The Touhou Character Alternate Interpretation Compendium

We animals get really powerful when we live long, and we can get powerful by swallowing up ghosts and evil spirits.

But, she's ... I wonder where she found it?
Hard to believe she swallowed up the power of the gods.

Talking mainly about Utsuho, but she's definitely including herself in "we animals".

edited 5th Jun '10 9:00:18 PM by Enlong

Given that the oni had made a vow to keep evil spirits from ascending from the underground, either Orin tends to restrict herself to evil people's corpses or being burned in the fires of hell makes your spirit evil. Either way, her control of the evil spirits prevents them from leaving the underground. Unless she's plotting something.

DS

Me: Aha! At last, I remember, when the abbreviation "DS" is used in regards to Touhou, it refers to Double Spoiler, NOT the Nintendo DS! Now that I know that, I'm certain this will be Double Spoiler-related art of Orin.

(clicks)

Me: DSHGJHFGFAKGHFGAKLGA

edited 6th Jun '10 7:15:24 AM by StarkMaximum

Still, interfering with the natural order of the world, etc etc

Is it really interfering with the natural order of things if it's a youkai doing what's expected of her as a youkai? <<;

Besides, her burning of corpses might be one way that the Celestial Bureaucracy is keeping the overpopulation problem in the afterlife down.

edited 6th Jun '10 8:20:32 AM by Servbot

^^Haha, I did more or less the same thing...

I remember that one pic where Orin was parodying that scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I'd imagine she's rather friendly, and takes a rather morbid interest in you ("Juuust out of curiosity, how much do you weigh? Oh, I'm just askin' in case I need to carry you off."), but she doesn't seem the type to attack the living.

Also, I keep having a mental picture of Mima serving detention in the Palace of the Earth Spirits.

I remember that one pic where Orin was parodying that scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I don't, but I can guess.

Well, since it's the former Hell Of Blazing Fires, I don't think it's strictly her job anymore, but I don't think the celestial bureaucracy really cares about what goes on down there.

She and Okuu still work at keeping the fires going for some reason. Is it ever said what will happen if it goes out?

Not that I know of. I like to think they both just really like their job and don't feel like quitting.

I mean, Utsuho was so overenthusiastic about her job of maintaining Hell's fires that she wanted to expand it.

edited 6th Jun '10 9:55:17 AM by Enlong

It is a Western-style mansion with many stained glass windows on the wall placed below the Hell of Blazing Fires. It said that the Palace was constructed after the underground was separated from Hell, thus many evil spirits remain in what was the former Hell.

Satori took control of the Palace and managed it by herself with the help of her pets, keeping it relatively peaceful.

It sounds like keeping the flames at a base level of burn keeps the evil spirits under control since the Celestial Bureaucracy just left a bunch of sinner's souls in the former Hell when they changed it for whatever reason.

So I doubt this is relevant but don't expect many profiles or contributions from me. My computer is broke, so unless I can find my old one or fix it, yeah...

Not that I know of. I like to think they both just really like their job and don't feel like quitting.

I mean, Utsuho was so overenthusiastic about her job of maintaining Hell's fires that she wanted to expand it.

Well, they are pets after all. I'd imagine that foremost in their minds is tying to make Satori proud of them by showing that they're doing their jobs really, really well.

First off, I got the impression that she uses the souls as fuel for the blazing fires. To me, that doesn't sound like something you can do and then say "Ok, I've had my fun, you can go have an afterlife now". Didn't it say in some cannon source or other that when the fires get too hot they open a skylight and when they get too low they increase the inflow of souls?

On the other hand, if you want to make her sound less evil, it's possible that the "former" in "former hell" just means that they're not accepting new entries, and it was cheaper or more efficient to let the damned souls already there stay there. In which case it becomes clear what everyone's still doing, although Orin probably hasn't really carted off anyone's soul in a while (she probably just transports them internally). This in contrast to the alternative, which is that without supervision she's going up into the world and carting off any soul she can get her hands on to be sent to what is, in fact, a Hell, just so she can keep the fires going. Sure, there's a lot more evil spirits down there than good ones, but that's just because they're all left over from back when the place was "in use".

Course, it's easier for most fanworks to either ignore it or play it for laughs.

Does Orin really need to use evil souls to fuel the fires anymore? I mean, Utsuho is now a self-sustaining source of flames.

She uses the corpses as fuel. The souls just become part of her army of evil spirits.

Well, the question's still valid now that they have a nuclear reactor. Do they really need to burn corpses?

Probably not. I suspect Satori has given her some other task by now.

I'm still wondering what the heck they do with the Nuclear Reactor. The Kappa use it for research and experiments, sure, but what do they use the energy for?

edited 7th Jun '10 3:15:30 AM by Lemurian

Power station. Not certain if they have electrical lines yet, but the ultimate goal is to spread electricity all throughout Gensoukyou.

And thus faith in Kanako, the goddess who brought you lightbulbs.

Looks like the Kappa have got their work cut out for them, then. The Geyser Center is quite a distance from the different villages...

Eh, it's in Youkai Mountain where the most modern species (Kappa, Tengu) are staying. I'm guessing they'll develop that place first before spreading out.

Also...

Not certain if they have electrical lines yet, but the ultimate goal is to spread electricity all throughout Gensoukyou

I predict much pain for Rumia in the future. <<;

^ How so? All the light stamping out her darkness? Or all the new poles and dangerous wires to smack into?

Probably the former, though the latter's funny too (keep in mind though that she lives in the forest).