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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?
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.
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.
Reimu isn't "filling her role" as the Hakurei shrine maiden.
And yet, everything functions.
Well, that's easy to explain.
Although, on the other side, there are some people whose role and personage end up becoming inseparable.