#unintentional or not vanitas paralleling himself to Xehanort SUCKS | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

runsonlovepower · 1 year ago

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somewhere in my soul it makes me sad that this bit is like, difficult to translate/localize well, because when vanitas is calling ven brother and he’s having none of it he’s using the same word xehanort uses to refer to eraqus in his journals (it does literally mean sibling but in context of xehaqus it likely means something closer to like… sworn brother (samurai flavor)), and Ventus is NOT having it, which is just a little extra flavor that doesn’t come across. Like hey we are not making this parallel to our masters and you do not get to insert yourself into our lives like this we’re more similar than we are different it’s not unsalvageable (you idiot) and Vani has just given that up because he was kind of also talking about something else entirely (you idiot) so the conversation becomes less “hello. I consider you family” and more like

vanitas: hello my other half. Day to my night. My brother in arms. The bond which will inevitably end with one of us dead

ven: would you cut that out

#mine #It isn’t even a special fancy word is just the same word. Just a little subtle flavor #Good for English majors who read the Xehanort reports #unintentional or not vanitas paralleling himself to Xehanort SUCKS #in a way that i think about a little too often to be normal about #and putting ven in an eraqus position is both an insult and also sucks . the man did try to kill him #Also it is the same word in English! However it doesn’t really….. like tell me ‘my brother eraqus’ doesn’t sound confusing #you kind of intuit that it’s different but it’s weird

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