Servamp chapter 134 translation "The Old Man and the Sea"
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This chapter didn't have words with different readings to make notes about, but we do have a reference, which is the title "The old man and the sea", a novel by Ernest Hemmingway.
I haven't read the novel but only based on a few summaries, you can understand that Algernon was inspired by the novel's main character, Santiago and Hugh (hence why I made the distinction by saying Algernon) and Tetsu are meant to reflect Santiago's apprentice Manolin.
So yeah, maybe you need to look into at least a summary to get an idea of the themes of the novel and the characters to see their connection with Hugh and Tetsu.
Lastly, I want to make a note on two words because you might have found it awkward when you read the chapter but I'm gonna try to explain why that might be the case.
There was a line on page 15 where Tetsu said "We gotta search for fire." If some of you thought that "light" would have been more appropriate, well thing is that "light" was mentioned by Hugh.
In the original text, Tetsu said 火 (hi), which means fire while Hugh said 灯 (hi) which means light, which is mainly used when referring to a specific light source.
While the use of the word 火 (hi) might be translated as light depending on the situation, I left it as it's usual translation "fire", because I believe that's what Tetsu wanted, to look for fire in order to light Hugh's lamp.
Hope I made sense!
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One Piece Reread - Ch. 134
God I forgot how fucking funny these scenes were. The casualness in which they are just punting the lapins like footballs while having this absolutely insane conversation about what people in snow countries are like is sending me.
Also love that Luffy's claim has a kernel of truth to it, because if you fall asleep OUTSIDE in sub-zero temps without the proper gear, you will likely die from hypothermia. But Sanji? He's just being horny. And then getting called stupid for said horniness.
I love these fucking idiots so much.
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Ferid and his reincarnated elder brother - Character analysis
Ferid's same expression when his brother appears, Crowley's same physical position as his past reincarnation.
Reverse Contexts : In his previous life, Crowley as Ferid's older brother seeks him out in order to draw his younger brother into a political and military alliance.
In Crowley's present life, he, as the younger (vampire) brother of Ferid is called for a military plan.
In Crowley's past life, as Ferid's older brother, he was the one in authority. Ferid asks him if he has to call him "majesty" now.
In the present life, Ferid is the one in a position of authority over Crowley and Crowley calls him directly by his honorific title.
Am I also saying that their whole story is the other's destiny reversed in a way?
In Crowley's previous life, he is the eldest brother, and Ferid lives as the second in line, as his shadow. And the older brother wants to draw Ferid into a forced alliance where he would be under his control.
In Crowley's present life, Ferid drags him into a forced alliance as his younger (vampire) brother and makes him live as his shadow, never giving him answers.
Ferid remembers about how he killed his older brother in his past life before killing Crowley.
Ferid here calls out to Heaven, speaking to his brother's soul tells him that he hopes he has not reincarnated yet.
" I hope you haven't gotten reborn yet."
In the novels about Crowley, it is specified how Ferid waited for Crowley for 150 years and "felt" his birth. But it is not specified why he could felt his birth.
The chapter about them, where Crowley is killed exactly like his previous version (Ferid's older brother was decapitated, what Ferid does to Crowley destroys his nervous system, the vampire equivalent of decapitation. If he did not do that, Crowley, as a vampire, would not have died beheaded like a human) is called "Reincarnation Rondo".
Ferid says after killing Crowley that he is number 440.
Ferid asks his older brother, as a human, after killing him, "Who are you again?"
The older brother's name is not mentioned in the flashback because it is not important. He was reincarnated 439 times as Ferid's brother. The 440th reincarnation is Crowley.
Even Crowley's destiny as a human is a combination of his previous destiny as Ferid's older brother (he is as tall, muscular, same facial expression, similar gestures, very popular, loved by people) and Ferid's destiny as his younger brother (Crowley has his own psychic deception, he is the youngest of his family, just like Ferid was with him)
The conclusion is that Crowley ended up in Ferid's place in his last life: the youngest son of his family, with a psychic deception, dragged into an alliance with an older vampire brother who made him live as his shadow.
Ferid lived as a human as the youngest son, with deep psychic disappointment, as the shadow of his older brother who wanted to drag him into an alliance where Ferid would be controllable.
Even the fact that Ferid's background was scheduled to be released in 2017 as a light novel, as a sequel to the one about Crowley's life, is an explanation.
The logic was to present Crowley's miserable life and then why his life was the way it was.
It was payment for his ignorance in his past life as Ferid's older brother.
If he was not happy that his younger brother saw no point in living, wanting only the power of the throne, Ferid would not kill him, run away from home, meet Rígr, become a vampire, and would not turned Crowley (the reincarnation of his older brother) into a vampire, destroying his life.
It is a lesson: Do not ignore your younger siblings for power. The wheel of life turns.
What Crowley experienced was a payment, and I think that if things did not go that way, the tensions between him and Ferid as brothers would never be resolved. Ferid would have been always condemned to reincarnate as his shadow.
Maybe that is why Crowley dies so at peace now, compared to his previous life. In both he is killed by Ferid, his younger brother, but now he understood more, he learned about what it is like to be the younger brother, to suffer and live in the shadow of an older brother. His soul has evolved.
Ferid always told him that they were "brothers". It was all literary.
Their story as brothers is a masterpiece.
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