The New Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium!

Still, being the heir to a fallen kingdom is pretty similar.

Well, the point is that insects used to be much more powerful, and 200 years ago Wriggle would have been a real terror. But now she's not considered a threat by anyone, including herself

I guess. At the least, Wriggle doesn't seem to care. She actually seems perfectly content with her place in the world.

Gets caught in traps and doesn't afraid of Reisens.*

Also, just a thought, the way the trap worked wasn't just a rope snare. The bait was honey painted on bamboo. Wriggle was licking honey off of bamboo when she got caught. That is a mental image.

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Maybe Wriggle got so used to the simple life she lives now, she doesn't worry about her status as Queen.

Or she is secretly building up her insect forces for the day that man grows weak, ready to be devoured by her hordes.

I have no idea where I got that idea.

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A thing about the fall of the House of Bugs shows that any of the kings of the heap can fall. Bugs used to be comparable to the oni. Maybe one day the oni will also fall to the level of bugs if the fear they represent fades. See also the tengu, I guess.

I wonder if the world's perspective counts or whether the oni and tengu are just reliant on Gensokyo's fears.

I want to see a picture of Wriggle with a crown that is not a princess wriggle picture.

edited 21st Sep '11 4:05:35 PM by Bocaj

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Another thing: She's not the queen of insects. She's a firefly youkai with the power to control other insects. There's no indication that the insects were ever organized

Empress of Insects? President of Pillbugs? Matriarch of Moths? Lord of the Flies?

Well, anyway, the Queendom of Insects is clearly more feudal than centralized.

edited 21st Sep '11 4:14:12 PM by Bocaj

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Wriggle is the humanoid avatar of Beelzebub?

Seriously though, since she has the power to control insects, it isn't hard to assume that she has power over them as a leader, or at least a leader-esque figure. Of course, she probably doesn't worry about any kingly duties.

edited 21st Sep '11 4:20:39 PM by Otherarrow

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I don't think there are any other kingly duties. There are no taxes to collect or trade agreements to work out. There's only armies to raise and people to command. The title of Bug Queen comes only with boons and no responsibilities. Its basically awesome.

Or something.

Edit: Well, she does speak for the bugs. But that's limited to "hell no I won't tell them to stop biting you."

edited 21st Sep '11 4:22:45 PM by Bocaj

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She is the mosquito's kiss in the dead of night. She's more of a vampire then the vampires.

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Then again, she did set up a stand in OSP for "Insect Relief."

Whatever that means.

edited 21st Sep '11 4:55:23 PM by Pulse

I sure said that!

"Hell no I won't tell them to stop biting you unless there's something in it for me" I guess.

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Wriggle's royal duties clearly involve using her powers for personal gain. What are the other bugs going to do? Rebel? She can just use her power to make them cut it out.

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Her powers work like Cosgrove's.

"Hey. Cut it out."

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"Hey mosquitos, wanna' go out for a mint?"

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On topic: Wriggle's cool. I like bugs and generally I'm the one who tells my friends to stop killing bugs. She has green hair and can control bugs. I'll think of more things as time comes.

So Wriggle has special Bug Queen pheromone hax? So what happens if she starts to feel bad would another bug attempts to Supersede her position.

Of note: I'll probably cosplay as Wriggle for Halloween coincidentally. Would that count as a trap, reverse trap, or a double trap? Just asking.

edited 21st Sep '11 7:41:05 PM by raigakuren

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I missed the voting too. T_T Stupid drowsy medicine...

x8 Wriggle as Lord of the Flies. That concept is freaking awesome. Now I want to use that in my fanfic at some point.

EDIT: Ow my brain.

edited 21st Sep '11 7:43:48 PM by Dragonexx

Doing nothing is a choice.

I wonder if Wriggle supports some of the more odd things of the insect kingdom.

Like female mantises eating the heads of their mates

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Wriggle ~ Lightbug

A firefly. I'm sure some of you have seen such a specimen on one dusky night in the outdoors. Flickering, floating lazily through the air, an easy target for the aspiring, young entomologist with a jar or a net. They're hardly a threat to humanity, serving as the mystic glows in the night rather than a group of pests. How ironic that the most powerful insect in Gensokyo is of the Lampyridae stock.

Then again, it's a testament to the humans of Gensokyo that the most powerful insect is 'only' Wriggle. How much worse it would be if Wriggle was a mosquito, or a poisonous centipede, or (heavens forbid) a harvest mite? Human disgust towards bugs kills most of the dangerous ones off before they can mature into youkai. Wriggle only managed it because nobody saw her as a threat until she became a threat.

How many times she was captured and put in a jar by a few errant humans? Treated as just a pretty light, while the other insects were summarily slaughtered? Her whole life, she's only seen humans destroy insects or dismiss them. Her continued existence is based on her weakness. If she ever became sufficiently strong, the village would be after her with torches and pitchforks and (horrors of horrors) bugspray. No wonder she's so adamant about insect rights.

I wonder how much of her life she can actually remember. After all, she has been shown with significant memory problems. It might be that she's becoming senile. Insects are built for very short lifetimes. That's why their memory is so basic; they usually don't need it. Maybe she's lived too long and she's just running out of the mental memory needed to store new memories. Poor girl.

Now, a question. How does the bloomers come in? Pants are a rarity in Gensokyo. Only four characters wear them: the brash, boyish captain; the immortal, raging phoenix; the stoic gate guardian; and the little firefly. The captain wears shorts because it's proper sea-wear, the phoenix's pants is covered in protective fire seals, and the guardian wears pants to avoid flashing everybody in sight. There is reason for them. Wriggle is...different.

Perhaps it's a rejection of how humans treat her. The way humans treat bugs is analogous to the way that crude men treat women. If they're not pretty, then screw them. Wriggle's choice of slightly more masculine bloomers shows that she has self-worth that's independent of how humans treat her. She's not some wallflower that you can push around. She's her own woman.

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edited 14th Oct '11 3:34:00 PM by yarrunmace

you'll then have a grave in the clouds where you won't lie too cramped

Note: Meiling does, in fact, wear pants.

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Que interesante.

Wriggle in a jar.

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'kay.

And on that note, Wriggle picdump time. Banner ads NSFW, natch:

• Great sketch
• Simple monochrome
• Watercolors
• Alphes-ish
• Charisma
• Gradiants
• Collecting stars in her skirt
• Confident smirk
• Thinking
• D'awww
• Downright cocky
• Boyish
• Butterfly!
• Chatty
• Earnest, almost eager
• Fascinated
• So many fireflies
• Stole some danmaku from Yuyuko
• Flower child
• Tattered cape
• Wriggle...
• Kick!
• Like a daytime, angstless, buggy Batman
• Dorky but loveable. Get a Magrat Garlick vibe for some reason.
• Delinquent
• Some artists are under the impression that antennae light up
• See what I mean?
• The hell is going on in the background?
• The hell is going on with her hair?
• Behold, the bringer of light
• Bioluminescent waltz
• I don't understand this pairing.
• Feminine
• Wish she wasn't wearing the cap
• Can't help but see a rocket blasting off
• They did it again
• Bug in a kimono
• She likes shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.
• The "Princess Wriggle" costume is utterly ridiculous, I'm sorry
• I rest my case
• Good and Evil Princess Wriggle
• Yet another parody I don't understand
• No idea.
• Even she looks worried by it
• Yes, she's represented in the Badass pool
• Eyes and teeth in the dark
• Look more like bat wings to me
• Stretching the definition of "bug" a bit
• Wriggle Nightbag
• Kinda crazy-looking
• Unlikely
• GAR
• Can you buy those in stores yet?
• Sorry Wriggle, I was glad to see those shrieking bastards go
• The centi-taxi shut down two days later due to lack of customers. Wriggle never figured out why.
• About to become a religious icon
• She's follows it for 15 minutes, real-time. They cut that part in all the reruns and no one complained
• Charisma Break
• Happiness is a full garbage can
• aoziru does very realistic Wriggle art
• "Fairly Frail Fairy Tale"
• One-woman rave
• The exposed midriff reinforces her femininity
• End of daylight
• Earthbound stars
• Maestro of the evening chorus
• Seen this all over YouTube
• In case you were wondering where Faw's current avatar comes from
• Decent portrait
• A brighter alternative bust
• That wonderful glow
• Butterfly kisses

Hmm. Wriggle herself is a reverse trap, so her apparent gender is male, so you'd be a male cosplaying as someone who looks male but isn't. So if someone unfamiliar to Touhou saw you, they'd probably think you were a girly-looking man - not a trap - while to a Touhou fan, who'd be expecting someone in a Wriggle costume to be female, you'd probably be a trap. So you'd be Schrodinger's Genderbender, whose trap status is dependent on the knowledge and expectations of the observer.

Throw in the fact that you're a guy cosplaying as a girl dressed as a guy and add Recursive Crossdressing to the mix. You are gonna confuse some people, son.

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You would not believe your eyes if ten million Wriggles Lit up the world as I fell asleep~

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as soon as the voting was done i put that on infini-repeat.

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It's because insects pollinate flowers herp derp. Even though fireflies do no such thing, especially not to sunflowers.

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