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#4, RE: DSMP-PF03: Fait Accompli
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-14-20 at 03:01 PM
In response to message #1
>I have no idea who any of these people are (well, except Dean
>Montaigne) but I can already see that they bring the wacky disaster
>energy in spades.

Spoilers, maybe, I guess?:

Moko and Kaguya are from one of the Touhou games (Imperishable Night, I think?), and have such a simultaneously epic and silly backstory that I couldn't help being charmed by them. Basically, and this is the really short version if you can believe it, Kaguya is an immortal princess from the moon, who, circa AD 700, found herself in Japan, playing a mean-spirited little game where she demanded that her suitors, of whom there were many, bring her five legendary objects, claiming she would marry whomever accomplished this task. The punch line was that she already had all of those items, meaning the quest was impossible and she had zero intention of marrying any of them. She was evidently just doing it because immortality is boring when you're a spoiled princess with no life skills.

Moko (formally "Mokō", but nowadays she generally doesn't insist on the macron) is the daughter of one of the aforementioned doomed suitors, who is suggested to have been the historical founder of the real-life Fujiwara clan, and when she found out that the game was rigged to be unwinnable, she decided the insult to her family couldn't be allowed to stand, stole some of the moon immortality serum for herself, and embarked on a thousand-year campaign of revenge.

Why she would choose to do this when she and her father don't even seem to have liked each other (it's hinted that she was illegitmate, or at least from a not-particularly-favored concubine—medieval Japanese family politics were super weird), is not entirely clear, but basically she and Kaguya spent the next 1,300 years serially murdering each other, which is a completely pointless exercise since neither of them can die, but I suppose it kept them entertained.

Here we see that after another 400 years they've mellowed a bit. Their relationship as presented in various works ranges from "still seriously propelling that mutual hatred" to, well, more or less what you see here. As each other's only remaining contemporary and with that much continuous history together, they almost always have some kind of attachment, usually weird, and often informed by the largely-consequence-free nature of reciprocal violence. Here they still have a bit of an edge, although it's mostly in jest and largely just a byproduct of the fact that Kaguya is one of Those Women. You know the type. The ones who laugh into the backs of their hands, usually when backlit by a full moon. :)

Meanwhile, Hoshino and Anzu are from Girls und Panzer. Hoshino is a member of the Ōarai Academy Motor Club, which crews the school's Tankery team's Tiger (P), since they are possibly the only people in the Eastern Hemisphere who can keep one of those things working. Anzu is canonically the president of the Student Council, and the one responsible for coercing Miho into captaining the Tankery team. She is calculating and manipulative, but her heart is in the right place.

>DSM Panic! is happening the same school year the Hokago Tea Time kids
>come to town, right? What are the chances of the streams getting
>crossed?

DSMP as it currently stands is taking place in the previous school year (for reference, this story happens about a month before the beginning of The Federation Lives Forever!), but as that school year is nearly over as of this episode, the storyline will continue into the next one—and as has been noted already, since Yukari from the Armorsport Club and Mio from HTT are first cousins, they will almost certainly meet.

--G.
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