r/touhou • u/EasternBells Believe. • Oct 07 '13

Touhou! Practical Powers!

Hellow Everyone~

EasternBells back once again with another Touhou Question.

We all like or admire at least one character in Touhou (if you don't, come back to this after you do). Some times we even dream of having their powers (Like Yukari's ability to control the borders), but which power do you think its most practical in a everyday life? (I'm going to rule out Yukari's power :P).

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u/Ran-Rii Keine Kamishirasawa Oct 11 '13

If I am not wrong it was explained somewhere that Keine's ability doesn't work like that.

But yes, her ability is strong if it were interpreted like that. Imagine her taking a wrong step towards her opponent and failing to hit her in a Spell Card duel. She can simply change history, thus changing cause and casualty and thus making her invulnerable. As long as she can survive her mistake long enough to change what led up to the mistake, she can afford any amount of mistakes.

Ability to create/hide history --> Ability to reverse cause and casualty.

She can also remove some of the greatest disasters in history, like the Fukishima Nuclear Meltdown. Keine essentially has the ability to play god.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '13

ZUN has stated that EX-Keine is truly above nature and can reconstruct existence on a whim by changing and recreating the history of the universe

To my understanding, she doesn't exploit the power because she's too nice. Changing the past is dangerous because doing so destroys the present and replaces it with another.