Talk:Masa Mune/@comment-25275065-20151219175415/@comment-4080028-20151220050747

Thank you very much, Ammolite. It's a pleasure to see you taking an interest in my pages. ^_^

And yeah, like 13th said, Muramasa was the destructive, violent one. I think one story said that he and Masamune placed their swords in a river, and everything that was in Muramasa's path was cut, while everything in Masamune's path floated around it and was spared. Can't recall what the point of the story was, but I think it implied Muramasa was malevolent and Masamune was benevolent, and that this made Masamune the better sword maker.

Long story short, I almost wanted to name Mune after Muramasa because of Mune's more violent, aggressive streak, but I changed my mind to Mune afterward due to me wanting Mune to be named after something more positive to reflect the fact she's an ally to my good guys, and because I could make jokes about how her name can mean "chest" and so on. I couldn't find much meaning regarding Muramasa as far as translations go, so Mune sold me on the name.

Finally, it's also simply because I wanted The Storm Pirates to be filled mostly with swordsmen, so naming a high ranking mamber of the crew after a legendary swordsmith seemed very fitting. Everything else kind of fell into place after that.