I love the style of this. It almost looks like a screenshot from an actual anime.

Maribel is literally Yukari but slightly smaller.

Black_Gold_Saw said:

Maribel is literally Yukari but slightly smaller.

She is Yukari... much younger Yukari...

Weebson said:

She is Yukari... much younger Yukari...

Oh, come on. We can be a lot more creative that that. There's not even any canon evidence that their resemblance is more than a coincidence - it would be a pretty big coincidence if it was, but we have all of the room in the world to come up with all kinds of explanations, so don't just assume the most obvious (and therefore boring) explanation is automatically fact. Give me something weird, god dammit!

XionGaTaosenai said:

Oh, come on. We can be a lot more creative that that. There's not even any canon evidence that their resemblance is more than a coincidence - it would be a pretty big coincidence if it was, but we have all of the room in the world to come up with all kinds of explanations, so don't just assume the most obvious (and therefore boring) explanation is automatically fact. Give me something weird, god dammit!

What about them being relatives like yukari is an ancestor and that is the reason for maribel's powers are similar to the gap hag's

XionGaTaosenai said:

Oh, come on. We can be a lot more creative that that. There's not even any canon evidence that their resemblance is more than a coincidence - it would be a pretty big coincidence if it was, but we have all of the room in the world to come up with all kinds of explanations, so don't just assume the most obvious (and therefore boring) explanation is automatically fact. Give me something weird, god dammit!

There's tons of canon evidence for them being the same person. The fact they resemble eachother is only one of like a dozen things that link the two.

pichu356 said:

What about them being relatives like Yukari is an ancestor and that is the reason for Maribel's powers are similar to the Gap Hag's.

That or Maribel is Yukari’s daughter. Probably her youngest daughter at that. I mean, would you expect someone who’s been alive that long and still looks like she’s in her prime to have been a virgin up until now?

Now I would like to imagine that Yukari was at least a decent parent and was there for her daughter as much as she could. Although she obviously didn’t tell her about Gensokyo or that she’s actually a Yokai that’s been alive for a very long time.