Good god. I..I'm not quite sure how to feel about this. It's written very well, but plays out in a somewhat terrifying manner. Losing your sense of self...
It's a mixture for sure, she did gain a identity, maybe an inherited one from someone that the Father lose in the past, but Reimu stopped being Reimu and became Reika.
That has a quite contradictory feeling since, well, for once it's good since it overcame the simplistic "Reimu only" identity that usually yukkuris have and became a proper individual, but, the way she turned into this, the reasons for it and all, make ones doubt that it was a good thing.
Great Story Overall, and thanks unyu for translating it!
she should be happy. Most yukkuris get treated like crap, and she knows it. She wants people to love her for who she is, but instead she is loved as a replacement by an old man who has lost someone too important. In the end, she gets better treatment than other yukkuris would've and a sad old man can live with his delusions for a while longer.
To be honest, I feel worse for the old man than Reimu. Isn't it better to be loved as someone else than not loved at all?
god damn. These stories are all about identity coupled with these drawings its either bat shit insane or deep and moving...or both.
@poweryoga However it's usually worse for the other person, being treated by someone you care about as someone else. It's like twins who get treated like their dead sibling by their parents, it's like they never existed or that they were the one who died no their sibling. Basically people who treat others as someone else need professional help.
I don't disagree with you at all, but the case is different for yukkuris. This yukkuri gets a chance to be a human, to be something yukkuris never could be and treated as such. Sure it's not a healthy relationship, but it's a step above what normally happens for even for loved pets.
Still freaks me the fuck out. Would any of you be able to throw away yourself just to make someone you've known for (what appears to be) a short amount of time? I know I wouldn't...But, I'm not a yukkuri either.
And I seriously doubt that her lifespan has increased any, so her time as Reika is likely limited. Feh. Now I'm depressed.
'Still freaks me the fuck out. Would any of you be able to throw away yourself just to make someone you've known for (what appears to be) a short amount of time *Happy*?'