How many times has your favorite character changed?

[KrackoCloud]

We've all gone through the favorite-character thread that pops up every now and then. But has your favorite character been always the same?
Do you expect yourself to change favorites frequently, or do you consider yourself a loyal fan to one Touhou?
Have you ever struggled between two characters to decide which is your favorite?
Can you even choose one single character?
Don't spend too much time gushing about your favorite characters, but emphasize rather what aspects were/are important that caused you to reevaluate or make a decision.


For a brief while, my favorite character was Patchouli. This was when I first started playing. Being the boss I always died at as a newbie, Patchouli was one of the very, very few characters whose names I'd memorized, and she left an impression on me as the strongest character I knew.
Of course, once I beat her, I met Sakuya. Despite her downright ugly portrait, I loved her stage and boss music, the knives and the gimmick - she just became a super-cool character. The fact that she's a pseudo-atheist in a world filled with gods does weird me a little, but out of all the characters I like, this gripe isn't enough to push her off the top of the list.
Sakuya is still my favorite character today!

Byakuren, Reisen, and Utsuho have wrestled for first place in the past. Byakuren's saintlike aura stood out, but that's about her only good feature. Reisen's powers and personality are cool, and she makes a great tsukkomi-type, but I learned she's a coward. And Utsuho would be the most epic character ever if she wasn't a birdbrain.
Youmu's my second favorite, for now. I love pity/pushover characters and the ghost-half concept. Sometimes, she makes me wonder if Sakyua is still my favorite simply out of character loyalty.

[nintendonut888]

My favorite character has only changed once, really. When I first started playing, my favorite was Marisa, because I liked her spunk and she was (and is) my main shot type in EoSD and PCB. However, as I got to know more of the characters, gradually Yukari supplanted her, and has stayed there pretty much ever since. Later Gengetsu tied her in my favorites list, but it's stayed pretty much consistent for the past four years.

[I have no name]

Mine has not changed.  It started as Youmu.  It's still Youmu.  2nd favorite has recently changed from Suwako to Yuyuko though.

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

I suppose that, at first, my favourite character was Rumia.
This was due mostly to the fact that Rumia was the only character I knew of at the time.
After quite some time I learnt of the actual series that Rumia originated from and, from that point on, my favourite character has always been Ran Yakumo.

[Oldmansour]

My first favourite was Yuyuko. It was a wallpaper of her that was the very first thing related to touhou I ever saw. I didn't even know what Touhou WAS until years later, but even now, I still have a soft spot for that wallpaper.
When I got into Touhou, UFO was the current game, and Kogasa became my favourite. Youkai moe~ indeed.
Now, though, my favourite is Byakuren. Shinki and Kogasa are VERY close, but if I had to pick one of the three, it would be Byakuren.

[Yukarin]

Yukari is and always will be my favorite character. Sure, I tend to change wallpapers of my 2hus every now and then (usually I change wallpapers to other characters that I'm fond of), but Yukari remains on the top of my list. Maybe it's because of how strong and mysterious she is that got to me.

[NuclearFalcon]

I have Utsuho as my nominal favourite, though there are others that are really close.  I also happen to love Yuyuko, Yukari, Aya, and Yamame.

[fondue]

Mine is all of them.
ALL of them.

[Delfigamer]

Mine is all of them.
ALL of them.

Remembers that:

All touhous, except for Kisume.

:>
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Toyo-waifu (Miko, not Watatsuki :3 ) is my first and only character that I call "waifu". It's a big honour to be my favourite character, not every girl can even theoretically become that.
Ah, before Toyo I had not any favourite character, though, Yukari was close to that.

[MaStErSpArK94]

Back when I discovered Touhou, my favorite character was Flandre (mainly because her theme was the first Touhou song I heard). Later when I got into the games, my interest shifted to Marisa, which is still my favorite character in the series.

What made me change idea? Most definitely her dialogue in-game and her "normality". In a world like Gensokyo, filled with super-powerful individuals, she had to work in order to become what she is now. She wasn't born with magic, she had to learn it.

Other than Marisa, I have "2nd tier favorites": Iku, Komachi, Suwako, Byakuren and Tenshi.

[Kosachi]

My current favorite is Kogasa (Obviously) but when I just started, it was Patchouli then Aya. At this point Kogasa is always my number one, but my #2 changes every other week :derp:

[Yatakarasu]

It pretty much switches between Utsuho and Koishi all the time. So much so, I call both of them my favorite character. Though they are better when as a big happy family: Satori, Koishi, Orin, and Utsuho.

[Vyrien]

Three times.

Flandre was my first favourite character, possibly because it was her theme that got me properly into Touhou (NOT McRoll). She was quickly replaced by Sakuya because of her sheer badassery and awesome power.

Satori is my favourite character now, although she is frequently usurped by Yuuka who is in turn usurped by Satori. Her theme is the best in Touhou in my opinion but I like her because she seems like a genuinely nice person who is hated and feared through misunderstanding, I can sympathise with her.

Plus cool power.

[teefa85]

I've never changed favorite characters.  I guess it's because I really didn't settle as a Touhou fan until I had done research into everything and I became a fan just before Fairy Wars' release (so the only new characters introduced past that were from Ten Desires).  That and Reimu reminded me of myself at times:  lazy but does her job because she needs to, not very social but people (youkai) like her, very laid back, no-nonsense.

[LadyScarlet]

My favorites is and has always been Flandre. My second favorite used to be Youmu, now it's Remilia. My list hasn't changed much. Flan is my favorite, Remi is my second favorite, Youmu is third, Meiling is fourth, Yuyuko is fifth. It's been this way almost all the time, except that Meiling and Yuyuko swapped places over time.

[Alfred F. Jones]

Dunno. I was once firmly a Shikieiki lover, then I learned about Yumemi and she rocketed up the list to compete with her, and then UFO was released and Byakuren became a new challenger, then I got into writing fanfiction in earnest and fell hard for Koishi and the rest of Team Chireiden. But I still really, really like Shikieiki. I'm not sure that I changed my favourite character so much as other strong competitors came along and they're all fighting over the top three slots.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

My favorite has changed multiple times. When I first got into Touhou, like five years ago, it was probably Yuyuko or Alice (my first game was PCB, see). I don't care as much about her now, but I can't really say I have one single favorite anymore-- aside from probably Satori and Koishi in general. However, I also really do love Aya, Sanae, Utsuho, Byakuren, Orin, Ellen, Yumemi, and so on~

[Cadmas]

I'm the worst. My favorite has likely switched to just about every windows era touhou there has been.

Its easier just to tell which girls I dislike or am neutral towards than ones that have been my top 1.
Which would be Reisen, Reisen II, Yorihime, Medicine, Reimu, and Kasen.

[ふねん1]

Utsuho has always been my favorite. However, I won't deny that I'm conflicted too, as Youmu is just barely below her. It gets to the point where depending on my mood I might call it a tie between the two, but unless Youmu gets a new boss theme that isn't so mediocre I don't really see her pulling solidly in front of Utsuho.

[Kaze_Senshi]

Mine has not changed.  It started as Youmu.  It's still Youmu.  2nd favorite has recently changed from Suwako to Yuyuko though.

The mine too, PCB is the first game that I played and when I saw Youmu she became my favorite

Forever young Youmu, I wanna be forever Youmu #not  :V

I don't have idea which one is my 2nd, this position should be changing every second between Utsuho, Satori, Reisen, Remilia, Toyosatomimi, Futo, etc (except Kisume Lily White )

[Jana]

Patchouli has always been my favorite character, and likely will remain there. I've changed my mind about a few characters and liked them more/less as a result; my 2nd favorite used to be Yukari, but I like Yuuka more than her now. I also used to not like Remilia much at all but I think she's a funny character now.

[Limian]

It went from the Prismrivers to Youmu to Koishi, so twice. Originally, when I had only played PCB, the Prismrivers always stood out to me as that one really difficult battle, three funky personalities, and that awesome theme that was my favourite piece for quite a while. I especially liked Lunasa the most, so you could call her my first favourite character, although I've been fond of Lyrica recently as well. It's a shame that they are so forgotten about, even though they are the stage 4 bosses, but I guess that's because you can't do much with three characters that belong together so tightly like that. Overall, I still like the Prismrivers, but neither they nor their theme are in my top 10 anymore (for characters and music, respectively, of course).

So then it became Youmu at some point, I don't remember when or even why. She's just a pretty badass character who still manages to be cute. However, while she was my favourite character for quite a long while, other characters have been knocking on the door, particularly Satori. I assume Youmu stayed my favourite due to a mix of loyalty and Satori being a rather edgy character (in-universe), whereas Youmu is just easy to like.

In the end, I fell into (platonic) love with Koishi, even though she was one of the few characters I disliked (the only? meh, I'm not a fan of Yuuka). I found the "thoughtless, mindless" concept rather depressing and creepy, so I was turned off by that. Eventually, she rose and rose, though, and became my favourite character as a result.
It's also noteworthy that Koishi is the only character I liked before I encountered her in-game.

Other characters I really like are Satori (as mentioned), Orin, Patchouli, Aya and Mokou (who is my new depressing character now), with the likes of Yuyuko, Tewi, Kogasa etc. not far behind. It makes me quite happy to see Youmu, Aya and Satori back-to-back in the top 10 in the popularity poll.

It pretty much switches between Utsuho and Koishi all the time. So much so, I call both of them my favorite character. Though they are better when as a big happy family: Satori, Koishi, Orin, and Utsuho.

Hell yeah! The Komeiji club is pretty awesome, although Utsuho never rang with me.

[Goldom]

I never had a favorite for most of my playing history until it became Reimu, so no, it's never changed. But lately I've suddenly come to really like Sanae as well, thanks to playing 12.3 for the first time and reading WaHH. Still not my favorite, and not gonna be, but a pretty big turnaround nonetheless.

Edit: and I just beat UFO Extra with SanaeB for the first time; I love her dialogue there too. She's great, no matter how many haters she seems to have. Not to mention, she has my single favorite line in the whole series ("You can't let yourself be trapped by common sense in Gensokyo, right?")

[Reiko]

Alice is my favorite since the beginning, and it hasn't changed as I discovered the rest of the cast. Reisen would be a close second, and probably Yoshika or Marisa third, although I don't have much of an order about this, to be honest.
I wouldn't go as far as saying I'm a fan of her (or them), but I quite like her personality and in-game appearances (especially the dialogues with Marisa in IN).

[Drake]

Began as Yuyuko, for no real reason. Changed to Orin when SA came out, also basically for no real reason.

but now <3

[Tengukami]

I didn't have any favorites for a long time, until I discovered Aya. Her being a reporter, too, and the fact that she's this great blend of modern and ancient, while teaching us much of what we know about Gensokyo - yeah, that sealed it for me.

Kaguya, though, is also a strong favorite of mine as I relate to her and her backstory for personal reasons.

Now it's hard to say which of those two are my favorite. Maybe they're two different sides of me?

[Ran-Rii]

Patchouli. Patchouli Kmowledge.
Basically cause I share many characteristics with her, and she is one of the only who showed me that knowledge is power.
Also, she was awe-inspiring to fight already, and EX-Patchouli was even better.

I like her calm and cool-headed attitude, and how she plays, using pure superiority in firepower and strategy to overwhelm and defeat opponents.
Plus, being a Chinese myself, I am well-taught about tge five elements, and seeing a Touhou character use them in an impressive display of power is amazing. Her superiorty in knowledge and power is what I find to my liking about her.

Proud to say my favourite has never changed, though Alice comes a close second with her interesting doll-based magic and fighting style.
I like characters that fight with their intellect over firepower, and stay calmly behind the front lines.

[Tamer Anode/Cathode]

I'd say my favorite character has changed once early on. When I was first getting into the series my favorite was Utsuho because the concept of a character wielding atomic power was so out-there and interesting, although as I played IaMP and a few of the other early games Patchouli grew on me due to her powers and profession. Patchouli remains my favorite, with Utsuho still pretty high up there.

[Zil]

I've switched once, I guess. Used to be Patchouli, though there wasn't really much reason for it. Like, she was my favorite Touhou character, but that was the extent of it. Just the most liked from that set of characters. I was that way for a year basically, then switched to Chiyuri pretty quickly once I actually became aware of the PoDD characters. Yumemi's a close second. I might say though, that Patchouli was never really a favorite, in the grand scheme of things. Chiyuri and Yumemi are not just the Touhou characters I happen to like the most. I legitimately like them a lot, out of all the fictional characters I know, not just the Touhou characters.

Oh, and I can't imagine ever changing again. There's a chance Yumemi could overtake Chiyuri, but the two of them being first and second isn't gonna change.

[AnonymousPondScum]

Byakuren is the alpha. Byakuren is the omega.

The rest of the magicians give her a gamely run for her money, though.