Maribel guardia fakes

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So, Taboo Japan Disentanglement was released earlier today, and the story is now translated on Touhou wiki. In the discussion thread I saw that many said that at the end of TJD, everything, as expected of ZUN, returns to the status quo, and that the red ribbon is just red herring.
I definitely would argue that this status quo only remains at a surface level, and beneath that Maribel and Renko HAS definitely changed, and would like to lay out my case here with the Story 5 from the CD: Taboo Marionette, or Okina's musings on Maribel's actions.
(This is a repost of the theory that I typed up in the TJD discussion thread that is editted to be easier to read. The OP of that thread recommended me to repost this in a separate thread.)

"On this hill, on the seventh day of the seventh month, stand not before it at the tenth hour." "If you cross before it, something mysterious will surely occur."

This is the Taboo that Maribel (and later, Renko) broke.

Tanabatazaka's taboo was forgotten long ago. Well, there's nothing that can be done about it, is there?

This is a blatant lie/rhetorical question: This taboo is definitely not forgotten, because two people still remember it (by rediscovering it) and is determined to break it: Maribel and Renko.

Humans forgot the ways to communicate with other worlds. Well, there's nothing that can be done about it, is there?

Maribel and Renko is able to communicate with other worlds - more than that, they have crossed into them, both accidentally and intentionally, as Maribel and Renko both did here one by one. More than that, communicating with other worlds (using quantum physics) is literally Renko's thesis that was about to be presented to the wider scientific community, so even if 'humanity' as a whole has forgotten how to communicate with other worlds 'now' they will be relearning how to do it very, very soon at the very end of this CD in fact when Maribel and Renko returns to publish their now joint thesis. So, another blatant lie/rhethorical question.

As taboos were forgotten and phantasm shrunk away, death itself passed into fantasy. This girl, too, thinks that her own world is on the side of reality, doesn't she?

In previous CDs, Maribel and Renko has debated about immortality, what is myths coming back to life, what does it mean to straddle between life and death - and they dubbed it Necrofantasia. Here, Maribel (and Renko) is literally causing a myth to come back to life by believing in it and then shattering it, causing it to be in a limbo between real and fake. Maribel (and Renko) is literally causing a Necrofantasia - Yukari's theme song and Gensoukyo as a whole: a place where myths don't die, but linger.

Has she convinced herself that she's an immortal human, I wonder? There's no way that that could be true, right?

What is an immortal human called, asks the Goddess of Magicians and Destiny? The red ribbon is Zun's answer.
Edit: as for the red ribbon, I should have explained it clearer but basically, the cover art where Maribel have the red ribbon is the scene where Renko is saving Maribel after she was 'captured' by Okina Matara, the Goddess of Magician and Destiny, who muses that Maribel is no longer normal human. The implications are quite clear.

Riiight—?

This pretty much confirms all of the above rhetorical questions above are just that, rhetorical questions and blatant lies meant to say the opposite by the Goddess of Magicians and Destiny. Taboo and Myths are not dead and forgotten, but coming back to 'life' in the limbo of Necrofantasia; Humanity is going to rediscover how to communicate with other worlds again very, very soon; and Maribel has become an immortal human - a Magician, in the best case scenario. And whatever the future holds, Okina Matara will be there... waiting... scheming.
And yes, Okina Matara is more than just a Goddess of Backdoors - she is the Goddess of Outcasts from societies such as Magicians, and also Matara-jin, the Tendai Buddhist God of Destiny.
Also in other news, Renko is pretty much stated by the story to have commited Heresy. She after all did not just commit the Taboo but also toppled a statue of God (that is also a natural heritage) before literally ripping the tear between worlds asunder in saving Maribel in story 10. Edit: Renko herself declares her thesis to be heretical against contemporary science. Renko the Heretical Scientific Magician when?
Tl;dr: Okina basically stated that something major has happened to Maribel by committing the Taboo in this story - and that something is Necrofantasia. Now whether this means Maribel has become a Magician, become Immortal, has taken the first step to become Youkai of the Boundary or something elses is unclear, but whatever it is Maribel is definitely no longer baseline, normal human. Furthermore, Renko also did everything Maribel did that made Okina say Maribel is no longer baseline human (in addition to committing several crimes against god, the laws of man and nature), and what shall be the result of this remains to be seen.
Man typing all of this out at 2am is exhausting. Feel free to ask/suggest anything, I will answer them tomorrow.