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Miscellaneous Questions 7 - To Misc or not to Misc
TresserT:
Eirin and Kaguya are practically bathing in impurity, they just don't care anymore. Kaguya being a limitless source of impurity is actually a plot point in one of the side works IIRC. They're immortal cause of the Hourai Elixir, not cause of their purity.
From the perspective of humans, impurity isn't a poison that slowly kills you or anything like that. It's just the very idea that you CAN die. It could be in a decade or 100 years or 10,000 years. To us, dying is natural so impurity is too. Lunarians think that complete immortality is the norm, and because of that they do see impurity as a sort of poison.
Basically what I'm trying to say is, a Lunarian exposed to impurity isn't going to die instantly or rapidly as if they were exposed to poison. It just means that they're now exposed to the process of dying that humans are exposed to since birth. They might now live for 1,000 years instead of 10,000. But they aren't going to suffer any massive immediate effects. Which is why the Watatsuki's and Sagume seem perfectly fine when exposed to impurity.
Drake:
That part of CiLR is actually the opposite; the udonge flowers in the presence of impurity but it still hasn't bloomed despite being years after IN, suggesting there's something else at play. In the past I think people wanted to attribute this to some kind of tangible effect, like Kaguya being a well of purity (which isn't a real concept), but I don't think that's the case at all anymore and curse my past self for poor reading comprehension.
Rather, the chapter overall is about the comparison of Kaguya to Eirin and Reisen, who have both moved on from the Moon and are now doing as the Earth people do. Kaguya on the other hand has not found a purpose for herself or motivation to participate in Earth society, and shelves her worries off to Eirin. The unblooming udonge bonsai is a metaphor for Kaguya, as just in the same way, she hasn't yet bloomed years after being in contact with the Earth. There are many passages in the chapter that allude to this both from the side of Kaguya and the side of the udonge, some of them more obvious than others. Kaguya even wonders why Eirin named Reisen "Udonge", and it's exactly because of what she speculates -- that Reisen would flourish once being touched by the Earth's impurity -- but she can't make that connection with herself. At the end of the chapter, Eirin challenges Kaguya to find something that she wants to do, and Kaguya ponders that perhaps something would happen once the udonge blooms, or rather, that it would bloom once she found that something for herself. Once you go into the chapter looking from this lens it becomes very clear.
the old guy:
Good to know my weird story idea isn't completely implausible, but I will need to address these points within the fic itself if I ever write it.
On a different note: Why exactly does Marisa like Mushrooms so much? Is it just because there's a lot of it around where Marisa lives, and she just likes the taste of it? If there isn't a canonical answer, I wouldn't mind a speculative one.
gilde:
--- Quote from: the old guy on October 09, 2018, 08:51:21 PM ---On a different note: Why exactly does Marisa like Mushrooms so much? Is it just because there's a lot of it around where Marisa lives, and she just likes the taste of it? If there isn't a canonical answer, I wouldn't mind a speculative one.
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PMiSS to the rescuuuue
They're Magic Shrooms (TM) and idk if she actually eats them ever, she mostly turns 'em into soupcakes and then does science to them. boring, down-to-earth science, like "what happens if i get this wet, what happens if i burn it" kinda stuff
niektory:
Why is this site called "Maidens of the Kaleidoscope"? Are kaleidoscopes related to Touhou in any way? Or is this just what naturally comes to mind when you look at danmaku?
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