"So you wanna dance? Are you really challenging Hecatia to this little game of yours? A fool that you are, you lost before you even started, but oh please, enjoy the show, nobody moves like her. Enjoy your defeat, it's definitely worth the spectacle!"
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What’s your favorite touhou characters and music? Also how did u got into touhou in the first place?
Heca lore dump incoming!
My big bro sometime in the distant past, when I was like 6 or 7, downloaded Phantasmagoria of Dim Dream and a pc-98 emulator for our uncle's pc, then both of us got hooked with the 'pew pew girls'. My bro liked Reimu and I liked Yumemi because her theme was GOOD STUFF! The emulation was somewhat unstable at the time but the music could be heard enough to enjoy it!
Then one year after that and, my family still couldn't afford a pc or a console, so I used to go to cybercafes near home after school to unwind at the internet for 2 hours. There I saw a post on a site that talked about phantasmagoria and how they would like another with characters i had no idea who they were? Like, there was this image of a girl in a pink dress with demon wings, which turned out to be Remilia.
At the time, I knew english pretty well, could speak some broken sentences and type it almost nicely so I asked who was that gal and in which game she appeared, which lead me to play EoSD and then get even more hooked with the 2hus, now calling them properly. The olde meme videos and whatnot happened seconds after I checked that post too, so it was like... Orange Clockwork-style exposure to the series, but actually enjoyable!
As for favorites... As soon as I played EoSD and went even deeper into the rabbit hole, I found that people liked this nameless mid boss that came before Cirno and people called her 'Daiyousei' and at the time, I had this thing for underdog characters... Which somehow partially replaced Yumemi because I didn't remember her very well anymore and this midboss green fairy was very present in online communities. After that, I played every 2hu game that came out before the same cyber cafe had to be closed forever, because at that time, people with internet and pcs at home were super common. However, we finally had a decent pc... with subpar internet though... So when we went to my uncle's, we always tried to download as many things as possible! It was also the time when my big bro left home to make his life alone and sadly he forgot all about 2hu so I was all alone irl about those games cuz my friends didn't like it that much.
In 2015, LoLK was released and I downloaded it, very excited to try it out! I think I almost failed a subject because of how hard it was and how hardheaded i was to finish it heh... Then I got to the extra stage, there she was... Hecatia Lapislazuli... It was such a difficult fight, couldn't even get past the first spell card! Until one friday night, I bought some snacks, invited friends to give cheers and play Smash bros after trying... and... I won! I got through the extra stage of LoLK!!!
Some days later, my sketchbooks had very crude drawings of Hecatia, Junko and Clownpiece together, I became obsessed with them! I loved the trio and I never wanted them to get em outta my head!
It was much, much later that I named myself 'Hecatia666' online tho. Previously I was trying to get a presence online as 'Daiyousei' but that name had to fade out because of how obsessed I became with Hecatia. And yes, I remember how everyone was like 'ugh that design is from hot topic doesn't look like 2hu at all' and how that didn't stop me from liking her so much.
As for character themes, it's hard to pick a single favorite... Pandemonic Planet, Pure Furies and Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner always come first!
I think the Pc-98 era deserves a mention too and of course Strawberry Crisis never got completely forgotten, alongside Tabula Rasa and Reincarnation!
About stage themes... The Lake Reflects the Pure Moonlight, A World of Nightmares Never Seen Before and Lunate Elf! At least for now...
I'm sorry for the big ass answer... but i wanted to say everything ;w;
So! I recently shared an experience I've had with Touhou media in the comments of this video on the franchise's lost media.
Someone else requested one of the arranges that I mentioned, the Pandemonic Planet EoSD arrange, so I uploaded both files to Mega and tried sharing the link in the Youtube replies. But it doesn't work! Because Youtube doesn't let you share links in the replies/comments to prevent spam!
So, I'm uploading the links for the files to my public social media accounts in hopes that these arranges are not fully lost in time.
Here's a link to the Pandemonic Planet EoSD arrange.
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Track 1: Ghost Next Door
Original: Complete Darkness (Touhou2: Story of Eastern Wonderland) / Reincarnation ( Touhou 3: Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream, Dolls in Pseudo Paradise version) (Mima's themes)
Track 2: Colorful Magicks
Original: Alice in Wonderland/Grimoire of Alice/Romantic Children (Touhou 5: Mystic Square)/ The Doll Maker of Bucuresti/Doll Judgement ~ the Girl Who Played with People's Shapes (Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom.) (Alice's themes across the ages)
Track 3: All Nighter
Original: Welcome to the Moon Tour/Greenwich in the Sky/Sleepless Night of the Eastern Country/The Far Side of the Moon (Medley of four tracks from Magical Astronomy)
Track 4: Food Court Menace
Original: A soul as red as a Ground Cherry/Apparition Stalks the Night (Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Stage 1+ Rumia's theme)
Track 5: Shinigami Cruise
Original: Higan Retour~Riverside View/Fate of Sixty Years (Touhou 9: Phantasmagoria of Flower View, Komachi Onozuka & Shiki Eiki Yamaxanadu's themes (shikieiki only has small accents))
Track 6: Out of this world!
Original: Pandemonic Planet (Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, Hecatia Lapislazuli's theme)
Track 8: Reminiscence
Original: The inevitably Forbidden Game/ Illusion of a Maid ~ Icemilk Magic (Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story, Extra stage theme + Mugetsu's theme)
Note: Fits perfectly back to back with Anemoia, Gengetsu's track from volume 1 (also track 8 in that volume), in a DJ set. Can be seamlessly transitioned from one to the other in either order.
Track 9: Night Swim
Original: Native Faith/ Tomorrow will be special, yesterday was not/The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field/The Japanese Wilderness the Girl Watched/Faith is for the transient People (Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith, Sanae Kochiya, Kanako Yasaka & Suwako Moriya medley)(Kanako only has small accents: suwa foughten field is in the bassline)