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Toyosatomimi no Miko is a character in the Touhou Project series introduced in its 13th installment, Ten Desires.
Miko was once Prince Shoutoku, a Japanese leader in the 600s known for promoting Buddhism and streamlining the Japanese government. In the Touhou lore, she was visited by Taoist hermit Seiga Kaku, who had heard about Miko’s longing for immortality. Seiga introduced her to Taoism, but she rejected it as a religion unfit for placating an entire country. She was intrigued by its promise of immortality, however, and privately converted to it, advocating for Buddhism to keep Japan stable. After drinking an “immortality elixir” (mercury sulfide), however, she was forced to let go of her body and become a supernatural hermit like Seiga, notably taking on the form of a woman, making her a canonically trans character (
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After convincing a hermit from a rival clan (Mononobe no Futo) to sleep without decaying, Miko followed in suit, waiting for a time where a Taoist Japan would revive her in search of guidance. However, Buddhist monks were able to keep her mausoleum sealed, and the legends surrounding her were slowly brushed off- which led to her transportation into Gensokyo, where the folklore of old is a reality of everyday life.
When she awoke in Gensokyo, it was right after Buddhist monk Byakuren Hijiri opened her own temple, however, leading to a surge of divine spirits across the realm, setting up the events of Ten Desires.
What look like headphones on her are canonically earmuffs- Shoutoku was allegedly able to discern between ten questions asked at once, an ability carried by Miko (although with her enhanced abilities, she can also analyze each person and determine their inner desires (thus the title of the game))- although it means her hearing is highly sensitive and has to be muffled to prevent pain.
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Trying to listen to a spoken voice recording of myself is bad 😔. Warm ups are also bad, as are many of the first recordings of songs. If I had to give advice to people looking to record, DON'T record warm-ups, DON'T record your first few singthroughs, and then start recording with singthroughs synced with a backing instrumental track or accompaniment. I find that I actually don't hate how I sound once the singing sounds less strained and has a better (less masculine) resonance applied (I'm kind of bad at that second part, so it sounds a bit overly-nasaly sometimes).
What I'm trying to say is, singing can possibly be a nice way to get around voice dysphoria when it comes to things like range extension and applying resonance, dynamics, etc. The toughest part is then applying that to ordinary speech, which almost feels like a completely different field of voice. Almost.
I know it can be very difficult to do, I am fortunate I didn't really have voice dysphoria, I did want to improve my voice tho c:
Singing would probably help a lot, especially the more you do it the more you're working your voice sort of gets to the point where you'll keep it in that range.. it did for me though I went full at it.