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>>37072518
Searching 'canon', it's really interesting how radically different the approach to 2hu canon was back then compared to now. At the very least, the yukkuri general back in '08 was more concerned with how yukkuri are properly interpreted among fanworks and given that there wasn't nearly as many canon works to go off of, people were far more relaxed with how people interpreted the characters and the setting, opting to more liberally apply fanon depictions as representative of Touhou characters than referring to game endings or such in order to highlight character points of various 2hus.

In hindsight, one of the best things about ZUN dictating aspects of character personalities and setting rules is that we have tons of panels, LN stories, and screenshots to create a stronger, more centralized idea of what those characters are like, rather than the myriad versions of fanon that exist of her, but at the same time, those canon depictions aren't complete representations of those characters so fanon interpretations are also still just as viable. It's like having your cake and eating it too, I suppose.