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== Usage notes ==

{{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}} is mainly just a card-game character, and probably does not appear in the main series.

He was assigned the strawberry {{TTS|html=code|tts=West|W}} swatch ([[E:Western Marxism|Western Marxism]]) due to his broad resemblances to the central themes of [[E:Gramscianism|Gramscianism]] — progressive "culture" or "mentality", the arts, and in case of [[E:Cold War|cold war]] acting as a Communist ally as opposed to an anarchist objector to both Liberal-republicanism and Communism.

=== Card mechanics ===

Flowingcoat's abilities are archetypically more similar to the Earth bloc than the Water bloc, but this is thematically appropriate to his character given that he sits in the kind of class position where he is almost required to side with a slightly revisionist faction. The Water bloc is a good compromise in that it it does not have a primarily negative meaning, but it can represent varying degrees of [[E:early Maoism|progress]] or [[E:Deng Xiaoping Thought|revisionism]]. Also, the Water bloc feeds into the gimmick of the card being all about wetlands and watersheds.

=== Card ability names ===

"[https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+element In element]" is an English idiom for fitting into a particular situation. It references the concept of {{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}}'s form being themed around riverbanks, and protecting riverbanks.

The ability "Fountainhead" is an ironic reference to the titular metaphor of <cite>The Fountainhead</cite>. In Rand's work a fountainhead is meant to represent a flowing source of wealth or social structures. Here the metaphor is ironically turned around to simply represent "the bourgeoisie are the group of people who call themselves fountainheads" or "{{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}} came from generational wealth, which flowed down like a fountainhead". (This was the reason for giving him the ability.) The pun does require a considerable amount of context to be funny.