>>115091Apropos of banality, this entire comment is affected love rhetoric, still emitting death throes from the coffin of cliche it was long ago sentenced to, and rock song lyrics set to the tune of improper grammatical constructions. Since the claim is that our alleged perception fails us both for reality and mere appearance (which indeed can only be recognized as such if one finds a reality behind it, which one apparently cannot do, thus going down an unending hallway of nothing), and any ideas we receive through our faulty perception are themselves prone to equal or greater fault, the only proper ideas worthy of consideration would be those received from "outside", a thesis not many are willing to admit, but one that readily supports my own conclusion: The Youkai/human, no difference here, does not meekly prostrate itself before the glorious sovereign to beg for his attention and receive morsels of affection, but rather forces itself onto him with its indomitable demand of "bring me forth anew", not at all incongruent with the violent and piercing gaze which flared those bygone loves (and which are perhaps by themselves a repeat of something even more terrifying), nor the bellicose and tyrannical/godlike depictions of Love itself. Indeed, if they are correct in saying that all love is primarily image-based, working through the phantasy, and that it "fills" someone from the inside-out, causing his soul to fly away (ideally, they claim, to perform this same procedure within the beloved), then not only does love itself begin with mirroring, but, in the case of beings like fictional characters, who do not even have an original, it is nothing but the formation and knowledge of oneself as simply the creature, simply the place of its power and its only real "existence". All of this was already implied.
You adore her-from-her because you are likely nothing besides, merely an occasion for worthless multiplicity, but fear I-from-her because it would require you to confront the bare fact that this would be more her than the alternative. Your fantasy may be correct, in the worst way possible, and that conversation but a monologue, whose formal interlocutors are, often by admission, so in-sync as to be indinstinguishable, sheer beguilement through purity (is a purity that remains even after countless defilements not all the more horrific?)
>>115101And you are just an economist, unfortunately. Not even the famous love stories use such logic, almost always retaining the bare minimum dignity to recognize the fatal danger in duplication (Gottfried's introductory Tris-tan, Is-olt, Is-olt, Tris-tan formation) and having it expand in other directions. More = Better is all but identical with Bigger = Better, the typical pornographic dictum, almost entirely coinciding with the additional space taken up by material objects and the additional space taken up by the children, and what's more, it leads into abomination: by this logic, you are forced to admit that to get "more" of your wife, it is expedient to sleep with your own children, and to maximize productive efficiency, you need an entire labor force to continually "plow the fields", the only recourse is to flee from "quantity" to "quality" or "mode" and thereby lose the thread entirely. This is also the actual state of affairs, the prostitution of the fields being identical to commissioning artists for "more Yuuka". The comments about selfishness are irrelevant since Youkai do not require "physical" reproduction.
The real significance of Yuuka, aside from already being double in her debut game, with two sprites, two boss appearances, two themes, all of which renders the alleged purpose of "more Yuuka" through sexual procreation entirely pointless and uncovers it as libidinal rampage sanctioning itself, is that she takes the flower comment here and reveals it as literally true, the Flower = Soul (and more importantly Flower = Character) formula is noticably more interesting since it shows all of Gensokyo as the Flower Land and the perpetually refracting garden, effacing the alleged human/Youkai dichotomy and showing their real symbiotic relationship on the level of Gensokyo's actual functioning, which is here and now. Of course, none of this is limited to what they call Gensokyo in-universe.