I know where you're going with this, but I'm just going to take a moment and enjoy the notion that marrying a vampire, specifically, links into one of his core competencies. I mean, I guess the case could be made that one of his core competencies is not dying, and that stood him in good stead with Flandre, if nothing else. :)

>But as soon as he can tell gravity to sod off for more
>than a few seconds at a time, it feels like it's over.

That makes sad face, because he's been wondering about what it would be like for years; but, alas, you're probably not wrong.

>Reimu and Marisa is an uncommon but not unheard-of pairing,

Is it really? It seems like half of the doujinshi on e-hentai that show Marisa in a relationship with anyone match her with Reimu, and the other half with Alice. (The error bars are the occasional hookups with Patchy, the fella who runs the secondhand store, and, in one particularly-memorably-baffling instance, Shanghai.*)

>Shanghai was just adorable.

Can't take much credit for that. It's just how Shanghai rolls. :)

>And it'd definitely be
>interesting for Marisa to meet Witolda and find out she's not the only
>witch whose familiar is a physical animal.

It's rare, but not entirely unheard-of; in the scene where Witolda first appeared, Eila mentioned that she knew another witch whose familiar was an actual dog. (A pug, in fact. I think I had in mind making reference to her later as an ancestor of Penelope Creighton-Ward, but never had an opportunity. :)

--G.
* this figure does not include the faceless-dude pornos
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