The reaction to this latest chapter is honestly just embarrassing. Reimu didn’t show “uncertainty” and Marisa didn’t “fumble”. She confessed honestly, knowing rejection was possible. Reimu clearly shut it down. That’s fine. Calling it a “fumble” or framing it as Reimu being unsure just reveals how many people don’t see Reimu as her own agent at all. She’s treated as a prize Marisa has to get to, or some idiot that’s just not aware of her feelings. Not as someone who can simply… not reciprocate? Especially since she never had a clear “I love her” moment like Marisa did? What really pisses me off is that the story itself set all of this up too.
Don't get it twisted. We're calling Reimu a bag fumbler because we as reader's know her reason for turning Marisa down (in prolly the worst way for Marisa lmao) is because she assumes things will be different between them after. (We are also dogging on Reimu because she literally instantly regretted it, might I add.)
Nobody is treating Reimu as a prize i don't get how you come to that conclusion. Everyone is calling her a fumbler because she literally fumbled. This isn't a negative on her character, stories exist to allow characters to make flawed decisions. But when everyone knows what the correct path is as viewer's you can't be surprised when people call her a fumbler for doing the possible worst response to Marisa's feelings lmao
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