No.6 Discussion Board

@AoYokai and @listenforthelove, regarding Rou, I think there's a portion of the novel where Rou's giving his backstory and he mentions that he's years older than Karan but they were childhood friends. So I don't think he's /actually/ old, he just has a lot of authority. (and maybe he looks old too LOL)

Karan and I were childhood friends. I was much older than her, but we often played together. (Vol 6 Ch 5)

I can't imagine being 10 years older and still being able to call that childhood friends. :d but say he's 16, and she's 6 and they're childhood friends. In the "present" time, after Shion and Karan move to Lost Town, she's like, what, 40 at most? (since her son is 16.) That would only put Rou at maybe around 50. And the Mao Massacre happened 12 years before "present" time, so he would've been like about around his 40s. I don't know if you'd call a 40 year old as being in his elderly years, but..  the novel did make him sound really old, so.

Back to the topic of names, I love that the No.6 citizens all had kanji in their names!! That brings a much broader perspective of the education system between West Block and No.6 - like the stark different between the two. and also that most of the names had a plant-motif!! That's definitely something that doesn't translate well into English.

I like the idea that the Forest People didn't have names! or maybe if they did, it'd be very much related to nature. I always humored the idea that Nezumi's real name is Maus just because it sounds like Mouse. ;__;