Okay... that's either the Dragon God or Meiling's speculated father, the original Hong from Chinese myth. No way to tell which, though.

WatcherCCG said:

Okay... that's either the Dragon God or Meiling's speculated father, the original Hong from Chinese myth. No way to tell which, though.

You say that like the two are mutually exclusive. >:)

ApprenticeOfVoile said:

You say that like the two are mutually exclusive. >:)

The Dragon God is stated to be Ryuujin, the Dragon of Tide and Storm. He's established in Japanese myth, thus he CAN'T be Hong.

WatcherCCG said:

The Dragon God is stated to be Ryuujin, the Dragon of Tide and Storm. He's established in Japanese myth, thus he CAN'T be Hong.

There are no oceans in Gensokyo; why would a god of TIDES be the chief deity of a small isolated "country" (for lack of a better term) that at best has a river and a lake?! That's DUMB, that just doesn't make sense. Two, it's not unheard of for a figure in one cultures' folklore to appear in another as an apparently unrelated entity.

TLDR: I'm not convinced, and neither should anyone else be.

EDIT: Long time to answer, but I had trouble thinking up a counterargument.