This page is for theories about girls who originated in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, the ninth main Touhou game.
The spellcard system was modified during Phantasmagoria of Flower View and is being modified regularly.
The games before that had more progressively impressive bombs and stuff that you hoarded, while PoFV had you spamming them to drown the enemy with a clearing effect on your end. Mountain of Faith had completely different bombs focusing solely on the clearing. Considering the slight changes on even returning or blatantly stolen (BYAKUREN!) spellcards between games, the spellcard system is likely modifying itself to accomodate for rapidly shifting powers and people to make sure that everyone can still beat everyone.Lily White
Lily White/Black is a subspecies of fairy, not an individual.
Thus, in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, when she comes back after getting shot down, it's actually a different one replacing her.- Perfect Memento in Strict Sense refers to Lily as an independant character, so this is unlikely. Besides, fairies can easily return even after vaporisation, as well as being deeply stupid, so her reappearing for multiple beatings isn't unusual.
Lily White / Lily Black is undergoing something similar to The Three Faces of Eve
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Both "Lily White" and "Lily Black" are unstable personalities that are repressing a third personality locked deep within Lily's mind after a particularly traumatic experience..- According to Touhoumon, the third form is Daiyousei. Just putting that out there.
Lily White is in fact a love goddess.
It's said that she announces spring. But, think about her name. It's Lily White. And white lily is a symbol of yuri. It can be a suggestion that she's able to bring love between Gensokyo's residents (the outbursts of spring she brings with herself can be explained by Power of Love).Aya
Aya is in so many games because she's recording all the events.
Think: Aya is one of the major news sources to ZUN on Gensokyo, other than Yukari. She has to be at least marginally knowledgeable about the events to report on them with any accuracy... So she's there. Since she's not exactly the most unnoticeable thing in the world, anyone could see her and opens fire with a danmaku barrage at some point. Aya is a spy / scoutmaster for the Tengu.
Being a reporter is a hobby, and a fun one for her. But she's also reporting everything she observes to the tengu of Youkai Mountain. (Momiji is the infrantry) Those reports are more serious and detail oriented than Bunbunmaru. Her Flanderization is partially a ruse. The more people roll their eyes at her being goofy; the less they realize that she really is paying attention to everything.- It's unlikely the Tengu do anything with this information other than what we see them doing, of course.
Yuuka
When ZUN said Yuuka was "Youkai Moe~", he literally meant she's a sprouting youkai.
- Brilliant. But you'd have to ask ZUN about that.
Kazami Yuuka and Lily White are friends.
Yuuka loves flowers and can control them. Lily makes flowers bloom with her cheerfulness on the start of every spring. Considering their affinity towards flowers, it's not hard to make the connection between them.- Alternatively Lily White lives with Yuuka to help replace dead flowers with new ones. Yuuka doesn't mind because she may need the help every now and then.
Yuuka has just awakened her power to manipulate flowers
Hence why her ability is stated as useless in battle, because she hasn't fully mastered it yet. Forbidden Scrollery showed us with Kosuzu that some abilities awaken at certain times, not from birth. For Yuuka, this time is between the end of Mystic Square and her reappearance in Phantasmagoria of Flower View. This also explains why Yuuka has no association with flowers at all in PC-98 times, she has not awakened yet. Her love and knowledge of flowers are side-effects of her ability. Since Yuuka has just awakened her abilities after living for a very long time, we could say that she's a late BLOOMer.- Or, say, a sprouting youkai (youkai moe)?
- She does bloom a massive flower in the shrine to destroy it in one of the bad end of her debut game, although PC-98 is of dubious cannon
Yuuka was a fairy who grew too powerful
Based off this doujin: http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1025374?pool_id=4453 Yuuka has her insane power due to gaining power from the recognition of the symbolic meaning of flowers, and the awe, fear, etc. that comes with it.
She is very knowledgeable of what various flowers represent, based on her in game dialogue (and being a flower youkai), and flowers alone aren't all that scary, but the symbolic value behind them holds meaning, and therefore power.Komachi
Komachi is making an example of ‘em!
The reason why Komachi demands the deceased pay all their ‘money’ when crossing the Sanzu; the money represents all the people who miss them, by given away all the money the deceased loses their knowledge of those people and is freed from any lingering wish to remain with them on earth despite being dead.Those who cannot bring themselves to accept their need to leave their loved ones behind bring deep regrets with them across the river and their hesitation would surely be seen by the Yama, who would sentence them time in one of the lesser hells.So Komachi tosses them overboard to be eaten by the Sansu River’s monster fish as an example to the other watching spirits. This helps discourage the majority of deceased souls from withholding pay and thus preempts a certain amount of otherwise marginally good souls from being sent to hell. Shinigami rely on a "mortality point" system that that rises and falls for people who are Enemies with Death.
A kind of Equivalent Exchange; the servants of Yama have to follow dharma which isn't like human law. The path of the Hermit; if followed correctly; lowers these points through ritual, sutras, and doing what the shinigami tell you to do. Accumulate enough points; and a certain level of shinigami is allocated to collect you. Defeat this shinigami; and this resets your mortality points; or at least delays further collection until the next point tab is accrued. Accumulate a lot of points; and they send a Kishin. Just getting away from the Kishin is sufficient to offset the tally.- This is why defeating shinigami isn't treated as an immediate crime that results in more shinigami or a Kishin being sent as reinforcements immediately. Or why the Kishin just went away after Seiga escaped its trap.
- Whether or not the path of fighting shinigami will count against you while standing in Yama's court when you finally do die is unknown. It's likely such a path will result in other behaviors that will be judged.
Some shinigami end up having to work two separate jobs in Hell's system.
This is why Komachi seems to perform the lifespan-judging functions of shinigami at the Ministry of Right and Wrong (or at least know about this information to the point she's allowed to make claims about lifespans) and make so many Death Note references despite being a ferrywoman shinigami: She's actually performing both positions, though as she slacks off with ferrying sometimes it's unlikely she actually helps with very much calculation and just ends up moving around the physical paperwork for Eiki or something equally minor but helpful. This assumes her SWR win quotes are either not jokes or jokes that are based on things she would actually be in the know about. As a reference to Komachi's win quote, Marisa will at some point say "I'm dying" in a Touhou material that comes out in 10 years from the events of Touhou 9
She will actually be in no peril whatsoever, but it will still happen. Because why not, it's Gensokyo.The only reason Nobody Can Die is Komachi doesn't want to try to kill anybody.
Partly because she genuinely cares about living beings, partly because she doesn't want to make the effort to kill anybody of any importance.Eiki Shiki
Reimu and Marisa took over two years to recover from fighting Eiki Shiki, and other girls took even longer.
The Yama is powerful enough to "defeat" characters (as shown by Clothing Damage) even when they win against her in-game, and everything only returns to peace because she wasn't behind the incident at all. This would explain why Reimu and Marisa look like undead zombies in Mountain of Faith (although they and other arc mainstays like Sakuya and Youmu) were back in the game come Scarlet Weather Rhapsody) and why many other characters (like Mystia and the Prismriver) sat out the entire third arc.