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| | nameJp =マエリベリー・ハーン | | {{Infobox Charakter |
| | nameEn =Maribel Hearn | | | Name Kanji = マエリベリー・ハーン |
| | nameIPA =maeɽʲibeɽʲiː haːɴ [[Media:Pronunciation_MaribelHearn.ogg|(♫)]]
| | | Name = Maeriberī hān |
| | nameAlt =Maribel Han, Mæriberie Hearn
| | | Portrait = [[File:MaribelHearn.jpg|x325px|Maribel Hearn]] |
| | image =[[File:Maribel_NToJ.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn]] | | ''Maribel Hearn in [[Dateless Bar "Old Adam"]]'' |
| | caption =Maribel Hearn on the cover of [[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]]
| | | Alternative Namen = *Merry (Spitzname) |
| | species =[[Human]] ''(native to the [[outside world]])'' | | *Dr. Latency (Pseudonym) |
| | abilities =Said to have the ability to see [[boundary|boundaries]] | | | Spezies = Mensch |
| | occupation =University Student (Relative Psychology major) | | | Fähigkeiten = * Kann Grenzenlinien sehen |
| | location =[[Kyoto]], [[Japan]] in the near future. | | * Kann durch Träume durch die Zeit reisen |
| | MusicThemes = *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|魔術師メリー}}|Merry, the Magician}} ([[Ghostly Field Club]]) | | * Kann die Grenze zur Traumwelt beeinflussen |
| *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|月の妖鳥、化猫の幻}}|Strange Bird of the Moon, Illusion of Mysterious Cat}} ([[Ghostly Field Club]])
| | | Tätigkeit = Studentin |
| | appPrintworks = *[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]] ([[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Memorandum|Memo]]) | | | Heimat= Kyoto, Japan ([[Außenwelt]]) |
| *[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]] (Part 2 Cameo) | | | Beziehungen = * [[Renko Usami]] (Freundin) |
| | appMusicCDs =*[[Ghostly Field Club]] (Cover, Main Character) | | | Literatur = *[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]] ([[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Memorandum|Memo]]) |
| *[[Changeability of Strange Dream]] (Cover, Main Character) | | *[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]] (Teil 2 Miniatur) |
| *[[Retrospective 53 minutes]] (Cover, Main Character) | | | CDs =*[[Ghostly Field Club]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| *[[Magical Astronomy]] (Cover, Main Character) | | *[[Changeability of Strange Dream]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| *[[Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey]] (CD Illustration) | | *[[Retrospective 53 minutes]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| *[[Trojan Green Asteroid]] (Cover, Main Character) | | *[[Magical Astronomy]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| *[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]] (Cover, Main Character) | | *[[Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey]] (Cover) |
| | *[[Trojan Green Asteroid]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| | *[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| | *[[Dr. Latency's Freak Report]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| | *[[Dateless Bar "Old Adam"]] (Cover, Hauptcharakter) |
| | | Musik = |
| | *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|魔術師メリー}}|Merry, die Zauberkünstlerin}} ([[Ghostly Field Club]]) |
| | *{{H:title|{{lang|ja|月の妖鳥、化猫の幻}}|Mond des Youkai-Vogels, Illusion der Monsterkatze}} ([[Ghostly Field Club]]) |
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| {{nihongo|'''Maribel Hearn'''|マエリベリー・ハーン|Maeriberī Hān}} is a university student in the near future of the [[outside world]] in [[Kyoto]], who forms the "[[Sealing Club]]" with [[Renko Usami]]. She has no relation to [[Gensokyo]], but has often visited Gensokyo in her dreams.
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| She majors in relativistive psychology and sometimes has difficulty telling the difference between dream and reality (at least, in regards to [[Gensokyo]]). She believes subjectivity to be more true than objectivity. Her clan has had the ability to see [[boundary|boundaries]] since "ancient times" and seeks to dive into another world, despite such a thing being forbidden.
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| Together with her friend, [[Renko Usami]], she has an interest in what would be considered the paranormal. Their club, consisting of only the two of them, describes itself as a club for [[wiktionary:necromancers|necromancers]]. However, they don't do many of the things necromancers would normally be associated with. Instead, they investigate the possibility of other worlds and such. Specifically, they're interested in Gensokyo, the [[Netherworld]], and the [[Moon]], and seem to be among the few, or even the only [[human]]s from the outside world who know of Gensokyo's existence.
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| ==General Information==
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| ===Ability===
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| ;Ability to see boundaries
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| Although she's a [[human]] from the [[outside world]], she possesses the ability to see boundaries. Per Maribel's words, she simply just does. This includes the ability to see other worlds, such as seeing the far side of the [[Moon]]. She also often visits [[Gensokyo]] in her dreams, and is sometimes chased by [[youkai]]. She can even bring back physical items.<ref name="CoSD">[[Changeability of Strange Dream/Story|Changeability of Strange Dream]]</ref> Regarding this, considering that visiting another world is an entirely different matter compared to seeing it, Renko made the consideration that perhaps her ability has advanced to become "the ability to manipulate boundaries".
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| By the time of ''[[Trojan Green Asteroid]]'', she isn't only able to travel across boundaries to other worlds freely, but is also capable of taking Renko with her. However, in order to reach [[TORIFUNE]] she needed to connect the gate of a shrine to Ame-no-Torifune with that of the one within the station. Renko notes later in ''[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]]'' that her power seems to be connected to shrines. The duo's trip to TORIFUNE wasn't the first time the two have gone adventuring to other worlds.<ref>[[Trojan Green Asteroid/Story|Trojan Green Astroid]] - "Every time they find a way to the other side of the boundary, they can't help but go adventuring."</ref> It's noted by Maribel in ''[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]]'' that while visiting TORIFUNE was a reality to Maribel, it was still a dream to Renko, which is why Maribel got injured by a [[chimera]] while Renko didn't. Renko privately realizes the same conclusion, recalling that the two encountered [[youkai]] during visits to other worlds that were real to Maribel but felt like figments of her imagination to Renko.
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| Renko notes that Maribel's power has grown rapidly stronger in ''[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]]'', set only a few days later. She can now see beyond to the other side of boundaries and show her visions to others by putting her hands over their eyes, although the transferred visions are unstable (but still adequate). She can now travel through worlds even while awake, and consciously taking back objects from those worlds is easy for her.
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| ==Backstory==
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| Maribel comes from a lineage which has had the ability to sense the supernatural since long ago<ref name="CoSD" />. Because of this, she has the ability to see borders. Society wasn't receptive to strange people, so she had to keep her ability a secret.<ref name="NoJ">[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan/Story|Neo-traditionalism of Japan]] - "Of course that wasn't the case, but society just isn't receptive to strange people."</ref>
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| She's hated lycoris (flowers which represent death) ever since she was a child because "they're creepy".
| | {{nihongo|'''Mæriberī Hearn'''|マエリベリー・ハーン|Maeriberī Hān}} ist eine Studentin aus der [[Außenwelt]] und zusammen mit [[Renko Usami]] der Hauptcharakter der Musik-CDs. |
| | ==Allgemeines== |
| | ===Persönlichkeit=== |
| | Sie ist ziemlich introvertiert und verträumt. Im Gegensatz zu Renko wertet sie Subjektivität über Objektivität. Dadurch kommt es vor, dass sie manchmal Traum und Realität nicht voneinander unterscheiden kann. |
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| As opposed to how it has been revealed that [[Renko Usami]]'s hometown is [[wikipedia:Tokyo|Tokyo]], Maribel's hometown and home country is unclear. Since she fluently speaks [[wikipedia:Japanese language|Japanese]] with Renko, she probably has lived in Japan for a long time. However, she stated in ''Neo-Traditionalism of Japan'' that she doesn't have any relatives there.
| | ===Fähigkeiten=== |
| | ;Grenzenlinien sehen |
| | Maribel ist in der Lage, die Grenzenlinien von anderen Welten zu sehen. Zusätzlich kann sie auch die Anwesenheit von anderen Welten spüren. Nach eigenen Angaben hat ihre Familie solche Fähigkeiten seit Urzeiten. |
| | Nachdem sie an einem Virus unbekannter Herkunft erkrankte, verstärkte sich diese Fähigkeit noch weiter, sodass sie nun viel tiefer in diese Welten blicken kann. |
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| ==Character Design==
| | ;Durch Träume durch die Zeit reisen |
| ===Origin=== | | Einige Male ist es ihr gelungen, mittels ihrer Träume in die Vergangenheit zu reisen. Allerdings scheint sie diese Kraft bisher nicht bewusst nutzen zu können. |
| Some aspects of Maribel appear to be based on [[wikipedia:Lafcadio Hearn|Lafcadio Hearn]], one of the first writers to spread knowledge of Japanese folklore to the West, who eventually married a Japanese woman and changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo. Lafcadio wrote several stories and baiku on the Japanese and [[wikipedia:Zen|Zen]] beliefs of butterflies and dreaming as one, which is a recurring theme for Maribel. This includes a well-known translation of the story [[Wikipedia:The Dream of Akinosuke|The Dream of Akinosuke]], where a man travelled to another world in his dreams only to find out in the end that it was real, although it turns out to be a world of ants instead of [[human]]s.
| | ;Die Grenze zur Traumwelt beeinflussen |
| | Maribel ist in der Lage, die Grenzen zur Traumwelt zu beeinflussen. Dies äußert sich darin, dass sie diese Welt mit ihrem physischen Körper betreten und sogar andere Personen mit in diese Welt mitziehen kann. |
| | ===Tätigkeiten=== |
| | Sie studiert relative Psychologie an einer Universität in Kyoto. Außerdem ist sie mit Renko zusammen das einzige Mitglied des [[Club der Geheimsiegel]], welcher es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, die Barrieren, die ihre Welt umschlingt, bloßzustellen. |
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| To add to this, several of Lafcadio's most well known works appear to correspond to Maribel's first four stories:
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| *"In '''Ghostly''' Japan" was a collection of ghost stories by Lafcadio. [[ZUN]] stated he was trying to get a ghostly mood for ''[[Ghostly Field Club|'''Ghostly''' Field Club]]''.
| | Ihre genaue Herkunft ist unbekannt und nach eigenen Angaben hat sie keine Verwandten in Japan. |
| *"Exotics and '''Retrospectives'''" was a collection of Lafcadio's musings about Japan. It contains a large article about [[wikipedia:Mount Fuji|Mount Fuji]] as well as a discussion about Zen, musings on paintings, and about the psychology of the color blue, among various other themes such as "beauty in memory" and "literature of the dead", which are all topics and themes that show up in ''[[Retrospective 53 minutes|'''Retrospective''' 53 minutes]]''.
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| *[[Wikipedia:Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things|Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of '''Strange''' Things]] is a collection of youkai horror stories, including "The Dream of Akinosuke". It would most likely have been what ''[[Changeability of Strange Dream|Changeability of '''Strange''' Dream]]'' may have been themed after, given that Maribel is dreaming in a [[youkai]] horror story of her own.
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| *"The Romance of the Milky Way" may possibly be what ''[[Magical Astronomy]]'' was themed after. One of the short stories in it is called "The Mirror Maiden", and ''Magical Astronomy'' ends with Maribel about to manipulate a [[boundary]] using a reflection (in essence, Maribel is a mirror maiden). It was also Lafcadio's final work (published posthumously after his death), just as ''Magical Astronomy'' was Maribel's last story (at least for an extremely long time, until ''[[Trojan Green Asteroid]]'' was released almost six years later).
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| | ==Konzept== |
| ===Name=== | | ===Name=== |
| There's never been an official romanization for her name {{lang|ja|マエリベリー・ハーン}} (''Maeriberii Haan''), as well as the English spelling of her name is unclear, and "Maribel Hearn" is not an official spelling. Even ZUN does not seem to know about her name's English spelling nor origin<ref>[[ZUN's AWA Q&A Panel]]</ref>. Other than "[[wiktionary:Maribel|Maribel]]" that's Spanish origin (a Hebrew name that's a very rough approximation of the [[wikipedia:Katakana|katakana]]), there are also "Merryberry" and "Mæriberry". The [http://www.toho-motoneta.net/index.php?%A5%DE%A5%A8%A5%EA%A5%D9%A5%EA%A1%BC%A1%A6%A5%CF%A1%BC%A5%F3 Japanese toho-motoneta wiki] posits that her first name could be a corruption of "mulberry", a berry that becomes purple ({{lang|ja|紫}}, the character for Yukari's name) upon ripening. In Hikawachou, a place with a deep connection to [[Yukari Yakumo]], there is a factory called "Mulberry".
| | Von Merrys wirklichem Vornamen ist nur die Schreibweise in Katakana bekannt (マエリベリー), die im Japanischen Wortlaut 'Maeriberī' (Ma-e-ri-be-ri-i) ausgesprochen wird. Die ausländische Schreibweise ihres Namens wurde nie offiziell bestätigt, da ihr ZUN möglicherweise aus reiner Absicht einen ausländischen Namen geben wollte, der für Japaner als auch für Ausländer unmöglich auszusprechen und zu schreiben ist, was ebenfalls die Meinung von [[Renko]] ist. Aus diesem Grund nennt Renko sie beim Spitznamen メリー (Merii), was ungefähr "Mary" oder "Merry" heißen kann.<br /> |
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| As for her last name, "Hearn" proved to be a popular alternative to "Han" (rough approximation of the katakana), since "Hearn" is actually transcribed as {{lang|ja|ハーン}} (haan) in Japanese. Also, [[ZUN]] was asked in [[Doujin Barrier: The Work Called Touhou and the Fantasy of Game Creation|a high school open lecture]] about the relation between Maribel and Yukari, ZUN said that there was this [[wikipedia:Lafcadio Hearn|Lafcadio Hearn]] in the past. Furthermore, if you read Yukari's last name using the on reading, then "Yakumo" {{lang|ja|八雲}} becomes "Haun".
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| She is called "Merry" as a pet name by [[Renko Usami]] (sometimes rendered as "Mary"). It seems that Renko is not able to pronounce "Maeriberī" well. Judging by her name, Maribel may not actually be of Japanese ethnicity.
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| ===Design===
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| Maribel is usually seen with blond hair, a purple dress and a white mob cap. In ''[[Changeability of Strange Dream]]'' her white cap was gone, but now has a red ribbon at her collar. In ''[[Retrospective 53 minutes]]'', she has a red bowtie around her shoes that she didn't have in ''[[Ghostly Field Club]]''. In ''[[Magical Astronomy]]'' she has her white mob cap again, but the ribbon at the collar is gone. Instead she had red shoes. On the CD illustration of ''[[Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey]]'', her shoes appear to be black again and the red ribbon on her collar is back. In ''[[Trojan Green Asteroid]]'' her dress includes a belt and no ribbon. In ''[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]]'' she wears a pale blue blouse and blue-purple skirt.
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| ==Story==
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| ;''Ghostly Field Club''
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| Using a photograph of the [[Netherworld]] and Renko's ability to determine location from the [[Moon]], Maribel and Renko attempt to find the entrance to the Netherworld in a ghostly field.
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| ;''Changeability of Strange Dream''
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| Maribel is talking with Renko about how she is visiting [[Gensokyo|a strange world]] in her dreams. It starts out nicely but begins to become nightmarish as Maribel is attacked by [[youkai]]. Maribel has trouble figuring out what is reality and what is just a dream, and to further complicate the issue, she presents Renko with some of the items she had obtained in her dreams. Renko realizes the truth, and in the end must decide on which will be Maribel's reality.
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| ;''Retrospective 53 Minutes''
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| :{{Main|Retrospective_53_minutes/Story|l1=Retrospective 53 Minutes Story}}
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| In ''[[Retrospective 53 minutes]]'', Maribel and Renko were on a train to Tokyo. They were looking at a simulated kaleido screen of the outside and discussing the trip, the view, and the nature of objectivity and subjectivity related to it. Renko commented on her, saying "You might be as carefree as the Tōhoku people though." The trip lasts 53 minutes.
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| ;''Magical Astronomy''
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| :{{Main|Magical Astronomy/Story|l1=Magical Astronomy Story}}
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| The university campus is abuzz with news of public tours to the [[moon]]. Maribel and Renko talk about the world on the moon hidden from humans and eagerly try to plan their own trip to there. Maribel gets a special idea.
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| ;''Trojan Green Asteroid''
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| Maribel and Renko discuss the lost micro-habitat space station [[TORIFUNE]], Maribel claiming that she has seen inside it and everything is still alive. Since the station contains a shrine to Ame-no-Torifune, they travel to another such shrine and use Maribel's ability to transport themselves there through their dreams. They discover that the interior has become a dense jungle, and are attacked by a [[chimera]]. Maribel wakes up with a cut on her arm and is sent to hospital.
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| While in hospital, Maribel is diagnosed with sleepwalking and hallucinations; believing this to be a previously unknown virus, the doctors send her to the mountains for isolation treatment. By the time she's released her powers have grown stronger and she now sees visions while awake. Maribel discusses [[Hell]] with Renko, but doesn't tell her that she physically travelled to Hell while in isolation. Renko tells Maribel that while she was in isolation, the news has been talking about discoveries of stone tools more than 25 million years old, though they were dismissed as a hoax. Maribel believes otherwise, and presents one she found herself. Maribel shows Renko a vision of the underground realm where she found it, and Renko recognises the Ame-no-Sakahoko as being there. Maribel calms down, no longer believing the place she saw to be Hell but the world of the gods. The two decide to find more such "Izanagi Objects" that lie unrecognised across Japan.
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| ==Possibly Relevant Facts to the Relationship Between Maribel & Yukari==
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| [[ZUN]]'s answer to the above question acknowledges a relationship between Maribel and Yukari, but he only explicitly mentioned Lafcadio Hearn. The following facts and occurrences from various official sources may or may not be relevant to discerning the nature of this relationship, if it's possible to do so.
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| ===Appearance===
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| Maribel and Yukari's appearances are very similar to each other. Both have the same hair color and (in most official portrayals) eye color. In addition to this, both are always depicted wearing some combination of purple and red (the opposite colors of the visible spectrum), as well as ribbons tied in the shape of an eight, which is stated to be one of the meanings of Yukari's name. Both also wear a bonnet.
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| ===Ability===
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| Both Maribel and Yukari have the ability to see boundaries. Unlike Yukari, however, Maribel is only stated to be able to see boundaries, not manipulate them. However, after Maribel told Renko about her dreams involving going to another world in ''[[Changeability of Strange Dream]]'', Renko speculates that Maribel's ability is evolving into the ability to manipulate boundaries, even though such a thing should be impossible. In later stories such as ''[[Trojan Green Asteroid]]'' and ''[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]]'', Maribel is outright taking Renko with her to different worlds and bringing things back from them, showing that her ability has advanced far beyond merely being able to see boundaries. Her power has grown so much that "Renko couldn't help but think that Maribel was on the same level as those youkai."
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| One of Yukari's most famous uses of her ability was to go to the [[moon]] through its reflection on the lake. At the end of ''[[Magical Astronomy]]'', Maribel also gets an idea of how to get to the moon while looking at its reflection in the lake, although the story ends there without explicitly saying what it was.
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| ===Dreams===
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| In ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', it mentions a couple speculations by various denizons of [[Gensokyo]]. One is that Yukari is a youkai from the [[outside world]] and spends her days and winters there (the time she claims to be sleeping). Another is that the outside world is Yukari's dream. It's also stated that Yukari's ability to manipulate boundaries includes the ability to enter dreams. ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' doesn't state how valid these speculations are.
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| Maribel herself has visited Gensokyo in her dreams. In these dreams, she appears to still be Maribel and still be a [[human]], as she says she is constantly attacked by youkai and runs from them in fear (which is the point when she typically wakes up).
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| Maribel is descended from a lineage which has had the ability to sense the supernatural since long ago. She herself exists in a time in the near future (when her stories are stated to take place). Yukari meanwhile has existed for at least over 1,200 years before and up to the present day (when the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' takes place).
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| It's confirmed that travelling through time is possible in the ''Touhou Project''. [[Watatsuki no Toyohime]] mentions that rarely, time is one of the things that a [[human]] can get spirited away through in [[Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Third_Chapter|Cage in Lunatic Runagate's third chapter]]. Maribel appears to have travelled through time on at least one occasion. In ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', there's an entry about a [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Memorandum|mysterious memo]] found "several hundred years ago" written by a person who believes she's wandering in the [[Bamboo Forest of the Lost]] while she's dreaming, mentioning such things as a [[wikipedia:Global Positioning System|GPS]] and a cell phone, and even the phrase "I'm gonna tell [[Renko Usami|Renko]] about it when I wake up."
| | Da man ihren echten Vornamen lediglich aus den Katakana interpretieren kann, hat sich die generelle westliche Fandom auf "Maribel / Merry" geeignet. Die Deutsche Übersetzung hat für sie, um den Witz ihres unmöglichen Namens beizubehalten, "Mæriberī / Merry" gewählt.<br /> |
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| Going by this, Maribel was apparently herself in Gensokyo during at least two different times hundreds of years apart. In ''[[Changeability of Strange Dream]]'', Maribel visits a scarlet mansion with a maid (presumably the [[Scarlet Devil Mansion]]) at one point, and at another point gets lost in a bamboo forest (of which the events where she gets lost indicates it's the [[Bamboo Forest of the Lost]]). The memo in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' shows that the period in which she got lost was several hundreds of years before the present day, while the Scarlet Devil Mansion is known to have arrived in Gensokyo only recently.
| | Andere Interpretationen besagen, dass es sich bei ihrem Namen um eine abgeänderte Form von "Mulberry" handeln könnte (マルベリー / Maruberii). Die auf Deutsch bekannte Maulbeere ist eine Frucht, die vom Aussehen der Brombeere ähnelt, und in ihrer Reife eine dunkelviolette Farbe annimmt, was wiederum auf Yukaris Namen (紫, violett) zurückzuschließen ist. Außerdem steht in Hikawachou, einem Stadtteil Tokyos, der zu Yukari eine enge Verbindung hat, [https://goo.gl/maps/LQ2yiNgztH2tvbo38 eine Fabrik namens Mulberry]. |
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| ===Yukari's Original Name===
| | Des weiteren ist sie als anonyme Zeitschriftenautorin von der "Katzengold Naturgeschichte" bekannt als "Dr. Latency". Dieses Pseudonym hat Renko für sie ausgewählt, da es geschlechtsneutral ist und weder östlich noch westlich klingt. Merry selbst findet den Namen relativ peinlich. |
| Yukari Yakumo is "probably" (quoted from [[Rinnosuke Morichika]]) not Yukari's original name. In ''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' chapter 26, while analyzing the meaning of Yukari's name, Rinnosuke notes that Yukari is "probably" the name she chose for herself. Yukari's article in ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' supports this by mentioning records from 1,200 years ago of a youkai that seems to be Yukari Yakumo (the wording shows those records didn't have the youkai's name recorded as Yukari Yakumo). As noted above, Maribel's namesake Lafcadio Hearn changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo when he became a Japanese citizen.
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| In ''[[Changeability of Strange Dream]]'', Maribel also worries (to an unknown degree of seriousness) that her real name was forgotten because Renko always calls her "Merry".
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| | Sie hat blonde Haare, trägt ein lilanes Kleid (manchmal hell, manchmal dunkel) und eine weiße Haube. Auf einigen Covern trägt sie keine Haube, zusätzlich aber eine rote Schleife oder rote statt schwarze Schuhe. |
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| | Hauptinspiritation war der irisch-grichische Schriftsteller [[Wikipedia:de:Lafcadio Hearn|Lafcadio Hearn]] (später bekannt unter seinem japanischen Namen Koizumi Yakumo), welcher durch seine Bücher über Japan (speziell über Legenden und Geistergeschichten) bekannt wurde. Auch wurden die Titel einiger Musik-CDs von dessen Werken abgeleitet. |
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| ===Statements About Gensokyo's Reality=== | | ==Auftritte== |
| Maribel believes that the world in her dreams (Gensokyo) is merely a dream, although it's so realistic that it leads her to panic about whether her dream is the true reality or not. Renko, however, believes that it's not a dream and that Maribel has actually visited another world. In the end, after debating on a choice which would lead Maribel to either stay in that world by convincing her it's real, or the "real" world by convincing her it's just a dream, Renko decides to tell Maribel to make her dream a reality.
| | ===Musik=== |
| | ;''[[Ghostly Field Club]]'' |
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| In ''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Memorizable Gensokyo|Memorizable Gensokyo]]'', Yukari refers to herself as the representative of [[Gensokyo]]'s reality.
| | ;''[[Changeability of Strange Dream]]'' |
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| ===The State of Gensokyo===
| | ;''[[Retrospective 53 minutes]]'' |
| ''Changeability of Strange Dream'''s Japanese title translates to "The Science Era of Changing a bad dream to become true," while the synopsis includes the statement, "Two young female mediums, changing future nightmares into sweet dreams." Within the storyline where Maribel is trapped in Gensokyo, she comments, "The dreams usually end when I'm being chased by a youkai. It certainly seems like a nightmare, no matter how you see it, although..." followed by "Though, if I could change that nightmare to a pleasant dream, different from present reality..." | |
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| Renko Usami is the only other member of Maribel's [[Sealing Club]] and a fellow student at Maribel's university. The two are very good friends, working together to seek out other worlds, travelling by train together to Renko's hometown, discussing going to the [[moon]] together, and Maribel confiding to Renko about her travels to another world in her dreams.
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| In one of her dreams, Maribel met a [[maid]] at a [[Scarlet Devil Mansion|mansion that was a deep scarlet]]. The details of the meeting are unknown, but it must have been a friendly one given that Maribel was allowed to take some cookies home with her. It's unknown if the maid was indeed Sakuya.
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| In another one of her dreams, Maribel is rescued from a [[mouse]] or [[rabbit]] [[youkai]] by a mysterious girl surrounded by flames in the shape of a phoenix. Afraid of the girl, Maribel ran away. Although the mysterious girl is probably Mokou, it has never been explicitly confirmed.
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| [[ZUN]] was asked in [[Doujin Barrier: The Work Called Touhou and the Fantasy of Game Creation|a high school open lecture]] about the relation between Maribel and Yukari. He said that there was this [[wikipedia:Lafcadio Hearn|Lafcadio Hearn]] and laughed. | | ===Literatur=== |
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| ;[[Yuyuko Saigyouji]] | | ;''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]'' |
| Maribel encountered Yuyuko while investigating a supernatural hot spot (actually a place where ghosts come to the [[outside world]] to play). Merry didn't display any indication that she could see Yuyuko, though she appeared to feel a chill from her presence.
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| *One of Maribel's known theme songs is titled "Merry, the Magician" (the other is "Strange Bird of the Moon, Illusion of Mysterious Cat" that she shares with [[Renko Usami]]), but [[ZUN]] said in ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Music Columns|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s music column that her theme song is "not necessarily because Merry is a magician" and she doesn't consciously perform any magical acts in any of her stories.
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| **However, the end of ''[[Magical Astronomy]]'' refers to Maribel as "Merry, the Magician" just as she obtains the inspiration to perform an otherworldly act. She's also similar to a [[magician]] in the professional researcher sense, because she's researching other worlds and dreams, despite her world being one where all forms of energy are supposedly unified and [[scientist|science]] has reached its peak (according to Renko). In essence, magic is the only thing left to discover. Magic and science share many parallels, and Maribel is a person researching into this phenomenom in a world where science can't be researched further. Thus "Merry, the Magician" is a fitting moniker for her.
| | Renko ist Maribels beste und bisher einzige bekannte Freundin und mit ihr das einzige Mitglied des [[Club der Geheimsiegel]]. |
| *The actual name of Renko and Merry's club is "The [[Sealing Club]]", not "Ghostly Field Club", as stated in ''[[Ghostly Field Club]]'' (which is a story about their club investigating a ghostly field).
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| *In ''[[Imperishable Night]]'', ZUN mentions in [[Kaguya Houraisan]]'s [[Imperishable Night/Spell Cards/Stage 6B#Spell Card 183|"End of Imperishable Night -Half Past 2-"]] spell card commentary that this is the time right after when the gate to after-life world has opened. He thus implies that Maribel and Renko possibly did succeed in finding the entrance to the [[Netherworld]] in ''Ghostly Field Club'', but all he has to say about it are "So, what did Renko and Merry see, at all?"
| | Aufgrund des ähnlichen Aussehens und ähnlicher Fähigkeiten wird eine Verbindung zwischen Maribel und ihr vermutet. ZUN selber verweist als Antwort auf die Frage lediglich auf den Schriftsteller [[Wikipedia:de:Lafcadio Hearn|Lafcadio Hearn]]. Weitere Informationen dazu in diesen [[Beziehung zwischen Maribel Hearn und Yukari Yakumo | Artikel]]. |
| *Merry's the only [[human]] from the [[outside world]] confirmed to know the true nature of the [[Lunar Capital]]. She also has apparently looked at the true [[Moon]] without going mad, something which few humans can do.{{Citation needed}}
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| {{hidden begin|title=Official Sources||titlestyle = background:pink; text-align:center;}}
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| *2003/12/30 '''[[Ghostly Field Club]]'''
| | File:Maribel Hearn GFC.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn in [[Ghostly Field Club ]] |
| *2004/12/30 '''[[Changeability of Strange Dream]]'''
| | File:Maribel Hearn CoSD.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn in [[Changeability of Strange Dream]] |
| *2006/05/21 '''[[Retrospective 53 minutes]]'''
| | File:Maribel Hearn R53M.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn in [[Retrospective 53 minutes]] |
| *2006/08/13 '''[[Magical Astronomy]]'''
| | File:Maribel Hearn MA.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn in [[Magical Astronomy]] |
| *2006/12/27 '''[[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''' - [[Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Memorandum|Memo]]
| | File:Maribel Hearn TGA.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn in [[Trojan Green Asteroid]] |
| *2011/05/08 '''[[Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey]]'''
| | File:Maribel_NToJ.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn in [[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]] |
| *2012/04/27 '''[[Symposium of Post-mysticism]]''' - [[Symposium of Post-mysticism/Part_2|Part 2]] | | File:Maribel Hearn DLFR.png|x325px|Maribel Hearn in [[Dr. Latency's Freak Report]] |
| *2012/04/30 '''[[Trojan Green Asteroid]]
| | </gallery> |
| *2012/08/11 '''[[Neo-traditionalism of Japan]]'''
| | ==Trivia== |
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| | * Maribel ist neben [[Renko Usami]] und [[Sumireko Usami]] der einzige Charakter, der in der [[Außenwelt]] lebt. |
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Maribel Hearn in Ghostly Field Club
Maribel Hearn in Changeability of Strange Dream
Maribel Hearn in Retrospective 53 minutes
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