#also i feel i should mention: the tags on that marisa post are IMPORTANT. they contain additional context. oh my god.

[waffliesinyoface]

an important thing that should be kept in mind whenever i post about touhou, it's never me going "this is what i think is happening" or "this is what should happen" or "this is the only way i can imagine this happening"

no, 99 times out of a hundred, when i post shit like marisa gets youkai'd its because i'm going "wouldnt it be funny or interesting if this happened" or "someone put that girl in A Situation"

-Marisa stays human forever and eventually dies (milf-marisa...) -Marisa stays human but invents a bootleg knockoff hourai elixir to prevent aging while still staying "human" -Marisa decides to go ahead and become a Youkai Magician -Marisa gets seduced by Okina into being put in the Backup Dancer Blender and is fundamentally not Marisa anymore -Marisa gets so into her work that she fundamentally forgets about human connections for long enough that she gets forcibly assigned a youkai nature by the villagers (the ichirin method) -Marisa actually takes Miko up on her offer to learn how to become a shinkaisen -Marisa takes Kanako up on her offer and bootstraps her way into becoming a new Shinto Goddess of Witchcraft -Marisa accidentally blows herself up and ends up as a ghost magician

all of these are equally canon to me, because they will never become canon. they are hypotheticals. come with me on this journey. Life could be a dream.