The New Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium!

She's weird. Is she a cop who thinks she's a princess, a princess who thinks she's a cop, or a nobody who thinks she is somebody?

Probably due to being insane.

It'd be kind of hilarious if her bodyguard had turned up in the following game, frantically chasing after her. "The daimyo is going to kill me!"

Princesses can be cops too. Toyohime is a princess and also like the Minister of Defense or something.

And she takes the law -racks danmaku shotgun- into her own hands.

Or the horrible pincers of her eldritch cloud-thing minions.

edited 23rd Apr '13 11:11:30 PM by Durazno

I guess when you're only three games into the setting, the possibility remains that Gensokyo does indeed have a uniformed police force and a royal family. But nothing we've seen or heard since seems to back either prospect up, so the Cuckoo for Cocoa-Puffs scenario seems more likely.

And yet her profile calls her "princess." Lies? Humoring the mental patient? Or did ZUN briefly flirt with the idea of having someone who flew around on an eyeball monster be the ruler of Gensokyo?

I suppose the other possibility is that Kotohime is a secret princess for whatever reason. An "undercover" princess... or a cop undercover as an undercover princess. An extra layer of protection, if you will.

edited 23rd Apr '13 11:12:58 PM by Tacitus

Or the princess of a realm beyond Gensokyo.

A terrifying realm where the laws of mortals have no meaning and the very clouds try to eat you.

Clearly, she is one of the village upperclass who proclaimed herself a princess, and everyone went with it because, meh, whatever. Then she wanted to be a cop, and their reaction was first "what's a cop" but then went meh, whatever when she explained it to them.

If she is indeed nuts, "meh, whatever" probably isn't the most healthy response to give her.

edited 23rd Apr '13 11:16:58 PM by Otherarrow

"We probably need one of those, sure."

Because someone has to mention this fanfic.

It sure is a humorous take on the character, oh my yes.

My impression from her bio is that, being insane, she views things in a different way from normal people. Thus, what most people find mundane and 'meh', she finds exciting and incomprehensible, while what people find unbelievable, she's like "meh, that's mundane."

Which would make her identity as a collector especially bizarre. Rather than collecting the bizarre, she collects the normal. While some people would go bungee jumping for the thrill and excitement, she's completely bored of it, and quivers with pleasant anticipation of sitting down at a desk and copying texts for 12 hours a day.

Perhaps she collects the normal as a way to try and ground herself in a reality that's fleeting and unreal to her. Or perhaps 'normality' simply catches her eye. the same way exotic things catch ours. Either way, she's... 'off'.

Amusingly, her P2 colors are strikingly similar to Reimu. So clearly it's a long and roundabout way of calling Reimu insane.

Oh yes, I remember that! Quite amusing indeed.

edited 24th Apr '13 7:24:36 PM by Antimatter625

I think the idea of her craziness giving her a fascination with what would otherwise be "normal" things. Perhaps it's because it grounds her in reality like you said, or maybe she sees something different in them that most people don't get.

"I can't believe people will pay you to do their taxes for them!"

Interesting, interesting. So do you think she's trying to piece together normalcy based on what she's picked up from others, or attempting to reassemble something she's lost?

That would explain a lot, actually. Why nobody's heard of her before. Why everyone finds her subtly uncanny. Why she just doesn't seem to get human behavior. Why she knows science that Gensokyo doesn't. Why she's so flippant about Yumemi blowing up the place. Why she chose such an unsubtle disguise. Why she has knowledge of worlds beyond her "jurisdiction."

Maybe Gensokyo and any adjacent planes are her "beat" and she was concerned that the interplanar disturbance she detected was something substantially less wholesome than two young scholars collecting research data.

Sheesh, she could be Touhou's G-Man.

That thing I did! I'm glad you posted it because I'm too embarrassed to plug my own work. There's another chapter coming, honest, it'll be done in a couple days. Weeks. A month or two at most. By Christmas, certainly.

Kotohime fanart exists!

• Alphes style
• Profile pic
• Sees a lotta use on YouTube
• Stars!
• Snow day!
• Flute!
• Handcuffs!
• Bunnies!
• What do these two have to do with each other? What a silly question, who needs a reason?
• Either thinking or hiding a smile
• Princess modo and police modo
• Yuyuko-levels of pink here
• Looks sweet, but she might be trying to Spark someone here
• She just burst through a skylight into a circle of Mooks
• A trading card that should be a comic cover
• An oldie and a goodie
• This guy's still the best, though
• Following the events of PoDD, Kotohime invented and placed herself under Gensokyo's Witness Protection Program. She is currently living undercover at Eientei, whose residents pretend not to notice the fact that she obviously isn't a rabbit.

Well, we seem to be distinctly incapable of maintaining a conversation here. Voting time?

I'm gonna be a rebel and throw in meaningless joking non-vote for the silhouette on the cover of HM, even though I know it's not funny and probably annoys you slightly.

If you're referring to me in particular, I'd be absolutely fine with that

Really? Somehow I doubt it would get the conversation moving though. Unless we spend all our time talking about botany.

I thought we already had a Mima discussion relatively recently.

...okay, that one was pretty good.

Actually, we haven't done Mima or whoever else she'd be sorted with.

What are you talking about? I remember discussing Sanae.

Sanae doesn't have shrimp ghost legs.

Silly. As the great scholar Kana pointed out, Mima doesn't have any legs.

Sanae does.

Therefore, Sanae is not Mima.

<flawlesslogic>

edited 26th Apr '13 8:14:49 AM by Otherarrow

Mima has legs when she's using a bomb.

Mima + legs = explosion. Kotohime + smile = explosion. Body parts have weird uses in Gensokyo.

Anyway, let's have one last round of applause for the cast of PoDD: fun-sized, in the chibi dimension, standing alone! See you next dream!

The topic list stands as follows:

The Silhouette on the Cover of HM, Kasen's Menagerie, Nameless Bake-Danuki, LLS cast (Yuuka, Elly, Mugetsu, Gengetsu, Kurumi, and Orange), SoEW cast (Mima, Meira, Rika, and Genji), HRtP cast (Konngara, Kikuri, Sariel, Elis, YuugenMagan, and Shingyoku), PC-98 Nameless Midboss Roundup, or Other. Rin Satsuki

Vote for the character you want to discuss the most knowing that if they're part of a cast herd, your vote will also count towards that herd.

edited 26th Apr '13 9:12:53 AM by Tacitus

Let's return to the beginning.

I vote HRtP.

Is a vote for Kasen's animal friends a vote for Kasen?

Anyway, Team Yuuka, Team Mima, and Team Sariel....or Yuuka, Mima, and Sariel. Whatevers

...Wait shit, I forgot if three votes was still OK? In that case, man, I dunno.

Anyway, I am sad I didn't manage to come up with more to talk about on the PoDD cast. I do like them. They are interesting and I like their designs.

edited 26th Apr '13 9:19:57 AM by Otherarrow