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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 82
Message ID: 33
#33, RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle...
Posted by Nova Floresca on Sep-18-20 at 09:00 PM
In response to message #29
>It kind of works in-setting, if only because a lot of the artists who
>go that route portray danmaku as a sort of recreational combat,
>like counting coup, where the object is to defeat your opponent
>without... you know, utterly retroactively deleting her entire family
>line from reality, which is something that a number of Touhou
>characters could do if they really felt like it. It's actually
>presented as the "less lethal" option, and plausibly so given how
>terrifying some of the characters' "true power" is portrayed. (Flan,
>for instance.)

The key here is the Spellcard system which is essentially a magically-enforced contract binding the participants into a "danmaku set to 'stun'" dueling system. Reimu instituted this system because of the way Gensokyo and the Border works; essentially, Reimu functions in the same way as the Pillar of Cephiro, only on an even smaller scale (Gensokyo covering a territory roughly the size of a prefecture). Without the Spellcards, Reimu would pretty much be the ultimate bully, as she could go lethal at will, while her targets would have to pull their punches or risk suffering Sudden Existence Failure. Of course, the fact that certain characters (e.g. Rumia, Flandre, Utsuho) wouldn't understand or wouldn't care to pull their punches is also a significant part of it.


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