The Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium

Why would a 17-year-old be considered unrelatably old?

Isn't Yukari, like, a couple thousand years ol-gurk!

So I'm curious. Did this thread entirely run out of Windows-seriew Touhou characters while I was gone?

Well, I guess tomorrow we'll tackle the three fairies, who've been upgraded to game characters... But yup, that's it then.

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Enlong

Theme:
Enlong ~ Enlong

Traits:

• Silly

Relationships/Shipping:

• Fawriel (Tsundere)

Write-up:
Enlong has a silly face.

Similar characters:

• Nitori (because)

So Yumemi. What's her deal, amirite?

Congratulations, you're going to give this thread a seisure. And I will be in the corner, laughing my ass off.

"OMG Enlong is Yukari's son."

edited 6th Nov '10 2:50:46 PM by XionGaTaosenai

Due to temporal shenanigans, Enlong was present for the founding of Gensokyo. His lethal danmaku sprays remain frustrating even when you learn the trick to them... and the trick involves time travel, so good luck with that.

Enlong's danmaku is, in fact, Enlong - or rather time-travel induced duplicates of himself. The best way to defeat this attack is to use time travel of your own to try to talk your way out of the duel before it ever starts. Alternatively, you can travel down the timestream to after the duel ends. Since either option involves paradoxes and time dupes, it's usually better to take a hit like a man/woman early in the match and admit defeat, for the sake of the poor, abused timeline.

Sanae is from the outer world at the present time. Mary and Renko are from the outer world in the future. I'm not sure why this would lead to people from the past appearing.

Well, it seems to be taken for granted that Mary and Renko are from the future, but at the same time Maribel is dreaming her way into contemporary Gensokyo. So either a)this is incorrect, b)journeying across the Hakurei Barrier does not necessarily occur on a 1:1 ratio in terms of outside vs inside time, or c)Maribel's dream travel follows different rules.

This thread has gone straight into Crowning Moment Of Funny-Town.

edited 6th Nov '10 9:40:10 PM by Chagen46

There's actually little to indicate what era Maribel is dreaming about. The few accounts of her travels are all pretty vague, and the only character we can be reasonably certain she's seen is Mokou.

edited 6th Nov '10 9:51:05 PM by Hylarn

I've always thought it was more interesting to consider that perhaps the main Touhou games don't occur in "the present" as we'd consider it—they occur concurrently with "the future" that Mary and Renko live in. Gensokyo's technological and social development became mostly independent of the outside world's in 1884, and the only source of outside features which could identify it on the timeline but couldn't have been sitting around for decades before either falling through the barrier or being found is the Moriya Shrine. Admittedly Sanae sure acts like she came from our time, but there's no reason she couldn't just be into retro anime.

Not unless Akyuu went an exceptionally long time between reincarnations, no (and Keine's histories were screwed up). Though I suppose a case could be made for time dilation, but there's no reason to posit that except to keep that theory intact.

I thought that Touhou is set in the future was widely accepted. Though I'm not sure what I'm basing that on. I think Akyuu said something about the cycle of reincarnation becoming longer and longer, but I don't know enough about other indicators of the timeline.

The Three Mischievous Fairies




Sunny Milk

Luna Child

Star Sapphire

Theme:
Staking Your Life on a Prank, Great Fairy Wars ~ Fairy Wars

Traits:

• mischievous!

Write-up:
[in place of a write-up, a note is found]

[in scrawly handwriting, it says:]

THIS TREASURE WAS STOLEN BY THE GREAT AND POWERFUL BAND OF FAIRIES

IF YOU WANT TO RETRIEVE IT, YOU MUST FIRST SOLVE THE RIDDLE ON THE BACK

sincerely
-Sunny Milk
-Star Sapphire
-Luna Child

[the back of the note is blank]

Oy!

After them! ... Sorry, I need to go to sleep.

edited 7th Nov '10 5:01:18 PM by Fawriel

Aha! A simple application of lemon juice will reveal the hidden message!

Sunny is the energetic leader that doesn't bother to think anything through, Luna is the complainer that can see the flaw's in Sunny's plans but ends up going along with them anyway, and Star is stangely serene.

• No one likes Lily
• Yeah, pretty much
• That must be uncomfortable
• Rare to see Star annoyed
• After reconciliation
• Gaap, Bernkastel, and Lambdadelta
• So damn cute
• Almost prescient, with the characters involved
• Almost forget that they're bigger thieves than Marisa
• Where do fairies get furniture, anyway?
• War march
• Good job with the mouths
• Giving or taking?
• Fairies for 14.5!
• Not sure if want...

So yeah, most of their popularity stems from Fairy Wars.

edited 7th Nov '10 5:53:14 PM by Hylarn

^ Huh, only because of the game? That sucks...their comic and Inaba 4koma actually (re-)brought me into Touhou...

Well, in my case, I'd known of them for the longest time, but they were always just Those Three (more or less irrelevant) Fairies, until I started playing Fairy Wars.

Aha! A simple application of lemon juice will reveal the hidden message!

An excellent idea! Let us proceed at once!

[applies lemon juice]

[the secret message is unveiled!]

"... Sorry, I need to go to sleep."

... [pokes lemon juice]

Wait a minute. That pattern on Luna Child's skirt. Does that end with the sun, a solar eclipse, or a full moon with a weird aura?

It certainly looks like a sun, but a solar eclipse is the most likely.

yeah, I'll bet it's a solar eclipse. It looks like one and it would fit.

It'd be more obvious if the moon was drawn as black instead of gold.

On another tangent: the faries are the first originally-manga-only cahracters to make it into a game, right? I wonder if there's hope for Kasen showing up in a game, then.

edited 8th Nov '10 9:49:12 AM by Enlong

I'm fairly certain that Aya was originally created for Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, but the fairies were first to appear in a side work, then a game.