If YOU were a resident of Gensokyo

[Toasty]

half-demons, as in, a full demon cut in half? :p

This msut be youmu's doing.

Speaking of, for those of us about to die, we get to meet yuyu, shiki, and komachi. And after going to hell, we end up living with yuugi and the komeiji bunch.

[Patorikku]

This msut be youmu's doing.

Speaking of, for those of us about to die, we get to meet yuyu, shiki, and komachi. And after going to hell, we end up living with yuugi and the komeiji bunch.

Wrong Hell, bub.

Still, Even after succeeding to not die in Gensokyo and maybe succeed at becoming a youkai, I'd go hang around the Hakurei shrine like every other character.

[lumber_of_the_beast]

Can I be Esoterica's shikigami?

[Bias Bus]

This msut be youmu's doing.

Speaking of, for those of us about to die, we get to meet yuyu, shiki, and komachi. And after going to hell, we end up living with yuugi and the komeiji bunch.

That's the Former Hell. To which you can reach by just going deep enough underground.

Yuyu's place is the 'purgutory' (or middle ground) of Gensokyo. While, Jigoku is where you'll be going if Shiki sends you to 'hell' (at which point you'll meet Kikuri and Konngara).

[_Zac_]

I would get eaten by Rumia.

[Halca]

I'd be dead.

[Snaka]

This msut be youmu's doing.

Speaking of, for those of us about to die, we get to meet yuyu, shiki, and komachi. And after going to hell, we end up living with yuugi and the komeiji bunch.

Or we end up going to heaven, meeting Tenshi, Iku and Suika. then we climb back down to gensokyo and travel as a celestial

[Helepolis]

I would likely not meet many residents of Gensokyo mentioned in any of the games' plots, and live my days out as a regular human in a human village just as everyone else in this thread would because realistically they aren't going to risk their lives to get to meet their favorite characters.

My dreams, you just shattered them.


( Even though you are damn right. if you consider it, haha )

[Gammeru]

If I suddenly woke up in a land filled with dangerous little girls, human-eating youkai, and things that generally want to bite my face off, I would start smoking. Then I would proceed to endanger myself in the most unspectacular ways possible.

[Miasma Melancholy]

Yeah, youkai food. I'm terribly weak irl.

But if going by the assumption that I did have some kind of magical powahs, lightning and incredible speed. Knives are fun too.

[Esifex]

As a human? Human village, hone my skills with the bow 'n' arrow, and just make myself useful in the fields, most likely. Yay Shrine Festivals!

As a youkai/powered human? I'd have to use precognitive powers. I myself am already inclined to that 'realm of psychokinetics', according to some guide test thinger - I have loads of deja vu all over the place.

Using my awesome future-peering powers, if I could control it enough I'd be the perfect danmaku grazer - think Gun Kata from Equilibrium. Also, I could predict when/where trouble would end up.

My danmaku patterns would involve the shots travelling a short distance, leaping forward, travelling a similar distance again, then jumping back to fly through the space they skipped. Each pattern would have a different set distance before they skipped. The bullets would be chess-themed. Some black, some white, and the different pieces would be the clue as to how far they're going to jump. Perhaps the white ones would travel backwards towards me.

My role as a youkai? Stage 3 boss, the one who points you in the kind-of right direction.

[VIVItheFujoshi]

um.
-if i born like a human...probably would be a tomboy excentric girl ;always dressed with something pale green (faborite color for dress), who will be more confortable than femenine... and be atracted for brilliant colors and weird things. Probably an itinerant artist, because is the only way for search inspiration.But i would be a a pacifist and no like confront youkais, even be atraccted to them...i see the monsters only if im sure who their can?t see me...probably i will pass hours and hours only seen the strange objects from outside in Kourindou, hear that shopkeeper who, than me, is concidered a eerie person.We, the eccentric, sooner or late found us...like a human with magic powers (if i born in Gensokyo means who i have the magic potencial), i want follow the Marisa way, learning for myself little by little.im a intelectual anyways, no so good in duels.My head always is lost in another world and sometimes i make things who nobody can understand,even me.And use glasses without reason.

-if would be a Youkai, or youkai like, i prefer the half-something. they lives with their own rules;but are a bit solitaire...i feel more identified with the hanyou than the other species of youkai...and have something human in it.Im not so powerful but i can fly and run fast. In full moon i have very weird dreams and i can see the things who other people see. Or something who nobody can see. i never had a flu in my life, but i turn weak when no eat. I can feel the breath of the plants and trees. The humans see me like a weird thing, and the youkai like a weak...then,where is my place? for that no have home, except the same Gensokyo, like a traveller. Some kind Youkai or humans are my friends. But i never stay in a place for a long time, or maintain comunication with them. I like paint things and "paint"the things who surround me, or change the colors of the most incredible things who never was changed before..."who will be this thing, if were of a different "color"? let?s try" my power is the manipulation of colors (includes opinions and sexual orientations XD)
(wow, i was a bit inspired...)

[Esoterica]

Can I be Esoterica's shikigami?

This depends.  How are you at fetching my slippers and preparing meals? :V

[Tengukami]

I'd hang out at the Human Village until Aya appeared, and then try to strike up a conversation, in the course of which I'd try to get an internship.

[Firestorm29]

If I recall right, Remi atleast holds quite a few tea parties and I don't think they're all youkai only. So I could see being atleast an acquaintance with a few of the characters. I'm pretty sure some other places have parties and such, too.

Me, I could see myself hovering around Kourindou alot, being the bit of a computer pro and such. I can figure my way around most electronics, and I usually carried a good deal of them when I used to go around Akihabara and other places. Depended on how lazy I was that day... >.>;

[Aya Reiko]

Part 1: Survival
Try to fashion a crude spear.  Slashing doesn't work, bludgeoning would only piss 'em off, impaling otoh...
Make my way to the Human Village and hope I won't have to try to nail any youkai to any trees.

Part 2: Byakuren
Become a part of Byakuren's group.  Act as a missionary for her ideology.  Hopefully she'll buff me up to 11 to nullify youkai dangers.

[Shanghai Alice]

I would steal Patchy's idea for a Bean Danmaku, and never go hungry.

Also, I would become the Iron Chef of Gensokyo.

[Bias Bus]

Iron Chef of Gensokyo.

Just this. Master fist weapons. Insert a fuckton of cooking metaphors in your speech patterns, and You will become Gensokyo's Mr.Champloo.

[Chaore]

Actually I'd just hope I remembered to bring my camera.  :V

It works for Aya, after all, and since the shutter reload on a digital one is much less...

[lumber_of_the_beast]

This depends.  How are you at fetching my slippers and preparing meals? :V

I can do those! *nodnodnod*

[Shanghai Alice]

DELICIOUS!

...nah, I'm not that awesome.

[Nyyl]

In that case I aim to become Lumber's shikigami

[COPIRIGHTO]

Then I'll be Tek's

[Solais]

But I'm already a resident of Gensokyo!

[Toasty]

We know, aya published those embarassing photos of you last week - they were a huge hit.

Anyway, i came up with a new plan for moving to gensyoko and to an extent, living there.

To start, i would need and accordion (optional for street performing, and thus currency), a small rifle with about 500 rounds of ammo (a .22, .223, or hopefully a 7.62x39), a refillable lighter with at least 10 refills - or 10 disposable lighters, a backback, magnesium fire starter, a small hatchet, If i want some better defense for when ammo gets short, possibly a short, sharp, sword, a pocket knife, and lastly a compass, several sheets of paper, and a writign instrument so i can map out the terrain.

Now that i've entered gensyoko fully equipped, i would immediately make my way to the human village, building basic shelters along the way and ALWAYS keeping a fire lit and my gun loaded and at the ready. The spellcard rules mean nothing to a human who can not use magic. Once there, if i managed to pack around an instrument, i would do some street performign for cash/supplies, but regardless, i would find a place to stay. After a short bit, i would definately want to meet some people, so i would go straight to the forest of magic, killing and eating fairies for sustanance (magic fuel?), and cotnact either marisa or alice for the purpose of learning magic, at least weak spellcards - so i could use the spellcard rules "if you defeat a human, you may not kill them" tidbit to my advantage with more pwoerfull youkai. Marisa could possibly be hospitable, and i may be able to get lodging with her - or alice. I wouldn't be trying anything funny, mind you. By now, i would be able to exploit the spellcard rules with a few shikigami and contact yukari for returning to the real world, or, if i wished otherwise, i could A: Contact yukari, or alice, pertaining to matters concerning becoming a youkai, or B: Do what marisa does, learn magic if possible, and live life. If i cannot learn magic, A and B are null, and i would either have to work out something with reimu for cotnacting yukari for the purposes of leaving or turning youkai or lvie in the human village. As a last resort, the SDM could be nice lodging - although hard work, and occasional anemia comes with the 3 meals and a free bed deal. Being human would put me above the fairies, and remilla's fate manipulation could lead to me becoming someone around sakuya's level, if remi wishes.

Whatever would happen, happens.

[Patorikku]

You know, the more Bread-- Err... Toast gives out his plans, the more they sound like something I'd do... However I'd skip right ahead to finding Alice for at least a book on basic danmaku and becoming a youkai.

However, my plan would be a bit different... First I'd no doubt find Yukari the moment I get in a gap to Gensokyo, ask her about being a youkai, and I'd expect to be dumped into the human village. I doubt the human village is far from the Forest of Magic, so I'd head straight there, looking mainly for Alice, since Marisa isn't very dependable. The least I'd do  is ask where I can learn basic magic and for at least one spellcard, or information on where to get said spellcard. From there, successful or not, I would hitch a ride with Marisa to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, let her steal books as she pleases, and while she does so, I would find Patchouli and ask her about magic, danmaku, and spellcards. If Patchouli allows me to learn a little, I will read one or two books on making a spellcard and shooting danmaku, then thank her and bugger on out of there before Sakuya or Remilia sees me there. If it fails, then I'd just bugger on out of there. From there, I'd hitch a ride back to the Forest of Magic, and go back to the Human Village, to ask Keine and Akyu about flying, abilities, and how to control such things. From there, I'd then make my way to the Hakurei Shrine and hang out with Reimu a little.  Then I'd ask her where Byakuren lives, then become friend with her, ask her how she became a youkai, etc. If for any reason, I succeed in becoming a youkai, I would then act as the only youkai youkai-exterminator alongside Reimu and Marisa. If I fail to become a youkai, I should at least have learned enough to fend for myself.

Of course, after that, I'd just hang with Reimu when I get bored.

[Lishy1]

Realistically, I'd be youkai food or downright pointless in existance. :V

This is most likely if I don't serve under Wriggle Nightbug, in which she would work a human to death anyways :V

[Toasty]

Yours is so risky :V

[Mannosuke]

I would see all of those beautiful girls running about!
...And then most likely suffer a humiliating defeat after a bit of excessive flirting.

But I joke, I joke.
I'd probably become a devout follower of Reimu's shrine god. I feel sorry for her, so many people visit yet none of them seem to go their for worship.

Or I'd make the foolish, foolish mistake of climbing that mountain to try and meet Aya and the rest of the tengu.
Chances are that that'd end in a bloody death...

And the final option, train like Reimu and develop my own danmaku skills. After all, she started not even being able to harm her enemies. Throw in a decade or two of hard work and dedication... Blam! You can help Reimu and the gang solve all of the problems Gensokyo frequently suffers.

[dustyjo]

Try my best to find Ran...or at least admire her from afar...

I'm too shy