I have noticed that Reimu is consistently drawn significantly shorter than her ancestors. Is it just generally agreed upon that Reimu's growth was stunted by malnourishment? Or is she simply not all grown up yet?
>>50762113She is barely drinking age, give her some time.
>>50762113Reimu's moms got it going...
>>50762113Reimu is still young, unlike those hags
>>50762130>>5076251040 years old is neither "young", nor a "barely drinking age".
>>50762828What's Reimu's age, the last time I heard about it people said Gensokyo had Springfield time.
>>50762833That is correct, but at the same time the passage of time in Gensokyo corresponds to the passage of time IRL.
>>50762845Being honest, I am still confused by it. I remember people saying that Gensokyo had non-linear time, like, here 1 week could be years there. Or the opposite.
>>50762833the world resets every few games but people refuse to accept it.
>>50762833my headcanon has always been that she and Marisa are very early 20s
>>50762833>What's Reimu's ageWith the way she looks and acts, she's probably perpetually in her mid-teens, estimated around ~13-14 years old. Except when ZUN talks about drinking ages.Time may pass, but she will never progress. This is what Requiem is!
>>50762113I want to put a donation in Reimu's box!
>>50762875I want to imagine that it's the nature of gensokyo. Time looks like it's measured the same there as here but seems to me gappy pulled something to greatly slow down how residents age.
>>50762113Reimu is younger. If she's in her mid-teens, I'd say the previous shrine maiden was probably mid to late 20s.
What would they talk about if they had the chance to meet each other?
>>50762113Who were reimu's ancestors. I'm not familiar with this part of the lore.
>>50771451They'd probably laugh about their mutual long-lived friends, especially Yukari.>>50771733The Hakurei clan's duty is to maintain Gensokyo's status quo. Outside of that, not much is known about them, but CDS depicted one of them in Mizuchi's flashback.
>>50771887>friends>YukariWindows-era Reimu can barely stand to be around Yukari, most obviously demonstrated in the print works.PC98 Reimu would not have been familiar with Yukari, since the two only meet for the first time in PCB.The Previous Generation Hakurei shrine maiden comes from an era when the relationship between humans and youkai was much more inimical. Moreover, her life predates the existence of Gensokyo, which is when those relations began to mellow out (and it still took a while). She would not have been friends with Yukari.
>>50771936"Friends" may be hyperbolic, I admit. However, they are familiar with one another and are politically aligned. The old Hakurei miko was politically aligned with Yukari, hence Mizuchi's grudge. She also likely would have been personally familiar with Yukari as she was (presumably) the first Hakurei miko tasked with maintaining the barrier.
>>50766095Reimu probably was in her teens come EoSD which is everyones' most popular conception of her, but using Heida as a measuring stick (as the time Heida is a five year old Reimu is already in her post PC-98 outfit and well-acquainted with Marisa) she's got to be somewhere in her late 20s to mid 30s.Basically, she's as old as Touhou's main demographic.
>>50762113They are taller because they are older than her.
>>50762113she's significantly shorter than Jumbo Josh.she can not compare.
>>50762833late 30's but she inhaled Remilas vapors at the end of EoSD so she ages slowly.
>>50773855I'm almost 38 and I'm 5'5
>>50771936>Reimu can barely stand to be around Yukari, most obviously demonstrated in the print works.Must be that gaijin hag smell, japs are very sensitive to that.
>>50778609Well obviously, how could we forget jumbo josh?
霊夢はかわいい…じゃないです。
>>50779925They are even older than you are.
