Talk:Kiyohime (Lancer)/@comment-25046091-20180130054632/@comment-28209103-20180202074957

it's not debate able, it's already full canon. go read Kiyo page, the character materials or even all dialouge involving her so far. The clue is everywhere. heck Nasu even jokingly made a novel featuring Anchin and reveal that the reason why he reject Kiyo is because he's f'cking Gay!

The age already defined to "marriageable age" and every version told that Kiyo is just a young girl when Anchin visit, Even without pinpointing the age range already clear and using antrophological context by adding the custom of ancient japan, or rather most ancient world in general. marrying by age of 15 or 16 is considered the norm. Most of the version told that Kiyo can't even differentiate joke with real promise thus the only logical explanation is that she's not even old enough to understand such thing.

No matter how the other version differ as long as we can identify the core of the story then it's already suffice to say that as long as the story retain those core it is "legend of Kiyohime". The complication of Kiyohime is nothing compared to how modern intepretation or even parallel version made mess of Mahbharata but those linguist of India published an "Original" version by identifying which part is the 'core' and which is the addition/substraction. In that manner as long as you identify the core of the story then you already grasped the essence of the folklore which pretty much is what is often referred as "Original"

I already lined up the core of Kiyo story in the most simple manner and that two point I just mentioned is the reason she's called underage 1.) she's just of marriageable age and 2.) she's not mature enough to differentiate lies and real promise