[Touhou] future hypothetical character considerations
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[Touhou] future hypothetical character considerations
[Touhou] future hypothetical character considerations
Princess Emily
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So I haven’t quite figured out if this is the character herself, or just who she works for or what
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But
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I think I actually did a plurk about this a while ago
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Man, queen of the fairies
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Mab*
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She’s used to commanding terrifying fae
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All 
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Then she moved to Gensokyo
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and all she has to work with is this
and all she has to work with is this
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they may look unreliable, but once you get to know them
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you find that they're even less reliable than they look
Princess Emily
why is there an american fairy
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she dresses like that to antagonize the lunarians
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by evoking the image of the flag Armstrong planted on the moon
Princess Emily
you know what that makes sense
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that's 100% true canon
Freakin Bat
She'll definitely get in a fight with Remilia, because those fairy maids.
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OKAY
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JESUS FUCK TODAY IS STUPID
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I can talk now
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So Mab just kind of takes over all the fairies in Gensokyo without trying
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Because she’s terrifying and powerful
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But ruling the gensokyo fairies is like ruling cats
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So my character, I think
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Was the boss fairy who Mab deposed
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A kinda cirno-esque figure
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She can’t beat Mab
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But Mab can’t destroy her because fairies just bounce back from anything you do to them like looney toons
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So she’s just endlessly plotting her revenge against Mab in halfbrained schemes that never work
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But they do annoy the hell out of her
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Mab is now a grumpy wine mom
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oh I figured Mab was your character, this sounds more touhou-ish than that
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Yeah
Princess Emily
nods
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also opens the way for like
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scary foreign fairies as antagonists
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I think this interpretation is great as a touhou character, but not as a PC
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My character gets obliterated by Mab about once a week
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Agi/guts harasser build
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And to be clear
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I don’t think she should ever beat Mab
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The status quo should be maintained here
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Like presumably the PARTY would beat her at some point
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But that’s not enough to become the boss of the fairies again
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She’s gotta beat Mab without help
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Ideal would be for her to challenge Mab to a rematch with her newfound strength and then get obliterated again as usual
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Freakin Bat
: This would be an AU Gensokyo with all new characters so Mab and Remilia are, unfortunately, not in conflict
Freakin Bat
oh, I see
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I pictured Mab somewhere in the same weight class as Remilia though
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Or maybe Yuyuko
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Oh that rules. Dumb as hell, extremely funny
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That’s the ideal vibe yeah
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This implies the existence of Gensokyo fairies who are cosplaying as unseelie lords
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Trying to be all sinister and mysterious and doing a terrible job
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Fairies tend to have not Japanese sounding names
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Luna, Sunny, Star, Cirno, Letty, Clownpiece, etc
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So I’ve gotta think of something suitably whimsical sounding
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First thing that came to mi d is Gebbi
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(Or possibly Gebby)
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the names do generally mean something relevant to the character
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But I think I can do better
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Cirno iirc comes from 'chill'
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Clownpiece is a clown, moon/sun/star, etc
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God what if I do a companion build and have a sort of Don Quixote and Pancho thing going on
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No I think not
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I've done enough duos
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hmm
hmm
Princess Emily
Second one is very cute, but looks like she has her shit together, which is obviously a negative for Touhou fairies,
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That's a good point
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brainstorm
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Rain Fairy
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so there's just a precocious child in a raincoat
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following the party around and talking MAD shit
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possible words to build a name off of: Drizzle, Monsoon, Shower, Flurry, Drop
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fairy-ish vibes
fairy-ish vibes
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little creepier
little creepier
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So far I think the banana Fairy might be the winner
Princess Emily
honestly banana fairy is good
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yeah I like that one
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The one Emily suggested was too together with her shit has the advantage of having a bunch of art
Princess Emily
it's honestly a really cute pb but she just doesn't look like she gets up to fairy shenanigans, she looks like the reasonable and mature one
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where as banancoat looks like she's really good at thinking up step ONE of her plans
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step 2 will sort itself out when you get there
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I'm wondering
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if it would be possible to do something in the same vein as Hannah's character in UE
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Not exactly that
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but like a character who just constantly "dies" and reforms herself like Wil E Coyote
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Cirno's gimmick in Fairy Wars where she can just push forwards as long as she has enough willpower to fight
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something like Plucky in SRS, maybe
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where you have 1 max HP but can revive yourself as a support action
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what's SRS?
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I'm blanking
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super robot spirits
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SRWQ
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righto k
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right ok
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Yeah something like that
Princess Emily
If we can think of a good way to do that mechanically, then sure. I'm not sure how that'd equate to Valor exactly though, since you probably don't wanna actually play a flunky or something like that.
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I do not want to play a flunky it's true
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Maybe I'll just give her good guts
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and flavor it as getting owned on every attack
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Custom Flaw that makes you fall prone whenever you get hit
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oh god is this the time to finally play the tumbler build?
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Get rolling recovery and rising attack
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constantly knock yourself over
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And just constantly do absurd acrobatics with all your techs
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Oh I did the roll rise prone combo with Iseul it was really fun
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Since we’re all flying all the time in this, I imagine it would be more like just corkscrewing unpredictably through the air
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Constantly going "aaaaaaa imeanttodothAT AAAAAAA"
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Crashing into walls
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God
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Variant on the dash mod that lets you reposition yourself
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So you can crash into enemies for bonus damage
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Causing you to both take a DI
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Get the skill where you get to move if you dodge an attack and do that while yelling
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Oh my god
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Eric that's so dumb it's perfect
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Incompatible with immovable
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You are EXTRA movable
Princess Emily
there IS the move core
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...lightweight, flaw
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Reposition attacks gets +1 spaces on you
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Princess Emily
: there is but I was imagining a forehead missile attack
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I guess I could just put the health limit on it
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And the movement limit to represent needing enough space for the run up
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I’m already in love with this character
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Annoying fanon havers everywhere: I haven't decided on a name yet but her TITLE
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Is Daiyousei