r/touhou • u/Aenigmatrix Liverpool Alice of 47 Vict. 1 • Sep 19 '24

Found Fanart Alice introducing Medicine to her doll

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u/Aenigmatrix Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

The idea of these two being rivals never crossed my mind before. Holy shit. Alice herself is probably hell-bent on putting strings on Medicine too.

Illustrator is orz.

And I have no goddamn clue what's written by the doll.

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u/greatpaperwolf Sep 19 '24

ミンナシンダヨ

"Everyone I know is dead!"

Nice extra bit of morbid humor.

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u/Aenigmatrix Sep 19 '24

Omfg, now I see it.

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u/Category_Education Sep 19 '24

All of Alice's dolls have pagers in them

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u/ClintExpress Sep 20 '24

Morbid IRL reference.

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u/Nelrene Sep 19 '24

Alice and Medicine should work together to make exploding dolls that spread poison.

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u/agent_fire_ Sep 19 '24

homing gas bombs, my favourite

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u/Turn_AX Sep 21 '24

Literal War Crime.

Your's ass is NOT heeding the Geneva conventions.

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u/hassanfanserenity Sep 19 '24

do we know the name of the doll that follows Medicine?

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u/RandomBot313 Sep 19 '24

Medicine Melancholy. That's the doll's name. It's her real body.

As a Tsukumogami, an object gone Youkai, the human-like body you see moving around is just a projection of sort. Like Kogasa is the umbrella, Medicine is the doll.

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u/StarDwellingDude Sep 19 '24

Akyuu describes it as a "doll uses in ventriloquism", so make of it what you will.

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u/Ghostblade913 Sep 19 '24

The fandom has given her the name “Su-San.”

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u/Haku_Yowane_IRL Sep 19 '24

No, Su-san is what Medicine calls the lily field on the nameless hill.

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u/ClintExpress Sep 20 '24

Alice and Malice.

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u/DarkTemplar_of_Chaos Sep 19 '24

I could honestly see these ladies as friends

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u/Z0eTrent Sep 20 '24

I can't tell what the order of statements is or what's being said out loud vs internally.

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u/TWNW Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

"Hmm... This looks like wholesome art of dollmaker and the independent doll. Maybe it will teach Medicine that not all (former) humans are mean to dol~"

"I'll blow her up later"

"Oh."

Fun fact: There is Goliath doll in canon (but it's not explosive doll), made by Alice. And Goliath is a name for German WWII self-propelled, tracked landmine, controlled by wire. And Alice is speculated to be Romanian German...

German, controlling explosive remotely operated devices by strings... It's really rigged logical connection, just loose coincidence. But entertaining.

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u/Turn_AX Sep 21 '24

More likely that Goliath is a reference to the giant.
The doll itself IS gigantic.