I will try to reply with more once I get a chance, but in the meantime:

> Captain Daniel Clemson was Admiral Kurita's chief of staff,
> which made him more or less the only non-flag-ranked officer
> cleared to know about the Fog project. He was a tall and
> youthful man of Afro-Caribbean descent, though he spoke
> English with an accent that sounded more like it had come
> from a British prep school

...

> The first thing she noticed was Clemson's ever-present aide.
> Kongō had wondered, seeing him alone out in the hallway,
> where she was, since she had never once seen him without her.
> She knew nothing about the woman, other than that she was
> surprisingly young and evidently Japanese. Around twenty, of
> average height, she was very pale, an effect accentuated by
> her short, jet-black hair and the severe black uniform she
> wore. She never spoke, only shadowed Clemson wherever he went
> and watched everything happening around him with dark,
> penetrating, but unreadable eyes. Kongō didn't even know
> her name.

Are those descriptions taken together *supposed* to make me think of Idris Elba and Rinko Kikuchi, respectively, a la Pacific Rim?

Or am I missing the mark entirely?

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