pc-98s:

fanon mima: brutal and focused 100% on vengeance™ at all times

canon mima:



to elaborate: mima says a lot of bullshit during the games but if you look at her expressions they often don’t quite match up with what she’s saying. she lies a LOT and is trying to seem impressive and scary, of course, and she has the power to back it up, but she doesn’t really follow through in general. in her character profiles she’s even described as no longer actually being evil and being extremely humanlike (even “more human than humans”).

HRtP is probably the time when she’s most dangerous, most serious; even in SoEW, though she threatens reimu, especially when the player has already used a continue, saying “i’ll defeat you, but stop short of killing you”, she doesn’t even do that, instead running away saying reimu is too weak to face her, to avoid seriously injuring her (if the player has already continued). and from then on, she becomes even sillier, still causing trouble, still threatening people, but it’s all more mischievous than anything.

basically she’s multifaceted, way more than people tend to depict her being. she definitely DOES talk big and threatens people a lot, but at the same time, she’s kind of a huge dork whose evil has pretty much faded away, leaving a troublemaking and mischievous but ultimately almost friendly spirit, though still quite powerful and dangerous if she wants to be.