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I went through the touhou fanworks of 2009 and so much happened with the fanon. This year was the release of Undefined Fantastic Object and Hisoutensoku. (which is easily the best side game objectively, this is not an argument). A new and wild batch of characters gets dropped on the community and some older characters get significant developments as well. So yeah, here's my notes:

Sanae is officially evil now. She may act nice, but she's scheming under that facade. Obviously this isn't the case in all works, but she is certainly way less nice than last year.

Koishi actually opens her third eye in several works either for a gag or after getting convinced to re-open it by other Satori and/or other characters. Some of these works punched me right in the feels and it hurts knowing that canonically, she aint opening that eye.

Utsuho isn't very stupid around this time. She's just extremely forgetful. Don't give her a task that has more than 3 steps!

Morino Hon starts producing fanworks in 2009!!! That's my favorite doujinshi creator! Read their stuff it's top tier.

Marisa cooks increasingly more dangerous food.

Nue has no prior connection to Byakuren in canon like the rest of the UFO cast, but in fanon she almost always does.

Yamame is practically Kisume's mom

Yamame also gets hella bullied.

Wriggle is uuh, Wriggle is getting dominated quite a lot.

Tenshi and Iku rarely show up, did SWR get slept on?

Daiyousei has finally snapped. She either gets pretty scary when mad or is even depicted as much stronger than Cirno in some way, but is hiding it. Don't mess with Daiyousei!

Mima tends to be seen hanging out with Yuuka rather than haunting the Hakurei Shrine now

bkub? pog (i might have the wrong year)

Kogasa can't surprise people with scares since she's too cute, so instead she usually ends up surprising people with sudden declarations of love. Whether or not this actually feeds her never seems to said.

Nazrin will never admit it, but she really does like cheese.

Byakuren is genuinely scary. Many works take her philosophy to the absolute extreme. The lengths she goes to protect and bring salvation to youkai can spell genocide for humans. Those who oppose her philosophy may be brutalized even if they're youkai. It's a very edgy take on Byakuren and is nearly the opposite to how she is canonically. I wonder if this depiction will last long outside of 2009 when she gets more fleshed out (especially with Ten Desires).

Shou is depicted as mostly pathetic which is surprising to me...look she's the only reason I haven't beaten UFO I can't see her as weak!

Yuugi is everyone's big sister.

Would you believe that Meiling almost never fell asleep at the gate until now? Usually she was just too weak or stupid to guard it properly and now she just sleeps.

Murasa always goes down with the ship if it crashes (which happens often)

Kisume does not get enough content. For shame!

Both Reimu and Marisa die a lot this year.

Utsuho really likes eggs for some reason...and not in a motherly way.

Mokou's friendship ended with Kaguya. Now Keine is best friend. Eirin is there for Kaguya though.

Aki sisters are desperate for popularity. They'll do anything!

Okay this is a western joke and I can't even confirm if this was 2009, but I would be remissed if I didn't mention the SAKE NOT EVEN DROP post about Yuugi. It's still funny.

Mystia's grilled eel stand doubles as a barstand now.

No Ichirin/Unzan focused content??? For shame!!!!!

Kanako has her own "charisma break" situation going on. She does her best to look cool, but completely crumbles whenever someone embarrasses her.

This bleeds into 2010, but Alice tends to start trying to bring life into her dolls and it often puts her character in a real dark place. It's the most introspective the fanbase gets with her.

Muuuch more focus on the newer characters. SA gets some of the most heart-wrenching doujins here and the UFO-cast is mainly used for gags (unless your name is Byakuren).

A real interesting year.

Also read Warugaki's, Morino Hon's, and bkub's stuff. Not sure if 2009 is their start or not, but they're all legends in my book.

#touhou #doujins #fanon #fanwork #managed to condense it a bit than originally planned #the 2008 post was larger than I thought it was. but i feel like I could have removed half of those bullet points ngl #Here everything feels way more significant #also we have reached peak Meiling hours #do people even read tags this far #i can put anything in here #flat chest utsuho is better than big tiddy utsuho. it's true #2009 #touhou fanon years

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