11-17-2017, 10:30 AM
Is this... Venting? Just me talking to the wall? IDK, it's just something I've been ranting about in the chatbox since people are wondering what the deal with it is and it's easier to consolidate it in one space than keep typing there, lol. And venting I guess works, but instead of being angry I just need somewhere to post my shitty rambling I don't really care if anyone reads.
Anyway so yeah the Touhou thing which is PROBABLY mostly my fault because I am some lame lunatic nerd who's been passionately involved in this fandom for over 6 years and never shuts her damn mouth. Some people like it, some people don't. That's cool. But some people also really like it, and those people have somehow made other people really not like it. I get that. Somehow, it's contentious around here. And I'd wager a guess that it's because Touhou has a very different appeal from other things. Touhou is liked because it's an imperfect, incomplete medium in the first place. Like, ZUN sucks at art. The games really have skimpy plots. Character personalities and backstories are basic, if often interesting in concept. But it's not treated as a bad thing by fans. Instead, it makes Touhou conducive to a great amount of headcanon and fanwork that allows a potential writer for it to more greatly mold canon to their tastes than, say, DBZ.
Like I'm pretty sure you could experience most of everything considered, by the strictest definition, "canon" for Yuuka in roughly the same amount of time you could read my roster. And yet somehow she's been within the top 20 characters overall every year up until the last. (And that's including over 160 characters.) She's been in one single game currently considered "canon." But she's 30 places above a character with an entire 7 volume Manga written about her. Probably precisely because there's less to go on with Yuuka- she has a couple interesting character traits and a good basic concept, and the rest is left for the fans to fill in themselves. You can make of her whatever you want, really. And that goes for most of the characters- there's never any pressure to stick to purely canon things, since the canon is so light on detail it's inevitable some headcanon will come into it. That just isn't as much of a thing for most other large series, with the exception of the JRPG Silent Protagonist. (Whom, I'm sure, this site sees a fair number of as well.) It basically gives any given Touhou infinite outward potential to become more interesting based entirely on their writer.
And this being an RPG as opposed to a flat RP makes it less likely to have users dwell on power level garbage instead of actual, interesting content for some of these characters. Sure it comes up to some extent, but the RPG gives it more balance so that it's less of an issue. And that's kind of a major thing- even within Touhou canon, power levels in battle are balanced by a system. In other multifandom roleplays where they aren't, questions arise as to what is and isn't possible for a given character and it's a hassle. An RPG like this is appealing because it also has a system which can work to balance things so that characters aren't just leaps ahead of others by default because their powers are cooler. We know what's possible for any given character because there are rules for it. It's simple.
Also the massive amount of characters of different mythological origins basically makes it Pokemon with girls. Not saying that isn't part of the appeal too, as my lesbian ass can probably tell you.
And like... I get it, us Touhou fans can get really entrenched in discussion about it. But that's mostly just because there's so much to talk about, since not only does it have the canon to discuss, there's also working out our own fan ideas in relation to each other to supplement that canon. We just don't have much in the way of other characters interacting with us IC right now to divert our discussion from just being about our fandom. And it's just something we obviously have a mutual interest towards, so naturally it comes up.
tl;dr we're terrible memers who enjoy having fun, but the fact is we probably aren't going anywhere. touhou legitimately has some merits that make it interesting to roleplay and even especially suitable for a site such as the omniverse, which is why it's getting more popular on here.
Anyway so yeah the Touhou thing which is PROBABLY mostly my fault because I am some lame lunatic nerd who's been passionately involved in this fandom for over 6 years and never shuts her damn mouth. Some people like it, some people don't. That's cool. But some people also really like it, and those people have somehow made other people really not like it. I get that. Somehow, it's contentious around here. And I'd wager a guess that it's because Touhou has a very different appeal from other things. Touhou is liked because it's an imperfect, incomplete medium in the first place. Like, ZUN sucks at art. The games really have skimpy plots. Character personalities and backstories are basic, if often interesting in concept. But it's not treated as a bad thing by fans. Instead, it makes Touhou conducive to a great amount of headcanon and fanwork that allows a potential writer for it to more greatly mold canon to their tastes than, say, DBZ.
Like I'm pretty sure you could experience most of everything considered, by the strictest definition, "canon" for Yuuka in roughly the same amount of time you could read my roster. And yet somehow she's been within the top 20 characters overall every year up until the last. (And that's including over 160 characters.) She's been in one single game currently considered "canon." But she's 30 places above a character with an entire 7 volume Manga written about her. Probably precisely because there's less to go on with Yuuka- she has a couple interesting character traits and a good basic concept, and the rest is left for the fans to fill in themselves. You can make of her whatever you want, really. And that goes for most of the characters- there's never any pressure to stick to purely canon things, since the canon is so light on detail it's inevitable some headcanon will come into it. That just isn't as much of a thing for most other large series, with the exception of the JRPG Silent Protagonist. (Whom, I'm sure, this site sees a fair number of as well.) It basically gives any given Touhou infinite outward potential to become more interesting based entirely on their writer.
And this being an RPG as opposed to a flat RP makes it less likely to have users dwell on power level garbage instead of actual, interesting content for some of these characters. Sure it comes up to some extent, but the RPG gives it more balance so that it's less of an issue. And that's kind of a major thing- even within Touhou canon, power levels in battle are balanced by a system. In other multifandom roleplays where they aren't, questions arise as to what is and isn't possible for a given character and it's a hassle. An RPG like this is appealing because it also has a system which can work to balance things so that characters aren't just leaps ahead of others by default because their powers are cooler. We know what's possible for any given character because there are rules for it. It's simple.
Also the massive amount of characters of different mythological origins basically makes it Pokemon with girls. Not saying that isn't part of the appeal too, as my lesbian ass can probably tell you.
And like... I get it, us Touhou fans can get really entrenched in discussion about it. But that's mostly just because there's so much to talk about, since not only does it have the canon to discuss, there's also working out our own fan ideas in relation to each other to supplement that canon. We just don't have much in the way of other characters interacting with us IC right now to divert our discussion from just being about our fandom. And it's just something we obviously have a mutual interest towards, so naturally it comes up.
tl;dr we're terrible memers who enjoy having fun, but the fact is we probably aren't going anywhere. touhou legitimately has some merits that make it interesting to roleplay and even especially suitable for a site such as the omniverse, which is why it's getting more popular on here.
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