Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-108.16.112.187-20130907033728/@comment-173.58.56.31-20131018034313

Mercen-X wrote: What if "Lie Ren" means "Ren is a lie"? Like Ren isn't his real name? I doubt it means that. That's the thing with foreign and native languages...there's always a barrier with a bunch of the words. In my own opinion, if they were going to have Ren have a different name, but "Lie Ren"  was a cover, I think they'd do it in the language of his nationality. He appears to be of Chinese-Japanese descent, so if "Lie Ren" was in reality a false name, it would be more fitting to have it in Chinese and Japanese stating something like "false identity". Of course, though, that would mean his name wouldn't be as it is now. I don't know much Chinese, but as for Japanese, "douitsu"  means "identity"; if they didn't necessarily state falseness in Chinese/Japanese, then they could do something like darkness. So, if they were going to say something like "shadowed identity"  in Japanese, then they'd have his name as "Kage Douitsu"  because "kage"  is Japanese for "shadow". Just providing some examples...