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Some useful Touhou information for people who only kind of know Touhou
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This is Flandre Scarlet, a touhou character
This is Flandre Scarlet, a touhou character
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she is widely known on the internet for being a murderer and for appearing in nightcore remix video backgrounds
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as of confirmed 2022 canon, some things that are known to be true about Flandre
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1. No clear evidence that she's a murderer
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Her original bio says she's kind of nuts but also says she doesn't necessarily know that her food even comes from humans
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and Remilia's bio says iirc that vampires can feed without killing pretty consistently
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2. She is not, in fact, a sealed dangerous monster in the basement
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She's very powerful but has been established to be able to bust out of the basement whenever she wants
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she isn't down there as a prisoner she just isn't good at talking to people so she likes it in the basement
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she's a hikikomori
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3. She is not even kind of important
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Flandre gets a disproportionate amount of fandom attention and fanart because she has cool wings
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she's been mentioned like, four times total in the decade and change since she was established
Love Snake Kaja
Being unimportant makes sense for a hikikomori
Love Snake Kaja
Like, she's just chilling in her basement, not out and doing things.
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the presence of a mentally unstable supervampire in remilia's basement has almost no impact on the overall story
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she's just chillin
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she's only been properly relevant recently and that was in one of the "decimal games"
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the main cast's general stance on Flandre is just
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She's in the Satori manga and like, might, actually, get to do something in it
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which would be a big win for little miss no-relevance
Snake-Kun
Her Christmas light wings are SO cool
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90% of the commonly accepted things you hear about her are pure fanon
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her bio explains that yeah the wings are completely useless for flight but this is touhou so everyone can fly anyway
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I think her main diet is like cakes and shit with human blood baked into them discreetly
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people love drawing her wings
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also her theme song is probably fun to remix
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it's not like, my favorite track even in her own game, but it's got a lot going on in it
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my favorite track conceptually is Remilia's theme because it plagarizes from Beethoven and that's very on brand for her
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for Remilia "claims falsely to be descended from Dracula" Scarlet
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the liner notes for Septette for the Dead Princess, Remilia's theme, are also like "also it's not a septette. also she's not dead, and there's no princess."
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remilia is such a loser
DoveEaterXC
absolutely
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the whole mansion is just dramatic weirdos
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The horrifying realization over the lat 15 years of interacting with Touhou fans that out of the Scarlet Devil Mansion crew, Meiling is the least loser nerd
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she's the jock
oh i'm scary
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oh i'm scary
so literally everything about Flandre and her relationship with Remilia in fanon is nonsense
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Yup
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100%
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as we found out a decade later
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I like the FMW interpretation for being full of juicy drama and conflict
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It’s fun and dramatic
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But it’s also distinctly different from canon
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touhou is allergic to high drama
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it makes for bad tea parties
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I want sumireko to meet flandre
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"I got lost in the vampire mansion and was HUNTED by a DEMON" "oh you mean remilia's kid sister"
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I understand that in Flandre’s level the pre boss dialog is like
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Flandre: “I’m bored. Wanna spellcard fight?”
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more or less
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PC: “eh, sure.”
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she needs enrichment
DoveEaterXC
she'll start knocking things off of tables otherwise
Dragomorph
flandre's entire story in 17.5 is Okina going "hey destory this asshole" and Flandre going "sure sounds fun"
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And then there's Sakuya.
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sakuya is the weird one