#And Marisa herself become rather Yukari-like in the wake of the grief of losing the love of her life

[communist-ojou-sama]

See while I can and do conceptualize Yukari and Reimu's relationship as a species of yuri I can't imagine them being like... Lovers in a romantic relationship. I like instead to imagine Yukari having a tangled and immensely confused web of feelings toward Reimu, of nostalgia, of longing, of a certain kind of motherhood, of the pains of human feelıng scarred into her by a love she lost so long ago, and the knowledge of how unbelievably fragile and temporary her existence is, and I like to imagine Reimu being bewildered and mostly bemused but silently grateful for Yukari's (to her) inexplicable preoccupation with her.

For her part Yukari never opens up to Reimu I don’t think, I think that she’s content to hassle her, to covet her, to treasure her, while enjoying her bemused confusion at it all