MezzoDragon said: It seems to be a happy end (for those who like yukkuri, that is).
If only the story ended right here, then yes, it's a good end. The complete story (http://www26.atwiki.jp/ankoss/pages/980.html) turned dark and depressing, and for once the yukkuri aren't to blame. The complete story was similar to the fanfic "A Family That Stays Together" by Fragtagonal (posted in the Yukkuri google group).
Needless to say, it even managed to depress me. I wanted to see how they raise their koyukkuri, expecting a light, fluffy feel-good tale, but instead...
Anko 1009 said:
"Please... [Reimu]I'm sorry! We are starving... Little ones need to take it easy... Please let them take it easy..."
"Hey... Don't blame her[Reimu]! It was my[Marisa] fault! Sorry! I'm sorry!"
She slowly picked them up.
"No... I should apologize... I'm sorry, guys. I was hungry [and forgot about you]."
"That's not true! Big Sis is not slow!"
With Reimu's words, her eyes at that moment went wide.
"Marisa knows that you are sick! Big Sis should take it easy!"
The woman stood in silence. They had left the mess in the kitchen, and had set them both down on the dining table. Now taking a good look, they [the yukkuri] could notice that she seemed unusually different from usual.
"Thank you... But it's fine. It is painful... But this is not from an illness."
"Yu, easy?"
"I don't understand..."
She [the woman], her mouth slightly open, placed her left hand on her abdomen.
"You know... I am having a baby."
Both Marisa and Reimu stopped moving. Then, [they spoke at the same time].
"Big Sis... little ones?"
"Giving birth... easy...?"
"Yes, I will. My beautiful baby, I'll show you soon, Marisa and Reimu." She said it in a way to imitate Reimu's words before.
Both Reimu and Marisa's faces were shining [sparkling with amazement]. They were exited [by the news].
"Yu Yu Yu~un! Big Sis will be a single mother soon!"
The woman smiled and laughed at Reimu's words.
"Yes. So be sure to raise your little ones well too, or you'll get laughed at by your babies." At that, she pointed out to the three little yukkuri.
Their mouths seem to move in reply, "Take it easy!"
Their parents cried in happiness.
"So Reimu? Marisa? When I'm not well, can you be able to provide food for yourselves? It's where I put aside the rice."
"Easy, yu! We will do it! Big Sis, be at ease!"
"Thank you," she said, as she ate her meal with her growing family.
(Disclaimer: This is my attempt at translating that section, so it's not perfect in any way. It was also at the point I had a sinking feeling where this story will go, but I foolishly continued on.)
The title isn't really 'things not said', it's 'things that couldn't be said'.
Reimu wanted to congratulate Big Sis on her child, stealing her lipstick to write a congratulations note. But when the Big Sis came back and said that she couldn't have children, Reimu said 'Then you just have to make more little ones!', not understanding. Big Sis snaps and kills the koyukkuris, but eventually realizes what she's done, and breaks down crying. Next, she walks towards the pair, thinking that everything is a nightmare. The next day, she gets rid of each and every piece of memory of her and the yukkuris. That's when she finds the card.
Apparently she had a guy, but the guy had another woman, and didn't want the child she was having. And she couldn't say a thing about it to anyone.
Wrathkal said: The title isn't really 'things not said', it's 'things that couldn't be said'.
Reimu wanted to congratulate Big Sis on her child, stealing her lipstick to write a congratulations note. But when the Big Sis came back and said that she couldn't have children, Reimu said 'Then you just have to make more little ones!', not understanding. Big Sis snaps and kills the koyukkuris, but eventually realizes what she's done, and breaks down crying. Next, she walks towards the pair, thinking that everything is a nightmare. The next day, she gets rid of each and every piece of memory of her and the yukkuris. That's when she finds the card.
Apparently she had a guy, but the guy had another woman, and didn't want the child she was having. And she couldn't say a thing about it to anyone.
Wrathkal said: The title isn't really 'things not said', it's 'things that couldn't be said'.
Reimu wanted to congratulate Big Sis on her child, stealing her lipstick to write a congratulations note. But when the Big Sis came back and said that she couldn't have children, Reimu said 'Then you just have to make more little ones!', not understanding. Big Sis snaps and kills the koyukkuris, but eventually realizes what she's done, and breaks down crying. Next, she walks towards the pair, thinking that everything is a nightmare. The next day, she gets rid of each and every piece of memory of her and the yukkuris. That's when she finds the card.
Apparently she had a guy, but the guy had another woman, and didn't want the child she was having. And she couldn't say a thing about it to anyone.
dexter said: Nothing like killing your friends in a fit of emotion when bad things happen.
You have to consider that, while not to blame and clearly not having ill intentions, Reimu was innocently and indirectly being insensitive with her statement, I mean seriously, "then you have to just make more little ones!" what kind of answer is that? I even think it maybe accidentally imply how disposable Yu's are without realizing it.
If she thought of them as disposable that would be fine. But I don't think she did-- I think she considered them pets. Personally speaking, I wouldn't beat the shit (or murder) out of a pet for one, single, naive action. They're yukkuris, not people-- not that it would be right for me to murder a friend, child etc for one single comment. Yes, the yukkuri's inherent naivety/stupidity does not absolve them of blame, but given how it was one single comment, I can see no justification for her excessive punishment.
What i meant by "I even think it maybe accidentally imply how disposable Yu's are without realizing it." is how reimu's "then you have to make more little ones" sounded like.
When you think about it, it's like she had said "who cares if the baby died? you can always make more!" which is like if even Reimu thought Yu's were disposable and easy to remplace, which is rare since Yukkuris give a LOT of importance to their lil ones and a single one dying gives them some high levels of uneasiness and despair. It doesn't help that it may also indirectly mean that Miss's Baby was disposable and remplazable as well, again, all because of Reimu being naive and dumb, and using the worse phrase she could come out with for such situation.
Anyway back to the miss, you are still forgetting that she seems to be under some psychological trauma because of this whole deal with the baby and her ex BF, mix that with typical yukkuri world logic of yukkuris setting death flags every 3 bounces and finish it up with Reimu saying a comment insensitive and even hurtful without realizing it, that easily leads to death in an average non FF grim story in the yukkuri world.
Basicaly this is what happens when you combine Serious Soap Opera Drama with Yukkuri World Rules, incluiding the HIGH death flag raising capacity of the yukkuris.
It's not that much of being stupid and more of how yukkuri stories work like.