cool headline right? im not even wrong, you see in touhou games reimu goes pew pew bad youkai all that basic stuff
and yeah she drains their health bar and die, most of you assume "Nooo, they only get knocked out! reimu isnt that of a sadist!" well you are right, but not all of it. Ive been playing SA and i noticed a strange pattern, when you beat orin in stage 4 she runs away, and in stage 5 she explodes and then you have some dialogue with her sprite tearing up, and then she comes back like an annoying prick at 6 then after you beat her, she explodes once again without any dialogue, dont get me wrong but im sure (maybe) she died. same thing happened with yamame, she explodes and dies. Only proof they survive is that they give dialogue like youmus boss fight, so for sure she didn't die since she is after all an reoccurring character, wait... reoccurring? im pretty sure ZUN only makes the character come back in the next games if they SURVIVE reimu, cirno comes back since she is after all immortal. yukari? dialogue. aya? dialogue. Reisen? dialogue so on and so forth (oh your saying remilia exploded? SHE SURVIVED IN THE ENDING) So my point is, Reimu has actually killed alot of youkai, what survives are either the strong youkai, or the non youkai (i think?) so she isnt that much of a cheery girl and is actually a serial killer who gives no mercy. But, in every theory it always has its flaw.
in the print works, all of them somehow are still alive? like wriggle night bug and others and the fact that these are supposedly "canon" contradicts my theory.
And if reimu was a mass murderer im pretty sure all youkai would avoid her or possible heard of her, i mean news being spread isnt that hard, take ULiL for example. But every time reimu meets a new character they are completely oblivious.
also, you can say "How would youkai even know? they dont have radio or smthng and youkai dont usually hang out"
well, i cant really tell if they hang out that much but sekibanki lives in disguise in the human village, and iirc reimu is feared by them, surely sekibanki could pick up some of the rumors and spread them, but i dont really know if sekibanki would.
so yeah, pretty long right. reimu might be a killer, fits after all.
