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2008 is a pretty eventful year for touhou at least in terms of canon. It marks the release of both Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Subterranean Aminism. I think Cage in Lunatic Runagate started releasing chapters around this time as well.

Mountain of Faith released late 2007 so the fanworks for those characters were fleshed out in 08 as well. So what happened in the fanon? Well, a lot did and a lot didn't.

Aya is now a big character from here on out.

Wriggle stays somewhat relevant somehow??? She's doing her best!

Hina is either the nicest character ever who deals with depressing topics/stories or the most evil character imaginable (usually in comedy-focused stories).

Medicine starts to show up more due to Hina existing. I always thought this character was ignored by the community, but she really wasn't.

This is the LEAST stupid year I've seen for Cirno. It's like everyone decided to let her doing something smart this year.

Momiji is commonly depicted as working for Aya (which is super incorrect). Outside of that she doesn't get much focus surprisingly.

Kaguya's antagonistic depiction is slowly getting overshadowed by her being a NEET.

Ran and Sakuya are having a very hard time keeping it together.

I knew Nitori would be into tech, but I didn't expect her to obsess over taking tech apart to see how it works. Aya's camera was in constant danger.

Reisen's PTSD is starting to set in.

Rinnousuke is ripped as hell and nobody cares. (Shoutouts to Rinnousuke being comedy gold when he isn't depicted as a disgusting pervert).

The Aki sisters bicker with each other quite a lot, but always make up with each other by the end.

Minoriko throwing grapes and potatoes at whoever she's angry at is top tier content.

Since the Aki sisters made the seasons relevant again, LETTY IS BACK LETS GOOOOO.

"Yukkuri shiteitte ne!" was 2008???? I thought it was way older!

The family dynamic of the Moriya Shrine heavily reminds me of Minami-ke (there's even a doujin that makes that comparison).

Kanako gets added to the list of "old hags". (Suwako avoids this despite being just as old)

Reimu is somewhat nerfed now. She's clearly still powerful, but the absolute dominance of power she has in fanworks isn't as prominent.

Suwako trying to be the mother she never got to be in past and be the mother Sanae never had hits me right in the feels bro.

Marisa's harem only gets bigger. (Is it because of the faith she gathered?)

Sanae gets sexually harassed a lot. Ya hate to see it.

Sanae is usually portrayed as a very nice, responsible, and innocent young girl which is funny...considering how long that lasts.

Suwako's height varies drastically, but starts being consistently short by the end of the year.

Mountain of Faith as a whole doesn't get much content even in 2008. Maybe it got overshadowed by the other releases, but it was one of the weaker touhou games in general.

Tenshi's masochist joke happens immediately. Also she is supposed to be short canonically, but Twilight Frontier didn't show it well so in fanworks she's a little taller than average for a long time (American sized).

Iku cannot read the room, a joke almost as good as "is that so?".

I'm disappointed that no one made a joke about Patchouli using bean danmaku to beat Suika in SWR. (maybe someone did and I didnt see it)

Iku almost becomes a sadist, but Yuuka existed so her motivation in bullying Tenshi just becomes a yuri thing

Several characters try to eat Tenshi's or Minoriko's hats.

Aki Eda said Parsee and Yuugi were gay for each other and everyone was like, "Yeah I'll add that to my religion" (idk if Aki Eda was actually the first person to ship them, but their doujin released pretty close to SA)

Satori frequently uses super weak spellcards (like Easy Perfect Freeze) exposing that the heroines got hit by them at least once.

Rin will absolutely throw your body in her wheelbarrow even if you're just unconscious.

Koishi's 3rd eye is usually shown to be shut normally...like without stitches. I'm used to seeing stitches.

Aaand that's really it for SA. SA released late in 2008 so anything else I say would be technically about 2009 fanworks. There was honestly way more stuff about older characters than the new ones for this year. The overall fanon for the older characters didn't change much despite SWR giving a lot of material for older characters. (I barely even saw Komachi in 2008!)

Ah well, I know 2009 goes wild. It's about when I started to really pay attention to doujinshi works and not just the games/music. Undefined Fantastic Object comes out and a lot of new stuff in general happens (honestly considering making two posts for it).

#touhou #doujin #fanon #text #keep in mind these bullet points are about things I see multiple fanworks do and not just one #also they're usually about stuff I feel like not everyone already knew about for the year #eh doesnt matter its not like this is anything serious. I'm just retreading ground for funsies #If you separate Shizuha and Minoriko in the popularity poll you're cringe #also Kisume better show up a bunch in 2009 or ima be mad #2008 #touhou fanon years

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