The New Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium!

Is that a hobby of your's, or is a special occasion coming up?

edited 29th Sep '11 8:43:27 PM by Metaflare

"Seriously, don't eat the mermaid. And not just because it's half cannibalism." ~Otherarrow

Tomorrow is face punch, Today is not face punch.

Forever liveblogging the Avengers

I smell a meme catching on.

That awkward moment where Kyoro is one of Satan's Generals.

But for Suwako, it was tuesday.

Anyway, new memes certainly beat the previous topic >.> Gold mine of SDM quotes though it may be.

I almost choked on my drink, thanks to you.

edited 29th Sep '11 9:38:28 PM by Metaflare

"Seriously, don't eat the mermaid. And not just because it's half cannibalism." ~Otherarrow

Success!

Tomorrow is check a calender. Today is not.

edited 29th Sep '11 10:04:29 PM by Dragonexx

Doing nothing is a choice.

Tomorrow is Friday. Today is not.

That awkward moment where Kyoro is one of Satan's Generals.

Tomorrow is a Day, Yesterday was Too.

edited 29th Sep '11 10:19:40 PM by Metaflare

"Seriously, don't eat the mermaid. And not just because it's half cannibalism." ~Otherarrow

Good point. So did Ancient Japan get on the whole bandwagon of "fertility goddess as a balloon float, potentially covered with dozens of saggy breasts?"

(puts mind on leash before it goes places I don't want it to regarding one of my favorite characters)

Yeah, Man Behind the Man is probably going a bit too far - that sounds awfully like work. It's probably more like Suwako is content to let Kanako be the schemer, but she knows her partner well enough to "steer" her a bit.

Look, if Kanako wants to be taken seriously, she needs a hat. Otherwise no matter how many pillars and rope rings she tosses around, she'll still look poor and Irish. But yeah, I shouldn't emphasize one part of the Moriya partnership too much - Suwako's pretty much a slacker, if a loveable one. It's Kanako who's holding the place together, doing all the hard stuff.

I think Suwako's interest in it is a result of her history and appreciation of giant robots, while to Kanako technology is just a way of improving one's life through sci... er. More specifically, Kanako uses technology to get what she wants, but she doesn't play favorites with it - it's one of many options she could use to get from Point A to Point B. She's probably the more flexible thinker, whereas Suwako is in danger of falling prey to When All You Have Is A Giant Death Robot.

There's the rather amusing theory that of the three Moriya Shrine characters, Suwako's the only one with any experience with men.

(flashbacks to EWI Venerable Swimsuits Battlefield)

Apparently Snake-Eyed Kanako gets her own character tag. I think the comic that introduced her had her as some sort of orphan/prisoner until Stern Adult Suwako took her under her care. Which would certainly add an interesting dynamic to the Great Suwa War.

Yeah, if raping is involved and the gods aren't the ones doing it, I'm afraid you've broken my suspension of disbelief.

That's more like it! ...Wait, that's still horrible. But it's a horribleness that's more believable than the alternative. So that makes it... better?

Possible. Though Kanako specifically adopted a snake them after defeating Suwako, meaning that she could have been a more generic goddess beforehand, so there's no reason Suwako couldn't have done the same. Though maybe she started out as a frog-deity... hmm, Small God Suwako, the never-before-told origin story...

They've been in a domestic partnership for over two thousand years, bicker and argue all the time while still remaining the best of friends, and have provided guidance to their spiritual "children" for generations. They transcend marriage.

Succinct, but you pretty much nai... Pretty much accurately described Suwako there. She's probably one of the best-adjusted and angst-free Touhou characters, and you explained why.

Yeah, you could've sweated out a two-page minific hoping to achieve the same through Show, Don't Tell, but sometimes it's not worth the time and effort when you can so easily just Tell us about your view of the character.

Which is not meant to deride anyone who prefer to express their opinions through minifics. Just expressing my opinion that fic and non-fic interpretations are equally valid, and you shouldn't feel obligated to use one over the other.

So how about them NSFW picdumps? Firefox is doing this thing where it sometimes cuts off the "http" parts from the address bar, so they're getting more difficult.

• Cheerful
• Serious
• Doesn't wanna go to school
• Unamused
• Bored
• For an earth goddess she sure tosses around a lot of water
• Added a veil for her hat
• Those wonderful, inventive humans...
• Probably a portfolio power that lets her comprehend Frogspeak
• The gods view the world differently than we mortals
• Duh-duhn... duh-duhn...
• This is pretty old
• Quite a texture on the hat there
• Sanae spent a whole day combing the yard, looking for her
• Colorful, and I think it's a good face
• Dutch angle
• Slurp
• Can't confirm, but looks real
• This isn't, though
• Colorful
• Snakes, frogs, leaves
• Drifting, dreaming
• Seen this all over YouTube, though personally I don't like the expression
• Not sure what the frogs will contribute, but you have to admire their spirit
• Have I posted this already? It's nice enough to post twice, anyway.
• Swarm of four-eyed hell-snakes, pantyshot
• An unlikely pairing
• What're they getting into?
• With Kanako as a background
• Yeah. We totally rule.
• Oni
• Not sure what the hands in the background are doing
• I should really get around to watching that at some point
• With a special guest
• Kanako's got a sword
• First time I've seen Suwako snorting flames
• Might make a good wallpaper
• "Happy?"
• Quite a showdown
• Pyonta's giving me flashbacks to AAH Real Monsters
• Possibly overuse of lens flares
• Probably still thinks of Kanako as a youngster in need of guidance
• Wind beneath wings, etc.
• BFFs
• What's Yamame doing up there?
• Traditional Japanese art is vaguely terrifying
• Confident Sanae, Suwako's having fun, Kanako has ginormous poofy sleeves
• Alternate costumes
• You can tell who's in charge
• Hula-hoops?
• Yep, hula-hoops. Of finest steel.
• A fan of the classics
• Probably stole Frog Squash from it, too
• Gameplay mechanics
• They are now friends. Forever.
• Just a typical Gensokyo scene
• Another best thing on Danbooru

Oh, right. Hmm. Okay, my contributions have a "title" now.

edited 30th Sep '11 9:45:03 AM by Tacitus

Current earworm: "Mother ~ Outro"

as usual tacitus, your picdumps are brilliant.

its. . . over the top, to say the least. YMMV on whether thats good

you put two periods after danbooru.

edited 30th Sep '11 12:25:09 AM by JacktheSnowman

Just another passerby

nuuuuu, why are all my ideas already duuun!!!! T-T

I sure said that!

This is a day late but here's the SSiB line I was referring to. Not sure what Reimu means, but I'm guessing fighting a god must have been a life changing experience. Or something.

edited 30th Sep '11 1:15:36 AM by hassanico

Huh. Well, according to Hijiri's Theory of General Divinity, gods and youkai are the same thing.

Heart of Stone

Hmm, not bad. It would help the flow if you broke it up into paragraphs, to make it easier on the eyes and divide it into thought units and stuff. But the thoughts you had are good.

I particularly like this line.

I like "sunny". It fits into her themes, and is evocative even without the cultural background (which I have to admit I didn't know about before).

I tried and tried, but I couldn't find the comic I was looking for.

So instead, have this. Because snake-eyed Kanako is the cutest thing.

And while we're at it.

If gods can manifest in many places at the same time, it stands to reason they can manipulate what they manifest as, yeah.

Wha-

To be fair, she was at the end of her powers at the time. Though the comic also gave some sort of explanation about how her weakness made her more "real" and thus made it even possible for the guy to interact with her... I admit, that makes it sound like they just wanted an excuse for some drama.

I actually find that less believable because why the hell would she even do that.

Goddammit where is that comic I want to find!

Yes. It's all about the quality of the thoughts. Then you just have to figure out the best format to present them.

You mean "twenty year-old bombshell"?

I love that picture. I can hardly imagine a better way to increase her apparent age while retaining her Suwakoness.

Ooh. I wouldn't have thought of it like that just from seeing the picture myself. That's interesting to think about. If they can manifest in any place they want, and many places at the same time... that means their conscious is pretty much everywhere, doesn't it?

That aside, the picture reminded me of another gorgeous adult Suwako by the same artist.

But classic. A very Suwako-like picture. If we weren't supposed to aim for a uniform style, I'd use that for our character sheet on the wiki.

Augh, but that is extremely Suwako-like in its own way, too. This is hard!

A wondrous adventure, of course~

Holy crap they have noses.

Dammit, Tacitus. Each time you make a picdump lately, my avatar gallery size increases by like 20%!

edited 30th Sep '11 3:06:25 AM by Fawriel

Team Fortress 2 reference.

you'll then have a grave in the clouds where you won't lie too cramped

'Sokay, I explained it to him since.

dawww. loving family stuff has always gone straight to my heart, its why motherly!shinki is in my top 5.

pppffpfpffpf.

Just another passerby

Yesterday was Thursday, Today is not Thursday, today is Friday.

Today is Friday, Yesterday will be Saturday.

That awkward moment where Kyoro is one of Satan's Generals.

I have no clue what that means.

So Suwako. She creates earth. So, does this mean she just summons rocks, or can she create flat out land, with life (or at least able to easily sustain it) and everything? She'd make for a nice creator deity I think.

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Because of Hisoutensoku, it's pretty clear she can manipulate anything that grows out of the earth, as well as the earth itself.

She punches people with sudden trees out of nowhere

"Seriously, don't eat the mermaid. And not just because it's half cannibalism." ~Otherarrow

Sounds like very powerful stuff. A mad Suwako could might as well spell the end of Gensoukyou. OK, more like the offenders house suddenly finds itself prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity. And trees from nowhere.

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Her power is creation, not merely summoning. The same kind of word you'd use for a creator god. What she actually creates is "kon" one of the 8 trigrams of the I Ching, which represents, among other things, Yin, Earth and the direction of Southwest. It's not an everyday word. For reference, Kanako creates "ken" which represents Yang, Heaven and Northwest. Anyway, to me it sounds like she creates dirt. Other trigrams would represent mountains or lakes, so she doesn't create those. What do you know, more Taoism.

If you look at her Hisoutensoku fighting style though, it involves trees quickly growing out of the ground in offensive ways.

edited 30th Sep '11 8:24:53 PM by Clarste

Great, even the Shinto gods are in on the Taoist conspiracy.

Of course, some of that matches up with Kanako/Suwako very well. (Such as father and mother, though that may just be the fanon talking. I think Kanako would fit "strong" and Suwako "devoted" as well) others, not so much (Suwako's animal is frog, not cow). Eh. Maybe I am just over thinking it/being silly. It is probably not supposes to fully match up.

I do find it odd that "earth" is separate from "mountain" though. Reminds me of what someone said earlier about Suwako and Kanako setting up shop on Youkai Mountain though (Earth meets Heaven at the Mountain, and all)

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Hells yeah! I'm like that girl from Dirge Of Cerberus, the one whose special power was using the internet really really well.

(mind breaks after realizing what he's just typed)

A more worrisome question would be whether or not that guy represents your Japanese counterpart, implying that you may have an inherent inclination towards school swimsuits.

I know, right? For all we know she had a priestess of Ishtar thing set up.... though she's the goddess, not the priestess, and the secular authority at the same time, so... well, she obviously worked something out.

Well, I was saving these for a hypothetical Moriya Shrine discussion, but... (these still have NSFW banner ads)

• We've seen something similar already
• Games of the gods (got deleted, but if you click on the dimensions in the bottom-left it'll pop up)
• A story about alcoholism
• Karaagetarou gets in on it
• The old days
• Even older days
• Thousands of years' experience with kids
• Hair pull
• She probably had human parents, but this is still great
• Flight comes early to a demigoddess
• The title is a CMOH

edited 30th Sep '11 10:16:06 PM by Tacitus

Current earworm: "Mother ~ Outro"