It's a truly staggering arsenal of guns in one (in)convenient package. There's a large machinegun running down the leg of the cross, iirc a grenade launcher in the top, and the whole thing can be braced on the ground to use as a shield, while the arms fold open to reveal multiple automatic handguns on each side- for the user who wishes to play with their food at close range presumably.

tl;dr- it's like Sakuya's hammerspace arsenal of knives, only it's guns and you have to carry it around.

edit- and here it is in the hands of Marisa, because she doesn't inspire enough dread when she shows up on her own.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Just in case you want the really long description.

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I'm half surprised there isn't a child image variation without the ears. Sadly, my Photoshopping skills aren't up to the task (too much of the hat is occluded by the ears.)

>Well, the way I look at it, Remi has just enough fashion sense to know
>a mob cap doesn't really go with that outfit, and Flandre has more
>than enough sangfroid to not care that it doesn't. :)
>

A fair point. Hell, Flandre might actually do such things on purpose just to see what reactions she gets.

>Also:
>
>FLANDRE
>Cherry martini.
>
>BARMAN
>Shaken or stirred?
>
>FLANDRE gazes coolly into the BARMAN's soul. He winces, visibly
>wilting before her silent scorn.
>
>FLANDRE
>Do I look like I give a damn?
>

Poor barman, he was just trying to do his job in such a club in a conscientious manner.

>(Also also, based on the neon sign in the background, this may be
>their own place! Remilia's Scarlet Café Libérionne, for
>all your espionage needs. :)
>

I hadn't noted that at first, but that could work rather well. It also leads to the image of some patron commenting on the club not having any obvious bouncers, then the camera shifting to show Flandre hauling a hulking thug in each hand to the door before launching them into a dumpster at the end of an alley across the street.

>Also also also, I bet there is a specific Japanese word for the fetish
>about women letting one of their shoes dangle from just their toes
>like Flan's doing, and though I am not in general a feet guy, I am
>here for it.
>
>(And the one where they sort of crouch on tiptoes so that only their
>toes are actually inside their shoes. What is that? And why is it
>hot?)
>

If it exists, a quick Google search knows it not (though it is, apparently, something of a thing that gets discussed.) As for why, my take is that it's about attitude. There's a bit of a reason it's Flandre employing that pose here, for example. It shows that "yeah, I kinda don't care what you think, I'm comfortable in my skin and relaxed" vibe, with maybe a hint of subtle rule breaking sprinkled on top.

>♪ she's in a long black coat tonight
>waitin' for me in the downpour outside
>she's singin' "baby come home" in a melody of tears
>while the rhythm of the rain keeps time
>
>If you're wearing long sleeves or a scarf, it doesn't matter if your
>legs are bare! These are the laws of the universe. :)
>

I'm sort of surprised I didn't think of that Cake song until Peter Eng noted it below, though one could always No Prize explain it that the coat has some sort of warming enchantment on it.

>During World War I, British officers could buy
>a bayonet for their Webley Mk VI revolvers!
>There is no record of anyone ever actually using one, but
>such a thing existed (and was made by a reputable firm, no less).
>
>In this case, the gun looks to be a 1911, which... well, you
>could theoretically mount a bayonet on the underside of the
>frame like that, people put flashlights and lasers and the like there
>on modern 1911s all the time, but it wouldn't be super-stable, and in
>any event a pistol bayonet is not a particularly useful weapon.
>

I'm honestly surprised there's any precedent for that setup at all, even if everyone knowledgeable seems to have gone 'yeah, no' at the thought of it. Given the impracticality, I don't think Sakuya would actually employ the setup just to remain on brand, but fanart is gonna fanart.

>My memory of Trigun has eroded sufficiently that I can't
>remember what the heck that is or does, but it sure is freaky-lookin'.
>

heh, others beat me to explaining this, but really the Punisher Cross is summed up as one of Neo's famous lines in The Matrix, "Guns, lots of guns."

>To be fair, Remilia being Remilia, that's also the face she uses when
>she's plotting what kind of dessert to have...
>

One must given important decisions their due consideration.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

People probably assume Meiling is the bouncer, when she is in fact the shades player for the house band.

>I'm honestly surprised there's any precedent for that setup at all,
>even if everyone knowledgeable seems to have gone 'yeah, no' at the
>thought of it.

If there's one thing I've learned over several years of following the work of Ian McCollum, and years more being interested in the same sorts of things myself, it's that if there's a dumb thing people can do with firearms, someone has attempted it, and more than likely someone else has tried to make money from it. :)

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So Google is failing me, and the only even tenuous reference my brain is coming up with is Blues Brothers so what is a 'shades player'?

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Meiling probably could be a bouncer, but I suspect Flandre actually enjoys it more when it's called for."

The shades player is the member of a band who doesn't play an instrument or sing, but just stands there wearing sunglasses and looking awesome. For instance, Sergei is the shades player in the Art of Noise.

(It's an old GweepCo joke, originally referencing Ben "Bosstone" Carr, the tour manager for the ska-punk band The Mighty Mighty BossTones, whose stage role with the band is officially described as "dancer" but who mainly just stands there wearing sunglasses and looking awesome.)

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Do they actually put adapted shades on the tiger? It'd make for some distinctive merch if they did I suppose.

>(It's an old GweepCo joke, originally referencing Ben "Bosstone" Carr,
>the tour manager for the ska-punk band The Mighty Mighty BossTones,
>whose stage role with the band is officially described as "dancer" but
>who mainly just stands there wearing sunglasses and looking awesome.)
>

Makes sense, and that explains why Google failed me.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

But of course. You can't have a shades player without shades.

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That's a hilarious mental image. Have we ever seen it in an on-"camera" scene?

There are two possibilities here. Either Sergei thinks it's a fun idea and goes along with it, or he gives the Feline Disapproving/Long-Suffering Look™ to whoever's turn it is to put them on him this time.

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I'm sure we have, although I couldn't tell you off the top of my head which story it's in.

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<digression class="personal">

This is, according to my friends, the fashion vibe I give off ever since I came out as genderfluid. I've spent so much of my life not giving a shit about how I looked or what people thought of it, that now that I do care about the former, I dress just for myself and can apparently pull off combos other people couldn't.

Of course, the other part is that I'm much taller than most available womens' clothing, so I have to make adaptations. But I definitely enjoy, for instance, my black suit jacket + black and white patterned long dress + vivid infinity scarf combo, especially with a trimmed beard to make it clear that I'm going way outside normal gender bounds.

Also, the scarves are solid fabric and make pretty good masks, which was definitely not a benefit I was looking for when I started buying them in 2018.

</digression>

I'm vaguely ashamed I didn't think of this song until you mentioned it. Going by the art available, she's clearly a fan of it.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

Then again, maybe Meiling is a fan, and Sakuya adopted the style as a joke, only for Meiling to say, "You look good like that."

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Remilia: Sakuya, may I ask why you've chosen to pair that skirt with that coat?

Sakuya: I've been told the combination is flattering, Milady.

Meiling: By which she means that when she threw it on to drag me out of the rain last week, I couldn't do anything but stand there making helpless little squeaky-toy noises for five minutes straight.

Remilia: *considers Sakuya some more* Quite so, Miss Hong.

-----
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-VR
Mrs. Peel, we're needed...
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

Cue obligatory "there's a $THING in that picture?" reaction, because I'd say that dress and the vampire lady wearing it steal the attention quite a bit.

>It'll be quite a while, I suspect, before our Remi will be comfortable
>dressing in such modern swimsuits
>

Ah, the school of fanart that renders the Scarlets as some sort of vaguely demonic imps (i.e. Etna for Disgaea) rather than more traditional vampires. Though that does seem to be the general style this artist developed over time, rather than a direct choice on how to draw this specific subject.

>for a day at the pool,
>but, y'know, it's good to have goals.
>

Meanwhile, I would expect Flandre to embrace such fashions, as she does all things, with gusto with the added benefit of playfully scandalizing Remilia.

>(It would also be good to have a pool, but it'll take even Meiling a
>while to dig a hole that big. :)
>

I'm sure, once the time bubble gets popped, that they can wrangle an earth bender to spend a few minutes getting such a hole ready for finishing work.

>Alternate hat Flan looking
>very Gallian indeed.
>

Adorable hat, but I'm struck a bit by the artist matching her wing crystals to the seasonal colors. I wonder if anyone has asked/suggested to our Flandre that she might be able to do that? I expect she'd have fun with it if so.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

Right? I love it when artists draw her as a small adult rather than a Perpetual Child.

>Ah, the school of fanart that renders the Scarlets as some sort of
>vaguely demonic imps (i.e. Etna for Disgaea) rather than more
>traditional vampires.

In fairness, the source itself suggests that Western vampires like the Scarlet sisters are demons (and furthermore classes them as oni). Taxonomically, it's all a bit of a muddle. :)

>Meanwhile, I would expect Flandre to embrace such fashions, as she
>does all things, with gusto with the added benefit of playfully
>scandalizing Remilia.

"Honestly, Flandre, you might as well be naked."

"Well, OK then."

"WHATAREYOUDOINGSTOPTHATTHISINSTANT"

>I'm sure, once the time bubble gets popped, that they can wrangle an
>earth bender to spend a few minutes getting such a hole ready for
>finishing work.

They could get Flan to do it in about five seconds, but they want to keep the windows on that side of the house. :)

>Adorable hat, but I'm struck a bit by the artist matching her wing
>crystals to the seasonal colors. I wonder if anyone has
>asked/suggested to our Flandre that she might be able to do that? I
>expect she'd have fun with it if so.

Heh, I hadn't thought of that, though I have toyed with the image of them all going back to red to denote that she's in Son, You Really Fucked Up mode.

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My favorite aspect of that particular image is that it's actually subtle, especially for Danbooru. It conveys the very Remilia attitude of 'yes, I know what I have and how to use it, without being crude or vulgar, thank you very much' that most of the non have-a-seat-over-there images tend to lack.

>"Honestly, Flandre, you might as well be naked."
>
>"Well, OK then."
>
>"WHATAREYOUDOINGSTOPTHATTHISINSTANT"
>

She did go an accuse Flandre of being a naturist, she only has herself to blame for planting that particular seed.

>Heh, I hadn't thought of that, though I have toyed with the image of
>them all going back to red to denote that she's in Son, You Really
>Fucked Up mode.
>

At that point, that would make them mood wings.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

If she figured out conscious control over them, it would give her a whole new set of fidget habits.

"Flandre, could you stop twinkling your wings, please? It's very distracting."

"Aw, c'mon, Sis, lighten up, it's Christmas."

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Sakuya watched Flandre through her opera glasses.

"There are bombs placed near the north and south elevator banks. She thinks they're planning to take out the support columns."

Remilia looked skeptical. "How can you tell that?"

"I taught her Morse code."

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I think that brown color is actually meant to be black with a reddish highlight from the red moon, but since shading doesn't really work that way, it didn't quite come out as intended. That's only a guess, though.

>Meanwhile someone has
>introduced Flandre to rock 'n roll, as well as a school uniform. Perhaps Frame Shift decided
>to take on yet more extra-dimensional members.

I like how the uniform is basically just her regular outfit translated into a modern high school uniform style. I could see Sakuya whipping that up to help her fit in better in a modern community, although she runs the risk of being mistakenly harassed by the truancy police (even if they can't figure out what school she's cutting class from).

>This picture would probably
>have been a more useful visual aid earlier in the storyline, but it
>seems to capture Flandre's dual nature when she was introduced to us
>rather well without going as over the top as some pieces I've seen.

... Yeah, that's pretty close, isn't it? I hadn't seen that one before now, but it does work quite well (right down to the fact that the Child has the nobody's-really-home eyes).

>Finally we have Sakuya in a >sharp police uniform> of that typical anime police style exchanging a
>happy greeting with her snuggle bunny. Though I do wonder what event
>would make her trim up her hair and do away with her trademark braids,
>maybe she was undercover recently on some assignment.

Alternately, "I just felt like making a change. I don't feel it's a successful experiment, though, so I'm growing it back out."

Or damage control from a failed trim, that happens sometimes...

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It feels like an alternate universe version of them.

"Commissioner Izayoi," Meiling said in a flat tone, offering her hand.
"Special Agent Hong," Sakuya responded coldly, shaking Meiling's hand.

They managed to hold on to the formality for roughly ten seconds.

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You just gave me the image of Sakuya taking the place of Jim Gordon in one of the classic "Commissioner Gordon and Batman meet on the police headquarters roof" scenes. Batman would find dealing with Commissioner Izayoi pretty frustrating, I should think, because he would never get away with that "disappear in mid-sentence at the end of the conversation" stunt he's always pulling on Gordon. He'd go to leave and suddenly she'd be standing where he was about to go. :)

(That also chains to the idea of Meiling kicking the living crap out of Lady Shiva, which is deeply satisfying. "Oh, I'm sorry, were you just trying to fuck with my chi? You're about 500 years too early to pull that off.")

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It'd frustrate Bruce to no end, but I think Terry would start viewing it as a challenge or a game. At first, the victory would be "figure out how it's done", then "get Sakuya to fake out and use The World while he's not trying to leave". The little pocketwatch click would be a giveaway. Once she starts being more cautious about it, then the real psychological game begins.

It'd definitely be worthwhile practice for fighting an actual time-manipulating villain.

It does its job well. Also I know Remilia, particularly the local incarnation, is fond of pinks but black is such a winning color on her.

>the usual outfit, but from an angle we don't get often
>

That does show off the Scarlet specific adjustments doesn't it. Some artists seem to act like her wings are detachable and were plugged into sockets on her back after she got dressed.

>mega frills + capelet edition
>(I dunno about that hat, though)
>

Her facial expression makes it seem like she isn't sure about the hat either. Really it's the floral decorations that just seem off somehow.

>Flan likes to dress the part when she helps out around the house
>

Is it me, or is there a sub-genre of SDM fanart the involves putting everyone who isn't Sakuya into a maid's outfit? Though that might be the general 'maid outfit' sub-genre of fanart in general leaking.

>you can really tell Meiling picked out this dress
>

There's no faulting Meiling's tastes in this instance.

>speak of the dragon
>

Her face here leads me to believe she is either looking at, or thinking of, Sakuya in the above dress.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

Right? Once he gets a look at her in her wedding dress, I expect G will lobby for more black in her day-to-day wardrobe. Not all black, he likes her regular clothes too (and, you know, it's not his decision), but more often than never. :)

(Flan looks cute in the black version of her outfit that turns up sometimes, too, although taggers usually assume she's just meant to be cosplaying Rumia when artists do that. And, to be fair, sometimes they're right.)

>That does show off the Scarlet specific adjustments doesn't it. Some
>artists seem to act like her wings are detachable and were plugged
>into sockets on her back after she got dressed.

I guess they figure if Sakuya is dressing her (which, to be fair, is historically a lady's-maid's job, and it must be tough affixing those large rear bustle bows without help), she can sort of furl them up and guide them through smaller holes. Which, given that another common convention is that they're quite sensitive, shades slightly kinky. :)

>Is it me, or is there a sub-genre of SDM fanart the involves putting
>everyone who isn't Sakuya into a maid's outfit? Though that might be
>the general 'maid outfit' sub-genre of fanart in general leaking.

Yeah, I think it's the latter most of the time. I mean, not for nothing does danbooru have an "enmaided" tag.

(The main exception I can think of is that a lot of doujins featuring Sakuya's early career, and/or the SDM before or after her time, show Meiling in the actual role of maid, rather than doorkeeper, so she's dressed accordingly.)

>Her face here leads me to believe she is either looking at, or
>thinking of, Sakuya in the above dress.

"I like that dress a lot, but I'm gonna like it even better on the floor by the foot of the bed."

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And at least Touhou actually *has* characters who dress that way in canon. (Well, Sakuya, and I -think- the fairy maids are supposed to be canon.) I'm in the DDLC fandom, and there's been a sudden glut of maid uniforms for some reason. I think I've seen at least a dozen new images of one or more of the cast in one in the past week, and it's basically a complete non-sequitur in context.

>>speak of the dragon

...

You know, it's not that I don't like Meiling. I quite like her in GG and a number of other stories I've read. It's just that she was never a particular favorite of mine either, but...

Um...

*blush*

-IA.

(received information especially not interpretable)

Marisa's got a little bit of that maid style going on too, with her mysterious apron. (Either that or she's supposed to be a baker. :) I think there's at least one other character who is an actual maid, but her name eludes me at the moment. She's from the PC-98 game that the little-girl version of Alice was in.

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I think that's... searches for name of character from a different PC-98 game nope, not her... Yumeko.

Demonstrated: For better or for worse, most of the PC-98-only cast has not made much of an impression on me.

Probably because they don't seem to have made much of an impression on most of the rest of thefandom either.

-IA.

(At least Shinki shows up sometimes because she's Alice's mom... or something.)

Well, it's logical. The PC-9800 series computers were never sold outside Japan, so the international fandom wouldn't have much (if any) exposure to that generation of the games—and it was long enough ago that a good many present-day Japanese fans have probably never played them either. I'm not a subject matter expert, but I get the impression from things I've seen that Touhou didn't really phenomenize* until EoSD and the Windows era generally, anyway.

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Geeze, no wonder people keep wanting to know when Mima's going to show up again. I'm not sure anyone but Marisa and Reimu could boast appearing in four out of five consecutive games.

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

I expect she'll make quite the impression on the bureaucrats. They might have taken her wings as a somewhat atypical manifestation for a familiar, but Remilia's fashion sense is rather singular at this point.

>(That's also more or less how I pictured her "somewhat fancier town
>outfit" from NSM Act II, except in my head the jacket wasn't black and
>had a couple rows of buttons on it. We've already discussed how well
>black works for her, though, so hey-ho.)
>

I think it might be the contrast, bold colors like black and red with the pale vampiric skin just works.

>Slightly fancier Flan.
>

Disgruntled Flandre, or perhaps unhappily confused. Those nails look lethal.

>I don't really go for the "1960s Playboy Club waitress" look most of
>the time, but damn, yo.
>

Heh, damn indeed. Points to this artist for not seeing the Scarlets as perperual kids, while also not deciding to draw their heads Frankensteined onto generic anime hottie bodies.

>Looks like Flan lost at New Year's ping-pong.
>

Brand name Sharpies didn't come into existence until the 60s, so I wonder if they've just resorted to charcoal smudging each other?

>side braids represent
>

Who knew they could be contagious? They do look at home on Remilia, but then her hair is often rendered as at least similar to Sakuya's, and also Remilia could probably make a buzz cut look fetching if she tried.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

Indeed. Fortunately, in this instance making an impression is exactly what she wants.

>>Looks like Flan lost at New Year's ping-pong.
>>
>
>Brand name Sharpies didn't come into existence until the 60s, so I
>wonder if they've just resorted to charcoal smudging each other?

Marker pens did exist in those days, but weren't really popular until the 1950s (when the Magic Marker® first appeared on the market). I would guess what you see there is ink or paint applied with a calligraphy brush.

>Who knew they could be contagious? They do look at home on Remilia,
>but then her hair is often rendered as at least similar to Sakuya's,
>and also Remilia could probably make a buzz cut look fetching if she
>tried.

This is the closest I could turn up, which is admittedly much more of a gamin than a buzz cut.

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Oh, and this.

edit: Mind the ads, it is e-hentai, after all. This may help.

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Sakuya x Reimu is at least not an inherently "that's just wrong" pairing, just sort of a random seeming one. The artist felt like swimming against the currents of fandom I guess.

The idea of Sakuya's dessert cooking skills producing cakes that can be used as bribes is a nice touch though.

>Oh, and this.
>

Heh, that one practically leapt out of the thumbnail. Seems like a "round 2 of making an impression on the bureaucracy" sort of outfit, maybe after working up the chain of command a bit to someone with someone real clout.

Interestingly it seems to be in a rougher, almost sketch-like style compared to a lot of the rest, which actually sorts of fits the framing of these threads since that makes it come off as a fashion design piece someone dashed off when inspired by outfit ideas.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

That's an up-to-something look if I've ever seen one. And she's even wearing a Nize Hat™...

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Just remember: Any plan in which you lose your hat is a bad plan.

I'll say this, though. This pic of Remilia makes ne want to dive into Hell to push blocks around.

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Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

Helltaker, I think; there are sharp-dressed devil ladies aplenty in there, although their style is a little more modern than Remi's.

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That was, indeed, a Helltaker reference. And their style is a lot more modern tham Remi's. =) But with the red background and red and black clothing I believe the reference is intentional. Or very strong coincidence. =)

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Poorest players on the stage
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-IA.

("You realize that feeding from each other will just leave both of us hungrier, right? It's basic thermodynamics."
"Ehehe, and yet you keep agreeing to it...")

To be fair, "pointless, if not actively counterproductive, but gratifying" describes a wide range of human-and-near-human activities.

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Just an FYI in case that’s an issue!

Oh yeah, that might be a problem, mightn't it.

Well, uh... here, improve your quality of life, affected persons.

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:)

--G.
and she keeps the Pocky at the end. like a boss
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.