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>>18592291
>Who's gonna make her? Gaphag?
If she refused, yes, most likely. Yukari would probably have no problems getting rough with Reimu if she really had to. Youkai can turn on you like that, even if you thought they were your friends. Just look at how Mamizou suddenly threatened to kill Kosuzu violently when she didn't want to lend her youma books.

But I don't think Yukari would have to force her in the first place. Reimu is her loyal little soldier, after all.

However, Yukari made sure none of this came to be in the first place anyway: >>18592363.

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I do agree with several points in this essay, but it is quite outdated as a lot has happened since it was written in early 2011. FS and WaHH have expanded a lot on the daily lives, motivations and personalities of both Reimu and Marisa. Our main heroines have also started acting more like adults in recent years, they're no longer the same reckless, teenage bullies they were back in EoSD.

I would probably describe Reimu as lawful neutral, sometimes ruthlessly so (Yukari must be really proud of her little soldier, she even gives her food and donations from time to time). There is really only one true felony in Gensokyo, and that is disrupting the balance between native humans and youkai. So far, Reimu has canonically dealt out capital punishment twice: once to a human villager who turned himself into a youkai on purpose (as seen here >>17771774), and once in pic related when a youkai possessed a human villager.

There are also occasions, such as that particular one in CoLA, where Reimu has drifted into lawful evil. Even though her job description involves "exterminating youkai on sight" (although not usually in the capital sense), it says nothing about robbing them of their possessions after beating them up, then taking turns with Marisa to beat them up again once they come back to get them. However, again, Reimu seems more grown up now and hasn't done anything quite this mean in a couple of years. She still takes advantage of opportunities for her own gain in rather immoral ways from time to time, though.

What bothers me the most about the essay is how it describes Reimu as this "pure" (perhaps almost enlightened), altruistic/nihilistic, borderline sociopath with no worldly attachments, be they pursuits, possessions, or people. She is indeed strange for a human and hard to understand, but I'd say that she does have motives, and feel sympathy for others, although these parts of her personality are highly nuanced and take time to understand.

Reimu takes pleasure in her job of exterminating youkai and resolving incidents, and has even complained about boredom during calm periods. She enjoys good food and parties, and do on occasions work hard to gather donations so that she can keep hosting them. She looked the other way during the nights when the Kappa sneaked through the Human Village to their temporary storehouse, where they kept their belongings safe. She cares about her image, and has even thrown victory celebrations so that her incident resolving deeds won't go unnoticed. She willingly spends a lot of time with Marisa, and they take turns helping each other out, unlike pretty much anyone else she knows. Although she rarely gives Marisa (or anyone else) preferential treatment, that's probably because Marisa is a longtime childhood friend which she takes for granted, almost like a sister.

So even though Reimu isn't picking up any other pursuits besides occasional youkai hunting and parties, that doesn't mean she's a blank slate of a person. If anyone here on /jp/ met her in real life, she would probably come off as a huge normalfag of a woman. She simply has very little interest in knowledge, trinkets, and other worldly things beyond those that let her keep on living her life as she currently pleases.

>>15632287
Pretty much this.

Until she kills Kosuzu

Reimu is fucking ruthless.

>go read up on the last ones that have piled up recently
>this happens

Damn, Reimu just keeps killing people left and right

WHO WILL SAVE US FROM THIS MONSTER

Can Reimu stop murdering people already? Jeez