I appreciate you reading and your critique Mota. :) Yeah, I didn't see Marisa choosing violence unless something went really wrong, but there were other ways things could go poorly. Fortunately everything seems okay. :) So now we get to figure out Danmaku. Oscar sadly won't be able to participate much, even if some of his stage tricks might be useful. I once mused if he were a boss in the games, he wouldn't actually do damage. Just modify the battle while his minions fought you. He might warp your screen, shoot rockets to buffet you around, or even open your options menu to change the brightness. He'll probably follow a similar idea, blinding or deafening people. At least until he can get 'real' spell cards. Even then, probably won't be a real threat with them unless you outwit your foes.
And i just learned how to quote! Welp, i should say that you somehow managed to fit in a story almost everything i was searching for in a Touhou quest, namely, building up a random guy from the ground up, not only that but you seem to be really knowledgeable yourself so i could say that i'm "eating good" this time and that you deserve all the attention i can spare. About Oscar, i can straight up say that i would completely hate any boss fight against him, i have my own philosophy that half of a conflict, be it a simple debate or a fight, happens inside one's own mind. What do i mean with it? Well, Oscar is literally faking his way into Gensokyo and magicianhood with fancy words and cheap tricks, and that only works because
They Don't know it. In a fight, people normally wouldn't have a way to tell if Oscar is tricking you or not unless you already have him figured out but on the other hand, Oscar himself thinks he is inside his
ELEMENT, right now he has the best possible mentality he could ever have since his "innocence" prevents him from understanding that he proclaims the equivalent of Inhumanity in a supernatural sense, to him, he is simply doing what he already did his whole life. Eventually, he will have a few wake-up calls, this is unavoidable, and he will discover how deep he is into the rabbit hole but by then i would expect that he will have his powers to back him up.
I dunno. I always thought of Marisa as a good person, even if she's a thief. Oscar would have to convince her he was a real piece of work for her to Master Spark all over the place. But there are many ways he could ruin his new life in Gensokyo outside 'spell card to the face', and Marisa could do that in several ways. As for why she hasn't stolen anything, I think that's more down to him not having anything to interest her, outside the other grimoire. And that'll be easier to steal now that he has two of them.
Agreed, i never feared Marisa for possibly murderizing a man in the middle of the controversial "Hooman village", no, what i feared was the destruction of said mentality i wrote above, the last thing we need is to have Ozy doubt himself or worse, to lose a very specific card he has right now, the power to state a
WRONG fact without actually lying! Yes, he is not a magician and can't do magic, but he doesn't lie about being a magician, it's just that to him, a magician is the same thing as a profession (a questionable one but still a profession). And that is not a lie, probably the reason why Agappa is so interested in him since she clearly knows he is a normal human but at the same time is not lying at all, must be quite a paradox in her eyes or eye. Back to Marisa, her long historic as the underdog probably was the reason to why she chose to believe that Ozeyas was so skilled that she just couldn't sense him casting, after all, she was stated to have achieved her place through hard work and a questionable behavior, probably explains her obsession with big booms and shining lasers which might be a way to show that she is more than what she seems. Kind of like how some animals try to appear larger to intimidate potential predators, with that said, should be in our best interest to avoid an actual proud magician like the one whose surname is literally
Knowledge, not only because she would never fall for such a trick but because we have a very questionable book in our inventory right now.
I don't exactly care whether or not a person seems like a good gal or not, and considering the amount of knowledge Oscar had about her he would have gone along a similar line of reasoning as what I stated. Both my and Oscar's line of reasoning mixed into each other, which led to that very suspicious attitude I wrote in. As for her other methods of being an omen of the destruction of his less than ordinary but still cozy life, she isn't in direct contact with anyone threatening aside from Reimu. Given time, she would be able to utterly crush any chance of a normal life Oscar has, but that time won't exactly be given without a good reason, and anything concerning the Hakurei miko will involve useful explanations to weaponize later.
Oscar is an anomaly, which is enough to get him on the bad side of nearly everyone who actively cares about the balance of Gensokyo. Though there are more reasons than that as to why she wouldn't like him. On a side note, Yukari must be interested in this random human who wandered all the way from the furthest corner of Gensokyo to the human village in a day and seemingly recruited a Youkai as a helper.
Reimu, another sore topic, as Nyoko said, Oskers right now is an anomaly but not only that, he is an Outsider who claims Youkaihood. You guys probably know about the infamous fortune teller and i'm not faulting Reimu for doing what she must, but right now Oscar is in a strange gray area where he is not really a human from Gensokyo and at the same time now part of it, meaning that technically they have no legal power over him unless he chooses to settle in the village and officially stay in Gensokyo forever which he probably wouldn't like. To be honest here, as much as i like Gensokyo, someone like me would never realistically be able to last there, the main objective would be to return to society asap and Oscar should be feeling the same right now. So sad that his fate is now in our hands no? Don't want to sound like a villain but despite my concern for his safety and well-being, Ozymandias is now a tool for my own amusement and as such he will be denied a normal life for as long as i can influence it, Be strong now Osu! On a side note let's keep some distance from the Hakurei shrine for now... Oh and before i forget, i think Yukari would find a weird use for his skills too, performing what seems to be a magical feat in the eyes of the villagers would further advance the shady Youkai agenda.
Because can we really blame him for the lies? Deep inside I feel like Oscar would much rather resolve things with pure honesty and heart, but it's just too risky- he's constantly facing unimaginably powerful dangers around every corner of this mysterious world -and is forced to use his dirtiest tricks to get by. And even when he's not fending for his life (such as making money or telling people his former occupation), he's fooling people. Which I can't blame him for either.