A bunch of Marisas wake up in an enclosed area, taken from their clans. Some of them know each other, and they start looking for their food, mates, or children. Anon's voice comes on and he tells them if they'll be taught, and that if they pass until the end, they'll become a Dosu.
No.16 and No.52 are derisive, and demand food. A robotic arm comes down and takes them away, and Anon explains that those who don't want to become Dosu will get retired, but they'll be returned to their clan. One Marisa worries about her mate, but when Anon reminds her that she can let her mate take it more easy if she becomes a Dosu, she decides to do her best.
No.25 and No.41 sneer at the rest (No.25 thinks that she'll get servant yukkuris to find sweets for her, No.41 doesn't believe the others will become Dosus), and get failed. After a long learning session, they ask for food, except for No.12, who demands it rudely and gets failed. They thank Anon and start eating, and No.51 fails for trying to snatch more.
The next day, 23 Marisas are left. Marisas who wanted to refresh and Marisas who wanted more food were removed last night, and today Anon makes them watch videos and answer questions about them later. The videos shows clans with scum, clans attacked by rapers, and the Marisas answer questions about them after the video.
Day by day, the Marisas learn, eat, then sleep, and each time a few fails, but the number of failures decrease as time wears on. When Anon announces the last day, only 8 Marisas are left, but he tells them that only one will become a Dosu.
All of the Marisas clamor to be the one to be picked, except No.18, who keeps telling her compatriots to take it easy. Anon picks that one, and feeds her a drug that he claims will turn her into a Dosu. Marisa goes to sleep, and wakes up in a forest, much bigger than before. She happily celebrates becoming a Dosu, and returns to her clan.
However, she finds the clan full of yukkuris she doesn't know, and that there aren't any Marisas around because they all disappeared one day, forcing some parents to do 'Eat up' to feed their children. Marisa realizes that Anon had lied about returning the other Marisas. She's initially depressed, but when she hears their requests for her to become the leader, and sees some resemblance of those she knew in them, she takes the role, and proves to be an excellent leader in various ways, and transform the area into an easy place.
And they lived happily ever after.
Observing them from afar are two humans, and one of them worries that although they no longer bother the farmers' fields, having a Dosu is risky. The other man explains that not only is there a lack of the Dosu Spark mushroom, that wasn't really a Dosu, but a huge Marisa made from the paste of the other 7 Marisas with No.18's paste core.
After No.18 was picked, the 7 Marisas were taken to different rooms for a whole month. One was bullied by arrogant scum yukkuris. One was faced with jealousy in a room filled only with Parsees. One was put with short tempered scum yukkuris. One was placed with fat, lazy yukkuris that didn't want to work. One was placed with greedy scum yukkuris, and had its stuff constantly stolen from it. One was put with scum yukkuris that ate gluttonly. One was constantly violated by rapers, kept alive by a constant influx of orange juice.
All of them led uneasy lives, and in the last week, an abyuser ingrained their paste with a fear of humans, before finally killing them. Using their paste and skin, combined with the paste core of the sleeping No.18, a 'Dosu Marisa' was made. Even if it had no conscious memory, the information was embedded in its paste, which was why it was quick to come down on yukkuris that acted like scum in its clan.
Since another clan would move in after an extermination, the humans decided to install a leader that would control the clan the way they wanted. They first gathered all the Marisas with basic knowledge of survival, then winnowed their way through while teaching them the knowledge a Dosu needed.
The person in charge says that they'll observe for a while more, but it doesn't look like there'll be a problem, and the other one thanks him. They leave, and till today, Dosu's clan continues to live in easiness without bothering humans.
Why not? One, Marisas are pretty much the best hunters out of all the yukkuris, and without them, the clan has less food. Two, 'Dosu' Marisa is bigger, smarter, and not so naive.
Wrathkal said: Why not? One, Marisas are pretty much the best hunters out of all the yukkuris, and without them, the clan has less food. Two, 'Dosu' Marisa is bigger, smarter, and not so naive.
Because better clan management means higher survival rate due to better organization and food/resource/storage management. Even if you remove the Marisas (the best hunters) the net result is an overpopulated clan of hunger and desperate yukkuris.
Cue sharp increase in home invasions from yukkuris being envious/jealous of pet yukkuris/humans and accelerated small-scale ecological collapse when the second-best hunters search for food closer to home due to lack of skill/abilities/attributes.
And THATS assuming the clan doesn't simply kill the Dosu, in which case you opened Pandora's Box and now have to deal with a yukkuri "culture"(?) thats built around the absence of Marisas. (Do Youmus take over as top hunter? Maybe Chens? Or maybe Reimus unlock a latent ability and become uber-hunters?)
yukiyuzen said: Because better clan management means higher survival rate due to better organization and food/resource/storage management. Even if you remove the Marisas (the best hunters) the net result is an overpopulated clan of hunger and desperate yukkuris.
This one I agree with you slightly... but I don't think that that many non-Marisas are hunters too, and going by the assumption that non-hunters rarely venture out of the clan, the probable result of Marisas' removal would be most of the mates starving as they wait futilely for Marisas' return, and becoming unable to hunt when they were originally able to.
Cue sharp increase in home invasions from yukkuris being envious/jealous of pet yukkuris/humans and accelerated small-scale ecological collapse when the second-best hunters search for food closer to home due to lack of skill/abilities/attributes.
Yeah, no arguments there... unless the housewives yukkuris are dumb.
And THATS assuming the clan doesn't simply kill the Dosu, in which case you opened Pandora's Box and now have to deal with a yukkuri "culture"(?) thats built around the absence of Marisas. (Do Youmus take over as top hunter? Maybe Chens? Or maybe Reimus unlock a latent ability and become uber-hunters?)
Similar to my first point, I think by the time the Dosu is reintroduced, most of the yukkuris are too weak to resist a Dosu's entry, and if the Dosu succeeds, she'll have followers by the time any scum with dreams of leadership decides to make a run for the leader's position.
JusticeItEasy said: [...] but at least we tried, uh?
Here's the thing. There's this commonly accepted universal rule when it comes to yukkuri: Nature itself will bend over to find ways to screw them over. If this (artificial "Dosu" creation) is a good thing for yukkuri, it won't last.
Wrathkal said: This one I agree with you slightly... but I don't think that that many non-Marisas are hunters too, and going by the assumption that non-hunters rarely venture out of the clan, the probable result of Marisas' removal would be most of the mates starving as they wait futilely for Marisas' return, and becoming unable to hunt when they were originally able to.
Marisas being the prime hunters is really just a reflection of the "big 4" character usage. Its just a matter of artists and writers using the most common "hunter" character for simplicity reasons (theres not enough love for Nazrin and Mystia types!)
Skribulous said: Here's the thing. There's this commonly accepted universal rule when it comes to yukkuri: Nature itself will bend over to find ways to screw them over. If this (artificial "Dosu" creation) is a good thing for yukkuri, it won't last.
I thought that only applied as long as Yu's were asshats, but if they aren't asshats in huuuuuuuuge quantities the rule stops, basically the world answers to the yu's asshollery, they stop being assholes and things maybe better.