According to Marisa's profile she is just an ordinary magician yet she is capable of aconplishing amazing feets such as doing mid-air magic enhanced cartweels,riding her broom in the speed almost similar to Aya and firing the Master.Spark without suffering eye damage or vurbt to cinder. Is there an explanation of this an how strong is Marisa and what is her weakness.
According to Marisa's profile she is just an ordinary magician yet she is capable of aconplishing amazing feets (...)
Marisa uses magic but she is still a human. She is a self proclaimed "ordinary magician", which is not indicative of anything, as there's nothing like "ordinary magic" out there. "Ordinary magician" shouldn't mean that she can't do anything extraordinary, not that she is limited to ordinary stuff. At any rate, she is more like a laser magician...
(...)doing mid-air magic enhanced cartweels,riding her broom in the speed almost similar to Aya and firing the Master.Spark without suffering eye damage or vurbt to cinder. Is there an explanation of this an how strong is Marisa(...)
Canon doesn't give a direct explanation of the way magic generally works, so we can only speculate for this, maybe by starting from various points and speculate in a more or less far fetched way :
-In general, otherworldly source of powers, magic included, can affect people and things in some way in Touhou
-Marisa's magic stick(?) from UFO is said to be unecessary because you can use whatever magic you can already use but not get to use a new kind of magic by relying on tools
-According to Rinnosuke, the
mini-hakkero holds more than enough power to reduce a mountain to cinders
-There are other occurences that are not reasonably possible in Touhou, the worst offender being the fight against Okuu in SA
-Other reasons listed among banned templates
Speculation time ! Alright, so why doesn't Marisa suffers from some kind of drawback when she uses magic ? Let's say Marisa fires Master spark : it is described as an intense
magic of light and heat AND usually requires the use of the mini-hakkero. But the people you don't like you fire master spark on don't turn to cinders nor roasted meat, even though the hakkero is supposedly able to reduce whole MOUNTAINS to cinders. It can be blamed on the spellcard battles, but the super lethal attacks'll still need to be made to fit that way... anyway, it's
possible (oy, this is speculation) that magical phenomon doesn't affect people the same way physical phenomon does : if you view it this way, then Marisa's magic generated light not affecting her eyesight nor her heat magic not burning herself nor roasting people like fire make some sense. Even Patchouli's elemental magic is associated with symbolism rather than shounen-ish battle convenience use, for example, her fire element is associated with change and movement instead of a blatant "TO BURN STUFF" (obviously, it's fire so it burns, but that's not the biggest focus there...), while Mokou who is NOT a magician but somehow manages to generate fire (not magical fire) can get burned by her own flames. This doesn?t mean that magic have no physical effect whatsoever since Marisa can cook with her mini-hakkero. If anything, the tools might hold some power of their own, but they?re just used as some sort of medium for magic. We?re also talking about
magic related things as something completely different from
supernatural stuff (since magic is the other kind of science?), which can affect physical stuff to a certain extent, like the hermit?s space powers or Futo?s flaming fire that burns everything for example.
Also, exposure to magic can affect people or things too : Marisa?s broom supposedly grows some leaves. Exposure to supernatural (ie : youkai or youma books) source of power and/or magical source of power do affect people and things in one way or another in the Touhou-verse, and it shouldn?t be too far fetched to say that being able to make use of such sources?ll give you an edge over the other people who can?t. A bit gratuitous here, but if Marisa uses magic and magic tools daily, it?d be suspicious if she somehow gets magic drawbacks from contact with anything magical (excluding accidents if these happens), not to mention all the training she supposedly does and all of her magic research or even the magic she pirated from other people and refined.
At any rate, her ability to use magic is what makes Marisa stronger (stronger than your average Joe at any rate), and her hard work play a role in this too. Anything regarding the ?why she doesn?t suffer some kind of drawback? are speculation, since we don?t have very explicit stuff from canon?
(...)what is her weakness.
Marisa is a human (stronger than your average Joe but still human), so she is obviously vulnerable to anything bad that can happen to humans like death, sickness, the lack of super regenerative ability, and since this is Touhou, maybe we can add things like misfortune too. For the more character specific weakness, it?s got to be her bold, borderline reckless personality : there are various remarks about how the way she do things could kill her someday, so yeah? also, when Marisa fires master spark and misses, you'll get a big opening.
