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Maribel Han

Name:

マエリベリー・ハーン

Maribel Han

Alternate spellings:

Maribel Hearn
Mæriberie Harn

Species:

Human

Abilities:

Ability to see every boundary all over the world

Age:

Unknown

Occupation:

University Student (Relative Psychology major)

Location:

Kyoto, Japan in the near future.

Description:

  • (Ghostly Field Club) Blond hair. Wears a purple dress and a white mob cap.
  • (Changeability of Strange Dream)
  • (Retrospective 53 minutes)
  • (Magical Astronomy)

Relationships:

Appearances:

(Music CDs)

Titles:

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Maribel is a student on the outside world, in a university. She majors in relative psychology and sometimes has difficulty telling the difference between dream and reality (at least, in regards to Gensokyo). She believes subjectivity to be more true than objectivity. Together with her friend, Renko Usami, she has an interest in what would be considered the paranormal. Their club, consisting of only the two of them, describes itself as a club for necromancers. However, they don't do many of the things necromancers would normally be associated with. Instead, they investigate the possibility of other worlds and such. Specifically they're interested in Gensokyo, the Netherworld, and the Moon, and seem to be among the few, or even the only, humans on the outside world who know of Gensokyo's existence. Maribel has visited Gensokyo in her dreams.


Fun Facts

  • Maribel's nickname is "Merry" or "Mary." She also complains that Renko never calls her by her full name because it's hard for Renko to pronounce.
  • As Maribel's name is written in katakana, she is not of Japanese ethnicity.
  • Due to her power to see Gensokyo's boundary, she is sometimes depicted with Yukari.
    • There is a fan theory that Maribel and Yukari Yakumo are actually the same person. The basic idea of this theory is that when Maribel sleeps she dreams that she is Yukari and when Yukari sleeps she dreams she is Maribel. Because Yukari is nocturnal and is known to sleep during the day neither of them would normally be awake at the same time. Maribel is strangely able to cross the border into Gensokyo while dreaming. Maribel's clothes are also very similar to Yukari's clothing from Perfect Cherry Blossom. Both characters have blonde hair and (in some depictions) purple eyes, and have abilities related to boundaries. Some fans go further with this theory to suggest that Gensokyo itself was created in Maribel's dreams. However, none of this is officially supported. (In "Perfect Memento in Strict Sense," there is an entry about a mysterious memo by a person who believes she is wandering in the bamboo forest while she is dreaming. The key phrase "I'm gonna tell Renko about it when I wake up" is a clear tip-off to whose memo this is. This would seem to disprove the preceding theory, since the memo's author would be Yukari, were it to be true.)
  • Another theory linking Maribel to Yukari stems from the fact that there has never been an official romanization for her name マエリベリー・ハーン (Maeriberii Haan). It is possible that the ハーン in her name does not translate to "Han" but "Hearn", as in Lafcadio Hearn the Western author of Japanese horror stories. Lafcadio Hearn was known as "Koizumi Yakumo" after he gained Japanese citizenship.
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