What. Meiling can't be beat up by a British/whatever 12 year old.

it is her...... DESTINY...

... really remilia is hax =P

Gamerofthegame said:
What. Meiling can't be beat up by a British/whatever 12 year old.

I believe Remilia's French and she's 512 years old, she might not age physically but physical isn't the only kind of strength.

....Although racially her physical ability is kinda off the charts.

Gamerofthegame said:
What. Meiling can't be beat up by a Romanian/whatever 12 year old.

Fix'd

Tensa said:
Fix'd

I agree with Digara,maybe it's the names but i've always felt Remilia and Flandre are french.

JS2057 said:
I agree with Digara,maybe it's the names but i've always felt Remilia and Flandre are french.

Remember that they were born around the same time Vlad Tepes(Dracula) died... and one of Remilia's spellcards (Midnight King "Dracula Cradle")might be proof of her being Romanian... + Romania is somewhat similar to France ... dunno how, but every teacher is saying that :/
And besides that... I can be Japanese and have a Spanish name... like me for example, I'm Romanian and have a weird family name(not gonna say it).

JS2057 said:
I agree with Digara,maybe it's the names but i've always felt Remilia and Flandre are french.

well if you want to go by the actual surname, it can be traced both to France and to Scotland. their given names are far more Romantic than would be found around Scotland during that time, so they would at least be of French lineage, although not necessarily had lived there at that time

Tensa said:
Remember that they were born around the same time Vlad Tepes(Dracula) died... and one of Remilia's spellcards (Midnight King "Dracula Cradle")might be proof of her being Romanian... + Romania is somewhat similar to France ... dunno how, but every teacher is saying that :/
And besides that... I can be Japanese and have a Spanish name... like me for example, I'm Romanian and have a weird family name(not gonna say it).

SAGE-REmillia IS NOT RELATED TO Dracula
She faked it

Howling_Moon said:
SAGE-REmillia IS NOT RELATED TO Dracula
She faked it

he/she never said she was...

I don't see where Remilia and Flandre sound French. I am French myself, and I've never heard of such first names before Touhou. I would even mention that Flandre is the name of the Northern part of Belgium, in which people talk Dutch, while the southern one is Wallony and people talk French there.

Sounds more British to me. Take also in account that Remilia drinks quite a lot of tea: this is known by British people, not by French people.

We should probably remember that Remilia was born about 500 years ago. Names that were common back then aren't always common now.

The name closest to 'Remilia' that I can find is 'Remigia', the female form of the name 'Rémi' or 'Remi'. 'Remigia' itself is either German or Italian, but the original name 'Rémi' is predominantly French. People probably think she's French because her name is based on 'Rémi'. While 'Remilia' doesn't resemble anything nowadays, that may be intentional on the part of ZUN, as it may be that ZUN was trying to evoke the feeling that she is from a very old time, when things were different.

http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Remilia_Scarlet#Name has a different take on things. It says that 'Remilia' is likely a corruption of 'Emilia', which honestly makes a lot of sense, too.

Tensa said:

And besides that... I can be Japanese and have a Spanish name... like me for example, I'm Romanian and have a weird family name(not gonna say it).

In the end, we can't definitively tell anything about a person's past from a name. Names are imported from other languages too often for them to represent anything about the person themself in particular.