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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
Hashihime (CW: Ritual Suicide. Implied Double Homicide in Near Future)
Date: 2020-09-11 07:53 pm (UTC)The spirit had told you to dress in robes of white, as if for your own funeral, robed in the color of death, your face painted red. Your unusual, exotic blonde hair short-cut in mourning, you carried a pair of candles on iron holders between your teeth, a crown of iron with three such candles on your head. You was beneath the great bridge of Uji. Nobody would care. Your family had surely disowned you by now, because obviously this was your fault or it wouldn't have happened. Or at least, that was how you were thinking of it.
The last night, you were going to make sure you didn't rise from the waters until it was done. The knife would make sure of that. You knew how. You wouldn't take chances. The blood would wash away, and when it was done, when the mortal body was dead, be it from exposure of night after night, exhaustion, starvation, thirst, drowning or blood lose it would be done. You would rise into this world a demon.
Your pulse was starting to dim. It was all getting a sort of bloody fringe at the edge of your vision. It hurt and you were cold, but you didn't care. Even if the ritual failed, you didn't care. Maybe that bastard would find out still what you'd tried to do. You just wanted him to suffer the way he'd made you suffer. When your head slipped under, you could feel the burn in your lungs, the pain in your arms and then... nothing.
You didn't like how long it was. Oblivion was like that. Death was like that. You stopped feeling anything, and then an eternity passed, or perhaps only a moment. You rose from the water. your skin was pale and the candles were still lit. You could feel the jealousy seething in you, hot like lava. It burned with the embers of the candles and your eyes glowed. You grinned, tears flowing down your face as you looked into the water. You'd done it. You looked beautiful... perfectly arrayed for the moment. This was what you were meant for.
It was time for him to die. Screaming.