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Nameless Fairy 01/18/2021 (Mon) 14:51:38 No. 1696
So just what is Marisa anyway? Realistically speaking she should just be another random no-name girl from the village, yet she dishes it out right alongside the certified shrine maiden and plot armor protagonist Reimu, lives inside a forest that's so toxic she herself has developed a degree of poison resistance, and apparently even built her own house there (assuming she didn't steal that from someone else, too). Considering all other humans in Gensokyo are glorified youkai bait unless they're shrine maidens or no longer human themselves, it seems implausible that Marisa can merrily live outside the human village without getting eaten. Unless that entire stuff with Mima still plays a role, but that in turn would raise the question why Mima would have taken her in as a disciple to begin with. Is she supposed to be something like the ultimate wildcard? Or the epitomes of what humans can achieve if they actually pull through?
marisa represents the lollipop guild
she knows magic n shit also she has infinite books on infinite loan from the sdm to learn even more magic n shit
The latter. It's just that random village girls 1 aren't autistic enough 2 don't give a fuck about anything beyond their village 3 don't have innate magic affinity or whatever 4 don't have access to antique shop owners 5 don't fuck around with shrine maidens on their free time 6 would probably piss themselves upon seeing a youkai (which is extra bad considering how fear makes humans both vulnerable and extremely delicious to youkai) etc, etc.
>>1699 If opposite for any of the above was true for some village girl that would make her interesting and thus give her near 100% chances of being promoted to unterhattenoffizier like Kosuzu.
At the end of the day, I'd argue Marisa is a foil to Reimu in as much as that Reimu was made for a very specific purpose and excels at it without having to put much effort into it. On the downside, she's also stuck with that role since Gensokyo would prolly shit itself if she just quit her shrine maiden job. Marisa is the exact opposite - she has to work hard for anything she does, but this in turn means she can do anything. If Reimu represents Gensokyo's stasis as a place of abandoned myths, Marisa represents Gensokyo's changeability. Wouldn't be surprised if Yukari is secretly keeping an eye on her just as she keeps one on Reimu.
>>1711 Plot twist: every touhou is Yukari playing house and generally fucking around.
>>1696 She's the witch that spares no effort.
>>1717 If anything, I'd say Maribel is playing house, and Yukari and Marisa are two aspects of her - Marisa allows her to explore the playground from a human perspective, and Yukari keeps it one piece.
>>1720 Yukari's sage friends were coming over and she didn't want them to know that her Gensokyo pet-project was a flop, so she used boundary fuckery to split herself and has been impersonating the entirety of Gensokyo's supposed population for a few decades now to hide the fact that there's nobody left but her cats/fox.
>>1724 Considering at least Kasen lives directly inside Gensokyo and Okina is somewhat inside its boundaries, she'd have to be impersonating them, too.
>>1725 It's them who were coming over. Touhou will end when they fuck off.
>>1696 She doesn't believe in youkai
>>2426 Me too. Fuck youkai.
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Poor girl keeps chasing after her friend right into thick of things as if to prove something despite ending up being used for stress relief by freshly beaten up youkai time and time again. When is she going to accept the humans' fragile nature?
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I swear, god only knows what this human is hoping for.


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