i'm a very empathetic and sensitive person who has little patience with unpleasant people

You are contradicting yourself. Someone truly empathetic would understand that behind every unpleasant person there is a relatable story that made them that way and would be tolerant to them.

Look at Parsee. Her jealousy comes from untold years of watching people have the kind of fun she never could because of being stuck around the bridge and a very understandable desire to have that eating at her all that time. And if you take her species origin into account (which is not a big stretch in Touhou because, for example, Kaguya is THE Kaguya, after all), she is stuck there in the first place due to lover abandonment. If that doesn't give you even a spark of compassion for her then you probably aren't nearly mature and experienced enough to judge people, fictional or real.

Look at Reimu. She has lived her whole life forced into a position she has no say about. Her frequent hostile attitude stems purely from the importance of it, "enemy until proven otherwise" is a stance that comes with the job. Her more senseless hostility moments come from earlier in the series, where you could take it as her still working out how far she has to go. In her idle moments she want nothing more than just being left alone, and during incidents she just wants the wrongdoers to stop their wrongdoing and nobody else to get in the way. And the incidents usually have to do with GENSOKYO'S SAFETY, mind you, so it should be understandable she's on the edge about it. Also, again, don't just ignore the times when she cooperated with and acted nicely to the youkai, which far outnumber her more questionable moments.

Look at Aya. ...Actually, your estimation of her is correct. She's arrogant and extremely ambitious, which makes her quite rough around the edges. But again, hating her is missing the point. She comes from tengu society where such attitude is intentionally cultivated, but she's about the only one of them who, instead of also being very isolationist, has a huge interest in what happens outside of it - the rest of Gensokyo. (Hatate being a very occasional distant second in that regard.) She's worth appreciating for giving her own differing insight into life out there. That is, after all, exactly why she was added to the series in the first place. Actually, think about it. She's kind of an outsider that is very interested in Gensokyo and its characters, and is very vocal about her own opinions and biases. Isn't she very much like, y'know, all of us Touhou fans? So maybe if you feel hate for her then it's just you raging at the reflection in the mirror.

> "Hard to say. She clearly didn't expect you to ask about Mamizou, but her reaction didn't seem like one of a co-conspirator suddenly nervous that they've been figured out."
> "I also noticed the shelf of demon books had some dust on most of them, but a few of them were clear, like there had been books on top of them that had been removed. That does track with my encounter with her last night, though; she had them on her person when making her nightly deliveries, presumably for self-defense."

I don't really blame you though. There are times where Reimu had gone overboard (like threating Reisen to peel her skin).....  (^^;)

Yeah, with how Reimu acts sometimes, i often find myself wondering if Zun WANTS me to hate her. I really resent how mean-spirited Touhou can get sometimes, mean-spiritedness for the sake of it is not my cup of tea, especially when it's directed towards characters that don't really deserve it (Satori and Kogasa for example). It's the only bad thing about the series as a whole IMO. I'm glad that i'm not alone in this =D

Oh, that's the reason you don't like some characters then, I see then.

Yes, that's why you can sometimes see me get very emotional and angry when talking about some characters, most notably Reimu and that crow tengu I'll admit that my reactions can be very excessive and stupid sometimes

> We're still invisible, right?
> And are we still holding onto Sanae?