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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
Rahab and Leviathan are actually mixed up in mythological tales. So assuming all the legends exist somewhere in the Kobayashi multiverse, it is not strange at all that one underwater dragon be mistaken for another.
Tohru doesn't read religious texts, she just talks about the dragons as actual creatures and not just words in a book.
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That is not strange. With that sentence you quoted, I tried to indicate that there is more than one Rahab in those texts. One of them, appearing a.o. places in the book of Joshua, is a human being while another Rahab is described as a sea creature in different sections from the same bundle loosely tied and bound together. The latter is probably the Rahab previously encountered underwater by Tohru, while the former is less likely to have dwelled below the surface of an ocean. That woman was never a sea creature and thus the book of Joshua, may not have any bearing on Tohru's past.
Tohru doesn't read the texts but her experiences are shaped by those who inhabit them and thus inform us about her life, in addition to the lives of her companions, and her personal -former- adversaries. In the "Kobayashi" universe all myths are true and -though modified - still recognisable. Based on what is depicted, we can visit the places she has been and thereby recreate who she has been. Even if "who Tohru is supposed to be" turns out to be less specific than the other dragons who make an appearance here. There are maps and legends for these territories and even if they occasionally lead us astray, they're still interesting to explore, I think you agree, to some degree.
Alastor added to the list of "candidates" for Tohru, together with the "Soul Reaver Games" for an invocation of the multi-verse and its creatures, with which both Tohru and Kobayashi may already be somewhat familiar, though from different perspectives.
It might have been better if Kanna had
Spoiler:
eaten the watermelon, is what I meant to say.
Not to mention
wink wink