#Cryptic translation

[stray-tim]

BlɈ ₦ェʌ hz₦ェa. Яa ɿh ɿzkェʌhhɿ∅ʌ. BlɈ ₦ェʌ hlzʌlwʌ kʌlkoʌ hƧlɈom Ɉwmʌェha₦wm ₦h ɿzklェa₦wa. ℮Ƨʌd Ɉwmʌェha₦wm, mlw'a aƧʌd? BlɈ ₦ェʌ hkʌxɿ₦o. Яa ɿh ₦ nlェz ln hlzʌaƧɿwʇ ʎʌ₦ɈaɿnɈo.

💭 @l1m1n4ls Mェʌ₦zXlェkh ЯWX.

Here we go again...

Translation: You are smart. It is impressive. You are someone people should understand as important. They understand, don't they? You are special. It is a form of something beautiful.

Liminals, DreamCorps INC.

I'm not sure if you are threatening me or if you are flirting with me. Either way, I'm not interested, sorry~ (⸝⸝> ᴗ•⸝⸝)

[stray-tim]

Translation (I think????): poggerschamp

I will be honest, I still don't know what that means... ( ._. )

chat i think Mェʌ₦z Xlェk Яwx. likes you a little too much! but at least they're not homophobic???? it wouldn't be very klʇʇʌェhxƧ₦zk of them ngl

wouldn't be very fuckin' what??

@stray-tim ?? help??

[petals-and-ink]

Oh Vanilla Orchid, your eyes betray your very smile

What are you if not a serene being?

Are you truthly who you appear to be?

Or are you just a being sinking into it's own regret and shame, unknowingly dooming itself to a constant pain lurking just around the corner?

Do I you shield my your soul away, wishing for it all to leave my your mind someday?

Or is it a self inflicted punishment against what I you abandoned?

Is this truthly how I you wish to live?

Should I you speak up and tell the truth I you claim to be oh so important?

No

How could I risk loosing and hurting the ones I care for the most again?

After my failure, what would it do? How would it even turn out?

I can't live another tragedy, I can't fail everyone all over again, what would the two even feel if they were here?

Gods, they would be so devastated..

I must keep this to myself, it would be only fair wouldn't it? No one will get hurt if I keep quiet for now, after all.

I'm guilty of not reaching them in time, and this is my price to pay.

[neige-leblanche]

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!!!

[stray-tim]

Ƨ₦∅ʌ dlɈ ʌ∅ʌェ xlzzɿaaʌm ₦ xェɿzʌ, lェ hlzʌaƧɿwʇ dlɈ nʌoa ₼₦h ₼ェlwʇ? ᗡƧ₦a ₼₦h ɿa? ᗡƧ₦a ₦ェʌ dlɈェ xlkɿwʇ zʌxƧ₦wɿhzh?

ᗡƧ₦a mlʌh ɿa a₦bʌ al z₦bʌ dlɈ xェd? ₦ェʌ dlɈ ₦nェ₦ɿm ln mʌ₦aƧ? ᗡƧd/₼Ƨd wla?

Translation: Have you ever committed a crime, or something you felt was wrong? What was it? What are your coping mechanisms? What does it take to make you cry? Are you afraid of death? Why/why not?

Ah, it makes sense that you are questioning me now, after I interrogated you. I will try to answer, as long as I'm comfortable with it.

This one is hard to answer, because I have committed a number of crimes, namely breaking and entering, stealing and selling stolen goods, but I don't feel bad about it. I feel bad if I make Mom worry or if someone gets hurt, because my Intel wasn't as good as it should have been.

My coping mechanism are... eh... mhm... Maybe trying to take care of myself, like Mom taught me, but it's harder now, since she isn't around... But if I feel really bad I plan a heist and get myself something new and shiny

/ᐠ ˵> ˕ <˵マ

The one about crying is private, I do not want to think/talk about it.

To a degree, yes. I know that at some point I will die. But the circumstances are what makes it scary. I don't want to die a slow death. I don't want to see how others will react to my demise. It's selfish, but I'd rather not say goodbye, then have to see the people I love hurt because of me...

I don't know how smart it is to give you those informations, but you also gave me some about you and I upset you in the process, so this is my apology.

[sisterdivinium]

Finding "the meaning" to a show that could have had up to five or seven seasons but was cancelled after the second is somewhat like trying to understand a novel composed of seventy chapters by having read only twenty — there is a whole wealth of information which we do not possess that could alter our reading of any given element or of the entire thing in itself.

Still, there are always patterns that weave a story into a cohesive unit and they can help us to better grope in darkness towards comprehension. One such pattern in Warrior Nun appears to be how the consequences to mistakes, "sins" or evil deeds committed by characters manifest.

Basic storytelling usually requires characters to act on something so that complications or resolutions may arise from their choices and move the plot forwards. In Warrior Nun, many of these actions are quite tragic in nature: Suzanne's arrogance and pride lead to the death of her Mother Superion; Vincent's allegiance to the higher power he believed Adriel to be inspired him to kill Shannon; Ava's flight from the Cat's Cradle ends up damning Lilith as she is mortally wounded and taken away by a tarask... All of these events have negative outcomes and heavy repercussions on all characters directly or indirectly involved. Something changes permanently because of them, be it in the world around them or within the characters themselves.

And yet, it would seem that all of these dark deeds not only move the story forwards but might also have overall positive results. We would have had no protagonist without Ava — and she would arguably never have received the halo to begin with had she not been murdered. What's more, on a personal scale, the horrifying crime she suffers is, in the end, the very thing that allows her a second chance in life, a new life.

An act of outside evil permits Ava to grow and develop, shows her a path she would not otherwise have found. Without her own season in some sort of hell, Lilith would not have been able to advance towards other ways of being and understanding beyond her very strict limitations. Vincent and Suzanne would not have embarked on their own journeys of enlightenment without having caused the pain they are responsible for.

Beatrice might have been paying for someone else's mistakes, but she, too, is given the chance to grow into herself through it. The afflictions that torment these characters advance the overall plot, but they also advance them, as individuals, as long as they are willing to learn and keep going despite the calamities large and small that they are faced with. Beatrice keeps going after parental rejection, Mary keeps going after losing Shannon, Jillian keeps going after losing her son (in part through her own actions, adding insult to injury)... Trouble and the adaptation that follows it, if one is open enough to learn from the experience, motivates the characters, propels them forward, teaches them.

The problem of evil has occupied the minds of many a thinker throughout the ages, given how the very existence of it, evil, might call into question that of God (a good, omniscient, omnipotent one, anyway). A common way of justifying suffering (and also God), then, is by claiming, as Saint Augustine, that "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist".

Now, it would be rather ridiculous to say of Warrior Nun that it follows in Leibniz's footsteps, also because this philosopher, expanding on the augustinian concept, attempted to defend the goodness of a real God with his "best of all possible worlds" while all we have is... Well, whatever/whoever Reya is.

But there seems to be an inclination towards some sort of optimism as a worldview nonetheless.

Betrayals reveal truth and grant knowledge (Vincent's culminates with the coming of Adriel, which allows us to know of the threat of a "Holy War" and thus prepare for it; Kristian's gives Jillian much needed insight, William's lights up the fuse for the fight to be taken more seriously...), crimes committed willingly or not open the way for Ava (Suzanne's killing of her Mother Superion causes the loss of the halo, which is transferred to Shannon, whose death opens the gates for Ava to walk through after being herself murdered by sister Frances)... The magnitude of these positive outcomes is perhaps not "balanced" when compared to the evil that brings them about, but there is still something to take out of the catastrophe.

However tragic the tones of a given event, the show itself appears to shun the predetermination that makes tragedy as a genre; if everything is connected, here it at least appears to not necessarily drag everyone into their horrible dooms.

What's more is that this lurking "optimism" matches really well with our own protagonist's personality.

And it makes perfect sense that Ava would do the best she could with whatever she is given.

Life for her, in the conditions she experienced after the accident, would have been unbearable without some sort of positive outlook on life. However deadpan, the joking and the "obscene gestures" and whatever other forms of goofing around beside Diego are a way of turning a portion of the situation in her own favour. Proverbial eggs have, after all, already been broken right and left — might as well make an omelette of whatever remains.

Humour is just another way of looking at the bright side of something, or, at the every least, of mitigating the utter horror it might bring. If the show allows for moments of lightness, if it lets us laugh, if it takes us through a perilous voyage which still bears ripe, succulent fruit instead of the rot of pessimism and its necessary contempt for humanity, it is because Ava herself sees things in this way. It isn't gratuitous or naïve in this case, but a true survival strategy, especially as it is confronted with the morbidity of Catholicism.

Here is a religion that soothes its faithful with the promise of reward in the afterlife — how else does one charge into battle against the unknown, risking one's own death along with that of one's sisters, without the balm of believing that we shall all meet again eventually, "in this life or the next"? How else does one come to terms with the ugliness and the pain of this existence if not by looking forward to a paradise perfect enough to make all trials and tribulations here worth it?

True nihilism would have annihilated Ava. Her present perspective is what avoided the abyss.

And there is nothing Panglossian to her attitude or what the show might imply by giving us her view on things. This isn't about "the best of all possible worlds", but of making the best of whatever situation we're in, of taking what we have and doing something with it, something good, something of ourselves. It isn't God making good out of evil, but our choices.

Killing innocent people and feeling no remorse will never be the best someone can aspire to do. Sister Frances, cardinal William, Adriel all learn this the hard way.

Those who do their best find that, somehow, they can move on from whatever it was that paralysed them. Ava, most of all, knows what it is to be stuck, frozen in place; she can never be the character who refuses to grow, even through pain, lest she condemns her spirit to the same fate her body is all too familiarised with. Those around her wise enough to let themselves be touched by her, by the dynamic power she carries, walk forth with her and live.

It says very little about "God" that Warrior Nun should adopt its heroine's views and seem "optimistic" as it progresses — but it speaks volumes about the values it presents for pondering, of the inspiration its protagonists provide, and of the multiple reasons why this is a story unlike most others.

[milligramspoison]

I’ve been thinking about An Offering again and I wanna see the opinion on this is

Context:

For fans who don’t know what this is, An Offering was a video MCR posted in January of 2020 promoting the Milton Keynes show at the time (at the time being said as all MCR tour dates were postponed twice due to the pandemic)

In the video, you hear music being played, which to many fans sounded similar to Romance, obviously track one off of Bullets

You also hear Gerard’s vocals chanting “a seya seya kiya”, which prompted many fans to translate what Gerard was singing/chanting. I’ll present the translations I got at the time below

[goldensunset]

>:/ hop off my case what if i wasn’t Trying to solve your puzzle what if i was Trying to get lost

[stray-tim]

Hey, I can translate for you. Those people are after Duke and to a lower extant me...

Translation: Do you rust in us, Bart Allen? Liminals, DreamCorps Inc (I'm pretty sure they wanted to type trust, I have the theory that the English language is confusing for them, when they try to be cryptic)

The second one: Trust? Do you trust?

Try not to engage with them. They will be salty about me telling you this, but they are already salty about me calling them bitch, so I don't think it can get worse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do you ェɈha ɿw Ɉh, ⅄₦ェa ₦ooʌw?

💭 @l1m1n4ls Mェʌ₦zXlェkh ЯWX

Uh... huh?

[defeateddetectives]

still cannot make direct eye contact with this arc in its entirety so i continue to only steal glimpses of it out of the corner of my eye like it's the sun but what was the reason for phrasing it Like That???!!!

[t-s-n]

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the game?

[bravevolunteer]

h.elp w.anted 2 real plot

[stray-tim]

Yes, all of this is super concerning...

Batman is aware of this, but Signal does not want to tell anyone else...

As for the translation:

The one and only Batwoman.

Interesting. :)

Liminals, DreamCorps INC

...

I don't think it's good that they find you "interesting" (╥﹏╥)

℮Ƨʌ lwʌ ₦wm lwod ⅄₦a₼lz₦w. Яwaʌェʌhaɿwʇ. :) 💭 @l1m1n4ls Mェʌ₦zXlェkh ЯWX

Huh interesting I've seen this on Signal's blog I'm sure of it.

@irl-batsignal i think I remember seeing something like this on your blog? Is this concerning? I'm afraid I haven't been keeping up with all the developments after the first post of yours i saw on this.

[stray-tim]

MɈbʌ ℮Ƨlz₦h ɿh wla ₦olwʌ. ᗡʌ Ƨ₦∅ʌ ʎʌʌw ₼₦axƧɿwʇ. Ƨʌ l₼wh hlzʌaƧɿwʇ. ᗡʌ ₼ɿoo xlwaɿwɈʌ al ₼₦axƧ. 💭 @l1m1n4ls Mェʌ₦zXlェkh ЯWX

Translation: Duke Thomas is not alone. We have been watching.

He owns something.

We will continue to watch.

Liminals, DreamCorps INC

I know that I should be the last person to say that, but: Stalking is not a form of love language!!!

@irl-batsignal you should see that.... ( • ᴖ • ｡)

[yourubersawcrit]

P03 looks like theres a spoon on Craggy whos going :3

[stray-tim]

I know that you can probably understand them because of the Scarab, but since most of us can't and because they write to so many people, I translated it... They get creepier with everything I see... ( ,,,’･~･’,,)

₦ェʌ dlɈ nェɿʌwmh ₼ɿaƧ MɈbʌ ℮Ƨlz₦h? 💭 @l1m1n4ls Mェʌ₦zXlェkh ЯWX

Yes I’m..what do you want from me..