On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Roy Rim wrote:

	Also, what would Ryouga call Soun?

Maybe Tendo-sama?

He seems to have Americanized the names, or else it would have been 
Akane-san, so I think 'Lord Tendo' would fit best.

(Sir Sound is just to corny, even for me. ^_^)

	Hm...I think I'll go with the Japanese.  Akane-san sounds 
appropriate but is Tendo-sama appropriate?  Also what would Akane call 
Luanma, since they're nearly strangers.

Realistically, in public, Ryouga would call her Tendo-san, and her father 
Tendo-sama then, as this is fuedal japan. In private they might be little 
closer, so her might call her Akane-san, sort of a compromise on his 
part, she may have tried to make him be less formal and that's as far as 
he can make himself go, she does seem to be his friend. As for Luanma, it 
should really be Saotome-san (maybe Saotome-kun, but that implies a level 
of familiarity, that more what she would call Ryouga, as in Ryouga-kun). 
But Luanma only gives that as her name, so that's all she gets called, 
although she does mention the 'Saotome' name, she does not claim it as 
her own, and that is not an assumption I think Akane would make. 
(remember the respect in names even in todays Japan, and think back to 
feudal times) At best it might be Luanma-san, but I think Akane 
deliberatly might leave off any sort of ending, to show how little respect 
she has for the name. Luanma act very informally, calling the Panda 
'Ba-Ba' and refusing to be respectful of Akane or Ryouga. This makes 
Ryouga angry, although we don't get much on what akane is thinking, 
but trouble may come of this later.


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