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Between her two themes (Necrofantasia and Evening Star) I see them as representative of two halves of her. On one hand she's a force of nature that you don't want to be on the bad side of, that's Necrofantasia. Powerful, relentless, whatever. On the other hand she's whimsical and confusing, and that's Evening Star, with its irregular tempo and slightly discordant feel. Both are appropriate in their own way.
Yukari is the gardener and Gensokyo is the garden. She's not a control-freak in the sense that she likes watching how people will grow when left alone, but she considers certain other people weeds to be removed. Fertilizer and trimming are applied as appropriate. As the metaphor implies, she implicitly thinks of herself as a higher sort of being than everyone else. Flowers are pretty, but they aren't people.
She is the youkai among youkai. Her thought processes may lead her to the right places, but they make no sense to anyone else, except possibly Yuyuko. While to everyone else it seems like she enjoys talking in riddles, she thinks she's being straightforward. Her kind of genius is the kind that causes her to wonder why no one else gets it. Of course, she's gotten used to that kind of reaction over her long life, but she still has no idea what's wrong with everyone else. Everything's so simple, isn't it?
As a consequence of this, she doesn't do things "for the lulz". She does things for very good reasons that make no sense to anyone else. She spends most of her time sleeping, so she has little free time to spare. Everything she does is very important to her, somehow or other. She thinks 3 steps ahead and 5 steps to the left whenever she does anything. Again, this is not due to creativity but rather a certain kind of limitation to her thought processes. She doesn't know how to plan normally.