The Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium

Oh, she'll take any excuse to spend time with Maribel.

Then Maribel must be something of a Reality Warper, seeing as she's brought things back with her.

Changeability of Strange Dream makes it quite clear that it isn't a dream, Maribel just thinks it is.

Then Maribel must be something of a Reality Warper, seeing as she's brought things back with her.

Well, if the WMG of Maribel being Yukari is true...

But if Maribel is Yukari she would have the power to reality warp in order to make her dreams true but it would also mean that Gensokyo is real and that it isn't just all Maribel's dream which means she wouldn't need to be a reality-warping Yukari in order to manifest things from her dreams which means that Gensokyo doesn't necessarily exist which means... gorramit, I've gone cross-eyed.

Wait, I have it!

Gensokyo is the dream of the Unnamed Giant Catfish!

edited 30th Jun '10 9:39:20 PM by Servbot

We are now friends forever.

THE CATFISH STIRS IN THE EGG... YOU ARE THERE

edited 30th Jun '10 9:52:41 PM by Zudak

No, it's a butterfly dreaming that it's the dream of a giant catfish.

Except it really is the dream of a giant catfish because I fixed my typos.

No, it's a butterfly dreaming that it's the dream of a giant catfish.

So, wait. Yuyuko's danmaku is dreaming that its the boss from the Meiling route of UNL?

The whole world being the Catfish's dream certainly explains it having a card titled "Great Catfish 'With This Ends the Fleeting World!' " And the Amazing Technicolor Battlefield (or is that just Trippy Finale Syndrome?). I'd think that if the entire world existed by my whim I wouldn't let myself get beaten up by China, though.

Or it's just in the mind of a drunkard who has unmatched composition skills and OH WAIT.

^^You've never had a nightmare?

Even being the product of a fish's overactive imagination isn't enough to stop Meiling from punching it so hard that its exploding and on fire.

So then your theory is that Gensokyo is the dream of a catfish created by two dream demons/youkai/whatever the sisters are that were beaten up by one of the dream's main characters?

...*prepares for Muffin's appearance, Master Ball at the ready*

Well, when you put it like that it sounds silly and recursive.

^ And recursive.

You're the one who brought up Nekokayou, sillyz are required!

So, uhh... who's up next for discussion? Keine or the Unnamed Giant Catfish? <<;

edited 1st Jul '10 3:08:38 AM by Servbot

I'd prefer Keine, the giant catfish doesn't really have much characterization and is instead some sort of generic boss for Meiling's final stage in Hisoutensoku.

Clearly we just discussed the catfish. It's Keine's turn.

The Catfish is the spirit of Meiling's mother, giving her guidance in her dreams!

edited 1st Jul '10 5:04:20 AM by Lemurian

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Keine Kamishirasawa

manzai with Mokou

Theme:
Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World, Plain Asia

Traits:

• strict, earnest, scholarly
• wise
• loves humans and protects them

Relationships/Shipping:

• Mokou (a dear friend, and perhaps more)
• Akyuu (fellow scholar)

Write-up:
Kamishirasawa Keine, Half-Beast of Knowledge and History, a lady who is extraordinary in a land of already extraordinary individuals by straddling the line between the ordinary and the fantastic.

She lives in the main human village, both as its protector and the owner and history teacher of the local school. There is nothing she doesn't know about the history of Gensokyo. However, knowledge isn't the entire extent of her connection to history. Her special ability allows her to devour and, under certain circumstances, even create history. During the events of Imperishable Night, this allowed her to temporarily make the human village cease to exist in order to protect it from harm. Her pupils apparently complain that her lessons are boring, but given that she's known to even use spellcards do demonstrate historical events in a more than flashy fashion, and to dispense painful headbutts to slackers, either the children are just spoiled by the awesomeness surrounding them every day, or she tries very hard to make her lessons as interesting as possible after hearing the complaints... or perhaps as Akyuu says, "a lesson is meaningless if it's just for fun."

Furthermore, she possesses another amazing property: Once a month, she turns into a superhumanly powerful horned monster with a short temper. She's also a were-hakutaku.

A hakutaku is a wise beast that appears to a virtuous ruler to provide guidance to them. Apparently, Keine was not born as a were-hakutaku. What this means is anyone's guess. Whatever the case, it's in this form that she gains the ability to create history.

A strong beast, a wise human, with the power to change history to extents no one can know. Why isn't she the most powerful being in the world? Maybe someone should ask her - in the night of a new moon, of course.

Similar characters:

• Ran (highly intelligent, usually gentle, protective)

Oh Touhou wiki, what would I be without you?

I wonder how Keine applies her spellcards in her lessons. I can't imagine that not to be entertaining. Though she might use these too rarely for it to really make a difference in the long run. So apparently she's very serious about teaching these kids some freaking history... One of those who'd think that Sesame Street is spoiling children by making them unwilling to learn if it's not entertaining? Or maybe she does try to make it fun, and just isn't good at it. Or maybe those kids are just too damn spoiled. How does this factor into her demeanor towards people outside of her job? Is she more easy-going then, or just as strict?

Also... what exactly is her relationship with Mokou like! Details, I demand them.

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Also:

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Once a month, she turns into a superhumanly powerful horned monster with a short temper. She's also a were-hakutaku.

Oh you.

The way her wiki article pointed out that she's a little on edge during that time due to her workload just made it impossible not to pull that one.