You know what would be funny? if the reverse happened she said the offensive thing aloud and thought the "fake niceness" comment, out of ubber yukkuri stupidity and not realizing she did it wrong, screwing up her survival rate.
This is why I don't trust gold badges. Bronze Silver and Platinum are the only ranks that I think determine the yukkuri's true worth.
Bronze since it does nothing but say taht Yukkuri is a pet. Silver shows that the pet has a little bit of training and can still either be trash or a nice pet. Platinum is the best of the best
Gold is such a blurry middle ground. Everyone thinks its good to get gold but they just cram the knowledge in and don't care if it forgets later on.
The thing is that there are good gold ones, but again, since sometimes people do it wrong about training their yukkuris, or care more about status over true pet quality, they let "trash" slip.
Platinum tends to be more for yukkuris that aren't only truly nice, but also productive and helpful.
The true gold yukkuri is a nice creature and a good partner, even if they may not be able to do as advanced stuff as the platinum types, they are averagely intelligent and kind.
It takes more than skills to be gold, but as Raising Badged Yukkuri proved, it seems that those making the test tend to forget what really matters for the yukkuris to be gold and that there are more important things than "skills" like kindness and understanding what the mister humans say to them.
Bronze is actually just a claim to ownership of a yukkuri; it's still inconsequential to crush it. It's basically "Hey, I like this yukkuri, please don't crush it." Silver badges are marks of actual ownership, regardless of training. Gold badges are yukkuris that have received training and are owned. Platinum badges, an interesting idea (still with lots of problems) but also very rarely featured in works. Hourai's series was interesting, but only one take on it- generally they're not very commonly used or exist in works.
Yukkurency = the exchange rate between individual yukkuri.
For centuries the exchange rate was set at 100 Regyukkuri (Reimu, Marisa, etc.) = 10 Uncommyukkuri (Patchouli, Chen, etc.) = 1 Rarekkuri (Yukari, etc.). The introduction of badges through this all out of whack to line the easepockets of the Skullmaster Society, as outlined in this pamphlet I'm writing.
The ideal development is for the yukkuri to develop a more complex and flexible mindset, and more willingness to consider others easiness as well.
A Gold Badge that remains simpleminded is a failure in many ways, since what truly determinates a good yukkuri from a bad one, is their capacity of, regardless of being dumb or not, to have more complex and flexible thought patterns, which let them understand better non yukkuris.
non_violent != cute. It simply means nothing is happening to the yukkuri. It can be pissing shitting fucking and giving you a giant middle finger, but as long as its not leaking bean paste and dying in a horrible way it's non_violent.
Not every non_violent work is cute, in fact, many can be disgusting nad anger inducing, yet making you angry doesn't mean it isn't non_violent when clearly there isn't a hint of someone being violent at all.