Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150304021219/@comment-6192846-20150408172440

GreekTelepath wrote: It's stated that the average Jakokuese individual has pale skin and black hair, while the Watchman has medium-toned skin and black hair. I can't find a source stating that so I assume it's false. To quote my mines for SCP however:

"Due to the many foreigners on Onigashima, Kayo's pink hair and white skin didn't seem out of place. Everyone thought she looked that way because her ancestors were foreigners."

Both her pink hair and white skin are mentioned in conjunction with one another, implying both traits are foreign to Jakokuese. The passage afterward mentions Kayo did originally have black hair in contrast, implying that was a Jakokuese trait she had. It doesn't mention anything about her original skin color.

Based on this, there's nothing to indicate the watchman lacks the proper traits to be Jakokuese, though we have no source explicitly stating medium-toned skin is a trait for that country's people either; we can only confirm it isn't white (specifically, the same white color Lukana's body has when used by Elluka and Kayo).

146.113.65.171 wrote: [Snip]

Again--could be wrong about every point I've brought up and just blowing smoke at the moment, but I don't think it's "safe" to assume anything about that wall and the watchman. Agreed, it's inefficient for any nation to try building a defense on the mainland without incentive to keep that land itself protected; otherwise, it would be better to protect the actual island and save resources. Anything beyond that would be seemingly illogical both economically and militarily.

At the same time, neither does it sound very logical for the arguably farthest eastern nation on the continent to have so much contact with its far western nations that there's so much cultural diffusion in Asmodean and (Magic Kingdom) Levianta for it to be the only named country or culture from the east to ever pop up, especially when it's apparently so anti-foreigner for much of its history.

Personally, I'd like further explanation on the wall, but given it was just a side story leading up to the actual main event (Jakoku Civil War and the Twin Blades) that the two mages are getting into, that may never happen.

The song's punchline is they go through all the trouble to get past the "great, great wall" only to come upon a "vast, vast sea" right after. Said sea is shown leading over to Jakoku with nothing else on the horizon.

There's no reason to believe the watchman's lying and that there isn't his kingdom beyond that wall. It's already too elaborate to be any kind of hoax. The only thing beyond that wall is the sea leading to the island. In that regard, I can see the argument that the implication is supposed to be it was from Jakoku and we're just not picking it up.