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bridge_princessFive memories are included below.
Content Warnings for the last two are significant, and deal with the plight of of people in adverse circumstances in the ancient world, some pretty heavy handed misoginy, suicide ideation and ritual suicide (with implications of both several unpleasant methods to die.). So, I cannot stress this enough:
DO NOT READ THE LAST TWO LINKS IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE DOING SO.
I'm going to post links to each memory here for convenience, so that you only have to read the ones that you want to. The first two are silly dumb shit that happens in Touhou all the time. They leave implied the horrible, darkness that is Japanese folklore of the youkai and other such creatures, and instead turn it into a goofy, silly world where young women with magical powers kick each other's asses because it's apparently just how they solve each other's problems. There's links to game footage and it's all very silly. You're not going to run into trigger warnings there.
The third link has some emotional trauma and severe loneliness in it, and is derived from the setting and implications of her game material and Marisa's accounts about her, along with several well known doujinshi which give the usual headcanon of most fans about her relationship with Yuugi. It's not awful, but be aware it's going to sound pretty lonely.
The last two are just what I warned about. Part of the reason multiple methods of death are included is that the ancient myth implies drowning and Touhou Project leans heavily on the myth. However, Parsee is drawn very specifically with a garment that covers her forearms, regardless of the illogical nature of it, tied off at her elbows and wrists. She is seen in official art with it regularly and in most fanart, without explanation. She does not allow people to see her forearms, implying a second method was likely used to 'make sure she died' the last night of the ritual.
The Memories:
Subterranean Animism: Her main canon appearance. Silly stuff
Hopeless Masquerade: She appears as the audience, watching still more silly stuff (Marisa v Koishi)
A Day in the Life: CW Severe Loneliness and Depression
The Darker Memories:
Gaining the Ritual of the Hashihime: CW: Suicide Ideation, Misogynistic Society, Divorce, Curses, Cursed Dolls, Homicidal Urges, Black Magic
The Ritual: CW - Ritual Suicide (Implied Slitting Wrists, Bleeding Out, Drowning, Death by Exposure, Starvation and Thirst), Undead Resurrection, Homicidal Intent
Content Warnings for the last two are significant, and deal with the plight of of people in adverse circumstances in the ancient world, some pretty heavy handed misoginy, suicide ideation and ritual suicide (with implications of both several unpleasant methods to die.). So, I cannot stress this enough:
DO NOT READ THE LAST TWO LINKS IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE DOING SO.
I'm going to post links to each memory here for convenience, so that you only have to read the ones that you want to. The first two are silly dumb shit that happens in Touhou all the time. They leave implied the horrible, darkness that is Japanese folklore of the youkai and other such creatures, and instead turn it into a goofy, silly world where young women with magical powers kick each other's asses because it's apparently just how they solve each other's problems. There's links to game footage and it's all very silly. You're not going to run into trigger warnings there.
The third link has some emotional trauma and severe loneliness in it, and is derived from the setting and implications of her game material and Marisa's accounts about her, along with several well known doujinshi which give the usual headcanon of most fans about her relationship with Yuugi. It's not awful, but be aware it's going to sound pretty lonely.
The last two are just what I warned about. Part of the reason multiple methods of death are included is that the ancient myth implies drowning and Touhou Project leans heavily on the myth. However, Parsee is drawn very specifically with a garment that covers her forearms, regardless of the illogical nature of it, tied off at her elbows and wrists. She is seen in official art with it regularly and in most fanart, without explanation. She does not allow people to see her forearms, implying a second method was likely used to 'make sure she died' the last night of the ritual.
The Memories:
Subterranean Animism: Her main canon appearance. Silly stuff
Hopeless Masquerade: She appears as the audience, watching still more silly stuff (Marisa v Koishi)
A Day in the Life: CW Severe Loneliness and Depression
The Darker Memories:
Gaining the Ritual of the Hashihime: CW: Suicide Ideation, Misogynistic Society, Divorce, Curses, Cursed Dolls, Homicidal Urges, Black Magic
The Ritual: CW - Ritual Suicide (Implied Slitting Wrists, Bleeding Out, Drowning, Death by Exposure, Starvation and Thirst), Undead Resurrection, Homicidal Intent
A Day in the Life of a Jealous Girl
Date: 2020-09-11 07:21 pm (UTC)Maybe Yukari'd had a point. It was time for all of you to go away. Somewhere safe. Safe for you. Safe for them. Sealed by the Barrier.
So, here you were, on a bridge. They'd had the decency to make it look like the one in your hometown. A little bit of home, like Uji, one had said. You'd almost appreciated the gesture, but now nobody came. The bridge was meaningless after all. Nobody had business in hell from above. souls were going to the New Hell the Yama had made. The youkai were already down here and Yukari'd said they weren't supposed to go upstairs really. Everyone obeyed her, because she was scary as fucking hell. So now, the only time anyone ever came by was if Yuugi was drunk and bored, or that spider decided to visit.
You watched from behind your shrine. The youkai were all having fun. There was that bucket girl. That blasted bucket. All she could do was drop down and scare people before she tied to eat them. What was so god-damned special about her? But people were talking to her, chatting away. Random phantoms that hadn't left and youkai were drinking, partying and chatting in the markets, and they were ignoring you. Avoiding you, distancing themselves.
Every day it got worse. You wanted to talk to them, but why would they want to talk to you? None of them were breaking up, after all. They were all so god-damned fucking happy all the time. It made your blood boil, green lights starting to spill out, as youkai began to notice and just sort of edged away from the bridge. Nobody ever came to the bridge...
Right up until a hand slapped you on the shoulder. It sent you sprawling and you heard a laugh. Yuugi was laughing down at you, grabbing you by the scruff of your neck and hauling you up. You could smell the booze on her lips. But it wasn't like other people getting drunk. You didn't want sober oni. They got mad. Drunk, she didn't give two shits how jealous you made her. She ruffled your hair and laughed. "You're being a pill again. Stop paying attention to them. Sit, have a drink."
"you're not going to take no for an answer are you?" You can already see it in the way she's grinning. "Fine. Whatever. It'll get you out of my hair."
You're grateful. You might be jealous of her, but you're not alone for a moment...