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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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Heard ^^ yeah that bondage book had some good ties, but was lacking critical info imo.
Part of why this is so hard to answer is that those will vary for everyone. Like for example some people are ok with permanent body modification, which makes me balk.
Also just like kinda the whole thing with kink (ime) is that its not typical, theres no normal, just varying shades of nonnormal.
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look like...sometimes i think that carrying a scar someone made into a visible spot would be so fucking hot, i guess that's why i'm into getting my neck sucked even though the black marks fade you can keep re-upping them
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Idk, for me at least i find it to be an act-in fantasy, not an act-out fantasy, yk?
But being marked is really fun ^^
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it's....weird honestly. Like I already have self-inflicted scars that won't be going away but i kinda like them? dw im not going to start making more, but....stuff is just weird in my head about it all.
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I know what you mean. My self harm scars arent all that upsetting, but its because they were made by me, and i think someone else doing that wouldnt be something I would feel good about.
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good that we're both in a better place now
i've always been into scars honestly, like there's this whole stigma about women having scars and i never understood it, scars can be so....hot? cute? i cant really place the feeling i get from them. They all tell stories and are marks of life no matter how shitty they may be.
in video games i always put facial scarring on all characters that i can (well i do unless that takes away makeup options for some fucking reason
) and they just look so much hotter in my eyes.
ugh i dunno, maybe getting scarred by someone would be some poser shit or something
also dont really want to fetishify someone for having scars either 
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This kinda makes me tear up. A partner feeling that way about my scars would be amazing. It doesn't sound fetishizing to me.
And fwiw I don't think that'd be a poser thing at all, I can see how that'd be a bonding thing.
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aww, i'm sorry cutie, didnt mean to make you cry.
There's just something about them, like living and being alive is messy and beautiful and the marks we get from it can be....so great.
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would love to trace your scars too tbh
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I slip back sometimes. I was good for many years, and the a really stressful time came around and I was right back in it.
I have a different relationship with my different scars. Some remind me of good enjoyable times, others remind me of pretty bad experiences. Some are pretty and some arent. I have a few on my face that i really dislike both from the memories of getting them and because they feel just, idk, gross.
Idk, i dont think so. If its meaningful to you then thats kind of all that matters right?
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Yeah, I guess so stuff is just complicated at times, welp nothing to it, but to ponder some more, if being trans has given me anything it's the ability to be introspective. Thanks for your insight.
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Also I'm sure your facial scars are beautiful like the rest of you
would love to trace them with my fingers tbh
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I think it depends on the context. I carry lots of scars made by other people but from abuse or were made out of anger or the result of people wanting to hurt me a great deal .
I have enough that would doxx me because they are unique so won't go into detail. I have a large one on my hand and face made by an abusive parent. I've ones on my head from being hit with a brick and glass ashtray, those are hard to see with my hair. I have scars from someone who tore my skin on my inner arms.
I have a faded sleeve where I did some of my own too but I have a strange fondness for those but it's kind of from a bad place but I liked those too for various reasons
I've always enjoyed getting bitten and having love bites etc and I enjoy the pain. Piercing is a fun one but I dunno I like marks when it comes from a safe and good place despite most of mine being from hatred and I hide some of those I'm most self conscious of with makeup.
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Yeah, i can understand why you'd feel those are bad, because of the connecting stories, but they can still be beautiful to an outside observer. They tell of a life lived, and that's what being a human is all about (i've been told, havent felt suicidal in a while, so i think i have to start believing it too)
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I think scars on other people are beautiful too so there you go ^^
You should and glad you haven't felt like that too, I've been there too.
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