Incidental Bits Thread #3

[Mamorien]

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Now I did look up the kanji for the Jurai family in TM though, which is spelled 樹雷.  The first one is a more complicated version of 木, meaning tree or trees.  The next one is 雷, thunder/lightning.  (Both are the Chinese readings; in the Japanese readings it would be ki-kaminari.)  I'm pretty sure that this is a plot related name, given the energy beams coming from the trees.
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"I finally saw how Aeka and Sasami write their family name, Jurai," Hyoga said over dinner. "It's possible to read the kanji as 'lightning tree'."

"What, really?" Makoto asked with sudden interest. "I wonder whether we have a connection."

I know Chris Davies had the Jurai-jin of the Together-verse descending from the Jovians of the Silver Millennium. Now I wonder if that linguistic coincidence were the reason. If Chris were still around, we could ask him (her? them?).