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Year of Touhou: Let's talk about my OTP at length
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https://images.plurk.com/390dvzNTaKP2fBycHcCPQ6.png this is Kaguya Houraisan
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She's a moon princess
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Well, she WAS a moon princess
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These days she lives in exile on Earth
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This happened because she stole and drank a lunarian immortality elixir
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Stealing sacred moon artifacts is the degree of moon crime that would usually get you moon execeuted
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but, well, you can't do that with this one
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because she's immortal
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so ultimately they decided to just dump her on Earth
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because they couldn't think of any worse punishment than living down your days in the most low and impure of corrupt lands, Earth
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the lunarians are shitheads
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so, Princess Kaguya falls to Earth, where she has a whole extremely long backstory
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she is the one from the kaguya myth
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adopted by a bamboo cutter, all that jazz
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at one point during this history, around 1300 years ago
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the patriarch of the Fujiwara clan fell in love with Kaguya, and asked for her hand in marriage
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Kaguya's pass-agg response is to say that she'll marry him if he'll bring her some specific gifts
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the stone begging bowl of the Buddha, a jeweled branch from the mythical island of Hōrai, a robe of Chinese fire-rat skins, a colored jewel from a dragon's neck, and a cowry shell born from a swallow.
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all of these are impossible
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it was kind of an insult mocking him as being beneath her interests
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but he got over it
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unfortunately for everyone involved
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https://images.plurk.com/3P5QjLPfqFygUIM01DBxMP.png this girl was there when it happened
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that's a young Fujiwara no Mokou
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something of a secluded unwanted child of the family
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she respected her father very much
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and when Kaguya insulted her father, she decided that Kaguya had to die
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so she ran away from home to exact vengeance on the moon princess
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Kaguya had already returned to the moon, but she caught word of a way to get back at her
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she had left a vial of the Hourai Elixir with the emperor of Japan
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and a group of soldiers were currently climbing Mt. Fuji in order to throw it into the volcano and destroy it
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Mokou knew that this elixir was an important thing to Kaguya, so she planned to steal it to spite her
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as a small act of rebellion to get back at her for insulting her dad, by refusing to become her stepmom
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it's fine
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anyway the only problem with this is that Kaguya Mokou was like an eleven year old introvert
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with NO idea how to climb a mountain
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You mean mokou was?
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yes
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yes that
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when she almost failed and possibly almost died on the ascent, she was discovered by Iwakasa, the leader of the group transporting the hourai elixir
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who helped her out, and they ended up climbing the mountain together, and celebrating together when she reached the summit
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...where they were stopped from casting the elixir into mount doom by the goddess Sakuyahime
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who was like "you fucking idiots you can't throw an immortality potion into an active volcano"
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"it will become an immortal volcano that's always erupting for eternity"
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"go see my sister Iwanagihime she'll know what to do"
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until this moment, Mokou didn't actually know what the hourai elixir did
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some unclear event happens next, possibly involving iwakasa's men trying to take the elixir for themselves and getting killed by Sakuyahime
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but in the end, for the walk back down the mountain, it's just two people
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Iwakasa and Mokou
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but then, Mokou succumbed to the temptation of the elixir
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and pushed Iwakasa off a cliff
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and drank the elixir, also becoming immortal
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but Mokou is a mortal human, not a pure lunarian, so she was not prepared for the burden of immortality
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for 300 years, she wandered the earth, never staying in one place for long
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for 300 years, she hid from the world as a hermit
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for 300 years, she lived as a beast, killing everyone who crossed her path
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i gotta say
i think touhou has my favorite take on immortality as a bad thing
maybe it's just the fanworks i've seen but like. it manages to successfully make the immortality horrifying
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for another hundred years or so, she just wallowed in boredom
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Mokou is completely alone and completely miserable
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immortality took every human connection she ever had from her and left her wandering through the world like a ghost
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and at some point, she passed into Gensokyo
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and learned that Kaguya did not, in fact, return to the moon
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she couldn't, she was exiled
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and has been living the same shitass immortality as her this whole time
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Mokou is ECSTATIC
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not only did her vengeance more or less already happen without her input
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but now there's someone else in the same situation as her
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she's not alone anymore
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https://images.plurk.com/7rWMU6v9EIOsR1WrHOF7Zo.png this is Mokou post-timeskip btw
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so in theory they should just be best friends now, the only people on earth who can truly sympathise with each other
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but also
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Mokou has been brewing in her hatred of Kaguya for a thousand years
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she's not going to just get all buddy buddy with her arch-nemesis, who indirectly led her to being cursed by immortality
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so instead she finds kaguya and they fight to the bitter death
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then, the next day, they fight to the death again
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I’m gonna do a keine sidebar when you’re done
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because they're both immortal, there's no consequences for murdering each other
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so they spend many wonderful years killing each other over and over
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to feel the fear of death, however briefly, as a colorful alternative to the endless boredom of living
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to conclude this story, here's Mokou's own narration looking back on her life choices
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Just what would have happened if I'd gone to dispose of the elixir of immortality in that mountain, just like Sakuyahime said?
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I probably would have concluded my short life without having spent so much time consumed by my own sins.
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I probably would've ended my miserable life consumed by my grudge for Kaguya.
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But, I definitely wouldn't have lived to see these days, over thirteen hundred years later.
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And that means that another immortal human would have been lonely.
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Mokou and Kaguya love each other and the language of that love is hate
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all of Kaguya's friends and attendants have kind of learned to put up with Mokou's assassination attempts
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in the extra stage of Imperishable Night, Kaguya sends you as assassins to kill Mokou without telling you she's doing that
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I gotta say
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https://images.plurk.com/19A2Qb94Hymr3kncLeftrh.png
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the elixir and the quest to destroy it
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kinda sounds like a LotR reference
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it's very possible
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it's like if Gandalf showed up in mt doom and was like "you stupid asshole if you throw the ring in there then Mt. Doom will become Mt. Sauron"
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plus like
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everybody killing each other trying to take it
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specifically because they're human, even
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So Keine Kamishirasawa
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https://images.plurk.com/6dUp1j0wqQv8MnjX0OKtKQ.jpg her
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Is not a terribly well fleshed out character, and I admit that a LOT of this is headcanon and fanon
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But she is a werehakutaku. A half youkai with the power to change the past in unclear ways
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ZUN once said in an interview that she was nine million years old
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But he was drunk at the time
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The important thing is she’s old as dirt and she is also Mokou’s friend
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And is pretty much the only person who is willing to go out into the cursed bamboo forest and lecture the creepy immortal lady who lives there
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For not taking care of herself
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And the main concept I like about this friendship is that Keine is WAY older than Mokou, but she’s also technically not immortal
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She’slong lived enough to actually make an emotional impact on an immortal, but she’ll still EVENTUALLY die
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This ramble was more interesting in my head but I do like Keine
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Mokou's mom friend
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for when she's just lying on the forest floor like "I'm hungry but I'm not going to die of it"
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a thing she canonically does
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She’s a school teacher so when mokou is acting childish Keine treats her like a child
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