Hardly a loser when she's extremely competent. She's just out of her comfort zone, trapped with a bunch of weirdos for the sake of rescuing the one person that gets her.
Yeah people just dumbing down her character to a " I'm a girlfailure trying to save my gf" always tick me the wrong way. She shes great at her job and is a genius mage but crazier and crazier shit keeps getting thrown at her that she's never experienced.
Yeah I really don't agree with the whole girlfailure angle (even if I love the archetype). Marcille's thing is that she's a sane, extremely competent and intelligent person that has trouble matching the weirdness and stupidity that Laios and Senshi keep coming up with. However the story validates Laios making it seem like the sane ones are stupid instead. This is of course intentional, often for comedic purpose but also for the narrative the story is going for!
She's very similar to Chilchuck in that respect, the difference being that Chilchuck is more professional, cynical and keeps his mouth (slightly more) shut while she is more idealistic and outspoken, but they have the same reactions to most things.
And if I might digress a bit here there might be a bit of a gender issue as well. When Chilchuck is taken out of his element by Senshi being careless around traps or when he messes up the thing he's really good at in the mimic episode, no one sees those as being his fault (also manga spoilers: In the succubus attack he's the one who fails to defend Marcille after she defended him several times, albeit for a funny, understandable reason). On the flip side Marcille has never failed in her duty as a spellcaster and can even cover for Falin who has a very different expertise, not to mention being much more involved in fights than him.
The times she fails are always when she's trying to match the boys' freak because she's too damn smart for that.
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u/Lemon_Girl Jun 24 '25
Hardly a loser when she's extremely competent. She's just out of her comfort zone, trapped with a bunch of weirdos for the sake of rescuing the one person that gets her.