Talk:Murakumo/@comment-190.27.112.124-20150316205626/@comment-24.47.140.102-20150317161429

I have no problem with "Murakumo appears to use her real-life mast as a spear" in the trivia, because a) the resemblances are immediately obvious, and b) Ayaki has used aspects of his ships in their weaponry already with Tenryuu and Tatsuta. What I do have a problem with is to draw an unsourced piece of speculation on Murakumo's name.

When you look at the Type I Fubuki-class as a whole, four ships refer to cloud phenomena (-雲 )--Murakumo, Shinonome, Usugumo, and Shirakumo. There's no reason to believe that Murakumo in particular was chosen to be named after the Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi as opposed simply to cloud phenomena in the same way her preceding sister ships were related to snow/blizzard phenomena, and her succeeding sister ships were related to wave-related phenomena.

That's not to say I'm opposed to putting in "her name MAY be a reference to Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi" or that "some aspects, such as that strange hilt on her spear, MAY be a reference to the Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi." But at that point, is it even trivia or is it just speculation?