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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 82
Message ID: 10
#10, RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle...
Posted by Gryphon on Sep-17-20 at 03:46 PM
In response to message #8
LAST EDITED ON Sep-17-20 AT 03:48 PM (EDT)
 
>>Canonically, she owns Lævatein, the sword (or in some kennings of the
>>sagas, staff or wand) of Loki, which is prophesied to be the weapon
>>Surtr wields to end the world in fire at the climax of the Ragnarök.
>
>It's for the best that she forgot about/didn't think to grab/does not
>own said item for the big fight scene.

I am currently operating under the assumption that she doesn't have it, although it might be somewhere in the house, collected by their father sometime before they were born and never discovered by the sisters.

Remember in Act VII when Remilia said the Old Gods were dead in that world, but she didn't know whether they had died out for lack of worshippers ("Who Mourns for Adonais?"-style) or been killed by the monsters that had threatened to overrun the world in the Middle Ages?

There is a third possibility, which is that they were killed as monsters by the witches and supernatural allies of ages past. "No gods, no masters" and all that. At that point, Lævatein and Spear the Gungnir take on something of a flavor of... hunting trophies.

Remilia is smart enough for that thought to have occurred to her, but I doubt she's comfortable looking directly at it. It would be at odds with her mental record of her father (though it would have happened long, long before she was born). I'm not even saying it's definitely what happened. But... it could be.

>>I submit that this would be a more suitable weapon for gopher endgame
>>than mere danmaku, which she'll probably have been trying all
>>along.
>
>There really won't be much left of that golf course, but I doubt
>management would have the courage to try to fire her.

Grass grows back!

... Topsoil and that bit of the continental plate not so much, admittedly, but a volcanic hotspot can be a great tourist attraction!

>>(Mind you, she also canonically possesses the power to just arbitrarly
>>destroy anything instantly as the whim takes her, which is... not a
>>balanceable ability, really, so I left it the hell out of Gallian
>>Gothic
. :)
>
>So she's an adorable Lord Beerus who thirsts for blood rather than
>hungers for Earth cuisine. Gotta be honest, I'm not sure how the
>Touhou universe hasn't been destroyed in that case.

Well, she can only do it to one thing at a time, and she bores easily, so... there's that.

(Also, I don't think from what I've read that she can do it in the games, just the sorta-official tie-in manga. I mean, that would pretty much by definition make her an undefeatable boss.)

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