There's no way you can do that without making the translation poor or omitting the sister part entirely. Lauriam specifically refers to someone's sister, and English requires a pronoun attached to it. Something like "I want to ask you something about sister" doesn't work.
See, I'm not seeing any confusion because the people who accept the Lauriam translation are finding no issue. It's the people who refuse to budge from Elrena that are causing problems.
Agreed, "I want to ask about sister" only works if the one asking the question is asking about a nun as in "sister Anna" or something similar but then the name has to be attached immediately afterwards.
If the Japanese fans, who are actually speaking and writing the damn language themselves, are not confused about it then why is there even a debate about it?
What's not helping is that in accepting that she and Lauriam are siblings, it requires letting go of the possibility that he murdered her, and everyone's been stewing on that for well over a year.
IDK people are just so set in their ways. The whole Elrena sister thing was debunked in a matter of hours; it's crazy how invested they got in that. Reminds me a whole lot of the Xionnort situation pre-TGS.
If Lauriam is the elder brother, it wouldn't be too farfetched to assume he is somewhat aware of who his little sister is acquainted with.
The question is if that is really a requirement? Since when is one sibling murdering another an alien concept? We have no context yet as to why Lauriam is conducting this search in the first place. Just because we have the possible brother/sister dynamic now doesn't mean we can actually discern all his intentions and feelings.
Then again, I've thought in general about the possibility that Strelitzia's killer, whoever it is, possibly can't even remember they killed her due to either
a) being controlled by someone else while doing the deed just like Terra was by Maleficent in BBS when stealing Aurora's heart and having the memory wiped afterwards.
b) the deed being a dark one which happened in the old world it being possibly erased by the Spirits whose task is to help the Dandelions forget about tragedy, it isn't sure that the spirits remove only memories in regards to the war itself.
or c) being directly possessed by someone and not really "awake" during the incident cuz why should Xehanort have a monopoly on the possession route?
The net seems in general prone these days to quickly attach to some concept or theory and then refuse to let go if it is debunked or simply made obsolete by newer information.
In the realms of Tumblr etc. the whole Xionnort-issue is still a thing in some circles, especially since that shot of the 13 seekers standing on the not-Arc the Triomphe in the Pooh-Trailer.
In this specific case though I could imagine that some people prefer the Larxene/Strelitzia dynamic because it would make Strelitzia's death a catalyst for the development/backstory of a female character instead of the usual "stuffed into the fridge"-trope to facilitate development/backtory for a male one.
The whole Frozen-parallels are just the icing on the cake for that.
I woke up this morning to loads of sister fanart. Came here, read the translations, and became neutral. I'm not exactly a professional at deciphering Japanese, but I thought people these days knew Japanese -> English is not always one to one and some things are left ambiguous or could be confusing. There's that error in KH2 where Roxas asks Sora why "he" chose him or something, it happens.
I don't know where the user got it, but someone posted some concept art of Strelitzia concept art and a lot of the potential outfits resembles Marluxia. (I still am not sure where this is from, so could be BS).
I'm kinda convinced she is Marly's little sister, but if it's the other way around, that's ok too. People make too much of a deal of this honestly.
Eh, that whole thing with Roxas in KH 2
also still raises debates in some corners of the fandom up to this day so I am not surprised much.
There have been comparisons of Larxene's knives to the petals of the Strelitzia flower so in terms of visual parallels and hints both factions have ammunition to spent.
Why would Marluxia be looking for Strelitzia if he's the one that murdered her? Why would he be looking for her sister? To murder her too?
We all jumped to the conclusion that it must have been Marly that killed Strelitzia, but I think even that is questionable now. It makes a heap of sense for Marly to have been looking for Strelitzia and his apparent confusion as to why he hasn't found her yet if they're brother and sister. If Elrena is just Strelitzia's friend, it'd make sense why Marly is kinda unfamiliar with her but still comes to question her about it.
I guess I side more with it being Marly's little sister because murder aside, him looking for her and trying to get information about her makes sense, while I can't think of a reason why Marly would still be investigating Strelitzia knowing she was murdered (and no one would know except him if he did it)
It could be the other way around, I know people have big fantasies about it tying into Frozen, but out of this mess of a plot twist, I feel like Marly being a big bro here is the most logical.
That is a good question and one that can't be answered because we don't know why Lauriam is doing all this nor what his intentions are. That he's automatically out of the question as the culprit because Strelitzia may be his sister is a little premature I'd say.
To tie up loose ends or check if there is anything "in the data" that could possibly expose him for example, but that's all conjecture since we don't know his intentions and reasons so far.