"Abuse of Maricha" What i'm getting at now.. from crappy google transalte... is that Maricha's family tried to take Anon's home, but failed. Before being beaten, they argue that Anon can't hurt them because Reimu's having a baby. For some reason Reimu doesn't want Maricha to be born, either because she realizes that Anon's an abyuser or her first baby was killed. Maricha doesn't listen and goes "Cyute Maricha's going to be born!"
Something about Maricha being abyused, probably insults anon... and her parent's are then caught in the abyuse. WHo then later deny giving birth to her. I'm assuming either she died of abyuse or anti yukkuritis
Has home invasion ever been successful? It makes me wonder if the home declaration is a bean paste instinct thing. They find a highly habitable location, declare it there own, and then do their best to defend it regardless of opposition. This sort of self destructive behavior sorta/kinda makes twisted sense if it were hardwired.
Oh well, at least these yukkuri picked a fun house to invade. Giving birth and then denying it shortly afterwards sounds hilarious.
exitstrategy said: Has home invasion ever been successful?
in the wild, yes one can only guess that home invasions are made by wild yus who either are too naive to see the power gap between them and humans, or just too dumb
exitstrategy said: Has home invasion ever been successful? It makes me wonder if the home declaration is a bean paste instinct thing.
Yup. Comparing to human, it's like we put stack on land declaring it ours or make national borders. Wild animals don't know and don't care about that.
In an ideal world without shitheads, home declaration are just their rules. All yukkuris are expected to understand that the house is already taken, so please look for somewhere else. But yukkuri are stupid so they expect other things to respect that rule.
exitstrategy said: Has home invasion ever been successful?
Lets consider the size of a full grown yukkuri at the size of a basketball. If they manage to get into a house, it's conceivable that 2 adults can overpower a kid (under age of 10 most likely), maybe kill a small pet (toy dogs like yorkies) or possibly overwhelm older and more vulnerable populations like those who are sick.
I take a more "realistic" <sic> approach towards yukkuris for the most part: a basketball sized container filled with paste would easily be at least 10-15 lbs, bean paste is HEAVY. Now consider getting hit by one of those... its conceivable that they could overwhelm a person unexpected.
Now lets take real shitheads, maybe they found a knife somewhere. 15 lbs of charging momentum with a sharp object can be pretty lethal.
poweryoga said: Lets consider the size of a full grown yukkuri at the size of a basketball. If they manage to get into a house, it's conceivable that 2 adults can overpower a kid (under age of 10 most likely), maybe kill a small pet (toy dogs like yorkies) or possibly overwhelm older and more vulnerable populations like those who are sick.
I take a more "realistic" <sic> approach towards yukkuris for the most part: a basketball sized container filled with paste would easily be at least 10-15 lbs, bean paste is HEAVY. Now consider getting hit by one of those... its conceivable that they could overwhelm a person unexpected.
Now lets take real shitheads, maybe they found a knife somewhere. 15 lbs of charging momentum with a sharp object can be pretty lethal.
Ah yes, but consider this point: They're covered with soft skin, and a fluid like bean paste. It's more like being hit with a water balloon then a basketball. Yukkuri usually attack with either their head or their cheek. Cheeks are "fleshy" so it usually wouldn't hurt. They have no bones to support the attack.
Shitheads normally have a stick. Sticks can be lethal, but, considerering the fact that the majority would usually wear long pants, it's be like walking in a forest accidentally tearing up your pant legs.
With a knife... they usually don't just that high... riiight?
Bean paste are not that liquid though. They can maintain shape well enough to not turn into shape like the Hutts… Oh, and Haakkuri are creepy. Anyway, rather than water balloon, it will be more like wet-sand filled balloon. Assuming yukkuri have enough impulse energy from jumps, it could at least knock a child off balance, or even adult. Then if they continue to stomp on body, that would be painful. Worse, if they stomp on face, the person might die from unable to breathe.
Difficult, but not 0%
As for beating toy dogs… that make sense. Those made-for-show trophy winning custom-ordered worse-than-Photoshop dogs are not made to live on their own. In the future they might need life support system with external mechanical organs to survive because their body can't sustain life in that "jury appeasing" shape.
Has anyone else ever seen those sand-filled exercise balls? A ball a bit smaller than a basketball, filled with 3 kg (~7 lb) of sand. I always thought of them as being about the size, weight and consistency of a smallish yukkuri.
Getting hit by one hurts! And I've had one bowled into my ankle at least once; it could easily have knocked me over if I wasn't expecting it. If a 15 lb yukkuri can jump at a decent walking speed and hit you in the knee, I'd say you're going down.
Then again, I'm a bit of a lightweight. Maybe it would be different for a big strong guy. =)
But due to that, it's not going to move very fast is it? Yukkuri's aren't strong. They can barely walk for more then 15 minutes. By the time they attack you, you would've known what they're doing and already prepared to defend.
Yandere said: But due to that, it's not going to move very fast is it? Yukkuri's aren't strong. They can barely walk for more then 15 minutes. By the time they attack you, you would've known what they're doing and already prepared to defend.
These things are pretty noisey so any element of surprise is going to be lost quickly (not to mention the mess trail they usually leave). Speed is the other part of the equation when considering how hard they can hit. Apparently they can move their mass fast enough to break a window, which seems like it might be fast enough to sting, but not enough to topple unless it hits from behind.
exitstrategy said: These things are pretty noisey so any element of surprise is going to be lost quickly (not to mention the mess trail they usually leave). Speed is the other part of the equation when considering how hard they can hit. Apparently they can move their mass fast enough to break a window, which seems like it might be fast enough to sting, but not enough to topple unless it hits from behind.
they actually break windows with rocks, not themselves, because they aren't strong enough to do so
well, lets say bean paste, for the sake of our discussion, has the consistency of sugar. Or even powdered sugar. (it's actually way heavier than that) Wrapped in a soft plastic baggy. If 15 lbs of that hits you, it'll still hurt. 15 lbs of anything hitting you is going to hurt, and will knock you off balance if you aren't expecting it.
Now we can wonder how fast a yukkuri will be traveling when it "rams" things. We can wonder about how they even "pounce" at things. Are they really elastic? Can they maybe control the flow of their paste? I like to think of them as having a fairly elastic body that allows for a quick burst energy, defying the normal laws of pastry making just a little bit. How much stamina a yukkuri can have is entirely up to the author: there's no set canon on that and I won't pretend to be the authority on that.
The fun part about yukkuris is that they depend on individual stories: you can have them be weak to the extreme, where they're literally rolling bouncing soft balls. In which case, anything will be able to fend off yukkuris sans the weakest and most injured animals (and that's the way most authors portray them).
Regarding yukkuris and knives: rorinko has drawn a few of those, and I've read ankos with them as well.
Yukkuri are pathetically weak. Wind will bruise or even punch hole through them. Falling leaves would cut them to stripes. And if they try to pounce on a premature newborn baby, the impact would throw them back a million fold, making them look pathetic as they should; while the baby doesn't feel a thing.
They're so worthless, someone who even saw them need to be paid to endure such unworthyness. Those who bought yukkuri products too need to be paid instead of paying because they're saints.
Out of that, I think yukkuri have decent strength. But yukkuri is able to scale almost one or two kilometres a day long when hunting. They need to jump obstacles and tear through trash bags. Great feat for manju.
It's only when authors want to show them as pathetic that yukkuri can't walk a few steps without losing breath and will have gaping hole through their feet when stepping on anything less than Mister Soft Soft.
If a yukkuri weighs only 15 pounds at most and its attack consists of ramming you, then it would be no different from a puppy trying to jump on you considering that they are just a big manju bun. You would feel nothing more than a bump, maybe a slight tickle. Yukkuris are also slow and weak and i never see them jumping more than a feet in the air. They are only a foot tall at most and with their bodies being only a head they can not pick up speed or build up momentum. It would not be like having a basketball being thrown at you, more like one rolling towards your feet. Anyone, even a child, would be able to see a yukkuri charging at them, gaining a few inches every second or so. Even if a yukkuri got a knife, it would only be able to inflict minor injuries, and only if it snuck up on someone. Even a small dog could rip a group of adult yukkuris apart no problem.