#hard hitting questions at midnight cet. good night :)

[crplpunkklavier]

was thinking the other day about how people's reasons for saying that klavier is only fake german seem to be that he only went to germany to get his badge, his german speaking is clearly only a gimmick, and that in the japanese original, he is more explicitly a japanese guy who went to america once and made it his whole personality. which i understand! however, what makes me laugh about this is that everyone seems to have accepted that manfred von karma is totally german.

so, if i may.....

manfred von karma does not speak german in canon ever.

his name sounds fake. like sorry. but it does. "manfred" doesnt sound fake, no, but "von karma"??? NOBODY here is called von karma. ive met one extremely unfortunate person in my life who actually still had a "von" name, but that was when i went to a terrible private school in paris. and his name sure as shit wasnt von karma. "von karma" as a name sounds JUST as fake as "klavier"

sure, franziska was "born and raised" in germany, so she's likely to be a german citizen, but that doesn't mean that manfred was born or raised there. manfred was in the states at least long enough to build up a reputation there and to battle it out with greg edgeworth (gredgeworth)

and, most importantly: in the japanese original, the von karmas do not have english/american names. they have japanese names. sure, "karuma" COULD have been an adaptation of a western name after moving to japan, but that's not made explicit anywhere, plus the whole sword thing in dgs (u know the one) heavily implies that theyre a japanese family

what i am saying is.

what if...... what if manfred von karma is faking being german...... what if manfred von karma is the one who took on a fake german name because he thought a scary sounding nobility title would make him look cool in court. what if we have been focusing on the wrong gimmick german this whole time