The story begins with a Reimu trying to get the attention of its female owner, but is unable to move or say anything. The reason for that starts one week ago.
Miss came back to find her gold badge Reimu in her kitchen, a place she banned it from, and eating the snacks in there, making a mess. It reacted hostilely when she tried to talk to it, and when it called her a shitty slave, Miss lost her temper and slapped Reimu. Panicking over her reaction, she went to get the yukkuri first aid kit, not noticing Reimu picking up a kitchen knife. She turned around just as Reimu tells her to die. Reimu then turned its back on the collapsed body and continued to eat.
(Reimu believes that since it does ALL the work of letting Miss take it easy, it should be allowed to take it easy)
A few days later, Reimu is wondering when Miss went, having been missing for the past few days. When Miss returns with a bandaged left hand, having been hospitalized for the past few days, Reimu immediately demands that she bow down and apologize for being late, demanding sweets as apology. Miss offers it lemon candies, and Reimu happily devours them, drifting off to sleep.
Reimu wakes up on the present day, and finds itself stuck to a board with its mouth jammed up. It tries to get Miss's attention, but she just ignores it and continues to go about her chores, and Reimu fears that it'll be left like this, when Miss comes up and tells Reimu that THEY will be watching the house today, and brings Reimu to her room.
Miss asks if Reimu recalls when it first came to her house when she had just bought it. Back then, it didn't know how to avoid the furniture, so it knocked into things a lot. "Something, like this." Miss begins hitting Reimu with a ruler, making Reimu emit muffled screams as it recalls the pain of that time. "When was that time, when you got burned by the iron?" With her right hand, Miss presses the iron to Reimu's left cheek, forcing it to relive the childhood trauma when it touched a hot iron out of curiosity. "Hey, did you know? It takes a lot of time for a yukkuri to die from heat." Miss tells Reimu, explaining that there's no loss of paste, and the heat takes 20-30 minutes to reach the paste core. She had a lot of time to look up this sort of stuff while she was hospitalized.
"You want to know why this is happening to you, right? I'll tell you after I'm done burning the other cheek." Reimu's muffled scream continues for another 15 minutes, before Miss removes the iron. She asks Reimu if it recalled what happened a week ago, when Reimu stabbed her with a kitchen knife, and holds up her left hand in front of Reimu's eyes. She has lost her ring finger.
Back then, the pain of it caused Miss to faint, and by the time she reached the hospital, it was too late to reattach it, and Miss was saddened by that. "But what made me saddest, was when Reimu told me to die. ...just when you were about to kill me." "That's why I decided to punish Reimu. I decided to take back EVERYTHING I've done for you." Miss is referring to all the times she treated Reimu after Reimu got hurt.
"Because, if you're around, I won't ever be able to be happy again, you know?" Her intention clear, Miss asks Reimu if it recalls the time it hurt its eye, and rips out Reimu's left eye, the one it hurt when it banged into a toy. "Your accessory got damaged before." "Didn't your hair get pulled out once?" "Oh yes, you hurt your ear before too."
Finally, Miss asks Reimu if it understands what this is all about, and unblocks Reimu's mouth by cutting it open with the same kitchen knife. After finally letting out a long scream, Reimu starts to apologize, for doing bad things, for being selfish, for saying bad words, for hurting Miss.
"You finally said 'Sorry', Reimu." Hearing that, Miss pulls back the knife, and Reimu believes that now that it has apologized, Miss will go back to being the same kind Miss, and they would live happily once again. "But you know, Reimu." But she doesn't understand why Miss isn't smiling, but sad, as Miss raises the knife again. "It's, already too late." The sound of the knife cutting through the air sounds once more, like it did a week ago, bringing an end to Reimu and Miss's memories together.
Man, that's like the highest betrayal, I know it's basically a typical shit pet scenario with an extra of the pet hurting the owner, but after reading all the stuff the miss cured Reimu for, learning she lost her ring finger and for such a petty reason.
Still, I'm surprised nobody else did anything to the Reimu when that happened, usually when a pet attacks to the point of sending it's owner to the hospital and there is no sign of the pet owner being at fault, the pet is euthanized, makes me wonder if the miss hide the truth just to deal with the Reimu herself.
poweryoga said: Makes me wonder how it became a gold badge in the first place. Made in china reimu?
Yeah, probably "cheap from dubvious breeding origins" variant, backed up with buying out Badge Testers to "let it slip". It's not the first time than greed, negligence or exagerated leniency leads to undeserving yukkuris reaching gold status.
Explosion said: I doubt that's the case. The anon had it for quite awhile judging from all the "things" she took back. So it probably was a nicehead that became a shithead as yukkuris tend to do when they receive any amount of comfort or generosity.
Niceheads can't degenerate into Shitheads, same way a Shithead can't improve into a Nicehead. The only explanation is that it was an average yu that wasn't tested well enough and properly proven a nicehead. Only average Yu's can be the "Act Nice and when in Comfort show their true colors as scum."
JusticeItEasy said: Niceheads can't degenerate into Shitheads, same way a Shithead can't improve into a Nicehead. The only explanation is that it was an average yu that wasn't tested well enough and properly proven a nicehead. Only average Yu's can be the "Act Nice and when in Comfort show their true colors as scum."
But how would you test for something like that in the first place? Shitheads are easy to spot, thats pretty much agreed upon. But how do you separate the "Niceheads" from the "Act Nice and when in Comfort show their true colors as scum"? Its not like you can just give a yukkuri a cookie and a nice bed as a gift to see whether they'll reveal themselves to be the former or the latter over the course of a year (or longer).
An escalating set of Test based in choice making, and in testing reactions when trying to force them to act nice or act scummy, also testing their actions towards humans acting like how shitheads want humans to be towards them. All that reinforced with videos, documentals, lectures and personal teaching about what is a good yu and what is a bad yu and why to be a pet they have to be a good yu. It won't be perfect, but It won't lead to a great deal of "fake golds" that look like the trainers hadn't taught it anything properly, as much they may become the "refresh rule breakers" instead of this "I do whatever the fuck I want and I stab my owner if she dares to say otherwise!".
JusticeItEasy said: An escalating set of Test based in choice making, and in testing reactions when trying to force them to act nice or act scummy, also testing their actions towards humans acting like how shitheads want humans to be towards them. All that reinforced with videos, documentals, lectures and personal teaching about what is a good yu and what is a bad yu and why to be a pet they have to be a good yu. It won't be perfect, but It won't lead to a great deal of "fake golds" that look like the trainers hadn't taught it anything properly, as much they may become the "refresh rule breakers" instead of this "I do whatever the fuck I want and I stab my owner if she dares to say otherwise!".
But now you're talking about indoctrination, rather than training. What you're basically describing is the old and rarely used Platinum badge. An ultra trained, ultra disciplined yukkuri thats so smart and so far removed from regular yukkuris that they are basically stand-ins for Anon.
That said, it sounds like you're simply assuming that "Gold" badged yukkuris that cause trouble, such as in this story, are actually nothing more than "fake Golds". You're putting a lot of thought into the badge system without actually thinking about what happens once a "graduate" is actually bought.
I wouldn't say this is a case of only "Causing Troubles" but we have an outright shithead attitude out of nowhere combined with trying to murder her owner with a knife and cutting off a finger. There is something seriously wrong in the teaching and training if the gold yu goes that far for no good reason, and no being hungry and the slap aren't good enough reasons for her shithead behaviour, since the whole story points out the miss took good care of it and always was there to heal her and help her.
There are many works that back up the idea that "a good pet yu will not flinch to corruption while only lousy pets get corrupted easily with the right trigger." reason why testing every "scum making trigger" on the candidates for pets would be a good way to determinate a good pet, yukkuris aren't complex enough like to degenerate in long term as individuals, so usually the right trigger will always get them, be it after 1 month of being adopted or 2 years later of being adopted, the pets who have the potential, are educated and properly trained will not be affected by such triggers, that's why it isn't indoctrination but a test and also raising awareness for the yu about such typical "corrupting" scenarios.
JusticeItEasy said: I wouldn't say this is a case of only "Causing Troubles" but we have an outright shithead attitude out of nowhere combined with trying to murder her owner with a knife and cutting off a finger. There is something seriously wrong in the teaching and training if the gold yu goes that far for no good reason, and no being hungry and the slap aren't good enough reasons for her shithead behaviour, since the whole story points out the miss took good care of it and always was there to heal her and help her.
I wouldn't say its "out of nowhere" since its implied that Anon raised Reimu from childhood. That means Muss has been living and watching Reimu's behavior for almost a year(?) now.
Are you looking at yukkuris as a "pet" or as a "companion"? If its the former, you're guilty of animal cruelty. Losing a finger is not very serious (in the eyes of the law) and since Miss was the owner and victim, the fault of Reimu lays with Miss. Torturing/Killing Reimu is not justified (unless she was legally euthanized!). If its the latter, then I have nothing to say other than Miss was a dumbass, spoiled Reimu and got what was coming to her.
JusticeItEasy said: There are many works that back up the idea that "a good pet yu will not flinch to corruption while only lousy pets get corrupted easily with the right trigger." reason why testing every "scum making trigger" on the candidates for pets would be a good way to determinate a good pet, yukkuris aren't complex enough like to degenerate in long term as individuals, so usually the right trigger will always get them, be it after 1 month of being adopted or 2 years later of being adopted, the pets who have the potential, are educated and properly trained will not be affected by such triggers, that's why it isn't indoctrination but a test and also raising awareness for the yu about such typical "corrupting" scenarios.
Ok this is absurd. Telling someone not go into the kitchen and then slapping them as punishment is FAR from a "scum making trigger". You're just imposing your own "canon" into other stories.
Sigh, I thought you were serious and wanting to properly discuss this instead of going "NO U! THE OWNER IS AT FAULT! I'll disregard the average yukkuri stories rules and the story's plot itself to prove it!" like if you were trolling, ok I won't press the matter further since you clearly will go on trolling for some unknown reason.
JusticeItEasy said: Sigh, I thought you were serious and wanting to properly discuss this instead of going "NO U! THE OWNER IS AT FAULT! I'll disregard the average yukkuri stories rules and the story's plot itself to prove it!" like if you were trolling, ok I won't press the matter further since you clearly will go on trolling for some unknown reason.
JusticeItEasy said: Sigh, I thought you were serious and wanting to properly discuss this instead of going "NO U! THE OWNER IS AT FAULT! I'll disregard the average yukkuri stories rules and the story's plot itself to prove it!" like if you were trolling, ok I won't press the matter further since you clearly will go on trolling for some unknown reason.
Frankly, "Gold badged" yukkuris going against orders has been common for a while now. I don't see how this is going against average yukkuri story rules.
There have been stories of pet yukkuris being raised from childhood to adulthood and "going bad" in the process for a while now. Putting all the blame on the pet and excusing Anon simply because a weapon was used is immature at the least and narcissistic at most. Anon screwed up, u mad?
Hey Wrathkal, sorry to bother you but, did the original story mention the miss taking care of the Reimu since she was a Koyukkuri or that "childhood trauma" is more a slip and the miss had Reimu since she was an adult?
That started to bother me, since I had been reading the whole story as the miss getting an adult gold badged pet that was clumsy at the beginning and one day it became full fledged shithead, but that "childhood trauma" still lingers, but there is no mentions of ko, baby or when she was a little yukkuri in your summary, only a "when I brought you home" and we know that "when I brought you home" =/= when it was a koyukkuri, in every pet scenario.
Nell said: Personally while writing, I go for "she" as long as the yukkuri is either a well-mannered stray or is a pet, even while being disciplined.
Shitheads are called "it".
I try to follow that most of the time, though I usually slip once in a while.
JusticeItEasy
It's the former. She received Reimu from her parents because she was living alone, and spent the time raising Reimu up to an adult age, but possibly because of her nice treatment, Reimu showed its scum nature.
Wrathkal said: It's the former. She received Reimu from her parents because she was living alone, and spent the time raising Reimu up to an adult age, but possibly because of her nice treatment, Reimu showed its scum nature.
Ah then, I was wrong in my assumption it was a botched pet from a lousy petshop. Well that clarifies a lot, thanks for answering me.
Now I wonder if Reimu was like that Marisa from "Gold Marisa and Wild Reimu", I mean, she somehow had to get a badge, but even with the efforts of the Miss, she may had got the mistaken interpretation of what a Gold Badge is for, considering how her logic was like:
Wrathkal said: (Reimu believes that since it does ALL the work of letting Miss take it easy, it should be allowed to take it easy)
I wouldn't be surprised If this was case of mistaken the Gold Badge for a "right to do whatever I want" pass.
In the end it's like you may only get what you want if you get a platinum badged yu, since even the best intentions and efforts to raise them yourself from little won't assure you a good pet, if it's scum nature is latent, and it's like only with luck you may find a nicehead to raise from little from the stray or wild community.
JusticeItEasy said: Ah then, I was wrong in my assumption it was a botched pet from a lousy petshop. Well that clarifies a lot, thanks for answering me.
In the end it's like you may only get what you want if you get a platinum badged yu, since even the best intentions and efforts to raise them yourself from little won't assure you a good pet, if it's scum nature is latent, and it's like only with luck you may find a nicehead to raise from little from the stray or wild community.
Whether shithead/nicehead behavior is latent or not is a different discussion, but badges are inherently self-destructive. As you yourself point out:
JusticeItEasy said: I wouldn't be surprised If this was case of mistaken the Gold Badge for a "right to do whatever I want" pass.
A Gold badge is typically considered to be a "trophy pet" and that means sitting at home, eating, sleeping and not working at all. Under such circumstances (and given enough time), its not difficult to imagine a Gold badge yukkuri to feel as if eating, sleeping and not working IS their purpose. Attacking Anon when they Anon tries to break them out of that eat-sleep-relax lifestyle is to be expected.
That and the fact that being a badged yukkuri can be seen as something to be proud of, and that proudness carries on into its character, hence the belief 'Miss/Mister can only take it easy because of Reimu, so Miss/Mister should be grateful!'