You know, now that I think about it, I'm beginning to wonder about the reliability of the narration. It seems so warm and fuzzy, compared to the visual reactions, that it is either Reimu's delusion, or Marisa desperately trying to convince herself that it's true when she knows it's not.
I'd agree with it being biased by Reimu (pretty sure she's the one narrating based on the original text). Clearly: "we don't feel dirty doing this" when Marisa's the one having to lick off the shit with her tongue... kinda thinking that Reimu's a little "head in the clouds"
not, is what happens when you have babies, they wake at night pissed and and hungry, is normal. But I smell angry Marisa with situation, let's see what happens further ahead..
To be clear, I'm not judging them as parents: but my point, from looking at the original jp text, is that it seems like Reimu's the one doing the narration. So when the mother's narrating how they're willing to do anything, but Marisa's doing the less pleasurable work (If I had a choice between cleaning diapers and comforting a baby, not exactly going to volunteer to be the one in the line of fire), the narration rings a bit "biased".
You have to agree with Hourai on this one. The Reimu (Who we can probably assume is the one narrating here) actually said, and I quote.
>"...we don't feel dirty doing this at all!"
While she appears to have done no work that would warrant her saying this, as her spouse did all of the disgusting work. Granted, comforting them is necessary and this would usually be less anger inducing, albeit a bit one-sided in terms of effort. The real problem is that her comment shows obvious signs of "Deibu-ism" and lack of empathy for the Marisa.
Well, I wasn't trying to fight coker on this: just wanted to clear up my statement.
I agree with the lack of empathy being shown, but Deibu is pretty strong. kiriraitaa loves having his yukkuri as short-sighted, low reasoning creatures that rarely showcase the shithead behaviors that the various akis seem to live and breathe. So it's not too surprising to me that kiriraitaa has mother Reimu all "warm and fuzzy" and in her exuberance, completely fails to register her partner's feelings into consideration.
Again, not trying to start anything with anyone: just wanted to throw out some observational thoughts. Oh, and Hyral, think this is the first time I've seen you here so "welcome!"
Why thank you. I just wish to clear up that I do realize that as-of-yet we would be foolish to brand her as a Deibu, we just don't have enough evidence. I was merely implying that it seems like she could very easily turn out to be one, even if it wouldn't happen with this author. Regardless of how distracted she is by her children, the wording is kind of worrying.
But I'm not trying to start any fights here either. I'm just trying to make sure that my somewhat, for lack of a better word at the time, vague post doesn't leave you with the wrong impression.
Oh, not all! You'll notice quickly that I tend to be very "thorough" with my responses just because I dislike leaving my intentions and messages ambiguous. Don't know if you've just lurked before and only now started posting, but we also have a separate group for yukkuri story fiction.
It feels like a day in the life of comic. Just because Marisa was last seen cleaning the babies does not mean that Marisa is always cleaning the babies.
but at her face you can see that she does not like it one bit, and reimu, think this is one that wants her husband do all the work and she just keep it cool ..
To sum up: -Babies soil themselves and wake parents -Father has to clean the babies' mess -Mother diapers and comforts the wailing imps -Mother thinks "Oh, the joys of being a parent!" and smiles -Father thinks "Oh dear easy god, why?!" and vomits