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[dereban]

Who: Inaba Himeko (dereban) and you!
When: IC: Feb. 2 | OOC: July 10-11
Where: Anywhere and everywhere in Cerealia - feel free to state a location in the header!
What: Inaba decides to test the language barrier by speaking in Japanese for a whole twenty-four hours. For the most part, she won't let up unless it's really important.
Rating/Warning: Language, mostly. I'll edit if anything else comes up.



⊲⊲⊲ option one.

[ Things seem normal today with Inaba Himeko. But in truth, they're not. She seems... what? More annoyed, more antsy? Well, whatever. She's walking to and from school - of course she's taking the trains, but soon enough, somebody seems to bump into her (is it you?) and she suddenly gets really pissy for a second, knitting her brows as she yells out, in clear cut Japanese: ]

Watch where you're going, you idiot! [ ... Though if she knows you, she might follow up with a straight apology, bowing her head. ]

Ah, sorry, I was rude. [ Clicking her tongue indignantly, she rubs the back of her head awkwardly, laughing it off. ]

⊲⊲⊲ option two.

[ CERES Academy. Today's a weekday, so she definitely has school to attend. Of course, with all the teachers and staff and fellow students looking at her weirdly, she can't help but shrug. She's speaking in a foreign language - to them - after all, even if she completely understands the material. It's funny to be going to school again, after all the ruckus that's happened.

She thought she wouldn't have a reason to. But she does get paid for attending, and it allows her to focus a bit. Naturally, she doesn't attend any clubs or after school activities. However, during her lunch breaks, she decides to go back to typing on her laptop rather cheerfully. They are, once again, letters to Taichi.

Written completely in Japanese, of course, but this time, they're genuine. Anyone who decides to take a peek can notice that she's writing about how much she misses him and that she, most likely... won't be able to see him when Valentine's Day passes.

This really sucks. Like, really really sucks. ]

⊲⊲⊲ option three.

[ She said she was going to do something stupid. This is that stupid thing. What is it, you ask? It's Inaba Himeko in the middle of the streets, yelling out random, yes, random — phrases, maybe even sentences. It's all in Japanese, though, so it's going to be gibberish to anyone unfamiliar with the language. ]

You! Over there! [ She'll point at a random passerby. ] You're ugly.

And you-- [ Another passerby. ] --should go get a girlfriend. No, actually, you should get a fucking life!

[ She gives a villain laugh, before: ] And CERES is full of the biggest douches in the history of douchebaggery!

[ Is she serious? Is she not?

She'll definitely continue to make fun of people casually like this for a while... she's sorry... ]

⊲⊲⊲ wildcard

[ Want do do something with her that doesn't fill any of these prompts? Feel free to come at me! ]

Comments

3!

[zenryokuzenkai]

Get a girlfriend, but I'm- Wait a minute, Inaba-chan? [ What did Nanoha ever do to deserve this? Apart from antagonise Inaba all the time by flying around, blasting things, and being helpful. Apart from that. ]

Valentine's Day is approaching after all, huh? Wait another minute, are you speaking Japanese? Isn't everything translated into a common language?

[dereban]

.. Ah.

[ She didn't mean to point out Nanoha of all people. Rubbing the nape of her neck awkwardly she lets out a breath. ]

Yeah. [ To the Valentine's Day part. And-- ] Yeah, I am. You generally speak in the native language of this planet, but you can also speak in other languages, too. Plus, I feel a bit more comfortable speaking in my own language...

But I was mostly doing this as a test. All of my documents and files are either written in Japanese or in code. Well, except for stuff I write for the newspaper.

[zenryokuzenkai]

[ She coughs and shifts to Japanese as well here. ]

Japanese is a perfectly good language! [ And Mid-childan, which sounded exactly like Japanese despite having a completely different system of writing. It was best not to think too much about the likelihood of that. ] I barely notice that I'm speaking native... Tellusian? Is that what they call it? But this is definitely nostalgic.

Hmm, what kind of test is this? Are you just checking if the natives know what Japanese sounds like? Having a language they don't understand might be useful, but random Cerealians might not be the same as the upper echelons of CERES, here.

3!

[adornmental]

[Kashuu, in the meantime, is standing off on the sidewalk and watching in amusement as she rains down unholy verbal destruction on the confused citizens meandering by. This is better than any show on TV...

At some point, when there's a break in the insult flood:]

Sooo, who rolled you out onto the wrong side of the bed this morning?

[dereban]

Nobody. I was just testing something. [ She says in completely calm Japanese. ]

[adornmental]

[It seems he doesn't have any issue understanding it, even if he speaks back in the automatically translated language.]

Whatcha testing? If people can understand your insults?

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[sjokolade]

[All things considered, Anna wasn't even paying attention when she was on the train. Between having to stay up all night to get her work done and slacking off, she accidentally took a step forward without realizing she bumped into someone!]

Oh, sorry about t-

[Blink blink] Uh...what?

[dereban]

Sorry. [ Repeated, again, in clear Japanese as she takes a step back and bows apologetically to show her respect. ]

[sjokolade]

[And again, Anna just continued to stare at her with a raised eyebrow]

Uh...sorry, what was that? I don't think I understand what you're saying?

3

[reprizesal]

[Sayo's just watching her from the sidelines, wondering if he should even bother asking this girl what's her deal?

Curiosity finally won out over his standard distrust in people.]

...Are you in a bad mood?

[dereban]

I wouldn't say that I'm not-- [ She's bitter about a lot of things. Those things include her being pissed that it's already almost Valentine's Day, but alas. ]

But I'm always in a bad mood. Not that I'd like to annoy people-- I'm doing that because I'm bored.

[reprizesal]

[So yelling insults out of boredom? He can see that.]

Wouldn't it be better to do other things if you're bored?

one

[fingersnaps]

( Why doesn't anyone in this wretched world look where they're going. This is the second time someone's walked into his path in as many weeks. Suddenly being yelled at in gibberish does little to lighten his mood, and it takes him a moment to realize that it's another language entirely. It's strange now that he thinks about it, but ever since he arrived here, he hasn't heard one foreign tongue. Not one.

His brow furrows as he glares at the girl. )

What did you say?

[dereban]

[ Be glad she understands him. Well, she's tempted to tell him off, because it was an accident and she hadn't bumped into him at purpose, so she just takes a step back as she bows her head. ]

Sorry. [ Still speaking in Japanese. She's being rude. ]

[fingersnaps]

( When she responds, Manfred strains to make sense of what she's said. It's futile, as he doesn't understand the language, but it sounds familiar; he is certain that it is, at the very least, a language that was spoken on Earth.

Her demeanor is enough to quell Manfred's fury for now, though, so he simply takes a step back and looks over her. It prompts him to ask: )

What language are you speaking?

( Hoping that she'll understand.

He'll make sense of this world one day... )

3

[cardboard_journalism]

[Scuttlebutt wasn't walking around openly, but watching from around the corner of a building at Inaba shouting... --what? something anyway]

[after it was clear she wouldn't get any closer to fishing out what was going on by watching her, she'd wait for a break in pedestrian traffic and go flag Inaba down]

[...after turning her tape recorder on to possibly replay the message to someone else later]

--Inaba? What're you doing out here...?

[dereban]

[ Oh, this is someone she's fairly certain doesn't know any hint of Japanese, so she just shrugs her shoulders wide before speaking up, switching back to the common tongue. ]

Testing out something. It's been a while since I've spoken in Japanese, so I thought this might be fun.

[cardboard_journalism]

Huh... try it again! I'll reply in English.

3!

[topscores]

[He was just hobbling by on his crutches, when he was randomly yelled at like that. He looks up and over at the person who was speaking, and...well.]

Hey! That's pretty rude for a person who kicked a robot for you!

[He's also responding in Japanese.]

[dereban]

... Ah, it's you.

[ She suddenly shifts into a more polite demeanor as she stares in slight disbelief. Well, that's a +1 to someone who understands her. ]

I didn't think I would accidentally insult someone I've met before.

[topscores]

[GOOD at least she realized her error. Kind of.

He'll take it like it is right now.]

Well you did. What's that all about, anyway? Why are you talking in Japanese?

1!

[babermetrics]

Whoa, whoooa, what the hell?

[Is this girl always like this? It's afternoon--after school, not that he's got anything to do with that himself. He'd just been in the wrong place on the train platform at the wrong time. And he'd also been about to start a fight over this before he noticed who it was. Man, what is her problem?

His reply is in the common language, and in fact, he doesn't notice hers isn't. Or, more precisely, he doesn't notice that he's not also speaking Japanese, and hasn't been for weeks. The language question has never occurred to him before; if he can understand it, obviously it's all Japanese, right?]

D'you ever cool it?

[dereban]

Of course I do. [ Still obviously speaking in Japanese, but it's more smooth and cool rather than irritated. ]

It's not like I'm actually that angry.

3

[smokingspirit]

[ "Get a girlfriend"? Him? It's an acceptable suggestion but he doesn't really have any interests in relationships. He always stuck to one-night-stands and brothels when he was alive.

As for being told to "get a life"? He blows some cigarette smoke in her direction. He's not close enough for it to hit her though, not that he would blow smoke at anyone who was, because Rasu-san would be very upset with him if he found out. ]

I can't get a life any more, I'm already dead.

[dereban]

... Oh. You're dead? [ That was new and unexpected. ]

But wait. If you're dead, how am I seeing you?