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>>36327412
Looks kino, might check it out later.

Good grief.

>>14504775
>I hope they take good care of the gatekeeper

>>13961724
I never said anything about the Tarim Basin mummies not being Indo-European people. You are right about the red hair, chariots, and certain forms of metallurgy (though the Chinese had been working bronze for well over a thousand years before the migration) being good evidence for the mummies being related to the migrants in the west. Textiles are just another aspect of material culture that supports this idea. They have been identified as Caucasoid as well, and are very likely to be ancestors of the Tocharians.

What I took issue with was your simplification of the Indo-European peoples as "people who became known as Celts in the west." Almost the entirety of Europe and much of the Near east and South Asia are Indo-Europeans, evidenced not only by the relation of their languages but by material culture and the forms of husbandry they exhibit. To limit the PIE common ancestor populations to only the Celts and Tocharians is to ignore that fact as there is little evidence that either were more "purely" Indo-European, both likely assimilating the native populations while retaining their original cultural features. A greater abundance of red hair only suggests that the populations that were assimilated by that particular migratory group were more prone to exhibiting that feature.

But again, "Hong Meiling" is a very Chinese name, and the Tocharians were conquered by Turkics long before the Han exerted strong influence in the Tarim Basin area. It would be a stretch to assume Meiling to be of Tocharian descent purely by her red hair, as everything else about her screams "Chinese" from her mode of dress to her name to her fighting style to her great pride in Chinese history and her invoking of a Chinese god of misfortune. And anyways, being a magical youkai woman she can have any hair color she wants. Sanae is from modern Japan. Does that mean Japanese commonly exhibit green hair? Is purple hair common among the Western Europeans who Remilia is based upon?