Touhou 14 - Double Dealing Character correctly predicts the designs and concepts of my main characters (who are angels)! Is ZUN a prophet?
Akira here!
You see, after a while of thinking, I realized that DDC (my first full Touhou game; my first Touhou was the demo of Ten Desires (TD)) contains "predictions" to the character designs and concepts of the main characters in my game series, Claire: Chronicles of the Carmine Blood, through the usage of the design and concepts of the tsukumogami characters, the Tsukumo sisters and Raiko Horikawa.
Here's the list of similarities between the three angelic main characters of CCoCB (Claire: Chronicles of the Carmine Blood) and the tsukumogami in DDC:
Ritsuko is obviously based on Raiko. Both wears jackets and pants, and both of them have a cross on their clothing (albeit Raiko's is a reversed cross, while that Ritsuko's is an upright cross), having eyes that are colored in a shade of red (pink (Ritsuko's eye color) is a shade of red), and reddish hair. Both of them are pretty laid-back in personality, albeit Ritsuko will sometimes become hyped and using her abilities more often than Raiko (unlike Raiko). Both of them are also associated with thunder, lightning and drums (Raiko was born from a taiko drum, while that Ritsuko was born from a tambourine; and Ritsuko have the ability to generate lightning and thunder through their ability to manipulate "energy waves" (including sound and electrical waves), and despite not stated explicitly, Raiko is implied to have some form of connection to lightning and thunder). Also, both of their names started with the letter "R" and ends with the syllable "ko".
Megumi and Yoshika appears to have similarities with the Tsukumo sisters: Benben for Megumi and Yatsuhashi for Yoshika. For Megumi and Benben, both of them are quite similar in appearance (Benben's hairsyle and hair color is somewhat similar to Megumi's), personality (both being cool and collected), and both act as the "older sister" (despite that Megumi have no gender). For Yoshika and Yatsuhashi, it is less obvious than Megumi and Benben, but it is clear that both of them have short hair, both of them have purple as one of their theme colors (sort of), both are hot-headed and energetic, and both act as the "younger sister" (despite that Yoshika is genderless like Megumi and they and Megumi are not blood-related). Also, the Tsukumo sisters are based on stringed instruments, which also includes the harp, an instrument that is most commonly associated with angels in art (Megumi and Yoshika are angels). Also, both Yatsuhashi's and Yoshika's name started with the letter "Y".
The numbering of DDC in the Touhou series, 14, when splitted as 10 + 4, reading the numbers 10 and 4 in Japanese will result in "tenshi", means "angel". A reference and prediction to the species of my main characters (?)
Also, despite the Tsukumo sisters are the bosses of Stage 4 of DDC, they reappeared again in the Extra stage as midbosses (the Extra stage is the stage that Raiko appeared in). Hence, all of them appeared together at one point in the game. Also, Raiko and the Tsukumo sisters have a relationship with each other (No, not romantic relationship (in this case)!)
One thing for sure, tsukumogami are counted as spiritual beings (despite they were born from objects), similar to angels, which are mostly considered as spiritual beings.
So what do you think? Did ZUN do a good job on predicting the concept of the main characters of my game series (also he also might somewhat "predicts" that the creator of these characters is female like most of the characters in Touhou) through the releasing of a game numbered "14" in the series, packed with tsukumogami characters with appearances that predicts the appearance of my game series' main characters?
Please leave me a comment below on this theory!
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