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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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Omg no pls no worries you havent given me a headache, i like thinking about these things, i just have problems making a final decision lol.
I love it and im here for it!
Have you watched other trek or is this your first series?
uh i'd catch an episode of the various shows here & there as a kid. it's v comfy that way :3 there was a channel that was always airing all kindsa cool stuff at night. anyway we finished TNG the other day
Aww tng is super fun :3 the MotW format is great for just catching an episode here and there. But DS9 has more frequent/constant/consistent character development :) like Worf really comes into his own in ds9 and his character develops in more interesting ways than in tng imo.
MotW always activates my almonds. is it gonna be fun? weird? bad? you never know! we've been alternating w/ X-files too so
yeah DS9 feels different. i think i'm gonna like it a lot :3 TNG unfortunately had a bunch of icky episodes re : women which, so far, seems absent from this show.
Roddenberry (and probably Berman too) was a sex pest. He would like set up his office in between the womens changing room and the set so they had to walk through
. Most of the original series is pretty terrible and disgustig mysoginy-wise. Ds9 isnt wholly free from weird mysoginy, but its better about it imo.
so i've been hearing
yeah, i'm expecting it to pop up, but the occasional misstep is better than episodes being dedicated to the same women being terrorised over & over. Data also got that treatment which is 
like, just having their agency removed all the time is gross enough & honestly made the marathoning process quite a bit more arduous 
still tho I enjoy it for what it is. try my best, at least.
Just a heads up theres a transsexual episode towards the end, you may want to just like be prepared going in. Its been so long since ive watched it that I couldnt tell you if its good or bad, but uh yeah i dont trust it to be good.
thank u