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admiral and murakumo (kantai collection) drawn by ha_akabouzu

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    "Regard" part 4

    I hear skinship is important.
    This is a reference to one of Kiso's lines.

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    ithekro said:

    I wonder if he was assigned to that other Admiral's base while Kiso was around.

    I can almost see this admiral being son of that admiral and Kiso.

    And he probably was raised by Kuma for some sad reasons considering how bold he is.

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    By the way, if anyone's interested in uploading them, Ha Akabouzu uploaded a bunch of doodles he'd put on Twitter on his Pixiv page. They're kind of random, with a lot of Fate stuff, some Persona, and a few I don't recognize (but then, I don't play F/GO, so they may just be more Fate characters I don't recognize.)

    FJH said:

    "Gathering Clouds" said:
    I think the mirror you're using for that reflection is cloudy!

    For what it's worth, it's a slightly different kanji, but it's close enough that it's very likely deliberate.
    「雲」 - "Kumo" - Cloud (noun; the specific patch of aerial moisture)
    「曇(り）」 - "Kumo(ri)" - Cloudiness/cloudy weather (noun, adjective, or a verb; the weather caused by clouds, or the act of becoming cloudy)

    Also, the way the pun works in Japanese, PervAdmiral actually says the same word ("Kagami"/"mirror" - the exact name of Kagami from Lucky Star, to be precise) to mean reflection as Murakumo says is a cloudy mirror (she doesn't say "the mirror you're using for that reflection is cloudy", it's "your mirror is so cloudy"). In the first panel, Murakumo only says he should "think back upon", but PervAdmiral jumps to "mirror/reflect", so I made some adjustments to make the pun make some sense.

    Updated by NWSiaCB

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    NWSiaCB said:

    By the way, if anyone's interested in uploading them, Ha Akabouzu uploaded a bunch of doodles he'd put on Twitter on his Pixiv page. They're kind of random, with a lot of Fate stuff, some Persona, and a few I don't recognize (but then, I don't play F/GO, so they may just be more Fate characters I don't recognize.)

    For what it's worth, it's a slightly different kanji, but it's close enough that it's very likely deliberate.
    「雲」 - "Kumo" - Cloud (noun; the specific patch of aerial moisture)
    「曇(り）」 - "Kumo(ri)" - Cloudiness/cloudy weather (noun, adjective, or a verb; the weather caused by clouds, or the act of becoming cloudy)

    Also, the way the pun works in Japanese, PervAdmiral actually says the same word ("Kagami"/"mirror" - the exact name of Kagami from Lucky Star, to be precise) to mean reflection as Murakumo says is a cloudy mirror (she doesn't say "the mirror you're using for that reflection is cloudy", it's "your mirror is so cloudy"). In the first panel, Murakumo only says he should "think back upon", but PervAdmiral jumps to "mirror/reflect", so I made some adjustments to make the pun make some sense.

    In the east, including Japan, there's an expression of taking serious reconsideration of one's own action going as "sitting in front of a mirror to see how themselves reflect in it again". It's roughly means that thinking from another person's perspective to see you they think you are, judge it good or bad and fix it if it's bad.

    But the admiral says "a mirror of", is actually 鑑 (mold, an example of conducts) instead of 鏡 (mirror, an object that reflects image of something), if we are going by meaning. But then, there's 鏡鑑 (paragon, mirror). So often in times, it's just 鏡 using as "the lead example of something one should follow". It's not jumping or anything.

    And of course, "clouded" is when you can't see thing clearly. It's about the same thing as in saying "you can't see things for what they are".

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