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Oh, it's a good place to discuss something like that. :3

Hmm... I don't know for sure, but I guess it's Hamlet. The white one.
Ok, No. 6 Wiki also says that

he likes to listen to him reading Hamlet, he also appears to like other Shakespear's books as well.

http://no6.wikia.com/wiki/Hamlet

Edit: Ahh... but I'm not so sure about that wiki. XD It also says:

Nezumi's mechanical Mice inhabit the city. They are devices that Nezumi created to monitor or watch what is happening in No.6 city. With their appearence they can easily send messages or do different tasks. In the original novel Nezumi's first letter tells Karan that "Sion is safe, worry not. Escaped to West Block. Any replies to this mouse. Brown (Cravat) brings news of safety, black (Moonlit) brings news of change or abnormal occurrence,"

Eh...they aren't devices, they are his real mice. <,< Why should they eat cheese muffins and the dry looking cake Nezumi is giving them. ^^°

But I guess the Hamlet theorie is correct, since his name is so fitting.

That is what I was thinking, but I wanted to make absolutely sure ^^; Thank you so much guys!

Woah, great! O,O

Oh, look, it's from listenforthelove. Listenforthelove, you're my hero. x3

You're also my hero! (*_*)

Oh, this thread is really a great idea :D I'll might have to come back to his for discussing a character design for my crossover fanfic since I can't decide whether my idea of the current design is actually good or not ... Do you think this thread could be used for this too?

And I distantly remember discussing with Ahiku once whether Hamlet or Cravat was the brown mouse and coming to the conclusion (based on listenforthelove's translation of the guide book) that there have to be two brown mice xD I was right ^^" That really confused me because Hamlet is white in the manga and anime >.>

@lawlya: crossover fic?! I'm all ears~ This definitely seems like the topic for these kinds of discussions! Sounds like @this-is-our-truth's idea for originally creating this thread, after all.

@Weisel: it's only mentioned once or twice that Hamlet is brown, and all official art has depicted him as white, so it's super easy to miss. I doubt I would have caught it if it wasn't for the translations. I think Hamlet is still quite a bit lighter than Cravat, though. The mice have three different shades of grey (ahem) in their mission records (self plugging XD but it comes with scans here) and Hamlet is definitely the lightest, at any rate. The art just upped it by making him white and presumably easier to tell apart.
Oh well. Pretty much all character designs are at least slightly different from how they're described in the novels, so Hamlet as well I guess

Okay, so some of you might already know this (I don't know how clearly I spoke of this in the blog administration section ...) but: I'm writing a Madoka Magica x No.6 crossover fanfiction. Which means: No.6 characters in the world of Madoka Magica (so, if you don't know that anime, watch it! It's great and depressing ^^")

I more or less already gave each character a 'character role' from the Madoka universe and everything's set up. But I'm having problems with designing the assigned role for Elyurias to be honest.

So, Elyurias is, as we all know, this big wasp:


Yes, that's very clear. So, her assigned role is that of Kyubey or the Incubator:

Here's a link if you want to read a bit about Kyubey but it contains spoilers!

The role of this character is basically giving the Magical Girls in the original anime their powers by making a contract with them (not gonna tell you too much in case you haven't seen the anime). That's why it's basically the perfect role for Elyurias but you see ... if some big ass wasp came up to me and asked me to make a contract with them - I would cry bloody murder and run away as fast as I can.
I first thought about turning Elyurias into a bumblebee (since ironically, I'm a bit wary of wasps but am totally in love with bumblebees, okay?) but I'm not sure if that's any good. I'd like to keep the rather neutral face that can easily be interpreted as creepy and I think the face of an insect is kinda similar to that. But I'm entirely not sure if it would be a good idea to really make Elyurias an insect in this fanfiction and not rather a more ... cuddly thing.
(Of course you could always give her a sort of loan body that hides her true form which is an idea I'm rather fond of to solve this problem but I'm just kinda ... not good designing anything and usually need someone telling me if that's even a good idea ...)

Well, it would already help if you'd just tell me what you think of the whole matter. Or if you have any suggestions - pictures of Elyurias as Kyubey that popped up in your mind or something. Anything, really. Everything's helpful and who knows what I'm going to be able to work with ^^ (It's too late here; is that even a sentence??)

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@Ahiku: It was over a year ago or so ... I just now remembered and that we never actually solved that problem (until now) xD
And yeah, I wonder ... why did they keep Hamlet? Because he had a better name? Because he had more screentime in the anime? Who knows ...

(Depends on how easily you're hurt ... It's Madoka, what do you expect xD?)

Yeah, that was one thing I was unsure about - not everyone deems bumblebees less threatening than wasps xD But okay, good to see that it makes a difference to you ^^
Oh yeah, that moth is absolutely stunning! Thinking of Elyurias as a moth, I instantly thought of the colour gold ... Something like this maybe:


What do you think of giving Elyurias a sort of host body that they, as an alien species in the Madoka universe, created to protect their true bodies? Kyubey is still a rather mysterious character; you don't even know whether their bodies are their real ones or just puppets ... Each time one gets killed, another pops up - could be the same with Elyurias; everytime one of the host bodies is destroyed, you see a little black wasps escape before another appears nearby ...