Zeroth Jupi
Sporadic Writer and Haver of Ideas
- Location
- Somewhere
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
[X] [Educate Cirno]
Blossom of Bodhisattva (Touhou)
- Thread starter Erien
- Start date
- Fantasy
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] [Educate Cirno]
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
- Location
- A rapidly widening tear in the fabric of reality
It's the land of fantasy, we might as well start off with the most impossible dream of all!
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Peak comedy, tho.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS IS
I know who this is!
.... I feel this, I feel this SO HARD
... I know this character as well, something something most powerful fairy
This is that card thingy
... ... ... umm interesting
Hate it when that happens
nah I googled, it won't help you.
[X] [Ignore Cirno]
also having googled Buddhism for five minutes this is the correct path!
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
new plan!
We make Cirno a better Buddhist then the MC's... sister!(?)
At some point in the past (Touhou lore is ... a very murky thing) ... Remiu sat down with certain powers and laid down ground rules for magical 'play fighting' ... if everyone uses magic cards and bullets to beat the crap out of each other to get it out of their system, and (almost) nobody dies, then Remiu doesn't have to go around like a Dalek wiping Yokai off the map. Thing is, as lazy as she is, Remiu is absolutely strong enough to intimidate most in Gensokyo into playing by these rules, and strong enough to make good on killing just about anyone who won't play by them.
That explanation is used to hand wave the game's mechanics as part of the setting. And the official lore is vague enough that many details are up to interpretation.
I don't know how Eirin interprets the lore or events ... but it's one of those established themes of the setting. Play nice (with cards) or Red White breaks out the heavy artillery.
That's one ignorant fan's take on the concept of 'Danmaku'.
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Rules that somehow still apply outside of Gensokyo and yet not seem to help much in stopping an interdimensional/interrealm invasion.
You'd think she'd gone gung-ho against the Lunarians and Animal Spirits, but no.
- Location
- Russia
Those two have extenuating circumstances.
One: Lunarians are the one group that have people that can in fact kick her ass.
Two: Animal Spirits had Yachie actually subtly mind control Reimu to do as they want her to do.
- Location
- Russia
Nah, if I remember it right she also complied with Danmaku.
Junko was the closest to breaking the rules because she just went for the most direct possible way to attack you instead of making fancy patterns but even Utsuho used Danmaku. She just kinda overfried it.
- Location
- Russia
[X] [Ignore Cirno]
Game mechanics are still game mechanics. Even though danmaku exists in-universe that doesn't on itself mean that every battle depicted in games actually proceeded as in game. For starters, there's multiple differing mechanical depictions of danmaku - mainline shmups, each with its own unique mechanic, Phantasmagoria-type shmups, fighting games, 17.5 - which all contradict PMiSS bit about spellcard duel rules as well as each other. If game mechanics are stretched to cover underlying in-universe battles in different ways, is it somehow unnatural to assume that they are stretched to cover true fights without danmaku play pretenses as well, when those fighting couldn't care less about some internal rules of some small mountain youkai refuge?
Game mechanics are still game mechanics. Even though danmaku exists in-universe that doesn't on itself mean that every battle depicted in games actually proceeded as in game. For starters, there's multiple differing mechanical depictions of danmaku - mainline shmups, each with its own unique mechanic, Phantasmagoria-type shmups, fighting games, 17.5 - which all contradict PMiSS bit about spellcard duel rules as well as each other. If game mechanics are stretched to cover underlying in-universe battles in different ways, is it somehow unnatural to assume that they are stretched to cover true fights without danmaku play pretenses as well, when those fighting couldn't care less about some internal rules of some small mountain youkai refuge?
Erien
God's Weakest Soldier
- Location
- Georgia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
To make fights practical when writing Touhou I use the fighting game rules. So a mix of martial arts and danmaku.
I don't know if you mean the MC, or the rabbit. The MC is based on an actual historical Buddhist monk, who's story was used as inspiration for a canon character to be his sister. The rabbit is a rabbit, close enough to mundane that no normal person could pick out any way it isn't, just influenced by interacting with someone who has achieved enlightenment. The rabbit may even be entirely mundane, or it may have also been influenced by living on the edge of the physical connection to the pocket dimension that is Gensokyo. Either way, neither one is really part of Touhou standard, being effectively OCs.
solarlight
Appreciative Archive Reader
- Location
- Netherlands
A new touhou quest? That's nice to see. The prose is nice and so far the depiction of gensokyo is more serious and in-depth than usual. I'm very interested in seeing where this goes.
Erien is old hat at it, very good character writing. If you haven't already read AFiP, I highly recommend it.
It gives different things to different people:
-The powerful have a way to demonstrate their power without breaking Gensokyo. Youkai literally need it to survive.
-The weak actually CAN beat Reimu in the new system if she's not tryharding(in which case she floats out of reality).
-The humans can fight monsters and have a chance at all
-Reimu saves on work because she doesn't need to do everything herself.