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phoenixiancrystallist · 2 years

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Somebody stop me before I do something stupid like abandon 200k+ words of isekai fanfic I've been working on and having fun with to write the exact same thing only the isekai'd character doesn't share a language with the world she's been isekai'd into

Because I'd totally do it.

#bobbi's being weird again #self-indulgent self-insert bullshit shenanigans #see how I WANT to do it is each chapter is written from EVERY character's POV #and the reader can pick which POV they read from #and like there technically IS a mutual language but bc the isekai'd character is ME and I'm only fluent in English #and the game originated in Japan so I'd make their language Japanese #and I know a faint scattering of Japanese vocabulary but it's not enough to do much of anything #except hello and goodbye and please and thank you and yes and no #my SI would be SO LOST AND CONFUSED and I think it would be so fun to write #and like I NEVER see isekai that tackles ''okay but what happens if they don't speak the language''#but it'll be SO MUCH WORK #and since I'm only fluent in English I'd still be writing the everyone else in English #so I think figuring out how to write out the language barrier while allowing the reader to know what's happening would be fun #like depending on who's POV it is I only write out the understandable dialogue #so the SI won't understand a damn thing but if you read her POV and someone else's POV you get the whole convo #plus their private thoughts opinions and feelings bc third person limited is the best POV fight me #but again SO MUCH WORK and I'm already 200k+ in on the first draft of my third try at this fic and it's going SO WELL #maybe I'll do something super duper extra stupid and do both #hhhhhhhfjakufjwbrkjd seriously someone stop me

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