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Cute Yog-Sothoth. I'm going to insert my key into Yukari's tight Outer God gate.

When a shoji screen goes unrepaired a Mokumokuren can form. Dozens of eyes peering through the holes in the wall, breaking the wall’s boundary between the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of a room. From those humble origins, the youkai that would come to be knowing as Yukari Yakumo was formed.

While not as old as youkai like Tewi, Yukari is still old enough to be considered ancient. With her boundary manipulation she managed to evolve much further then the average youkai ever would. And her constant experience with humans kept her young mentally.

Yukari has a burning hatred of the Celestial order. The limits placed on her existence by human belief chafed at her, and the jealous idleness of the Celestials offends her.

She’s been quieter recently because the religious factions are capable of causing enough chaos on their own allowing her to manipulate things for the shadows. Before everyone was lazy so she had to either act directly, or trick the Scarlet Devil Mansion into acting. She’s developed a certain appreciation of Remilia because of that. Remilia’s boredom makes her such a perfect pawn, even though the vampire girl knows she’s being manipulated. It makes Yukari’s life so much easier.

A girl led astray and devoured by her own power

Turning sexually repressed NEETs into hag lovers.

>>18538736
The woman you see is just a projection; the gaps are her true body

>>18538736

Her true nature is being my wife

>>18538896
she was mentored by Okina after she became confused and lost

>>18539012

Even if the Yukari we see is nothing more than a puppet being controlled by some sort of 6D creature, I will still love her.

>>18539040

>>18539062
We're all puppets being controlled by higher dimensional beings.

>>18539224

She is as she presents herself, that is how she designed Gensokyo to begin with, after all. That it covers her frail humanity in the trappings of the God of Hakurei, Youkai Sage, and Invincible Puppet Master is beside the point. Even if the image is broken, the Unbounded Dreamer of Kyoto remains, to build it anew.

Also likes stealing imoutos.

>>18539238
Then why won't they leave me alone and sleep forever? I want to be alone and sleep forever.

>>18539443
>Also likes stealing imoutos
Wat?

>>18538866
Who's older Aya or Yukari?

>>18541632

Just a suffering girl stuck in a timeloop.
The reason she's Yog-Sothoth is because of the same reason Madoka would become the most powerful witch.

Saying Yukari is a gap youkai is like saying Yuuka is a flower youkai

>>18538796
>>18538736
This is some Yume Nikki shit...

>>18542452
Yeah, Yukari is a hag youkai

Yukari's true nature is a evil mass murdering sociopath. Responsible for the disappearance and death of countless people. Her idea of a good time is kidnaping some unfortunate child/adult. Toying with that person until she gets bored. At which point that human is promptly killed and devoured.

She's still kind of cute though.

>>18538736
>Yukari’s true nature?
Spreading her holes wide open for everyone to see?

A big gaping pussy!

>>18539062
Case in point

>>18541632
>>18542350

>>18538866
is this from something? It's nicely written

>>18538736
She is what was left over after the Big Bang. When everything was one, there were no gaps. As soon as there was anything different from anything else, Yukari existed.

>>18542879
Nothing wrong with that, lesser people have gotten off to worse.

>>18542879
It is four thirty in the morning, and I've just woken up in the shower, laying in the tub with a fierce stream of hot water gone cold with time running frigid down my face. I have no idea how long I've been asleep. It doesn't really matter.
Rising, I grab a towel from the pile on the floor, wrapping it around my body with an odd sense of gratitude, and move down the short hallway to my tiny bedroom. Looking around the clothes strewn about the floor, I find a T-shirt and pants I like (or maybe just choose them at random, I'm not really sure anymore…) and shrug them on, tug, zip, button, adjust for comfort. Ha, comfort. Ignoring the insistent tapping from the other side of the cardboard and duct-tape covered window (where my gaze lingers for a moment, but only a moment. I think.) I head into the kitchen for breakfast (soggy cereal with milk grown slightly warm from the broken refrigerator) and a demotivated perusal of the help wanted section of last weeks old newspaper. I used to get the newspaper every morning, searching diligently for a job, a task, anything to get me moving forward and upward, out of this shitty fourteenth floor loft in a slumhouse on the south side of a city that hasn't been worth living in by all accounts since the seventies, but it doesn't really feel worth it anymore. With a sigh, I dump the remaining cereal and set the bowl on the stack of unwashed dishes in the sink. I need to get out of here.

Back down the hall and into my room to grab a jacket (it's freezing in here), and my eyes lock on that sheet of cardboard taped over the window. From behind it, softly, tap, tap, tap. She's still out there. She always is, as soon as it gets dark, until the sun rises, knocking gently on the window, fourteen stories up, hair blowing in the night time breeze, beckoning me to open the window, to let her in. I can change your life, she seems to say, if you'll let me. Shuddering, I look away.

Nate (God I miss that kid) used to tell me that I was depressed, that I was seeing things, that I should get help. Used to, till one day she came knocking on his window too. He called me then, breathless, apologizing for not believing me. He sounded strange on the phone… eager. I never heard from him again. I wonder if he's better off.

When I first came here, it felt like life was amazing, like the world was one big opportunity stretching itself wide in front of me and just waiting for me to take that first step. I'd chosen this apartment, with its window view of the entire, sprawling, electric starscape of the city lit up at night like God's own fallen Christmas tree, just so I could look out and revel in that feeling, in that high. That feeling got me through the first few months.

Gradually, though, the joy faded, and I was left with so many needs, and so many troubles, and never enough money, and so much time to think about it all, and I slipped into the bleak depression I've been in up till now. Then one day, she came.

Back then, I'd been able to sleep at night, every night, regularly, instead of falling into fitful patches of restless slumber at disjointed times, and I'd been asleep when she first showed up. I was awoken by a soft, almost polite knocking, so soft that at first I got up and went to the door, looking out into the silent hallway. When I went to return to bed, I saw her. Standing on nothing, fourteen floors up, her dress blowing in the wind, one hand knocking on the glass like a door, the other waving as I saw her, beckoning, a friendly gesture. I've read stories in my lifetime of creatures and spirits that knock on windows at night, of vampires who can only enter a home if the owner answers the door. I knew (or thought I knew) the risks. I went out into the living room and tossed and turned on the couch, hoping she'd be gone by morning.

And she was, but she was back the next night, and the night after that, and the night after that, knocking, calling silently to me, promising wordlessly that she could change my life, make it better. Eventually, I covered the window, trying to ignore her, hoping normalcy would return, but no. It never did. It never will.

So here I am, looking down, looking away, looking anywhere but at that window, shaking with desperate desire to look out, to open it, to let her in, and knowing with every fiber of my being how desperately wrong it would be. I've held out this long, but as I sink deeper into myself, I know that soon, soon, I'll walk to that window, and with shaking hands I'll tear dow

>>18544695
>Nothing wrong with that
Murder is wrong, anon. Child murder especially.

>>18545150
Says who? Besides, Youkai gotta eat to live, Yukari is saving lives.

>>18544703
Don't open that window, Anon. She preys on easily and depressed people like you. If you give her a chance, she'll make sure you're never seen or heard from again. Get a priest or something to ward your house.

>>18545165
>Says who?
Decent, normal people. Murder being wrong, with some exceptions, has generally been accepted by most human civilisations.

>Youkai gotta eat to live, Yukari is saving lives.
Youkai only need human fear to survive. And they already have the human village for that. Outsiders are brought in to die because they like eating humans.

>>18544703
Silly anon~ You should have opened the window sooner. It’s rude to keep a lady waiting, you know?

>>18545172
*She preys on easily missed and depressed people like you.

>>18545209
Humans eat piggies and other animals just because they like to, and you get offended just because youkai do the same to them?

>>18538736
What's up with that shape?

>>18545252
Yes. Because Pigs and cows aren't sapient. That makes it somewhat less awful. Although, personally, i do have a lot of problems with the way we treat our livestock.

>>18545259
Yukar’s gaps are dimensional fissures obviously

>>18545259
>banished to Gensokyo

>>18545209
>Youkai only need human fear to survive
Not exactly true. Some youkai still need to eat, it depends on what kind of youkai you are.

>>18545358
>Some youkai still need to eat, it depends on what kind of youkai you are.
They can just eat normal food though. Expect maybe the Scarlet Sisters. In Perfect Memento it's even said you can bribe most Youkai by just giving them something else to eat.

>>18545375
Yeah lowly youkai are basically gluttons. But
>her idea of a good time is kidnaping some unfortunate child/adult
That's not true though. Yukari is deliberately choosing her targets.

>>18545375
Yeah, low youkai are basically gluttons. But
>her idea of a good time is kidnaping some unfortunate child/adult
That's not true though. Yukari is deliberately choosing her targets.

>>18545442
She deliberately picks her targets when it comes to finding Youkai food. Mostly easily missed and suicidal people, which isn't any better morally btw. But the people she abducts for her own amusement seem to just be humans she find interesting.

>>18545562
>morally
Youkai and moral now? Oh wow man.

>>18545599
Youkai have a different system of morality that's incompatible with that of humans

Find me interesting!

>>18545599
Youkai are intelligent enough that i don't think it's unfair to argue they should be held to the same standards as humans.

>>18545631
Youkai works on a totally different principles. I don't really know why are you stating obivous here.

>>18545631
>>18545657
Youkai working on a different moral principle than humans doesn't excuse their behavior through. Most always chaotic evil creatures also work on a different moral principles. Yet, we still view them as evil. Because they are.

>>18545636
Don't worry anon, I find you more interesting than most of the recent posts here.

>>18545788
Are you Yukari?

>>18544703
It's better with the ending.
>I'll tear down this border

>>18546874
No. She doesn't exist. But if she did, she would visit this site to look for people to abduct.

>>18547604
I volunteer

I want Yukari to abduct and make me her shikigami!

>>18545150
>Murder is wrong, anon. Child murder especially.
It was a trick question, right and wrong don't exist outside of your head.

>>18538736
Yukari’s true nature is that... thing? Eldritch Abomination confirmed

>>18547941
Perhaps. But suffering does not. And that's what Yukari inflicts on a countless number of people.

>>18548689
Nah, they kill swift deaths, then are eaten. Pretty ethical.

>>18538736
Yukari Kowaii

>>18545150
The sun was very low now, an orange-red eye peeking halfway over the buildings lining the narrow street. Matt stopped, out of breath. As he stood there, hands on his knees, he despaired. I'm very far from home now. And it's nearly dark. And it's cold. I'll never find her like this. I should go home, wait for mom, and ask her what to do. This...this is bad. He stood up straight again, and began to turn around. As he spun, he noticed an old man in a chair on the porch of a nearby house, sitting back and watching the sun set. I...I really should ask him. Even if it is cold. Even if he looks creepy out here all alone with his wrinkly face and his saggy arms and that tube up his nose- ugh. Stop it. Matt steeled himself. He walked over to the porch, and, positioning himself in front of the oldster. "Ex-Excuse me, sir...um...have you seen a...um, a young girl around here? About this high? With short, dark hair and a yellow shirt? She's my sister, and...uh..."
The man leaned forward, his faced coming into the dim light of the sunset. His eyes were vacant and unfocussed. His slow motion was jerkily arrested by the cannula in his nose, and, keeping his blank face pointed at the sky, he pointed across the street. "She...She's over there."
The man's spotty finger was aimed directly at a narrow alley between two buildings across the street.
Oh, God. I don't want to go in there. And this guy doesn't look all there. And it's still dark and cold. The wind was picking up. In torn jeans and a cheap t- shirt, Matt felt nearly naked. But it's my only chance. I've got to do it.
"Er...thanks." The man didn't move. Matt crossed the street. The orange light of sunset was gone. All that was left was the dim light of dusk. It was darkest purple, fading into black.
But then, as he looked down the mouth of the alley, he saw something strange, for just a second. There had been a person there at the place where the alley bent. A tall woman, dressed in an archaic gown of fine pale silk. She had been there for just a moment before she twirled around the corner in a swirl of cloth.
She had been looking at him, with a small smile on her face.
"Wait!" She had to know something about where Amy was. He broke into a run down the alley. The lane took several odd twists and turns, the high brick walls on either side blocking out all but a thin stripe of the purple-tinged sky. He came around a final corner, and stopped.
The woman was sitting there on an antique love-seat. There was a little table and second chair across from her, the finely carved furniture looking entirely wrong sitting on the wet asphalt. She wore a long, conservatively-cut ruffled dress, its pale cream color in sharp contrast with the apron-like purple garment she wore over the dress's front. Her long, blond hair framed a pale, beautiful, fine-featured face that seemed ageless, like a black-and-white photo of a classical actress. Her lips were still curved up in that small, cryptic smile.
Matt had a brief moment of mental lockup. "Wha...whaa...?"
The woman held a heretofore-unseen purple fan up to cover her mouth, long
fingers flicking it open with ease. "Why, hello," she spoke, her voice mature and carefully modulated.
Focus. This is a big city. Weirdoes everywhere. Just ignore it. Focus. "Um, I'm looking for my s-sister. About this high, dark hair, uhh...yellow shirt, er...?
"Oh, I may have seen her. Yes, maybe. But that's such a boooring subject, isn't it? I can tell you're curious about me. It's right there on your face. We'll talk about your sister after you ask your questions, yes?" Holding the fan up again, the woman giggled, the gesture surprisingly girlish in contrast to her dress and bearing. She gestured to the old-looking overstuffed armchair sitting on the opposite side of the table from her.
Matt sat. Just humor her, he told himself. This is your only chance.
"Ah, it's nice to have someone new to talk to," the woman told him, toying
with one of the small red ribbons in her hair. "Do ask away." She's still smiling. This is too weird. "So, er...who are you?"
"Hee hee." She giggled again. "I've been called many names in many languages by many different people," she reminisced, still covering her mouth as she spoke, "and I've forgotten even more names than I remember. Hmmm..." the woman said from behind her fan. "Ah. These are some of my favorites. The Lady in Violet. Gap Woman. Cartographess. The Smuggler of Souls. The Faraway Bride. Travels-by-night."
What the hell? And that fan... "Er, alright...but, my sist-"

>write what happens next

>>18547687
Tell me what you know about boundaries.

>>18550799
>RAEPED

>>18547604
You don't exist, buddy.

>>18550815

It's the only thing separating my dick from being inside Yukarin

>>18550799
She eats him

>>18549526
Suffering is more than just pain. It can also be the sadness of losing somebody you love. Having that person disappear without a trace.

>>18551493
That's just what you want to think. This universe doesn't work that way.

Glory to the Eldritch One

You realize before Yukari's fantasy-reality barrier the two were one

The state of existence is determined by the elegant and cute yog-sothoth!

>>18552261
That's just what you want to think. This universe doesn't work that way.

>>18552335
Why would i want to think that clap your hands to belief rules don't work in reality? If they did, i would try to use them to become rich.

>>18552277
I still want to put it in

>>18552277
Still beautiful

Her true nature is Laplace's demon

>>18556206
According to determinism, if someone (the Demon) knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed; they can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics.

>>18547687
Jesus that was hard to read because of the blood spatters:
大丈夫、チェンは
藍が守ってあげる。
ねえ、チェン

>>18556583
>All right, Chen
>Ran will protect you.
Horrifying

>>18552036
Look again, anon-kun.

>>18550799
He gets eaten

>>18538866
Regardless of who came up with this, I really like it. It's almost a little depressing knowing that ZUN will never reveal stuff as interesting as this.

So what DO we know about Yukari?

The oldest known record of a youkai matching her description is found in the first edition of the Gensokyo Chronicle, from 1,200 years ago. She was not referred to as Yakumo Yukari back then, and it is theorized in PMiSS that she picked that name herself at a later time.

It appears that Yukari was already very powerful and influential over 1,000 years ago. Somewhere between 1,000 and 1,200 years ago she rallied countless youkai in an attempt to invade the moon. The invasion attempt was a complete failure in the sense that the Lunarians quickly defeated the youkai army, and forced them to retreat. While the official justification for the invasion was to steal the Lunarians' power source, Yukari is known for her hidden ulterior motives, and bringing them to fruition with far-fetched, convoluted plans. PMiSS theorizes that Yukari never counted on the plan succeeding, and was just trying to teach the youkai a lesson about overstepping their territory, but in CiLR she shows visible embarrassment over her past defeat.

In the same time frame, between 1,000 and 1,200 years ago, Yukari befriended the living human Yuyuko Saigyouji. When Yuyuko eventually took her own life in despair over her own abilities, an unnamed individual used her corpse to seal the Saigyou Ayakashi, stating: "My wish... is that she will never again reincarnate, and never again suffer pain...". Yuyuko's ghost form is still one of Yukari's best friends to this day, but there's something else to this story which I find the most interesting: it shows (if the unnamed individual was indeed her) that Yukari is capable of strong feelings of empathy, an emotion which is not often ascribed to youkai, and in particular not towards humans.

After these event, there are (to my knowledge) no records of Yukari until modern time, around the Meiji Restoration in 1866, when The Sages group >>18539255 was formed which proposed and created The Great Hakurei Barrier. Yukari then took an active role in managing their newly created, walled-off society (eventually offloading much of the work on Ran), while the other sages went into hiding, only to re-appear in the last 10 years. Yukari seems to have a clear, long-term plan in mind for Gensokyo where youkai will once again rule the night all over the world. When the Zashiki-warashi temporarily re-appeared in the outside world, Yukari saw it as a rare opportunity, pic related.

So in conclusion, is it meaningful trying to discern Yukari's "true nature" or her (its?) origins? We know that she is the immensely powerful youkai of boundaries, capable of manipulating any boundary to a great (but not unlimited, the Watatsuki sisters of the moon have specific powers greatly exceeding hers) extent. Yukari's physical manifestation is that of a tall, young, adult, human-lookalike woman with blonde hair. Some youkai are known for being able to choose their own physical appearance, but we don't know if this applies to her. The trend seems to be that the more civilized and/or intelligent youkai have chosen forms that are nearly identical to that of humans.

Yukari is actually a highly portable onahole with a will of its own

>>18560364
There are a lot of interesting questions regarding Yukari. But the biggest for me is her ultimate endgame. Does she want to reconquer the outside world? Creating a endless night where Youkai will rule forever? Does she want to free Youkai from being affected by mortal though? Thus allowing them to peacefully coexist even in the outside world. Does she just want to make sure Gensokyo reaches a state where it no longer needs a overseer like her? Thus giving her free reign to fuck about without a care in the world.

>>18560364
If you take the theory that she’s Maribel seriously, that means she wants to preserve fantasy and the youkai; hence her endgame is to probably free them from their dependency on human thought

>>18562155

Yukari is youkai CHAD.

>>18560525
Yukari's ultimate endgame is anyone's guess at this point, but it is clear as day that she has no intention of letting youkai cower in the reservation known as Gensokyo forever. There's the continuation to the picture i posted here >>18560364 in pic related, where Yukari hints that the current situation is unsustainable. It also hints that there are different factions, perhaps even among the youkai, with different ultimate goals for Gensokyo's future. Kasen is not keen on Yukari's apparent plans for youkai re-emergence, and in a later chapter she makes it very clear that she's not on Yukari's side, perhaps having changed her mind since her sage days.

In the latest WaHH discussion thread, people theorized that Kasen now feels that youkai should just accept their fate as a thing of the past, and simply fade into history along with Gensokyo. This was strengthened by her statement that her loyalty now lies with "the law of heaven", which can be interpreted as "the natural order of things". Maybe this is why Kasen started befriending Reimu and the others, with the explicit goal of taking control over the Hakurei shrine, perhaps to help this process (it does not seem like it was of any help in her search for her missing arm).

However, unless it is a VERY convincing cover-up, Kasen is planning to save herself by becoming a celestial through the hermit route. This would make Kasen look like a huge, selfish hypocrite next to Yukari's caretaker role for all of youkai-kind. However, kasen has taken a liking to humans, and maybe she is even trying to save all of mankind from a much more cruel future at the hands of Yukari, should her plans succeed?

>>18562155
I don't really think that Yakumo Yukari IS Maribel Hearn, but there is clearly a very strong connection between them, we just don't know exactly what it is yet. While many details almost make them seem like the very same person, how and why would Yukari appear as a physically normal (disregarding the crazy boundary-manipulation abilities) human without any of her own memories in the near future?

Maribel states that her linage has been able to see the boundaries between everything since ancient times, but it was only recently that she powered up and became able to manipulate them at will. So far, she has manipulated boundaries for the purpose of transporting herself, and eventually also Renko, through time and space. In PMiSS, a note found several hundred years ago in the bamboo forest, obviously left by Maribel during her explorations, was mentioned. But why would "human Yukari" regain her abilities only now? I'm more inclined to believe that Yukari and Maribel have common ancestry of some sort, perhaps among ancient Shinto gods.

But then we have the eerie similarities. Maribel looks just like Yukari, same hair color and everything. She dresses in the same colors, with a similar albeit less gaudy style, complete with the mob-cap. Maribel's ability seems to be the exact same as Yukari's, although it is still much weaker, and she hasn't explored its full potential yet. Her given name follows a logic very similar to that of Yukari's. In addition, she just happens to be a member of the Secret Sealing Club, with a keen interest in Gensokyo in particular. Conveniently, she also happens to be a foreigner with no relatives living in Japan, and has told Renko very little about her background, but still has a perfect grasp of the Japanese language.

So if they indeed are the same person, in what manner would they even be it, if Maribel is physically still a normal human, has none of Yukari's memories, and only recently gained her powers? If she is a re-incarnation with the same soul (most plausible explanation), that means Yukari would have to pass away (for some reason) relatively soon in the near future, but those things work very differently for youkai and humans. And wouldn't that be unnecessary considering Maribel's lineage, since it implies Yukari isn't the only boundary watcher/manipulator around? Or is it some kind of convoluted, yet unexplained method/relation? There are theories (even in canon) that Yukari is in fact messing around in the outside world all the time she spends sleeping, utilizing dream transportation just like Sumireko, but this method still preserves your entire being, body, abilities, memories and all.

ZUN is actually better at constructing an intriguing narrative than I gave him credit for in my previous post, without giving almost anything away, now that I think about it. I just hope that we get to see the story about his universe going anywhere interesting before he passes away from old age.

I spent 2 hours writing this post, but then accidentally hit Ctrl+W, so I had to write it all from memory again.

How suave

>>18564422
Of course there’s the whole ‘Maribel stranded in the past and becomes Yukari ‘theory

>>18564422
An old idea i had is that Yukari's ultimate endgame is to extend the Hakurei barrier around the entirety of the japanese archipelago. But i'll admit, i only have that idea because it sounded cool.

Kasen's ultimate goal, if she even has any, is even more of a mystery. I haven't read WaHH yet, so i honestly can't even guess what it could be.

>I don't really think that Yakumo Yukari IS Maribel Hearn, but there is clearly a very strong connection between them.
I personally like to think Maribel might be Yukari's bastard daughter. The result of her abducting somebody she simply found too intriguing. Since Yukari isn't really the type to raise children. She made sure her daughter was adopted by a well off family, and then largely forgot about her.

>>18565389
Maribel exists in the future and Gensokyo doesn't, unless she decided to timegate Maribel to the future for some reason it makes no sense.
Furthermore the connection between Hearn and Yakumo is that Hearn changed his name to Yakumo, which seems to imply more that she changed her name, thus the reason why nobody knows her true name.

>>18565524
Also explains her interest in western clothing.

>>18565389
Or she got stranded in the past and became Yukari

>>18542879
Do you think she could get along with Bondrewd?

>>18564679

I want Yukari to do something to me with borders and force me to say embarrassing things to go back to normal!

>>18566639
Like what?

>>18566679

Who knows what he meant

>>18566763

>>18566843

>>18566879

>>18566893

Wish I was Reimu in this pic

>>18566918
God I wish I were Yukari.

>>18566462
Perhaps. They are both very affably evil.

>>18568793
While Yukarican be amoral, she still has some standards, while Bondrewd is a walking human rights violation

Maybe one day, the whole board will be flooded with Yukari. What then?

>>18569116
It will be a good day

Yukari has many ways of abducting people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VHMgDs5tk

>>18569440
Oh oh. I see unsafe when I’m showering now

>>18568942
She eats children, anon. She might have some standards. But i don't think it's all that many.

>>18538736
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.

>>18569440
Red tape is not a good sukima deterrent

>>18569571
Ceiling Yukari is watching you

>>18570418
They all are.

>>18569571
>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?
I like this interpretation

>>18550799
"Oh shush, there goes the sister talk again. Such subjects are best reserved until one has run out of more interesting topics. Don't you agree?" I do not. But I doubt this weirdo would listen even if I told her that. "Now then, back to my name. Since I have so many, I suppose you could just use the most famous one. Yukari Yakumo"

Sounds vaguely Asian. She doesn't look the part though. "Okay then. Miss Yakumo. Wh-"

"Miss Yukumo?" Again, she giggles. Her mouth still carefully hidden behind her fan. It's really starting to annoy me.

"Okay then, Yukari. What exactly are you doing here?"

"What do you mean?" She asks it like a question. Yet, it's obvious that any confusion is faked.

"Well, why are you sulking around in random alleyways?"

"Alleyway?" She says. The same obviously fake confusion in her voice, but combined with a hint of teasing. "But, this is my home."

"What the hell are y-" Then, I noticed that she was right. Somehow, even though I'm sure I was in a alleyway just a moment ago. I was sitting in a decently sized, well decorated living room. But... how?

Yukari notices my confusion. And even without being able to see her mouth, I could tell she was smiling. This woman is messing with me. But I don't know why, or how. "Is something perhaps amiss?" She asks mockingly.

"I-I don't understand. I'm sure I was in an alleyway just about now."

"Truly? How strange" Her words are dripping with both sarcasm and malice. "I can quite distinctly remember inviting you to my home. You seemed pretty eager about it too, Matt."
"W-What? I did no such thing." I don't think I would even have the confidence to accept such an offer. "A-And how do you know my name?

" I know a few things about you. I find you quite... intriguing, you see."

Has Yukari been... stalking me? That should be creepy. But a woman this beautiful finding me intriguing. It's almost kind of... appealing. She seems to notice my reaction and laughs. "Oh my. Getting excited, aren't we? How wonderful. There is still one question that needs to asked however. And I think you already know which one..." She waves her fan around. Still not revealing her mouth. I Know exactly what she wants to hear. And even though some part of me knows this is a bad idea. Both the subtle promise in her words, and my own growing curiosity means I simply have to ask. "Why are you hiding your mouth?"

She lowers her fan, revealing a mouth filled with sharp canine like teeth. Instantly, something clicks in my head. Her unnaturally perfect appearance. The strange eccentric behavior. My little sister disappearing. Those strange eyes. Yukari Yakumo... isn't human. "W-WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!"

A strange, inhuman smile creeps on her face. "That too is a question with many answers. Youkai would be the most accurate. But considering your ethnicity and home country. I think "Demon" or "Monster" might be more understandable."

This... isn't happening. This is all just some insane dream. "D-Don't lie to me. Demons and monsters aren't real."

Yukari gives me a peculiar look. Excitement gleaming in her eyes, her grin large and toothy. She's clearly having the time of her life. "Oh, Is that so? Why, I never knew seventeen-year-old boys decided what is and isn't real. Perhaps you should tell your little sister that. She seemed quite excited to meet a real monster."

Oh no. "A-Amy? W-What have you done with her."

A strange black tear appears before Yukari, filled to the brink with inhuman looking eyes. It's quite the horrifying sight. Yukari however, puts her hand into it. And pulls out a small girl with black hair, and a yellow shirt. Her eyes closed. "Amy... H-Have you killed her?"

"Oh no, I simply put her into a magical coma. The girl is still quite alive." She gives me a particularly sadistic smile. "For now."

That comment was the last straw. I leaped at her and punched her in the faced. At least, that's what I wanted to do. Yet for some reason, I can't. And I don't mean I tried and failed. I flat out can't get my body to do what I want. I can't even stand up. Yukari's doing, I imagine. "Oh my, such violent desires. You have quite the big brother instinct, don't you?" She says mockingly. "It always seems cruel to tell you I intend to eat your precious little sister."

"E-Eat? Y-You can't be serious?"

She shrugs. "I am. Like I said, I'm a Youkai. Eating humans is normal for my kind. Even an adorable little girl like this." She pinches my sister's cheeks. "I won't kill her right away though. I intend to fatten her up a bit first. Like I do with most children."

>>18577184
This... can't be happening. I can't just sit here, utterly powerless. While this horrible woman plans to eat Amy. There has to be something I can do. Some way I can at least save my sister. "...Yukari. I-I want to make a deal."

She looks surprised. Genuinely, this time. "A deal? How interesting, but what could you possible offer her."

"I want to exchange my life for my sisters. Eat me, instead of her. I'm the reason why she got lost. So, it's only fair..." I can't believe im seriously doing this. But, It's the only thing I can do.

Again, Yukari looked genuinely surprised. "Oh my, how noble of you. I never expected you cared enough about your sister that you would sacrifice yourself. It's almost enough to bring a tear to my eye." She sounds genuinely. Is this going to work?" I'm afraid however, that it simply won't do."

No. It isn't going to. "But why? It's a fair trade, isn't it?"

"Perhaps normally. I might have even agreed to it. But you don't realize your situation. You have nothing to give me. Because the very moment I managed to capture you, your life became forfeit." Oh god. I didn't even think about that. "Don't you understand? You already belong to me."

"N-No... This can't be happening..."

"I'm afraid, my dear Matt, that it is. You need not worry though. You won't be joining your sister for a long time. A cute boy like you is something I have many... uses for." Her voice starts to become sultry. "Who knows. You might even enjoy some of those uses." Is this woman seriously insinuating that she's going to...?

"Y-You... You... Crazy bitch."

My comment only seems to increase her amusement. "Oh my, such impolite language. That's something we will have to take care of eventually. But for now, I think it's time for you to sleep. Can't very well have you around while I'm preparing little Amy here for her big day." She waves her hand. And I can feel myself starting to get tired. "Still, if you have any more questions. Now would be the time to ask them."

"Why... Why are you doing this?"

She laughs, and then looks me in the eyes. A sadistic smile on her. "The question isn't why, Matt. It's why not? If you haven't noticed already, there's nothing you can do to escape. I made sure of that. So, like a cat that managed to catch a mouse. I like to play a bit with my prey. I'm sure you can understand. "Why... why is this happening to me? "Now then, it's time for you to sleep. Believe me, you're going to need the rest. After all, when you wake up we're going to have a lot of fun together."

With those words still ringing in my ears, and the last bits of my consciousness fading. I realize that whatever future I might have had is gone. And that what's going to replace it, won't be very long.

>>18577184
>>18577193
Hot.

True nature = being 17 forever.

>>18577184
>>18577193
Good End?

These are my favorite threads.

>>18577310

This man gets it

>>18577193
And then Hiroshima went boom.

>>18548689
>Perhaps. But suffering does not.
And so what of it, if right and wrong do not exist outside your head? Do you honestly still hold to the naive belief that not liking something means that the universe bends it's will to your abstractions of right and wrong?

>>18579968
Perfect.

>>18581627
wat

>>18581627
Eh?

>>18581627
I like it

>>18590091
>When you ask Yukari why she keeps children around her home.

>>18590091
Kasen getting told off is ironic and so satisfying

>>18592568
What a cutie pie

>>18594119
She is kinda useless currently

>>18538736
This: >>18538896 with time travel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKx4lKYuXLk

Sumireko takes the Necronomicon (shown in FS chapter 1)

Maribel finds it in old sealing club document cabinets

Maribel summons Yog-Sothoth in an occult ritual and is subsumed into it

>>18598788
But Marisa was the one who took the Necronomicon.

>>18598923
Marisa almost took it but didn't, Kosuzu still has it I believe

>>18598989
I wonder when Marisa is gonna turn into a youkai?

>>18600235
At the finale; it’s something she’s specifically avoiding

>>18601697
I wonder for how long she's gonna hold out?

>>18605411
>I wonder for how long she's gonna hold out?
Knowing ZUN, the concluding game/manga of the franchise.

>>18538736
I want to be assimilated by Yukari like Renko!

>>18607015
Does getting eaten count as assimilation? Or do you want Yukari to go full Borg on you?

>>18607021
Going full borg is good

>>18538736
Yukari is the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Her. She knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. She knows where They have trod Gensokyo's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

>>18607036
>Yukari is the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Her.
Yukari, or some may say, Yog sothoth

>>18607036
>>18607761
Why do people think this when she's clearly the dunwich horror.

>>18607025
She only does that to people she really likes. So, i hope you have a plan to impress her if she ever abducts you.

>>18577224
I guess. I think that depends mostly on what your fetishes are. I do admit, i absolutely wrote this as fetish fuel.

>>18579165
Well. I suppose there are worse ways to spend your final few days than being repeatedly raped by a hot inhumanly beautiful blond. Still, kind of a shame about the whole dying young thing. Or his family and friends never seeing him again.

>>18606970
She will be the last boss of the last mainline touhou game.

Her true nature is my wife

>>18611854
Reimu will be forced to kill her like how she killed the fortune teller

>>18538736
she's a sentient onahole.

>>18538736
Just an idealistic manipulator. She doesn't want to rule Gensokyo and doesn't even particularly care about controlling it, she just wants it to largely fit to her tastes and not be utterly destroyed. To that end, she manipulates quite a lot, but does little direct action due to not wanting to rule.

Also she's Maribel. She liked Gensokyo enough to make sure it was real.

>>18564422
>I don't really think that Yakumo Yukari IS Maribel Hearn
Considering we know time slipping can happen, specifically to HER, how she's becoming youkai-like or at least super-powered, and the blunt Hearn -> Yakumo, finally coupled with "we know Yukari had a name change a long time ago", this has always struck me less as a theory, and more as an unstated fact. I mean really, that's just beating you over the head without saying it outright. And why is it not said outright? Possibly because it's satisfying making those connections yourself. Who knows

>>18582608
No. I don't really expect the universe to bend a certain way for the sake of justice. That's a very religious concept. But i do think Yukari deserve to suffer a terrible fate because of what she did.

>>18614697
>unstated fact.
That’s what I believe

>>18613682
Yes. I'm very arouse right now.

Yukari was responsible for the disappearance of Malaysia 747

>>18607978
>she's clearly the dunwich horror.
So Yukari/Maribel is the half human daughter of Yoggy?
Makes sense, considering the fact that Maribel is basically a Lovecraft protagonist already

>>18615465
You should suffer for thinking ill of a cute angel like Yukarin-chan.

>>18622277
>cute angel like Yukarin-chan.
Are you sure about that?

>>18622565
As sure as that planchette's possessed by a squirrel, and the monster exists only in her imagination, like it does yours, for Yukari is a nice girl.

>>18622565
What makes you think eating humans precludes someone from being an angel?

>>18623435
Those eyes are rather unangelic...

>>18623456
Is that so?

>>18623485
Those ones are uncrossed, and pretty. Her Forbidden Scrollery look is very comfy and stylish.

>>18623528

The assimilation of Maribel Hearn

>>18623485
Harukawa Moe really nailed that unsettling, non-human gaze of Yukari.

>>18622277
She eats and abducts people. She's as angelic as Lucifer. Cute or not, she deserves karmic punishment for her actions.

>>18623435
Well, i don't think any angels in the Bible ate people. But besides that, i just don't think you can be angelic if you're the reason why little timmy is on the milk carton.

>>18625098
Yes. Very cheshire cat grin. Moe Yukari has the kind of expression that would make one very worried.

>>18625271
>Moe Yukari has the kind of expression that would make one very worried.
Worried in a good way or bad way?

>>18625599
Worried in a "What this woman is doing might be good or bad" kind of way.

>>18625264
You deserve karmic punishment for badmouthing /jp/'s cutest gal.

>>18625264
You deserve karmic punishment for badmouthing Gensokyo's cutest(and nicest) gal.

>>18626226
And should apologise.

>>18625098

>>18626425
>"dome" you all naively assumed
Oh shit, I totally thought of Gensokyo as a enclosed dome.
Nice to see Maribel's future knowledge all came in handy here.

>>18626425
>Not even Okina could follow what I was doing
>stupid oni hermit who knows absolutely nothing about the boundary
Yukari truly is best sage

>>18626583
This: >>18539255

>>18626583
Was there ever any doubt?

>>18626583
Elegant!

>>18626583
Which doujin is that from?

>>18626226
Don't you know? People that point out evil dictators when they see them are generally the ones remembered as heroes.

>>18626239
NEVER!

>>18627317

THE most elegant

>>18628402
The only hero here is Yukari, the savior of an entire race, and creator of a refuge for many sorts of folks. Praise her!

>>18628669
She corrupted a Youth

>>18628723

Can you blame her? Just being in her presence is enough.

>>18628723
She was gonna get corrupted sooner or later, might as well corrupt in a way where everything works out according to the master plan.
>>18628753
What a stylish beauty.

>>18628753
>Can you blame her?
All Kosuzu wanted was to bring peace, freedom, justice, and security to her new empire.

>>18628723
>corrupted
You mean saved, if it weren't for that meddling tanuki.

>>18629915
Mamizou a shit

>>18628669
She's a savior of Youkai in the same way Stalin was the savior of the Soviet Union.

>>18631664

Literally nothing is stopping non-trash youkai from just being outside the barrier

Mamizou was hanging around outside until recently

>>18631331

>>18631731
That's a different story because there's tanuki statues everywhere and them and other shit are just said to be tanukis in disguise. So you can say modern Nips still believe in them, to some degree.

>>18633310

I want to be part of Yakumo family!

>>18619295

>>18634889
That's only going to happen as their food though.

>>18636466

I'll offer myself as Ran or Yukari's new shikigami

>>18636488

I love her no matter what she is.

>>18607021
Yukari didn't eat her friend Renko. She turned her into Ran.

>>18637111
Renko is the ancestor of the Hakurei bloodline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYH2HM5Xapw

>>18637111
Merry likes computers/foxgirls?

>>18639545
She chose Ran for other reasons.

Yukari would be the best mom in the universe, honestly.
>secretly cares for you deep down
>will keikaku to get you the best outcome, even if it hurts your feelings

>>18640422
Don't delude yourself. Even overlooking the whole "child eater" thing. She would be emotionally neglectful and abusive at best.

>>18641412
>She would be emotionally neglectful and abusive at best.
She did a good job raising Reimu

>>18641460
True

>>18641460
>raising Reimu.

She did no such thing. If Reimu had a adoptive mother, i very much doubt it was Yukari.

>>18641460
>raising Reimu

>>18641412
Moralfag piss off. Yukari is a perfect mother.

>>18642989
>Yukari is a perfect mother.
She eats children, anon. That alone should discredit her from being a perfect mother.

>>18643007
Dumbass logic. A mother wolf who eats the children of other animals is a bad mother, too eh? Moralfag piss off.

>>18643132
If a Youkai regularly murders and eats human children, then i don't think that Youkai would do a particularly good job raising human children.

Also, wolves don't make the best mothers.

>>18643176
You are an idiot. Now piss off.

>>18643007
>She eats children
Except Yukari is a high level Youkai. They don't give a damn about things like this.

>>18643185
Please don't start with this moralfag moron: see this thread >>18558121

>>18643176
A child raised by youkai would be miserable unless they became a youkai themselves. Imagine being different from and inferior to all your peers and the people you love the most. Not only that, you would start to think and act like a youkai because you would have had lived around them for your entire life, but you would still be biologically human. You would have a huge dissonance between your mind/soul and body, constantly trying to do things that you simply couldn't do as a human like trying to eat other humans or terrorize them.

>>18643209
Pretty sure that's just a troll, anon. No mentally well person can be that dense.

>>18643183
Such harsh language.

>>18643185
Her not caring about such matters is a excellent reason why she SHOULDN'T be a mother.

>>18643231
Yeah, exactly. The only Youkai that might be a decent mother is Nemuno. Since she's raised children before, apparently without any issues.

>>18643237
I agree. I mean, how can you honestly deny that Touhou lore isn't inconsistent? It's been a meme since 2008.

Oh, wait. You were probably talking about me.

>>18643251
You backpedaled pretty fast. Well, since you're here only to shit up the thread have a cute Yukari.

>>18643299
Backpedaling? I still think Yukari is a terrible monster that deserves to die. Morality is good. And Gensokyo a terrible parasitic entity. I just don't think any of that is relevant to Yukari being a good mother.

>>18643299
That's a very cute Yuukarin.

D

>>18643407
P

>>18643407
Looks larger than D, anon.

>>18643251
Eh, I can see some youkai making good or decent mothers. Byakuren, Satori, and Keine wouldn't be that bad either. But the issue that you would be the gensokyo equivalent of a feral child still remains; literally a youkai trapped in a human body because your only frame of reference was a youkai's point of view.

>>18643417
Yukari is not P-cup like Eirin!

>>18643428
Yes, she's probably Y-cup.

>>18643428
Yukari can be as big as she wants to be!

>>18643453
Something like the borders between brassiere sizes is nothing for Yukarin-sama.
H

>>18538736

>>18643407
>>18643417
I want to DP Yukari with the rest of /jp/!

>>18643619
You will just end up with another anons cocks filling your own holes

>>18643632
He'll get dropped into a gap onto a bed of gapped /jp/ dongs.

>>18643426
I agree that some Youkai might be good mothers. (Satori would be really weird though). I think that most magicians could raise a child just fine. And Kitsune's like Ran are great mothers even in the original myths.

But your average UristMcYoukai probably wouldn't do very well. I doubt most of them even have maternal instinct. And even if the child reaches adulthood, there is still the issue that they can't fit into either Youkai or human society.

>>18643707
> And even if the child reaches adulthood, there is still the issue that they can't fit into either Youkai or human society.
It would be pretty funny/cute to have a human who lived among youkai society and constantly got bullied in a cute way
>"I-i'm a youkai at heart..!! Stop calling me a w-weak human!! I'll be strong like mommy!"
>"No..! D-don't drag me to the human village, they're stinky!!"
>"I don't want to eat rice!! I want human flesh like daddy eats!!"
>"S-stop trying to scare me!! I'm a fearless almighty youkai!!"

The bullying potential would be amazing.

>>18643437
No.
>>18643453
No!
>>18643464
No!!!

Yukari will never have bigger saggers than Eirin sama!

>>18643967
Most likely they'd just turn into a youkai, though. Hanging around them, absorbing their magic, drinking their breast milk, and of course, being fed human. If not from any of these(feeding human would surely work though) they could just study magic or find some other way to turn, of which I'm sure are many.

>>18643995
Eirin is Yukaris p-cup paizuri slave

>>18643967
Yes. Although, you should probably keep him away from the knives. Or any other sharp objects.

>>18644018
If the kids Youkai parents feed him human flesh, then he is probably going to turn before long. But i'm not sure if they actually would. Youkai might not have a problem with eating humans, but some at least do seem to think cannibalism is wrong.

Studying magic is a option. But most other ways of becoming a Youkai are... very messed up. And should be avoided if possible.

>>18644028
Yukari is Eirin's F (fat) cup paizuri slave, dude. Eirin owns her.

>>18644198
The only thing Eirin owns are too small clothes for her big fat saggers

>>18644222
Eirin's saggers are perfect and Yukari is the fat one, you are just jelly.

>>18644235
fat Yukarin is best though

All I see is a sea of Yukarin right now

>>18644263
>>18644689
Yukari got FAT!

>>18644945
Is that so?

>>18645039
She's just clearly using her powers to temporarily hide her fat there.

>>18645654
Shut up Junko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kYvGKfpOg

Reminder that Eirin has suboptimal saggers.

yukari is lines of code in a computer game

>>18647044
>yukari is lines of code in a computer game
Yes

>>18647044
No you

Thick eyebrows.

What happened here?

>>18655184
She's smearing the blood of her victims on her face. It's the only way she can maintain her eternal youth.

>>18655496
Shut up, Okina

>>18660020
Hey, Okina just relies on virgin sacrifices to maintain her youth. Like most decent proper gods.

>>18655184
She finally realized the terrible truth regarding race realism.

>>18660353
And that is?

>>18538736
Eldritch Abomination

>>18538736
looks like a Kirby game final boss
he could kick her ass for sure tho

>>18666895
Well yeah obviously, Kirby lore has mindboggling powerlevels, and Kirby is far and beyond the rest featured in his universe.

>>18665972
Explain

Fellow Yukarifags, should I buy this?

>>18667183
Yes.

>>18666904
He's not omnipotent though.

Yukari can "in theory" remove the ability and power of anything else.

This is now a butthurt powerlevel-canon discussion thread.

>>18668261
Eh. Im sure Kirby would pull some kind of endgame star rod eque item out of his ass, and then proceed to utterly woop Yukari. It's what he does. If Kirby existed in the lovecraft universe, the situation would be resolved in mere minutes.

>>18667183
Definitely

>>18671698
>If Kirby existed in the lovecraft universe, the situation would be resolved in mere minutes.
Are you fucking kidding me?

Stop bickering.

>>18676066
Kirby fucks up eldritch gods and monsters on a daily basis. He's like their natural predator.

>>18668261
Kirby has beat up the sun, the moon, and a planet that could grant wishes. Yukari is small time and could not even beat the moon.

>>18678532
>>18678562
He's what?

>>18668261
No she can't. Yukari has limits and can't manipulate abstract stuff like you described. So no, she really can't pull Demonbane from her sukima and other similar shit you read abour her.

Reminder that Yukari is already friends with Kirby and if anything Kirby would fight for her rather than against her.

>>18680112
Kirby is pretty easy to befriend. And i could see Yukari manipulate Kirby into fighting something eldritch threatening Gensokyo.

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>>18683273

what the fuck just happened?

>>18683367
Some dumb spammer appeared.