Mariko Kusumi

Strain42 on June 4, 2014

And for those of you wondering why Marie's link had the lovers route during these comics without me ever actually having them hook up, this is why. Because Rise dumped him in Add-On, so now he's free to date Marie guilt free.
I will confess, that was NOT the original plan. I did not have Rise dump him way back then just so he could hook up with Marie (I did it because I'm bitter and thought it would be funny in a sad way) Those comics were written long before I'd even played Golden and knew how she would impact the story.
But honestly, after playing Golden, even though I'm personally not super fond of Marie (she's fine when she's not tsundereing all over the place) I have to admit she makes a REALLY good love interest for him. I mean she's like the first person he meets in Inaba, provided you don't screw up, you spend Valentines Day with her whether she's your girlfriend or not, she's literally the Izanami to his Izanagi…it does work really well.
I'm kinda glad this worked out the way it did.
So I think we need to edit the TVTropes page or something now. I dunno how it works.