How's My Driving

[gonewithistory]

Lavi's not an easy character, so if you feel that I'm doing something wrong, do tell. xD Praise and the like is totally cool as well~

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I do not know, in your recent D_M post with Kanda, why you have Lavi use "Yu-chan" when there's no reason as to why Lavi would use that suffix as Japan has be colonized by the Earl for an indefinite number of years and the language appears to be unused. Just my thought.

[gonewithistory]

I've put a lot of thought into this over the course of the three or so years I've been in this fandom, since that nickname is something that's fairly hard to translate into something English with the same sound to it. I always wanted to keep that, so.

Basically, if there was ever anyone who would know about these suffixes it would be the Bookmen. I imagine they would also have access to the Exorcists' files, and in these it would say that Kanda's nationality is Japanese, I imagine, since Hoshino has always stated so... I dunno. But that's how I imagine it, anyway, since they need to give him some nationality so as not to give the secret away. Hell, maybe his previous self even actually was Japanese - there are still Japanese people after all, even if most of Japan are Akuma.

And so, I imagine Lavi would ponder over what to call Kanda to piss him off the most... So why not use a suffix?

[(Anonymous)]

I am still unconvinced as the point of the Bookmen is obviously to record information. If Lavi doesn't know Chinese, the language with, at this point in time still, the most speakers worldwide, I don't know why he'd prioritise learning a practically erradicated language instead.

Furthermore, I do not see this happening: Lavi reads Kanda's file that will undeniably list that he is an artificial being, sees his supposed nationality and decides to ironically taunt him about it through a language that he may or may not understand (I lean towards not).

I really do just think the reason they are used is because translators didn't care to go in to that much detail. RP does. There are plenty of ways you can cutesy up Kanda's name without using Japanese.

[gonewithistory]

...you know, I completely forgot about him apparently not knowing Chinese. Which... does confuse me a little. Because, yes, Bookmen are supposed to record information but if they don't know the language of the country they're recording information in then how can they, well, record it thoroughly? It's because of this reason that I've always figured that Bookmen need to know a lot of languages. So I tend to have him know basic things at least in plenty...

I wouldn't say it'd be ironic at all. Never imagined it that way. o_O And I do personally think that Kanda probably wouldn't understand what he meant at first, so he'd have to explain it. I think I even wrote it that way in a fic once...