#Variant Mu

[fafnirhumgy]

the briar dragon was silenced, their inky black tears stopped. it should have been the end.

it was not. of course it couldn't have been that simple.

for with each day that those boys had their hearts drenched in black, who would take their pain away?

yes, LYAgasar. that is what THEY call you, yes? a beloved doll. how scary~. with no one else to sing to them, he took it upon himself to do it. if you are a "doll", he would be... oh, i don't know... oh, yes. a faithful "beast", you say? fitting, fitting!

but even beasts have hearts of their own. where else do you think he took that pain?

彷徨う心よ　何もかも忘れて Oh, wandering heart, forget about everything, この歌が導く世界で　理想だけ見て view only your ideals in this world guided by this song. ずっと苦しかったね　ずっと悲しかったよね It was always painful, right? It was always sad, right? キミの涙を代わりに受け止めてあげるよ I'll accept your tears for you.

oh, no no no. you forget how fragile even the most steeled of hearts are. especially his. what an impossible thing... a young man, blessed with something his body is incompatible with. did you know that once upon a time, it would have been a curse? only with the passage of time and the joining of hands both near and far is a miracle such as he alive.

ah, you are aware. la bister gyas. "Medley". i find it quite unfair that only fair maidens enjoy the power of song, at times.

求めるものは何？　なりたいものは何？ What are the things you aim for? What are the things you want to become? 叶えてあげるから　私に教えて I'll make them come true, so tell them to me.

feelings... are not easily destroyed. repressed and fragmented, perhaps. but what is a dream, but a fog where the repressed and fragmented come out to play? stay too long, and they may restore themselves.

if you're lucky, you remember something.

the dam of black ink begins to crack. the bonds that hold back his rampancy degrade. an azure-blazing dream of a monster chasing a boy comes true.

overblot. ultimate border human. ultimately, the end result is the same:

a broken heart, a broken mind, a broken body. a monster.

HIERLE CRY! sos yor na rasse, sos yor na sonwe For your voiceless screams, for your silent songs Rrha num erra houd omnis yorra maxim gauzewiga >> mea This vessel called "I" shall take on that pain from these words unspoken

indeed, LYAgasar. it is sad to say, but the boy began to rage. nails became claws, teeth became fangs, and the whole of his body was enveloped by a pelt of steel-flesh. all the while, he sung a song that he never writ, not even in his heart of hearts.

there was no emotion in this song. only instinct, to take the pain away. even if his words professed otherwise.

HIERLE CRY! aiph yor na rasse, aiph yor na sonwe If your voice escapes you, if your song retreats,

oh yes. it was hard for him to even sing, too. snarls and shouts escaped his every breath. it struck fear into all that saw him, but especially the ones who he had saved.

but with that fear came a question: "was it worth our survival, if he had to suffer?"

Rrha num erra sonwe omnis yorr crushue Metafalica This vessel called "I" shall sing in your stead an Utopia

no words needed to be shared then. do you know what they decided, in their hearts together?

"perhaps not. but all it means is that we need to return the favor."

haha, fret not! i assure you, LYAgasar. trot along, do not worry. this twisted fairy story WILL have its "happily ever after".

it still needs its hero, after all.

[patheticpeoplesupreme]

PIDW characters teleported to SVSSS and everyone is alive but has memories of the ending but this idea is focused on PIDW! SQH because he’s practically nonexistent here lmfao (understandable because he doesn’t really have much of a character) (it wouldn’t leave my head)

Og!SQH just watches PIDW characters interact with their SVSSS variants and he feels a bitter feeling in his chest.

Shang Qinghua watches each peak lord talk about the differences, their SVSSS counterpart giving off a brighter smile.

It’s been years since he has seen the others talk to each other and yet… here they were, alive. And…

…

Calmer?

He watches as some rolled his eyes when OG!Shen Qingqiu carries out insult after insult. And yet, there were no blood being splattered on the ground. He sees the sect leader bow his head down to his other self. Liu Qingge bares his teeth and an alternate peak lord laughs.

Their other selves. He sees a connection of what could have been. Mu Qingfang having to chance to give the brute a playful smack ,the sect leader actually giving off a genuinely soft smile, however small. He sees them all huddling together.

All these possibilities, it made him burn with jealousy. Not just because the others were happy, but because he couldn’t ever be happy. Not in this world, not in the other one.

Sure, he learns that Shen Yuan was in Shen Qingqiu, and one would think, wow! Another thief!

Now you’re not alone! Now you know that the scum villain can’t be happy either!

IT’S NOT THE SAME.

…

It’s not the same.

Shen Jiu gets to have someone care about him no matter the world. No matter if it’s the sect leader,, the brute and his family, the brothel ladies, they all have their own connections. They have someone who cares. Even Luo Binghe has his wives, no matter if it’s just all reduced to platonic affection.

What about him? The “Original” Shang Qinghua?

He could see the distrust in their eyes, and yet, they look at his other self with fond exasperation.

The fight to climb through the ranks was for nothing. He had to go sort paperwork to keep the sect alive just as his other self was, had to survive through Mobei Jun’s death wrath, so where’s his happy ending?

…

It was unfair.

He knows his Mobei Jun would never ever apologise to him. He sees the way the other MBJ’s eyes follow his other self around. The colour in his cheeks darken and his eyes soften just enough for him to see the fondness leaking through.

He never regretted being a rat. He never regretted being the betrayer, but just once… just once he wished that a kind smile was aimed at him, not a harsh hand slapping his face till it bled.

He knows nobody would never care for him. He was just cursed to be unloved.

[jmeldog]

@milgram-valentines-exchange art for @verity-clover!

Sorry I took one-sided MuuRei angst and ran. + some variants

Attempt at explaining the flowers under the cut

I wanted to convey a message of remorse, pining, and “what could’ve been”—still tinged with feelings of jealousy.

I’m not very good at flower language, so please excuse me if there are any mistakes, misunderstandings, or misinterpretations. I tried to use mostly Victorian sources or some that I otherwise vibed with. Some flowers have other meanings that also fit, but I didn’t list here for the sake of keeping it concise-ish. Please interpret however you enjoy most 🙏

Asphodel

“My regrets follow you to the grave”

Bramble

Lowliness, envy, remorse

China Aster

Jealousy, afterthought, wishing things had happened differently

Gardenia

“I love you in secret”

Honey Flower

Love sweet and secret (and well, how could I not use the honey flower for Mu?)

French Marigold

Jealousy

Spindle Tree

“Your charms are engraved on my heart”

[sleepi-toasti]

WHAT THE HELL IS A SHMUNGUSS?!

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Hayati: I found out about your... problem at home... Asher, I forgive you for what happened at that party. In your eyes, you had a valid reason to do that and I hope y- Asher: I'll only forgive you back on one condition... the condition (hayati having to hang out w asher and watch interdimensional netflix together or sum shii):

btw this takes place after hayati found out abt asher's situation and before asher chose to forgive hayati

audio source: https://pin.it/6KZJFdYxr

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Hayati, Phil, and Moonlight University belong to @hayati-gacha

Asher belongs to me

ig i could say this specific variant of MU belongs to me and i added lore that involve my ocs and hayati-gacha's ocs. but the official MU belongs to hayati-gacha. so idk there's some random clarification lol

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edit: i made the WORST grammar mistake while trying to figure out dialogue i fixed it tho :/

[thereadingaddic7]

It's a bit of a funny and sad mix, how much of a Lohrak around Dume's neck the Vahki are. Certainly Dume is meant to be flawed as a Turaga, a somewhat suspicious character and cranky old man who think Matoran these days need to learn to respect their elders, but ultimately he's a good guy who'd give his life for the cause while spitting in the face of whatever killed him (see him telling Vezok, Avak and Reidak to go do something anatomically improbable when they try to extort him with a Kanohi Dragon). And given how important Metru Nui is, and how dangerous the outside world was, yeah Metru Nui does need some sort of standing army/police force to ensure that shit like the Barraki rebellion or the Matoran Civil War doesn't threaten to kill Mata Nui and doom the MU to drift endlessly through space, but holy shit the Vahki are so insanely bad at it, it's hard to think he'd sign off on it.

As an army they're pretty okay, they're very mobile with two modes of walking and one flight mode, their equipment is also extremely good offensively (mind control, seeing through your targets eyes, you hurt yourself in your confusion, etc), as well as a Kanoka disc launcher for more direct combat, and they're smart enough to think tactically, all without risking any Matoran/Toa/Turaga in combat (and that's without getting into the elite versions). But for Police work... well, they're okay for a Police State where you don't have to give a shit about what your citizenry thinks, their borderline psychotic nature means they're very effective at terrorizing a population into compliance even before bringing in the Brain Hacking they can do, and they are supposed to be the Police for Makuta!Dume's Police State...

They just also happened to be the Police for Regular!Dume's (Police(?)) State, which is a really bad look for someone who's supposed to be Not Actually A Villain. Based on what we see of them, the Kralhi that preceded the Vahki were probably much better at police duties (given that after being driven out of the city by Matoran who tried to "shut them down" they were totally willing to aid and protect Mavrah without issue they clearly don't share the Vahki's abusive nature) without having to take a number of Matoran away from work to do the police work instead (and thus potentially imperil Mata Nui and the MU as a whole by having them not do the necessary work in his brain). If the issue with them was that they left Matoran too weak to do their job after being policed, then maybe all the Kralhi needed was an equipment overhaul rather than being completely scrapped?

I don't know, Dume is meant to be Flawed but Good, but historically he's just made such a baffling decision with the Metru Nui's police forces, spurred on largely I think by Out-Of-Universe needs than because it made sense in-universe, he kind of ended up accidentally being the BIONICLE equivalent of Sentinel Prime, but because it mostly happened off screen it's easy enough for the story to sweep that under the rug. A lore hungry fandom on the other hand is not so easy to shake and I'm left trying to come up with a reason why he'd agree to the Vahki beyond the incredibly unsatisfying "he doesn't really care about the Matoran" or "he didn't think it through" and variants thereof answers.

[fabseg-creator]

Miraculous fanart: Movie Star (Akumatized Cerise)

I've imagined the design of Movie Star, an upcoming cinematography-themed akumatized villainess and a Cerise's form. Her superpower is: To turn her victims into fictional characters from movies and cartoons according her own thoughts (a mashup of Animaestro, Wishmaker and Queen Banana) thanks to her magic megaphone which shoots laser.

Example: When she shoots a civilian, the latter can be turned into a clown if Movie Star thinks that his/her target must be transformed into a clown. If another can be turned into a vampire, same thing.

The akuma is on her megaphone.

I think about her design for the upcoming Chloenette AU Season 4 post.

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir belongs to Miraculous Corp.

Cerise/Lila's designs:

[ezkel]

watching alchemy of souls and why are Naksu/Mu Deok and Jang Uk Jegulus variants

Naksu: *threatens to kill him*

Jang Uk: you have beautiful eyes

[ashfluffys]

Again with the ahit Pokémon crossover (can you tell I’m fixated on Pokémon) but a few things

1: is there a specific battle gimmick they use? Like megas for Kalos, Z-moves for Alola, Gigantamax for Galar and Terastral for Paldea.

If not…

2: are there maybe time forms, any variants you wanna make?

3: last one (sorry I talk a lot) but do Thor or Timmy have teams?

so I wanna use this to redo my finale idea and also throw in the teams fully evolved, yes, tera I imagine is one of mu’s team plans while the form change of dialga becomes a consequence of her attempts to control a god similar to volo having a 2 stage giratina fight!

The lord fights in legends had such an impact on me that I basically wanna make every boss fight except the first one involve them; snatcher, conductor/grooves, and of course dialga are all balm throwing lord fights while the mafia boss is a standard villain leader kinda fight

As for Thor, he has a small team of two; gurdurr to help with heavy lifting and drampa because i feel it matches him very! Timmy though… gimme ideas if you want I guess? I’m really not a timmy person I’m sorry SHSSHSHSHHS

[missmiseryguts]

FUCK I NEED A POST UH UH UH UH TAKE THIS DEATH WISH HOOD KID VARIANT I MADE UP FOR FUN BC I MENTIONED IT ONCE AND THEN GOT INVESTED

I haven't event developed the regular boss fight

Tbh this was mostly for aesthetics HELPPP

Other stuff I did I didn't write down was up the saturation of her clothes, change some of em to be yellow, yellow and red sprinkled in her design due to the timepieces, and the timepiece on her shirt too..

Uhhh shes just even more insane than before really HELP.. Poor Mu is not gonna have fun with this one chat

If you can't read the text it's under the cut

HOOD KID NEO?

A lot more unstable, mentally and literally

Glitching alot, limp, almost puppet / marionette like

MANIC. Laughs. A lot.

Scars exaggerated? Bleeding?

More cat-like appearance (sharp teeth, nails / claws, etc)

Eyes resemble Mus Timepieces

Opposite of regular Hood. She's VERY LOUD like this.. (Idk I thought the idea of hood acting the exact opposite of her normal self would be very uncanny and creepy LOL)

[lizhly-writes]

mu qingfang's horrible romcom SWEEP

YEAH OKAY.

“Yeah, well, I needed to pay you back,” Shang Qinghua said, and triumphantly presented Mu Qingfang with a qiankun pouch.

Mu Qingfang examined it carefully.  Inside was a varied selection of sectioned-off  cuttings, bulbs, and seeds, labeled in Shang Qinghua’s neat handwriting.  Steel-stemmed snapdragons, light-luring lilies, six-petaled soothing snowdrops, the list went on and on.  Mu Qingfang had certainly used some of these plants before, but they were usually in dried or powdered form. He’d never had access to the fresh variants!  If he could properly cultivate them on Qian Cao, that was opening a whole new world of research!  He’d be able to experiment with so many more things!  New salves, new tinctures, new remedies -- it could be revolutionary --

Shang Qinghua cleared his throat.  Mu Qingfang belatedly realized that he’d been staring blankly at Shang Qinghua’s gift for.  A while.  How long had he been standing there like an idiot?

“Ah,” Mu Qingfang said, and, as gracefully and quickly as he could, placed the labeled cuttings back into the qiankun pouch.

“So, uh,” Shang Qinghua said.  “Does that mean you... like it?”

and now, your bonus sentences from everything is fine:

Mobei Yi wakes up.  

It’s dark.  Dawn is yet to break; the digital clock at his bedside reads 01:44.  Too early.  Who in the world sets an alarm at 2am?  His own alarm won’t go off until 05:30.  He’s reasonably got at least another three hours of sleep left to go.

Sleeping doesn’t feel possible.

[randomwriteronline]

Half silly and half serious idea for your Transformed Turaga AU idea. Or maybe it's silly on the surface while serious as the groundwork?

Most of it is still pretty vague, but I have some scenes of the Toa Hordika wrecking shop in what I assume a corrupt Great Being's lab. Not necessarily Velika, because the technology is a variant of mind control using somebody's greatest desire.

And as usual with the Toa Metru or Hordika, it's chaos. There's the stuff like Nokama operating a set of levers and rerouting water flow to flood a room, wrecking the delicate machinery there.

Or opening locks not meant to be opended. Maybe it's the waterlock! Nokama surveys her work from underwater, satisfied.

Matau bites a security drone, and its programming soon begins to corrupt.

The technology to control them either doesn't work at all or somehow they adapt to it. Soon enough even a touch of them is enough to destroy it, but that's less fun than tearing it open when possible.

They at one point literally tear a whole workshop apart. Very therapeutic, they will tell you.

Whenua's sitting on a cliff over an entrance where the Great Being just rushed, seeing to their horror that he's sitting next to something delicate and important. He makes eye contact as he pushes the object over and it's impossible to catch before it shatters on the floor.

"Whoops."

And that's not even going into any combination of the Hordika enabling each other and becoming even more chaotic.

i remember seeing this in reblogs and it wasnt really something i had ideas about but i do wholly condone elder furry violence on mind controlling objects and i do love slapstick

id imagine this is a final gambit of the great beings who are Shitting Their Pants upon all other attempts at stopping the mu beings failing (badly) and it STILL fails because hordika coding or something doesnt respond to it bc they never accounted for hordika existing so they have no counter. "oh but theyre only six" one of them says, Unaware Of Who The Metru Are And What Their Modus Operandi Is, "theres no way a few stupid animals can stop us". comes back in the room to every piece of extremely valuable and delicate machinery ripped to shreds and six werebeasts eating the fibre optic cables like extremely large noodles. thats what you fucking get

they start off scared as shit for the situation and the pressure but end up having a magnificent time. so much shit that feels so good to crack and beat the shit out of AND theyre allowed to do that!! required even!!! theyre healing from things they didnt even know they had. this is their new home. great beings evicted forever and ever. hordika city now

matau has been parkouring everywhere he shouldnt and no windows are safe from him. onewa found a new artistic vein and has been gingerly breaking as much shit as possible to find the right pieces for his sculptures. vakama has been mauling every single drone and robot he finds with his teeth. nuju is methodically shredding important documents to make snow out of them. whenua has been digging holes in the pavements and walls and busting the air ducts by crawling through them. nokama has caused more water-related destructive mishaps than anybody can count. they are so so proud of themselves and having a grand old time. the nuva, mahri, hagah and mata nui are hollering at them in support after getting snapped out of mind control. the agori and glatorian are impressed. the great beings are in shambles and within minutes of having their asses viciously bitten by extremely large werebeasts

[sumerianlanguage]

silim!

i’m having a bit of difficulty finding the transcription of the term “humanity” found in the Eridu Genesis. i’d like to ask if humanity here would mean man (male), mankind (sumerian people), or mankind (all of humanity)?

and if possible, do you know where i can find any good cuneiform transcriptions of the surviving text of the genesis? my google searches have only been showing the Jacobsen translations with none of the original script :((

many thanks!

Silim! The version of the Eridu Genesis I use is the ETCSL, which instead calls it The Flood Story. I'm not sure of a source of a cuneiform tablet image, but the ETCSL has a transliteration here - if there's a specific section you want in cuneiform, let me know and I can back-transliterate!

The word in question is translated in the ETCSL as "mankind": it's namluulu, written 𒉆𒇽𒍇 in cuneiform. Lu 𒇽 is the basic word for "person" or "man", and is generally gender-neutral but most often used for male persons. Ulu 𒍇 has somewhat of an obscure meaning - Halloran (2006) lists it as "storm, south wind", but in context says it means "huge" or "numerous", while the ePSD2 lists it with "unknown meaning". The nam- 𒉆 prefix makes something an abstract noun, so if luulu means "(numerous) people" (as it's listed in Halloran), namluulu is "the abstract state or generality of numerous people", i.e. "humanity as a body, (all of) humankind". The ePSD2 translates this combined term (as namlulu, with a number of cuneiform variants) as simply "humanity". Halloran lists "people, populace, mankind, humanity; civil position, status, or origin" as possible translations.

In context, namluulu appears four times in The Flood Story. The appearances at the start of segments A and C are fragmentary; in segment A it appears as Namluulungu "my mankind", though it's not clear from context which deity this mankind belongs to. Later in segment C we see Numun namluulu halamede nambi batar , which the ETCSL translates as "A decision that (nambi) the seed (numun) of mankind (namluulu) is to be destroyed (halamede) has been made (batar)." An and Enlil make this decision, and then send the flood to destroy namluulu. At the end of segment E, we see mu ninggilimma numun namluulu uru ak "Because (mu) of preserving (uru ak) the animals (ninggilimma) and the seed of mankind (numun namluulu again)..."

Translation is an art, not a science, so "humanity", "humankind", or "mankind" (in a gender-neutral sense) would work as translations in The Flood Story in my opinion. The term certainly does not refer to the Sumerian people specifically, who do not yet exist at the time the flood in question takes place - in fact, the "seed of mankind" saved by Ziudsura settles in Dilmun, Sumerian name for the coast of the Gulf and particularly Bahrain, and not in Sumer itself.

Thanks for your question!

[catenary-chad]

This weekend working at the train museum: learning random crap about Budd RDCs. They’re just about the one widespread and successful DMU (diesel railcar) in the US since the mid-20th century and dear god people are feral about them. It’s something about the combination of the midcentury stainless steel Budd kerchunk and serving a lot of scenic rural locations that otherwise wouldn’t have trains. Boomers love these things because they’re an MU that fits their mental image of “train” because they’re diesel-powered and bus-adjacent enough to feel like a car on rails to them (and therefore familiar). They can run solo or in packs of up to six, but one or two is most common.

Enjoy some random lesser-known facts about them for OC purposes. There’s a ton of these things and you can stick them almost anywhere. They’re a classic and beloved boomer American train that also defies a LOT of Stex’s conventions in fun ways.

-legally they are considered locomotives (I think all MUs are in the US) which causes some trickiness in terms of maintenance regulations since a lot of things that are important for true locomotives aren’t the same with self-propelled railcars and it comes off as kind of excessive/unreasonable and barrier to more running. They’re often run as unpowered coaches in preservation because of this (you can run basically any MU as an unpowered coach). Honestly a very interesting dynamic to incorporate in a Stex extended universe.

-They were introduced in the 50s and many of them were being retired by the 80s (30 is a solid lifespan for a DMU, remember that diesel busses last maybe half that) but even today a handful of commuter lines still run a few and they’re popular at tourist railroads. There was never a particularly good rail-based replacement for them in the US which is why they were still used on rural routes way beyond their intended lifespan.

-unlike the vast majority of diesel locomotives in the US, they’re not diesel-electric, they have a hydraulic torque converter. It’s hilariously alien to see vs just motors, as someone who’s only worked underneath diesel-electrics. They’re 550 hp, which is on par with a small US switcher. Which gives an idea of how much lower power MUs are vs locomotives since they’re only designed to propel themselves and maybe pull one other coach. It’s also why many if not most aren’t diesel-electric, they often have more in common with buses or even tanks mechanically.

-they have two engines and both have to be running for the heat to work right (it works like a car’s but bigger and one heats from the ceiling, the other the floor). You have to really redneck engineer things to make it work with just one

-the engines are specifically designed to be stupid easy to remove and access if you have the right dolly to roll them out after detaching them

-the cab controls tuck right behind a door-like thing near the vestibule so it can turn into a cabless coach. I got very confused by how it had little windshield wipers but no apparant cab until the guy folded the door back to show. Different controls setup than typical locomotives because it’s much lighter and not diesel-electric. Very “miscentury Singer sewing machine” clunky but clever mechanical design in general (this is true of a lot of Budd cars, they’re 50s in all the best ways)

-train vibration apparently can make their roofs harden and develop holes

-I’ve made this joke before but a lot of them have wacky warning stripes painted on so they’re easier to see to prevent collisions. The New York Central variant has my favorite warning stripes possibly ever. The cab is NOT well protected, it’s a just an inch or so of metal between you and what you hit, it’s literally just controls built into the wall of a typical US coach vestibule.

Some more info about them in general here (it’s really easy to find stuff about them because they’re extremely popular and common in preservation): https://rapidotrains.com/budd-rdc-master-class

[yuk-tepat]

Diachronic change in Yuk Tepat

Yuk Tepat is often presented here as a fixed entity - “Classical Yuk Tepat” - but beneath that has undergone evolution like all languages. The following sentences both mean “A man I didn’t know came in.” The first represents the most archaic layer of old Tepat, and the second is a relatively modern colloquial version from the late Conciliarity period.

Ci niw yan-uk syow mi-yat ku hyew.

*[tsi niw ja nuk sju me jat ku hjew]

PAST enter person 1P REL NEG know to room

(Alternately: Ci niw yan syuk mi-yat ku hyew. (syuk = syu + =uk)

Hûq-khal yan i-wat ôl-yat mul nt’ôl-nyul hyew-iw.

[hɯʔ kʰal ja ni wɒ ɾl̩ jat mu ln̩ tl̩ nyɬ ç�� wiw]

one CLASS person of 1P PAST know NEG 3P PAST enter room CIS

Let’s unpack this. First, a couple of very notable things:

The modern sentence is much longer.

Only three words are the same in both sentences: yan, yat, hyew.

Digging deeper….

Ci was the normal particle expressing past tense in Old Yuktepat, but it has been replaced by ôl in the second sentence.

The second sentence begins with a subject noun phrase Hûq-khal yan i-wat ôl-yat mul, which is normal SVO word order. The equivalent subject noun phrase in the first sentence comes AFTER the verb. In archaic language, this is an acceptable ordering for INDEFINITE subject nouns (but actually, it would still have been unusual for a complex noun phrase like this).

The subject noun yan in the second sentence is modified by a numeral-classifier phrase hûq-khal ‘one.’ This kind of specification of number - such as ‘one’ for any old indefinite noun phrase - is more common in later Yuk Tepat.

The first person pronoun. In the first sentence, there is a clitic form -uk. In later Yuk Tepat, everything has been leveled to the invariable pronoun wat.

The subject contains a relative clause. In the first sentence, it is relativized by syow, in the second sentence it is relativized by i. I also means ‘of’ and has been generalized to all kinds of situations, while specific subordinating particles like syow - which is only used to relativize objects - have fallen out of use.

(Additionally, syow and -uk might occur together as a fused form syuk.)

The negative. The first sentence uses mi before the verb, the second sentence uses mul after the verb.

The second sentence contains a pronoun nat (contracted to nt) which follows the subject noun phrase, before the verb. Kind of like ‘The man I didn’t know, he entered the room.’

Niw and nyul ‘enter.’ Niw and nyul are the same verb basically. Niw is an older intransitive form. Most verb pairs of this sort have been leveled to only one form. In Yuk Tepat, the originally transitive form nyul has taken over everything.

The first sentence has a preposition ku ‘in, at, to.’ This is missing in the second sentence. ‘To’ is considered implicit in the verb nyul. Ku is no longer used except in fixed expressions.

The second sentence ends in a clitic -iw indicating motion toward the speaker. This is derived from the verb khiw ‘come.’

These examples are very different, but the reality may not be that extreme. Although only 3 words are identical, most words in either sentence are found in all stages of the language, although their usage may have shifted. For example past tense ci is still used, but it has a very archaic sound. It is used for DISTANT past, or in say, historical textbooks, but ôl is now the neutral past tense marker. Hence, either (written) sentence should be interpretable to someone from the other time period. Through this we also see one trend of the language’s evolution, that of reducing morphological variants to a single uninflected form.

[yourultraarchive]

i love love love your blog!! you have a few posts about japanese names, like how to make them and where they fit in but,,, i was wondering how an american name would fit in (like class number, alphabetically, etc.) or how to translate one, if at all. and do you think its a good idea to have an american oc actually attending UA at all? i know you've said you're not an authority, so its totally fine if you dont know. thank youuuu! your templates are amazing btw

Hi, sorry for the late reply! (I actually haven't been on tumblr in like... months. Life and all.)

Foreign/non-Japanese OCs attending UA wouldn't be weird at all--there are canonically at least 3 foreign exchange/transfer/descent/immigrant students (or something of the sort)! Aoyama from 1-A and Pony and Rin from 1-B are all foreigners in some capacity.

As for how they'd fit alphabetically--well, it'd be just like any alphabetical order you'd think of, it's just that it'd be based on the Japanese alphabet instead of English. Here is a good reference for the general rules of that order, including voiced consonants:

In Romaji, these kana are phonetically ordered as: a, i, u, v, e, o, ka, ga, ki, gi, ku, gu, ke, ge, ko, go, sa, za, shi, ji, su, zu, se, ze, so, zo, ta, da, chi, di/ji, tsu, du/dzu, te, de, to, do, na, ni, nu, ne, no, ha, ba, pa, hi, bi, pi, fu/hu, bu, pu, he, be, pe, ho, bo, po, ma, mi, mu, me, mo, ya, yu, yo, ra, ri, ru, re, ro, wa, wo, n (This is ignoring "little/small" variants since those are never going to be at the start of a word, but it does determine the order of words that do have them in the middle somewhere.) (Also a note: "v" is not a natural phoneme in Japanese at all, so they've transcribed it as a voiced "u" sound, which is why it's listed as coming right after "u".)

It may look weird to people used to the English alphabet (you may think it's strange that "pa" comes before "bi" right?) but do keep in mind that Japanese is... well. Not English. This is normal to them!

For a name that doesn't easily fit the Japanese phonetic structure, you'd have to sound it out with kana (and write it out with katakana, since it's a foreign name... see my previous post on that for tips). Some examples:

Pony, written as ポニー, is read "po-ni-i" (since long vowel sounds are translated in katakana as a long dash), and since it's a name starting with a voiced consonant (po), it would go after names starting with "he" (and its voiced versions) and before names starting with "ma". (If we were sorting characters by first name anyway.)

Peter Parker, written as ピーター・パーカー, is read "pi-i-ta-a / pa-a-ka-a" (again with long dashes translating as long vowels), and would alphabetically go before Pony (in either case of first or last name, since "pi" and "pa" both come before "po"). Also, in case you didn't catch the pattern, the "er" ending in English is most often translated as a long "a" sound!

Richard Grayson, written as リチャード・グレイソン, is read "ri-cha-a-do / gu-re-i-so-n". This is an example of sounds like "gr" that don't translate well in Japanese, so you kind of have to squish two syllables together to get it, with the vowel in the middle being somewhat "silent". The most common "silent" character in Japanese is "u", but I've seen "o" a few times too (see next example). This name also has an example of a "little y" sound, where when one of the "y" kanas are combined with "chi" or "ji", it changes it to be one compound sound, which in this case is "chi+ya" becoming "cha".

Mytho or Mute, written as みゅうと or ミュート, is read as "myu-u-to", and can be translated as either of the aforementioned "English" names (because translations aren't a 1-to-1 thing after all). In the example of the "Mute" translation, the silent "o" just kind of sounds better at the end than a "u" does in cases like this. Also, there's another example of the compound "y" sound, though unlike "chi" or "ja", the "y" isn't dropped in the romanization, thus "mi+yu" becomes "myu" phonetically, even though the English name is translated as starting with just "Mu" in the case of "Mute".

Thanatos, written as タナトス, is read "ta-na-to-su", and is an example of a name with that silent "u" at the end.

Valerie Gray, written as ヴァレリー・グレイ, is read as "va-re-ri-i / gu-re-i", and is an example of the voiced "u" sound, which as mentioned above is the usual way to write "v" sounds in Japanese. Alphabetically, Valerie comes before Eijiro, so if 1-A were sorted by first name, her class number would be before Kirishima's.

Anthony Stark, written as アンソニー・スターク, is read as "a-n-so-ni-i / su-ta-a-ku", and is another example of translating sounds that don't exist in Japanese ("th" in English becomes "s" or "z" in Japanese, and "st[x]" becomes "sut[x]") and the silent "u".

Jason Stryker, written as ジェイソン・ストライカー, is read as "je-i-so-n / su-to-ra-i-ka-a", and is another example of translating sounds that don't exist in Japanese, with "Stryker" showcasing that it uses the "st[x] -> sut[x]" rule AS WELL AS a silent "o" rather than the usual silent "u". Also, note the "little e" in there--since "je" isn't a natural Japanese phoneme, it's made using the combination of "ji" and "e", with the "little e" denoting that the "jie" be read as a singular sound "je". In the order of things though, this means Jason comes before Jack (see next bullet point), even though Jason alphabetically comes after Jack in English.

Jack Frost, written as ジャック・フロスト, is read as "ja-k-ku / fu-ro-su-to", and it translates another non-existent Japanese sound ("fr[x] -> fur[x]") and uses a compound "y" sound "ja (jya)". It also has the "small tsu" kana, which is the symbol for a "double consonant" sound (so it's romanized as "jakku" and not "jaku", which audibly sounds different in Japanese). This double consonant sound means that "Jack" alphabetically comes after, for example, "Janet" (ジャネット, read as "ja-ne-t-to"), because even though they both start with "ja", the "small tsu" comes before "ne".

Class number is just based on where they are in the alphabetical order (ie. Aoyama is No.1 because he has the earliest alphabetical character in his surname, "a". Ashido is No.2 because, while she also has an "a" surname, "shi" comes after "o" in the Japanese alphabet).

So for instance, if Richard Grayson was added to 1-A, he would have a seat between Kirishima and Koda since his surname starts with "gu" (in the Japanese writing system!), and his class number would be No.9! Koda and everyone else after him would have their number pushed accordingly. If Peter Parker were added to this same class, he would be between Bakugou and Midoriya!

I hope this helped, and will help others too. Thanks for the ask! (Also thanks for saying so, I feel like no one actually uses the templates at all...)

Anyway, plus ultra and all that!

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Infect, (cool nickname right? Idk Rot seems rude and Infection is too long)

How does the Rot spread? I know it's through touch, but what about through clothing?

So, hypothetically, if hug you without touching you would I get infected?

Love you artwork

Infection "Actually the Rot refers to the sentient cyst-like creatures that infect other living organisms, though you are right. No one wants be referred to by those things. And well, mu AU doesn't have an actual name yet. So "Infection" and other similar names might be temporary. My creator is like that, and considering something like RainTale."

"t usually depends on the stages of Rot infection and the type. I was attacked by a Monster Long Legs that had a particularly aggressive and mobile variant. It might seek you out through proximity if you're too close. "

(A/N *in Mario voice* - Thank you so much for enjoying my art. ❤️)