The New New Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium

When Flan sneezes she creates Scarlets.

Its been hell at the mansion with all of the fairies getting killed in the billiard room with the candlestick.

The most interesting thing about Kurumi really does seem to be the Lake of Blood, doesn't it? Its referenced a few times in windows Canon, which implies Kurumi's probably around too...

Considering the draining, it was probably just an illusion and Kurumi, being a vampire, chilled at it to give it that extra bit of authenticity.

My headcanon still has her as a blood-magus. As for a relationship with the Scarlets, she probably knows of them (Remilia seems the sort of person who likes to make a splash), but steers clear of them because... uh...

Ohhh! Maybe because she's all jealous of their manor and awesome servants. She's guarding the lake because Yuuka put her there. And as she proves herself, Yuuka will draw her more and more into her inncer circle of trust. Then, when Yuuka lies asleep one night, BAM! She'll never wake up.

Clever girl, that Kurumi.

No one tell her that Yuuka has abandoned the mansion and now serves as a loner-drifter type.

Actually, since mist could be like liquid suspended in air, maybe Kurumi and Remi could be making the same kind of thing, with the main difference being their degree of power and control.

First Elly, now Kurumi, what is it with you people deciding that everyone in LLS want to kill Yuuka in her sleep?

I think everyone harbors a secret desire to kill Yuuka in her sleep.

Not necessarily out of malice but it just seems the thing to do.

Revenge Fic?

A few days ago(early Tuesday morning, more specifically) a blood moon materialized in our world. Anyone else saw it?

Perhaps the Lake of Blood is so named because every time a blood moon(or a blood sun) occurs, it's surface reflects the rays so well, it is colored a deep crimson, like blood.

Or, on such days, Kurumi's blood magic's at its strongest, allowing her to fill something as big as a lake with blood with ease.

Instead of being a Cool Big Sis, maybe Kurumi just hates snobby rich vampires because she perceives them as people who only think of themselves?

Wait, where is this?

Y'know I can't remember, but I recall it being mentioned at least twice. huh.

Kurumi (vanguard(? I dunno), vampire) -> Yuuka (master, gardener(?))

Meiling (gate guard, gardener) -> Remilia (master, vampire)

...I'm reading too much into this.

Warning wall of text with little to no relevance

It's less to to with Kurumi but it wouldn't hurt to read more into it, LLS vs EoSD.

Stage 1, Boss is a Youkai of unspecified species. Stage 2, set at a lake. Stage 3, Boss is a gatekeeper. Stage 4, Boss is a Magician. Stage 5, no real similarities. Stage 6, the mansions mistress, can only be accessed after meeting certain conditions. (EoSD: no easy modo, LLS: No continues? I forget) Extra Stage, Boss is a sister (technically, LLS)

Character design

2 unspecified species of Youkai (Orange and Yuuka, Rumia and Meiling). A maid (Mugetsu, Sakuya). A pair of sisters, (Mugetsu and Gengetsu, Remi and Flan). Vampires (Should be obvious). Sharp dressed Devil (Kurumi*, Koakuma), sharp dressed blonde wearing a ribbon, (Kurumi, Rumia). Purple Magician (Marisa, Patchouli). I think that's it.

\*Under a certain definition of both sharp dressed and Devil.

Notably Kurumi is one of the only PC 98 characters to be her own midboss, her EoSD counterpart, Cirno, is one of the few Windows characters not to be her own midboss.

Now to see how heavily this thing needs editing after I post it. EDIT: not bad, I still don't know what I'm doing but it could have been worse.

edited 18th Apr '14 4:52:12 PM by Impostermetaknight

I did, much to my surprise, considering it was snowing significantly a mere hour beforehand.

I can easily see this. Remilia seems to be friggin loaded, so envying the Scarlets is probably common (Especially since they've both got rather dangerous powers to mess with on top of everything else.)

I know it's mentioned once in the 3 fairies Manga, but I couldn't tell you where without rereading all of them. It's just an offhand comment one of them makes along the lines of "Gee, it looks like that lake of blood, doesn't it?" Its also mentioned in HM (Koishi brings it up and implies its underground). Given the rather low traffic to the underground, it hardly ever being mentioned makes sense.

Fairies are actually the doofy little guardians of PC-98 continuity, but only rarely do we get to see it. Long conversations about Mima's current whereabouts and what the deal is with Reimu's hair, all unheard by "main" characters.

Kurumi picdump the first time around wasn't too impressive, and not much has changed since then.



On the right
Something very Rumia about this one
You can hear the "mwahaha!"
Making a suggestion
/shrug
Binding?
Christmas at Mugenkan
Eyeswipe
At night
Elegant
Very high production value
Vampire gathering
Plural
Gatekeeper

Assuming the profile is still accurate, happy birthday!

edited 19th Apr '14 7:47:00 PM by Tacitus

I guess technically it was still my birthday for you due to timezones? So thanks

And to keep things slightly relevant to Kurumi, who else thinks that LLS has the best soundtrack of the PC 98 games?

A thousand pardons for the delay, but I have not be in a state to do a profile for the past couple of days. On the bright side, the thread necromancy is thematically satisfying.

Yoshika Miyako

Stage and Music: A Straight Line Paradise ~ Myouren Temple Cemetery
Are those living in the cemetery humans? Specters? Or are they youkai?
Why are the spirits everyone calls "divine spirits" gushing towards the cemetery?

BGM: "Let's Live in a Lovely Cemetery*

Rigid Paradise

Spellcard Motif: Poison and Healing
Spellcards: TD
Recovery "Heal by Desire," Poison Nail "Poison Raze," Poison Nail "Poison Murder," Desire Sign "Saved Up Desire Spirit Invitation," Desire Sign "Score Desire Eater," Poison Nail "Undead Murderer"

Write-up:
A jiangshi who acts like a zombie. Seiga Kaku's "cute underling."

Yoshika Miyako doesn't have much of a personality, but with her unnatural strength offsetting her rotten brains, she's model minion material. She seems more or less indestructible in that even if defeated she reappears and recovers almost immediately, and on top of that Yoshika can consume spirits - or anything, really - for a health boost. On the other hand, she's slow and susceptible to kiting, which is good, because she's potentially the epicenter of Gensokyo's jiangshi apocalypse.

Oddly enough, she's not an imported henchwoman, but a local corpse Seiga revived using Chinese methods. Nobody knows who she originally was or where she came from, but if her controlling paper charm is removed she's been seen to recite poetry...

Relations

• Seiga Kaku (mistress, creator)
• The Taoists (don't eat these guys)
• The Myouren Temple crew (okay to eat these guys)
• Rin Kaenbyou (coming to take her away?)

Interpretations:
"The Wicked Hermit's Undying Machine"
by Otherarrow

"Steadfast Corpse: Yoshika"
by nuclearfairy

See also the previous compendium.

edited 29th Apr '14 10:48:44 PM by Tacitus

Yoshika Miyako:

A jiangshi that's more of a zombie because of current times. Very durable.

If it was another world, Yoshika's high endurance would keep prospective treasure hunters/grave robbers out of places. But alas, she's in world where most people are also built tough. She maxed out the Strength stat, so her grip must be iron.

Seiga must have seen something special in Yoshika to go so far as to revive her. She's a corpse, yet her condition's pretty normal. No rotting flesh anywhere. When she died, she must've been embalmed.

Maybe her brain is rotten only because of zombie stereotypes.

When not under the ofuda's spell, she was mindlessly reciting some poetry. Rereading that made me remember that yes, she's still up and about even if she's not being directly controlled by Seiga. Wait..if she's not under Seiga's control at the moment, does that mean she'll treat the Taoist group as friends or food?

Yoshika forgets stuff easily, a la Ellen. Just in the undead sense instead of being a natural amnesiac. Is it because her brain is rotten? But if it is rotten, then her flesh should be peeling off as well. Maybe she's that scatterbrained. Or maybe she has a passive ability which preserves her complexion and important organs except the brain?

Yoshika uses a ton of kunai. Some poisonous. Maybe the Poison Nail series stems from the fact that she's undead.

edited 23rd Apr '14 6:52:15 AM by Diamite

I've been listening to Yoshika's theme a lot lately and I got to thinking. How hard must it be to eat properly if your arms are too rigid to bend?

Maybe her ability to eat stuff is self-taught because she got tired of food just sitting there looking at her... or running away.

I wonder if Yoshika ever got herself acquainted with the oni in her past life. Kasen is shown to be a fan of her poetry after all.

As for Seiga showing a particular interest in her, well, I'd like to think that while Yoshika was still a hermit in the mountains, she met Seiga one day who was looking for someone to safeguard the Mausoleum. Yoshika accepted her business card (Seiga probably told her something along the lines of "Make a contract with me and become immortal!") and the rest is history.

If she follows the mythology closely then Yoshika's soul has already passed on to the afterlife; Seiga's minion is just her body and animating spirit, with imprints of the living person's memories and desires but not a complete personality.

edited 23rd Apr '14 6:43:08 AM by Prime32

Ah yes, Yoshika. The cheerful zombiejiangshi who serves as Seiga's meatpuppet.

In life, she was a poet, but in death, she has been raised to be Seiga's undying servant and to protect Seiga's interests. She has a anti-decompression spell on her to prevent her from rotting, but it seems that her brain is already gone.

She has the ability to devour anything, and can eat spirits to regenerate life. Well, unlife. You get what I mean.

She isn't very flexible and can barely walk on her own. Probably hops everywhere.

I'll probably do a bigger post later. I just wanted to add something, because I feel bad about not contributing anything to here lately, and I keep getting distracted with other things.

edited 23rd Apr '14 12:44:40 PM by Otherarrow

Aha!

Speaking of poison, I believe Yoshika would have a high tolerance to status effects, mainly due to the fact that she's undead, and she would not know- or more like feel- a status effect when she sees one. She's so resilient, even revive will have a hard time burying her.

A premise with Yuyuko(a ghost) and Yoshika(a zombie) going to a restaurant would be funny. Whoa, two undead entities who eat stuff and their names start with Y.

edited 23rd Apr '14 6:13:12 PM by Diamite

Yoshika IF it weren't for the fact that the cahracters have means to take of jiangshi, Yoshika owuld be unsptoppable. Yoshika is the undead terminator without the Austrian accent and big muscles.

Except she'd forget who she had traveled back in time to kill, or even that she'd traveled back in time at all. And she's probably try to eat the minigun.

This is actually kind of interesting. If we assume Seiga dug her up before the whole Mausoleum experience, Yoshika was created as a classic old school jiangshi, using fel majicks to bring about a hopping vampire. Fast forward a few centuries and popular culture from the outside world is somehow rewriting the spell that animated her. This has implications if Gensokyo is trying to remain a timeless place of fantasy - regardless of its magical bubble, the land and its inhabitants are subject to change.

On the other hand, if we assume that Yoshika was reanimated recently by a spell Seiga thought would create a traditional hopping vampire, if she instead got a zombie, this suggests that magic is... hmm, what would the words be? Well, rather than taking a set of arcane ingredients - animating the corpse, preserving the flesh, imbuing the form with unholy vigor - that can be assembled in a predictable way, magic instead is more concerned with the end result. So when Seiga said "I want to make a vampire," magic said "jiangshi, sure, but you know what's really popular these days? Zombies!"

This may be why Yuyukers was the Stage One boss, to assuage fears that she was being replaced. We can only speculate who ZUN would have come up with otherwise.

I wasn't the only one who got annoyed about her healing ability in her solo fight, right?

I imagine Yoshika is kinda like an FE Knight if placed in some other world: good HP, Strength, and Defense, bad Skill and Speed, primarily used as a physical meat shield for the more fragile Seiga, etc. At the very least, Seiga can easily deal with Yoshika should the impossible "turn against her master" scenario happen.

Not a complete personality? I don't quite follow; what exactly is she missing besides a decent Will save and a good chunk of Intelligence?

Hm... if Yoshika's soul has really checked out a long time ago, then I could see her relationship with Seiga as an odd master-slave relationship; Yoshika would be typically thought of as a tool to be used, but Seiga sees quite a bit of value in keeping Yoshika around, real or imagined. Kinda like a hammer, except Yoshika doesn't stub toes (I hope).

If Yoshika's soul is still around, well... I dunno what that would mean. Probably something bad about Seiga, but that might not be the best time to talk about her.