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FunGuyFromYuggoth

Lord_Enki said:
I think it's moreso the scenario of immortality, because showing the downside of one being immortal doesnt happen much. So artists like to portray it. *shrug*

I think it has to do with the fact that she still identifies herself as a human. She doesn't want to hang out with youkai, aliens, ghosts etc. because she doesn't WANT to. Also, it would be incredibly awkward trying to form actual relationships with beings that you've helped to hunt for centuries (if Perfect Memento is anything to go by).

Thus, her dilemma is not that of old age, but of knowing that the people she identifies with will never be as old as she is. And as old as some of the characters are, they're not immortal as a hourai is. The Earth would probably be destroyed and Mokou would just float through space until either being sucked-up by a black hole, incinerated by a star, or landing on a life-sustaining planet.

The Shadow

...one problem with all of this. The Hakurei Border was cast in recent times, 1880's if I remember right. So no one here has to be more than human to still be around now from having been there at the casting.

WatcherCCG

The_Shadow said:

...one problem with all of this. The Hakurei Border was cast in recent times, 1880's if I remember right. So no one here has to be more than human to still be around now from having been there at the casting.

The prep for it goes back much farther, however. The actual Gensokyo Covenant is what seems to be depicted here, not the casting of the border.

Mr Stizblee

cd_young said:

The White Hare of Inaba's legend is 1300 years old. she's the same age as Yukari.

All we know is that the story itself is at least 1300 years old but only because it was in the oldest known Japanese book, the Kojiki. The book itself is a collection of oral traditions that were around for who knows how long. In addition to the story itself probably being older than the Kojiki, keep in mind that Tewi is a character from the story, and thus has been around since whenever the story took place, not whenever the story was written and according to the Touhou wiki the story took place hundreds of thousands of years ago.

So yeah, Tewi is crazy old.

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