Talk:Atlach-Nacha/@comment-28144855-20170111162421/@comment-10429980-20170112142148

I think debate is prevalent for the chaos girls especially because KC has said he intentionally writes them to be alien and offputting because they are meant to be mysterious/alien to the Wandering Scholar himself and people in his world in general. But KC expects people who read the profiles to interpret them according to the rules and intentions he has established for the setting. Its as simple as that.

I was once told that to the Japanese when someone interprets a written work they are expected to take the intentions of the author into account as much as what is actually written (to the extent that sometimes it is impossible to translate something fully accurately unless you can ask the author what meaning they intended). Basically its a cultural difference, in western societies it is often considered the author's fault if the reader misinterprets things, whereas in Japan it is more likely to be considered the reader's fault if they misinterpret things.