The Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium

Yandere it is!

edited 11th Jul '10 9:46:58 PM by XionGaTaosenai

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I never understood the whole "Kisume is crazy" idea. Is this going off the fact, and only the fact, she lives in a bucket?

I always thought of her as being more like a deadpan snarker like that one person from Nadeisco.

She could also just be agoraphobic and shy.

...but confident enough to take part in danmaku... Hmm...

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It is said many times that you have to have "aggression" to take part in it, and it seems more of the "shy" characters are closer to "I want to be left comfortably alone but still be able to get involved if I choose to."

It could be that Kisume, like most youkai, is simply there hanging out and chooses to fight the heroes just because. Even Lily attacks others, unknowingly perhaps, to announce spring so it seems danmaku is like saying hello.

So, it's like a Hey You Howitzer?

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Kisume's ingame actions don't fit very well with her description in the manual of being shy. She shows up out of nowhere (seriously, there's still enemies when she shows up), and her first pattern involved suddenly dropping on you, fairly aggressive behavior.

I like to look at it this way. There you are, Reimu, minding your own business, invading the underground and attacking the underground fairies. So far, so good even though rocks keep falling at you.

As you fly along, you fly head first into a bucket hanging from the ceiling. Seriously, who hangs up a bucket in a cave full of dangerous- ohgoditsayoukaianditsbeenstartled!

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I very much read this the wrong way at first.

SO THERE YOU ARE BEING REIMU, WHEN A BUCKET COMES IN AND IS LIKE 'YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD!' AND YOU ARE LIKE 'FUCK YOU, I'M REIMU!' SO SHE IS LIKE 'SO HOW ABOUT YOU DYING?' AND YOU ARE LIKE, 'FUCK YOU, I'M REIMU' AND YOU DODGE LOTS AND LOTS OF BULLETS. YOU LOVE YOUR LIFE.

edited 12th Jul '10 1:50:41 AM by XionGaTaosenai

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At this point, I was expecting something like this:

Kisume: Die, Miko! You don't belong in this world!

Reimu: It was not by my hand that I am once again solving incidents. I was called here by youkai who don't wish to give me donations.

Kisume: Donations? You beat up strangers, to make them your friends!

Reimu: Perhaps the same could be said of all main characters.

Kisume: Your deeds are as empty as your soul! Mankind ill-needs a main character such as you!

Reimu: What is a man? An endangered species in Gensokyo! But enough talk... Danmaku!

This was all awesome.

(Though the kubothing had a few unimaginative parts, but for the most part those two posts were just great).

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Well then! This was... awesome. But all good things have to come to an end! This actually inspired me for a whole bunch of Yamame-related drawings and such, but if we wait for me to finish all of those, this discussion will have overstayed its welcome more than Marisa in an empty Voile Library, so:

Who next? I'm fine with Yuugi.

Dragon!

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We haven't done the dragon yet? Yeah, do her then.

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FUCK YOU IMMA DRAGON

Hong Meiling, Hong Meiling, HONG MEILING!

Fawriel-san, Fawriel-san! Profiling start, character profiling staaaaaaaaaaaaaart!

-knifed-

edited 12th Jul '10 9:47:11 AM by Bocaj

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Well, actually I meant Dragon, but...

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the sakuya-san cleaning room stop is funny until I saw the original video.

I remember being partially afraid because I had no idea what was happening.

^^ Oh... Well I'm fine with The Dragon or with the totally a dragon.

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Let's see how the voting goes, 'cause I've got ideas for both. Or for Yuugi.

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I vote for Yuugi. HER SAKE NOT EVEN DROP

I know is old but i love that line.

HELL YEAH YUUGI!

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Yuugi it is!
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Yuugi Hoshiguma

Appearance/voice: pppppppromotions◊

Theme:
Walking The Streets Of A Former Hell, A Flower-Studded Sake Dish On Mt. Ooe

Traits:

• boisterous bruiser with all that implies
• you just can't help liking her

Relationships/Shipping:

• Parsee (Parsee, too, cannot resist her charme, and Yuugi has plenty of love to give from that big heart of hers)
• Suika (old friends, another member of the four Devas, a former group of feared oni)

Write-up:
Yuugi the Strong, the great Deva, the oni, the only known person underground to rival the badassness of Yamame Utsuho. Also rivals Marisa in terms of sheer Crazy Awesomeness and being an irresistably likable shonen hero buddy type, to the point where even Nitori tacitly invited her overground for a drink after initially fearing her for being an oni.

In Subterranean Animism, she was just having a drink  ^*

when she noticed the main character busting her way through the Ancient City, and decided to join in the fray for a fun challenge, all the while holding a shallow bowl of sake, famously not even spilling a drop.

Her badassness is comparable to that of Jojo, she is the stuff of legend, she drinks, she laughs, she makes friends, she wears a gym shirt and a half-translucent skirt and her breasts are 50% muscle, 50% love and 100% oni, and that's really all you need to know about Yuugi. Simply put, she goes well with anyone who isn't a boring stoic and even sometimes those, and nothing more than that is needed to make her a fun and engaging character.

Similar characters:

• Marisa (except Yuugi is usually only shipped with like one person and maybe Suika if need be)
• every scene-stealing Boisterous Bruiser ever

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Yuugi is a fun one. ... I don't really have anything else to add!

I liked her from what I read of the dialogue. I only checked the Marisa/Nitori translation for her lines, but I loved how she's like "oh hey, a kappa. Sup. Uh, don't worry, not gonna take over your mountain or anything", and Nitori is like "oh, cool. ... wanna hang out sometime"

And yet, the fandom at large apparently finds her boring.

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I must be one of the few people who doesn't care about Yuugi in the slightest. So, I won't have much to add, sorry. I think part of the problem is that I don't really see anything that differentiates her from Suika. I just think: "oh, another Oni".

Edit: Or maybe it's not rare.

edited 12th Jul '10 3:44:38 PM by Clarste

One of the best lines comes from the Marisa/Patchouli scenario. Marisa's constantly trying to get Patchy to research her opponents' weaknesses, and Patchy keeps researching things one boss too slow (as in, she figures out what Parsee's deal was when they meet Yuugi). So when they meet Yuugi, Marisa just goes ahead and asks Yuugi her weakness directly. Yuugi tells her that her weakness is "fried beans, of course", and that freaks out Patchouli something fierce, 'cause she figures out right away that means she's an oni, so she tries feebly to get Marisa to run, and knows after the fight that Yuugi was just playing with them.

Yeah, Yuugi manages to turn telling an opponent her weakness into a Badass Boast.

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