Talk:Shirayuki/@comment-5904313-20141126192400/@comment-26414442-20141126203421

Hi, admin popping in here.

Uh, I don’t exactly see any problem in using a Japanese name? Sure, the Snow Queen was written in Denmark, set in Norway, but that doesn’t mean that everyone in the tale needs to be white. Kai was described as brown-skinned, the prince had the same colour skin as Kai, and the thief-girl was described as darker-skinned than Kai, implying that she was a native.

Also, there’s a lot of snow-related monsters and whatnot in Japan. What’s to say that the Snow Queen couldn’t have a child, and therefore adopted a Japanese snow spirit or something? And maybe she kept the name to maintain her culture? (But in this case, of course, you’ll actually have to make her Japanese).