LAST EDITED ON Oct-04-20 AT 02:46 PM (EDT)
 
>First we have a look that says
>traveling or business in town
>to me.

Yep. Just got off the train at the Gare de l'Est, ready the spend the day arranging mysterious, precisely-timed night-time deliveries of things to a mysterious house in the Alsatian hills with a range of bemused but game-for-that-kind-of-money Paris mercantile establishments. Hey, that piano got into the music room somehow. :)

(Loving the jacket in particular. Although I thought the X-Men costumes of the 1990s overdid it, I do like a buckly garment on a well-shaped lady, me. :)

>Next up a mostly combat ready
>outift, though the artist went with some dramatic but probably
>dangerous flapping-in-the-wind bits that Sakuya would probably be too
>practical to actually include.

In fairness to the artist, giant bows on the back of ladies' garments is a Touhou signature; they just don't usually have quite such colossal trailing ends.

Again, the high point of this one to me is the waistcoat. I can see Meiling strategizing about how she's going to get that third buckle at the same time when she's only got two hands. :)

(I recognize that corsets in their "native" form are hideously unpleasant garments that serve no useful function, and I would never wish one on anybody. The purely decorative variety, however, I find quite... well, decorative. Not sure what that says about me.)

>Then a variation where it looks, to me, like
>someone gave her the bloody card to play with, and that was probably a bad day for any targets
>she had.

I've seen a bunch of artwork that associates Sakuya with playing cards—I think it may have something to do with the mechanics of the "Touhouvania" games, which this costume comes from (same source as Remilia's Really Fancy Outfit™). That, and her costume from those games has something of a "riverboat gambler" flavor to it, but that might just be me. :)

That said, the Bloody Card seems like the sort of weapon that Sakuya would appreciate. It ticks the "spooky bloodletting at a distance" box on the form. (Also reminds me that we haven't seen G use one in ages. He used to, occasionally, having picked it up from Yuri during the Golden Age.)

>And finally (for this post)
>another version of the pinstripes because she really rocks them IMHO. From the look of it,
>whoever she's looking at is also about to get rocked, and not in any
>fun interpretation of that phrase.

Meiling saw that look come into Sakuya's eyes. "Uh, Gryph?" she said. "It's time to get behind something now."

>"Tangentially related, finding really good Meiling pics is actually
>irritating in its difficulty, but she'll get her turn."

The one that goes along with the second Sakuya pic in this set is pretty good, but yes, it is often an exercise in WTF-is-wrong-with-all-you-all looking for pics of Meiling where she's not a) being abused b) wildly off-model or c) both.

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