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>>47005198
>Also, any sort of in-universe document (PMiSS, BAiJR, SoPM, AFiEU) should be looked at with even further scrutiny.
Not so say you should take it at face value, but they hold a good amount of truth and best reflect how Gensokyo really is as it comes from the people living there. Though, AFiEU is tabloid garbage, hence why it has "Alternative Facts" in the title, still entertaining. I would also describe BAiJR's interviews the most truthful part of Aya's writings. Akyuu catches a lot of flak for being biased and embellishing details, but she's still the best source of information since her whole life's purpose is making a guide on Gensokyo and its inhabitants for a Human audience. The falsehoods she writes are either because she didn't know (lunarian characters), imaginative speculation (Sakuya's background) or she made someone appear stronger/cooler than they actually are i.e. how they want to be seen and treated. Acting on bad information can get someone hurt or killed, so there is an incentive to write something more true to reality at best and overestimate it at worst.

>>45955014
No she just embellishes if they ask. As >>45955167 said, Marisa is a nerd that 100% just wants history to think she's cool.
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