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[touhou] I just really like the core plotline of Perfect Cherry Blossom
hot bear summer
it's a good one
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It begins centuries ago, with one of the most uncomplicatedly evil beings in the Touhou canon
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https://images.plurk.com/MqN5VaxwloUgZF9SB5dB7.png the Saigyou Ayakashi
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A youkai cherry tree that influences humans around it
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guiding them to sleep under its branches
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and when they sleep, they do not wake up
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and it feeds on their corpses to become more powerful
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enter Yuyuko Saigyouji
https://images.plurk.com/4zkChvuBPZEYolQlKU2ptM.png
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A human girl born with her soul connected to the hell tree
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its power works through her, so she can just, kill people by thinking it
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An extremely dangerous power to have
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so, Yuyuko decides to take responsibility for the murder tree
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binds her soul to it, then takes her own life, sealing its power
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the Saigyou Ayakashi of the material world is defeated, and it lives on only as a sealed, withered tree in the netherworld, bound never to bloom
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Yuyuko becomes a ghost, and a very high-status one at that
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very powerful, and very cheerful, beccause she has no memory of her life before she died
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Hundreds of years later, in Gensokyo, one year spring just doesn't happen
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it continues to be winter, an incident that the usual suspects go to investigate
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the reason there's no spring is because Yuyuko is gathering all the spring essence into the netherworld
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in order to make the Saigyou Ayakashi bloom once more
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the reason she is doing this
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is because she can sense someone's soul, bound within the tree, and feels drawn to her
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so she wants to resurrect the tree in order to free the soul bound to it, and meet that person
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she does not know that what she's feeling is her own soul
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Even on the highest difficulty, the tree never quite blooms
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I'm not sure if Yuyuko ever learns who was in there
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It just has this strange, sad vibe to it that resonates
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Yuyuko unwittingly almost reviving a monster in order to save someone who she doesn't know is herself
Villain
It's always a little jarring to remember that, underneath all the shitposting and beer, there is often some pretty compelling stories
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in Touhou games
HotXC
yeah it's really compelling
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Yukari, of course, gives her a hand with the whole material world/netherworld boundary
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Yukari knew her when she was alive
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friend asked her for a favor and it'll probably work out in the end
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one of my all time self-indulgent RP threads I've always wanted to do
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would be to make a pre-death Yuyuko journal and thread out the conversation set right before she confronts the Saigyou Ayakashi
hot bear summer
did she get her powers from the saigyou ayakashi? (thinking) i thought she just had them. bc she was born with spirit control powers and they sort of morphed into her death powers over time
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oh maybe
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In the beginning, Yuyuko only possessed the ability to manipulate departed souls. Unconsciously, that power grew stronger, that eventually she possessed the ability to invite others to death. ok
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I added that embellishment then
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also: a guy who's heavily implied to be yuyuko's dad was one of the ayakashi's first victims for that extra layer of "oh nooooo"
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(that would be a dope revelation if true tho. murdertree making its own demise........)
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it makes sense, kind of
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death girl, death tree
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another fun added detail
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if yuyuko successfully revived the tree, then her soul would be freed, and she would pass on into the cycle of reincarnation
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meaning the ghost yuyuko would cease to exist
Echo
Damn, the concept of trying to save a strange that you don't know is you is fantastic.
hot bear summer
GOD i love the ghoulish way that Lost Word played with that.
hot bear summer
in one of the alternate universes where Yuyuko succeeded in resurrecting the tree it's not that her soul was freed, but that her soul went back into her body and she became human again. but her soul is a thousand years old and her body would shift to accommodate it. so she would rapidly age and crumble into dust
hot bear summer
as a yuyuko lover that game fucken kills me (in a good way)
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fucked up
HotXC
daaaang
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Yuyuko's Theme - Border of Life
also I love love love love love yuyuko's theme
ProfessorGustav
yuyuko is an Entire gender I adore her
BattroidBattery
Yeah I never heard that Yuyuko was linked to the tree before but that makes way more sense...
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