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One important thing is that Fowler's been in Japan for long enough that he missed out on one of the darkest periods in Anglo-Irish history. Even considering his traumatic childhood in the Nine Years' War, he's got a horrible surprise waiting for him when he gets back home, which may end up giving him an actual reason to work with our resident onryo.
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roomtone posted:also, is there any real historical context for the fire of 1657 in edo? I see that it's real so I was wondered if Abijah was real (doesn't seem so) or at least based on any real historical figures? What about the shogun and lords in the show, were they real names? We know that this is an alternate history on a certain level because the clan name of the real-world shogunate was Tokugawa for all four hundred years, even before we get into a Western-backed coup attempt getting most of them killed in this show.
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Remember that while Mizu is on a quest for revenge, she's also on a quest for knowledge. She's desperate to understand who and what she is and what that means, and that's the main reason Fowler's still alive. As soon as he dropped that line about her real mother, he had her.
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Warbird posted:I’d have to go read up on the timelines on the matter but there is a decent chance our favorite murder lady rolls up in London to find some mixed folk like herself and no one much giving a poo poo. The East India Company had been doing their thing for half a century when our story starts. Hell, the Silk Road had been rolling right along for a goddamn millennium and a half by the time our story takes place. Apart from the whole hideous Irish business, the Commonwealth was chiefly preoccupied with the Caribbean a the time this story is set thanks to Cromwell's Western Design and the resultant Anglo-Spanish War. Chance for Mizu to hang out with Jamaicans who have complicated relationships with England.
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nine-gear crow posted:Also acceptable: Glass Eye Samurai Pretty sure that's just Zatoichi.
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Taear posted:Since Fowler has a Norn accent I assumed he was from there and probably won't care what happens to Catholics in Ireland. Fowler ate his sister as a starving child during the Nine Years' War, which laid the way for the (genocidal) Protestant colonisation that created the enclave we now think of as 'Northern Ireland'. He wouldn't have any reason to identify with the English settlers who took over his home during his lifetime. Having an Ulster accent had extremely different implications in the 17th century. As for English gender relations, the country was then under the control of a religious-fundamentalist military dictatorship, and Mizu certainly isn't your typical good Puritan woman...
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As I've said, I think Mizu as the Terminator is chiefly a way of showing how her hate is making her something more than human. She's approaching being a genuine onryo. The problem is that her unlikely strength and durability is also accompanied by an unlikely capacity for indiscriminate destruction, as shown when at the height of her powers (again, maybe literal, maybe not), her quest for revenge accidentally consumes an entire city in fire.
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