imagine Reimu doing shit that triggers your PTSD and makes you think you're actually fighting her great-great-granny (maybe add one more great, depending on when exactly that part happened).
imagine Reimu doing shit that triggers your PTSD and makes you think you're actually fighting her great-great-granny (maybe add one more great, depending on when exactly that part happened).
It's actually just **granny**, considering Grandma Hakurei over here is presumably from Mizuchi's time, which is over a hundred years ago
100+ years ago but only 2 generations of difference?
that adds up to 50 years per a generation.
must be some weird gensokyo magic.
Japanese people have REALLY good genes bro, Also we just gotta assume Reimu is 30 for this to work, FDS takes place in 2023 according to the Gensokyo Timeline on the wiki, so Reimu's grandma being from Mizuchi's time which is over a 100 years ago(1923) should actually make Reimu's grandma 35 or somewhere around that range, also DIPP took place in 1884 so this would theoretically make Labelle the great-grandmother of Reimu, but this is just speculation ofcourse.
Japanese people have REALLY good genes bro, Also we just gotta assume Reimu is 30 for this to work, FDS takes place in 2023 according to the Gensokyo Timeline on the wiki, so Reimu's grandma being from Mizuchi's time which is over a 100 years ago(1923) should actually make Reimu's grandma 35 or somewhere around that range, also DIPP took place in 1884 so this would theoretically make Labelle the great-grandmother of Reimu, but this is just speculation ofcourse.
mizuchi died before the barrier went up, which is evident by suika still being on the surface. This means she died between 1880-1885 making it impossible for the hakurei of that time to be reimu's grandmother because even with "good" genes the average lifespan in 1880s was about 40 years old. As for dipp there's no info on when it exactly takes place but it's implied that the barrier has been up for some time by that point.
Japanese people have REALLY good genes bro, Also we just gotta assume Reimu is 30 for this to work, FDS takes place in 2023 according to the Gensokyo Timeline on the wiki, so Reimu's grandma being from Mizuchi's time which is over a 100 years ago(1923) should actually make Reimu's grandma 35 or somewhere around that range, also DIPP took place in 1884 so this would theoretically make Labelle the great-grandmother of Reimu, but this is just speculation ofcourse.
Almost no way is GFHM just reimu's grandmother. Assuming that GFHM is 35 and Reimu is 30 are both pretty hefty assumptions, and we don't know if GFHM had a daughter by the times of Mizuchi's death. and that 'over 100 years ago' could very easily be at least 110, maybe even as high as 120 or 130.
I'm inclined to believe there's at least two 'greats' in there (i.e. each hakurei having their first child in their mid-late twenties/early thirties, which is closer to real life old families which tend to have children younger. Most people become grandparents in their 40s to 60s, Great-grandparents in their 70s to 90s. The Geidontei Regulars are probably in the range of either being just about to have grandchildren or already having them, and they're middle-aged. GFHM is probably around at least 120 years old and could be as high as 140, which is two to four greats.
Even if you go by the japanese average age to have a child in the modern day being 30 years old, that still wouldn't work. let's say a 30 year old GFHM has a daughter right around the time of Mizuchi's death; then that daughter has a daughter of her own at 30 years old. that grandaughter would be seventy by the time of FDS, and that's if you're assuming 'over 100 years ago' to be '100 years ago exactly'.
This is all in spite of the hakurei clan logically having pressures to consistently have a young, fresh miko as a guardian against the youkai, or the risk of them dying out completely if one is killed with no heirs. both these things tend to cause people to start having children younger. Having a child before they hit 30 means that child will be a teenager by the time they're in their mid-forties, and a full-grown adult well before they're fifty.
Also, if you go try to treat the timeline of touhou's world moving in lockstep with ours, you inevitably get weirdness like the very bright usami sumireko being a high school student for at least six years, and more like 10 - when japanese high school starts at 15 years old, and in spite of schooling getting significantly faster by the time of renko and maribel's generation. There is some level of detective conan time/arrested development/w/e going on in gensokyo compared to the outside world.
