/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

Do you sometimes feel like your only friend is the city you live in?

[Anonymous No.]

No Helen. /jp/ is not for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh look another shitty post, just what we needed.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>6558159

Ah, you forget the poorly received All Saints cover.
Who do you think was the only person who got the single?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6558165
Leave Helen alone shithead.

[The Destroyer of Elah !!EzZ4ge15Iuj No.]

>Paraphrasing the song Under the Bridge.
>There are two corpses hanging under the bridge in the picture.

I am not amused.

[spoilers]Okay I'm slightly amused.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't like the country it's in.
I don't like people who inhabit it.
But damn, I love my city.
I'd be a complete hikki if not for that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6558174
Dunno. Don't care.

[Anonymous No.]

My only friend is my rifle.

[Anonymous No.]

No, my city is pretty shitty

[The Destroyer of Elah !!EzZ4ge15Iuj No.]

>>6558182
Watch me fail spoilering!

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

Perhaps Parsee finds pleasure in strife and infighting.
I do not.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>6558182

There needs to happen more good stuff under bridges. They aren't known for that.

[Anonymous No.]

Enough of this jabber Helen.

Spit out some of those mythos from that deluded imagination you possess that you are famous for.

Especially when concerning Yuugi.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>6558216

Well... someone beat me to it. KamS provided quite a reasonable backround for Parsee already.
Supposedly she's the Chinese version of the hashihime - a sort of minor deity born from a suicide at a bridge, classed as a youkai by Japanese standards.
It's not perfect, but it makes sense. Not much else to say about it.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

It might seem a bit gruesome for Touhou, but Yuyuko's backround already touches on death and suicide, so it's there.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

The main difference thus far is the original has a woman commit suicide to escape arranged marriage (in one particular version, to avoid marrying the emperor after having avenged her late husband whom the emperor murdered). KamS version of the story has a scored woman commit ritual suicide in order to intentionally create a demon, with mixed results.

Perhaps in another 2000 years past and modern folklore will have melded into one, but right now it should be noted that there's still a very important line between ancient folklore and folklore as presented in present day music videos.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

As for how the whole green eyed monster comes into the picture... no clue. Obviously there's a connection when you have a Green Eyed Monster of Jealousy and a green eyed character with the ability to manipulate the very same thing, but there's still a big leap from Shakespeare to ancient East Asia.

Then again Parsee is supposed to have Persian influences, so that's hardly the biggest mystery.