User blog comment:Mineko Charat Lucky/Touhou LoL - Keine, the History-Eating Half-Beast/@comment-71.212.228.54-20121225195236/@comment-5791947-20121226025157

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Gensokyo, do as the Touhous do. Did you miss the Touhou lore? There's so many weak points in your argument that you're making me wanting to write a counterargument essay here. Right then, here we go...

OBJECTION!

You're too heavily inset upon the Danmaku System invented by Reimu. The reason this system is created is because of problems solving disputes between people before. In the past, there's no such thing as a game like this, humans and youkai don't have to shoot projectiles to each other, they'll just simply kill instead if it's a serious matter. For instance, if you have read Mokou and Kaguya's lore, they don't apply the Danmaku Rule vs each other. Instead, they just kill each other outright, since they're both immortal. Secondly, without a Danmaku System, lesser youkai and normal humans don't even stand a chance vs more powerful beings, they'll be creamed because of the power level difference. Thirdly, even though no way in hell Reimu will lose because of Fantasy Heaven, the ability where she phases out of existance and will suffer virtually no damage from the real world while can still damage you, and if disputes are solved one-sidedly, Reimu might as well rule the entire Gensokyo like a dictator, which she also couldn't because Gensokyo will not exist without the symbiosis and trust of relationship between humans and youkai. In the event that Reimu actually gets killed, Gensokyo will be torn apart, as she is the person maintaining the border.

With the existance of the danmaku system however, everything changed. Now, even lesser beings and normal humans have a chance, as in even if they can't actually fire magic bullets, they can still dodge and win by time out. Danmaku system is meant to be dodged, or it wouldn't be a system., if you're wondering why the Touhou population never thought of gapless danmaku. Other youkais will have no problem defeating Reimu because of the system, as there will be no fear of casualities. To read my sources even more detailed than this, please read official print works like Grimoire of Marisa, Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, Silent Sinner in Blue, Perfect Memento in Strict Sense and Cage in Lunatic Rungate. The sources are right there.

P.S. You have seem to forgot that Lunarians (people of the Moon) do not apply the Danmaku rule, and actually has to be asked to do so by Reimu for a game of dodging fireworks. A millenia ago, there are casualties in the war between youkai and lunarians too when Yukari decides and plans with the other youkai to invade it.

Remember, the Danmaku System only applies within Gensokyo.

Alright, 2nd argument...

Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Hopeless Masquerade. These games apply Danmaku Rule, with a twist. You can't fire danmaku without a limit unless if it's a spell card. So what do people do in this case? Punch and Kick, and even some German suplexes in here if someone knows how. Please, think what happens when a Touhou character who is playing a danmaku game with the above system and never wants to punch or kick or slice... It's just as bad as not ever autoattacking even once in League of Legends. So why wouldn't Keine be not punching and kicking (and headbutting) if she wants to if she ever was invited to a game like this?

Last but not least, Keine herself. I'm not sure if you know this but...

"I can just alter history that the moon never rotates around the Earth if I want to"

Ta-dah, permanent half-beast form. Just that it wouldn't be fun when Keine can just erase you from history instead of playing fireworks with you.