So...I hearing on Neil Amstrong being a powerful being on touhou version of him, and stuff like that.
So what is Neil Amstrong in Touhou? Why he is depicted as such? I don't even remember him mentioned in games. What feat that he actually do in touhou continuity?
(I only found his name on touhou wiki that he planted plants a flag on the moon, and no more)
Canonically speaking, the U.S. Government invaded the Moon and kicked commie moonbitch ass all over the place using super-technology right up until Eirin caused the Apollo 13 incident.
After Apollo 13, the invasion of the Moon was called off. I can only assume that was all the fault of the Nixon administration.
Armstrong was never mentioned by name in any material, if I recall correctly. However, he is historically the first human to set foot on the Moon.
If we combine that with the fact that, in Touhou, the Moon invasion began in 1969... well, I can only assume that his "space suit" in that picture is in fact top-secret powered armor that runs on magitek provided by former Nazi scientists after the war. The "oxygen tank" is in fact a jetpack, and the U.S. flag in the background can turn into a double lightsaber.
>>4863 The man was kneeling, praying.
He wasn't paying any attnetion to the silhouettes moving around him. He wasn't paying any attention to the fact that he was surrounded. For him, there was only one thing important. Saying his prayer properly was the top priority.
Finally, he muttered the last words.
"And God bless the United States of AMERICAAAAAAAAAAH!"
He quickly grabbed the American flag, and pressed a hidden button. The flag fell, unreveiling a double lightsaber hidden in the pole. Understanding the situation, the rabbits quickly moved back, but Armstrong activated his jetpack, and caught up with them.
"BLESS AMERICA, MOTEHRFUCKERS!"
He screamed, swinging his double lightsaber totally randomly in the rabbit mob.
Many rabbits bit the dust that day, and in the end, Armstrong won.
Holding a severed rabbit's head in his hand, he showed up in the front of the lunar capital, screaming a challenge.
"BRING IN ON, COMMUNISTS ASSHOLES! GOD IS WITH ME!"
>>4864 Slowly, the huge door opens, answering Armstrong's challenge.
With a bare sword in her hand, the lunarian champion answer the earthling's challenge, ready to fight and kill her opponent.
Breathing deeply under his suit, Armstrong stares at the woman coming for him. She looks so young, her cheeks are so white... She's beautiful. But she's the enemy. He has no choice. He challenged the moon, and the moon sent its most trustworthy champion. But, still, killing a woman goes against Armstrong's religious beliefs.
Sighing in his heavy suit, Armstrong can't help but be annoyed. If that woman was american, they could be friends, or maybe something better than that! But she decided to be lunarian, and so they were enemies.
Shutting down his double lightsaber, Armstrong throws away the rabbit's severed head, and observes his opponent again. Then, he adopt a fighting stance, and wait for his opponent's decision.
She looks at him with disgust, but she manage to hide her feelings. This is war after all. It was her decision to send the rabbits alone, and they're all dead. By that man's fault. She will cry and feel guilty after the battle. After that man's death. Because her Lord ordered her to kill every earthling walking on the moon. Everyone of them, including men, women, and children. Still, she hopes that the day when she'll have to kill children will never come. Killing that man will be easy, since he's wearing a suit. It's like fighting against a dummy. She shakes her head. She'll need to focus. That man's strange sword is something totally unknown to them lunarians.
Those earthlings. Did they managed to domesticate light itself? She can't believe it. She will make sure of that.
With that last though, she charges, causing Armstrong to switch on his double lightsaber.
After a few swing, Armstrong understands something crucial. He'll win this battle. His opponent is just using a metallic sword. That thing is no match for his double lightsaber. His opponent is far more skilled than him, but his technological advanced level gives him the best advantages.
“Bow before me, woman, and I'll spare you!”
Understanding his unavoidable victory, Armstrong becomes euphoric, nagging his opponent.
Her, on the other hand, isn't as worried as she should be. Her opponent is using a weapon able to cut through everything, including Lord Enma's blessing. That's right, that puny earthling weapon can cut through a DIVINE barrier! But when any other lunarian commander would be panicking, she stays calm, recognizing the earthling's strength. Clearly, that is not an opponent she will defeat with brutal force. She will outsmart him, and kill him.
“AH!”
With a loud battle scream, she jumps forward, oblivious of the light blade, aiming for the leg. That man's armour is too heavy for him, he must using some kind of mechanical assistance to be able to withstand the burden. If she can destroy that mechanical part, he'll be doomed!
“YAH!”
With another battle scream, she swings her sword, cutting under the man's right knee. Immediately, he drops his weapons, and fall on his knee, with a grumble. She quickly jumps back, in case the attack failed, but understand quickly that the man is now at her mercy.
“So, you though you could defeat me? You were too arrogant, and this is where you fall. Learn your place, crawler!”
And then... she sees his face, through his helmet. He's smiling.
“Nobody is arrogant enough when being AMERICAN!”
Activating his jetpack, he starts flying, punching Yorihime in the chin before she can reacts.
“With SCIENCE, and GOD, we will change the stars as WE decide! The world is us, and we'll do what we want with it!”
She spits something red on the ground. Blood. She bit her tongue, probably. While Armstrong, still levitating thanks to his jetpack, try to retrieve his lightsaber, Watatsuki no Yorihime, commander of the Lunar Defense Corps, understand that this opponent is nothing to be trifled with. That's an elite soldier, using a technology as advanced as the lunarian capital, motivated by some strong religion. He will not break, he won't show any mercy, and he'll be troublesome to kill.
Smiling to herself, the Lunar Princess rises, finally admitting that the best fight is the uncertain fight. She'll give her best, and he will too. That's what you call “respect for a foe”. Giving your best to your opponent means respecting him.
1d4chan sum it nicely, on description of Reisen:
Reisen is a moon rabbit who deserted her frontline military position and went AWOL as Primarch Neil Armstrong and his SPEHSS MAHREENS were purging xenos in the Lunar Capital in the name of the God-President of America. If you look into her red eyes and fail your Will save, you will go batshit insane. May or may not be completely useless except for her sex appeal.
I'm gonna stuck with rooting for humanity on this one, because there's just something so face-meltingly badass about three men bringing an entire advanced alien race to it's knees.
>>4921 I personally find the portrayal of Armstrong to be... disrespectful towards the man. He is a rather even tempered and tolerant man IRL.
However, I'm far more than willing to point at Haldeman's "The Forever War" for an explanation on his berserkergang against the Lunarians. Chemical and hypnotic treatments to induce a battle rage is explaination enough.
On rooting, however, I'm rooting for the Primarch... er... for Humanity. Fuck those sanctimonious Eld... Lunarians. They don't have Eldrad to save them now!
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>>4902 and >>4864 poster here.
First, I'm sorry if my depiction of Armstrong offended you.
Second, I wrote the character as a total stereotype of the typical american, as we imagine them here, in my country (aka rude, extremely religious, and xenophobic). I'm surprised by the fact that nobody here was offended by that.
Third, this is a story where Armstrong is using a double lightsaber, has a jetpack, and is fighting people without an pressured suit, on the Moon. I think this is not really realist.
I just wrote that totally randomly, and I was expecting people to rage, but they loved it. I'm aware that I totally ignored Armstrong's character, but my first idea was actually to transfrom Armstrong into Ronald McDonald.
Didn't do it in the end, because nobody likes McRoll.
TL;DR: sorry, never wrote that to be accurate, wrote it to be funny.
Found something interesting on Apollo 11 voice transmission:
03 23 17 28 CC
Roger. Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, there's one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-o has been living there for 4000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.
03 23 18 15 LMP
Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl.
That sounds like something worth a quick short at least, but my knowledge of the moonbitches is lacking despite having read SSiB. Isn't it sad, Reisen?
>>5180 See, this is one of the problems with English Touhou fandom. Loads and loads of doujins are translated quickly but nobody wants to translate official stuffs like this one.
>>5191 The previous version of the endings Wiki had some of the MS endings translated enough to reveal that Shinki's still alive and doesn't seem to hold a grudge against Reimu for what happened.
People joke about the Makai massacre becuase of lol no spell cards.
>>5194 Not Reimu. But maybe Shinki. If you look on Youtube, you can find a video of the fight against Shinki, and you'll see in the last part that the background seems to be on fire.
And since there's no spellcard, it's PROBABLY not a decorative background like in the Windows game.
But, yeah, it's still about interpretation.
>>5196 I'm kinda confused about Shinki. Does ZUN intended her to be some kind of Touhou version of Lucifer? I mean, she has those devil wings and she's the creator of the demon world including all its residents. She's also worshipped as the supreme Goddess by the demons she created.
>>5197 What's there to be confused about? She's the ruler of a world of demons, her capital is called Pandaemonium, she has six white angelic wings that turn demonic, and Sariel, who also resides in Makai, is explicitly called a Fallen Angel.
