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I just read my second most recent post (third with this one) and realized how flawed that scenario I wrote up was. TIME TO PICK IT APART!

GENSOKYO CRISIS
Scenario

It is 20-minutes into the future for Gensokyo, perhaps a hundred years have passed, perhaps two. Nonetheless, a majority ofthe human characters of Touhou have long passed on. Despite the absence of Reimu, her heirs and their heirs have takentheir shrine maiden duties seriously and maintained the border without much incident, unlike their most notable ancestor.Unfortunately life is not always as flawless as such and the next in line to take up the mantle of the responsibilities of a shrine maiden chose not to. They deviated from their destiny and ran off like a rebellious teenager. Alternatively, a tragic accident befell the descendent and they are no more. Or their predecessor did not have any heirs, either way something occurred that kept the border from being maintained.

Alright first off this part of the scenario should be a bit clarified. If Reimu's descendant chose to not maintain the border, THAT WILL DOOM HIS OR HER WHOLE WORLD and her/his predecessor FAILED at educating his/her's heir. So the most likely scenario is the Hakurei Shrine Maiden or priest or whatever, tragically and suddenly died.

Yukari Yakumo, the usual backup in case such shenanigans occurred was asleep. Autumn was ending and she had just gone into her deep winter hibernation. After several rude wake-ups from nosy tengus or some other sort of disturbance finally pushed the gap youkai to the edge, preventing her from her beauty sleep, she made it so that only her faithful shikigami, Ran Yakumo, could possibly wake her. That way should winter be over she would be woken up in time, but other outside events would not interrupt her beloved sleep. Should anything drastic occur that requires attention from Yukari, Ran would wake her up in seconds.

Well Yukari, you are an idiot who doesn't take the protection of Gensokyo seriously enough. I guess such sudden disasters is still possible without faulting anyone, though...

With the two most important figures of Gensokyo not maintaining the border, it weakened to a considerable extent. To the point that humans who have advanced technology exponentially managed to find a way inside and the fantasy that is Gensokyo was revealed to the outside world. This had disastrous effects on the majority of youkai. Youkai survive through the strength of belief. Though physical attacks do not faze them to the point that it would on a mere human, spiritually they were vulnerable. With most of the population easily dwarfing the size inside Gensokyo, suddenly the ratio of those who believed the existence of youkai to those who didn't shifted dramatically. Many weaker youkai disappeared all together but the stronger ones held on, sadly in substantially weakened states. No longer could Remilia control the fates of others, nor could even Flandre destroy everything in sight. Ran was one of the youkai affected when this happened and she no longer had enough power to wake up her slothful master.

It should be specified at this point how many people DO believe the existence of youkai to those who do not. We don't know if say, just a few people believed outside and that's why a few youkai can indeed survive beyond the border, or rather if enough smart scientific people see them and believe if that would completely wipe the youkai into extinction, immediately. I guess a mass weakening makes sense, with the weakest knocked off already, but youkai are DEFINED by what they do. If Remilia cannot control fate, or Parsee couldn't manipulate jealousy, would they even BE Remilia or Parsee? How exactly do you weaken the power to control fate or manipulate jealousy!? Is it just their danmaku powers weakened, when danmaku is supposedly not harmful (to an extent) ?!?

Fortunately, youkai who had disguised themselves as humans or at least knew how were unharmed. Other supernatural species not under the youkai category were not affected either, including the weak fairies due to their attachment to the natureas well as the immortals, being the immortals they are. Hermits too were none-too-affected besides realizing that there were far more humans than they had ever imagined.

But gods and goddesses were not quite as fortunate, requiring faith to keep themselves alive. With a sudden world of scientists, their aura faded greatly, but the more resilient gods with the greatest faith managed to keep on holding on, albeit were practically on life-support at this point. No one in Gensokyo had realized the colossal importance of the border until now and it was far too late to fix anything at this point.

Now this is most confusing, especially those goddesses. For one, if you lived in Gensokyo and pretended to be a human, you'd probably be thought of as a human from the Human Village. What exactly does happen to these folk who are so used to a feudal time? There would be culture shock will there not? Can a youkai disguised as a human react the same, will the outsiders treat these humans like humans, even? And those Goddesses are beyond confusing. If Kanako and Suwako moved to Gensokyo to re-gather their faith, would the sudden exposure to humans invested into the knowledge of Science suddenly diminish their existence? Or will the belief from their current human and youkai followers be enough to sustain!?

Or was it? Realizing this incident of such magnitude could not be ignored, Shikieiki, yama of Gensokyo, had come up with a drastic plan. She, being a judge, could not interfere herself, else violating the several strict rules against such being a supposed neutral and just judge. But that did not mean she wanted the living beings of her governing area to suddenly vanish as so many already had. While the shrine maidens, being efficient as they were, had already re-entered the reincarnation cycle...there was a particular ordinary witch who was not granted the same fate.

Marisa Kirisame, being one of the great liars of her time and spending her human life robbing others blind was not granted the same quick entry into a new life. Rather, she was sent to Hell to repent for her sins. Since her spirit was still bound to memories relating back to Gensokyo and that she too solved incidents during the flourishing and prospering time of Reimu Hakurei, she was allowed back onto Earth on one condition. She would solve this final incident. If she cannot, she'll simply be sent back to hell, but should she succeed her time in Hell would be cut short and she could re-enter the cycle scot-free, with zero effect on what her future life may be.

Okay first of all, if the Yama sends a dead person back into the world they technically ARE interfering, but I suppose if Yuyuko can wander around the mortal realm and God knows how the hell Youmu works, it shouldn't be too much of an exception. Even then, Yuyuko can never re-enter the reincarnation cycle so it'd be cruel to not let her do whatever she wants after her terrible fate, even if she likes being dead...I DON'T KNOW! Anyway, even if Marisa is sent to solve this incident, this is one colossal incident. Shikieiki must be crazy desperate because Marisa is an ORDINARY MAGICIAN. To fix a border you need BORDER people like those sadly extinct Hakurei folk! I guess the purpose of sending Marisa is to try to wake Yukari up, maybe if everyone doesn't explode before Spring Gensokyo can be saved when she does wake up, but why would you need to send Marisa to wake Yukari up? Yukari is crazy strong! Maybe a Master Spark is just want she needs as an alarm clock!? I have no idea! I guess it kind of does work because she's the only strong human left if we assume Sanae is dead. (I heard a theory where Sanae's human form can die, but she'll continue on living as a goddess, but if you're a goddess in this catastrophe you are possibly kind of screwed) But if Marisa is technically a ghost she isn't a human, but I guess she is a ghost! And is Youmu actually alive or what? HOW DOES HALF-GHOST WORK I DON'T KNOW.

CAN GHOST-MARISA SAVE GENSOKYO AND REPENT FOR ALL HER SINS!? FIND OUT NEXT TIME!!

And now I suddenly want to know how she would save Gensokyo. It's not like you can go back in time, when it's exposed, it's exposed! What would Yukari even do!? I should think a bit more on this scenario, lol.

Yep, I think I'll stop typing now. Over and out, 'been Spotto.