/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>24147631
Yes, I Imagine being a cute girl living in Gensokyo all the time.

I sometimes fantasize about being a youkai hunter in Gensokyo. Not an exterminator, just a recreational hunter who likes to test his ability and practices "catch and release." That is, I catch cute youkai girls and release my semen inside them.

>>24147631
You know the humans live in terror and you will shortly be captured by a cute loli youkai, raped for her pleasure, and then eaten, down to the marrow in your bones.

You know that, right?

>>24149941
But female on male rape isn't possible.

>>24149961
It is when she doesn’t care about your pleasure and hurts you badly enough during you beg her to stop.

>>24149941
>You know the humans live in terror and you will shortly be captured by a cute loli youkai, raped for her pleasure, and the
I did say ''I believe I imagined every sort of scenario'' for a reason

>>24147631
Not really, for a fantasy setting Gensokyo is one of the worse ones to live in if you aren't pretty powerful from the get go.

>>24149997
> she doesn’t care about your pleasure and hurts you badly enough during you beg her to sto
But she still wouldn't be able to have sex with me if I'm not hard... oh wait, right.

>>24150184
penis is built to get hard when rubbed, not when you're horny or even conscious.

My life is not bad but I still want to live in Gensokyo

If you're imagining a light and fluffy Gensokyo filled with cute superpowered girls who use their abilities to fuck around and have fun, there's no reason to not want to live there yourself, even considering the lack of technology and the fact that you probably would have to become a girl yourself to get in.

If you're imagining a rough Gensokyo where ordinary humans get eaten for the crime of straying outside the village, the only reason to want it is if you have a deathwish or genuinely hate the modern world. But if you're in one of those groups, it's a good choice.

>>24152515
Okay so... which of our beloved Gensokyo characters regularly eat humans? Let's be honest.

Lucid dream

I honestly don't fantasize about the specifics of living in Gensokyo that much, because I believe I'll go there in the afterlife, so might as well just wait instead of fantasizing and focus on other things. I do imagine brief snippets, but never full-on immersive fantasies. Praying to my favorite 2hus is enough for me.

I want to be a cute, little frilly-dress-wearing youkai, mess with Reimu everyday, drink tea with other 2hus, hold hands with them and sleep on my pre-industrial home, while watching the stars and laughing at this world's suckers.

>>24153795
I'd say a vast majority of them do. Youkai generally eat humans with very few exceptions (being those that regularly work with humans such as Keine). Hell you could probably find a swarm of fairies picking apart a corpse like vultures.
>>24152515
What you're describing isn't two Gensokyos, but rather Gensokyo from different points of view. Gensokyo is described as having the human village where villagers who even try to get to the shrine are likely to die along the way.
You don't see the bad side of this society though if you have power like those "cute superpowered girls" you mentioned. Their lives are incredible where they do whatever they want and just have fun all day. Humans can participate in that, but you must either have innate ability (Reimu) or rigorously work to increase your own power (Marisa, but one could argue that the power she's gaining in order to compete is making her less of a human)

Basically humans have it pretty rough but you can still appreciate the world for what it is through the window even if you can't participate yourself. People are at least more friendly and the world seems more beautiful and vibrant in Gensokyo than on the outside world. There's no real fear of violent crimes, unemployment, politics, or other crises as long as you stay in your place which is an upside.
Youkai have it fucking made though >>24162180 has the right idea.

>>24147631
Why would I want to live there knowing how dangerous it is for an average human?

>>24171444
If you even try, as a human, to gain power then Reimu will kill you in cold blood. Which makes sense, Gensokyo is a retirement home for youkai, it does not exist for the benefit of its human residents and is actively harmed by human residents damaging the local youkai. I imagine ending up in gensokyo as a human is a punishment for evil deeds.

>>24147631
I think about dying.

The fact these threads went from "I wonder what adventures could happen in Gensokyo" into general grim faggotory shows how much /jp/ reclined. I wonder where all the old posters left.

>>24172655
It's not our fault that Zun wrote "the comic".

I want to impregnate every womb in Gensokyo and consume the souls of every single fool who wants to do the same.

>>24172655
I'm not being grim. Gensokyo sounds fantastic and it'd be a dream come true if I got to go there.
I'm just saying that humans probably won't get to hang out with their favorite Touhou buddies unless your favorites are someone like Akyuu or Kosuzu.

Don't worry, you'll still probably get to see Touhous flying around and having fun battles while you're tilling the fields.

>>24173038
It's more fun to work the farms in a nice village than deal with the stresses of this world right? Gensokyo's still an upgrade, just don't expect to be allowed to climb Youkai mountain.

>>24147631
I would almost like to live there. The problem is no internet.

>>24173086
oh, and the threat of murder

>>24173069
>It's more fun to work the farms in a nice village than deal with the stresses of this world right?
You can get started right now! It won't be gensokyo but it'll still be farming a village. Godspeed, good Anon. Godspeed.

>>24172655
It’s just getting ripped apart doesn’t sound fun.

>>24172805
>>24173038
Discussing "canon" was never point of these threads. It was "what would actually happen if" scenarios and other secondary stuff. I wonder if constant rejecting of doujin culture is one of the main reasons why Touhou reclined so hard in the west.

>>24174520
I'm not discussing canon, I'm stating the canon. To answer your question of "what would actually happen" it is that:

IF YOU ARE A HUMAN AND YOU LEAVE THE VILLAGE YOU DIE.
That's all there is to it. That's what happens if you want to live in Gensokyo.

>>24174977
>IF YOU ARE A HUMAN AND YOU LEAVE THE VILLAGE YOU DIE.
If I prove you completely wrong, will you eat your socks?

>>24174993
How are you going to prove it?
Tell you what. If you go to Gensokyo, cover yourself in steak sauce, and run to the top of Youkai Mountain and back maybe then I'll believe you.

>>24174977
Your only hope is gaining the patronage of Remilia. Remilia canonically has the power of manipulating fate, and according to Akyuu, this allows transforming humans into half-youkai. She also has high enough power level that Reimu will likely rationalize this as part of the natural order and not immediately murder you like she murdered Fortune Teller. Remilia is of course incredibly dangerous and capricious, but she is also polite, and if you are respectful and entertaining it's possible she won't have Sakuya murder you for food.

>>24175038
>How are you going to prove it?
It only takes a single example of a human leaving the village and not dying.

>>24149257
Based

>>24177609
on what?

>>24147631
I think all people do imagine stuff they don't have. It's a form of escapism which allows people to maintain their sanity or helps them relief stress of IRL. Continuing the question, I do. I often fantasize living in Gensokyo or fantasy land in general. I have very limited imagination, so the best I could think is living in a relatively safe place an interacting with its native. Sometimes I wanted to know how the natives deal with all the weird stuff happening around. Sure, they have those strong enuff to protect the world but, you know...they're uh...

>>24171654

>>24175289
I've never thought about it from this angle specifically, but Remi's patronage and protection (probably in exchange for my undying loyalty, which I'd be more than happy to give) was always my personal plan if I wound up in Gensokyo somehow. So I like the sound of this.

And even if it fails, being exquisitely prepared vampire food beats getting eaten whole by certain other youkai.

>>24175038
There's literally a lift that will take him up to the top of the mountain to Sanae's shrine and back that's assisted by the kappa and tengu.

>>24183064
I know but that's cheating. I said run to the top not take a leisurely ride to the top

>>24147631
I was going to ask you how stupid you are but then I saw the rest of your asinine post.

>>24175038
>steak sauce
Overrated.

>>24177643
facts and logic

>>24147631
Every single day of my life

>>24174520
I'm going to be honest I prefer discussing canon over endless yurispam.

>>24184184
A /jp/sie would die running to the top of a mountain in and of itself.

>>24171654
>If you even try, as a human, to gain power then Reimu will kill you in cold blood.
I thought that was only for residents of the human village. If you didn't reside in the human village you could gain all the power you wanted.

>>24190418
Oh no, now you exposed him.

How edgy is Gensenkyo though? I know there's a "canon" manga about a human in a village getting killed by Reimu after doing a bunch of stuff to turn into a Youkai

>>24190418
Yes, and to get extra powerful you should cover yourself in Bearnaise sauce and take a hot bath in a pot ladding parsley and sage over your body when living as a human in Gensekyo outside of the village.

>a human from the human village who turns into a Youkai is "the greatest sin there is."

Is this because of the sheer effort involved to get youkai to obey and not circumvent a rule to leave the human village alone? Some tragic history that makes doing what the guy did an incredible slap in the face? Or is it some simply sort of might makes right "You were never meant to obtain the power of a Youkai if you were so weak as to need the protection of the village."

>>24149941
I prefer to combine both.
Basicly, every time a character talks about eating or devouring someone it is actually an eufemism for sex and rape.

>>24192048
That guy got killed because he touched Kosuzu and talked shit to Reimu. Reimu was even going to kill Yukari for messing with Kosuzu until Yukari shitposted her into submission.

>>24149941
>You know that, right?
Most Touhou fans either do not or don't care and just ignore any lore they dislike.

>>24147631
No. Nor would anybody that actually knows any Touhou lore. Even if you think Gensokyo is a fun place to live as a powerless human, it's not, most outsiders are killed and eaten. This has basically been a part of Touhou lore since PCB.

>>24153795
Mystia. Rumia. Patchouli (Although there is a very good chance that was a joke) Remilia and Flandre, Chen, Yukari, Mystia, Yamane, and probably a few others I forgot about all mention, or are mentioned, as attacking or eating humans.

>>24171444
>Id say a vast majority of them do.
I disagree with that. A lot of Youkai don't eat humans even in the original myths. And in the lore, it's pretty explicitly mentioned that some characters do not. Fairies for instance are pranksters that might sometimes kill somebody by accident, but don't eat people. You also have Youkai like Yuuka or Medicine that are VERY dangerous, but for completely different reasons.

>There's no real fear of violent crimes, unemployment, politics, or other crises as long as you stay in your place which is an upside.
That's also not completely true. Poverty is shown as being a thing, which means poverty and violent crimes are most likely as well. Especially considering the human village is basically a anarchy without any real police force expect simple mob justice and expulsion basically being a death sentence.

As for politics, Youkai constantly mess with the lives of human villagers for the sake of political gains. This is shown pretty clearly in some of the spin off manga. Obviously, I doubt your average farmer has much to worry about. But if you are doing anything of even remote note, like working as a merchant, you can expect youkai to meddle with your lives constantly.

>>24171654
>I imagine ending up in gensokyo as a human is a punishment for evil deeds.
As a outsider? No, Yukari just abducts people that are easily missed or suicidal. Which can just as easily include innocent but isolated people.

Could see the Yama sending somebody to Gensokyo as a punishment though.

>>24173069
>It's more fun to work the farms in a nice village than deal with the stresses of this world right?
Not really. Pre industrial farmer life is not fun, even without the fear of warfare and natural disasters. If you just want to have a peaceful country life, you can do that right now. Hell, you could even move to Japan and start living in one of the many, MANY half abandoned villages.

>>24174520
> I wonder if constant rejecting of doujin culture is one of the main reasons why Touhou reclined so hard in the west.
If "Doujin culture" means "Not giving a fuck about Canon and basically just making stuff up", then i'm happy people are rejecting it.

>>24175289
Remilia only shows mercy to natives though because she isn't allowed to eat them. If a random outsider stumbled across her mansion, she would almost certainly have Sakuya dispose of him.

If you do move to the Human Village then you might be able to contact Remilia, since she does apparently sometimes invite people to parties. You can just go about forget having any contact with normal humans though if you get cozy with her. The only reason villagers won't burn you alive is because doing so would piss her off.

>>24190418
>I thought that was only for residents of the human village.
It probably does. Good luck living outside the human village though. Marisa managed, but she probably had help in the form of a villager.

>>24192257
No, it's for the same reason why India used to have a oppressive caste system. If you give the underclass of Gensokyo a chance to improve their lot, then they might actually do that and upset the natural order.

Reimu only enforces this because she's too stupid to question anything that is told her. While the previous Hakurei Shrine Maidens were almost massive sociopaths that did everything in their power to keep their position.

>>24190024
Same. If you just want mindless yurispam, just go visit Magica Record threads or something.

>>24192084
>>24200937
What could be done to increase our odds of survival?

lol, another thread hijacked by Milo

I used to fantasize I was a human pilot in Star Fox.

There was intergalactic travel, and we were growing up friends in High School. Barbecues at Miyu's place, street racing hoverbikes with Falco. Then Venom attacks and we all join up with the defense, story progresses as canon. Then years later we're all vets and going out for drinks, pretty much like it was a second life.

>>24200717
>and just ignore any lore they dislike
how ironic, sounds exactly just like you when people point out that Touhou isn't massive grimderp festival as you're making out to be
>>24200895
doujin culture means " I gave you tools, now create", ZUN is fully supporting it and encourage it because that's how he ended up with the most creative fanbase in the world

>>24172655
i'm an actual old poster and i just come to 4chan once every 6 months and leave. i don't know what you expect. it gets old.

>>24172655
A lot of people simply moved on from the idea. A select few left for Gensokyo. I used to want to go to Gensokyo every day, because Gensokyo was both beautiful and terrible, a place that accepted everything, a place where children smiled, a refuge from the relentless grind of a spiritless modern society. I figured if I went to Gensokyo I would be happy. But somewhere along the way I couldn't imagine the fantasy anymore. It happens.

Don't ask what happened to the old posters. Ask what happened to the new posters.

>>24147631
Not like I never have escapist fantasies but I would not close Gensokyo.

>>24203253
Befriend Reimu. She's basically the bitch queen of Gensokyo. Hell, if you could marry her you would basically be able to get away with anything.

>>24203467
>how ironic, sounds exactly just like you when people point out that Touhou isn't massive grimderp festival as you're making out to be
Touhou isn't grimdark just because Gensokyo is shit for normal humans. If you think it is, then that's kind of on you.

>doujin culture means " I gave you tools, now create",
That's fine if you actually use the tools: Aka, the actual canon story and world.

>>24203953
>But somewhere along the way I couldn't imagine the fantasy anymore.
It's called growing up. Only man children want to go to Gensokyo.

>>24203373
Are you a furry?

i'd rather stay here

>>24205750
Where do you think you are?

If you wanted to gain power, couldn't you get patronage from the Moriya Shrine quite easily ?

You just need to know/learn basic electronics and mechanics before going. Keep making big displays of technology in the center of the village until the wind gods hear about it. You may become an engineer inhabited by a minor god or something.

That or you are seen as an incident and you get pichuun'd by Reimu for showing off with a steam engine.

>>24147631
i wanna be a NEET together with kaguya-sama!!

>>24147631
I have had fantasized about starting a youkai harem and filling as many youkai wombs with my seed as possible. Realistically though i am a kickboxer that actively trains and i also have years of karate experience, though my gut tells me that fairy's likely would already be the death of me if i would just go full pugilist.

>>24238605
Idd also be content with just participating in fun drinking parties and living in human village though.
I also want to be bullied by Yuugi.

Am not cringe

>>24205750
I don't know you'd have to be pretty manly to go to Gensenkyo. Like some kind of chad youkai specialist who can be prepared to deal with all the bullshit youkai rules to survive. Supernatural characters are always bullshit, but youkai especially so. Like that one youkai where if you do one thing she kills you, and if you do the right thing she "just" severely mauls you.

Now sure, hentai doujin Gensekyo, that's weenie hut junior if you're a fat faceless rapist with a hollow coin and a string.

I fantasize about being a youkai's servant, I know someone who's probably going straight to gensokyo when they die, and so long as I keep being their servant I'll end up there with her. I've been doing this for years.

>>24233911
>If you wanted to gain power, couldn't you get patronage from the Moriya Shrine quite easily ?
No. The only person that would actually get power form the Moriya gods would be the Shrine Maiden. And they already have one of those.

>You just need to know/learn basic electronics and mechanics before going. Keep making big displays of technology in the center of the village until the wind gods hear about it. You may become an engineer inhabited by a minor god or something.
That would get you killed by the youkai secret police or Reimu.

>>24251543
99% of people that want to go to Gensokyo think it's the hentai doujin version.

>>24147631

>>24238605
Most youkai have superhuman strength
They'd be pleased at seeing a proper warrior, but still suplex you without much effort
Male tengu are the next best thing to Space Marines

>>24257379
Therefore allowing hentai doujin touhous to potentially pass into fantasy some day...

>>24257369
>No. The only person that would actually get power form the Moriya gods would be the Shrine Maiden. And they already have one of those.
You might not get actual supernatural power from doing this but you might be able to be employed along with the kappa as technic staff to build whatever the Moriya fancy this time.
You don't get to fly with the other magical lolis but it's still better than being a peasant in Human Village. Working directly for the Moriya Shrine also means that you enjoy some degree of protection from the civilized youkai as they don't want to piss the gods off.

>That would get you killed by the youkai secret police or Reimu.
To not get killed by Reimu, do the display only once, with something big and choose the day right. The Moriya will take you into custody before she acts because she is usually somewhat slow.
The hard part is gathering materials and the youkai spies. Don't allow any suspicious shit that could be linked to youkai to enter you house, unless you want to be spied by Zashiki-Warashi or the like.
You probably can't go to Kourindo without being eaten or noticed by youkai, so you will have to keep things simple. Build some kind of wood-and-water calculator or something.

But yeah this is probably harder than I thought it was.
You're better off showing off any musical talent you might have or introducing capitalism in the Human Village.

>>24147631
Your story hits close to home, anon. When I was younger I would fantasize that I would wake up under some tree near Hakurei Shrine and Reimu would find me and let me stay with her

>>24147631
What I want to do is find Rumia, get her to try to eat me, and then when she blinds herself and knocks herself out by rubbing into a tree, take her home, give her some yummy soup (lots of meat chunks of course) and then make sweet love to her. I’d probably still die, though.

Since this is the edgehu thread.

A youkai can be a beast, a demon, a god, a magician, pretty much anything with great power is considered a youkai in Gensokyo. Someone with great power that kills and battles other beings of great power is probably a youkai, especially if their reasons for killing are less than justified sometimes. Patchouli who was just a human mage is considered a youkai. Is Reimu technically a youkai at this point? She fits all the definitions save for one, she is the head honcho in those parts and has no one to challenge her title. Does youkai just mean "people reimu doesnt like"?

How much influence would your meta-knowledge grant you?
Realistically, it should be impossible for an outsider coming in to already know how so much about how Gensokyo works, detailed history of incidents, and the names and faces of several people. You could probably convince Reimu that you aren't just an ordinary human by simply being correct about many things.

>>24291340
Technically speaking, you could probably go a lot further if you try a more risky play.
Don't go to Reimu immediately, instead go to the human village and start spouting off your information. Your goal is to either get the humans to fear you or be impressed by you. If you do that enough, you may start to become a god or youkai of surveillance or all-knowing

>>24290025
Isn't it about rejecting your humanity what turns you into a youkai?
Also as far as I know, it has never been stated that Patchouli was once a human, they treat 'Witch' as a race.

>>24291459
That's so ballsy, I love it.
If that amount of belief gets you started on the path toward godhood, no need to spout secret meta-knowlegde that is sure to piss off someone. You could probably woo the villagers with a modern world skill that you might have : hypnotism, art, maths, physics, ...

>>24271141
They would if Touhou hentai doujins and Gensokyo existed in the same universe.

>>24271436
>You might not get actual supernatural power from doing this but you might be able to be employed along with the kappa as technic staff to build whatever the Moriya fancy this time.
That would require you to have a a above average grasp of electronics already. And there is a decent chance Yukari just won't abduct you, or at least make damn sure you won't reach the human village alive, if you do.

>You're better off showing off any musical talent you might have or introducing capitalism in the Human Village.
Musical talents are more useful outside Gensokyo. And trying to introduce capitalism is definitely going to get you killed.

>>24291340
>How much influence would your meta-knowledge grant you?
That would mostly depend on how normal it is. If you are the only human villager to ever have that level of meta knowledge, then it might earn you a small advantage.

>>24295030
>You could probably woo the villagers with a modern world skill that you might have : hypnotism, art, maths, physics, .
You aren't the first outsider to reach the village though. They might like outsiders quite a bit, but they aren't that easily fooled into thinking you are a god.

sorry op nobody ever thought of wanting to live in mystical fairyland with cute girls instead of our world

>>24291617
Alice is considered a youkai simply because she used a magic that allows her to go without eating real food. If just not needing to eat counts as rejecting your humanity, then there's no fucking way that Fantasy Nature doesn't count as rejecting your humanity.

>>24296278
From Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, in the 外来人 chapter (around page 223), it is said that the outsiders have entered Gensokyo many times before, and they have superior knowledge/tech to the human in Gensokyo. They sometimes also bring unknown tools (phone etc). Sometimes, they bring in new trend/fashion to the human village and youkai alike. Most outsiders, if did not land in the human village, would be eaten by youkai after the youkai gets bored. If landed in the village, they would be deported by Reimu back to the outside world. (Hence I guess how the Gensokyo = Dream came about). It is said that a few chooses to remain in Gensokyo, and they all have "special knowledge" that is a treasure to the locals. It is also noted that soccer was brought to Gensokyo by outsiders.
Therefore, you would want to convince Reimu to not deport you, and also have special knowledge in order to be respected.

>>24303244
You would earn their respect pretty easily if you have a basic knowledge of science, sure. But you can just about forget about becoming a god. You're still going to have to work to make something of your life.

Also, Symposium of Post-mysticism says this when talking about Sanae:
>However, examples of humans like her who come in to Gensokyo by their own will and settle down are rare. Upon that, she is a human being that is adjusting to Gensokyo.
Which seems to indicate that most people that decide to stay in Gensokyo end up miserable.

never

You know I never really have. Maybe I should start.

>>24147631
Yes, my plan would be to learn magic as fast as possible so i can live somewhere else without dying then fuck off so i can become a youkai eventually without breaking the rules.
also have tea on the shrine after incidents

If that fails i'm just going to hecatia's hell.

>>24238605
You can easily punch fairies they are weak physically, maybe also rumia simply because she has no idea how to fight.

>>24311496
I think what this means is that the majority dont want to live in what is essentially 17th century japan, so people just fuck off if they can and people that stay just cant take the old way of living plus teh insanity of the world.

>>24324442
Exactly. Staying in Gensokyo is a bad idea and you would grow to regret it.

>>24324404
>my plan would be to learn magic as fast as possible
How? Marisa had Mima at least.

>>24147631
Dumb question anon. On here who hasn't?

I actually wrote 2 chapters of a Touhou Isekai fandic years ago.

Christ...

>>24327224
Ask any idiot or marisa, if that dont work try byakuren if that dont work then try to learn alone.
>>24327208
For the majority, yes, i would be fine.
>>24333324
post it.

>>24333390
>Ask any idiot or marisa
Any idiot is not going to teach you magic. Marisa won't either, considering the way she is.

>Byakuren.
I mean, you could join the Buddhist temple and try to get some magic spells from her. But do realize that there will be consequences if you use them for selfish ends

>For the majority, yes, i would be fine.
You think that because?

>>24327224
You either retvrn and Daoist max to become 天人 or 仙. Or, For the magic approach, I suppose you would first want to study theoretical mathematics 18 hours. If you think about it, Renko is a theoretical physics student studying the grand unified theory. Furthermore, although laws of natural science no longer holds in Gensokyo, but disregarding the fantasy elements, what knowledge is remains the same. Therefore, logic/mathematics are still very valuable, given they studies or shows the relation/structure between symbolic objects instead of objects in the world. Finally, when you do danmaku battles, there are at least 3 spatial dimensions to account for, and more dimensions are possible depending on the spellcard. Therefore, it can be reasonably assumed that these kind of "senses" are natural to beings in Gensokyo. Even Cirno is capable of laying out the trajectory of many objects at least in 3 dimensional space, and process all the information needed to control temperature at the same time. Since you are only human, you lack this attribute by nature, therefore you must make it up by rigorous study of mathematics. Once you have achieved a good level of mathematics, you can perhaps try to somehow show you ability to one of the magicians. At this point, given your mathematics/logics skill, you basically just need a set of starting points of magic so your theoretical knowledge can touch the reality. Or, if you are really talented, perhaps you can figure out these starting points via induction through observation of Marisa's doll performance etc. Finally, you could come up with a grand theory that unifies all of the powers of Touhou characters. Then, you could probably become a god.

>>24341030
*Alice's doll performance

>>24147631
Fantasize, no, but I had a... I won't call it a nightmare. It felt too real to be a dream, and there was too much shit that was unknown to me before this- or that I didn’t know I knew.

>fucking around with full kit on one day in the backyard to get used to how the new plate carrier felt
>rifle, mags, spare batteries, powerbank for phone, bugout ruck loaded with the usual stuff
>take a step backwards, trip on something
>fall
>don’t hit ground
>see the clouds of the LA desert disappear, air goes cold and dank, it’s dark except for red eyes staring from the black
>by the time I can get my sight lined up on one the wind gets knocked out of me by hitting the ground
>clouds
>but the air’s heavy and humid and cicadas are chirping
>what the fuck, where am I-
>see the remnants of two red bows and a mirage-like ‘line’ above where I was
>like a gap in reality
>a gap

I have had a knife pulled on me, I have been approached by a mountain lion, I have heard bullets go past my head, but that realization was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever experienced.

>immediately bolt for the nearest clearing
>bushes rustle
>see ball of darkness
>brain and safety: off

Fun fact; class IV plates stop danmaku but it still hurts. And youkai do not like bullets.

>rip six rounds into the ball, which promptly makes a disturbing half-scream, half-gurgle, and hightail it
>manage to find a small house in the forest
>something flies at me, too fried at this point
>see the small thing
>dot on target
>*bang*
>it suddenly explodes like a grenade
>brain puts two and two together
>apologize loudly
>after a very tense five minutes of staring down a crowd of small, adorable dolls with not-so-cute, very sharp objects, they suddenly go away and a blonde stands on the porch
>very very very carefully approach, be point-blank in my situation
>she looks disgruntled but in exchange for feeding me, “I’m not sure what outsiders use for currency. Something interesting.”
>decided three rounds from my rifle would be suitable
>TL;DR of the next hour is that she’s very pretty, smells nice, has a Romanian accent, and “given it was Yukari that pulled you in, I wish you all the best.”
>gave me a loaf of bread, some butter and a map before shooing me out before ‘that maniac’ comes barging in again
>deciding that it’s best to avoid Marisa, waved and took off
>spent the next day desperately wishing I just refused to leave and ended up her butler or something instead because holy shit fuck gensokyo fuck that place
>ended up getting lost on the way to human village
Cont.

>>24342074
>ended up in that bamboo forest
>got predictably lost
>white-haired lady with a basket of bamboo shoots just stared at me before gesturing for me to follow her
>she seems friendly, okay
>followed her thru the bamboo
>eventually end up at the human village
>she takes one looks at me, sighs and gestures for me to stop before talking to a couple of older men
>can barely hear her and my Japanese is terrible, barely able to figure any of it out
>TL;DR they’re asking things like “can he stay here? Does he know how to speak our language?”
>she makes a joke about ‘oni-san is fine, besides you could use someone his size around for work, can’t you?’
>oni-san
>this does not go over well with the local humans
>end up fleeing back into the forest
>after a few hours looping around, end up at her home
>it’s actually quite nice, big enough for a family but it’s just her, seems like
>manage to use google translate to talk with her
>pretty up-front about the situation
>she starts laughing at it before realizing that no, I’m serious
>”Help me do my work and you can stay here until you leave or die.”
>I quite like farm/agricultural work and she seems nice, so I don’t mind
>turns into a few months of gradually learning her tongue ‘properly’, to the point where my brain just interprets it in English
>quickly learn not to question why I wake up to her in bloody clothes half the time after a very very long, punch-drunk tirade about “that bitch ruined my family” before she regains her composure
>eventually just stop wearing my armor, just sling my rifle and jam a magazine in my pocket before the work-day
>all in all, very comfy life
>make it a point to take up whatever I can to make her life easier as repayment for letting me live with her
>at some point, Fujiwara took to calling me ‘wanderer’, and scratched the kanji for it into my rifle stock

>>24342585
>see someone in forest while I’m working on the fifth shoot of the morning
>it’s another human
>wave
>see sword blade
>he’s convinced I’m actually an oni
>he stabs me, I shoot him
>get dragged back home, bleeding stops
>keep fading in and out of consciousness
>feel like rat-shit, catch glimpses of a white braid in the same room
>notice a knife changing hands
>panic internally, too weak to really do anything
>slowly come to at some indeterminate point to those red eyes staring at me
>”Would you rather live forever or die peacefully?”
>answer truthfully
>pass out again
>have a vague recollection of being made to eat something that tasted like the foulest, most toxin-laden meat I’ve ever eaten
>wake up a few days later
>it’s raining
>there’s a knife on the floor and the remnants of bloodstains
>mouth tastes like multivitamins and blood
>but I’m fine
>clothes are a fuck
>wander around outside for a while, happy to just feel the rain
>meander back to the house
>cigarette hanging halfway out of her mouth
>she ends up hugging me
>have no idea what to do
>start crying
>all I could think to do was stand there and return the gesture
>had a few days of being much “closer” with her, nothing romantic but she was much more open with me now
>realized what she meant by that question she asked
>thisisfine.png
>get my shit together, decide to go for a walk
>No longer human, so may as well see what this forest is like through new eyes
>First day of eternity-
>start falling
>crash-land in my backyard
>decide I missed my mattress, stick my gun in the safe, leave my ruck and carrier in the hallway and go to bed
>wake up IRL
>freak the fuck out
>grab rifle out of safe
>there’s no kanji scratched in the stock, as expected
>still depressed for days over it

I'm not gonna lie, the biggest reason I started crying when I saw that was just- I felt wanted.

Most of my life has been spent being 'second best', being what's settled for rather than what's wanted.

So feeling her hug me like that, even though I thought her ribs were going to crack under the pressure- that...

Nobody's ever hugged me like that before. Not even the woman I was going to marry.

She wasn't the most talkative woman, but her words were often rich and as such, not much needed to be said- rather than one of those folk that can fill a room with rambling and have nothing of value.

Her manner of speaking was equal parts old lady and college student. Prone to making dry jokes, usually for her own amusement.

She always stuck kombu in the rice pot to soak with it. It made a difference- I'm not sure it justifies the cost to me, but it was definitely a good thing. I've taken to doing it for my rice in the morning.

>>24342718
That sounds so incredible, yet also so tragic. You say you perceived you being in a life for months and that all went away in an instant. You were prepared for an unending life and it was all ripped away from you just like that.

You had the chance to be someone important in a world of excitement. I don't know what it is about Gensokyo that makes it seem so appealing to many when compared to this world. Personally I believe that our world seems vibrant on the outside, but is ultimately cold and unfulfilling when you get down to it, while Gensokyo is somewhat frightening on the outside, but is truthfully welcoming and beautiful. Whatever the case, Gensokyo must be truly significant if it is what's caused the many other anons in this thread to consider risking death all for the sake of an opportunity to truly live.

At the back of my mind, I always have a hope that one day I'll get gapped to Gensokyo. An unusual way of thinking, I know, but at this point that's what gets me through my days. If not that, then maybe we'll all have better luck with what comes next after our current lives end.

>>24181761
>And even if it fails, being exquisitely prepared vampire food beats getting eaten whole by certain other youkai.
This. Sakuya killing you would be quick and painless. I doubt you would even feel anything.

Meanwhile, most youkai would either cook or eat you alive.

>>24341030
Touhou magic legitimately doesn't seem to work that way though. If it's based upon anything, it's faith and believe. Even Marisa's magic only works because people ascribe magical properties to mushrooms.

>>24147631
I would definitely get killed or devoured or worse.

>>24337306
I dont mind living in old japan, i can work the earth and shit already.

>>24147631
What I'm wondering is will there ever be cosmology of kyoto but touhou?

>>24341030
This isnt the nasuverse, not all 2hu magic is that complicated or needs god level math to do, spellscards seems to be at least partially imagination based at least the patterns.
I honestly wonder how far you can get magic wise by just reading alone, maybe ask marisa for some beginner books

>>24344155
Thats was deep, wish you luck and im sorry for your loss.
Also have you tried to die recently to see if you really drank the elixir?
What happened to you reminds me of maribel dream visits.
Very interesting, if it happens again please let me know.

>>24342718
Thats was deep,i wish you luck and im sorry for your loss. I wish i could hug you.
Also have you tried to die recently to see if you really drank the elixir?
What happened to you reminds me of maribel dream visits.
Very interesting, if it happens again please let me know.

>>24342718
Hows your ammo stockpile

for ease of keeping track

>>24344155
that's the thing though

I wasn't important. I mean, I seem to have been to her. But it was actually a fairly comfy life. Not... exciting. At least not after I settled in. before that was fucking terrifying.

I'm fairly content with this world, all in all... I justh ave problems with people.

>>24347109
I've had a couple short ones but they weren't anything like that.

>passing a cigarette back and forth on top of a small hill overlooking the forest

stuff like that

>>24348310
Unmarred. Not a single round misplaced.

>>24350978
>But it was actually a fairly comfy life. Not... exciting.
There's actually nothing wrong with this. Settling into your chosen part of the world, enjoying a low-stress life with the characters there, and occasional visiting/being visited by others. Excitement brings no real value to that.

>>24337306
>I mean, you could join the Buddhist temple and try to get some magic spells from her. But do realize that there will be consequences if you use them for selfish ends
Yeah for wicked tricks with no consequences, Seiga (or any magician, really) would be a better teacher.
Most religious magic would require you to become saint-tier for that specific religion and at that point you probably woulnd't care anymore about the lowly reasons you wanted cool magic for starters.

>>24350978
>passing a cigarette back and forth on top of a small hill overlooking the forest
With mokou? Thats a very deep connection, how cute.
Also, a comfy calm life only mean that you and her where fine with each other.
I envy you for this connection but also feel sad for you not being with her.
Ah, how i wish i could have some dream like this, something longer than the short one i had with patchy.

I hope one day our beliefs give us some return.

I wonder if some day my dream will be realized, if all this belief and desire will be for something.
I can only hope and pray, that i will be able to hold my beloved, in dream or in reality.
~

>>24342718
I've seen stories like this, where someone hits their head or gets punched and while they're down, they experience a whole lifetime. One particularly well known one involved a dude getting concussed and experiencing decades and decades of life, getting married, having kids, the works. His mind broke him out of it when he noticed a lamp 'looked wrong' one day, like it didn't fit in euclidean space. He said that when he woke up in reality he experienced severe depression because he'd essentially had his own family ripped away from him.
The human brain is capable of a lot, and not always for the best. It's tough to really put into words what sort of feelings you can get for something that might not be real, but know that your feelings were real. You may not have actually been to Gensokyo, but for you, what you experienced was real.

>>24352574
Or maybe he really has gone to gensokyo, honestly science cant prove or disprove either.

This thread is making me really depressed in an abstract, existential way.

>>24147631
Who are you quoting?

>>24350978
>>24352574
Consider this compadre
It would be rather shameful if you returned to her without more knowledge and experiences to share with her
So you better hit the books
Gym too, so you don't get stabbed again

>>24354746
He probably should learn some swordfighting, bullets arent infinite.

>>24350978
You said you got better at japanese with mokou, did you notice any difference after?

>>24352574
I'm just treating it as a goal.

Not... "Go to Gensokyo, learn a language and spend my days with an immortal", I mean... that sense of just. Having some peaceful life with someone who wants me around for who I am.

>>24351078
Nothing's wrong with it at all.

>>24351960
It was... really nice. The wind was to our backs so the smoke didn't hang around us.

Fun fact, she didn't like silence. Not... "I have to be talking", but some kind of ambient noise. She hummed a lot, but usually the rustling of the bamboo from wind was enough to keep that away.

>>24354746
It was a recognition of hostile intent that caused the problem, I just thought he was some lost dude, I didn't want to hurt him. I've had my fill of suffering in this lifetime.

This world is so full of pain and hate... I'm just starting to see it head-on instead of trying to ignore it like I used to. It's a welcome change.

>>24354860
Yes, actually- only slightly, but yes.

Particularly is her name for me- which translates to 'wanderer'.

The food is the thing that jarred me, I'd never had takuan before that.

Turns out it tastes like I dreamt it did- well, kinda. I can't find the traditionally made ones, but the modern ones which taste close are close to what those tasted like.

>tfw the artist of Silent Sinner in Blue jumped to boteslut and slutGO ship and never come back
ungrateful nonce
his drawings are shitty anyway

>>24354966
>It was... really nice. The wind was to our backs so the smoke didn't hang around us.
>Fun fact, she didn't like silence. Not... "I have to be talking", but some kind of ambient noise. She hummed a lot, but usually the rustling of the bamboo from wind was enough to keep that away.
Very cute, sounds comfy as fuck.

>Yes, actually- only slightly, but yes.
>Particularly is her name for me- which translates to 'wanderer'.
>The food is the thing that jarred me, I'd never had takuan before that.
>Turns out it tastes like I dreamt it did- well, kinda. I can't find the traditionally made ones, but the modern ones which taste close are close to what those tasted like.
Well now, thats very interesting.
This gives me hope of something more interesting about this reality we live in, that something magical may exist, its too gray as it is.
Do you think about her/this experience a lot? Try to think about going back to that place again.
Honestly how you say about little dreams of going there sounds a little like how sumireko does it but with less control. Maybe its just your dream self that goes there? Very interesting.
You are a very interesting person, i wish i could meet you in person.

Also, try to learn how to dodge so you dont die to random farmers again, maybe train reaction time.

And i think i may have had a dream with clownpiece at some point, i can't remember almost anything about it, i hate my brain sometimes.
I think i was floating on the moon or something, it was very peaceful.

now this is a comfy thread
I wish I could also experience lifetimes in my dream
>>24354966
What triggered you to have that dream anon? were you playing IN the day before or what?

>>24355433
moe harukawa tried to draw an original manga and it got cancelled after like two chapters, and then there was a fate doujin (non-h, I think) under a different name that bore a suspicious similarity to her artstyle
of the major touhou manga artists, mizutaki had been doing touhou for years before getting lotus eaters, as had hirasaka, who continued doing touhou after VFiS finished.
so it seems that leaving touhou after doing an official manga is a death sentence

>>24358130
I hadn't touched IN in weeks. Hell, I hadn't thought of Touhou in as long past music. Maybe I'd listened to Immortal Smoke before going to bed, idk

>>24356649

She is cute. Not like... moe cute, I mean cute like- all the little idiosyncracies. I think it's just stuff you notice after close proximity for weeks on end. the fact that the corner of her mouth would twitch upwards from her usual neutral face when she thought of one of her jokes. Not that they were particularly good, but they were likely based in wordplay I couldn't grasp.

She likes to cut tofu into bars rather than cubes in miso soup, "they're easier to grab".

Once she figured "I was cold" and latched onto my arm. Maybe she just couldn't admit whatever woke her up scared her.

I think about it a lot. Like... every day. Some days I wish to go back, some I almost wish she could come here and see the outside world. Though it'd be culture and climate shock, given I live in the desert.

Plus maybe a pyromancer in a dry environment is less than a good idea.

someone posted this once and all I could think about was that it was basically my ideal life

I had a nightmare about waking up one day in Gensokyo and finding myself in the middle of the Forest of Magic. Then I proceeded to crawl out while struggling to breathe and coughing and hacking because of the miasma filling my lungs while worrying about Rumia eating my face off. Then we got a bunch of human huddled in the village fearing for their lives and I'm busy wondering why the ever living fuck an Human Buddhist Monk would think youkai are an oppressed race and leading her own version of Youkai Lives Matter when they're busy slaughtering humans.

>>24359168
Reimu can open up to someone, just take a literal lifetime to become marisa-tier.
>>24359299
lol its just miasma, just dont breath lmao

>>24359016
Very cute to see that you picked so many details.
Considering that mokou is immortal and care very little about how she lives i dont think living in a desert is going to annoy her in any way.

>>24359299
The Forest is no joke and Rumia is scary as fuck. I'd rather piss Suwako off, tyvm

>>24359486
When they're your only company for months you learn things about them.

She smells like fire, vaguely. Not like... smoke. But fire.

Fire and plum blossoms. Fitting for a woman like her.

>>24359668
Interesting, never smelled plum blossoms.

>>24359692
They're a nice smell... Like if someone was eating a plum next to you while you had your face in a bundle of flowers. Not much 'plum' to it.

>>24359791
How did she look physically
The great debate must conclude

>>24360117
Fairly "normal", all in all. Not very busty but not tsurupettan.

She's short. 155cm or so. But mostly everyone was small there.

I say her hair was white but it had a slightly bluish cast to it in certain light.

She was very visibly Japanese in facial features. Her skin was pale, almost unhealthily so.

Her eyes were red- duh, but. Like a bed of coals that threatened to ignite again with just the lightest breeze.

Really if it wasn't for the eyes and hair she'd be quite normal-looking.

She talked to herself a lot... Probably just to keep her mind moving so she didn't doze off into oblivion and autopilot a year away. She didn't ask why every day I checked my phone to see if I got signal. I was taking photos initially but I quit.

I miss her so much, man

>>24360340
You'll get back to her eventually, inevitably
She's probably been raising merry hell to get you back to her
Recall: she's immortal, Yukari isn't

>>24360340
cute

>>24360399
I wonder.

She needs to take good care of herself, though- immortality is no reason for neglect.

>>24360340
Hourglass or fridge?

>>24360561
She gave you the elixer
If that doesn't signify love, nothing does
She's not letting her future husband get away

>>24346564
That´s not much of a reason. Every rando that decides to stay in Gensokyo most likely thought the same.

>>24351907
>Yeah for wicked tricks with no consequences, Seiga (or any magician, really) would be a better teacher.
Seiga would be a good teacher if hanging out with her wasn't genuinely bad for your health.

>>24359168
Reimu won't open to a normal human though.

>>24359299
Byakuren is stuck in the past when Youkai are oppressed are being hunted down. Miko flat out calls a idiot when she claims Youkai are oppressed, and she's 100% right.

>>24360867
Hourglass.

>>24362630
you keep saying husband... there are much worse fates than marrying a hermit

>>24367829
>you keep saying husband... there are much worse fates than marrying a hermit
For you, perhaps. But for Mokou, there is nothing worse than marrying somebody that will one die perish.

>>24367732
true, I doubt she would
When your only real interactions are humans crazy enough to live outside the village or with youkai, and with youkai themselves, it undoubtedly messes up your social skills a bit
that said, I know I sound like a cuck or something, but I genuinely just want to make her life easier

>>24367908
Reimu's life is a joke though. She's basically the bitch queen of Gensokyo. As long as she doesn't break the rules she's supposed to enforce or piss of the youkai sages, she can do whatever she wants without consequences. And for all of the poverty memes, she never actually has much of a problem getting what she needs to survive or do her job. Up to and including just taking what she wants.

If Reimu wanted a husband, which she does not, then she would just force a village boy to marry her. It's not like anybody could actually decline her.

>>24367871
Everything dies. Even the planet we live on.

I meant that in the "this is good" way. She's a good woman who deserves to be happy.

With the way the world's going I wouldn't be too broken up over just getting gapped back there one way, honestly

>career putting fire on the Moon
>but the world's burning and you're the enemy for how you were born

or

>comfy life in the forest with your wife

>>24367871
See
>>24342718
Nigga got shanked and was fed the "don't die to death from blood loss" drink

>>24368593
It was a gash on my side, cut some of the muscle and the skin but didn't go very deep. Not sure who stitched me up but it was the infection from the dirt that got in there that almost killed me.

One unfortunate thing is it ruined liver for me for months. I like the stuff, it's good fried in tacos with pickled onion and salsa verde, but when your brain associates it with the obvious implication of where that particular one would have come from

suddenly it becomes far less tasty food and much more a reminder of somebody committing suicide and your own near-death

but some things are worth bleeding for, in the end.

>>24172655
They went to Gensekyo;_;7

>>24367732
Reimu is show to have barely no care about what you are, i think anyone interesting enough could approach her eventually and form a bond.

>>24368869
Interesting, i honestly can't eat liver unless i have a very good reason to, for some reason i almost vomit if i try.

>>24373684
It's a weird feeling...

One thing that sticks in my mind is the rice was different. It was... grassier, almost.

>>24376165
Hm, did you ever eat rice from a farm? I mean, a rice that was planted without pesticides and harvested the old way? It tastes differently, everything does, its probably that.

>>24379574
No, never. I don't have the fortune of that, I live in the desert.

If I ever travel somewhere rice is grown, I'll find out- maybe just talk to a farmer and ask them to let me harvest a few handfuls of it.

For what I know the only way to get in gensokyo is if you are forgotten and lost... that's how I think you do it because all the inhabitants of gensokyo have been forgotten in the outside world and in the manga yukari drags people from the outside world that have no friends no family people that will be easily forgotten or suicidal people

>>24388974
forgotten or lost, you can just get lost in a forest and get to gensokyo if you are close to japan.

>>24147631
Yeah, I did; I always used to imagine being one of the Youkai or Reimu or something

I still wish I was a particular Youkai desu though

>>24388974
If you feel lost in this world, you may stumble across that door.

It's a mixed blessing. Just. Avoid Eientei, Yagokoro's seriously batshit.

>>24393835
>If you feel lost in this world, you may stumble across that door.
It's going to take a bit more than just feeling a bit lose now and then.

>>24393849
You misunderstand what I mean by "lost".

I do not mean disoriented.

>>24373644
Unless you're a male lol, then she kills you on sight for even attempting to rise through the gensokyo ranks.

>>24393835
How crazy is Erin? Like what things does she do that are considered crazy?

>>24393932
I get what you mean. But most normal people feel lost at some point in their life.

Honestly I'd be content just knowing that other worlds like Gensokyo existed. Living out life as an average villager wouldn't be so bad.

>>24174520
Hey secondaryfag. You were told why what if scenarios exist about a year and a half ago.

>>24405611
It´s not that bad in the same way living in North Korea is not that bad.

>>24418806
I feel like death rate in north korea is worse

>>24430934
We won´t know since North Korea is rather stingy when it comes to rates of any kind. Still, I imagine the immigrant death rate is a lot higher in Gensokyo.

>>24433089
You can ay the same about gensokyo, considering we dont know how many people are gapped by yukari and/or get there by accident.

i only want the gensokyo of kkha to be real

>>24441940
True. Although considering it's enough to feed the entire youkai population, which has to be in the thousands, I imagine it makes your average genocide seem like child's play.

>>24449670
For what I remember I read some time ago a statistic that said that 8 million people dissapeared yearly, tho I dont know if is real

>>24452113
That sounds about right. While I imagine that most of these people still vanish from more mundane matters even in the Touhou universe. I would not be surprised if Gensokyo kills at least about 1/10 of those people every year.

There is always a chance the you can get gapped into gensokyo tho is a really low chance but is never 0

>>24455943
i shudder at the thought of meeting the gap hag so no thank you

>>24455976
I mean imagine you are in your bedroom or in the living room then you se how suddenly a line like mirage starts to draw in the air with some red ribbons at the end and start of the line then suddenly this line starts to get wider and you look and see a black space filled with floating ominous red big eyes looking at you, what that will make you feel?

>>24456185
will make me wish i owned a gun so i could shoot into it, but i suppose i could just throw something heavy into it
i don't take kindly to youkai hijinks in this household

>>24177227
>It only takes a single example of a human leaving the village and not dying.
that's really easy though

>>24456185
I’d freak the fuck out, that’s for sure.

>>24456185
Fear and arousal in roughly equal (and very large) parts.

>>24456185
Now do you think that yukari will come out of that looking like a woman? Most probably she will come out as being an amorphous mass made of that space that you are seeing with the eyes and everything and as she exits it, the mass starts to shape in to the way we know yukari as a woman with a purple dress, would that scare you?

>>24457987
that's where the fire comes in handy

>>24456610
And if you want too overpower yukari you must need to be a 10 dimensional being because that would make you a being without boundaries and you will be immune to her and her abilities

>>24458028
But remember that she is immune too any form of attack
>>24458033
You need to be like this so you can win

>>24458054
F i r e.

>>24458054
Yukari is a being of 9 dimensions(probably) that would make her some type of demigod or a God for our mortal perception of reality if you want to be a God you need to be of 10, 11 or 12 dimensions



Also satan is a being of 9 dimensions if you didn't know

>>24458094
this, fire works well against pretty much anything
yukari's power is godlike but that doesn't mean she's all-knowing or prepared for any contingency. a surprise bullet to the face will still hurt her, or setting her on fire - after all, her power is "manipulating boundaries" in the loosest possible sense, but it isn't "permanent immunity to damage"
this is why really, yukari can be defeated easily by koishi walking up and bashing her head in with a rock. can't manipulate the boundary of something you don't know about

>>24458404
Understandable it has a lot of sence what are you saying, but you need to understand that the eyes that are in her gaps are known as the laplace demons so she could know what to expect and could have an idea of what is happening really fast so you need to be unpredictable and be unexpected, remember professionals have standards

>>24458524
It sure is challenging work. Just don’t go hungry.

>>24458730
https://youtu.be/9NZDwZbyDus

>>24456185
>what that will make you feel?
Lovecraft pretty much made a career out of describing those kinds of feelings. So, that, I guess.

>>24458787
"Youkai Hunting is a good job mate. It's challenging work, outdoors, I guarantee you'll not go hungry. Because at the end of the day, as long as there is a human and a youkai left on this planet. The Human is going to want the Youkai dead."

"Dad? Dad, I'm a- Ye- Not a "crazed Miko", dad, I'm an Youkai Exterminator! ...Well, the difference bein' one is a job and the other's a mental sickness!"

"I'll be honest with ya: my parents do not care for it."

"Feelins'? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Youkai that bludgeon their victims to death with a umbrella. Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill any Girl you meet."

"Dad.... Dad p-, yeah - put Mum on the phone!"

>>24467623
i'd be fine with being spirited away to gensokyo provided i get to take part in the Great Youkai Extermination and join the Human Supremacy Front

>>24453629
I feel like even 1/10 would be very obvious, do we know with how much frequency do we youkai need to eat?
Why can't akyuu actually give us useful info in her silly books?

>>24467623
There is a fanfic where sniper saying that almost makes sakuya kill him.

>>24467731
Akyuu pls.

>>24468124
if the standard adult human dietary need is around 2000 kcal a day and the average adult human body contains 81k kcal, then, assuming a youkai was perfectly efficient in food storage or internal energy storage and had the same energy consumption as a human, they would need to feed on one person every month or two
even though most of the youkai in gensokyo are young girls, they are presumably more active than modern standards so that would cancel out the reduced caloric needs by size/gender
presumably, some youkai can feed on things other than humans, so they may not even need to feed that often at all. some youkai, like kogasa, we know feed off of something intangible (surprise) rather than actual physical energy so there is some spiritual calculation there that we can't do with biology
but if one knew the exact rate at which youkai needed to feed on humans, and the fertility rate within the human village, you could calculate the human:youkai population ratio. and if you had a solid figure for them that deviated from the expected value, then you would know how many humans yukari has to spirit away into gensokyo every year in order to keep the status quo

>>24468124
To be honest, far as we can tell Youkai don't actually NEED to eat humans to survive. It's more something they enjoy doing, with the possible exception of the Scarlet Sisters. Still, I don't think Yukari has much of a reason not to abduct a lot of people. Bread and circuses and all that.

>>24468490
All youkai seem to rely more on intangible things to some extent. Considering how important fear is to their continued existence. Kogasa is just one of the few who can turn it directly into sustenance.

>>24468131
Name of the fanfic my man? I would love too know

>>24468124
Wakasagihime is canonically not an enemy of humans. All human-eating youkai are enemies of humans. This logically means she does not eat humans. Therefore youkai do not need to eat humans and only do it because they enjoy it. All human-eating youkai must be exterminated.

>>24476192
>Wakasagihime
>All human-eating youkai are enemies of humans.
note that youkai-eating humans, however, are perfectly fine

>>24478093
Obviously. Siegfriend is based, and nobody is going to tell me otherwise.

Once dreamt with reimu

>>24491771
And what happened

What would be good for self defense in Gensokyo? I doubt the average gun would do much against youkai, but meme guns might actually be useful. With all the 12 year olds that believe the desert eagle is some kind of super weapon, it might get some kind of boost in Gensokyo.

>>24492242
Any high caliber weapon could work a shotgun too

>>24492242
Shotgun instagibs anything within 6 foot range and does zero damage beyond that.
AK-47 fires reliably underwater, in space, stuffed full of mud, etc. but usually misses.
Deagle oneshots anything.
All pistols do double damage if you hold them sideways.

>>24492242
They won't do much against Youkai expect disable them for a while unless you could get incendiary or silver bullets.

>>24494842
Youkais feed on fear if you dont fear them and fight them you could win... I think

>>24492242
>>24494052
if common belief makes something stronger, then doesn't the sheer number of zealous weebs make katanas a better choice than guns?

>>24496726
If you know how to use one maybe.

>>24496675
You still need a way to get past their regeneration. Fire or silver should suffice, I think.

>>24496726
Because actually using a Katana well is really hard. Meanwhile, a gun is very easy.

>>24492242
Well, what kind of youkai we talkin? Fairies, sure. A shotgun would be ideal. Anything more powerful and you'll experience increasingly diminishing returns until we get to any stage boss at which point, if you can even hit them, their sheer magical, and mythical abilities alone would make any non-magical gun worthless. Physically, most youkai have some sort of regeneration and others like yuugi could just outright shrug off bullets without feeling it. Keep in mind that depending on how literally you interpret the games, it takes an average of several tens of thousands of magical projectiles to kill anyone cirno level or higher. Marisa uses actual missiles, so you're probably not gonna be able to do any damage to a real threat with a gun. Of course you probably wont be fighting any named youkai but even still, a gun is at the very best only good for stalling the weakest youkai while you run as fast as humanly possible in the other direction.

>>24497175
Not all stage bosses are all that tough. You can probably just beat Kogasa hard enough to get her to leave. And while Rumia probably could crush your bones if she gets her hands on you. She's both very stupid and dumb, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Frankly, the most dangerous named youkai are probably Yukari, Mystia, Chen, Nitori, and Medicine. The rest either don't hurt humans or have very specific rules. Like, I know people tend to joke that Yuuka is a insane psychopath. But you really have to try pretty hard to piss her off.

>>24497292
If nothing works then use antimatter maybe magic is magic and shit but antimatter is more powerful and kicks ass

>>24494052
Silencers make guns dead quiet.
Barrel shrouds give guns infinite ammo and extra damage.
Setting the sites to the maximum setting makes the gun do more damage.

>>24497175
Is there any way that you could get your gun a magical upgrade once in Gensokyo?

>>24500498
Probably, though you'd need to clarify what exactly you even wanted

>>24499683
>Silencers make guns dead quiet.
But the only reason you'd ever use one is when you're on a stealth mission, because guns are no louder than a shout and you can safely fire them with no ear protection.

>>24497292
the problem with yukari is that she's so unpredictable and there is no safety anywhere as long as she exists and knows who/where you are
medicine, mystia, and nitori are avoidable (stay away from their territory / from being out at night), but yukari can at any moment decide to see how you'd react if she gapped drugs into your stomach or blurred the border between your sanity and madness or w/e, not to mention just straight up just gapping your head away from your body if she simply wanted to kill you

this is why it's important to immediately recruit koishi. she's the only one that can kill the gap hag

>>24473359
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10699178/1/The-Nine-RED-Men-Incident

>>24492242
Magic, guns, sword, magic guns, magic swords.

>>24497175
You can just punch a fairy in the face, they will probably begin crying and you can just leave, they are very weak physically.
>>24500498
>how to get magic gun
Maybe ask reisen? Or alice, she does work with explosive dolls, so thats close.

>>24342718
>>24352574
My longest and most detailed dream happened when I used to go sparring. I haven't been knocked out but I could've had mild concussions since I started having migraines and sometimes wake up in the night super sensitive to light/sound. I couldn't sleep much despite the fatigue from training.

Anyways on the night I finally slept well, that's when it happened. Mine was with tenshi, and lasted for about 6-8 months.

The strangest thing is I didn't know much about tenshi back then. The dream was consistent about her character, a religious clan, a village that was transferred to heaven, except for two things, she had straight black hair and was named after a fruit, "chico".

Even after the dream it reminded me of tenshi. Then after reading about her on touhou wiki, one detail was a dead giveaway,

>Before becoming a celestial, her first name was Chiko (地子, lit. "earth child").

I couldn't have known this. I could imagine my mind structuring the dream based on the vague idea of her character, but getting a detail like this correct is one hell of a coincidence.

I became obsessed with that dream for the whole day. I wrote it down on a notebook which took 15 paragraphs. Waking up from it felt like I gave myself jet lag, it felt like it wouldn't end until I was sent home. It had a logical structure from beginning to end, and I could remember so much of it.

I really enjoyed reading this. I never thought someone else would have a somewhat similar experience.

>>24342718
>>24352574

My longest and most detailed dream happened when I used to go sparring. I haven't been knocked out but I could've had mild concussions since I started having migraines and sometimes wake up in the night super sensitive to light/sound. I couldn't sleep much despite the fatigue from training.
Anyways on the night I finally slept well, that's when it happened. Mine was with tenshi, and lasted for about 6-8 months.
The strangest thing is I didn't know much about tenshi back then. The dream was consistent about her character, a religious clan, a village that was transferred to heaven, except for two things, she had straight black hair and was named after a fruit, "chico".
Even after the dream it reminded me of tenshi. Then after reading about her on touhou wiki, one detail was a dead giveaway,

>Before becoming a celestial, her first name was Chiko (地子, lit. "earth child").

I couldn't have known this. I could imagine my mind structuring the dream based on the vague idea of her character, but getting a detail like this correct is one hell of a coincidence.
I became obsessed with that dream for the whole day. I wrote it down on a notebook which took 15 paragraphs. Waking up from it felt like I gave myself jet lag, it felt like it wouldn't end until I was sent home. It had a logical structure from beginning to end, and I could remember so much of it.

I really enjoyed reading this. I never thought someone else would have a somewhat similar experience.

>>24512869
Damm I would love to have dreams like that

>>24512743
37 chapters!?!?!

>>24512789
>You can just punch a fairy in the face, they will probably begin crying
>and you can just leave
but then i would miss the best part!

>>24512869
Interesting.
I always find it curious when dreams give you accurate information without you knowing it, gives me hope of something else being out there.
>6-8 months
Oh my, can you elaborate? Did you became tenshi's friend, lover or what? how was your life and who where you in the dream?

>>24512949
Yeah, its quite fun, and very silly.

>>24152515
Why is there such a massive disconnect between PMiSS description of the windows games events and the events as shown in the windows games? Is everything they say in the games just a joke, is it all just a big meme? Are they just memeing? Because if I hadn't read this I would never have questioned that the characters are actually fighting each other and that when they say "I have killed this person and buried their body" they are actually doing just that. What did ZUN mean by this? Was he just trying to dissuade edgelords?

>>24520771
I started at 6 and it took me until like partway through 9 to realize that no one is actually dying after 5. It's weird that everyone just throws around death threats like they're nothing but I guess it's just really strange banter.
I remember being so sad because I'd find characters I liked early on and be like "aw she's cute, it's a shame reimu's about to murder her." It made me get a massive hatred for the protagonists (mainly Reimu, since she was much scarier) for supposedly slaughtering my new friends that I'm still having trouble moving past to this day. She did kill Orange though who was perfectly innocent and that's unacceptable.

>>24521023
I'm really, really convinced that ZUN did a sort of soft retcon here because there is absolutely nothing until either 9 or 10 that gives away that they AREN'T dying. I'm pretty sure someone in IN explicitly mentioned that they were going to be killing a lot of people or something like that. It just gives a really weird reverse double gap-moe. They're cute girls, but they're actually youkai and they fight and kill each other and look kinda like creepy dolls, except they actually don't, and they were just larping the entire time.

>>24147631
I do, then I remember that my absolute lack of knowledge of the Japanese language, let alone culture and folklore, means I won't understand anything about Youkai or even Gensokyo itself.

However, my knowledge of the Touhou wiki will mean that I'll have a very specific advantage over all the Touhous, and depending on which time period I'll arrive at (As in, if I'm lucky, somewhere around the earlier incidents) I might be able to make some sort of profit out of my knowledge of the events to come, or kinda trick the Gensokyo residents into thinking I'm something other than a worthless human outsider (Like, say, an ex-Lunarian/NASA), maybe I can even aquire faith and become a god.

Then I remember my social skills are ass and know that even if I reach the village, I'll definitely get beaten, raped and eaten for saying something stupid

Issa good plan though

>>24171444
Doesn't Yukari provide most Youkai with "Meat" so they won't eat the protected humans?

>>24521245
? It's pretty obvious that Rumia and the like aren't killed. Mystia comes back the very next game, despite apparently having been eaten in IN. Remilia flat out says that Sakuya is dead in EoSD, but she's back as early as the ending.

>>24520771
PMISS actually has one of the most pleasant Gensokyo's in all canon if you read the epilogue. It's mostly everything after that it that retconned Gensokyo into a really bad place.

>>24521023
PC 95 Reimu was pretty much a straight up sociopath. It was played for laughs, but she really wasn't a good person even compared to her modern version.

>>24520771
PMISS Is actually one of the nicest versions of Gensokyo, going by the epilogue. It's mostly the games and books after it that paint Gensokyo as a really bad place.

>>24521023
Reimu is pretty much a straight up sociopath in the early pc-95 games. It's all played for laughs though, so I find it hard to take it all that seriously.

>>24521928
The village would probably threat you pretty well as long as you don't commit any crimes. They are quite fond of outsiders, actually.

You can just about forget trying to become a god though. The human villagers are backwards, not stupid.

Also, any assumption that relies upon Gensokyo existing and you somehow having foreknowledge of Touhou is dumb.

>>24522058
When asked "If I will be transported to Gensokyo", I'm thinking right now with my current knowledge, not just randomly in my life
And right now I have quite the knowledge of Touhou

>>24522085
I always tend to do the opposite, and assume that the question is being asked to me in the context of a world where Touhou is real and Gensokyo not a fictional place. Meaning that I would logically know nothing about it.

>>24522058
>>24522085
If you're asking about being born in Gensokyo, that's 16th century feudal Japan and my immune system's going to be SHITE
So I don't think so
But being transported sounds nice

>>24521928
>I remember that my absolute lack of knowledge of the Japanese language
Of course this is just theory, but it's always been my assumption that Yukari's manipulated the boundary of language within Gensokyo to make everyone be able to interact. If youkai and humans are constantly being pulled in from across the planet it's almost necessary to have them be able to communicate to help new arrivals acclimate themselves

>>24522158
To be honest the question of which language they (Japanese [For the Japanese Touhous] Mandarin and Cantonese [For the Chinese Touhous] and english [For Remilia]) speak went up in my mind several times.
They Touhous are never depicted having a language barrier so I guess it was manipulated

I'm not dead. Surprise, world.

>>24512869
It's wild, isn't it?

That's what it felt like for me, too, my sleep schedule's been all kinds of fucked up since then

>sleep schedule was gucci before that
>wake up way fucking late after that
>just bothered to check it
>turns out the shift I got put me into 'normal people hours' in Japan

Was yours fucked up, too?

>>24522134
>my immune system's going to be SHITE
After five centuries of evolution, it's probably better than theirs.

>>24522184
Well, plenty of the early Youkai are actually definitely foreign from a Japanese perspective. Remi probably speaks in French and English normally, Rumia is definitively latin if her name references where she's from, Patchy is almost certainly western, Wriggle similarly, Mystia is German (and as such probably swears a hell of a lot more than you would imagine), etc. And the Prismrivers are probably American or something.

Honestly, language almost certainly isn't an issue in Gensokyo if a lot of those Youkai do know Japanese, since I doubt they would go to the length to learn it, thus making it incredibly likely for said Youkai to have been subconsciously fed it by the barrier.

>>24497175
Danmaku used within spell card duels is explicitly non-lethal, so talking about Marisa's 'missiles' as if they are particularly powerful is rather disingenuous. Still, Youkai are difficult to beat physically; I would assume the most physically durable Youkai did not originate from a human form, however, and are likely Stage 3 and up bosses. Youkai that use their abilities to reduce the damage they've taken are likely to be more common than purely physically durable Youkai, however; I'd only really put into the physically durable category those who belong to a species which are explicitly said to be powerful, or said to be such regardless of species. For instance, that would likely mean Tengu, Vampires, and Oni, if we categorize by species, and youkai like Kazami Yuuka and Hong Meiling would be physically powerful and durable enough to take bullets to the face with close to no damage. Shou Toramaru and Nue Houjuu would likely be in similar categories.

Meanwhile, species such as inchlings, kappa, and the like are likely to be comparatively squishy, nd that's not even getting into Magicians, who are simply humans who have been able to subside off magic rather than food and as such transcended humanity to become Youkai (Patchouli is a particularly squishy example, given that she's actually an asthmatic and would likely be given a broken bone by a punch or kick from one who's moderately fit). Youkai like Rumia, Kogasa, etc., are somewhere in the middle; you won't be able to kill them with one gunshot, unlike you would with the particularly squishy Youkai, but you would be able to drive them off, as it would probably actually hurt them rather than do nothing. Though, why you would need a gun for someone like Kogasa is beyond me; she's rather friendly and doesn't even need to eat humans.

You may have noticed how I neglected to mention fairies. That's because fairies are so weak they barely need mentioning; a good punch will probably kill one.

>>24523319
If I was born in 16th century Japan, I'd have a shit immune system. If I arrive in 16th century Japan, I'd have to make sure not to accidentally kill the whole village with a disease I carry yet have already evolved to negate

>>24521928
The thing is, I don't want to live in the village. A small shack in the forest, potentially (I another few theories about Youkai that might help me survive) unbothered. Gathering mushrooms and plants to grow my garden.

I might go to the village once a while, trade some herbs or whatever, maybe some meat from an unfortunate animal. I'll probably get to meet the Touhous, perhaps even befriend some of them, maybe even help them in their goals and affairs. Maybe even find love.
I could forget about this world we live in and it's awful society. I can forget about humans and the pain they bring each other simply by existing. I can forget about everything, and then, just maybe, my head will be clear.

Gensokyo is the ultimate form of escapism, and how I wish I could go there, more than anywhere else. But I know I never will, and even if by some miracle I'll find my way there, my dreams would still never come true.

And I'll end up dead in the mud.

Fuck.

>>24521023
even in PC-98 this stuff was kind of weird
in Marisa's LLS route she 'kills' Reimu, but of course that doesn't stick
Yuuka's MS route also involves a lot of supposed killing, but obviously that one is a little more ambiguous because Makai didn't show up again until 12 and it was a whole different area.

>>24522158
I don't see much of a reason for Yukari to do that when her main reason for pulling people into Gensokyo is to be killed and eaten. I imagine the Human Villagers might be able to speak english though, if only for the sake of communicating with the few people that make it to their.

>>24523848
>Remi.
Considering her weapons, age, and general mannerism. She's probably German rather than English or French. Probably Austrian or Danish, all things considered.

>Wriggle
Why? Are firebugs even a thing in the west.

>Mystia.
Possible. But while she might be related to Lorelei, she doesn't seem to be the actual siren of myths.

>Prismrivers.
Do ghosts even speak a normal language?

>>24525014
Well, honestly, given Remilia is based off the name Emilia, she's potentially many nationalities; Scarlet is a French last name, however.
As for Wriggle, her name is english, and fireflies are found in a ton of places in western countries.

>>24525242
Anyway if you end up in gensokyo try to speak English to everyone you meet and if you are lucky they would reply to you in English and if you aren't lucky well that's your problem

>>24513587
>>24512869
We were friends and did almost everything together. She stood out from everyone else. The other villagers were otherworldy in a divine and pure way. They spend most of their time in meditation and practicing rituals. But she was lazy and dismissive when it comes to religion and was the type to do whatever, not giving a fuck. In a way, I found some kind of sanity in that, so I liked keeping her around. She was the only one who felt human. Later, I would realize this was exactly how she felt about me. She was unable to make any friends with the villagers, so she thought she was unlikable until I came along.
In the end, it was clear that she very much loved me. She didn't want to lose what might have been her only friend, so she tried to delay the village's ascension to heaven by causing a disaster on earth. She wasn't strong enough, even I could stop her.
We did all sorts of things together. One time we revived a local martial arts that worked exactly like spell card battles. My attacks were really fun, I could shoot fist danmaku by punching.
I enjoyed everything I did with her, even when working. In fact that's how we became friends. She had to help me clean an abandoned house, made for outsiders. I was the first (and last) to show up in a while, so it was in a really bad shape. We decided it was best to rebuild it and had the same idea of a modern looking house, and it ended up a lot bigger than before. As thanks for making her punishment bearable, she would spend the next few days showing me everything to see in the village. It turns out she knew a lot about the outside world, and brought it up everytime we were alone. Her knowledge was outdated though, but we had plenty of time catching up to the 21st century. If I ran out of stories, I would just talk about my life, friends, etc.

>>24525395
Although it did feel like a dream, it definitely felt endless, as if I was truly stuck in there. Nothing like this has ever happened again, and I still can't explain how I got her name right.

>>24522800
That day felt incredibly short. All I did was write and 7 hours had gone already. I also had no apettite.
I really couldn't get much sleep during those days, but I fall asleep at the same time. Although sometimes I'd wake up thinking dogs barking was as loud as gunshots, then the headache that follows.

>>24525014
>She's probably German rather than English or French.
She writes in English in FS.

>>24512869
>>24525395
More please
I really need it

>>24526402
Wasn't English a well spoken language even ages ago? Could be that sshe decided it was more charismatic to write in it than german

>>24528308
The most prestigious language when Remilia was young was probably Latin. If she writes in English it's probably because it's her native language.

>>24525388
great idea
it is time to spread the wonders of freedom and the bible and american talk to gensokyo. we've already made progress

>>24342718
How much did you want to an hero after that?
>>24360340
Short? I thought Mokou is one of the taller ones, or is that just your version of her

>>24528561
That would be funny imagine everyone in gensokyo singing the star spangled banner







Tho yukari would be so fucking pissed about that, she might probably kill you

>>24342718
Damn that hit close to home
As I already mentioned >>24524247 , I despise this world for it's people and the way they live a life full of lies and masks just to avoid the littlest bit of discomfort. They try so hard to stick to society they forget what themselves are. And other human behaviours.
And I wish I could just... accidentally fall into a gap or get lost in the forest or find a door one day and leave this world. Forever.

Every single second I live on earth is pain. There is a constant pain in the back of my mind I acquire simply by existing here, and there have been very few occasions where it lowered (I wouldn't say stopped) just to go up again.
And I just KNOW that if I go to Gensokyo I could forget about humanity and all of that and the pain would just stop.

How I wish I could go.
More than anything.
Please.

>>24529014
i think i could win yukari over. america is the only country that spooked the lunarians after all
and she'll be powerless to stop the glories of freedom and jesus from being preached in the meantime

>>24529160
Is there oil in Gensokyo? I bet there is

>>24529246
isn't that actually the plot of upcoming 17.5?
from the story description
>Black water gushed out onto the surface. The water released an odd odour, and was hard to get off once stuck to one's body. It was not something that you could use as your everyday water.
>Some saw the gushing water as misfortune, some as good fortune; some saw it as holy, while others as evil; some saw it as a natural disaster, some saw it as a business opportunity, various theories were tossed around. Some even started a festival and made a fuss.
>But not long after, an event occurred that put a horrific damper on their buoyant moods. From the springs that they drank from, the beautiful clear streams, the hot springs at rest spots... from every location it possibly could, the black water began to gush out.
basically it's time for some good ol' fashioned democracy bringing. there'll be a mcdonalds in gensokyo yet

>>24529289
Yuugi even calls it petroleum

>>24525242
>Scarlet is a French last name,
It's also a color associated with red. And considering how much of a massive Chunni Remilia is, I find it pretty hard to believe it's actually her last name from before she became a vampire.

>As for Wriggle, her name is english, and fireflies are found in a ton of places in western countries.
I'm going to have to believe you on both accounts.

>>24526402
She was in the outside world for a long while. Even if we assume she was originally Austrian, she probably picked up a few languages over the years. Her habit of writing English probably being a holdover from post World War 2 Europe.

>>24529289
America needs to ditch Syria and "liberate" Gensokyo instead

>>24529018
God I feel you mate I would love to just leave everything behind and forget about this world too and start from zero in gensokyo like reincarnate in there



Start from zero in gensokyo

>>24530165
i for one would do everything in my power to make gensokyo like this one. it is more fun that way

>>24522012
I always figured they were just the lucky ones that survived. Its been a while since I played PoFV but didn't Eiki say that Reimu was going to hell for killing lots of innocent people? How does that figure? Is all dialouge in the games just 100% nonsense?

>>24529313
I always have thought that why remilia never tried to cover the outside world in red mist, probably she was scared of getting nuked, she knows probably about the world wars and the other wars of the 20 century, so she wasn't risking her life probably and thought that in gensokyo it would be easier

>>24530336
Reimu was going to hell for attacking Youkai for no reason.

Although frankly, after the Fortune teller incident she's probably going to hell for that.

>>24530336
she says for 'exterminating' youkai and people who weren't youkai, but extermination seems to have a very loose definition in touhou since it clearly doesn't mean kill

>>24530336
>Is all dialouge in the games just 100% nonsense?

>>24530165
Just join the French Foreign Legion.

>>24530425
What is that?

>>24530398
I mean, we don't know when exactly Remilia moved to Gensokyo. The vampire incident was pretty recent, but it's implied she might have been in Gensokyo for a while.

Still, I do agree that it is quite likely she was still in the outside world during World War 2. That ought to leave a scar in anybody, even a vampire.

>>24530451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion

>>24530410
I dunno it seemed pretty clear to mean killing to me. I'm just saying that if you only take the games at face value it seems like the characters are only surviving if reimu fails to kill them.

>>24530479
Mmmmmm being a mercenary is not my thing

>>24530410
It seemed pretty clear in the games to me. If spell cards really are non-lethal and reimu doesnt really exterminate youkai then the games would have to be either non-canon (absurd) or the dialouge and all events within would have to be one giant larp, which is equally absurd. Even considering the absurd nature of the series there has to be some sort of grounding for it to even be coherent and understandable enough to be interesting.

>>24530836
isn't that the whole point of spell card rules? The whole thing was that the shrine maiden can't be killed, but the youkai were getting sick of being unable to act, so spell card rules were devised in order to allow youkai to start incidents and have a chance of sorts at beating the shrine maiden without having to kill her. Similarly, the incident resolvers can keep rechallenging until they win, so incidents can be resolved too. It's not necessarily larping, but it allowed the youkai to actually fulfil their natures.

>>24529289

>>24530973
Like I said before, if I hadn't actually read pmiss I wouldn't have believed or even considered it. I don't think it's very consistent with the games and, here we are finally at my heretical point, something which clashes so heavily with the main games is hard, if not impossible, for me to take seriously. There, I said it.

>>24531057
I wouldn't say it clashes hugely, because if you were actually playing to kill each other you wouldn't have bosses using these elaborate patterns designed to show a meaning, you'd just fire a billion lasers directly at the player's face before they can do anything. Hell, in someone like yuyuko's case, you'd just straight up kill them with your ability. The games show that spellcards are meant to show patterns, and that their actual lethality is secondary. It's why I find myself thinking that you can't truly understand a character until you've bested their danmaku

>>24531219
Or maybe it's because it's touhou is a shmup and needs to have gameplay that is fun and playable. I'm not a big fan of explaining gameay mechanics with lore, especially something as universal as a shmup. I don't think anyone would play the games and wonder why they aren't just dropping a bullet larger than the screen on top of you within 1 second of starting a fight. All I'm saying is that I weigh the games and things featured within the games more heavily than anything else. Taking only those into consideration, there is no way that I would have questioned that they were doing it for real and sometimes dying. I appreciate the gravity of what I'm saying in regards to touhou and the way the majority of fans view series in general. Personally I just can't make myself believe that ZUN never intended them to be dying.

>>24530973
Nethertheless our boy Fortune Teller is very dead
And Reimu will go to hell for that

>>24532058
she deserves it

>>24532058
No; becoming a Youkai is something that a human from the human village absolutely can't do for the balance of Gensokyo, so it was justified.

>>24537012
Fuck off reimu "sleep with youkai, kill humans" hakurei.

>>24528939
I was depressed as hell but I will not kill myself.

No matter how bad things get, it's almost assured things will improve.

>I thought she was one of the taller ones

She is, from who I saw, but most of Mokou seeming 'tall' is just presence- most everyone was physically small. Then again I'm a big dude, so take my height perceptions with a grain of salt.

Come to think of it, that might be why she made the joke. I stand a solid foot above anyone I saw there.

>>24525922
Migraines are a bitch, but... I think getting pulled back is the worst part of it.

>>24537012
Even if that is true, that doesn´t make it a good thing. A secret service agent murdering political dissidents for the sake of maintaining political power is still going to hell. So is Reimu.

>>24530823
It is still a very good way to get a new life, anon. Probably less deadly than going to Gensokyo as well.

>>24531057
It´s pretty dumb. But at least it explains why nobody ever seems to actually die.

>>24537012
>for the balance of Gensokyo
there's nothing wrong with disturbing the balance. sumireko and the moon people get to play with the balance without getting fucking murdered so reimu is just being a cold-blooded murderer. couldn't he have instead been exiled out to the modern world by the gap hag? it may be difficult but some youkai manage to survive
miko apologists are just disgusting human beings

>>24543811
I mean the fortune teller was innocent he did nothing wrong he just wanted to be a youkai

>>24538451
I mean if Im being honest I never questioned why a few youkai from the previous games would survive in the next ones, and all together the number that "survive" is pretty small. If Reimu claimed to have killed someone and then it turned out she didn't, I just assumed it was like any other story where sometimes people survive near-fatal encounters. There is nothing in the games, in my opinion, that needed the explanation given in pmiss. It only made things more confusing and why less consistent. Do you really expect me to believe a serious encounter with the god of the afterlife in the climax of the first four windows games was supposed to be "a joke"? I'm just saying, pmiss is pretty incinsistent with everything else in the games, dark humor nonwithstanding.

The only way to know if the dreams you have or had are real or dreams you must practice lucid dreaming in that way if you have luckily one of the dreams were you end up in gensokyo you could try to dream check to see if is real and if isn't real then you can do whatever you want and you will be unable to feel anything but if is real then you cant do anything at all but you will feel everything as if was real

>>24546786
Also I forgot too add that probably what happend is real but doremy and yukari fuck with you

>>24546783
Genocide is just a game

>>24546805
I doubt it, your brain can do some crazy things
Still hurts though

>>24547890
Yeah thats way you should learn how to identify a dream from reality so you can know what to do in the respective case that isn't a dream or is it

Oop
Here comes the bump limit

Well it was a good thread interesting topic

>>24548475
Absolutely.

>>24548570
I mean, you could always make another one. Not like we're missing Touhou thread
it's just that you gotta add something new if you do, not just repeat the same thing

>>24548649
What should be added?

>>24548747
Literally anything that would differenciate that thread from this one
This isn't /c/, we don't just want to repeat

This thread was pretty unique it felt really comfy and it was really interesting, talk about your dreams in gensokyo and the other talking of hypothetical situations was funny I give this thread a 9.1/10, I would like one like this again

>>24549280
Make another one when this is deleted then

i was sad that this thread was coming to an end. it'd be nice to just one more

>>24549694
Go ahead then

>>24549796
eh someone else can this ain't my job

>>24549840
This ain't any of our jobs, but it needs to be done

>>24549694
I'll see you fellows on the other side.

>>24547868
a fun one!

>>24550691
don't die, and if you do please try to tell us if you survived.

I hope some day I can have immersive dreams like this too

Made a second thread:
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>>24552780
I'll be fine.

>>24553346
>>24553346
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