The New Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium!

Murasa, Miko and...Orange.

Yuuka, Murasa, Orange.

Orange, Youkai Mountain and Tokiko.

edited 26th Aug '12 6:57:38 AM by Lemurian

Tokiko, Youkai Mountain, Kanako

Miko

Tojiko, Yuuka, Makai. (Wait, have we done Makai?)

Also, I still have the very beginning of the Momiji write up somewhere. I'll be done with that...someday.

Here's it so far... This is way too even. The way this is going, the next person would vote for Murasa, Orange, Rinnosuke.

4 Kanako
4 Miko
2 Rinnosuke
5 Tojiko
4 Youkai Mountain
3 Murasa
3 Orange
2 Yuuka
1 Makai

You have foiled my prediction. Looking forward to the writeup when it's finished.

In the lead by one... against a 3 way tie for second... Maybe give it a bit longer, though I'm not sure who hasn't voted yet.

edited 26th Aug '12 9:10:49 AM by Antimatter625

Tojiko's in the lead at the moment. So I guess she's next?

I wouldn't expect it any time soon. I only have the opening down, and no clue where I am going with it, only keeping it because I know I'll find reason to finish it eventually. Maybe if we have another intermission.

I hope you didn't mistake my Tokiko vote for a Tojiko vote. That would be a silly thing.

Same as Bocaj.

So Tojiko only has three votes?

Thus and therefore I'll change my Miko vote to a vote for, let's say Louise. So it's between Kanako and Youkai Mountain.

edited 26th Aug '12 9:18:28 AM by asterism

"Lady Kanako! Lady Kanako! You're tied for the lead to be the next up for The New Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium!"
"Hmph. About time. Who is my opponent?"
"It's...uhm..."
"Well? Out with it!"
"...it's the mountain, lady Kanako."
"...what mountain?"
"...this mountain."
"I'm tied with a mountain?!"

Kanako.

Learn to respect the mountain.

edited 26th Aug '12 9:51:34 AM by Clarste

Kanako. Let's see what the outside world has to offer.

Wow. See, I wrote Tojiko, but I actually parsed it as Tokiko... and I thought everyone voted for Tokiko instead of Tojiko, when it was a 2/2 split. Kind've a... fail all 'round, really.

kanako

I WOULD'VE VOTED YUUKA

BUT I'M NEVER HERE WHEN THE VOTING STARTS SO I CAN'T INFLUENCE THE MASSES

So Kanako, then?

Kanako Yasaka

Theme: "The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field"*

Stage: Ah, the God of Wind on the Grounds of the Divine Lake ~ The Wind God's Lake
bgm: "Cemetery of Onbashira ~ Grave of Being "*

Spellcard Motif: Divinity, Rituals and Mysticism | Agriculture | Wind and Rains | Mountains | Snakes
Notable spellcards: MoF, DS, GoM
Divine Festival "Expanded Onbashira," Divine Husk "Divining Crop," Sacrifice Sign "Misayama Hunting Shrine Ritual," Mystery "Yamato Torus," Heaven's Dragon "Source of Rains," "Mountain of Faith," "Virtue of Wind God," God Sign "Omiwatari that God Walked," Snake Sign "Ground Serpent," Divine Pillar "Meteoric Onbashira"

Write-up:
The goddess of the Moriya Shrine, one of Gensokyo's movers and shakers, and the driving force behind three consecutive games.

Roughly 2300 years ago, Kanako was part of a divine coalition fighting to unify Japan. This brought her into conflict with rival goddess Suwako Moriya, who ruled a small kingdom with the help of some subjugated curse gods. Suwako gracefully forfeited after Kanako used a vine to rust her steel weapons, but the people of the kingdom proved harder to win over due to fears that their new ruler wouldn't be able to handle the Mishaguji. So Kanako hatched a scheme with Suwako to run the Moriya Shrine through a fictional deity, a partnership that has endured ever since.

Unfortunately, as centuries passed and advances in technology allowed farmers to do more than pray to ensure a good harvest, faith in Kanako waned. So the goddess made a great gamble, allowing herself and her shrine to pass into legend in the outside world in order to relocate to Gensokyo, where she hoped to have an easier time attracting worship from the local youkai. Kanako was quickly accepted and worshiped by the tengu and kappa of Youkai Mountain, but the potential shift in Gensokyo's balance of power led Kanako to extend her influence beyond the mountain, leading to the events of Mountain of Faith. Similarly, Kanako's efforts to attract worship through the promise of nuclear power led to Subterranean Animism, which in turn indirectly caused Undefined Fantastic Object.

Kanako shows no signs of slowing down, and has since made forays into cold fusion, helped build a Buddhist shrine, and attended a symposium to discuss the future of Gensokyo. She's a goddess with the outlook of a businesswoman, eager to win over customers by any means necessary, but particularly through offers of technology. Kanako's personality is said to be intimidating and self-righteous, and her behavior at times suspicious - but she also tries to be reliable in her dealings with others, and enjoys the feeling of solidarity when gods and mortals can mingle through festivals or other occasions. So far her plan to start a new life in Gensokyo seems to be working, but her relationship with the tengu and kappa is one of mutual exploitation, and every Incident and new arrival in Gensokyo forces her to work quickly to adapt and reassert herself.

Relations

• Suwako Moriya (co-goddess of the Moriya Shrine, domestic partner)
• Sanae Kochiya (wind priestess, fellow goddess)
• Utsuho Reiuji (living nuclear reactor)
• Tengu (neighbors, worshipers)
• Kappa (neighbors, worshipers, contractors, consumers of advanced extra-Border technology)

Alternate Character Interpretations

Short Sighted Planner
by Antimatter 625

If Kanako Was a D&D Deity
by Dragonexx

edited 5th Sep '12 10:36:34 AM by Tacitus

What's interesting is that depending on the game ending you get, Kanako basically wins and makes the Hakurei Shrine a branch shrine. Which does help explain why Sanae was taking care of the shrine when Reimu was mikonapped by Kasen.

Kanako is a business woman. She does what is good for business, and the business is gathering faith. She doesn't exactly stay in her divine domains to further her business, she is flexable. Of course, she is also willing to compromise, but is manipulative enough that she will find a way to come out on top.

For a god, a being with a basis in the fantastic, she has a fair amount of knowledge in science and technology, and knowledge in the science and tech that the outside world has deemed "impossible", which of course she will use both her divine power and Gensoukyou's status as a land of fantasy to make possible. Bringing further glory to the Moriya Shrine of course.

In terms of relations with Sanae, I see her as the "mother"whichever Suwako isn't (I forgot if I called Suwako the mother earlier!). While Suwako will encourage Sanae to goof off and have a good time, Kanako would encourage her to work to improve herself and further the family business. At the same time, I do think that Kanako does treat Sanae like family.

Kanako may or may not be a Mind Hive.

I totally believe that the Hakurei Shrine was made a branch shrine. The reason Hakurei goddess doesn't mind is because Kanako is probably easier to work with than Reimu.

edited 26th Aug '12 4:57:41 PM by Otherarrow

kanako is one of the most pragmatic touhous and its amazing

Kanako also may or may not have taken Sanae to Gensokyo without her parents depending on their state of being.

I don't think Mind Hive is the proper way to look at this at all. Being more than one person implies to me that she's either a Legacy Character or a conflation of several character into one legend (like the story of a hero and his sidekick becomes simply the story of a hero over time). It doesn't mean she has multiple people in her head, just that whatever it is that became worshiped as a god wasn't necessarily a single real individual.

Yeah. Like, she may have been born of the worship of an organization. Like the divine incarnation of the Yakuza or something.