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How the Straw Hats Talk
I got a request from anonymous asker about the differences in dialogue styles in Japanese between the Strawhats, which is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile, so I decided to make it its own big post!
Luffy: All casual all the time. This boy has never used a polite form in his fucking life without being actively coerced. He also has a strong tendency towards informal honorifics for people he doesn’t know- I’ve mentioned ossan for ‘mister’ or ‘old guy’ before, but like he also calls Kureha obaachan (grandma). He also tosses a whole lot of casual nicknames around, but I’m sure that’s something that comes through in English as well.
Zoro: Basically the same as Luffy in terms of formality (by which I mean: none) but more aggressive (he has a lot more of a tendency to use words like teme and kisama, for instance, and more of a tendency to use masculine sentence-enders) and he often uses more complicated words than Luffy does. Also, less a speech pattern thing, but almost all of his attack names are food puns and that’s wonderful.
Nami: Speaks very casually, and uses pretty neutral speech in terms of gendering- she uses 私/watashi for ‘I’, which is a very standard pronoun, as opposed to the more feminine あたし/atashi, which is what Nojiko, for example, uses. She also swears a lot. The only honorific she uses is for a crewmate is for Sanji- she calls him Sanji-kun, but only when she’s trying to get him to do something.
Usopp: Speaks similarly to Luffy, but goes a little more over the top with it sometimes in terms of, like, how he refers to himself- he sometimes refers to himself as おれ様/ore-sama, which is like ‘the great and wonderful me,’ particularly when he’s trying to feel brave or hype himself up for something, and often tacks the masculine/emphatic particle ぞ/zo onto his sentences (some of the other guys do this too but it’s most noticeable with him). He also does the same thing Nami does where he calls Sanji ‘Sanji-kun’ when he needs something from him. I want to believe he’s seen her success and is trying, to absolutely no avail, to replicate it.
Sanji: Oh boy. To start with, Sanji’s speech patterns are very different depending on whether he’s talking to women or men, and he especially tends towards overly formal language if he’s trying to make a good first impression on a girl (the best example of this is when he first meets Nami at the Baratie). He’s also one of the only members of the crew who uses honorifics, but he only uses them for women (-san for Nami, -chan for Robin and Vivi). Sometimes he goes really over the top with them- for example when he first meets Nojiko and learns she’s Nami’s sister, he calls her お姉様/onee-sama which is ‘older sister’ but with a very excessively reverent honorific attached. When he’s talking to guys, though, he drops all of that and is extremely casual and rude. He’s also probably the Strawhat who swears the most, with particular fondness for くそ/kuso (shit/shitty).
Chopper: He uses a very similar speech style to the rest of the male Strawhats (generally casual + masculine with ore for ‘I’ and omae for ‘you’) but it comes off as somewhat incongruous due to how baby he is- it would be more expected for him to use ぼく/boku instead, so his speech style comes off as kinda trying to make himself seem older and scarier than he is. Which is very cute.
Robin: Speaks more formally than the rest of the Strawhats, comparatively. She’s the only one who consistently uses あなた/anata to refer to other people, and thus is the only one who has a default ‘respectful’ way of speaking. Also the only member of the crew (besides Vivi) to consistently use honorifics for everyone- I’m pretty sure this translates directly into English, so I’m sure you guys know this one already, but she calls everyone by their jobs+san, so for example Zoro is 剣士さん/kenshi-san, ‘swordsman-san.’ I’m also pretty sure she’s the only permanent crew member who never swears (at least, thus far. I’m almost at Enies Lobby, so we’ll see).
+Vivi: Vivi speaks casually, but doesn’t swear. She also horrifically overuses loanwords while in her Miss Wednesday persona, to come off as even more showy and over the top. She uses honorifics for the whole crew, probably because she’s both younger than all of them and not a full member of the crew. She calls everyone with (first name)-san with two exceptions: she calls Chopper ‘Tony-kun’, because he’s younger than her and technically joins after she does so they’re on more even footing, and she calls Zoro ‘Mister Bushido’ (yes, ‘Mister’ is actually sounded out in the Japanese), which is a holdover from her Baroque Works speech pattern.
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a doffy i realized i never posted anywhere teehee
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this redditor has the fucking battle royale of invasive plants (in the US) happening in their yard jesus christ. sentences of hate and destruction
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here's a bunch of pencil brushes i use! the google drive contains brushes that have either been heavily modified by me to feel nicer or have been deleted from the csp store, and links to some are below:
Re: Mameshiba Stalwart (Re:しばもさ)
Serious Pencil 2 Set (マジペンシル2セット)
bopip pencil
Draft Pencil/Paint
MUGZ BRUSH COLLECTION
Raz's roughy sketchy set
Giant Clam Pen (シャコペン)
A pencil (てぃろ鉛筆)
note: these two sets are some of the most realistic:
Artemus Pencil
Artemus Chalk
i've also put a modified version of artemus hard that works well for painting in the google drive
Homebrew Zaku Pencil (自作ざく鉛筆)
Sketchy Brush
chunkyshader
textured lineart pen (i recommend the altered version in the drive a lot)
eXpressure NT FREE by Zhillustrator
eXpressure 2 FREE by Zhillustrator
try em all :)
!!! ITS LIKE THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA IN HERE WHAAAT thank you so much !!!
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