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Slay the Princess Narrator, Princess, Voices in Japanese

<<Vessel Names Part 1(Chapter I & II + Razor III & IV) <<Vessel Names Part 2(Chapter IIIs) Part 4(TLQ, TSM, Echo)>>

VOICES TIME BABY

Actually, I'm gonna go in chronological order of character mentions. So, we will start with:

The Narrator ナレーター(Nareetaa) [Narrator]

Simple and direct. There is a word for "narrator" that is of Japanese origin(語り手 lit. "Story hand" meaning narrator/storyteller), but the English word is the one more widely used. He also says "I" using the first-person pronoun 私(watashi), I'm assuming to indicate his "formal" attitude as, although men can use it, it's usually only in formal situations/you don't know someone well. He is of course referred to in third person with the kanji 彼(kare) meaning "he" or "him", but some voices like Contrarian and Smitten use katakana for him instead of kanji(カレ) for some different type of emphasis, I'm assuming.

Now in the Narrator's first lines, he tells you that there is a

Princess(or "The Princess" sometimes) プリンセス(Purinsesu) [Princess]

Like I mentioned in the "Princess and the Dragon" portion of last post, the Princess always referred to with the English word "Princess" rather than the Japanese word for princess.(She's also very often referred to with the pronoun 彼女(kanojo) meaning "she", of course). She tends to use the first person pronoun わたし(watashi), like the Narrator, although in her case it's written simply in hiragana, I assume to show less formality and more just how she refers to herself. 私/わたし is also used by women casually, in contrast to what I said in the Narrator section. She also tends to use あなた(anata, "you") for her 2nd person pronoun(formal/regular way to say "you").

The 1st and 2nd person pronouns the Princess uses also tends to change with each chapter:

The Spectre, Stranger(Chapter II), Damsel, Wild, Grey - 1st わたし(watashi, わたしたちwatashi-tachi when Stranger Princesses merge)・2nd あなた(anata)

Base Princess(Chapter I & Heart of TSM)*, The Nightmare, Moment of Clarity, Razor, Prisoner, Cage, Princess and the Dragon, Happily Ever After, Stranger(Heart of the Shifting Mound)- 1st 私(watashi, 私たちwatashi-tachi for Stranger)・2nd あなた

The Adversary, Eye of the Needle, Fury, Wraith - 1st 私・2nd お前(omae, can be seen as rude or more colloquial, for someone of equal/lower rank)

The Tower, Apotheosis- 1st 我(ware, not really actually used in real life, but gives a sense of profound, old, important-ness, typically used by king/god/godlike characters)・2nd お前(omae, though she also calls us 小鳥kotori "little bird")

The Beast - 1st アタシ(atashi, feminine, more casual form of watashi)・2nd オマエ(omae, she also calls us ヒヨコhiyoko "fledgling", all three of these words are written in katakana)

The Witch - 1st あたし(atashi)・2nd あんた(anta, colloquial/familiar form of anata, often considered rude, sometimes spiteful)

The Thorn - 1st あたし・2nd あなた(omg she uses the same 1st as the Witch but switches from "anta" back to "anata" omg y'all I'm cryingggg😭😭)

*Chapter I Princess tends to switch from あなた to お前 when antagonized(pre Tower, Adversary, Beast, Witch)

OK SORRY I KNOW THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE VOICES IM SO SORRY

Now let's start with the homie, the one who's always got your back

The Voice of the Hero 勇者の声(Yuusha no Koe) [Voice of the Hero]

Simple enough. Something to note is that there are two words for "hero" in Japanese, 英雄(eiyuu) and 勇者(yuusha). 英雄(eiyuu) is what you call a great person, someone respected for accomplishing something and leaving great impact on society. 勇者(yuusha) is moreso a brave person sent on a quest of adventure to defeat evil/protect others. The former emphasizes the impact and admiration of their achievements, while the latter emphasizes courage and bravery. Someone said something like "勇者 is someone on a journey to slay a dragon, 英雄 is someone who had already come back home from slaying a dragon". In the context of the Voice of the Hero, rather than someone with emphasis on the change he's made in the world, the emphasis is on his morals and good-intentioned actions. He uses ボク(boku) as his 1st person pronoun, which gives him a little bit of a "good boy" typa feel. Or at least some politeness. It's also noted that he uses katakana for boku instead of the kanji 僕(boku)(which, the Long Quiet himself actually uses out loud).

I'm doing the voices in the same order as their respective Chapter II Princesses in the first post(based off the "Memories" menu)

The Voice of the Stubborn 頑固者の声(Gankomono no Koe) [Voice of the Stubborn]

Yeah okay, this one's the same. 頑固者(Gankomono) means "stubborn person". He uses 俺(ore) as his 1st person pronoun, a very masculine pronoun, can be seen as rude in a formal setting, but is very typical and normal for casual men speech.

The Voice of the Broken 負け犬の声(Makeinu no Koe) [Voice of the Loser]

Now this one's insulting. 負け犬 (makeinu) means loser, failure, you get the picture. Made up of the words 負ける(makeru, to lose/to be defeated) and 犬(inu, dog). But it's very fitting I must say(Broken would totally bark for the Tower 100%). He uses the 1st person pronoun 僕(boku).

The Voice of the Cold 冷血漢の声(Reiketsukan no Koe) [Voice of the Cold-Blooded]

冷血漢(reiketsukan) mean "cold-blooded person" or "coldhearted person", or simply "heartless". 冷(rei) meaning cold and 血(chi) meaning blood. Same meaning as in English, someone who can kill a Princess with no hesitation. Like Stubborn, he uses 俺(ore). (He also tends to use quite blunt/rude ways to refer to the princess)

The Voice of the Paranoid 妄想狂の声(Mousoukyou no Koe) [Voice of the Delusional]

妄想(mousou) means delusion, while 狂(kyou) refers to lunatic, or insanity or mental abnormality. Now, delusional isn't exactly the same as paranoid, but the Paranoid can come off as delusional sometimes. Of course, anything we believe in the construct becomes real, so the Nightmare route is full of our real delusions. He is the intrusive thoughts part of our brain that manifests into reality. And in other routes, the Paranoid can come off as a bit insane(the Cage and Apotheosis especially make him seem more erratic). He also uses 俺(ore).

The Voice of the Cheated 野放図の声(Nohouzu no Koe) [Voice of the Unruly]

野放図(nohouzu) can mean wild, arrogant, unruly, but it can also mean unchecked, uncontrolled, unregulated. I put unruly as I thought it fits a title better, but in my head I think more like "unhinged". And I guess that kinda does fit the Cheated's personality, his main objective in the Razor is to win against her, and he's basically like "let's keep getting stabbed until there are enough of us to be better than her", definitely not sound of mind(he also has that comment when you take the blade of "let's make her hurt for what she's done to us"). He very much let's his emotions take the better of him, usually hating on the Princess and the bullshit of everything or spiting the Narrator. He's also, again, very unhinged(mentioning dropping the Cage's head and he says "I mean... we could...") His pronoun is also 俺(ore).

The Voice of the Hunted 獲物の声(Emono no Koe) [Voice of the Prey]

This one I don't have much to say, as it's pretty obvious why he's named that way. And it's pretty much the same as the English name. Like the Hero, he uses the pronoun ボク(boku), I think it's in katakana to mirror the Beast's pronouns.(He refers to her with kanji in 彼女(kanojo) but he does refer to her with katakana in アイツ(aitsu, something akin to "that guy" or "that person", when he say's "She's coming(アイツがくる！)")

The Voice of the Opportunist お調子者の声(Ochoushimono no Koe) [Voice of the Easily Elated]

お調子者(ochoushimono) refers to someone who get carried away easily, someone who does whatever they feel/want, someone who gets easily elated from praise and flattery. I think this is both a funny and accurate translation of the Opportunist. We know he definitely gets carried away easily. He says that second line in the game even(freeing the Thorn: "I can do whatever I want, and I believe with with my whole heart...").I can't really think of instances of him getting praised off the top of my head but he does seem to think it will work on other people. He very much goes with the mood, attempting to curry favor so he can make sudden rash decisions out of nowhere. He uses 僕(boku) which I think fits his suck up personality.

The Voice of the Contrarian あまのじゃくの声(Amanojaku no Koe) [Voice of the Contrarian]

Direct and simple translation again. あまのじゃく(amanojaku) refers to someone with a perverse personality, or someone who opposes other's opinions. Interestingly, あまのじゃく can also refer to an actual small demon in Japanese folklore. I just thought it reminded me of that one line from him "Time to get back to our old devilish ways". He also uses 俺(ore).

The Voice of the Skeptic 疑心暗鬼の声(Gishin'anki no Koe) [Voice of the Skeptic]

疑心暗鬼(gishin'anki) is an expression/abbreviation, it means something like "suspicion creates monsters from shadows", it's about how suspecting something can lead you to suspecting everything, and doubt and suspicion makes you jump at shadows. I think this makes some sense, as his hyper-focused perception of things makes him question everything around him. He notices small details that grow into things bigger and more important than they were before. Also 俺(ore).

The Voice of the Smitten 騎士の声(Kishi no Koe) [Voice of the Knight]

This one I find really funny. 騎士(kishi) refers to the medieval type of knight, known for their chivalry and honor, like ones in armor and usually on horseback(騎(ki) relating to horses). I think it makes perfect sense in the context of the Damsel, a knight come to rescue his beloved Princess, to free her from the confines of the cabin. I also think it works in the Thorn for similar reasons. But I think in most other routes it's hilariously out of context, like "damn, this knight guy kinda freaky calling this blade Princess gorgeous/calling this Princess with a dress of her own skin gorgeous" Like the Tower, he uses 我(ware) giving him that old medieval feel, and he addresses the Narrator with 貴君(kikun), meaning "you" used by men in letters addressing their equals/lowers, and he addresses the Princess with 貴女(can be pronounced anata or kijo), polite language used to refer to women in letters. I was planning on this being the last post but I dont think I can fit it all here sorryyyyyyy rest of the stuff will be next post

Edit: added pronouns of voices

<<Vessel Names Part 1(Chapter I & II + Razor III & IV) <<Vessel Names Part 2(Chapter IIIs) Part 4(TLQ, TSM, Echo)>>

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tumblr survey no. 3 

Have you ever had FOMO (fear of missing out)? If so, what’s caused it? i am actually pretty good about this. not totally immune, but honestly i work so much and such late hours a lot of the time that missing out on things is just natural to me now. i do get FOMO/sad if literally every single other one of my friends is hanging out and i don’t at the very least get an invite.  

Are you happy with your social life? If not, what would you have to do to change that? i am, actually. my friends are great. 

Have you ever hosted a party? If so, what kind of party was it? oh hell yeah i’ve hosted many parties. two halloween keggers, multiple birthday house parties, multiple random house parties. good lord, we got so drunk and took so many pictures and wow good times. 

What’s the best thing you can cook yourself? i can make a pretty bomb creme brûlée. 

Are there a lot of graffiti around your neighbourhood? not that i’ve noticed. 

What kind of a phone do you have? uhhh iPhone 6? i think? idfk 

What kinds of stuff do you have on your keychain? keys 

Do you have a hobby that forces you out of the house? If so, what is it? honestly i would say “running” but let’s be real - that is a sporadic interest at best at this point. 

Have you ever been part of a theater group? lol i went to theatre camp as a child and boldly auditioned for the lead role despite being like 11 (the camp was like 11-17) but they gave me a solo so hollllla. 

If so, did you get any lead roles or mostly supporting roles? ^ answered this. i also auditioned and actually GOT the lead role in our junior high play when i was in grade 7. honestly wtf happened to me i used to be so confident in myself. 

Which IM app do you use the most? facebook messenger. 

How do you make sure that your information is secure online? i don’t lmfao and that’s why my fucking dominos account got hacked and someone snagged a free pizza off me. 

What’s the most ecological thing you do? even though i am a broke ass bitch i always buy free range eggs and i know this is a stupid answer but that’s what i do.  

Would you stop eating meat, if you had to raise and slaughter it yourself? holy shit yes. 

What’s your favourite board game? Why do you like it best? i like apples to apples. i also like yahtzee and clue. 

Besides English, what other languages can you speak? very amateur german. 

Besides English, what other languages can you read? again, some basic german. much better at reading it. some languages just produce sounds i can’t make and german is one of them. 

Do you think you could make it as a chef? hell no. the long hours? the not great pay? the stressful environment of a kitchen? i’d be a goner. 

What’s your favourite kind of tea? right now i have been feelin’ this holiday chai i got at the grocery store. 

How do you like your tea? black. 

What thing/person/happening has made you the happiest you’ve been? this is such a shit answer but probably MDMA in the honest-to-god context but it’s literally designed to do so. 

Girls, do you ever just say “Fuck it!” and go without a bra? legit me today at the grocery store. 

What’s the most freeing thing you’ve ever done? decide that i didn’t need to stick around in a particular social group and that i didn’t value certain relationships anymore so i faded away. 

Have you ever had a restaurant dish that was made with bugs?  If not, would you even want to try one? hell. no. 

Do you think today’s kids are really impatient? well, I’M really impatient. so kids make me mad anyway.

How about the young buds/shoots of spruce trees? this is the funniest question i have ever read in my life 

What has been your worst restaurant experience? probably the time i got food poisoning the night before a track meet from a pasta dish at kelsey’s in sherwood park in the summer of 2010 but that happened much later. 

What’s the most immature, adolescent thing that still makes you laugh? honestly like everything but probably when people hit the dab 

Have you ever had a life threatening condition? If so, what was it? nope. 

What is a food item or a dish you absolutely cannot stand? ummmmm. cabbage rolls LOL 

What’s the best thing about today? i asked my field instructor for a day off from practicum because i am feeling ill and i had like a total self care day and did a shit ton of my homework and i feel soooo much better. 

What’s your highest level of education so far? bachelor’s degree. soon to be two. 

If you could have any job in the whole world, which would you like? food blogger/someone who gets paid to eat and write and take pictures of food. 

Describe your ordinary day lately my schedule has been so regimented this is actually a good question. i wake up at 7:57am every day (legit), make a coffee from my keurig and have a coconut yogurt and fry up two eggs (legit every morning i do this), get on the train around 9:20 and go downtown to practicum. get to practicum for 10. leave at 6 and take train home. make dins at home, then do homework. rinse and repeat until friday when i have class 9-4. and then saturday/sunday i work. 

Would you ever have a UV tattoo? nah 

What is the brand and colour name of your favourite lipstick? mac lipstick is fucking bomb but i’m so fidgety it never stays on me and gets all over my face so i shy away 

What do you like on your tortilla? ugghhhh yum i like me a good old-fashioned chicken quesadilla with some sour cream and guac? oh daddy yes 

How about inside your pitta bread? souvlaki w/ tzatziki and red onion unnngggg mama 

What do you like in your burger? tbh not a big burger person i usually just eat the patty with cheese and ketchup

How about on your pizza? i eat so much pizza of so many varying types honestly i can’t pick 

Would you ever take part in a games club? If so, what would be your ideal club? ????????? what 

Would you be able to give a speech on your favourite subject right now? what is my favourite subject? pugs? yes 

Do you work better alone or in a group? alone x 23523957239857

Which one of your friends have you known the longest? For how long? carolyn. since i was like... 2 

What is your favourite song right now at this very moment? loading zones by kurt vile 

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Eggs, Art and Lakeith Stanfield Help Me Fight My Sunday Scaries

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Eggs, Art and Lakeith Stanfield Help Me Fight My Sunday Scaries

I’ve recently become pretty territorial over my Sundays. If my Friday/Saturday situation was a little too busy, I feel like I need to pack maximum relaxation into Sunday. Luckily for this Sunday Scaries situation I was entering the last day of my week-long staycation, so I felt like I could handle a full-ish Sunday and not try and stretch two hours of a Netflix binge into some sort of social commentary for the sake of word count.

8:00 a.m:

I wake up far too early for a vacation Sunday. I consider going to yoga, but know it would be for the sake of looking balanced in this diary, so I skip it to keep it real and go back to bed.

  9:00 a.m.:

I wake up — for real this time — make some coffee and settle on a time to meet my friend Sarah later in the afternoon. I debate doing laundry before starting all my activities but decide to just read for a bit instead.

  9:30 a.m.:

I eat a bunch of cherries. Then, after realizing I had been a little too lazy on my vacation, I decide that I actually need to accomplish the ONE thing I said I would on this break and go and join my local pool. I look up the schedule to make sure I will actually be able to go during the week, figure out what documents I need to bring to sign up and feel like a real smart grownup.

10:15 a.m.:

I do some cleaning because my roommate is coming back from Nantucket and, in the four days I’ve been left alone, I have turned our place into Grey Gardens-lite. Unfortunately, in the middle of recycling a tower of La Croix cans, I get pulled into a text conversation with my friend Alaina about Alexis Ohanian’s vocal — but not performative — love of Serena Williams and stop cleaning.

11ish:

I decide to walk to the pool and listen to the new Drake album to give all of the excellent tweets I’ve seen about him some context. I pack two books, a bunch of gum and a full water bottle for my journey up to Inwood after, where I’m meeting Sarah.

11:45 a.m.:

I get to the building and…can’t figure out how to get in? All of the doors appear to be locked so I walk around twice until I finally notice a tiny laminated flyer letting me know the BUILDING IS CLOSED TILL OCTOBER. Somehow in figuring out if I needed to bring a check or debit or whatever, I missed the memo that the thing closed for renovations in mid-May. So if you know of any affordable pool options in Brooklyn, let me knowwwwwww. Sigh. I should have gone to yoga.

12:15 p.m.:

I get to the A. I wait for the A. I step into the A. It is my home now.

1:30 p.m.:

Okay the ride wasn’t that bad! I switch between reading “Do Not Say We Have Nothing” and zoning out to the new Florence and the Machine album. I consider how my life needs more drama and floor-length dresses.

I am alone on the train for the last two stops, which is terrifying but also kind of nice. Moments of absolute solitude in NYC are hard to come by so I tried to focus on that for two minutes rather than feeling like I was in a horror movie.

1:40 p.m.:

I meet up with Sarah. The place we want to eat is cash only so we wander to the ATM. We then have a delicious lunch (with this hilariously poached egg), wait for our check for a lonnnnnnnng time and set off for the Cloisters.

2:00 p.m.:

You basically have to go on a mini hike to get to the Cloisters, which is lovely and hard when you’re full of bread. There are gorgeous views of the mighty Hudson and lots of cute families out and about. There’s also enough signage so that even the most directionally challenged (ME) can find it with ease.

2:10 p.m.:

Holy hell this is so much more breathtaking than I expected. The building, the gardens, the art and the Heavenly Bodies pieces are great. I fantasize about a life in which I need a unicorn tapestry.

4:30 p.m.:

I text with my roommate about giving the cat I was cat-sitting back to her friend. Sadly, the owner still wanted her back which means I will be catless once again.

4:50 p.m.:

Sarah and I leave the Cloisters and get into a long discussion about the old PBS series Frontier House as I almost get us lost walking the exact same way we came up. Despite my best efforts, I make it to the train station and we say our goodbyes.

5:50 p.m.:

I hop off at Jay Street to go pick up my MoviePass ticket for Sorry to Bother You since I’m afraid it’s going to be sold out. My friend Mike texts me as I’m on the escalator to say he already looked and it is sold out. I try to see if the theater is holding any tickets for real live humans and learn they are not. We make a plan to see the movie later at BAM instead; I run over to grab tickets just to make sure.

  6:30 p.m.:

Home. Drink a ton of water. Eat some carrots and a handful of mini marshmallows. Check my email now in an attempt to make a post-vacation Monday less scary. Play with the cat I’m pet-sitting, try to take too many photos. She is deeply uninterested.

7:48 p.m.:

Head back out to meet Mike at Tacombi. Am running woefully late.

8:30 p.m.:

I’m catching up with Mike, who recently sustained an injury dancing stone cold sober on a table to “What’s Your Fantasy.” I am so enraptured with the best story ever that I barely notice that the movie starts in 10 minutes and none of my food has shown up.

8:36 p.m.:

It finally comes, I pay the bill and dash out with chips and guac in my purse, shovelling a cup of corn into my face as I run across the street. Feeling like a modern girl!

8:42 p.m.:

Sorry to Bother You is great and weird and wonderful. Lakeith Stanfield is great (also that particular brand  of lanky weirdo is very much my thing) and Tessa Thompson wears a lot of no make-up make-up and I think I probably need to see it twice.

10:30ish:

Say goodbye to Mike, hop on the train and head home.

11:11 p.m.:

I make a wish! (It’s astoundingly boring.) 11:15 p.m.: I take out the trash, brush my teeth, take a melatonin and slap on a sheet mask. Happy Sunday! Sorry it was so mundane. (Go see Sorry to Bother You!)

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