Because Jamil and Azul wanted Nami to know both of their own languages, after she had started speaking they adopted the “one parent, one language” model for bilingual children (and eventually adding ‘English/standard common language in twst which for me would be English’ at school and other places)
This did however lead to an era where Nami had absolutely NO CLUE that her parents could actually speak to each other. She’d grown up hearing abt the mermaid princess SHE got a husband without saying a word it made perfect logical sense that her parents were together despite being unable to speak to each other as well.
So for the longest of time, whenever one would give her a little test (like Jamil asking her to bring Azul a folder he left in the living room to his office) she took it with GREAT importance, because SHE was their only lifeline!! Only She could foster the communication between them, so she had to make sure it was perfect!!!
Genuinely she believed 100% her dads had never spoken a word to each other. There was one time specifically where Jamil was leaving to go hang out with ruggie, and she ran off to go say goodbye at the door. Azul absentmindedly just went “tell your baba I love him!” As she scurried off and her little brain just exploded.
Bc that was also the first time she had ever been told that! To her this was the first time Azul had EVER said I love you to Jamil. She fucking RAN to Jamil and just jumped while going “papa said he loves you!!!1!1!1!!1” bc to her this was like. The BIGGEST moment ever.
(Of course Jamil was not entirely aware of her thought process at that moment, and simply kissed her on the forehead before saying “goodbye dear. Could you tell him I love him too?” Which lead to little Nami freaking out more and like. Basically jumping Azul on the couch. That is when Azul REALIZED that she thought they just spoke their one language-)
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Beauty and the Beast for the WIP game?
My only real attempt at writing poetry before this year happened during a stretch when I tried to write a Beauty and the Beast retelling in verse. I got about two-thirds of the way through before it fizzled out and languished forever unfinished.
When it comes to my recent novel-in-verse obsession, the simplest option would be to take another look at this work and try to finish it. There's a lot of terrible poetry in there, but there are some that are somewhat better than I remember. I can't claim to be a judge of what's good poetry, but some of these are readable, so I'll share some of them here.
The first set of semi-readable poems covers the first meetings between Beauty and the Beast. (These are all numbered, and I'm leaving the numbers in place to better differentiate between separate poems. I think the speaker in most of these is fairly clear from context, but just in case, I'll put the speaker's name in the title, too.)
VI. beauty and beast
he is every nightmare i’ve ever forgotten
he is thunder and darkness and death
he is fear with fangs
he is beastly
she is every dream i’ve never dared for
she is roses and sunlight and life
she is hope with jewels
she is beauty
*
VIII. beauty
the chair
creaks
when he sits
my knees
quake
when he speaks
the master
laughs
when i ask
when i will die
my ears
doubt
when i hear
my mind
reels
when i realize
the master
wonders
when i began
to think he’d kill me
IX. beast
the rules are these
you are mistress of this castle
the servants will obey your every whim
the rooms and all within are yours
including me
you will dine with me at dusk
we will not speak if you want silence
you will look at me and try not
to scream
i will not harm a hair of your head
i will not cause a moment’s worry
you will do whatever you wish
except leave
X. beauty
his mercy shatters my world
makes it bigger and
at the same time
smaller
how can i live in a monster’s cage
my life will be long and lonely
with him my friend and
at the same time
jailer
how can i look at a monster’s face
the castle teems with wonders
that all belong to him and
at the same time
me
what do i do with a monster’s love
*
The next set of poems I feel like sharing starts with Beauty finding a portrait in the castle, and then leads into her sharing a dance with Beast that makes her kind of freak out over the fact that she might be falling in love.
XXII. beast
today you found a painting
in a long-forgotten room
covered in cobwebs
and shrouded in dust
there was a reason it was lost
the portrait showed a man
with a face like the dawn
and eyes like the sea
you thought he looked kind
he was young and a fool
you may keep it if you wish
or lock it back in darkness
it matters not to me
i used to see him daily
i doubt i’ll see his face again
*
XXIV. beauty (and beast)
if rooms have souls
the ballroom is wise
a radiant beauty
long past her prime
she treasures the days
when she lived and was loved
she keeps them and counts them
like pearls on a string
(she is not the only one,
my dear)
long past midnight
in moonlight and hush
this sleepwalking girl
can glimpse former days
a flash of a gown
and a whisper of waltz
what glorious balls
must this room have beheld
(they were marvelous indeed,
my friend)
it seems a shame
she grows old alone
with nothing but darkness
and dust held within
i would dance for her
return the spark of life
if only we had music
and i had a partner
(i will gladly dance with you,
my love)
XXV. beast
my dear beauty
don’t you know
i learned dancing
long ago
one step closer
take my hand
with a waltz you’ll
understand
let the music
guide your feet
in a dance that’s
slow and sweet
hand in hand and
heart to heart
it’s not love but
it’s a start
XXVI. beauty
he is
hulking
beastly
i am
small
delicate
i should be
stumbling
crushed
but
we
marvelously
miraculously
dance
and it feels like flying
XXVII. beauty (to the portrait)
man on the wall
i may be mad
but i must
give voice
to the
storm
in my heart
and you are the only one near
the master puzzles me
i know his home as well as my own
but i know so little about him
(is he
beast
or
man
or
nightmare
or
dream
or
captor
or
friend)
i saw his face
and thought him a beast
(but he grows roses
and reads poems
and has never
killed
or even
raised his voice)
i heard his voice
and thought him a monster
(but he spared my life
gave me his home
and all he owned
offered
his
heart
and never once has been
anything but gentle)
i watched him dance
and thought him a man
(with grace like an angel
or a prince
and i think that
maybe
he was not always
so
lonely
and that his heart
aches
for things lost)
what am i to
think
do
say
be
feel
about him now
and why do these questions
always come at midnight
*
The final poem is one that I had completely forgotten about, so I was shocked to find it lurking in the latter sections of the document and showing signs of using some decent imagery. By polishing up the last couple of lines, I've got something that's not half bad as a standalone poem.
This one occurs during an extended period when Beauty is still trying to process her feelings toward Beast and figure out if this is really love or if her feelings are being warped by isolation and close proximity.
XXX. beauty
if this is love
it is a dark and grasping love
a child stumbling in the night
crying for a candle flame
and cherishing the smallest spark of light
if this is love
it is a bleak and desolate love
a skeleton tree in a barren desert
windbeaten and scrubbed to bone
and bursting into bloom at the first drop of rain
if this is love
it is a smoke and mirrors love
a sleight of hand or trick of light
that takes my broken heart
and fools me into thinking he can make it whole
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the mere existence of harue shigima paranormasight absolutely flies in the face of every piece of 2012-2016 feminist discourse arguing that “you can’t write a compelling self-sacrificial housewife character” or that “housewives are antifeminist” because it subverts 0 tropes and relegates women away from the public eye and makes them only child managers. and i LOVE that about her
not only is she an important character within the narrative of paranormasight, including the most important character in her side of the story because you’re playing from her point of view, but it is HER choice to resurrect her son, no matter the cost. it is 100% her choice, and you hear that from her point of view. in fact both ayame and richter argue it at the end of her route, and they’re totally right that harue is ultimately being selfish. harue may be driven by grief and anger, but it’s 100% her grief and anger, not given to her by anyone else.
she doesn’t lack agency because she’s a housewife either. she’s more than willing to commit murder under her own set of conditions, if that’s what you call agency, and her movements aren’t restricted by anyone. richter himself pretty much does whatever she tells him to, with his role being the investigation ability needed for the operation.
and there is so much depth to her. there’s a total apathy for everything, and a dislike for her own home. wouldn’t you be hollow inside if there was only one person in the world you truly loved, and it was taken away from you by a murderer? beyond that apathy is grief for her loss, and anger for the one who killed her son, and selfishness and yes, her choice to sacrifice herself if necessary for the sake of her son. still, it’s not all negative. she has fun watching richter horse around with kids, for instance. her point of view shows you so much about her personality, and it reflects the thoughts of a person, not the thoughts of a throwaway housewife.
basically, i support women’s wrongs, but there’s so much depth to those wrongs and i’d be doing a disservice if i didn’t point out that she is an amazing character before those wrongs.
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do u have any navi thoughts from your oot replay
i've been waiting to answer this until I actually beat the game in my current playthrough because navi is another one of those characters that i think of in like a "set" with several other characters who serve relatively the same thematic purpose; in this case that purpose being the "mother" character, and i wanted to have all the characters in that set fresh in my mind. it's notable that while oot shows us very clear and consistent instances of the ways in which the adults of hyrule fail to protect their children, there ARE several adults who DO go out of their way to both oppose ganondorf and protect and nurture the children under their care. All of these characters are adult women, and all of them explicitly help the children out of some sort of parental responsibility or sense of duty towards them. in this group I include link's late mother, impa, nabooru, and navi.
all 4 mother characters, despite being adults or adult-coded, reject the inaction mentality which characterizes other adults in the game. they become either direct supports or shields to their children from the conflict the world has to offer them, and they are always explicitly punished for their interference--link's mother is killed trying to protect her son, impa's village is burned, nabooru is brainwashed. The mother's fatal flaw is that she will protect her child above all else, even in a world in which children cannot truly be protected. however, with the exception of link's mother, these characters manage to persist even in the face of her punishment, and this is where I think navi becomes the exemplary character.
Navi, after a lifetime of being link's only support system, the only adult in his life he could truly, consistently count on, receives her punishment at the hands of ganondorf--in the final battle, she is pushed out. she is unable to reach her child. she cannot protect him. However, BECAUSE link has grown up with her at his side, he is strong enough to take ganondorf down. and when ganon rises again, navi is there to support link, promising not to leave his side, and the intuitive targeting of that battle (a mechanic which navi is inherently tied to!!) makes it a cinch to win. Navi, and the other mothers we meet, are a reminder to the player that the world doesn't HAVE to be the way it is. Their persistence when punished, their insistence that their children ought to be protected, is a reminder that good adults do exist, and that good adults raise good children. link and zelda are able to win in spite of the adults who refused to help them, but also BECAUSE of the adults who DID. It's a reinforcement of the core theme of oot--that childlike idea that the world SHOULD be good and fair and if it isn't, it should be changed until it is. The mothers of oot are examples of what the world COULD be, reminders that it is possible to grow up without losing hope or growing bitter, and they are examples of the next step for the children they've raised to change the word--to continue fighting even in the face of punishment, to refuse inaction, and to foster that same hope and persistence in the generations to come.
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