Board Thread:General Sly Cooper/@comment-26349008-20170329111453

Henriette cooper was born in 1590 according to the wiki, but the problem here is that the first golden age of pirates didn't start until 1650. Fanfic writers tended to fix this discrepancy by moving henriette's era to the late 17th century or early 18th century. If we go by what the games say about henriette, she would have been the only "pirate" out there since the Europe was embroiled in a series of religious wars and didn't focus much on the colonies or trade, meaning that there would be no real way of stealing from to other pirates, if there are hardly any pirates at all!

Another discrepancy is that if henriette truly is rioichi's daughter she would not bear a french name because during rioichi's time japan was under a very strict isolationist policy known as sakoku at the time, so giving your daughter a french name during that time was impossible as a result because they were trying to remove any foreign influence from their calture. Remember the only counties japan was able to trade with was spain, portugal, and the Netherlands. The merchants usually werent allowed to mingle with the locals.

and thus i am entitled to utter this statement.

The Huge majority of this fandom as well as the staff of sanzaru and suckerpunch definetely aren't history buffs and have a view of world history on par with that of Mel Gibson's. 