So close to what Deva's basically working on, except she doesn't necessarily have a good understanding of the personality of people so it'd be even worse.
I canât speak for Kako, but Deva doesnât seem to be the kind to care much for acting, and more of âusing the forms of others to lower their guard, and once they do, immediately attack themâ. Also, sheâs FAR from helpless when found out, VERY far from it and super dangerous.
Also, thereâs the whole thing of wanting to turn everyone into clones of her, YES
I wonder how, in such a hypothetical incident, Eri would get around ones that can see through deception? (Emma, Satori, etc) Take them out first?
Two possibilities on top of my head:
Gensokyo trusts Emma, Satori, Eiki, etc to root Eri out. Mind readers like them or people who can read energy like Meiling and Lust are Eriâs hard counter. So...
Eri impersonates one of them to take away suspicion from himself. Worst case scenario, Eri can also possess the bodies of one of them, so he not only gets their mind reading/etc, he also takes them out of the picture since heâs inhabiting them. Fortunately, because his possession isnât mastered, he has to hide his own body somewhere because it would be completely vulnerable otherwise.
He avoids them entirely. Unless they are actively searching for him, they most likely wonât be able to find him in a crowd, and thatâs when he tries to incapacitate them.
So yeah, still hard to find him, but theyâre pretty much the key incident solvers to beating him.