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Wild Mass Guesses about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== Gensokyo is Reimu's childhood fantasy ==
Reimu really is the miko of her family's small, run-down shrine, but only in our world. With this comes an awful lot of free time and boredom around the shrine. In order to keep herself entertained, she thought up Gensokyo as a small child, as well as the characters, as something akin to imaginary friends in an imaginary setting. Perhaps influenced by real people and real events, Gensokyo, its residents, and the happenings that occur there are just as exaggerated and wacky as you might expect from the mind of a little girl with not much else to do. This would also explain the increase in complexity and refinement as the series has progressed - Reimu's grown up and thinks more clearly and in greater detail.
* Perhaps Marisa is a friend of Reimu's, made after Gensokyo's initial conception, and then later playing "make-believe" together with Reimu.
* This would logically explain [[Ret
== Satori and Koishi are the eye-heart-things ==
And the bodies are just hosts Orin has brought them.
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== Patchouli doesn't have asthma; it's the drain of having Koakuma as a familiar. ==
Devils ([[Horny Devils|Horny]] or otherwise) are more [[Mana]] gluttons than shikigami. Patchy can maintain it indefinitely, but it gives her a more delicate constitution.
* She keeps it up because she's grown to like Kaokuma (or is dependant on her; for [[Darker and Edgier]] [[A Us]]) and it's a symbol of status.
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== The Moriya Shrine is for REAL on our side of the Fourth Wall. ==
Kanako asked ZUN to place herself, Suwako, and Sanae into his series, in order to drum up more faith in OUR world. Yukari met her during a drinking session (see another WMG below concerning Yukari and ZUN's drinking friendship), and they agreed that it was a good idea.
Now, while the Moriya Shrine gains fans in the game (benefitting ZUN), the '''real''' Shrine on our side of the fourth wall enjoys more pilgrimages and more faith (helping Kanako). [[All According to Plan|Just as planned]].
== The Hakurei Shrine is for REAL on our side of the Fourth Wall. ==
Same as above—only this is the origin of Touhou itself. Just replace the Moriya Shrine crew with Reimu and "faith" with "donations."
* Confirmed...in a manner of speaking. ''Strange and Bright Nature Deity'' has Reimu explaining that the Hakurei Shrine is the Wall between the Outside World and Gensokyo. A Wall belongs to neither side; and both at the same time.
** ''Oriental Sacred Place'' has the Hakurei Shrine receiving mysterious offerings that include ''wine''. Presumably ZUN knows the true location of the Shrine, and converts some of his "donations" into things that Reimu can use, since modern Japanese Yen has no trade value inside Gensokyo.
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* Both are Chaotic Neutral (Louis is more of a YMMV)?
* Could be... it sounds to...true.
* Mabye they [[The Chessmaster|play chess]] in the weekends?
== [[Big Name Fan|KirbyM]] is male. ==
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* Or maybe they left in protest of the Spell Card rules.
== The Grimoire of Alice is a [[
Apart from the usual incredible power possessed by the book, it also gifts its bearer with longevity. It's also part of the reason she left the Makai, as it was part of an [[Noodle Incident|Incident]] that estranged her from Shinki.
* Must I take this to its logical conclusion?
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== A bare head on a woman is considered indecent in Gensokyo. ==
It probably isn't as bad as e.g. going topless, but it's still probably considered somewhat rude. This would explain why virtually every character in the series wears a hat, hair-ribbon, or something else on their head. The exceptions:
* [[Petting Zoo People]] with no other hats (e.g. Tewi Inaba, Yuugi Hoshiguma); this is probably justified in that they're like [[Darkstalkers
* Kaguya Houraisan, Sara, and Yumemi Okazaki (respectively from the Moon, Makai, and the Outside) are from different worlds with separate cultures, in which this taboo doesn't exist. The same might apply to Parsee Mizuhashi; the Underground is divorced enough from the surface world that there are probably plenty of cultural differences.
* Kogasa Tatara possibly hopes her umbrella will suffice. That, or she wants to ''surprise'' people with this behavior.
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** A donation or two goes a ''long'' way - Reimu's only grumpy because of her lack of donations.
*** It's actually true. In one of the ''Nature Deity'' stories, Yukari gives Reimu food. Marisa playfully accuses Reimu of accepting bribes.
* As a corollary to this, ''Yukari [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225101151/http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=4488362 took] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921003545/http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium
== ZUN is in fact [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|retelling the tales of Gensokyo accurately]]. ==
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Seriously. How else do you explain the fact that she's in ''every'' official Touhou game from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' on? She has to be either offering him sexual favors, or sweet-talking him with "Ooh, can I be in ''this'' game, too?" at regular intervals.
* She's always either defeating the opponents without realizing it in PoFV, defeating the opponent by ''taking pictures of them'' in a spin-off game, to holding back in the most recent game. Then again, Aya is quite popular with the target demographic...
** In said spin-off game, she outdoes the series' main character Reimu Hakurei in defeating [https://web.archive.org/web/20110125174924/http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Shoot_the_Bullet:_Characters not only more characters in a single game than Reimu has so far], but defeating notorious opponents such as Eirin, Shikieiki, Flandre, Yukari, Mokou and Suika. Not to mention that Shikieiki conjures, as her final attack, Aya's mirrored image against her, and although this mirrored image does use bullet barrages like any of the former and latter opponents, Aya defeats it. By taking pictures of it.
*** Where was it stated that Aya actually defeated anyone in Shoot the Bullet? I thought she just got the pictures she needed and that was it - almost like a photo shoot. After all, the danmaku duels aren't in any way dangerous, and maybe getting hit causes her to lose any pictures she had.
*** Even if non-letal, I guess it hurts. Isn't it a good reason to dodge everything?
*** Vouching for that, in a manga Marisa mentioned that getting hit by a danmaku is like getting pelted with a ball or something. Also, she doesn't defeat them, she just takes their pictures and runs away.
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* [[Fridge Logic|Wait]], so with the announcement of [http://kourindou.exblog.jp/12990219/ Touhou 12.8], [[Squick|starring Cirno]]...
** Squick ''nothing'', he just adopted her.
*** Besides, [[Older Than They Look|she's]] [[Legal Jailbait|over sixty]].
== '''Every single character''' is based on someone ZUN knows. ==
How prominent of an appearance a character has in a game reflects how much contact he had with them in real life during the making of that game. He never admits this to protect his friends from [[Loony Fan
Obviously, he moved sometime between the PC-98 games and the Windows games. This explains why almost none of the PC-98 characters returned in the Windows games; the few who have either moved as well or are/were frequent visitors.
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== Maribel Han and Yukari Yakumo are the same person. ==
The basic idea of this fan-theory is that when Maribel sleeps, she dreams that she's Yukari, and when Yukari sleeps, she dreams that she's Maribel. Detailed in [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Maribel_Han her entry] at the Touhou Wiki. It is also worth mentioning that there is no official romanization of her name, so that instead of "Han" her name might actually be "Hearn"
** Furthermore, Hearn was the first non-Japanese-born to have written extensively on youkai, so...
* Alternatively, Maribel is Yukari's puppet, and the true Yukari is yet to appear. When Maribel sleeps, Yukari hijacks her body and gaps her into Gensokyo. When she's done with her, Maribel is sent back but gets to keep the partial memories of what has happened. Because Yukari thinks it's funny to do so.
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* '''Gluttony:''' Yuugi Hoshiguma, the stage 3 boss, is an oni, which means that she's a ''real'' drunkard.
* '''Greed:''' {{spoiler|Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou, the stage 5 boss, likes collecting souls a little bit too much, and evidently doesn't mind "collecting" them from the living (by killing them), as well.}}
* '''Sloth:''' Kisume, the stage-1 mid-boss, is a ''tsurube-otoshi''
* '''Wrath:''' Yamame Kurodani, the stage 1 boss, is described in her profile thusly: "She has no qualms about fighting humans. She has a bright, combative personality." In other words, she's really easy to rile up.
* '''Envy:''' We already knew that Parsee Mizuhashi, the stage 2 boss, was a personification of jealousy.
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== The next Touhou game will finally see the return of Mima. ==
Alright, bear with me. Most, if not all, of the endings from ''Subterranean Animism'' imply that {{spoiler|Kanako Yasaka, final boss of the previous game}}, gave Utsuho the power of nuclear fusion for reasons as yet unclear. Considering [[Earthshattering Kaboom|what Utsuho was planning to ''do'' with that power]], it's hard to imagine what possible gain there could have been in this. I'll tell you what: '''chaos'''. Mistrust. My fellow tropers, I put it to you that the plot of Touhou 12 will reveal that {{spoiler|Kanako}} has been framed by the <s>Scourge</s> Charismatic Spirit of the Hakurei Shrine, as part of a larger plot to reassert herself as a power player in Gensokyo by stealing the Yin-Yang Orbs! Playable characters will include Reimu (natch), and Sanae ({{spoiler|on a mission to clear her goddess' good name}}); Marisa's presence, due to possibly conflicting loyalties, is an X-factor.
* Point: The Moriya stooges are fresh out of a world that ''has electricity''. I'm sure Kanako was just trying to rig up something to power Suwako's multitude of consoles. Air conditioning wouldn't hurt either.
** Tangental Point: she could have always asked Yukari, who apparently owns a Gameboy as a result of Rinnosuke finding one in [[All There in the Manual|one of the non-game works]], since Yukari seems to have unlimited access to electricity and even fuel for Rinnosuke's oil-burning heater.
*** Well, it ''is'' possible that Kanako just doesn't trust Yukari, and, consequently, doesn't want to become dependent on or indebted to her. Given the fact that Yukari is a rather shady character who has manipulated people in the past, such distrust would not be unreasonable.
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** Marx Soul, on the other hand, IS insane.
== [[Justified Trope|Justification]] for [[
Look at it like this: Rinnosuke has firmly established that, if there is sufficient [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|active disbelief]] in a given
* His theory is nowhere near as firmly established as some would like to believe. Too many things from the outside world, which decidedly do ''not'' depend on belief to exist, show up in
** ''Technically''... ''All'' of the electronics shown are future-generation, since Gensokyo [[All There in the Manual|"is in what the outside world would call the Meiji Era (1868-1912)" ("but there are many items that belong in subsequent eras")]]. Unless of course ZUN meant that Gensokyo is [[Born in The Wrong Century|Set In The Wrong Era]] rather than running concurrent to the Meiji Era, and either he or the translator failed to express the proper meaning. [/nitpick]▼
That said, outside of the obvious out-of-character explanation that the [[Lady Land]] is [[Author Appeal]], males ''are'' known to exist in significant qualities in Gensokyo—they just aren't given the spotlight (with Rinnosuke, Unzan, and Genji being the exceptions as of this edit).
▲** ''Technically''... ''All'' of the electronics shown are future-generation, since Gensokyo [[All There in the Manual|"is in what the outside world would call the Meiji Era (1868-1912)" ("but there are many items that belong in subsequent eras")]]. Unless of course ZUN meant that Gensokyo is [[Born in
*** Gensoukyou ''split off'' during the Meiji era, and has mostly stayed there technologically. The games are set roughly at the time of their release.
* Perhaps the modern technology passed through Gensoukyo's border, or Reimu found it in her donation box. Canonically, the borders aren't as foolproof as they should be - Yukari's never fixed the hole Yuyuko formed in PCB, and Maribel can get through the border, as others possibly could.
** If things exist in Gensokyo due to people not believing in them, things such as the Game Boy and iPod were items that were lost by someone in the real world, and the owner stopped believing they'd ever find it again. Which would mean there has to be an awful lot of odd socks in Gensokyo...
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Cirno's power is defined as "Manipulation of Cold." She mainly uses it to make ice. ''But'' who's to say that's the only use of such a power. If she can manipulate Cold, then she can make things colder... or less colder, AKA heating things up by taking away the "cold" in it. She could also instantly reduce something to ''Absolute Zero.'' This destroying it in an instant. Or perhaps taking away so much cold that it burst into flame or even melts or just ''vaporizes.'' Sadly, Cirno's not smart enough to use her power in such creative ways.
* Kind of supported by the fact that Shikieiki judges Cirno to be a menace and thinks that she's a fairy with "a little" too much power.
* The theory's also been put around that Cirno's ability to manipulate cold is just the only bit she's managed to understand of her true ability, the ''ability to manipulate matter at the atomic level'', at which point she pretty much becomes [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]].
* There's a fanfic (called "The Last Stand of Cirno the Valiant") about Cirno training to get stronger, getting closer to that point, but then the rest of the cast descended on her like a bomb. How would you feel when it looks like you'll be upstaged by a "weak ice fairy". On the bright side, she takes out Yuuka, who just lost the last bit of sanity she had.
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'''Cirno''': (After impaling Yuka on an ice spike ''out of thin air'') You lose '''''more.''''' }}
* Alternately, Cirno was once truly one of the strongest youkai in Gensokyo in the distant past. Due to various events, she was sealed into her current state, and will never give up stating that she's the strongest, as she refuses to accept her current status and sink into despair at being depowered into being merely the strongest ''fairy''.
** She was sealed along with Rumia, obviously.
*** A doujinshi along almost these exact lines: Cirno and Rumia were once among the mightiest of youkai, but both lost much of their powers and mental faculties fighting in Yukari's disastrous Lunar Invasion.
*** That doujinshi (''[http://www.mediafire.com/?3njogn3njlj Three Dark Times]''){{Dead link}} also claimed that Yukari, Cirno and Rumia were the only three participants in the Lunar invasion, which doesn't seem too credible. Then again, this is fanon.
* If she combines this power with Utsuho? Their combined ability will produce ''cold fusion.''
** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|That was terrible]].
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* This troper has another take on Cirno's power. According to me, Cirno DOES have the power to make something drop to Absolute Zero, thus killing anyone instantly, just like the original poster theorised. According to me, she IS able to use it. However, just like every other being in Gensokyo, she's forced to abide the Spellcard rule! Her skill in Danmaku is weaker than her skill at properly manipulating cold, and that misleads everyone into thinking she's weak. Her power is on par with the most powerful beings in Gensokyo, but just like them she can't use it, for such is the rule. If Marisa ever fought Cirno without Cirno playing by the danmaku rules, Marisa would freeze instantly, and then Cirno would make her shatter to pieces and laugh.
* Further evidence, especially of the spellcard thing: Cirno has appeared five times. First two times she was one of the wimpiest bosses in the game. In her fourth appearance she's tied for third and fourth boss, though she's fighting against Aya at the peak of her author favoritism so nothing short of Yukari stands a chance. But in her third and fifth appearances, she appears as a playable character. In ''PoFV'' she's still an "early" boss but is capable of beating up a bunch of A-listers if you follow a non-canon story path, but in ''Hisoutensoku'' she's on the same level as, and has a storyline where she beats up Marisa, Alice, Utsuho, Sanae, and Hong Meiling. Looking at China, she was a pushover in ''EoSD'' too but can hold her own in ''Hisoutensoku'' as well; it has been stated in canon that she's good at martial arts but not at spellcard battles. Why this leveling of the playing field for those two? Because in ''IAMP'', ''SWR'' and ''Hisoutensoku'' the characters are no longer following the spellcard system, but a hybrid of the spellcard system and real fighting. So Cirno and Hong Meiling get to stop playing their solely weakest suits and get massive boosts in power... which only makes sense if Cirno also had a great deal of power which she was unable to use in spellcard battles but can draw upon in ''SWR''. If she was allowed to fight without spellcards altogether, she would probably be able to take anyone. And now there is Fairy Wars in which she is the only playable character...
** Addendum: Meiling was a joke character in ''IAMP'' because she was out of
*** Also, don't forget that the entire cast of fighting games (And so ''Hisoutensoku'') is composed of very high ranked characters.
* Cirno should be able to use [[Kurt Vonnegut|Ice-nine]], no?
** She could until [[8-Bit Theater
*** She still can create it, but she doesn't because [[Obfuscating Stupidity|if she froze all the water in the world, most people would die... then who would she reign upon when she finally decides to step out of the shadows?]]
* Cirno doesn't "Manipulate Cold". That's Letty. Cirno's ability is "Manipulation of Cold AIR", according to Letty's interview.
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** Flandre is 495 or so years old; humans don't live that long. Flandre's power is more related to Kira Yoshikage's Killer Queen stand than anything in Type-Moon.
*** I know. I was thinking time travel would have to be involved for this to be true. Yes, time travel is impossible in Type-Moon, I don't care.
**** Miss Blue, user of the Fifth True Magic ("Manipulation of the concept of time, allowing true time travel") would like a word with you, as would the [[Fate/stay
** Still seems a bit nonsensical, on that note, there is quite a bit of Flandre and Noriaki Kakyoin fanart appearing, what's that all about?
== Sakuya is a Lunarian. ==
Her themesong is called "Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial." Kaguya, a Lunarian, has the ability "manipulation of eternity", which is quite similar in effect to Sakuya's "manipulation of time." Also note that according to Eirin's profile, Eirin was "surprised" to see Sakuya during the events of ''Imperishable Night'', and she doesn't seem to be concerned with her own mortality when Remilia brings up the subject after defeating [[Bonus Boss|Mokou]]
* Alternatively, ''Sakuya is Eirin''. Due to an accident involving the Luna Dial, Eirin accidentally created a younger, amnesiac temporal double of herself, whom she quietly shipped to Earth's future (i.e. contemporary times) to avoid ... political problems. And then she made the Elixir for Kaguya and got actually exiled to Earth, oh well.
** Or, ''Sakuya was created using Kaguya and Eirin's DNA''. This explains all of the above, without the discrepancies included.
** This editor still prefers the {{spoiler|"Sakuya is Shirou, Eirin is Archer"}} theory in this case.
*** This editor feels {{spoiler|"Eirin shot the arrow that gave Sakuya her time manipulation. Making Sakuya Dio Brando and Eirin Enya Geil"}} is a much more plausible explanation anyday.
*** Yeah... I'm not sure the {{spoiler|"Sakuya is to Eirin as [[
**** They're both washboards if we go by ZUN's art.
* Another possibility; it is mentioned that the Lunarians used Earth as a prison/place of exile, which strongly implies that Kaguya and Eirin are not the first or only Lunarians to end up on Earth. So here's what I think: either Sakuya is such an exiled Lunarian, or one of her parents was. Especially the latter possibility would explain why Sakuya is commonly considered human in spite of having time-space manipulating powers that are far beyond what even modern human technology is capable of, and it would also neatly explain why she is in possession of a Luna Dial (which might even be some kind of secret or forbidden technology, and the fact that she, or her parent, acquired one could very well be the reason he/she got exiled to Earth in the first place).
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== Cirno is farsighted. ==
Why else would she have a huge blind spot right in front of her when she casts Icicle Fall
* [[Ace Of Scarabs|This troper]] always thought that that was her first spellcard ever, and, being rather childish, she always leads with it despite it being her weakest spellcard.
* This troper has read a good theory on Youtube: Cirno uses this spellcard not because she's stupid, but because she's actually smart and expects, perfectly rationally, that no opponent would be idiotic enough to go and stand in front of her face. When she finds out she's wrong, it's too late...
* This troper once saw a comic showing Cirno using Icicle Fall ''
** Is there a link to the comic?
== Touhou was imagined by all the British queens... ==
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* Flesh regeneration really isn't ''that'' hard to manage. It's just most "outside" Liches are cursed by gods for accomplishing immortality. Skull faces are not pretty, and any god-like being in Gensokyo would sooner die then have [[The Beautiful Elite|anything not be pretty.]]
** Well Kanako does mention that a smile is more effective in attracting believers than intimidating them with her powers.
*** Pff no wonder she was losing followers. ''[[Black and White|* Get's back to the important work of sicing his creature on some poor hapless villagers*
* Not unless she went about turning into a youkai a really roundabout way. According to ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Memento In The Strict Sense]]'', all you need is to learn a couple of spells that apparently aren't that difficult if you have ready access to magic books.
** The series is rather schizophrenic about that. Marisa refuses to say whether she's capable of studying immortality or choosing not to; even when the context should bring it up. (Like when discussing the Hourai Elixir.) Also, Hermits seem to go through a lot of trouble for something "easy" for Magicians to do.
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== Sakuya is a close relative of Youmu. ==
Both Sakuya and Youmu have pale gray/white hair (most likely a recesive gene). Sakuya has time magic which could have been used to train Youmu to become super fast. Sakuya may have been the "oddball" of the family and not been able to learn swordsmanship or the family was divided into certain weapon sections. It is not clarified what Sakuya's real name is, so her last name could indeed be Konpaku. Maybe she was a vampire hunter and when defeated by Remilia she was [[Easy Amnesia|hit in the head and had severe amnesia]], never remembering her previous life. Youmu may have been young at this time so she didn't remember Sakuya causing the battle in ''PCB''. Although Sakuya is estimated to be
* Alright, so where's Sakuya's "Myon"? Surely you're not forgetting the most important distinguishing feature of a half-ghost.
** The "myon" might have wandered off when Sakuya forgot about being a Konpaku.
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It was because Bugs Bunny led the moon rabbits.
* With [[Sailor Moon]] and [[Tsukihime|Arcueid Brunestud]] flanking.
* Add in [[Watership Down|General Woundwort]] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z8GK-Ikwbo this guy], with [[Monty Python and
* Reportedly, she did it to show the other youkai about how bad war could be. Just As Planned.
== Aya isn't ZUN's girlfriend, but rather, his ''[[Author Avatar|self-insert character.]]'' ==
It makes some amount of sense, if you think about it a little bit. First, there's the [http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5514/zunandayacomparisonef3.jpg matching outfits] (as well as the black hair and [[Nice Hat]].) Secondly, Aya, being a tengu, ''loves'' to
== Yukari's first Lunar Invasion was actually a plot to eliminate the most powerful youkai of Gensokyo ==
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* Mother and daughter; Alice was actually ''created'' by Shinki, an [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Artificial Child"]] if you will.
** As a side note, since Shinki claims to have created everyone and everything in Makai, this would also make most or all of the other characters from Mystic Square her "daughters" in the same sense and Alice's sisters.
* Foster mother and daughter: Alice fell down the [[Shout
* ABSOLUTELY NOTHING: Shinki and Makai were [[Ret
** The Makai still exists; no word on Shinki, though.
* Renter and outsider. Alice was a human who had been training to [[Witch Species|magician-ship]] since childhood. Mid-training, she somehow found her way to Makai. Somehow, Shinki let Alice stay as long as she'd like.
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* [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Marisa's biological mother]]; this is [[Word of God|somewhat implied by a music CD of ZUN's]].
* [[Stern Teacher|Marisa's teacher]], and possibly a sort of "adoptive" mother.
* The spirit of a member of the Hakurei family, possibly a branch member.
* The [[Physical God|goddess of the Hakurei shrine]]. [[Word of God|She had been canonically referred to as like both spirit and diety.]]
* [[Epileptic Trees|The same soul as Marisa, from an earlier life]]. Bear with me for a moment here! Going from that same story snippet in a music CD that gives rise to the "Mima is Marisa's mother" theory, the reason people assume it to be about Mima is that the song it accompanies is one of her themes. But taken on its own, the story seems more to be implying the same thing as the title of the song states: ''Reincarnation''.<br />So what about the fact that Mima and Marisa clearly exist at the same time? Well, Mima is often referred to as a ghost, but she herself insists that she isn't one (and, in fact, denies being dead at all), while ZUN more commonly calls her an evil spirit. There has already been some distinction made in the Touhou universe among various types of lost souls and similar phenomena; ghosts, phantoms, and evil spirits are all different things. It's also been stated in ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' that a vengeful spirit can divide itself without lessening or otherwise affecting the original, and that this is essentially a characteristic of spirits or souls. Who's to say some part of a person's essence couldn't move on to reincarnation while still leaving something behind? Mima herself is said to have been an evil spirit for a very long time, so much so that she doesn't remember much of her own evilness. It's likely that she's quite different from whoever or whatever she originally was.
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== Yukari's gaps are connected to [[Fullmetal Alchemist|the Gate of Truth]] ==
In addition to the creepy eyes, her [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104033928/http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/File:YukariPCB.png official sprite in PCB has hands coming out of it] and they aren't hers, much like the titular Gate in FMA. Considering that a gate is just another boundary...
== Shou is Pudge from DotA ==
She looks like being patched together from several other characters (the Ringband of Komachi, the hairstyle of Shizuha, the Hip of Yamame, the clothes of Reimu etc.) and can "attract" Treasure. Pudge does that using a meathook. Also Pudge can slay living stuff and [[Nausea Fuel|patch it on himself.]]
* Speaking about similarities, she's blond and has a spear, but she's not Valkyrie from
== Another goddess will be introduced later. ==
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# Hina, yes, she can apply every curse on someone she wants. This implies eg. "Imperius" of ''[[Harry Potter]]''. A curse which causes the cursed person to lose it's will and that person will only do the bidding of the one, who layed the curse upon it (in this case Hina). So she has omnipotence by forcing another Omnipotent being to do what she wants.
** [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, cause the Imperius has never been resisted, and certainly not by a half-trained human teenager before...]] I don't think it'd work on Omnipotents.
* As pointed out further down the page, Yuugi, who was explicitly holding back the only time we've seen her to now, has the "Power to control supernatural phenomena". That may mean she can just say "Oh, you want to alter my fate/rewrite my history/will me out of existence? Well I say that's ''not'' going to happen. What now?" In the end, though, I think what we end up with is a high noon
* Don't forget Sanae, who can create [[Deus Ex Machina|miracles]].
* Except that the powers aren't absolute. If they were, practically every character would break the scale. Yukari couldn't gap to the moon, she had to wait for specific conditions. Satori can't read people's thoughts if they're too far away. Yuyuko can't kill people who are immortal, Cirno can't freeze the nuclear furnace, Remilia's skill is implied to be tied to name-fortunes, meaning Yukari would have to accept a new name to get fate-changed, and even then it's a general fate, not a "you die in two seconds from X" deal. It's plausible that abilities flat out fail if contested against a stronger being- Yukari saw through Keine's history-hiding and ignored Suika's gathering, for example. Finally, the only (I think) specific canonical instance of one ability going against another was the last phase of the Kaguya fight, where she tries to break the eternal night enchantment. If abilities were absolute, she'd just be able to manipulate eternity to break it instantly. Instead she has to distract the protagonists with a barrage and break it in bits while they're recovering.
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== ZUN is trolling the PC-98 fanbase. ==
In Touhou 12 there are so many [[Shout
* When combined with the above theories, however, it works out to more hopeful conclusions. Or ZUN is having a [[Writer Revolt]] and honestly doesn't want to go back to his old work for reasons that no doubt will eventually be speculated at and become WMGs of their own, slipping in tantalizing references either as subtle Player Punches or as a way of rewarding the old fans with easter eggs and references..
* References is the wrong word. The most recent charaters are Ripoffs from existing characters such as Nue is Flandre, Murasa is Chiyuri, and Byakuren is Mima.
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** On the other hand, Kogasa fits as an [[Expy]] of Kana Anaberal (they both fail to scare their intended targets).
* If I may redirect your attention to [http://www.gensokyo.org/archives/92#more-92 this]:
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'''ZUN:''' Well, it would be a huge pain to try to bring in older characters all the time. They'd show up, and everyone would be, "Where have you been all this time!?" It'd be weird to fit them into the story. And, I'd rather make new characters. Of course, I won't say they'll never show up again...
So that means that he's not ''intentionally'' trolling the fanbase -- he's simply going with whatever's most plausible for the storyline. }}
** The question is flawed. Alice? She lived on in Alice Margatroid!
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In the shooting games (where you can clearly see a spell-card based duel), Reimu has [[Boring Invincible Hero|never, ever lost]], for being able to rig the competition into her inevitable victory. However, in the fighters (where you clearly see that the combat is real), she hasn't won even a single battle in canon, and is the [[Character Tiers|Rock bottom of the matchup table in SWR.]]
* Well, nobody wants to attack her at full power due to fears that her defeat might trigger the Hakurei border's collapse, placing Gensokyo back in Japan. Nobody wants this, except possibly Sanae.
* Nobody isn't correct -
== VIVIT is a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Cyborg combined of Marisa and Ruukoto]] ==
In order to live along with Alice, Marisa had to find a way, to live as long as her. And since of her easygoing and careless nature, she wasn't able to use the anti-aging spell Patchy and Alice used, since it needs far more discipline than Marisa has. So she went with her burglar-nature and stole Ruukoto from the Hakurei Shrine. Afterwards she needed someone competent to fuse her and Ruukoto together. So she went with Rinnosuke and Nitori, because Rinnosuke has a good quantity of spare parts and tools, and Nitori possesses the know-how to do so. But this was a mistake. Somehow Flandre got informed of this project and during a party at SDM she informed Keine how much this insults human life and how humanity could be artificially enslaved with that. Therefore Keine erased the Knowledge of Marisa, Rinnosuke and Nitori. Marisa was told that she was VIVIT, a robot maid and Rinnosuke was told he would be Erich, an engineer in robotics. That opened the doors for [[Batman Gambit|Flandre's Plan]] to disguise herself as Marisa to get free of the SDM basement. VIVIT's enhanced optics demasked Flan-Marisa and so in Seihou her memory comes back, and she is taking revenge on her, for stealing her life.
* I disagree with the beginning at least, because Mari's nature is not easygoing and careless. She's in fact one of the hardest workers in Gensokyo, which has allowed her to become a powerful witch even if she is a human of human blood (as opposed to her immensely gifted, horribly lazy rival Reimu). If Marisa wants to master a spell, as long as it's within her field of competence she will do it. About her stealing people's spellcards: this is a must for her, since she has no powers of her own, therefore must resort to spells developed by others. I can however guarantee you it took her lots and lots of hard work to get that Master Spark right. Somehow it seems to me there's more to it than the 4 simple steps she describes.
== Cirno is a fan of [[The Beatles]]. ==
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== Komachi is really a ''[[Bleach]]'' shinigami ==
As such she could Bankai; the reason why her Zanpakutou is a scythe instead of a sword is that her's is like Ichigo's and Kenpachi's in that its always in shikai state. Also, she's closely related enough to Matsumoto Rangiku which would explain her lazyness and nice chest(as frequently portrayed).
* But she says in game that she can see lifespans, just like [[
** That's because she's the ultimate shinigami; the Soul Queen. She is the target of [[Bleach]]'s [[Big Bad]]. It's also why she always slacks off; [[Brilliant but Lazy|she's just not used to work]]. And it's also the reason Shiki doesn't fire her; she doesn't have the authority, although she can still lecture her. Finally, it's why she is so strong, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|strong enough to defeat Tenshi in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]].
== The Touhous are substantially less powerful than the games suggest. ==
This is my oft-trumped WMG, so I might as well plant this mutha here for safekeeping. The idea is this: all the characters' assorted useless-sounding superpowers, with the handful of really unspeakably stupidly powerful ones, work just as described and no further up or down the power scale. Danmaku is in fact a separate magical skill used to solve problems or blow off steam in a violent-feeling but non-violent fashion; skill at danmaku is independent of one's innate mystic powers. The 'Soak is not merely a place for monsters and such to hang out, but a sort of nature reserve to keep those too weird to live and too rare to die from getting steamrolled by superstition or the march of progress, as well as segregating the truly terrifying from a world where they would do the most bad.
It is fortunate that so far all the big nasties have consented to fight using the harmless-but-flashy danmaku style, because otherwise all sorts of planetary holocausts could've gone down by
* Reimu can still fly away from reality and watch as stuff passes through her while wiping her enemy out. She's still so broken.
* Now. When you say "The Touhous" I read "A few of the Touhous". Suppose Danmaku was indeed harmless (and it's not, because no matter what you say, danmaku IS related to someone's mystic powers, Mokou throws fireballs, and Utsuho mini-stars!). Well, suppose it's harmless, for whom is it a disadvantage really? Rumia, with the power to make it dark? Lily White, with the power to announce spring? Flandre will still blow you up in one hit, and Remilia can manipulate fate with all the implications of it, and Sakuya can freeze time and beat you up, and Mokou is immortal, and Yuyuko can kill you with a thought, etc. Hell, even Cirno Baka has the power of "manipulation of cold". She chills you all the way up to absolute zero, you die, end of story. Basically, there's rather "a handful of useless superpowers" and "a lot of really powerful ones", not the other way around. You do have a point by saying, I quote, "It is fortunate that so far all the big nasties have consented to fight using the harmless-but-flashy danmaku style, because otherwise all sorts of planetary holocausts could've gone down by now". In fact Danmaku really has the objective to give mortals like Reimu and Marisa the ability to fight badasses like Flandre and Yuyuko without getting killed on the spot. But this is not a WMG anymore. It's frigging canon. It's in ''Perfect Memento''.
* Danmaku is almost certainly related to magical power in so far as some amount of the later is required to do it, but beyond a certain level it's probably more a matter of skill then power. Reimu and Marisa are quite likely so good at it because they you know ''do it all the time''. Touhou characters do tend to have there powers exaggerated sometimes to the point of lunacy in fanon though, for all the talk of Yukari's supposed neigh omnipotence for instances she's never actually demonstrated many special talents besides creating a large magical barrier (WITH HELP) and teleporting. Certainly she's never shown the kind of casual reality warping omnipotence that the most outlandish and vague interpretation of the curt description of her powers could be stretched to include.
* Don't forget that Reimu took down many powerful humans/youkais/whatevers (Marisa, Mima, Yuka, Shinki...) before the spellcard rule creation. Not only every not so powerful youkais but even stronger HAD to accept Reimu's rule to escape a pure and merciless annihilation. Reimu was just too lazy to hunt all youkais at once, so she made a rule to prevent an uncontrolled threat. Also before mentioning any flawless hax (boundaries, fate, death manipulation), think about Reimu being THE shrine maiden and how a godly power may protect her. I guess youkais had to think about pure skill/power to accept the rule.
* Still, why was Utsuho obeying the rules? She can't destroy Gensokyo when she abides to the rules and she wouldn't fear that Gensokyo vanishes without Reimu, because that's what she wanted. Heck, why would anyone cause a ruckus then? Due to the spellcard rules (and to your theory, without them) not a single youkai could defeat Reimu.
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== Rating a Touhou character's power according to his/her stage is stupid. ==
This is made up from one thing: Sariel is the Final Boss of ''The Highly Responsive to Prayers'', a Stage 20 Boss. If the power scaling goes up as expected (With EX-Bosses equaling Stage7 and Yukari equaling Stage8), she could singlehandedly destroy Gensokyo, [[The End of the World
* We also shouldn't forget Yuuka Kazami in Lotus Land Story, now should we. She was the boss for both Stage 5 and Stage 6!
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130113034224/http://doyora.deviantart.com/art/Not-Even-Drop-91078512 Combined with the above post, do I even have to say it?]
* Sariel is really a stage 4 boss. Stages in ''HRtP'' are divided into 4 levels, then a boss. I think.
** Nope: There are four stages without a boss, and a boss stage after each of those sets. And because of the split route, there are ''six'' characters that would build the top tier: YuugenMagan, Mima, Kikuri, Elis, Sariel and Konngara. Also, I'd rather rate the character's power by their win ratio, as it would imply Yukari would be at ''zero percent'', as battles done in teams are not legit for the ladder (bad luck for you, ''IN'' pairs). Reimu's and Marisa's wins in SA still count, as they only take a skill of the youkai with them, making those not participate in battles.
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** No Yuka would be the EX-boss. Mima would be Phantasm. XD
== The UFO cast correspond to the [
This is barely a WMG, since ZUN somehow managed to reference them with UFOs at the same time, but let's put it here for reference. Inspired by a fanart I can't find:
* '''Hotei:''' Often seen in American Chinese restaurants, representing good health and abudance. Probably Kogasa Tatara.
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* Note that if you accept the similar SA theory above also, it meant that Satan released the Seven Gods of Fortune by accident. Talk about mixed metaphors!
== Sakuya is a [[Vampire: The Masquerade
One of the primary ways that vampires in the ''[[
* This makes even more sense if you're talking about ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' ghouls, which can learn certain disciplines.
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== Mokou was given the power of a Phoenix by [[The Phoenix|an actual Phoenix]]. ==
Popular [[Fanon]], putting it down here. Unless it's an [[X
== The PC-98 games and Windows games take place in different timelines that are connected somehow. ==
There's several rather significant differences between the settings and characters of the PC-98 games and the Windows games - the appearant absence of the [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Draft_of_Spell_Card_Rules Spellcard Rules] in the PC-98 games, the fact that PC-98 Reimu rides Genji rather than flying by herself, Alice originallly being (or at least * looking* ) a lot younger than than Marisa and Reimu while she's implied to be a lot older than them in the Windows games, the presence of some high-tech weapons in the PC-98 games (Rika's tanks, Mimi-chan the ICBM) - but at the same time, there's also a few hints that the two settings/timelines are not completely separate continuities. One of the best arguments for this is the dialogue between Alice and Reimu in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''; Alice clearly reckognizes Reimu, and even asks her "Don't you remember me?" in a way that can only refer to their encounter in Mystic Square. Yet at the same time, Alice is - thanks to her backstory and mysterious age-up - * also* one of the best arguments for why the events of Mystic Square cannot have taken place in the timeline of the Windows games. The only logical explanation for this (other than this just being a mere [[Shout
== Marisa's supposed insanity... ==
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== "Nue Houjuu" isn't her real name. ==
"Nue" is the name of her species, and the kanji for "Houjuu", as written, means "[[Sealed Evil in
* Satori is also named after her race.
* Perhaps the names "Nue" and "Satori" are thought of as names for particularly exemplary members of their species, similar to how "Andrew," derived from a word that means "man," means "manly."
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* Yukari eats humans by putting in them in one of her gaps.
* Utsuho's another man-(and ''god'')-eating heavyweight, as Reimu and Suika's ''Subterranean Animism'' scenario shows (some lines cut for brevity):
{{quote|
'''Reimu:''' She must eat mostly fried meat, then. That'll be bad for her when she's older.
'''Suika:''' But, it looks like she's eaten something pretty bad.
'''Utsuho:''' What are you mumbling on about? Did you come on a trip here to get eaten?
'''Suika:''' I can feel something that doesn't belong in hell. She's ... Probably eaten a god.
'''Utsuho:''' See, your body's getting burned up pretty nicely now. I want to eat you up right now, but it's not good to rush. You have to let it fry just the right amount for it to taste the best. }}
* This considered, Rumia's probably one of the nicer humanitarians in the series, since she asked politely first.
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Alright, so Byakuren's not quite an expy of Shinki (borrowing one spellcard? Jeez), but she's apparently close enough to piss off some fans. If ZUN did this for his own personal amusement, my guess is that for the next game he will create another character borrowing at least a few of Mima's spell patterns, to [[Unpleasable Fanbase|further enrage us]] and/or emphasize the point that [[Brother Chuck|Mima's not coming back]].
* Who would know, maybe he did it before, But [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Patchouli_Knowledge we] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yuyuko_Saigyouji didn't] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yukari_Yakumo know] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Sanae_Kotiya who.]
* Hell, We even have a New [
* If he did that, half the fans would just insist that it's Mima operating under an alias anyway.
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* Plus if you want to go the Sakuya-was-a-former-vampire-hunter route, note what is frequently a [[Dhampyr]]'s employment in that entry.
* Clever, but there's one small problem - she can go 100% human in ''IN'', while half-ghost Youmu can only go 50%.
* If so, she must be [[
** And considering that Dio is a massive asshole in Jojo canon, this gives Sakuya all the motivation she needs to be a vampire hunter.
== Despite how she seems to act, Reimu's turned into a [[Blood Knight]]. ==
In both of her scenarios in ''Unidentified Fantastic Object'', she acts like she's bigoted towards Youkai when she's talking to Byakuren, but we all know she's made friends with a good number of them. It's possible that she just wanted a good adrenaline rush, and thought that Byakuren would give her the challenge she needed, so she essentially [[
* On the other hand, Reimu may have serious identity issues about being both the Hakurei Maiden as well as a growing girl, because her emotions may get in the way of some of the harder parts of her duty (although this may not be a problem at the moment in the currently peaceful Gensokyo). Danmaku play may be something she can really identify with herself, as her identity role while in danmaku combat is very simple. Therefore, she developed an addiction to danmaku play to escape from any possible conflicts between her life and her duty.
* It should be noted that for all the Yokai Jesus or Martin Luther King jokes we make; Hijiri focused on peace for Yokai more than for humans. Marisa and Reimu mention that humans still need protecting; and that will result in conflict with Yokai.
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== Wriggle Nightbug was originally a boy ==
Gensokyo has some sort of [[Gender Bender]]-inducing field, and Wriggle wears pants because she only recently made the switch-over and hasn't adjusted. This also explains why there are so few males known of in
== Gensokyo actually has a matriarchal society. ==
There are only four known males in the land, with the rest being insignificant characters who apparently spend all their time at home. Of the male characters, two are servants for female characters. one has mysteriously vanished without a trace, and one runs a shop that, despite a prime location, is inexplicably devoid of customers except a few "nuisances." Obviously, the males [[Stay in
* It's likely that something in Gensokyo's gene pool or magic field causes only women to gain magical powers, and therefore the men simply don't participate in the conflicts (i.e in the games) because they can't, due to magical ineptitude. They exist, they're just so unsignificant we don't see them. The exceptions being a FEW animal youkai, such as Genjii, and some elementals, like Unzan. Rinnosuke is one of the men who would normally not be seen in the games due to absense of powers and therefore of importance. He gets introduced in a book and from what I know, never does any fighting whatsoever.
* I might as well post my theory on the subject: Most of the major (humanoid) youkai in Gensokyo are shapeshifters, who take [[Moe Moe]] girl forms to distract youkai hunters. This in turn leads to the humans assigning youkai hunting to the religious and to women, who are less easily swayed by feminine wiles. Thus, most of the characters we encounter (youkai hunters and youkai) are female, with menfolk in minor roles and behind the scenes.
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== Hong Meiling is actually a human, not a youkai. ==
* Although she's repeatedly described as a youkai, it's never been clear what sort of youkai she would be, and indeed, she seems more like Gensokyo's human population... except for the implication that she eats people. It's possible that she's just a cannibal, and people have assumed that she's a youkai because eating people is something they
* Remember when she described herself as "just a normal person" in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''...
* There's been some evidence that she's a Hong, or rainbow-dragon. While it's not exactly confirmed, the fact that her fighting style uses rainbows and her Chinese origin gives some evidence in favor that she is a Hong.
** So what you're saying is [
== Humans can extend their lives by becoming youkai. ==
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== Marisa is connected to Maribel Hearn and/or Yukari Yakumo ==
On the drama CD "Dolls in Pseudo Paradise", the character described in the story attached to "Reincarnation" is considered to be Mima, and her daughter is then Marisa. ''But Mima looks nothing like Marisa''. Then who could it be? Why not look at the [
== Powers have an inverse effect on usefulness ==
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== In order to enter Gensokyo, Kanako and Suwako completely erased themselves (and Sanae) from Outside World existence. ==
Even without faith, they would have existed in some non-corporeal form; at the very least through stories told by historians about what people used to believe. They may even have been able to have been "summonable" the way the Shinto Gods are in ''Silent Sinner in Blue''. But they wanted to remain corporeal. So they took all the stories and records and memories that the Outer World had of them; and threw it into the [[Ret
* This is probably canon.
* I'd sort of assumed they followed the Hakurei shrine example which IIRC exists on both sides, but is abandoned and run down in the outside world. So basically one day the shrine is suddenly empty and everyone is scratching their heads over where the teenage Miko living in it went.
* Maybe they did force the barrier. And the result of ending up in Gesokyo caused the memories of their existence to vanish from the outside world. Chicken or the Egg.
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== Touhou doujin is produced in Gensokyo ==
This was proposed in #tropers-touhou. Basically, Touhou doujin is the porn industry of Gensokyo: Patchu writes them, Koishi makes them happen, Aya takes the pictures, and Keine erases the history/evidence. Then, Kaguya uploads them to the Internet. The black-and-white manga style comes from a combination of data loss when the upload crosses the border and the fact that everyone in Gensokyo really looks [[Super
== Maribel is a young Yukari. ==
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== The Lunarians are [[Final Fantasy IV|Lunarians]] ==
At the end of ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' the Red Moon, and all the Lunarians aboard, left the Blue Planet in search of a planet that was [[You Are Not Ready|ready for them]]. Eventually they happened upon the planet Earth according to Touhou, complete with a seperate realm full of empowered humans, youkai, etc. The Lunarians decided that this planet was ready for them and stayed.<br />This also means that the lunar rabbits are the current form of the Hummingway species, who were shown to be quite rabbitlike in ''Final Fantasy IV DS'' and ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
== ZUN has only learned how to draw males relatively recently ==
ZUN has always drawn everything for the Touhou series himself, even though ZUN isn't exactly the best artist ever. This seems to suggest that ZUN takes a certain amount of pride in drawing everything himself. Since he seems to have an obsession with creating female characters, it's not that huge of a stretch to suggest that at least during the PC-98 era ZUN simply had no clue how to draw a character that looked male. Instead of getting someone else to do the art, however, ZUN decided that since he liked to design female characters anyway, he should just make the cast be all-female. Notice that before Rinnosuke, none of the male characters were even remotely humanoid.
This all changed during the Windows era, when ZUN decided that he might as well try to draw male characters for once. Wriggle Nightbug was practice for him, as even though she was a female character she has feature usually associated with male characters, and is one of the first touhou characters to wear pants. ZUN couldn't draw a guy character in a dress, now could he? Rinnosuke is the result of his practice, but now that the tradition of Touhou having only female spellcasters has been established, it's doubtful ZUN will ever get to draw more males.
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* Nope. Regular shooter
== [[Baka|Cirno]] is the forger of the [[Idiot Ball|Idiot]] [
Cirno used to be one of the smartest beings in any dimension. So smart she was, that she discovered the secret of stupidity. All excited by the revelation, she created a powerful weapon using her newfound knowledge... a simple crystal orb emitting a strong mind flaying aura that immediately drops the IQ of anyone to come in contact with it. It would be called the Idiot Ball...<br />Sadly, the creation of the Ball did not come without a price... prolonged contact irreversibly ruined the genius Cirno's mind, turning her into [[Baka|what she is now.]] The secret of stupidity was sadly lost along with Cirno's intellect.
* Then how did [[
== ZUN really wants permission to include Jojo characters as partners to the protagonists in a game. ==
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This is why Marisa is paired up with so many people.
* It's powered by love... [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/11/27/8-bit-chronicles-3-of-3/ that is sucked out of the universe a little bit at a time]
** All right, who HASN'T Marisa stolen from?
Okay, two theories on Meiling:
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* ZUN specifically says that the timeline is wonky, and encourages fans to disregard it.
== Nazrin is a [[Magic:
As you can [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193658 clearly see], at some point there was an Ondu '''Relic Hunter''' named Javad '''Nasrin'''. And those Eldrazi relics look rather like her dowsing crystals. Clearly, at some point Javad managed to gain control of Eldrazi tech, becoming a planeswalker, and ultimately ending up in Gensoukyou, where people started misspelling her name.
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== The [[True Final Boss]] of the last Touhou game ever made will be Rinnosuke. ==
The plot of the game will most likely be the result of Marisa and Reimu getting into a fight that will end up completely destroying his antiques store. In a fit of righteous fury Rinnosuke will unlock his true power and transform into the fundoshi-clad [[Memetic Badass|MANosuke]] who then, wielding the legendary [[Cool Sword|Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi]] he obtained from Marisa during Curiosities of Lotus Asia, will go on [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|the warpath]] effortlessly owning all who stand in his way. The end of the story will see Reimu and Marisa join forces in a desperate last ditch attempt to stop him in a battle that will shake the foundations of Gensokyo and which will be hailed through the Internets as the most [[Bullet Hell|seizure-inducing]], [[Nintendo Hard|nerve-racking]], [[Harder Than Hard|bone-breaking]], [[Hot
And then they'll all go have tea.
* You forgot the [[Brutal Bonus Level|Extra Stage]], where [[The Woobie|Tok]][[The Chew Toy|iko]] (having [[Took a Level
== Sakuya is a former werewolf. ==
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== Star Sapphire = Kaguya Houraisan. ==
First of all, they look exactly alike. You're probably thinking, "But Star Sapphire has wings!" Kaguya could have clip on wings, or Eirin has made a potion that can temporarily give wings to someone (most likely the former). Star Sapphire is also the only one of the Three Mischevious Fairys that isn't affected by the time of day. Neither is Kaguya. Both have resurective immortality. As for why they have different abilities, she could temporarily seal one of them while in each of her personas to prevent accidental ability discharge, or she could just choose not to use them. Also, we've never exactly seen Star's spellcards in action, so we don't know whether or not they are the same, and if they aren't, she could have two sets of spellcards. (This WMG has been brought to you by [[
* Star Sapphire is about a meter high.
** Kaguya takes care of that with Eirin's "shady drugs"
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A "world where children don't smile" and tender fruits are extinct; this is why Maribel's and Renko's world is a little colder and grayer than ours. Such feelings aren't completely gone, but they are harder to get to.
== Keine is a [[Doctor Who
[[Ret
** Don't worry. [[Time Lord/WMG|Sakuya is a Timelord.]] They'll be fine.
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(Just a note here: I'm taking the fact that every boss's power goes up by the same amount each stage; that is to say, Youmu is to Yuyuko what Shou is to Byakuren.)
Let's start with Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil. Since Reimu and Marisa defeat everyone in that continuity, that places the two of them at the top of the metaphorical food chain in Gensokyo. Next is Perfect Cherry Blossom. Since Sakuya was a stage 5 boss in Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil and she defeats
Imperishable Night is where it gets a little weird. Since Reimu and Marisa are only stage 4 bosses in this game, that means that they are weaker than Reisen, Kaguya, Eirin and Mokou. Because every boss's power goes up by the same amount each stage, that means that Mokou is, canonically, the strongest up until this point. Since Mokou is never in any other games, though, we can't gauge her power level against other youkai.
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(A word on the next two games, Subterranean Animism and Unidentified Fantastic Object: they are widely regarded as the hardest games in the Windows continuity of Touhou; therefore, I will rule their characters' power levels as a bit higher than the rest of 'em.)
Reimu and
Granted, I know that anyone can win spell-card battles (trust me, attempting to 1cc UFO lunatic will teach that to you...), but Koishi and Mokou are just the two that are the "favorites to win", shall we say.
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As Duke Nukem forever was cancled, something MUST take it steed as there must always be a Duke Nukem forever. Touhou, was given this role.
Think of it like this.
Touhou 12 and 12.3 comes out. We then skip over Winter Comiket. Now Double Spoiler Comes out, as Another spinoff. Recently declared on July
There will never be a Touhou 13, as the highly anticipated Touhou 13, which is the Storm after the calm (claimed by Reimu in TH 12.3) will never happen.
* [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees|DEAR GOD,]] [[Big No|NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!]]
** And [[
* 13 has now been announced
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*** This is looking more and more likely, in chapter 9 of ''Wild And Horned Hermit'' she hides from Suika to "avoid being identified."
== Mima returning in the windows games will be the [[
And it's totally gonna happen in 12.8.
* Jossed. Still have hope for 13.
* [[
== ZUN can actually draw very well. The reason he doesn't is because if he did, the epicness would collapse the universe. ==
Why not?
* Why would he intentionally draw badly? Simple: He's like the guy who made [[
** In fact, he created a ''real'' copy of Gensokyo before he made the games, so there are now ''three'' Gensokyos in existence:
== Alice is actually infertile. ==
When she was human, Alice was infertile. In a last ditch effort to have her own child, she became a magician, and attempted to create a living doll using human souls. She was however punished for her sins and sealed in Makai (much like Byakuren was). There she encountered the witch "Alice" and challenged the witch to duel where she kills "Alice", steals her grimoire, and stole her title of "Alice" (here Alice is a title like Beatrice is in [[Umineko no Naku Koro
== Remilia hired Meiling for no other reason but to be a butt monkey. ==
First, SDM doesn't really ''need'' any protection, there are enough competent fighters in SDM (including the fairies) and nobody is bothered enough to attack SDM anyway. Second, if SDM really needed protection, Meiling's level of power hardly does a thing, both Sakuya and Patchouli can fend off invaders far more easily than Meiling. If Remilia really wanted to have the gate well defended, surely she can pick someone with a higher level of competence. Third, Meiling is a melee fighter, or martial artist, which means [[Iron Butt Monkey|she is a lot more "durable"]]. Remilia and Sakuya must be pretty bored by themselves, and Patchouli never ever comes out, so they need someone else other than the fairies to [[Chew Toy|"play"]] with, and Meiling seems perfect for that role, more so than a gate guard.
* Hong is there to dispatch any riff-raff that attempt to enter the mansion, something she is easily capable of doing (though she is hardly a planet-crushing menance, it is often forgotten Hong is still a capable fighter). It wouldn't make sense to bother either Sakuya or Patchouli with such things, as they both have more important duties Remilia wouldn't want them shirking. It is just that in Gensoukyou nearly ''everyone'' is a capable fighter, Reimu and Marisa among the best, and Hong is constantly [[Overshadowed
== The reason Alice is so afraid of going all out in the Windows games is because of the events in Mystic Square's Extra Endings ==
Yeah, you're not misreading that; Mystic Square is the only Touhou game to have a proper ending and credits sequence (actually a list of all the characters in the PC-98 games) after its Extra Stage. They all involve some rather humiliating thing happening to Alice. {{spoiler|Any pictures of young Alice being tied up or as a maid refers to these}}. Under that treatment, who wouldn't be worried about going all out? THEY MIGHT DO IT AGAIN!
== Revenge wasn't the only reason Cirno started the war with the fairies ==
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...and all the fantasy elements and adventures are the collective result of a bunch of fractured minds coping together. Each character's individual quirks actually come from their neuroses:
* Reimu and Marisa suffer from intense hallucinations, which is why most of the world seems to be built around them. They're also paranoid, leading to them picking fights whenever they think anything strange happens.
** Also, the two of them, along with Yuuka, were the very first patients of the hospital. Because they didn't have much company, they started to make some imaginary "friends" that they could fight with (well, there was Yuuka, but the caretakers thought it was better not to let them in contact with her. Not that they succeded, of course), along with recurring character Mima who Marisa claimed was her teacher and that Reimu could never defeat her (thus their rivalry). Eventually, more patients ended up in the hospital, thus there was no need for any imaginary friends when the girls finally had someone to interact with(thus explaining why the [[PC 98]]-era is [[Ret
** Marisa's father abused both her and her mother, Mima. His beatings led to Marisa's severe paranoia of most males, which is why there are next to no males in Gensokyo, (other than Rinnosuke, a friend who visits her). Mima, unfortunately, was killed when she managed to get Marisa out of the house and to the hospital. For a long time Marisa was not informed that Mima was dead, and continued to believe she was around for her. Her "visits" were some of the aforementioned hallucinations. After a while they broke the news to her, and she was devastated. Reimu managed to move on, however. Marisa still occasionally hears her voice or sees her in the distance, though. This led to her belief that Mima was a "ghost" and one of her "caretakers". She still follows hints of "advice" Mima gives her, considering her as a brave rulebreaker who would let her daughter do things like beat up other patients and steal for the greater good.
* Yuka was a schizophrenic gardener who made friends with the flowers in her garden, believing they could talk to her. She was sent away to Gensokyo for brutalizing an unfortunate soul who accidentally ruined her garden, killing several of her imaginary friends.
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== Yukari has control over quantum phenomena ==
This explains her absolute reality warper status and manifests itself in her most powerful spellcard Boundary Between Wave and Particle. Yukari may be the ultimate [[Incredibly Lame Pun|quantum mechanic]].
== Yukari vacations in the Bermuda Triangle ==
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The reason that such a relatively large time has transpired between 12 and 13 is ZUN is attempting to make it his biggest deviation yet but is having troubles with it possessing numerous new elements while simultaneously remaining essentially a ''Touhou'' game.
== Meiling is a really sucky Chinese [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|dragon]]. ==
This would explain Meiling's magic, her penchant for guarding things, and how exactly she is a youkai. Dragons often take the shape of humans, so it stands to reason that in Gensokyo, where even spiders are lolis, a dragon would simply stay in human form (though more likely forced to stay that way).
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In response to this, Yukari, Mima, and Shinki all went on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and killed nearly all of the PC-98 cast.
Then Yukari kidnapped three girls from somewhere and used border hax to brainwash them into being Reimu, Marisa, and
Mima and Shinki appreciated the gesture, but weren't comfortable with the [[Replacement Goldfish]] scheme, so they made Marisa and Alice neighbors for their mutual protection, then quietly abandoned them and receded from society. Out of loneliness, Shinki started teaching the imprisoned Byakuren some of her spells.
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== Rumia is a Grue. ==
[[Zork
== Reisen has the [[Persona 3|wild]] [[Persona 4|card]] ==
I got the idea when reading the following lines from the [
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This is precisely what the wild card does, it lets you change your persona, your personality, at a whim. [[Persona 3|Meaning that if she manages to somehow get Sakuya's "The World", she might even be able to seal away the moon.]]
Note that this has hardly any basis in canon. Which probably is why I think this would be awesome.
== [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kasen_Ibara Kasen Ibara] is the new version of the previously [[Dummied Out
How does this make sense, you ask? Well, Kasen is called a "horned" hermit, and kirin do indeed have horns (not that I'm stating that she's a kirin, although it could be a possibility...). Also, the entry for [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Rin_Satsuki Satsuki Rin] states that she had the attack types Flower Sign and Wind Sign associated with her, and the name Kasen is written with the characters for "[[Green Thumb|flower]] [[Blow You Away|fan]]", so...
* I would like this: let's see what kind of spell cards she knows, before deciding.
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* One last thing: Reimu explicitly mentions having gone to Makai previously in UFO.
** No, no she doesn't. She indicates familiarity with Makai, but it's entirely possible she'd simply heard of it.
* The first boss in Lotus Land Story was never actually named ("Orange" being a nickname from the game coding), so she might have been a younger Meiling, prior to her service with the Scarlet Devil
== Marisa is part (half?) Dutch. ==
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== Kasen is Moses ==
She's got the [
Moeses.
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Think about it. "Team Shanghai Alice". Meiling's theme song is "Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17". What if Meiling is the "Shanghai Alice" of the title? Maribel may be a character created by Meiling and everything that she dreams is actually created by Meiling's imagination, which all the girls being avatars of people she know, and, of course, our lazy gatekeeper being an Author Avatar.
== Lily White / Lily Black is undergoing something similar to [
Both "Lily White" and "Lily Black" are unstable personalities that are repressing a third personality locked deep within Lily's mind after a particularly traumatic experience.
* According to Touhoumon, the third form is Daiyousei. Just putting that out there.
== The Danmaku rules work on the same principle as [[Magic:
...That is, where the rules as written and a character's powers and objectives conflict, the character's intentions win out. This is why Phantasmagoria of Flower View has different gameplay - both characters in each clash see themselves as the aggressor, so they compete head-to-head (where the main games always have an aggressor (the PC) breaking ground and a defender who got in the way).
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== Komachi is making an example of ‘em! ==
The reason why Komachi demands the deceased pay all their ‘money’ when crossing the Sanzu; the money represents all the people who miss them, by given away all the money the deceased loses their knowledge of those people and is freed from any lingering wish to remain with them on earth despite being dead.
Those who cannot bring themselves to accept their need to leave their loved ones behind bring deep regrets with them across the river and their hesitation would surely be seen by the Yama, who would sentence them time in one of the lesser hells.
So Komachi tosses them overboard to be eaten by the Sansu River’s monster fish as an example to the other watching spirits. This helps discourage the majority of deceased souls from withholding pay and thus preempts a certain amount of otherwise marginally good souls from being sent to hell.
== Speculation on the Touhou Vampire ==
Inspiration thanks to the names of two of Youmu’s spell cards; Deva Realm Sword "Displeasure of the Seven Sins" and Deva God Sword "Components of Konpaku". The information in both their translation notes boils down to:
1. In Taoism, the most basic properties of the soul are made up by seven “hakus” –as in [[Kon PAKU]].
2. These seven “hakus” are balanced by three “kons”, and together the kons and hakus make up the soul.
3. The body loses its three kons just before it dies, and during that time only the hakus remain. The person becomes unstable during this time due to a lack of the reason and balance that the kons provide.
4. Despite being despised, the seven hakus or “Seven Sins” are important base components of the soul and no one could live without them.
Now my lovely long idea…
Vampires drain a person’s three kons from their blood to retain their own balance, as they themselves lost their original Kons when they became vampires. They have nothing but their strengthening hakus left in their body, which grant immense physical abilities, but which will override their sense of self if not balanced by kons. Therefore, a vampire who fails to drink human blood regularly and replenish their kons will become an uncontrollable and blood thirsty killer. Or maybe just plain insane.
So strong is a vampire’s haku that they will eventually convert any kons into hakus as well, and the stronger the hakus the quicker the conversion.
Changing someone into a vampire can be accomplished by a vampire draining a human of their blood and kons, and then replacing both with a certain amount of their own hakus. The amount depends on the mental strength of the victim as well as the strength of the vampire; too many hakus in a weak person will turn them into mindless ghouls incapable of making room for any balancing kons, but still thirsting for them; while taking too many hakus out of a vampire will reduce or overrun their ability to move their body, usually only momentary, but sometimes permanently, thus making hunting and personal protection impossible and opening that vampire to attack.
Vampire conversion has the dual purposes of allowing vampire reproduction and temporarily reducing the potency of the vampire’s haku, thereby decreasing the need to acquire and balance it with human kons and so also acting as a stress reliever for the powerful vampire who is forced to drink copious amounts of blood so as to keep their hakus and mental abilities balanced.
-It's assumed that because many of their existences are on the verge of dissipating, it makes it difficult for them to act under sunlight.-Perfect Memento, The Embodiments of Spirit 気質の具現 : Phantoms 幽霊
-Although both "Kon" (魂) and "Paku" (魄) are "soul", their elements are different. "Kon" stands for a mental soul, which is separated from a body as soon as human dies and ascends to Heaven; "Paku" is a physical soul, which remains in the body a few days and goes back to the Earth. In this case, "Kon" is Youmu's phantom half, and "Paku" is the human half.- funfacts from Konpaku Youmu’s Profile Page at the Touhou wik
In light of the above, phantoms are pure ‘kon’, but the kon that can be born in plants, animals and humans rather than the kon that can only be born or reincarnated into a human. All kon is basically same besides that, thus why ghosts (the soul or ‘kon’ of a human who cannot or does not want to realize that they are dead) and phantoms (which are also ‘kon’ and may be spawned from a dead body, or simply born as a free floating spirit) are often mistaken for each other.
A kon without a body to shelter and nurture it will be quicker to dissipate then a kon housed in a body of some sort, this is due to their very precarious form of existence.
In this way, a vampire’s kon (which, while it might be housed in a body, is still under constant attack from the vampire’s leech-like haku) will be weakened when exposed to direct sun light, and thus the vampire thirst and need for balance will increase and their ability to fully control their bodies shall weaken.
Because the vampire is a kind of youkai, it is most affected by spiritual attacks, and because vampires rely on a very delicate balance of kon and haku, any spiritual attacks have a tendency to harm them more than they would other youkai. Hence the vampire’s long list of odd weaknesses, in most cases it is the faith humans put into these odd talismans or ideas that harms the vampire, not the items or ideas themselves. The humans make it real.
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Water, especially clear running water, is considered by many cultures to be a purifying substance, so vampires cannot go out in the rain and have great trouble crossing rivers. (Some phantoms and ghosts might have similar reluctance in regards to rivers, most likely due to them unconsciously ‘seeing’ the similarities between a normal river and the Sanzu river, which is path to the Yama and also the representation of forgetting one’s time in life.)
Sunlight is often connected to human safety, life, and the death of the night and all devils that dwell in it, making a vampire’s original weakness to it even stronger.
Other cultural items, such as roasted beans, sardine heads, and broken holly branches, gain their power from that culture’s belief in them, thus what harms a vampire in England may be of no consequence to a vampire of Japan or Africa.
* This is easily the best wild guess on this page. Wow.
== Reimu is a [[
Or at least of Saiyan descent. ''That's'' where all her power really comes from.
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== The Scarlet Sisters are Danes. ==
* Factoid 1: ''[
* Factoid 2: Norse paganism was largely practiced in the Scandanavian region, which includes Denmark. Among notable items within Norse paganism are Gungnir and Laevatein.
* Factoid 3: The Flag of Denmark is a white cross on a red background.
== Mima is Returning for real in Ten Desires. ==
In Youmu's scenario, Yuyuko mentions that she wagers "some troublesome individual will make a return." Also, this game's focus seems to be on spirits, monsters, ghosts, and etc.
Erm, yeah. That's pretty much all I got. Still, it would be awesome.
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To everyone else, the various youkai look like, well, youkai. Reimu/Marisa/Sanae are excluded from society because they don't mind the appearances of the youkai, either because they are insane (Marisa), are used to it (Reimu) or are just going along with everything because they were placed on the top of the youkai mountain (Sanae).
* So the player is actually Akyuu? Because she has drawings of the characters the way we see them, and describes a number of them as looking human
* Alternately, the player characters see through the "cute girl" disguises of the
== Various theories on characters. ==
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** ...Kogasa's appearance is so surprising that she made me lose count?
== Yukari is Gensokyo's [[Hidden Villain|Hidden]] [[Evil Overlord]]. Reimu and Marisa are her [[Unwitting Pawn
Gensokyo was once a haunted region of Japan, a place of total chaos caused by youkai, until it was sealed from the outside world. That was when Yukari brought down the other youkai's power and dominated the area. Some youkai began obeying her, and she gathered enough youkai to try and invade the moon. This failed, and it's likely that the youkai began losing trust in her with this bold move. Many youkai are also rebelling against her, trying to reset Gensokyo's state to a pure, uncontrolled anarchy. Reimu (and probably, her ancestors) was appointed by Yukari (knowingly to Reimu or not) to exterminate hostile youkai who threaten Yukari's power, as Yukari was too occupied always doing it by herself, or she was simply lazy. Most of the incidents are either caused by said rebellious youkai, or Yukari causing it herself behind the scenes, as a way to test Reimu/Marisa's skill.
The Scarlet Mist Incident was unlikely to be Yukari's doing (Remilia doesn't seem like someone who would obey orders). The SDM inhabitants might be a rebel group with the mansion as their base. Remilia could be a rival to Yukari, seeking to overthrow her. Spreading mist was a tactic so that the mistress could go outside during daytime. Remilia's trump card is her sister, Flandre, whom she would unleash in a desperate situation. The mist bothered Reimu/Marisa so they went out to seek the perpetrator. Yukari didn't get involved, she knew that her underlings, the two heroes, would notice a youkai causing trouble and go out to defeat them. They even defeated Flandre, who might've been released by Patchy or Sakuya on Remilia's orders after her defeat. Or, she broke out on her own and went on a rampage, Remilia's plan backfiring as her mansion was hugely damaged [[Hoist
Yuyuko's spring theft happened with Yukari canonically being involved in it. Yukari helped Yuyuko to enact her plan, but she knew that the human protagonists would eventually stop her mischief. Later, Yukari herself was confronted by the heroes. She tested their power with relatively difficult spellcards, and she was defeated. A successful test.
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Imperishable Night also had Yukari involved, but on the heroes' side. She teamed up with Reimu to defeat the Lunarians. Yukari knows that Lunarians aren't to be taken lightly, so she thought Reimu might've needed her personal help this time.
Mountain of Faith is where it gets interesting. Kanako, a goddess, has decided to intervene Yukari's dictatorship. Not only did she see Gensokyo as a desolate place with no faith, but also frozen in time with no technological advancement like the rest of the world. She moved her shrine straight into Gensokyo, which probably cost much effort because of Gensokyo's strongly protected border (Maybe Yukari didn't stop it because she was sleeping at the time, or she couldn't match the power of a god). The Moriya Shrine appeared right onto Youkai Mountain, a mountain infested by youkai ([[Exactly What It Says
In Subterranean Animism, it's said that Kanako is the one who granted Utsuho her powers, and later in Hisoutensoku, her powers are used to supply a power plant. Utsuho might've ran a little amok, or it was also part of her purpose; to destroy Yukari's pawns, who have been (unconsciously) guarding Yukari by fighting Kanako and keeping her busy. Okuu is Kanako's trump card much how Flandre was Remilia's, as mentioned earlier.
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While Remilia locked Flandre into a basement, she made Koakuma assist Patchy in the library to keep her occupied. This way she could rule the mansion alone, while keeping her sisters below her in the SDM hierarchy. Koakuma is usually portrayed as someone overly obedient and oblivious to her master's intentions. Maybe she realizes that she's a Scarlet, but prefers to stay in the background? Maybe she doesn't know at all, by her memory being wiped out somehow, or she has a very short memory span (like Dory from [[Finding Nemo]]).
== Patchouli is an [[Asperger's Syndrome|Aspie]] ==
Everyone who has some basic [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Knowledge]] about Asperger's symptoms would've noticed it in her by now; her [[Hikikomori]] lifestyle, her complete devotion to gathering knowledge rather than social interaction, [[The Spock|her formal, monotone speech]], expertizing in only a few specific subjects (witchcraft) and only talking about their interests (read her SWR quotes), [[The Stoic|not showing emotions]], and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|only wearing pajama's all day]].
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This also answers a question that's bugged me for a while, why she didn't just gap to the Moon in [[S Si B]] and had to manipulate a border to reach it, her body doesn't reach that far.
== Hong Meiling is a member of The [[Triad
Supporting this:
* Her name is Hong Meiling, and she is a gatekeeper. An alternate reading for ''hong'' is the character 洪, and "gate" is ''men'' (either 門 (kanji) or 门 (simplified Chinese)). Combine the two, and you have "Hongmen," the name of an influential Chinese secret society sometimes also called "Chinese Freemasonry" and with alleged ties to the Triads.
* She is extremely proficient in martial arts. According to legend, the Triads were founded as a resistance movement by the Five Elders of Shaolin after their monastery was destroyed by the Qing Emperor.
* In the Hisoutensoku fighting game, one of the other characters seems to think that the [
== The Yamata No Orochi exists somewhere in Gensokyo ==
ZUN just hasn't introduced us to him yet. The fact that he is mentioned by Rinnosuke in Chapter 26 of Curiosities of Lotus Asia as "the great many-headed demon Yamata no Orochi," which further supports my theory.
* If that happens, said "Orochi" could end up being a she, if anything. I mean, look at Miko as an example.
* Also, if it does happen, there would probably be a Susano'o equivalent showing up as well, and the story would likely be tied to the sword that Rinnosuke has in his shop (the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi), not to mention that someone may end playing the role of Kushinada-hime (the maiden described in the legend)... Hm...
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== Lily White is in fact a love goddess. ==
It's said that she announces spring. But, think about her name. It's Lily White. And white lily is a symbol of [[Yuri Genre|yuri]]. It can be a suggestion that she's able to bring love between [[
== Mima is the Saigyou Ayakashi sealed in a humanoid form with her memory gone. ==
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* If this was true, then Kaguya would be Hera, and Mokou would be Hephaestus.
* Which makes sense, since they're both immortals(gods) and Kaguya and Mokou hate each other.
** It is stated that Eirin has aspects of the god [
== [[Seihou]] is the future of the Earth outside the barrier. ==
We know that for Maribel and Renko, [[Future Food Is Artificial]]. This will eventually result in ''all'' plant life but cacti becoming extinct. In desperation; mankind begged, pleaded, prayed for this one species of life besides themselves to save them. It couldn't. It was just a cactus. Mankind despaired. But within the Gensokyo Barrier, because of the dreams of man, cacti with an abundant amount of [[Mana]] started appearing. Out of compassion and self-preservation (Gensokyo needs the outside world to survive) this dream breed of cactus was sent back. Miraculously, it retained its powers and "Saboten Energy" was born.
* [[All According to Plan|Just As Planned]] by Yukari, I would easily wager.
** Rather, they're a hybrid. There was something special about the cacti in ''[[Seihou]]'', whatever killed off life wasn't just mankind taking in resources and not replenishing them. Cacti were immune to whatever killed off all other plantlife and the smiles of children. Let's call it an "Illusion Drought." The Gensokyo Dream Cacti were born from mankind hoping this would save them; but they would not have survived the outside world for very long. '''Someone''' crossbred the Gensokyo stock with the ''[[Seihou]]'' stock; creating a type of mana/power that would exist in the outside world; but was terribly unstable.
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== Toyosatomimi no Miko's headphones aren't actually headphones. ==
They're merely ear covers. Miko has the ability to hear people's desires, so she doesn't necessarily need to hear what people are saying as her powers allow her to discern their wishes anyway. The way she talks to Youmu, who lacks two of the ten desires, supports this fact as she ignores everything Youmu says, only going by the eight desires she senses from Youmu.
* They're like blindfolds on a [[Blind Weaponmaster]].
== Soga no Tojiko is an immortal ghost. ==
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== Kazami Yuuka and Lily White are friends. ==
Yuuka loves flowers and can control them. Lily makes flowers bloom with her cheerfulness on the start of every spring. Considering their affinity towards flowers, it's not hard to make the connection between them.
* Alternatively Lily White lives with Yuuka to help replace dead flowers with new ones. Yuuka doesn't mind because she may need the help every now and then.
== Kaguya refusing the proposal for marriage by Mokou's father held greater consequences than ZUN lets on. ==
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* She uses Reimu as a proxy to deal with Old Hell when she is forbidden by treaty to do it herself.
* She is associated with the color purple, which for millennia has been regarded a royal color.
* This would tie into the titles held by other characters: Kaguya is the Princess of Eientei, Toyosatomimi no Miko is a resurrected prince, and Remilia is addressed as "My Lady". Even though the last may be just out of respect for the lady of the manor, it is also the proper form of address for a noblewoman ranking from a baroness up to a [
== Gensokyo is actually the island of the Amazons ==
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== Rin Satsuki was Yukari's sister and she was the one who killed Mima ==
Because of this, Yukari [[Ret
== Maribel isn't Yukari ==
She's [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|Mima]]. Upon discovering that Mima failed to cross the Sanzu River, Yukari started tearing apart the PC-98 continuity to find Mima. This caused Reimu's hair to change from purple to black, and caused the gates to Makai, Jigoku, and the Dream Worlds to be closed off. In fear, Rika and Rikako ran to the Kappas to hide, as they were fellow scientists, Meira fled back to... her samurai friends, Kana stops going outside her old house, Ellen, Chiyuri, and Yumemi all flee back to the outside world, Orange fled to the Dream World, Kurumi stayed where she was, as Yukari didn't care about her, and Yuuka's mansion was fine because Yukari didn't want to start a fight with Yuuka. Genjii and Ruukoto were taken by Yukari: Genjii because Yukari [[Reality Warper|boundary-haxed]] Reimu the {{
== [[Faceless Eye|YuugenMagan]] was Yukari. ==
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On the other hand PMiSS was released very late in '06 (12/27), so the possibility of a new Touhou game isn't that much of a stretch either. This could go either way, but since there's been at least one every year since '07 a lack of one in 2012 will likely come as a shock to quite a few. This is more of a heads-up than anything, but the next Touhou game might be coming a little later than expected.
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== The plot of [[TH 14]] will be triggered by Mamizou starting trouble with foxes. ==
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== Remilia Scarlet isn't lying when she says she's a descendant of Vlad Tepes. ==
* Remilia has been alive for nearly 500 years. It is entirely possible she was born in Europe and later moved to Japan. During said time in Europe, she met Patchouli, which would explain Patchouli's relatively <ref>
== Hong Meiling is a Rainbow Dragon youkai. ==
* "Hong" is the name of a Chinese mythological creature that's, well, a rainbow-coloured dragon. Nearly all of Meiling's spell card and attacks (including in the fighting games) have rainbow patterns to them. Putting that together, it should be obvious what kind of youkai she is. Meiling is simply her name, while "Hong" might not be her actual name but instead, included in her name because that's her species. Translating to "Rainbow Dragon Meiling".
** Meiling being a dragon youkai also puts her in a special category of youkai; dragons are a ''very'' big deal in Gensokyo; the god-like creature who created the realm was a dragon, who is referred to as '''The Dragon God'''. It controls the weather and many residents of Gensokyo, including the residents of the human village, pray to The Dragon God for good weather. While this WMG entry isn't claiming that Hong Meiling ''is'' this creature, if she is a dragon youkai then she must have extraordinary powers similar to The Dragon God, therefore is a far more powerful being than she lets on.
== Sakuya's eyes are red in EoSD because of the red moon. ==
This is heavily related to the "Sakuya is a Lunarian" WMG entry; simply put, the reason why Sakuya's eyes in EoSD are a distinct red while in later installments they no longer are, is because during EoSD, the moon is red. This only strengthens the connection between Sakuya and the moon. It is also clear through the pre-battle dialogue in EoSD that Sakuya is unusually peeved, agitated, way moreso than how she behaves at any other point in time. Should be obvious where this is going: the red moon [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|has a debilitating effect on Sakuya]], she becomes more aggressive and also more relentless in battle.
The best part is, before you say "Oh, this is just an example of [[Early Installment Weirdness]]", well guess what, ''in the same game'' Sakuya's eyes turn blue during Marisa's ending slides, while during the stages (while the night, scarlet mist & red moon phase were still ongoing) her eyes were red. Why else would ZUN change this so drastically, the moment the night passes?
The following is more dubious, but it's possibly a cool touch: you fight Sakuya again as a midboss during Stage 6. This time, unlike the battles against her in the previous stage, Sakuya is now outdoors, rather than in doors, in ''direct contact'' with the light of the red moon. Sakuya's spellcard in this battle isn't the same calculated, time-stopping shenanigans she did before; this time she unleashes a '''barrage''' of bullets at you at incredible speed, full-on berserk mode. Her non-spellcard attack before this is uncharacteristically rapid as well. It's in huge contrast to ''every'' attack & spellcard she did beforehand, clearly displaying a different approach of battling. The conclusion? Sakuya being in dead-on contact with the red moon destabilizes her even more than before, which is why her attacks are so crazy and unstable here, way moreso than in the indoors stage before.
== Reisen is Yukari's spy. ==
(Not to be confused with the manga character, "Reisen II"; this entry is about Reisen Udonge, the Imperishable Night Stage 5 boss)
Right away this WMG sounds like an uninspired [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]] crackpot theory, but hear me out (warning: this will be a long WMG entry, so I also tried to use a lot of spacing in order to avoid turning it into one big fat wall of text).
First, let's just go over things that're canon: Reisen is a lunar rabbit who, at some point, was trained as a special forces rabbit for the Lunarian army (most of which comprises of lunar rabbits). She was trained as more than a mere cannon fodder soldier, but she belonged to a special forces branch. Her expertise was intrigue, sabotage and assassination. Reisen also loves guns, that is a canon trait of hers (Lunarian soldiers are seen equipped with assault rifles and such in the manga, so it's safe to say most of these Lunarian rabbits are gun nuts, including of course Reisen). Befitting of a secret agent.
In the official print works, it is stated that Reisen's behaviour is quiet and mysterious, whenever she visits the human village (which she normally only does in order to shop for groceries or buy medicine at the request of Eirin). It definitely suits the personality of a secret agent, someone who "has no face". At the very least it's an expected behaviour of someone trained to become a spy/saboteur/assassin. This isn't the best canon source alluding to her inherent nature of being a natural spy, though; this is taken from Reisen's SWR profile, included with the game files: "She can change her personality completely to match her circumstances." So Reisen is very good at adjusting her personality, being kind of an enigma as to what her real personality even is.
She is a trained spy, so wouldn't you expect her to, you know, do some actual spywork? Well, from what little canon sources we have about her dubious past, Reisen "fled the moon after humans invaded it". It's likely she was simply sent on a mission instead, because since the Lunarians were ''at war'' with humanity at that exact point, the Lunarians must've started sending agents to Earth in order to, well, have them do what secret agents do against the opposing side.
Now let's venture into the actual theory. So where does Yukari fit in? If you've read some of Gensokyo's backstory, it's often repeated that long ago, there was a war between Youkai of the Earth and the Lunarians. The Youkai were led by Yukari (this '''is''' stated in canon alongside the story). The Youkai of the Earth lost the war; it's also added in the story that Yukari deliberately started the war in order to teach the Earth Youkai themselves a lesson, that they shouldn't attempt to invade the moon and instead should refrain from blind conquest, be it against any foe, such as humans. Nevertheless, it is fact that Yukari once led a war against the moon, so at one point, she was an enemy of the Lunarians (and a huge enemy at that, being the ''leader'' of the faction they're waging war with). The war is said to have happened "long ago" but Lunarians are known to have an exceptional life span, so Reisen could've been alive back then (though Lunar Rabbits are implied to have shorter lives... If Reisen is even an actual Lunar Rabbit, she could be a Lunarian pretending to be a rabbit, one of the WMG entries above has already explored this idea). Whether she was there during the war or not, it's not crazy to assume that during or after the war, Yukari would like to at least keep an eye on the moon... Plant agents directly on the moon's surface to inform Yukari of what's going on there. Reisen could be one of them.
But how does Reisen transmit information to Yukari? Lunarians probably do have technology matching Earth's human society (their rabbit army's got assault rifles for crying out loud), so Reisen could easily ''send'' information to a recipient on Earth, using technology. The problem is back in Gensokyo, where the residents still are technologically primitive for the most part, which probably includes Yukari. It should be noted that Yukari is familiar with human society so she isn't that shabby about technology the same way most of Gensokyo's inhabitants are.
Maybe they are using devices to communicate. But here's an alternative, far more interesting concept; Reisen's power is that she can manipulate wavelengths, as explained in her PoFV profile. This of course includes soundwaves. Perhaps her skill is so good that she can send soundwaves ''herself'' and talk to Yukari, from the moon. Therefore she doesn't need appliances to do it, which besides, is risky, because she could easily get caught using those things, sending information to the Earth.
But, Reisen at one point left the moon when she accompanied Kaguya and Eirin, to find refuge somewhere on Earth, once Kaguya got banned from the moon. They eventually ended up in Gensokyo. She keeps tabs on Eirin & the princess in service of Yukari.
However right away this opens a hole in the theory: "If Reisen is Yukari's agent, how does Yukari not really know where to find the perpetrators of the fake moon incident, seeing how they're in contact?" The first explanation is that Yukari already knows, but since she's tag teamed with Reimu, she's "going along for the ride" in typical Touhou fashion, the characters are easygoing even during an incident and are all about the "the journey beats the destination". She likes to see Reimu figure out the mystery, since solving incidents is Reimu's job, not Yukari's. Yukari is a support role in this adventure. Anyway, that all sounds like a rather empty [[Hand Wave]], so here's a far better theory: Reisen is a '''sleeper agent'''. Yukari has not contacted Reisen for a long time, possibly over a century. Why? Well, the Youkai war on the moon has long passed and Yukari gradually lost interest in what was happening at the moon, so Reisen eventually stopped sending her information all that often. Instead she'd focus on blending in with the Lunarians and, as the term 'sleeping agent' implies, awaits the day Yukari calls upon her services again. Just like sleeping agents in real life.
"Fine, she's a sleeping agent, so why doesn't Reisen 'wake up' during the incident, seeing how it's a crucial moment and Yukari probably desperately needs to know some info?" That's easy to explain. While the incident is ongoing, Reisen ''does not know where Yukari is''. Yukari is traveling with Reimu. While before, when Reisen transmitted signals to Yukari, whenever that happened Yukari must've been at a set location, awaiting Reisen's signals. Reisen is talented at sending wavelengths but she is '''not''' omniscient, so she doesn't simply know at all times where any person is and knows how to send wavelengths directly into that person's brain, unless she knows exactly where that person is. Reisen currently cannot send information to Yukari, they cannot stay in contact during the events of IN.
Until Stage 5 when Reimu & Yukari meet Reisen. This is where things get interesting (and admittedly, gets [[Epileptic Trees|a bit wacko]]). Now that Yukari meets Reisen in person, they definitely could exchange info, right there and then... But they shouldn't, because you know, Eirin can't be too far away and Reisen obviously does not want to get caught by Eirin as Yukari's spy. This is where a spy's favorite method of exchanging secret information comes in: '''signals and code language'''. So following the WMG, Reisen is in cahoots with Yukari. Reisen wants to help Yukari reach Kaguya and resolve the incident, because she's in Yukari's service.
How does Reisen accomplish this? First, during the pre-battle dialogue, she simply hands out some exposition to Yukari in order to deliver information about the incident, how Eirin sealed the moon, and so on. But how does Reisen deliver this without appearing suspicious? Simple, she coats it in the typical "I'm a villain explaining my plans in detail to the hero" monologue. Eirin buys it, as anybody would; Reisen at that moment just seems to behave like a stereotypical gloating antagonist who's too forthcoming with information, in order to taunt the hero. In Eirin's case she probably thinks Reisen is just being a dumb rabbit. But this isn't all Reisen does.
At the moment, they're in a very long hallway, with an insane amount of doors. Only one of them leads to Kaguya. Ever paid attention to Reisen's sprite ingame? She is constantly '''making a gesture''' with one of her hands, making a 'pistol-shaped' hand gesture. This is how Reisen shoots danmaku bullets from her hands, but there is another use for such a hand gesture; '''pointing at things'''. Also yes, Reisen does battle Reimu & Yukari, but maybe she is doing ''something else'' during the battle, signaling to Yukari in some way. The hand gesture could've been occassionally gesturing towards which doors Yukari should/shouldn't pick once the 'battle' ends, which doors are the right/wrong ones.
But that alone doesn't hold up of course. Reisen said pre-battle: "I have sealed ''all'' the doors". '''If Reisen was truly loyal to Eirin and wanted to absolutely make sure her plans would go through, with no chance of Reimu & Yukari finding Eirin/Kaguya and stopping them, she would have kept ALL the doors sealed, or at least the correct door would've been more well hidden.''' But she didn't; it doesn't take long before Reimu says after the battle "Look, that door over there, that one isn't sealed!" Reisen immediately reacts [[Bad Bad Acting|"Oh no! I forgot to seal that one..."]] First of all, if this isn't an inside job, how could Reimu spot the only unsealed door so quickly, out of hundreds of doors in a virtually endless hallway?
Because '''Reisen sabotaged the door''', either by leaving it unsealed all this time or unsealing it at some point during the night while Eirin wasn't noticing. Since there are hundreds of doors, during the battle she was also gesturing, pointing her finger towards the direction of the right door. All this in order to secretly aid Yukari (perhaps Reisen subconsciously helped Reimu figure out where the right door was too, as Reimu could've "picked up" on Reisen pointing her fingers somewhere). Her reaction when the heroes find the correct door is to act surprised, also adding "master will be mad at me". But if Reisen was truly loyal to Eirin, once Reimu spots the right door, wouldn't she deny it, saying something the likes of "o-oh, that door? [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|No, that one is sealed]]". But instead she exaggeratedly goes "Oh no, you found the unsealed door!" in order to stress that indeed, that's the correct door. She also does it in order to come across as sincere to Eirin, to press the illusion that [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Reisen was being]] [[Villain Ball|an extraordinarily dumb henchman]], who forgot to seal the one door that definitely should've been sealed. To Eirin it would be believable since Eirin sees Reisen as her pet, so she doesn't expect her to be all that smart.
Bonus: It's canon that Reisen ''has'' worked as a spy before, in the service of Eirin. She was sent to the Lunar Capital occassionally in order to gather information. It's also stated Reisen used her telepathic abilities in order to carry out this mission, which means that the "Reisen can use her powers to communicate with someone on Earth while she's on the Moon" theory in this entry appears to be a canon ability she already has.
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