OC/DC/Spinnoff Inspiration!

[PepsiYuuka]

Why is Yuuka so different from canon? Ain't enough canon. That's all there is to it. I'm taking every bit of canon I have on Yuuka and trying my damnedest to marry it together even though there was never any intention for it to make total sense together after the partial continuity reboot. Hell I've even gone through and translated things no one else would myself to try to get a better picture of the character. Look at my speech notes in her roster. I'm a research freak. But there just ain't enough for my style of roleplay, which tends to mark heavy emphasis on the character's personal flaws and why they exist- with Yuuka, we see some of these flaws manifesting in canon like her compulsive lying and her tendency to chase people away, but we don't understand why or how she came to be that way. So I've made some guesses- theories, I suppose you could say- as to some interesting explanations of why she's like that. They ain't canon but I like 'em. And let's be real when do you think canon's gonna explain things for Yuuka, a character only relevant in one single windows game? Probably never.

As for my others...

Well Elly is basically an OC because she's a one-off boss with like 30 lines of dialogue ever and no character beyond "yuuka's gatekeeper, youkai, kinda sucks at her job but tries her best."

Renko... Haven't used her, can't say. I'm gonna try to do something interesting with her though.

Mima, again, not enough backstory. I have my own like 4k word backstory for her, of course, which in creation is a very similar story to Yuuka's. I still need to update it though because I wrote it before LoLK came out and we know more about Touhou Hell now oops. (I think I wrote her as being from Former, tho)

And Yuriko, though she's an OC... Uh, she started as basically Toki from SMTIV: Apocalypse but without all of the garbage lolicon shit. I think Toki had a lot of potential as an interesting, brainwashed emotionless assassin type character who finally learned to strike it out on her own and what the meaning of freedom is. And then Atlus decided it was more important to appeal to the market that wants sexy barely-pubescent girls in catsuits calling you "master." Ugh, thanks Atlus, I'd rather take my eyes out with icepicks.