A3! Minagi Tsuzuru - Translation [SR] Festival of Blooming (1/2)
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Tsuzuru: (Me acting as Masumi… huh…)
*Sigh*…
Friend A: What’s with the sigh? Is something bugging you?
Friend B: Are you stuck on a script?
Tsuzuru: Nah, it’s just… well, you aren’t wrong.
(Acting as Masumi is going to be a tough task in more ways than one…)
(You think of Director when you say Masumi, huh?)
(I mean, I can imitate him a little if I try hard enough. But actually acting as him is a high hurdle…)
(I’m an actor though.
I’ve played roles that are far removed from myself before.)
(Let’s imagine for a second…)
*imagination starts*
Tsuzuru: Director… I like you.
Marry me.
If it’s for you, I can do my best.
I love you.
*imagination ends*
Tsuzuru: God, help me~…
Friend A: Hey, you okay there, bud?
-pause-
Chikage: Thank you for waiting.
Tsuzuru: Sorry, I know you’re busy and all.
Chikage: Don’t worry about it.
You said you wanted me to teach you magic?
Is this for work or something?
Tsuzuru: No… it’s about that assignment we got from Director and Yukio-san. I have to act as Masumi.
Chikage: Oh, yes. The one where we’re supposed to play our roommates?
Tsuzuru: Whenever I think about how I should go about playing Masumi, the way he expresses his feelings straight to Director comes to mind…
I think that’s Masumi’s character, for better or for worse.
Although… he’s calmed down quite a bit these days.
Chikage: That’s true.
Tsuzuru: So, I thought I’d act as Masumi when he interacts with Director…
But it’d be a bit tough acting like that on stage, let alone in front of the guy himself.
That being said, I thought if I put some effort in, I could show how Masumi works to hard to show magic tricks to Director…
Chikage: Is that why you asked me for a favour?
Tsuzuru: You’re Masumi’s magic teacher, after all.
Chikage: If that’s how it is, I’ll help you.
Tsuzuru: Thank you very much!
-pause-
Tsuzuru: I-I think I got it…
Chikage: Now all you need is practise.
That trick I just showed you was one of the very first ones I taught Masumi.
Tsuzuru: You mean during our Oz play?
Chikage: Before I joined the company, I only knew how Masumi was on stage. It was a little surprising and unexpected when I saw how he was towards Director.
I got the strong impression that Masumi was a skillful and cool young man.
Of course, I wasn’t mistaken about that Masumi either. Both are different aspects of Masumi.
Tsuzuru: —.
I thought I knew that, but when it comes to Masumi, how he keeps confessing to Director isn’t all there is to him…
Chikage: …Why don’t you think it over some more?
If it’s you, then I’m sure you know a Masumi that you can play best.
Tsuzuru: I think you’re right. I’ll give it some thought!
Chikage: Since we’re here, I’ll give this sponge to you.
You might be able to find some use for it.
Tsuzuru: Thank you.
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One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).
And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?
Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.
Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.
And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.
Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP
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one really interesting thing about the Sui siblings is that their sibling age order isn’t so much about biological age but more about when they first managed to separate themselves from Sui and therefore how comfortable they are in their own individual identity (i’m far from the first person to point out that the Sui siblings are basically the opposite of the seaborne/We Many) - Shuo, the oldest brother is so secure in himself that he’s able to create a whole identity entirely separate from Sui, which is how we get Chongyue The Very Human Guy. Ling is able to defeat the Sui Xiang in invitation to wine with ease simply because she sees it as a shadow of herself, as opposed to Nian who sees the siblings as shadows and dreams of Sui. Dusk, the second youngest of the siblings, is so scared of the existential threat that is Sui that she has hid herself in her paintings and refused to sleep for centuries just to hide from it
… which makes me really want to meet the 12th brother (the cook) because if that is where Dusk, the 11th’s head is at i cannot imagine he’s having a good time either
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