This page is for theories about the girls of Subterranean Animism, the 11th Touhou Project game.
Kisume
Kisume is Wriggle's sister. Or at least a close relative.
The hair color could easily be coincidental, but: They both have a reputation for kicking/bucketing Marisa in the face. Kisume's the midboss to Yamame, a spider youkai - and spiders love insects. And then there's the fact that Kisume hides in a bucket: she could be hiding pants (and/or a glowing ass) like Wriggle's.- Spiders love insects because they're tasty; not exactly good relationship material. Granted, many good relationships in Gensokyo have a strong foundation of abuse.
Yamame
Parsee
Parsee is part Tengu
She has the same ears as Aya. This isn't a weird coincidence, but a sign of mixed ancestry on her part. When the Oni moved to hell a few of the Tengu decided to come with them. One of them fell in love with a Bridge Princess, and Parsee is the result. This even explains her weird name; Tengu have traditional Japanese names, and we don't know about Bridge Princesses. She has her father's family name and her mother gave her a name from her culture. While her species is given as 'Bridge Princess', that is simply the side she primarily took after. Parsee is a former human/near human youkai, like Alice.
Per the story of the Hashihime, her grudge against an unfaithful husband caused her to become a jealousy-ridden youkai. Her pointy ears are fakes, which she wears out of jealousy for the more unusual-looking youkai.- Being a Persian plays into this; her marital strife stemmed from culture clash with her presumably-Japanese husband. Her jealousy that other people can travel freely is because she's homesick for her homeland.
Yuugi
Yuugi is at least as strong, if not stronger then Yukari.
Let's do a refresher here. Stage placement does not equate power (e.g. Chen, the Stage 2 boss AND the Extra mid-boss, due to being separated from Ran in the former causing her power to drop; also see Keine who was only trying to keep you away from the Human Village). She is part of the same group as Suika (who is one of the strongest in Gensokyo, according to Aya). 'Four Devas of the Mountains.' And, we all know she was only playing with us her sake NOT EVEN A DROP! She is more mature then Suika, in age (probably), and power (probably), and as such should be as strong (if not stronger.) Combined with her power being 'Power to control supernatural phenomena', it could possibly be the most dangerous (or useless) power in Gensokyo.- If dangerous she can use it to say... cause aliens to abduct someone? Bad example, but you get the idea.
- If dangerous, she could negate all of the supernatural phenomena in Gensokyo. That's just about everything, by the way.
- If useless, she probably could do something like... turn her water into sake? Another bad example, but you get it... hopefully.
- Unlikely, as the main reason Suika is so powerful is her ability to manipulate density, which Yuugi doesn't have. Also, a good way to tell if someone was holding back or not is to look at their clothing after you beat them. If it's torn, they weren't. If it isn't, they were. Yuugi's is torn and her sake DOES drop, despite Memetic Mutation. That said, she is still significantly harder than any other Stage 3 boss in the entire series, and probably is the strongest in terms of sheer physical strength.
- Everyone suffers Clothing Damage when they lose a battle, unless they are kicked off the screen, like most stage 1 bosses. That being said, most early stage bosses suffer from this, and stage 3+ bosses often say something after beating them. Plus, consider this interesting fact. Gensokyo is one giant super-natural phenomenon which could theoretically give Yuugi complete control over it. Youkai? Same. Shrine Maiden? Negate their spiritual powers.
Satori
Satori and Koishi are the eye-heart-things
And the bodies are just hosts Orin has brought them.- Following this through, the eye-heart-things are actually Soul Gems. Yukari pulled them out of PMMM For the Lulz and in doing so stopped the witchification. Would also go some way to explaining their abilities, if they wished to understand people. Koishi's power breakdown could be seen as the first stage in witchification. But yeah, this is weird even for me.'
Rin
Utsuho
Utsuho Reiuji will received alot of flak after the events of the March 11, 2011 Japan Earthquake ...
If the Dai-ichi nuclear power plant does become the next Chernobyl, there would be a huge chance real people would distance and disassociate themselves away from our beloved Utsuho. Why? Because of the power she personify. When that disaster happens, the least thing people would want to see is a simple minded hell raven powered by nuclear energy.- Case in point. When thisTroper saw a video clip of a Japanese town with its tsunami warning klaxons wailing, the first that came to thisTroper's head was Utsuho. How much more if the disaster was nuclear!
- Shouldn't Tenshi be blamed also for the Earthquake AND Tsunami?
- Clearly Tenshi caused the earthquake. But the tsunami was probably Murasa being woken up rather abruptly from her nap.
- Earthquakes and Tsunamis are natural disasters and they can easily be associated as the works of any Shinto gods but a nuclear disaster... Zun might be compelled to drop Utsuho from the Touhou franchise completely!
- I sincerely doubt that peer pressure of that sort will cause ZUN to drop a character, since he stated once in an interview that he makes the games because he wants to, not to please the crowd. So unless ZUN himself wants to distance himself from her, she's not going to be dropped so easily. Plus, fanon will always make stuff for her, even if canon doesn't, so she'll always have fans somewhere, keeping her in mind.
- Utsuho ALWAYS could have been considered a controversial character, given the history of Japan with nukes. She's not one of the closest things to a villain in the setting for nothing. As it goes, the recent disaster just adds on to her controversiality. As for the earthquake and the tsunami alike, I blame Namazu aka That Unnamed Giant Catfish.
- Coincidentally, Tenshi and Utsuho are partners
in the long running 4koma series Touhou Tag Dream, which by this point in its 4th year run probably deserves its own page. - Actually, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are two very different things. For one, fusion does not release radioactive waste. Fusion combines hydrogen atoms and is currently impossible for humans (but not Utsuho) to achieve. And despite that, this troper still thought of Utsuho when he heard of the disaster...
- 11/3/11? 11th game? Third game in the second Windows trilogy?
Utsuho Reiuji is really Obfuscating Stupidity to troll people
The only hint that Utsuho is considered "dumb" is Orin calls her a bird brain (and an indirect comment from Word of God, but barring that). But Utsuho is a raven, and ravens are one of the smartest animals alive, it wouldn't really make a lot of sense that Utsuho is just flat out stupid.- On a side note, there are suggestions that ravens and crows are assholes when they think they can get away with it.
- Corvids in general are well-known to be jerks among birds.
- Also, it should be noted that Utsuho picked up on nuclear physics fast enough in Hisoutensoku, which either confirms that she's faking it or simply means she's a Genius Ditz instead of a total birdbrain.
- Maybe Utsuho is book smart, but not street smart. She knows a lot about math, physics, chemistry, and astronomy (I mean, you kind of have to be knowledgeable about those things if your ability is manipulating nuclear fusion), but she's extremely gullible and is very lacking in common sense.
Yatagarasu was one of the 8 Sun Gods that the husband of Chang'e killed.
Apollo being one of them. Kanako recovered the body for her own purposes.Koishi
If you put Seija next to Koishi, she'll short-circuit.
Because the opposite of having no emotions or thoughts is having every emotion, all those conflicting emotions, and more thoughts than any brain can handle, at the same time. Koishi has Bad Syndrome.
Due to her closed third eye, instead of brain, she has a dark orb..