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Quick Questions Thread

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u/ConceptsShining | ❤️ 1d ago

In Zero, when Lechter inexplicably refers to a cat named Elizabeth as "Kuro" ("Noire" in the localization), is this supposed to be a reference to Kloe (since in Japanese "Kuro" can sound like how you'd say Kloe's first name)?

A friend asked me about why he calls the cat "Noire" and I saw this online. Was curious if others agreed it was a lost-in-translation thing, or if it was just a purely random whim on his part even in JP.

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u/YotakaOfALoY 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, it's also a callback to a cat explicitly being named after Kloe in SC, which ran into the same issue of the words not actually sounding similar in English so they had to stretch a little in that game.