> What was the deal with (Future)Koakuma/Petite and her situation ? Did it change because of (Future)Patchouli in Makai?In addition,why was she not being able or unwilling to go past a certain point in Makai?
> Was it possible to have meaningful interactions with Amaya,present or future(s)?
>About the Future Youkai,I do not know exactly.I could stand to be corrected...I have some general feeling they might be general , or sometimes even specific to certain Touhous and certain previous Quests, references and examples of how "Outsiders"Youkai/Youkai-related settled in (Future) Gensokyo and mingled with its "descendants" .
>If possible,I would like to ask about " The Warlord" and "Coyote".Thank you.
>Essentially, Koakuma looted a lot of pricey things from the mansion when her familiar contract ran out, and used them to establish herself as a noteworthy in Makai. The reason she wasn't willing to leave is due to the nature of Makai and its people. Essentially, they gates have always been open, but people are convinced if they leave, their enemies or opportunists will plunder their stuff and usurp their positions and so on. Or, that Shinki will notice and be displeased. This is why familiars contracts happen; it gives them a convenient and protected out, as well as a potential to make connections and gain power outside of Makai. So in short: paranoia.
>In the future, no. She was gone by then. In the present, certainly.
>Not quite for the most part. Many are figures I've yanked from somewhere or other in various mythologies. A few were just generic youkai, in the way Meiling is a generic youkai.
>The Warlord is essentially what it says on the tin; an expansionist military sort. She is essentially a Daimyo type of figure. in that she ruled a fiefdom and had her eye on expanding it and her set of power. She really wasn't a bad ruler insomuch as she didn't neglect her people, but she was definitely devoting a lot of resources to military affairs and gathering power. While there was certainly a reason with regards to the monster of Funsei Mountain, make no mistakes, she didn't really oppose that course of action rather than going to others. In person, she would have been friendly and extremely confident. If you impressed her, she would have tried to recruit you.
>Coyote was Coyote, which is to say he was the trickster god of Native American mythology. I didn't really settle on any one particular interpretation of him, but rather went with a generalist sort of view and made it up as I went along. He likes causing trouble for the fun of it, but is fair minded enough to be a good sport when someone turns the tables on him.
>How much of future Gensokyo did you plan out that we didn't end up visiting?
>Was it always intended for two trips to the future, or would you have had more if we hadn't found Kaguya soon enough?
>Apex was connected to places other than Gensokyo right? Would you have allowed to us to visit one of those places through apex?
>The one thing you didn't look into was the underground. In the first timeline, you would have found that Kisume and Yamame would have managed to create an agricultural empire down there. Kisume would also have had a mess of kids, who would be varying kinds of youkai. She would be very circumspect about their other parent(s). But she loves 'em all. The Ancient City itself wouldn't be meaningfully changed. As Satori moved out, Koishi would have been in charge of the Palace of the Earth Spirits. She would be a lot more genuinely upbeat and happy from the last time yall saw her in the future. Her third eye would be covered with a veil. I had no intention of answering what that means.
>In the second timeline, there really wouldn't be an underground anymore. This is because at some point the oni got sick of not being able to see the stars, and blew the roof right off it, creating a huge sort of crater valley in the middle of the mountain range that Youkai Mountain is in, much of it filled with a lake. Yamame and Kisume would still be cave farming, but now selling their good as luxuries rather than staples.
>THere's also the Kobito village (see below), and I had a vague few other ideas to fill out space if needs be. One thing I considered if you went too far into no man's land would be you'd run into a cave with a hag in it. Then ZUN dropped Nemuno on us, and I laughed a true laugh. It's like when Great Faerie Wars happened right as I was planning Renko to be a faerie whisperer.
>I very originally intended for only one trip. But as I prepared to start, I decided it would be more fun if you could make two trips and see the changes you wrought. I didn't intend to let you leave the second time until you had found the root causes. I am not sure if you could have done something to convince me otherwise, but I might have allowed a second return and third trip? One thing you could have done was find your watch in the first loop. It was at the Kobito village I hinted at from time to time. You would have had to deal with an agent of the Warlord to get it, as they too were interested.
>As for other worlds connected to Apex. I would have tried to dissuade it a little, because I didn't have any of them developed at all. But if yalls insisted, I would have at least let you step through and see what's on the other side, and see if I could come up with some kind of treat for it. Avalon, I might not have tried to dissuade it, and would have maybe let you meet up with
Arturia Wart theirself.