#i do have way less experience w japanese though & one sentence of modern japanese can feel like a paragraph of mencius to me.

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also y'all

does anybody have the original japanese of this line from book 5 ch 27???

bc rereading it i was like. O_O. is he. not talking about vil.

i was thinking like "the first read through you're definitely meant to think so, and vil did absolutely change rook's life, but with context from both book 6 and his halloween vignette, what he's describing here leans more towards the latter" which is like. masterful gaybait i can't even be mad. it's like that post saying "some gaybaiting is like a box propped up with a stick and a block of cheese underneath" except this has all the intricacy of a steampunk clock.

but my VERY shoddy japanese skills r telling me the line translates more to "beauty in your eyes and the darkness, lighting up your entire life for you—in a time in your existence when you'll be able to have [such an experience] (expanding on the prev line where he says they'll be able to understand his ideology in the future)"

^ and i probably mangled this so bad but the main point is i didn't hear him refer to a "someone" like he does in the english tl & i'm wondering if i missed it or if it was in fact added!!!

#txt #how should i tag this to potentially reach ppl who know the answer #twisted wonderland #rook hunt #i was gonna say the sunbeam simile does lean the other way too but iirc he does describe vil as radiant in an earlier scene so that's moot #anyway even if my translation is right you can interpret it as either of the ways i was talking about but it is/would be much more openended #much more cryptic and rookish hahahahaha #japanese is so hard dawg i only had to look up one of the words in this line to understand p much all of them but i still struggled so hard #figuring out what the words meant together😭💔 #& inb4 i'm having monolingual struggles i speak mandarin chinese as a second language which Also uses topic-comment structure #i do have way less experience w japanese though & one sentence of modern japanese can feel like a paragraph of mencius to me. #modern mandarin does not do 5d chess with language quite so much