How many times has your favorite character changed?

[Rei Scarlette]

Edit: This post is no longer accurate, so I'm editing it, but I'll leave the original message below. Anyways, somehow I never realized how cool Koishi is, even though she was always up there right below the immortals on my list. Then at some point I just started thinking... "Sure the immortals are cool, but WHY do I put them at the top? ...nope, besides *reasons* I don't see much. I actually like Koishi more because *twice as many reasons* so it doesn't make sense for her to place lower!"

Then the immortals fell into that "tied with everyone for 2nd place" group mentioned below, and Koishi is in group 1. Close behind are Satori, Okuu, and Orin in no particular order.

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I wonder if I even know how to really pick a favorite character. :V The way I see it, it's as simple as "I like character X, Y much more than character Z, for reasons A B and C." You don't need much else to pick favorites. Whoever you like the most, is your favorite, because you like them more than everyone else. But even though I think that way, all of my lists end up looking like "1: Characters ABCDEFetc... 2: Everyone else... 3: wait what everyone else is in group two?"

So yeah :derp: I think current favorites are still something like Mokou > Kaguya > everyone I like > everyone I have no real opinion on > I don't actually dislike anyone at the moment

I'm finding it hard to have a negative opinion of anyone. They all have their good points.

[Kilgamayan]

Hasn't changed from Aya since I noticed BAiJR existed. I'm not sure I had one before that: I recall a fairly nebulous combination of Patchouli, Sakuya, and Eirin.

[Gpop]

Actually, before SA, my favourite was Yuka for a year until Koishi came about.

Quite a change looking at their personalities :V Yuka is still my second favourite though.

[The Dratini Farmer]

I used to be indifferent to Maribel and Renko but after listening to Greenwich in the Sky and reading a doujinshi called Yumeutsutsu, they became part of my top 5. Now I'm hunting high and low for other good doujinshi that feature them.

[Vincent_Prismriver]

Back when I discovered Touhou, my favorite character was Flandre (mainly because her theme was the first Touhou song I heard).

Flandre was my first favourite character, possibly because it was her theme that got me properly into Touhou (NOT McRoll).

^
same for me, but I liked Remilia and Sakuya as well

But then, a few months later, i heard Phantom Ensemble and fell in love with it (it's like a drug). Lyrica Prismriver always used to be a cute character for me, but when i read the sisters' backstory, she became my favourite. Mainly because she is smart and plays the piano, but I also love her clothing. (It's shame she's an underrated character, I've also written a fanfiction about the four sisters in italian, it's like 40 pages).

So Flandre became my second favourite character, until I played Ten Desires and met Seiga Kaku. I don't know why, but I loved her malice and selfishness (her clothes are pretty, and Desire Drive and Old Yuanxian as well are awesome themes).

So Flandre became my third favourite character, but then, playing Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, I saw Iku Nagae. Her clothing and personality are awesome, I really like her.

[181bn]

Too many times to count.
That is being honest.

[Cybeast710]

I used to not like Rumia. She's grown on me, though. I wouldn't call her my favorite, but she's in my top 5.

[AnonymousPondScum]

While she's not anywhere near my top favs, my opinion of Tenshi upgraded from "nuisance" to "lovably amusing nuisance" once I realized she was basically the Paris Hilton of Gensokyo. :V

[Cybeast710]

While she's not anywhere near my top favs, my opinion of Tenshi upgraded from "nuisance" to "lovably amusing nuisance" once I realized she was basically the Paris Hilton of Gensokyo. :V

My opinion of her went from "You can go die" after Touhou Mother to "you're useful, but you can go die" after playing SWR, to "D'aww... what an adorable moron... who can go die." when I realized how clueless and idiotic she was in Return of Touhou Mother. She was a useful party member, though.

"I'm pretty sure it's popular for humans to stand on these and pose." (About a peg on a dock)
"Those steppy things down by the port." (Steps. Ran into a glitch at this point.)
"Why didn't you tell me I couldn't breathe underwater?" (We had to? WOW.)
"Who's been dumping all the salt in the water?" (Right. No oceans in Gensokyo. MORON.)

[Fonzi]

Sakuya was the first character I got to know, even before learning what Touhou is. One could even say she got me into the fandom (or to be exact, a remix of her theme - Flowring Night) Months later, I finally kicked myself into learning some more info about her and trying out my very first Touhou game, PCB, because she's playable there. Unsurprisingly, she was the first character I cleared the game with (yeah, easy mode) But then I started studying the lore, both fanon and canon, and things started changing.

I have a philosophy that you can't call yourself a fan of a series if you don't like the main character. I had no problems favoriting Reimu. Her homing amulets, little hitbox and the fact that I like shrine maidens made me become attached to her for quite a while. However, the more I learned about her, the more ambivalent my opinion has become about her. I still hold her in high regard, but unfortunately, I can't lavish much sympathy for her portrayal in canon now.  There are things I both love and hate about her, putting her in a unique position on my list of favorites. Admittedly, some fanon portrayals of her are absolutely adorable.

While I was still a Reimu fan, I read an article about PCB and its cast. That's when the name Yukari Yakumo came to my interest, as the very last boss of the game. After reading her profile and seeing some game replays of Phantasm stage, my thoughts about her were shifting between "Wow, she's powerful. Respect." and "I'm going to hate her when I ever manage to even get to her." This was indeed true until that fateful day when I managed to clear Phantasm for the very first time. Since I already knew a thing or two about her by that time, my first words were: "Thank you, Yukari-sama, for letting me win." From then on to the present day, she has become and remained my unshakably number 1 favorite character of the series. Her power, personality, wisdom and beauty... I love every bit about her.

My attitude has also changed about the Flower Master of Four Seasons. I used to dislike Yuuka, but over the course of time, she has climbed up all the way to my top 5.

All in all, my current list could be summed up as follows: 1. Yukari, 2. Yuyuko, 3. Reimu, 4. Sakuya, 5. Yuuka, 6. Youmu, 7. Patchouli, ...and everyone else. 

[lightdreamer]

My opinion of her went from "You can go die" after Touhou Mother to "you're useful, but you can go die" after playing SWR, to "D'aww... what an adorable moron... who can go die." when I realized how clueless and idiotic she was in Return of Touhou Mother. She was a useful party member, though.

Heh, I'm pretty much the opposite of you. Touhou Mother's Tenshi was just wonderful.

Shame she got turned into a protagonist in the sequel. She shines more as a villain, IMHO.

Well, at least in the sequel, we have our tyrant Yukari, though she was still no match for Porky in terms of villain role.

I'll defend Reimu from almost all hate, but WaHH Reimu, yeah, she's thoroughly unlikeable. My pet theory is that the book's written and illustrated to emphasize Kasen's point of view: Reimu, Marisa and some others are portrayed very negatively (and drawn like little kids, since Kasen sees them as immature), compared to how she sees herself, thus being drawn more maturely.

What are you talking about? The Reimu in WaHH was hilarious.

[Tengukami]

So wait ... you guys are basing your opinions of characters based on depictions in fan games?

Sure hope you never find the H-doujins. That'll shatter your world.

[lightdreamer]

So wait ... you guys are basing your opinions of characters based on depictions in fan games?

Not "basing my opinions" per se. I'm just saying that I like/dislike the portrayal of certain characters in certain fanworks.

Sure hope you never find the H-doujins. That'll shatter your world.

And that's why I never read the H-doujins.

[t0k]

Tokiko only has one canon appearance (if you can call it canon) 

[Hoshiguma-douji]

My original favorite character was Suika, actually, mainly because I LOVED her sprite in IaMP. Especially when she runs. xD There are other reasons, of course, like her overall personality and her appearance in that Maikaze touhou anime.

After that, I tried to get into the EoSD characters (mainly Remilia), but failed miserably because I just didn't get all the "glamor" of it. I still adore Meiling, though. She's amusing and I think we'd be friends. ^_^

As of now, my favorite is obviously Yuugi (Suika's a close second), and it's been that way for quite a while. I know she's not a typical choice for a lot of people (I've read people find her boring, which irks me xD), but hey, it's my opinion.

[iK]

So wait ... you guys are basing your opinions of characters based on depictions in fan games?

Sure hope you never find the H-doujins. That'll shatter your world.

Hey man, Gensoukyou or bust Luize is the only Luize for me.

[Kaguya]

More times than I can count. :X
I remember my first was Sanae, because UFO was the first game I played, and I knew nothing about the series at that point.
I just picked the most interesting looking character, and it stuck.

My favorites are probably Kaguya, Ran, Kanako, and Marisa.

[commandercool]

Just once. I started with EoSD so my favorite was Patchy until I started to branch out, then I switched to Keine and/or Mokou after playing Imperishable Night. I love their designs and think that they probably have the most interesting dynamics and story potential of any of the Touhous. If Touhou followed a more coherent narrative structure I think Keine would be the protagonist of the whole series.

[Tao-Sensei]

My favorite has switched far too many times.

It's gone from Patchouli to Letty to Shikieiki to Medicine to Alice to Youmu to Yuyuko to Lunasa to Merlin to Lyrica to Minoriko to Orange back to Minoriko to Parsee to Satori to Koishi to Yamame to Kogasa back to Merlin to Ichirin back to Minoriko to Murasa to Shou to Nazrin to Mugetsu to Gengetsu back to Merlin again to Luize to Yumeko to Kurumi to Ellen to Kana to Rikako back to Minoriko again to Futo to Kyouko to Yoshika back to Minoriko again and finally back to Merlin (I think Luna Child was there at some point too) ...

... Or something like that. Either way I'm trying to settle on Merlin, but thinking of switching to Tewi. I really do want to settle on a single character though.

[Mesarthim]

I think I used to like Youmu the most but that was back when I first started Touhou, not knowing the characters much/fully. I switched once.

This speaks for itself.

[McMuffin]

Reisen -> Momiji -> Ran -> Suwako