This... actually makes me really, really sad. After a lot of her dialogue in the games, I often find myself cursing Reimu's attitude, but this makes me want to hug her and get her some actual food. Darn it, Marisa, donate to the shrine already!
Evetsu said: This... actually makes me really, really sad. After a lot of her dialogue in the games, I often find myself cursing Reimu's attitude, but this makes me want to hug her and get her some actual food. Darn it, Marisa, donate to the shrine already!
Marisa doesn't have any money to donate. She has realized that money is unnecessary when you can just "borrow" things. She survives mostly on mushrooms. She could share those with Reimu.
And people wonder why Reimu is "such a bitch" in the games. She's canonically poor and lives on her own. Then "its her job as a Hakurei" to go out and solve youkai incidents? And not get any compensation for it? yeah bullshit. Reimu goes through hell and high water and what to show for it? no one thanks her much less visits to donate. She has reason enough to be bitchy. I don't know what she eats or where she gets it but I'd imagine she probably hunts what she eats. and gets her own tea from leaves around or something. maybe get some from kourin or marisa who knows. not too much is known about the touhou's "everyday" life when its not a game sceneario.
kojiros said: And people wonder why Reimu is "such a bitch" in the games. She's canonically poor and lives on her own. Then "its her job as a Hakurei" to go out and solve youkai incidents? And not get any compensation for it? yeah bullshit. Reimu goes through hell and high water and what to show for it? no one thanks her much less visits to donate. She has reason enough to be bitchy. I don't know what she eats or where she gets it but I'd imagine she probably hunts what she eats. and gets her own tea from leaves around or something. maybe get some from kourin or marisa who knows. not too much is known about the touhou's "everyday" life when its not a game sceneario.
The regular Manga's dont help with that since SSiB was mostly held on the Moon and the Fairy manga is well, about the fairies.
kojiros said: And people wonder why Reimu is "such a bitch" in the games. She's canonically poor and lives on her own. Then "its her job as a Hakurei" to go out and solve youkai incidents? And not get any compensation for it? yeah bullshit. Reimu goes through hell and high water and what to show for it? no one thanks her much less visits to donate. She has reason enough to be bitchy. I don't know what she eats or where she gets it but I'd imagine she probably hunts what she eats. and gets her own tea from leaves around or something. maybe get some from kourin or marisa who knows. not too much is known about the touhou's "everyday" life when its not a game sceneario.
Even worse, Suika canonically bums around Reimu's place mooching off of what little Reimu has! When Reimu's shrine was destroyed by Tenshi (the only time in canon when we actually see Reimu break down and cry), Suika just beat up Tenshi, not to try and make Tenshi pay for the damages, but to force Tenshi into letting Suika stay at her place in heaven (which Suika does)! Thanks for nothing, Suika!
At least in the pre-Windows era she had Genji and Mima for company (neither of whom would eat much with Genji being a totoise and Mima being a ghost), but in the Windows era she pretty much has nothing and yet still has to go out and save Gensokyo.
The majority of the time, all of her more powerful acquaintances are useless. Yukari? She helped out once during Imperishable Night and never lends a hand directly again (she conducts her own investigations during the fighting games and PoFV, but never teams up weith Reimu again). Remilia? She helped out during IN then she and Sakuya set out to investigate things independently of Reimu during the fighting games. The Eientei gang never help beyond sending out Reisen (their second weakest member) to investigate independently. Shikieiki is worthless beyond doing her job. Yuyuko and Youmu helped out during IN, then again they check things out on their own during the fighting games. Sanae has helped out once, during UFO, and she was only checking things out on her own because she's a sci-fi anime otaku (more into mecha stuff) and wanted to see if the UFOs were real.
The only reliable ally Reimu has is... Marisa. The canon thief. Yeah.
kojiros said: And people wonder why Reimu is "such a bitch" in the games. She's canonically poor and lives on her own. Then "its her job as a Hakurei" to go out and solve youkai incidents? And not get any compensation for it? yeah bullshit. Reimu goes through hell and high water and what to show for it? no one thanks her much less visits to donate. She has reason enough to be bitchy. I don't know what she eats or where she gets it but I'd imagine she probably hunts what she eats. and gets her own tea from leaves around or something. maybe get some from kourin or marisa who knows. not too much is known about the touhou's "everyday" life when its not a game sceneario.
Well I get the feeling that she mooches quite a lot of her tea off of Kourin, but she's not at the point where she's so enlightened that she can survive off of just that.
Kuji-kiri said: You guys do realize that she is not really THAT poor canonically, right?
From what we've seen in the Three Fairies manga she has her own vegetable garden and every once in a blue moon she gets a donation (usually of sake or some small foodstuff that she technically isn't supposed to eat as its an offering for the Shrine's god), so, yes, she IS that poor, but she raises her own food (and hunts) so she's not actually eating dirt to survive. On the rare occasion she can buy food from the Human Village she has to carry all of it back herself as well and her shrine is pretty far from the village.
Yeah, I'd be a b*tch too under those circumstances! She has to take care of the shrine, solve incidents, and grow/hunt for her own food on top of moochers (Marisa and Suika mooch and almost never offer anything in return, save sake from Suika, who has an infinite amount to begin with). Frankly, its a wonder she doesn't say "Screw it!" and let Gensokyo burn!
usually of sake or some small foodstuff that she technically isn't supposed to eat as its an offering for the Shrine's god),
And here you are wrong. Food in donations is eaten by shrine priests because of two things: 1. It's feeling that counts as offering, not exactly food. 2. Leaving food to waste is rude towards the lives that were killed to prepare it.
Kuji-kiri said: You guys do realize that she is not really THAT poor canonically, right?
She shows no sign of poverty in Three Fairies. And Hirasaka Makoto is known to be extremely picky about keeping to canon, pestering ZUN to check whether there's anything wrong with his portrayal. We can rest assured pretty much everything we see in Three Fairies is canon with priority over any other non-ZUN canon works.
However, in Wild and Horned Hermit, Reimu repeatedly shows signs of having little money, even outright exclaiming that she "can say bye-bye to poverty". Since we don't know how devoted Azuma Aya is to keeping to canon, we can't really make conclusive statements. But whichever way, I can't imagine Reimu being as poor as she's often described in fanon. At least she doesn't starve.
OmniGman said: Even worse, Suika canonically bums around Reimu's place mooching off of what little Reimu has! When Reimu's shrine was destroyed by Tenshi (the only time in canon when we actually see Reimu break down and cry), Suika just beat up Tenshi, not to try and make Tenshi pay for the damages, but to force Tenshi into letting Suika stay at her place in heaven (which Suika does)! Thanks for nothing, Suika!
Actually, in SWR Suika helps to rebuild the shrine after that it's destroyed again by Yukari
kojiros said: ...I'd imagine she probably hunts what she eats. and gets her own tea from leaves around or something. maybe get some from kourin or marisa who knows. not too much is known about the touhou's "everyday" life when its not a game sceneario.
1. Yes she did, not just hunting but also fishing, and gathering veggies (from the forest). And Yukari sometimes give her foods from outside world with "souvenir" as an excuse. She also got some other stuff from her "friends", ex: Suika ever gave her sake or sake worm.
2. She got her tea from Kourin (loaning ofc).
3. There are also still some humans known for visiting the shrine besides Marisa. But, how often and how much they donates? we don't know.
So, yeah she is poor. But not too poor so she would desperately eating grass or soil like some artists depicted. At least she still able to buy her daily snacks without much problem.
i can't recall the source, but as far as i know, Yukari donates from behind the gap occasionally, she make sure to not get found so that she can keep her 'fearsome' youkai front (what in a sense, will keep her from disapearing).
Reimu just has the small issue that the path to the Hakurei shrine is absolutely infested with Youkai, so most humans don't really wanna go. Less people -> less donations. Though, money sometimes just shows up at the shrine.
Still, for being literally the most important person in Gensokyo's continued existence, she certainly puts up with a lot.
Marisa picked back up the chopsticks she had meant to leave aside.Hakurei Reimu felt loneliness envelop her heart. That digusting magicannon was the cause.Ha ha ha ha ha...However, Marisa wanted to avoid another vomit joke.MalnutritionWhole-roasted centipedes, boiled caterpillars, and some unidentified pasty substance.Reimu's stomach was growling.It was impossible to refuse.It was clear that she had cut back on her own meals to offer this hospitality.Yet this was the best treat she could give.Reimu looked so irresistibly sweet and pitiful, trying to fool Marisa with a desperately happy voice so she wouldn't notice the incessant growling of Reimu's stomach.Out from the girl's stomach flowed a rancid Master Spark.Don't hold back; eat up!