Quote:-Anything- of his she borrows is going to be vastly oversized. His mother's tall and his father's bulky, and he picked up both traits. ^_^
Trenchcoats are kind of cliche for the badass male character... which would be subverted only until Ken transforms the first time since he's not all that athletic despite being Tall and in pretty good shape. Maybe something 3/4 length, a "car coat" I think they call them? I think some mention was made of his giving Miyou a spiff jacket at some point, a logical extension of which would be her having borrowed his (vastly oversized) one a time or two.
Hmm.
Digressing, but bear with me.
I had originally wanted to suggest that TnK be set in the fictional town of Toraguchi - written 'tiger mouth', due to Madora's having been sealed there - which would, then, be located somewhere in Nagano Prefecture, thus giving us a nice skenic backdrop with excuses for cliffs and things. After doing a little more research, though, I'd like to move Toraguchi to, say, somewhere in northwestern Iwate Prefecture. Confirming from the local government's official site, I think that putting our town there will give us mountains, a moderate-to-outright-cold climate, a lot of relatively undisturbed land, and even adds the possibility of setting it along the shore of a pretty caldera or something. (Neither of Iwate's sites mention having such, but the ones for Aomori and Akita both do, so I'd be surprised if there weren't a few.
So, what does all this have to do with Kennan's choice in clothing?
Heh. Digression #2 -
Dragons live a long time, I think the range was 700-1000 years? This means that, even if Ken's parents are both the draconic equivalent of twenty-somethings, they're still going to be old enough to remember where they were when, say, the American Revolution kicked off. Given their origins/history and even more, their mobility, relative to humans, I don't see any reason that his dad, say, couldn't have been in Europe or America during the nineteenth century.
Turning ninety degrees, all the stories about hoarding and such suggest that most dragons share two traits at a level about as close to instinctual as the way most humans don't like being -growled- at. First, they're going to be pack rats - they -never- throw anything away or leave anything behind (permanently, anyway). And second, they're posessive as all hell.
Mixing that with my views on romance, I'd suggest that a lot of the way they tend to show affection and/or devotion is involved in -suppressing- that - showing that they care enough to stop and think and put the other's choices ahead of their own instincts/reactions/desires.
BTW, this should be good for an 'awwww' moment during or immediately after Keiu's intro, where Miyou's telling Ken how silly she feels for being jealous - and he asks her why she'd essentially gone and stepped aside when she felt that way - and she says something that basically boils down to a more diplomatic version of 'because I don't own you, even if it hurts me,' - which from his POV is just short of saying 'Ai shiteru', see above.
...And I'm suddenly seeing another scene where Miyou asks his mom why on earth he reacted like that, and her eyes getting -real- big at the explanation.
And of course, the other aspect is that gifts are going to be a Big Deal.
This means that, if his father were to give him a coat he had picked up some time in the past (I have in mind an 1860s Union Officer's Greatcoat, but other options are open, of course), Kennan would probably appreciate it enough to outright ignore how (un)fashionable it might be to wear such a thing.
Which means that I get this great dramatic flaring look, and you get something that I've never seen outside of pictures specifically set during the American Civil War. Distinctive, ne?
Quote:No, no, nothing like that. This, not this or, god forbid, -this-. Fifteen pounds, maybe twenty, I'd say.
As for Miyou going for the more impressively bulky weapons, since she's summoning them when she needs them anyway... Well, keep in mind that she's not supposed to be fantastically strong, at least at the beginning - by anime standards at least. She could armwrestle RL bodybuilders and make them cry for their mommies, but just holding on to Kennan and gradually slipping free was the best she could manage in ep1, so no 700lb Buster Swords. I was seeing her as a ninjutsu and dual-wakazashi girl, myself, with some kind of polearm as an alternate.
Ja, -n
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