Gensokyo: The After Years

[fantasysuccessor]

It is the year 187 by the Gensokyo Calendar.

58 years have passed since the Taoist group arrived in Gensokyo. The Hakurei shrine is now under the care of Hakurei Maiko, Reimu's granddaughter. Reimu died several years ago. Nobody is sure where the intervening shrine maiden has gone off to these days, so it's up to Maiko to keep things running. At age 12, she's growing into her powers quickly, but only has a vague idea of what her actual responsibilities are supposed to be.

What else has changed? Well, Marisa is a youkai magician now. The rest we can figure out as we go along. Most of the old guard are still around, being youkai.

Welcome to the Hakurei Shrine. Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter, Maiko is probably busy tidying things up - clearing paths of snow, clearing paths of leaves, clearing rooms of dust, drinking tea on the veranda. Some things are forever.

[Feel free to bring anyone in, and decide for yourselves how the last 50 years have treated them. This is all very open-ended.]

Comments

[fantasysuccessor]

[Sakuya hasn't aged significantly in the past sixish years, so as far as Maiko's concerned, she's always looked like that. Just one of the Grown Ups who knew grandma.]

[The two cross paths in the human village. Maiko is buying taiyaki.]

...If they run out, I'm not sharing mine.

[rippers]

Ah...if it isn't Maiko-chan. [ sup u lil punk ]

I don't think they'd run out so early in the day.

[fantasysuccessor]

That's probably true.

[Thoughtful pause while securing taiyaki transaction.]

...You fought with grandma back in the day, right?

[rippers]

[ Her eyes widen as she takes her own pastry bag. ]

Reimu-san? [ ... ] Yes. Why do you ask?

[fantasysuccessor]

[ ... ]

...How old are you?

[rippers]

[ without even missing a beat: ] It's not polite to ask a lady's age, you know.

[fantasysuccessor]

It's not polite to try and take over Gensokyo, either. [Maiko's undertanding of the Reimu-era incidents might be a little blurry.]

[rippers]

Take over Gensokyo?

[ a beat, and then she laughs ]

It was nothing that extravagant, I'm afraid

[fantasysuccessor]

Well, what was it, then?