Touhou

Seiga and Yoshika interest me, so I expressed interest in them showing up. The end.

Edit: JESUS I'M NOT EVEN TRYING.

edited 10th Oct '12 11:57:10 AM by StarkMaximum

It just comes naturally.

She is the ebilest. Yoshika is ebilest-by-proxy.

Seiga does have nice hair loopies going on. Granted, they are antenna of evil but they're still pretty nice.

And Yoshika was a poet and didn't know it.

Her hairstick is pretty fancy despite being a symbol of corruption and avarice.

I dunno. Her lifespan wickedness doesn't really factor into her viability as a fighter. I initially though of Seiga as the fighter, and Yoshika as a mobile assist/shield.

Actually, if Seiga were the playable one, she'd be an interesting variant on Alice's fighting style, if she doesn't make it into the game.

edited 10th Oct '12 12:11:41 PM by Enlong

And she has a number of good philosophical points, even if her conclusions are, well, not.

Yeah, no popes lurking this thread.

Actually, I'm a pope. I declared myself pope of something-or-other back in middle school. I'm not sure if it ever expired.

Anyway, I'd like to see Seiga because I'm a fanboy. And Kasen because clearly ZUN rejected her former appearances to make this one more meaningful. Right?

Alternatively, he'll continue to reject her appearing until WAHH is done and her amazing, unpredictable secret is finally revealed.

Honestly I can't really imagine WAHH ever revealing it. While it does acknowledge some sort of continuity, it doesn't really have a plot.

I gotta wonder why is Seiga evil? Is she really the complete monster that the fandom paints her as?

edited 10th Oct '12 12:17:42 PM by GAP

[Stark post goes here]

Well, mostly a bunch of characters call her evil in SOPM. Like, explicitly. Not "I don't like her because she does X", but "Seiga is evil and radiates evil from her pores." It's revealed in WAHH that as far as Hell is concerned her main "sin" is living too long. Hell, ie: the Ministry of Right and Wrong, doesn't look kindly on unsanctioned immortality.

Other than that though, all she's got going for her are lots of acts of petty evil. Enslaving the dead, starting holy wars, misdemeanor theft, impersonating Santa Claus... that sort of thing. Based on her rather cheerful attitude the whole time it's more like she doesn't care about the consequence of her actions.

edited 10th Oct '12 12:27:30 PM by Clarste

She's pretty evil; it's one of the very few things that Miko and Byakuren agree upon.

edited 10th Oct '12 12:25:45 PM by asterism

She stole Christmas so she's on the level of the Grinch at least but her heart will never grow three sizes that day. Probably because she's blue instead of green and the two aren't the same.

Do you have a neat hat?

edited 10th Oct '12 12:29:38 PM by Bocaj

[Futile reminder that the appeal of Touhou is the malleability of supposed "canon"]

edited 10th Oct '12 12:29:58 PM by StarkMaximum

It appears Stark is suffering the slings of cognitive dissonance.

But not the arrows?

Them too

Well, true. I mean, even in canon, Kasen doesn't seem to think that Seiga really comes across as altogether evil when they met.

I can totally imagine whatever agents from Hell who come after her labeling her a "wicked hermit", and her just deciding to own that label.

I can't remember. Did she "steal" Christmas, or did she just have a very poor understanding of what Santa Clause is supposed to do?

On WAHH's plot or lack thereof: Each installment seems to have little overarcing plot, but the little bits with Kasen on her own seem to hint at something bigger. There's something unknown about her, she's got a very specific vendetta against the old Hell, and that chapter about the miracle doctor brought back her quest for a Kappa's Arm. I can't help but feel that it's building up to something.

It's implied that she might've been the one who killed Yoshika. I mean, enslaving a corpse is bad form, no matter what, but if it's someone you yourself killed, that's just one step short of straight-up mustache-twirling villainy.

Where is that implied? I couldn't find anyhing like that in SOPM.

She was dead, now she's not. She seems pretty cool with this setup.

She seems pretty cool only because Seiga's forcing that thought on her. Yoshika has no personality of her own; she's a philosophical zombie as well as a literal zombie.

When the tag is removed she starts reciting poetry so that's a thing.