9 Works by Gaps
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The Misty Rains. Kirisame.
There are a couple of poems in Japan that start like this. And in a similar way, there are many ways to look at the old Kirisame household. Some would call them tragic. Others would call their fate deserved.
Marisa simply calls them 'family.'
Because what else could they be to her above that?
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- Part 3 of チカクの輪郭/ Essence of Truth
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The story of Gensokyo is a long and rich tale. Of youkai and humans. Of sweat and blood.
But only one person remembers the entirety of it.
Oh sure, she has met many types of beings in her life that are still around to this day, but very few can truly criticize the things she hasn't written down.
And one of those things involved an interesting tribe that happened to appear in these lands long ago. An alchemist, young and ambitious, with dreams of learning the secret of the Great Truth and his daughter. Of the adventures he told of a world full of steel and gold. Of the brilliant minds that could bend the natural laws but failed to truly reach that Truth.
And of how he and his tribe mysteriously disappeared after a procession with his body over the lands he loved.
Not every story is as it seems. And sometimes, the truths are hard to swallow.
But good medicine does tend to taste bad.
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- Part 2 of チカクの輪郭/ Essence of Truth
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,017
- Chapters:
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December Event Submission: Peaceful Thought during the Solstice by Gaps
Fandoms: Touhou Project
08 Dec 2025
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A cool Winter's night in the human village. All is calm, and all is bright.
Except wherever this storyteller wanders to.
Though something tells me he is not in much physical danger as much as he is in danger of annoying his audience.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Truth is a fickle thing. It never exists for long after the events happen; we are only left to witness the effects of it. And yet it has happened. We strive to find it, even as the waters of time muddy the original picture.
A race to reclaim a perishable good. And yet, its more easily felt than explained.
In Quechuan, the closest word we have to Truth is Chiqaq. At least, that was the one shared with me.
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- Part 1 of チカクの輪郭/ Essence of Truth
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The world is always moving, even when we don't want it to. It's filled with weird convergences, surprising divergences, and all interactions in between that keep it constantly unstable. And in that instability, lies fear. Modern fear. And where there is fear, it takes the shape of what we see to be our worst nightmares.
We follow the story of a thrill-addict who wanders around New York encountering different monsters in different scenarios. He strives to find the three aspects that make the monster tick; The shape they take, the reason they exist, and the truth that binds them. It's not always easy to find these things, but that doesn't matter to him. What matters most of all is knowing. Anything else can come second.
But he has to move quickly. There are forces in the shadows that watch him. That would rather not see fantasy and reality flirt so dangerously without restraint or limit. That would kill to keep what he knows quiet: A blond haired woman in a well of eyes. A piercing glare of moonlight in an all-seeing eye. The many people in the underworlds of both man and beyond that also tend to the affairs of these kinds.
He cares not.
For all that matters in the end
Is the Truth. -
[ The Final Wills and Testaments of Saint Miguel, the transient ] {A KKHTA short story} by Gaps
Fandoms: Touhou Project, KKHTA - Fandom
21 May 2025
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When the Moon rose that day, and everything went black for all of us, I am sure the thought running through everyone's mind was about waking up one day. For all of these things to be a simple nightmare. Nothing more, and nothing less. We expected the moon rabbits to be our protectors, that the monsters they so cautiously warned us about could be defeated if we donated our full efforts to their defeat. That there will be a tomorrow after the night is done.
How foolish we were to believe in strangers who ornately placed the noose on our necks.
But I was not foolish. I suspected foul play but did not want to scare those around me. A secret herbal mix; Ayahuasca mixed with medicinal herbs. A ceremony now lost to the void. The voice of a woman in purple who whispers to me to seek her.
I may not have enough time, or even crayons, to properly convey my message to whoever may find these tattered scraps, let alone make sense of them. All I can hope is that if you are out there -hell, if anyone is out there- know that you might just be the last of your kin.
So sit back.
Relax.
and make sure to cover the windows on a full moon.SHE
SEES
ALL. -
Odd Convergences of the Non-Pathologic Manner in Unpredictable Positions in Space and Time by Gaps
Fandoms: Touhou Project
06 Jun 2022
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A small adventure? A weakened youkai? A guy who got lost?
Who knows where this will go...
A one shot about a human exploring an alien world with Yukari in a weird situation where one finds what it means to be a true monster, and whether being human is the best option in a vast, indifferent cosmos.
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Genso Vignette 1: A Broken Shanghai Girl in Lower Manhattan by Gaps
Fandoms: Touhou Project
05 Apr 2022
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A now homeless and friendless Hong Meiling finds herself in Lower Manhattan alone and unsure of what to do now that her friends are not there. A family that descended from an old drinking buddy of hers offers her refuge in an apartment in Chinatown until she can make sense of what she wants to do with her life. A tale of a lost and wandering Shanghai Girl, of many more to be reviewed.