her destiny]] after making friends with her. To ''twist'' the knife even more, when Nitori returns to present-day Gensokyo, Mokou has somewhat forgotten her after the thousand-or-so intervening years. Luckily, they at least get a happy ending.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=majdtmwRWfU Yuyuko's]] backstory is just as bawl-worthy. Her ability was, at first, to manipulate spirits of the dead. As time went on, it grew stronger and stronger, to the point of being able to will death onto mortals. Terrified of her ability, she committed suicide, and her body was used to seal off a misfortune-bringing tree, which later led to the events of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''.
** The fan manga Fanfic/TouhouTonari focuses on her and Yukari's back story and as one might expect, it is heartwrenching.
** The fan PV [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIocRk7Tcc Loitering Darkness]] focuses on her HeroicSacrifice to seal off the tree, it is both heroic and heartwrenching.
** There's something beautifully tragic about Yuyuko kicking off ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' because she, who only has the power to bring death to people, wanted to bring ''life'' to something for the first time in her existence. But she had to pick the one thing she literally could not revive even if she had that power. Or as her profile puts it: "Reviving the corpse will destroy Yuyuko's ghost, so it's no wonder that the near-success of the revival ended in inevitable failure. After all, Yuyuko is not able to manipulate anything but death."
* Parsee Mizuhashi. Jealousy is a very strong emotion, as anyone who has felt it can attest to. Feeling it for a just a short time can bring great pain to the person, and Parsee has to feel it for thousands of years as part of her curse. Imagine how much pain she is in now, and how many times have a person crossing her bridge felt pity for her just for her to shrug it off again and again, out of, [[{{Fanon}} well, being jealous of all of them for even showing pity]], even if she doesn't even need or have to. [[FateWorseThanDeath And she's stuck with it, forever]].
* Koishi Komeiji's backstory is also pretty saddening. Like her sister Satori, she was born with the power to read minds, however she hated the fear it caused people towards her, so she closed her third eye to prevent herself from reading other people's minds. Sadly this included herself, denying her the ability to think, leaving her as an EmptyShell who can only communicate to people through her subconscious. Even worse, unlike her sister, she [[WalkingTheEarth travels around Gensokyo]] and whoever looks away from her after seeing her will forget they ever saw her, meaning that she practically doesn't exist except to the people who have prior knowledge of her. And if that wasn't enough, her dialogue after her fight with Reimu and Marisa implies that she is starting to feel [[HopeIsScary regretful]].
** Hopeless Masquerade has her actually expressing some emotions and thoughts; [[YankTheDogsChain however]], this is due to her having the Mask of Hope, and when she gives it to Kokoro, it's implied that she will go back to her EmptyShell state. If there is any consolation, Byakuren does mention that by being an EmptyShell, Koishi is close to Enlightenment.
* Junko's backstory, what with possibly having lost her husband to another woman, and then learning that her [[OutlivingOnesOffspring son was killed]] by the same man, causing her to become mad with grief and resentment to the point she became a spirit representing her own feelings of anger and sorrow, with no other purpose to existence than to feel an everlasting hatred.
** Looking at Hecatia and who she's based on reveals that she suffered a loss almost as painful and equally scarring from Apollo's death - Hecate is often depicted as an aspect of the moon goddess Artemis. Hecatia lost ''her twin brother''.
* Some music from the series can be sad, too. See "Legend of Hourai", "Soul's Resting Place", and "The Purest Sky and Sea". "The Wheelchair's Future in Space" from Magical Astronomy also ended up qualifying as this.
* Shions entire existence is literally defined by suffering, both she and anyone near her will continually suffer misfortune, to the point she considers things that would make most people puke as good enough to bring her to tears, her own sister berates and demeans her, made much worse by the fact shes the only long term relationship she can form since her misfortune inevitably drives anyone else away
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[[quoteright:350:[[Fanfic/TouhouTonari https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Touhou_Tonari_Yuyuko_2338.png]]]]
In addition to its many [[Funny/{{Touhou}} laughs]], [[NightmareFuel/{{Touhou}} horrors]] and [[Heartwarming/{{Touhou}} beautiful moments]], Gensokyo also has quite a few [[TearJerker stories of heartbreak]].
'''''Unmarked spoilers below'''''
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYma2tRjz8 Mokou's]] backstory is tragic enough, especially when paired with her [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]].
** ''[[http://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/2493 Nitori Gets Caught In The Flow]]'' has its own soulcrushingly painful take on the story of Kaguya and Mokou's feud. Mokou's Father secretly never loved her and tried to make use of her bond to Kaguya to marry the Moon Princess, so Kaguya decided to humiliate him and let Mokou hate her. This fanfic goes even further with the sadness, as a time-displaced Nitori [[YouCantFightFate futilely tries to change her destiny]] after making friends with her. To ''twist'' the knife even more, when Nitori returns to present-day Gensokyo, Mokou has somewhat forgotten her after the thousand-or-so intervening years. Luckily, they at least get a happy ending.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=majdtmwRWfU Yuyuko's]] backstory is just as bawl-worthy. Her ability was, at first, to manipulate spirits of the dead. As time went on, it grew stronger and stronger, to the point of being able to will death onto mortals. Terrified of her ability, she committed suicide, and her body was used to seal off a misfortune-bringing tree, which later led to the events of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''.
** The fan manga Fanfic/TouhouTonari focuses on her and Yukari's back story and as one might expect, it is heartwrenching.
** The fan PV [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIocRk7Tcc Loitering Darkness]] focuses on her HeroicSacrifice to seal off the tree, it is both heroic and heartwrenching.
** There's something beautifully tragic about Yuyuko kicking off ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' because she, who only has the power to bring death to people, wanted to bring ''life'' to something for the first time in her existence. But she had to pick the one thing she literally could not revive even if she had that power. Or as her profile puts it: "Reviving the corpse will destroy Yuyuko's ghost, so it's no wonder that the near-success of the revival ended in inevitable failure. After all, Yuyuko is not able to manipulate anything but death."
* Parsee Mizuhashi. Jealousy is a very strong emotion, as anyone who has felt it can attest to. Feeling it for a just a short time can bring great pain to the person, and Parsee has to feel it for thousands of years as part of her curse. Imagine how much pain she is in now, and how many times have a person crossing her bridge felt pity for her just for her to shrug it off again and again, out of, [[{{Fanon}} well, being jealous of all of them for even showing pity]], even if she doesn't even need or have to. [[FateWorseThanDeath And she's stuck with it, forever]].
* Koishi Komeiji's backstory is also pretty saddening. Like her sister Satori, she was born with the power to read minds, however she hated the fear it caused people towards her, so she closed her third eye to prevent herself from reading other people's minds. Sadly this included herself, denying her the ability to think, leaving her as an EmptyShell who can only communicate to people through her subconscious. Even worse, unlike her sister, she [[WalkingTheEarth travels around Gensokyo]] and whoever looks away from her after seeing her will forget they ever saw her, meaning that she practically doesn't exist except to the people who have prior knowledge of her. And if that wasn't enough, her dialogue after her fight with Reimu and Marisa implies that she is starting to feel [[HopeIsScary regretful]].
** Hopeless Masquerade has her actually expressing some emotions and thoughts; [[YankTheDogsChain however]], this is due to her having the Mask of Hope, and when she gives it to Kokoro, it's implied that she will go back to her EmptyShell state. If there is any consolation, Byakuren does mention that by being an EmptyShell, Koishi is close to Enlightenment.
* Junko's backstory, what with possibly having lost her husband to another woman, and then learning that her [[OutlivingOnesOffspring son was killed]] by the same man, causing her to become mad with grief and resentment to the point she became a spirit representing her own feelings of anger and sorrow, with no other purpose to existence than to feel an everlasting hatred.
** Looking at Hecatia and who she's based on reveals that she suffered a loss almost as painful and equally scarring from Apollo's death - Hecate is often depicted as an aspect of the moon goddess Artemis. Hecatia lost ''her twin brother''.
* Some music from the series can be sad, too. See "Legend of Hourai", "Soul's Resting Place", and "The Purest Sky and Sea". "The Wheelchair's Future in Space" from Magical Astronomy also ended up qualifying as this.
* Shions entire existence is literally defined by suffering, both she and anyone near her will continually suffer misfortune, to the point she considers things that would make most people puke as good enough to bring her to tears, her own sister berates and demeans her, made much worse by the fact shes the only long term relationship she can form since her misfortune inevitably drives anyone else away
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[[quoteright:350:[[Fanfic/TouhouTonari https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Touhou_Tonari_Yuyuko_2338.png]]]]
In addition to its many [[Funny/{{Touhou}} laughs]], [[NightmareFuel/{{Touhou}} horrors]] and [[Heartwarming/{{Touhou}} beautiful moments]], Gensokyo also has quite a few [[TearJerker stories of heartbreak]].
'''''Unmarked spoilers below'''''
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYma2tRjz8 Mokou's]] backstory is tragic enough, especially when paired with her [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]].
** ''[[http://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/2493 Nitori Gets Caught In The Flow]]'' has its own soulcrushingly painful take on the story of Kaguya and Mokou's feud. Mokou's Father secretly never loved her and tried to make use of her bond to Kaguya to marry the Moon Princess, so Kaguya decided to humiliate him and let Mokou hate her. This fanfic goes even further with the sadness, as a time-displaced Nitori [[YouCantFightFate futilely tries to change her destiny]] after making friends with her. To ''twist'' the knife even more, when Nitori returns to present-day Gensokyo, Mokou has somewhat forgotten her after the thousand-or-so intervening years. Luckily, they at least get a happy ending.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=majdtmwRWfU Yuyuko's]] backstory is just as bawl-worthy. Her ability was, at first, to manipulate spirits of the dead. As time went on, it grew stronger and stronger, to the point of being able to will death onto mortals. Terrified of her ability, she committed suicide, and her body was used to seal off a misfortune-bringing tree, which later led to the events of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''.
** The fan manga Fanfic/TouhouTonari focuses on her and Yukari's back story and as one might expect, it is heartwrenching.
** The fan PV [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIocRk7Tcc Loitering Darkness]] focuses on her HeroicSacrifice to seal off the tree, it is both heroic and heartwrenching.
** There's something beautifully tragic about Yuyuko kicking off ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' because she, who only has the power to bring death to people, wanted to bring ''life'' to something for the first time in her existence. But she had to pick the one thing she literally could not revive even if she had that power. Or as her profile puts it: "Reviving the corpse will destroy Yuyuko's ghost, so it's no wonder that the near-success of the revival ended in inevitable failure. After all, Yuyuko is not able to manipulate anything but death."
* Parsee Mizuhashi. Jealousy is a very strong emotion, as anyone who has felt it can attest to. Feeling it for a just a short time can bring great pain to the person, and Parsee has to feel it for thousands of years as part of her curse. Imagine how much pain she is in now, and how many times have a person crossing her bridge felt pity for her just for her to shrug it off again and again, out of, [[{{Fanon}} well, being jealous of all of them for even showing pity]], even if she doesn't even need or have to. [[FateWorseThanDeath And she's stuck with it, forever]].
* Koishi Komeiji's backstory is also pretty saddening. Like her sister Satori, she was born with the power to read minds, however she hated the fear it caused people towards her, so she closed her third eye to prevent herself from reading other people's minds. Sadly this included herself, denying her the ability to think, leaving her as an EmptyShell who can only communicate to people through her subconscious. Even worse, unlike her sister, she [[WalkingTheEarth travels around Gensokyo]] and whoever looks away from her after seeing her will forget they ever saw her, meaning that she practically doesn't exist except to the people who have prior knowledge of her. And if that wasn't enough, her dialogue after her fight with Reimu and Marisa implies that she is starting to feel [[HopeIsScary regretful]].
** Hopeless Masquerade has her actually expressing some emotions and thoughts; [[YankTheDogsChain however]], this is due to her having the Mask of Hope, and when she gives it to Kokoro, it's implied that she will go back to her EmptyShell state. If there is any consolation, Byakuren does mention that by being an EmptyShell, Koishi is close to Enlightenment.
* Junko's backstory, what with possibly having lost her husband to another woman, and then learning that her [[OutlivingOnesOffspring son was killed]] by the same man, causing her to become mad with grief and resentment to the point she became a spirit representing her own feelings of anger and sorrow, with no other purpose to existence than to feel an everlasting hatred.
** Looking at Hecatia and who she's based on reveals that she suffered a loss almost as painful and equally scarring from Apollo's death - Hecate is often depicted as an aspect of the moon goddess Artemis. Hecatia lost ''her twin brother''.
* Some music from the series can be sad, too. See "Legend of Hourai", "Soul's Resting Place", and "The Purest Sky and Sea". "The Wheelchair's Future in Space" from Magical Astronomy also ended up qualifying as this.
* Shions entire existence is literally defined by suffering, both she and anyone near her will continually suffer misfortune, to the point she considers things that would make most people puke as good enough to bring her to tears, her own sister berates and demeans her, made much worse by the fact shes the only long term relationship she can form since her misfortune inevitably drives anyone else away
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