And yet, everything functions.
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Although, on the other side, there are some people whose role and personage end up becoming inseparable.
From what I hear, she seems to have been very different from Reimu...
but isn't that just because she was "filling her role" as a shrine maiden?
Reimu isn't "filling her role" as the Hakurei shrine maiden.
Well, that's easy to explain.
I don't really know everything about the system here, either...
but I can see that Reimu is necessary for the running of Gensokyo, and fulfills that duty to perfection.
However, at the same time, she's extremely careless and untrained as a shrine maiden in charge of a shrine.
Her image as a shrine maiden was totally separate from her image as a person.
Most people just weren't really aware of the latter.
Not to brag, but I have some experience with that myself.
Hmm.