Seems like Big.G's naked yukkuri died when decapitated.
It's hard to tell if it's dead or comatose. It's undergone a lot of abuse until this point, so who knows what its condition is.
It's been depicted endlessly that yukkuri have no "head" like we know and are able to function normally even with their brains exposed to air or when cut in twain, so it's a relatively safe assumption that a bodied yukkuri would continue to survive as a "head" after being separated from its "torso."
There's a pretty old pool that deals with something like this. Bodied yukkuri on a farm gets decapitated, manages as a normal yukkuri just fine.
It makes me wonder how the body identifies the functionality of its "feet" despite having never been "feet" before and there being no reason for the possibility of decapitation and survival after the fact to be taken into consideration biologically...BUT, that's trying to throw Science at sapient pastries.
I'm pretty sure if the Marisa survived, it'd figure out how to move. Remember, technically their entire epidermis has the capacity to be manipulated on a base level. Bodied yukkuri have no bones (which makes it odd that they can STAND UP-RIGHT). All the Marisa has to do is learn how to use it's former neck area to slide along the ground.
You know my story by now. I was eventually going to get into how yukkuri could stand up-right with a skeleton structure. Their skeletal structure was gonna be, basically, glucose. Hardened glucose.
Consider the fact that hardened glucose can be about as hard as cement.
Consider the fact that hardened glucose can be about as hard as cement.
That would make it brittle, would it not? I'm not overly familiar with the physical properties of solidified glucose, but it can break off the artery walls in humans in large chunks. I'm either seeing little give and fragility or an abundance of give reminiscent of rubber.
Either way, I'm not seeing any yukkuri skeleton being superior to human bones. Yukkuri seem to be physically inferior to humans in every sense.
I'm pretty sure if the Marisa survived, it'd figure out how to move. Remember, technically their entire epidermis has the capacity to be manipulated on a base level. Bodied yukkuri have no bones (which makes it odd that they can STAND UP-RIGHT). All the Marisa has to do is learn how to use it's former neck area to slide along the ground.
You know my story by now. I was eventually going to get into how yukkuri could stand up-right with a skeleton structure. Their skeletal structure was gonna be, basically, glucose. Hardened glucose.
Consider the fact that hardened glucose can be about as hard as cement.
IDK if you were here at the time, but BaronMind and I had a thread going about what each of us thought about bodied yu physiology. Another perspective would've been welcome.
BTW, has anybody seen Baron around? I hope he's doing better.
Think of glucose as just simple sugar. Rock candy is made from super-saturated sugar solution, and in asian cooking there's something called yellow rock sugar that's basically just sugar in rock-like forms.
It can be brittle and it can be rock-like depending on its state. For our purposes, I'd say yukkuri-skeletal structure is, on a practical level, at least as hard as rock-sugar. Though a lot of the drawings hover around the yukkuris not having any bones at all, just thick skin holding the filling in.
I think the Marisa is still alive. In one of the earlier panels when the normal Reimu were getting their revenge, the bodied Marisa's foot fell off, but in other scenes we see that its been reattached and working. So I think Marisa might "revive" if her head and torso were put back together ?
Interesting, though -- maybe, on these particular bodied yukkuri, the core is stored in the body, and that's why separating the head from the body killed them?
Seems like the head can't be separated from the body.
I was quite surprised with how sudden it died, but the idea that a yukkuri somehow rejects the natural shape of a yukkuri kinda made me laugh.Let's test it on Reimu as well~I've toyed and tried so many things with these two naked yus,
but when I tried experimenting to turn them into the usual yukkuri shape,
it died as soon as I chopped off the head like I flipped a switch.Re - Reimu is running away... slowly... slowly...
