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A soul is an electric force, full of potential energy.

——Can we find souls in unlikely places, and set them into motion?

中古技術〜 Electric Spirit Seance

#01 Lullaby of a Deserted Hell

From a bird's-eye view, the figures of two sprightly maidens would appear like dolls amidst the surrounding range of artificial mountains, a stunning silvery wasteland.

The taller of the two small-looking girls, Maribel Hearn (Merry) planted her hands on her hips as she surveyed the junk that encircled them in all directions.

– "I can't believe you managed to convince me to go dumpster-diving. Is this a step up or down from graverobbing?"

– "We didn't rob anything from the graveyard. I definitely want to find something worth taking from here, though."

– "So this is a step down."

– "Nah, it's fine. These are all things that no one wants."

– "Or things that no one wants to be seen. Of course, that means…"

– "It's the perfect place for the Secret Sealing Club!"

The club's current president, Renko Usami, pumped her fist with plenty of good cheer. Merry smiled back, although she had mixed feelings about calling a land of literal garbage home.

– "We can't just have normal dates, can we?"

Fortunately, at least, the garbage was not excessively odorous or grimy. The site was a landfill specifically for electronic waste: frayed wires, boxy television frames, old phone models of all kinds.

The time was just around sunset -- more specifically 7:42 and 33 seconds, according to Renko's discerning eyes. The mild starlight reflected off of broken LCD screens, making them appear ever so slightly less lifeless.

#02 Rigid Paradise

– "What exactly are we looking for... Let me guess. Hoping to find some retro videogames?"

– "I won't lie. That'd be great."

– "But finding both a game and the console to go with it is going to be tough."

– "Did you know, if a company manufactures more games than it can sell, they end up buried underground to get them out of circulation?"

– "How wasteful. At least they were given a proper funeral."

– "The first time this happened was long ago in another country. Thousands of unsold cartridges... Just because they weren't popular at the time, now they'll never be played. I'd love to give them a chance."

– "Hee-hee, so much for a funeral. I suppose we're not in the business of letting the dead rest in peace."

In this unique sort of graveyard, the bodies had been piling up for countless years. Most of the material would never biodegrade, so the mounds kept accumulating, one layer buried under the next. In fact, despite the oceans rising drastically over recent years, this dumping ground remained unusually high above sea level for the sole reason that its foundation was constantly being reinforced by layers of tightly packed waste.

Renko, who had taken the precaution to wear pants and gloves on this excursion, knelt down to examine a mess of circuitry at the bottom of a looser heap. Merry meanwhile nudged the tip of her shoe against the ground, pondering how deep down was the earth.

#03 Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll

The girl in black and white impatiently murmured the time, for the fourth time that hour, before stretching her back and turning around to check on her partner.

– "Find anything interesting yet, Merry?"

Merry, who had been spacing out for some while, quickly darted her eyes around for an improvised answer. A glint of light led her gaze to a long, flat cell phone teetering unceremoniously atop of a pile.

– "This... Haven't I seen this model in advertisements recently? How did this already become trash?"

– "Oh, you know. Technology becomes out-of-date awfully quickly these days."

– "Mm. I'd like to see it as a sign of progress, but…"

– "Yeah, it's not good at all. We're in an age of quantity over quality."

Manufacturers who design their products to poor standards, so as to improve on them soon after, are akin to the type of trickster youkai that disguises itself in beggars' clothes to take advantage of others' low expectations. In this selfishly self-deprecating society, it had become a disadvantage to show one's best.

– "Everyone knows this, but thinking about it makes me so irritated."

– "Right? Humanity is really holding itself back."

– "On top of that, don't they know that this is how vengeful tsukumogami are born?"

An object that has gone unused for 100 years is believed to develop a consciousness. Some end up harmless -- but if its short life was spent being used as nothing more than throwaway capital, naturally it would make sense for it to become unhappy.

Merry laid one hand gently on the phone, as if in a gesture of sympathy.

– "Hey, be careful not to touch more than you need to. It may look clean, but the chemicals released by e-waste can still be toxic."

– "Ah, right..."

She felt a bit sheepish for needing safety lessons from Renko, of all people. But, having thought too hard about it, it became difficult for Merry to view the objects as just physical material. A great majority of one's life was lived by virtual communication, so this material had great amounts of personal information stored in it. Of course, the information's original source was in people's minds, so it's not as if it would be instantly forgotten once the plug was pulled. But there were certainly more petabytes of raw data in a square meter of this dump than a human brain could hold.

#04 Electric Heritage

– "Come to think of it, though, have you ever actually heard a story about an electronic object becoming a tsukumogami?"

– "Well, no..."

– "I have a theory about that. I don't think e-waste is even capable of that transition."

– "How do you figure?"

– "Consider the crossover of electromagnetic fields and the detection of spirits. Electricity is a simulation of life energy, almost too spot-on. Like forces repel... so true life energy can't coexist with it. Because they're flowing with this imitation power, I don't think electronics get a chance to develop real souls."

– "I see. Then, we can't properly call this a graveyard..."

– "...if these bodies were never truly alive."

– "I can't decide whether that makes me feel relieved, or lonely."

Merry let out an audible sigh against their eerily silent backdrop. Then she braced herself to deliver the next news.

– "But, if that's so... then why can I still feel something spiritual around here?"

Renko's eyes lit up instantly.

– "Do you? I was hoping you'd say that!"

– "It just started... which is odd, since we haven't covered all that much ground since getting here. It's as if a border connecting to somewhere else just opened."

– "That supports the second part of the theory. Like forces repel, but opposite forces attract. They may not have souls themselves, but these empty vessels surely attract souls."

It felt fairly certain, now that both of their minds had helped confirm it: Some spirit, human or non-human, seemed to have decided to take up residence in the wasteland. Merry took a moment to feel proud of herself for her invaluable contribution.

– "By the way, where do robots fit into your theory?"

– "Well... I mean, there's no doubt we're getting closer every day to the A.I. revolution."

– "Oh, my. I knew I should have tipped our e-waiter last time we went to that café."

– "But that's a completely different phenomenon than what births a tsukumogami, right? It has to do with the software, not the hardware."

– "Yes. Though, it would seem to imply that there is a border of 'false' and 'true' life that can be crossed..."

#05 Entrusting This World to Idols ~ Idolatrize World

– "Now all we have to do is narrow it down, and we'll --"

As if on cue, Renko's thoughts were interrupted by a loud crashing sound from behind... music to her thrill-seeking ears. She whirled around to catch the culprit, her eyes fixating on Merry and the dark-colored object that rested a few paces away at her feet. The blonde girl threw her hands up in a display of innocence.

– "I didn't do it. It moved on its own! I just saw it fall out of nowhere."

Renko's attempt at a professional retort failed to conceal her excited, twitching grin.

– "Merry, Merry... This is the most basic of physics. An object can't move on its own! Unless..."

They approached the rectangular object and peered over it. It seemed to be a tablet PC, roughly twenty centimeters in length. It had landed face up, luckily enough to not have not shattered the screen, though there was a significant surface crack down its center.

– "Hm..."

– "We've ruled out tsukumogami. You think it could be... a poltergeist?"

– "I don't know. Rather than an outside force, the energy seems very contained in here."

– "So then... a spirit living inside?"

– "Something like that."

In response, the light of the screen flashed briefly on and back off.

– "Ahh! Electricity, a simulation of life energy..."

– "It also works the other way around!"

This was a very lucky revelation for the two investigators, as it would have been nearly impossible to find a compatible charging cable. In an age where each and every product was developed with its own unique cord design, this feature was marketed to consumers as a collectible game; the infinite variety, a controlled channel for creativity.

The device seemed to call out to them, understanding what they wanted. The power flashed again, on and off and on, in a quirky rhythmical pattern that almost evoked a personality.

– "We've definitely found something worth taking home!"

– "Wait. Isn't it wrong to remove a spirit from the place it's attached to? We can't just adopt a ghost like an abandoned baby."

– "Like you said, it's attached to the item, not the place. We're just fostering it for a bit before it moves on!"

– "All right... Just don't raise it to be wild like you."

– "And you, Merry, make sure you don't spoil it!"

#06 Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World

The pair reached Renko's dorm with the haunted vessel tucked inconspicuously into their satchel, grateful that the spirit hadn't chosen to bind itself to a full desktop monitor or CPU instead. The question moving forward would be how to unlock its secrets.

– "How old do you think it is?"

– "Because it wasn't buried under anything, it seems like we should assume it to be fairly new. But it just feels so out of place."

– "Actually, I meant the spirit."

– "Oh."

Hand in hand with the phenomenon of planned obsolescence, the fashionable aesthetics of electronics changed as often as water under a bridge. Sleek designs were popular, then retro designs, then designs that mimicked the mimicry of two eras past, a vaguely deteriorating cycle. As a result, it was difficult to tell which era this piece of technology belonged to.

– "Remember that I saw a border open? Maybe not just the spirit, but the whole item came from somewhere else..."

They had been scrutinizing the home screen for quite some time, attempting to navigate the ancient interface, and hadn't made much headway. As far as they could tell, the data was heavily corrupted, and most of its history had been erased. They were able to access only the most basic types of apps, like the calculator and the keyboard.

– "Hey, Merry. I think we should use that other thing we picked up."

– "That? I don't even understand how we would use it..."

As evidenced by her smug grin, the more scientifically-minded of the pair had full confidence in the strange idea she was about to suggest.

#07 A Tiny, Tiny Clever Commander

– "I mean, really? A mouse?"

Renko had insisted that they bring home a wired peripheral mouse, which she had spent an extra half hour scavenging for. However, of course, the end of the cable did not match the outlet on the tablet.

Currently, she was back in the scavenging position, digging through the pile of unorganized junk that cluttered her closet (mostly books and occult items). Or rather, it looked unorganized, but she seemed to know exactly where everything was. ...Or rather, Merry concluded, it truly was unorganized, but her eyes were sharp at scanning through even a complete mess. She wondered if this small pile would ever become as large as the one at the dump.

– "A-ha, found it!"

Renko had managed to track down the very particular treasure she was seeking, the final piece of their forgathered puzzle. A small cube with many variously patterned notches rested in her open palm. The material's finishing was uncolored and plain, likely to have been produced independently with a 3D printer rather than as a commercial product.

– "W-Where did you get a thing like that?"

– "I have connections you don't know, Merry."

Merry thought she had heard this line before, and felt a bead of sweat roll down her neck just like the first time. The source was certainly shady. Universal adapters were not at all legal. Treating it like a Rubik's cube, and glancing back and forth for reference, Renko cleverly manipulated the block in her hand in ways that Merry was unable to understand.

Renko's partner, who had long embraced being an accomplice, appreciated her resourcefulness; she only wished to be kept more up to date when the other girl's mental plans ran ten steps ahead. But she supposed that this was how Renko felt in return when it came to supernatural sights that she couldn't see, so perhaps they were even.

– "Just like that? Like magic..."

– "Tell me, Merry. Can you see the border of magic and science?"

With all the pieces aligned, Renko ceremoniously linked the mouse to the tablet through the intermediary box. As a pop-up window indicated the drivers being registered, it was, they determined, a truly magical feat. The light on the screen dimmed a bit, as if the spirit were expressing slight disappointment that it was no longer their only option for a power supply.

– "Still... Better technology has been around for decades. These are so unwieldly. Does anyone use an optical mouse anymore?"

– "No, but no one's done this ritual in a long time either."

#08 No More Going Through Doors

Renko took Merry's hands in her own and conveyed them in a stack atop of the mouse. Holding this pose, Merry squinted at the screen in front of her, which displayed a neatly spaced virtual keyboard with a complete set of lettering. A mild shiver ran through her, either nervousness or excitement.

– "Hang on. This setup looks familiar somehow."

– "That's right. We're having a séance!"

Although Renko was very skilled with computers, hacking was not her expertise. She did, however, have the kind of mind that was able to think around the box, discovering back doors. The opportunity here was simple: If they couldn't reach the secrets, they would consult the only one who knew -- the spirit itself.

– "Huh!?"

– "This mouse is a perfect planchette to use as an interface. Sure, we have voice and touch technology. But you don't want the spirit to possess your actual body in order to touch the screen or activate your voice, do you?"

– "Definitely not. ...Wait, did I ever say I wanted to be the medium at all?"

Merry pulled her hands back from the mouse and saw the screen's light flicker weakly.

– "Oh, er... You're right. We didn't really decide that, did we?"

– "Mm..."

– "I think you'd be better suited, but I'll gladly go first. I've always wanted to try something like this."

Merry's eyes glazed over as she thought about the prospect of communicating with the spirit. They had assumed the sealed entity was harmless enough to bring home, but could there be some risk in directly channeling it?

Then again, what was the other option? To leave their investigation at a dead end?

You don't belong on this side of the unknown.

A faint voice bubbled up inside of Merry, almost like an intrusive thought. This had been happening to her increasingly often lately, though she always forgot about it after the fact. Because, at the same time, they certainly felt like her own feelings...

Maribel Hearn was sparked with a surge of curiosity that made her want to take the lead. These were precisely the club activities she had signed up for. How much more dangerous could it be than anything else, so long as one made sure to follow the protocols and say goodbye at the end?

– "No... I'd like to do it."

Renko blinked in surprise.

– "Really? ...Well, gee, make up your mind. You made me get all excited for myself. Go ahead, but I call next!"

#09 Shoutoku Legend ~ True Administrator

Having cleared the area and turned off all the lights, Merry sat with her back straight against a chair and took a deep breath. No candle was necessary, as the warm glow of the screen cast a ring of illumination around the table. They had thoroughly discussed the questions they desired to ask, though the words felt awkward to speak out loud. Nevertheless, the young medium opened her mouth.

– "What is... your name?"

...

The atmosphere of room was deathly still. Merry let all the muscles in her arm relax, preparing.

...

I...

– "It's working...!"

The spirit was conscious and listening. The planchette began to glide beneath Merry's loose grip, landing on the letter I. When it paused on the letter for several seconds, she clicked the mouse button to confirm before the involuntary movement slowly began again.

...FO RG OT.

– "Ah. So it's going to be up to us to give it a name."

– "Did you own this tablet?"

While Merry was lost in thought about a potential name, Renko chimed in with a question of her own from the opposite side of the table. However, the spirit seemed to hesitate in answering.

Suddenly, the other girl's focus returned. On an instinct, she broke the silence with an unexpected change of the question.

– "Does this tablet own you?"

...

YE S.

– "Huh... The tablet owns the spirit? How did that happen?"

Although Renko's words were more thinking out loud than a direct question, the spirit was responsive. Merry's hand immediately began to move.

...

SN AP.

– "Snap...? That sounds kind of scary."

– "What does that mean?"

The cursor then swerved dramatically past all the letters on the keypad and down to the app menu along the bottom edge of the screen. It hovered over an icon barely recognizable as an antique camera.

– "Ah..."

The app launched, reproducing a dark, blurry image of the table on which the device's lens was turned. Upon clicking the screen, a photograph was taken, and the damaged speaker emitted a distorted snapping sound.

– "Spirit photography!"

The two girls burst out in unison, solving the riddle simultaneously.

– "Right. We've all heard the old belief that getting a photograph taken of you might steal a piece of your soul."

– "It has some basis. If captured in a photograph by accident, a minor spirit's energy might become trapped."

Somewhere in the hidden files, such a photograph must exist, binding some foreign essence to this device. The spirit was likely eager to get free.

Merry minimized the camera app and returned to the keyboard.

– "Who took the picture?"

...

Unlike its own, this name seemed to be one the spirit knew. The pair observed with bated breath as the cursor navigated itself around the maze of letters. Ultimately, it came to a halt, and Merry clicked on the final letter.

– "...Eh? Merry, stop kidding around!"

Merry turned to her partner with a genuine, solemn expression.

– "I'm... not. I swear."

Renko's face went pale. In ink-black font, three familiar syllables stood on display beside a blinking cursor.

#10 Dream World Folklore

To disprove the influence of the ideomotor effect, they had asked the question several more times, using both girls as mediums, until the spirit ultimately stopped responding altogether.

– "Oh, no. We scared it away..."

– "Well, it did spook us first."

– "Renko... You weren't kidding about your connections, were you?"

Renko scratched her head with lingering bewilderment.

– "Is the spirit messing with us? Or could it be..."

Her gaze wandered over to the stream of occult paraphernalia still spilling out of the crack of her closet door, and she experienced a strange sense of longing. The adventurous scientist was heavily accustomed to investigating mysteries from an observational and objective point of view. Finding herself personally a step closer to the subject was a bizarre and almost gut-twisting feeling. She supposed that this was how Merry felt in return when the focus of investigations was on her own powers, so perhaps they were even. Almost.

After a few more sessions of séance, they managed to navigate to an encrypted folder. A full-screen photograph had flashed open... but, before they were able to make out any details, the tablet's power instantly cut off. Following this, it no longer responded to any input.

Their assumption would be that the spirit had been able to cross over, after deleting its digital ties to the physical container and unsealing the information it was attached to.

– "I suppose this is goodbye..."

– "Is the spirit free now?"

– "I think so."

– "That's good for it, at least."

– "Too bad for you. If we kept it, maybe it would have served as your personal shikigami."

– "Isn't that a bit cold-hearted? It was supposed to be our child!"

A shikigami is the perfect phantasmal servant. The owner may input commands, and it carries out orders with extraordinary speed and calculation. Of course, a normal computer already fulfills essentially the same purpose. Outside world humans of the modern era aren't in need of such a spirit under their possession.

Even so, the force of attraction that had drawn them to cross paths with this spirit would be a mystery to chase going forward. The two present members of the Sealing Club had a new story to tell, an urban legend that could be shared only amongst themselves.

Afterwords

Hello, this is someone who absolutely promised themself that they would publish at least one Hifuu fic per calendar year. The idea for this one began with a conversation with my real-life partner (as is usually the case of inspiration) about the excellent aesthetic of using a computer keyboard as a Ouija board. This subject in turn came up because of a "ghost" that haunts her keyboard by making a certain cryptic message appear on the screen at random times because the "." and "0" keys are in an easy position for us to accidentally press. So, this story is dedicated to our precious child, ".0-chan."

Then, while it was already being written, WBaWC came out and confirmed that a technology-themed fic would be totally appropriate, and my favorite song from the soundtrack had the perfect title to be used in it. (Also, its blatant dystopian themes justified playing up the similar themes of the Sealing Club's society even more than usual.) And yet, despite many things lining up, it almost didn't get finished in time. It's been such a busy and stressful year, which I hope gets better next year...

Another source of inspiration was the blog "Yukarisuggestion," whose portrayal I respect a lot. When they drop minor bits of supernatural trivia, it definitely feels like they are coming from the youkai sage herself, very natural to accept. I latched onto these posts in particular, finding the concept fascinating, and I only hope I interpreted it acceptably. ...I was really aiming sharply this time at the Sealing Club's conversational aesthetic of "casual confidence in super obscure things that outside listeners would hear as nonsense," so I'm afraid some parts may have crossed the border of B.S.

Also, I wonder if it's okay that the second half of the song choices are almost entirely bad puns?

ASA (Our ghost child's pen name would be "0.4" / "Rei-ten-shi"!)

Hifuu CD-style stories:

» [Tumblr] [AO3] 自封夢幻〜 Sentimental Reverie

» [Tumblr] [AO3] 陶然夢幻〜 Transcendental Revelry

» [Tumblr] [AO3] 羨望横断〜 Unenviable Crossroads

» [Tumblr] [AO3] 外来土産〜 Adventive Reminiscence

» [Tumblr] [AO3] 中古技術〜 Electric Spirit Seance

» [Tumblr] [AO3] 幻想惑星直列〜 Phantasmal Syzygy

#touhou #maribel hearn #renko usami #renmerry #fanfiction

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uncheckedtomfoolery · 7 years

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Hello! I really liked your post on Aya and yr insights on her journalism. I had never ever thought about the relationship between the context where she works n the content she produces, thank you very much for taking the time to write about that! Anyways, if you have any opinions on Hatate, I would very much like to hear them! She has a completely different outlook on journalism, could you speculate on where that could have possibly come from? (apologies for my awkward English );)

First off, don’t worry about the English, it’s perfectly fine, and thank you for the kind words about the post. Now… I’ll be honest, I put this off a bit because I don’t know much about Hatate. I did some reading and discovered that as I suspected, there is, in fact, not a whole lot to know. With that said, part of this is written with help and ideas from a friend who’s not on this site; he’s behind a lot of the older tanuki post as well, and just generally one of my go-to people for ideas. Credit where it’s due and all, even if I had to argue a bit until he let me give any credit.The Aya post referenced in this ask is over here, for reference.My usual disclaimers apply. The post below the cut is a long one. I am sometimes willing to dip into conjecture (often, really) so long as I find it interesting. I can definitely be wrong about things and often am. I’m not really suggesting anything here as more than opinion. Finally, in this particular case, much will be made up whole cloth, because there just isn’t much there. She’s no Koakuma or Daiyousei (if you acknowledge them as characters at all), but there’s little to work with. More below. This, again, gets silly long. You’ve been warned!

This is going to start out closer to ‘just the facts’, in as much as I can. The further we go into the post, the more speculative it gets, and may just be ‘I made this up because it fits the rest and I think it’s interesting’. With that said, what do we know? Hatate is a tengu. Okay. Hatate is or wants to think of herself as a journalist; however, her paper is rather less popular than Bunbunmaru, which is probably not the only other paper out there, either. This might be because of getting pictures slower than other papers (she’s working on this, by the end of Double Spoiler), and possibly a less well-liked choice of subject matter as well. Or her writing style is less entertaining (I’ll let you decide if this is a matter of personal skill, not trying to entertain, or both). She dislikes Aya (let’s face it, this is easy even without any rivalry), far as we know. She’s kind of a shut-in. She has a phone, I guess, which is kind of exotic. I’ll address this later. We also have the… what, three articles from Kakashi Spirit News in SoPM? No profile for her that I know of, though. Thaaat’s about it. Because this is a long rambly post anyway: What you get here is basically my thought process (minus the parts where I go ‘alright, time to pester the local Idea Guy again’). Take what’s there, look at it, ask ‘why would this be the case?’, answer the question some way or other, and then ask ‘if (previous answer), what would that mean?’. Extrapolate till I’m tired of it. With that in mind, are you ready for me to start answering the above questions and then some, with roughly 85% conjecture? Because I sure am. Just, maybe not in order. Let’s start with her articles. What can we dig up from there? She’s fairly comprehensive; to me, the articles seem very detailed. She writes, in SoPM, about stuff that’s actually likely to cause trouble, or that is otherwise important. This tells us- nothing, actually, but let’s say more conservatively that it hints at a paper primarily intended to inform people about Things That Really Matter. Tell people what they ought to know. This is very different from the Bunbunmaru’s multi-faceted purpose: Some information, some deliberate misinformation, some propaganda, and some storytelling/entertainment. She does not hesitate to say some unkind things about humans, here and there. This suggests one of the following: She either expects a primarily nonhuman audience to her paper, or she’s got the social graces of a hurled brick and has no idea what might annoy people… or she just does not care. Or any mix of those! It could always be more than one, actually. Either way, this and a less entertainment-slanted approach certainly helps explain her low circulation, no? Even “it’s not entertainment, it’s Serious News” doesn’t help you when no one else sees a distinction that places it as ‘the proper one’ above Bunbunmaru. She’s not completely shut in like some would claim. She has at least one interview for an article that I recall (Iku), and unlike the Aya definition of the term, it appears to be pretty civil. Has to be in person too, phones aren’t an option and hers is only a camera in practice (one that’s half magic at that). If you want to be deeply uncharitable you could assume she poached the interview from another paper, I guess. Finally, she references science fiction in her Nue article. Weird thing to bring up, right? Well, picture how common this is in what is (kappa aside, perhaps) a fairly traditional youkai society, in what amounts to feudal Japan. Option one is that she got this and her phone from Sanae. Option two… she roots around sometimes for stuff that creeps through the barrier, like Rinnosuke (or buys from him?). Either way, Hatate the bookworm nicely explains what she does with a lot of her spare time inside, and also why she’s already got a decent knack for word-wrangling. Okay, it’s going to get a bit rocky from here on.

Hatate tries to write serious news, it seems, in contrast with Aya’s goals. They both work hard, but towards different ends. And yet, journalism is a new field here, as I touch on in my Aya post. You see her injecting herself into stories a lot even for stuff that has nothing to do with her, turning it into at least slight opinion pieces. She does not distance herself from the story. She’s not exactly a great modern journalist, then. It’s not hard to imagine this going further if the subject is closer to her life and heart, at which point she miraculously achieves gonzo journalism while never leaving her house. She gets almost no subscriptions on her paper. She stays afloat, though. So she’s rat poor, or tengu society makes sure everyone is provided for, or she’s actually well off enough for some reason that she doesn’t have to worry about actual work. It’s something to think about. We’re going to get into a bit of a tangled part now; her relationship with Aya, why she writes, and tengu society.

Hatate probably doesn’t need to be writing, or could find something better to do. This points at a fairly fierce conviction in what she does. She’s serious about this, and her direction is divergent enough from others (Aya, as our only other named example of a tengu journalist) that it’s fairly notable. It’s not something that actually has a place or serves a traditional purpose in tengu society, unlike Bunbunmaru, which is a very useful tool in her arsenal. Consider also her direction: Spreading information that people need to know. She does this because, in her mind, someone has to. People need to know things and no one else is doing this. Of course, injecting her vision into things is harmless. Of course she’s right to disdain Aya not just for being more successful, and being Aya (she’s kind of insufferable at times), but for working in the direct opposite direction. She’d probably have some harsh words for tengu society, too. She’s trying to make big waves, though. She might even throw some youkai mountain secrets into the mix if she could. Hatate is an idealist, then, and a driven one. She doesn’t get out much, though; either she can’t bring herself to, or she finds it unimportant for all her conviction. She can take pictures from home, right? The world’s a spectator sport. …Honestly, there’s something a bit Don Quixote-like about all this. If she seems very “smash the system”… yeah, kind of. The thing is, though, look at her. It’s embarrassing at worst, but she’s harmless even if she does work against tengu interests, which usually she doesn’t much. Personally, I think Aya looks quite fondly on her. It’s nice to see someone being young and naive and working hard towards what they believe in, even if it’s done all wrong and generally very silly.Let her have her fun, it’s refreshing to see someone care so much in their own weird little way. To Hatate, Aya’s support, when it comes, probably feels condescending, and maybe it is, a little. It’d be very “please don’t grow up too quickly, that would be a shame.” There’s something the aforementioned friend I contacted for this post wrote for Aya, a while ago, and I like it too much not to share it: “The problem with [Hatate] isn’t that she can never read situations and adapt, it’s that she confuses that for integrity. It could be a lot worse, though. She could be her father, who has a lot of the same problems, except I have to answer to him sometimes.”

Hatate’s spirit photography merits attention, too. It’s not exactly within normal tengu capabilities, after all. What’s going on here, then? We don’t hear of anyone else with it, but absence only means so much in Touhou. Still, it’s treated as unique to her so far. I don’t think it’s related to her being a tengu per se, but an innate ability of hers that she was born with. Possibly her parents had it, possibly they did not, but this is basically scrying. What others might do with a crystal ball, she does with a flip phone.

You’ve read, let’s be honest here, a frankly excessive amount of words, so it’s high time I hit the final part. We have the pieces, now it’s time for me to add in exactly enough shaky conjecture to glue this into a complete picture of a character. Hatate is kind of special, at least in some broad sense. There’s something going on that probably allows her to at least get by without worrying about the practicality of what she does. I’ll add that this is an assumption based on an assumption, which is less like shaky ground, and more ‘Wile E. Coyote has failed to realise he is standing on thin air’. Will that stop me? No. To continue, there’s the whole spirit photography thing too. I choose to interpret this as her being two things. One, reasonably well-cared for or well off. Either way, she’s under no obligation to be responsible and practical with her life. Two, kind of sheltered. There’s no evidence - even by my tastes! - to suggest that she’s particularly shoved to the margins because she’s the Great Flip Phone Seer, so let’s say she never could deal with people and the outside well, or she has an unpleasant association between going out and having to Be Presentable as the daughter of an important tengu family… or both, the latter compounding the former. So she stays in. She reads a bunch, mostly. She gets a little grumpy about tengu society, being young and inconvenienced by it, and generally rebellious. She reads the Bunbunmaru too, and sees things in it. She sees something she wants to do, something that could be great, and it gives her hope and ambition. She sees it used all wrong by her standards, and that makes her angry. A lot of things seem to, really; we can see that she’s kind of judge-y in her work. Possibly she’s internalised some views from the very tengu society she dislikes about, say, humans. Can’t help being shaped by her environment without even noticing it.So our angry, sheltered, naive - but basically altruistic - tengu strikes out to fix this. She can actually do something! Something good and serious and meaningful, and take potshots at things she hates in the world, all at once. She can afford to do it ineffectually and she can afford to let her quest for The Noble Truth basically eat her life. What she doesn’t have is a whole lot of awareness about how she personally is doing things, though what we see of her work is, I’ll remind you, reasonably solid.…So, that’s Hatate. She comes with a slider between ‘prefers to stay home’ and ‘cannot handle others ever’, as well as one between ‘maybe not the paragon of good journalism she thinks she is’ and ‘what if Don Quixote was an angry blogger with a typewriter’. Do as you will.

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