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The main purpose of this thread is to ask your random, one-off questions about different aspects of Touhou. You should always be aware of the Touhou Wiki before asking your question.

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So when do you ask your question here? And when could it be a separate thread? It is hard to say. Here a few examples of typical misc questions:
- A question whether all Touhou characters weir bloomers in canon
- A question on how to pronounce Chang'E
- A question about Sanae wearing something around her neck in UFO
- A question about Marisa and Reimu's footwear in PC-98.


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Tengukami:
Janitor's Note:

If you need a quick and easy rule of thumb, think of it this way:

Your question has one, verifiable answer: post it here.
Your question is speculative, open, with multiple possible answers: make it its own thread.

That said, we'd like to raise the quality of the speculation threads, if at all possible. Pretty much any thread can spark a worthwhile discussion, but we've noticed that speculations that are either broad or can cite evidence from different sources will make for a better discussion than narrow questions that rely solely on pure imagination.
game2011:
It's a headband all along?
Electroll:
I'm really confused with Junko's ability because in LOLK, she used that ability to purify fairies into pure lifeforce and because of that, Lunarians have to run away because with life comes with death. However, Zun also said that her ability is capable of bringing back to its godly nature, aka making something/somebody a god. So the question is whether her ability is the former or the latter or both? If it's both, does that make the fairies temporarily some kind of lifeforce gods? Do the lunarians reject gods from entering their terrority?

Another question: Are all lunarians gods? I've read somewhere which I can't remember where that the Lunar Capital acts as a place for the greater gods to live. Not sure if that's true.

One more question: Is Eirin canonically a god? There are many references that state that Eirin might be the god of wisdom, Omoikane. However, are those just references or what?

Last question (Edit): What really happened after "winning" Okina during Stage6. Did Okina teleport them away or did the protagonists run away?



Drake:

--- Quote from: Electroll on August 21, 2017, 04:01:16 PM ---I'm really confused with Junko's ability because in LOLK, she used that ability to purify fairies into pure lifeforce and because of that, Lunarians have to run away because with life comes with death. However, Zun also said that her ability is capable of bringing back to its godly nature, aka making something/somebody a god. So the question is whether her ability is the former or the latter or both? If it's both, does that make the fairies temporarily some kind of lifeforce gods?
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It's both. "Godly nature" here refers to the concept that gods are inherently a part of everything, and only by pinning down what aspects a god has, or what it belongs to, does the god settle on being that thing. A god can be many things until it's refined by being given a name or a purpose. Junko's power didn't make fairies "lifeforce gods", it's that one essence of fairies is their representation of life force, and her power refined that aspect in the same sense that a god becomes a "god of [blank]" by having their identity refined. Note that in the interview you're talking about, ZUN mentions that he established a lot of this background in CoLA. Some relevant chapters:

https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Chapter_15
https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia/Chapter_25

Chapter 15 is probably the most relevant to get the background, but 25 also contextualizes how "divine spirits" (and thus Junko) enter the picture. Yes it's pretty confusing.


--- Quote from: Electroll on August 21, 2017, 04:01:16 PM ---Another question: Are all lunarians gods? I've read somewhere which I can't remember where that the Lunar Capital acts as a place for the greater gods to live. Not sure if that's true.
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It wouldn't be apt to say that all Lunarians are gods, but the Lunar Capital models Takamagahara, where the earliest Shinto gods live. These gods are called the Amatsukami / Heavenly Gods, and are the gods referred to in Shinto creation myths as well as many of the famous ones several generations down. Yorihime and Toyohime for example are also Heavenly Gods, but some generations away from Eirin. It's kind of assumed that all Lunarians are either gods or descended directly from gods.


--- Quote from: Electroll on August 21, 2017, 04:01:16 PM ---One more question: Is Eirin canonically a god? There are many references that state that Eirin might be the god of wisdom, Omoikane. However, are those just references or what?
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Related to the above, she canonically is Omoikane, who is a Heavenly god; while the name Omoikane isn't explicitly stated in-universe, there are many pieces of information and dialogue that make it clear who she is. Out-of-universe ZUN goes as far as to say she's amongst the gods on the Moon (i.e. the Heavenly Gods) in the SoPM interview, and later says she carries the "motif" of Omoikane in her SCoOW Who's Who comment section.


--- Quote from: Electroll on August 21, 2017, 04:01:16 PM ---Last question (Edit): What really happened after "winning" Okina during Stage6. Did Okina teleport them away or did the protagonists run away?
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Kind of all of the above? She steals the magic you gathered (because it was her power that let you do so); you both leave through doors. Aya and Marisa acknowledge they had lost, Reimu and Cirno don't but are convinced otherwise.
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