Aya, are you a cannibalism?

alivealive said:

Aya, are you a cannibalism?

Of course not. She is a crow, and those are chicken wings, and thighs and drumsticks. Not cannibalism in the least bit.

This whole "Mystia-doesn't-like-to-eat-chicken-wings" cliché is fun, but birds eat birds all the time, just as mammals eat other mammals all the time (man eats pig, for example). As long as it isn't the same species (or very closely related species), it's not cannibalism.

That doesn't mean we can't make funny jokes about it.

Astrojensen said:

This whole "Mystia-doesn't-like-to-eat-chicken-wings" cliché is fun, but birds eat birds all the time, just as mammals eat other mammals all the time (man eats pig, for example). As long as it isn't the same species (or very closely related species), it's not cannibalism.

That doesn't mean we can't make funny jokes about it.

If I recall correctly, the Mystia not wanting people to eat chicken thing is canon. I think that it was in an interview by Aya.

mimeki said:

If I recall correctly, the Mystia not wanting people to eat chicken thing is canon. I think that it was in an interview by Aya.

Yup, in BAIJR. Mystia says she opened her stall to drive grilled chicken stands out of business (and also to save up money for an electric guitar?) something that Aya seems to agree with considering she objects to Reimu serving chicken at shrine parties instead of rabbit.

mimeki said:

If I recall correctly, the Mystia not wanting people to eat chicken thing is canon. I think that it was in an interview by Aya.

It is. IIRC Aya seemed to approve of the idea as well, although it might just be because she doesn't like Mokou (who threatened to cook her up and serve her at her stand.)

Diabolicwave said:

And Reisen protested against rabbit and promoted chicken. Meanwhile Reimu didn't really care either way because the both of them were youkai at her shrine. In the end Reimu started having the parties with both dishes.

Reimu considered eating a fox shape-shifted into a Marisa once. She doesn't exactly have discriminating tastes.

Even in her tastes, Reimu is un-biased.

Lime12121 said:

It is. IIRC Aya seemed to approve of the idea as well, although it might just be because she doesn't like Mokou (who threatened to cook her up and serve her at her stand.)

It was also later truly canonized in Akyu's chronicles.

Fellow birds being suggestive
or no
just being natural

Astrojensen said:

This whole "Mystia-doesn't-like-to-eat-chicken-wings" cliché is fun, but birds eat birds all the time, just as mammals eat other mammals all the time (man eats pig, for example). As long as it isn't the same species (or very closely related species), it's not cannibalism.

That doesn't mean we can't make funny jokes about it.

It's just that some people take it too seriously and get misinformed.

Aya is a crow tengu, right? If so, she probably shouldn't be eating fried chicken, if only because crows aren't (to my knowledge) birds of prey.

Edit: Having looked it up, crows are, in fact, omnivorous, so Aya can eat whatever she damn well wants to.