#Horikawa raiko

[halcyondoll]

Horikawa Raiko enjoying a cup of tea.

[cmar04]

Touhou Initials (R.H)

[honeylizabeth]

It's finally here!

The Double Dealing Characters spread!!

If the colors look a little bit off is because I don't have a scanner, non of my other traditional drawings where scanned and then uploaded either, and this time i tries to edit the best i could.

Also also also, I'm uploading this on the midnight from 23rd to 24th of december so happy holidays!!!!!

[freshlybakedspiderbread]

i’ve had a thought about my favourite percussionist, Horikawa Raiko lately.

She’s a tsukumogami originally of an old taiko drum who was then kick started into becoming alive thanks to the events of th14. In order to keep from going back to a drum, she went and ‘replaced’ her drums with a power from the outside world. So that had me wondering about those drums that Raiko is always seen with.

With someone like Kogasa, where both the flesh body and the umbrella make up the whole youkai, I like to think Raiko is different. She already abandoned her old solid ‘body’ in favour of a more abstract power, so she doesn’t have a ‘drum body’ in the same way as other tsukumogami might.

so first I imagine those drum pads around her are constructs made from pure magic lightning (What if they give you static cling just from touching?!) , that she can make appear or disappear at will.

it’d be easy to just say the bass Raiko sits on is also a magical construct, but I prefer to think this is actually a real, regular drum that she either found or build (the pattern on it was added by her either way!). And she uses her magic to make it float, like Marisa and her broomstick!

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Actually while she’s on my mind, its heavily implied (even if its just a meta joke) that Raiko is specifically fueled by video game franchise Taiko no Tatsujin and its players. Does that mean if that series is ever discontinued, Raiko is just gonna keel over....? 😰😭 No!! I want to believe that as long as there is passion for drumming among people in our world, Raiko will live forever! >o<🥁 That actually probably makes the more sense because she apparently taught the same method to Benben and Yatsuhashi so they would stay alive too, and I don’t think ‘Biwa/Koto no Tatsujin’ is a thing.

Also, what of her original taiko drum body? The easiest thing to imagine is that it was destroyed or crumbled to dust when she left it behind, because if not, well... Would that old, abandoned body also become a tsukumogami after a hundred years??

[blind-void]

more extra touhous

i didnt skip one nuh uh

[potatoyiart]

Raiko gets real

[nano-konjaku]

[touhou-memories]

Raiko Horikawa and the Prismriver Sisters - Antinomy of Common Flowers.

[lunatic-runagate]

old touhou art :P (i didnt want to post these separately cause i dont like most of them..)

[gurugurumaru]

Final/EX boss designs for Touhoufest keychains!

[slugpup2]

here's my full piece for @gensokyozine!

[unluckyerror404]

As far as I know, this year's touhou vote is coming up soon. So here's the characters I will be voting for :]

(These are as usual my interpretations of the characters, hence the visual differences)

[joeboto]

[someplugg]

Raiko

[yuurenkyouko]

Painted magnets with Mystia, Raiko and Reimu.

[critinikaqwq]

My piece for @gensokyozine !!