@feanorianweek #2 Maglor - a place to jam

They had a secret place where they could experiment, either with their music or with each other.

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@feanorianweek #2 Maglor - un lugar para improvisar

Tenían un lugar secreto donde podían experimentar, ya fuera con su música o con ellos mismos.

In X and XX's localizations, Jam speaks fluently in English, while in Xrd she speaks in broken English. I've been wondering how she speaks in Japanese because of this. Since my Japanese isn't good enough to really look into it, I thought I'd ask you.

So, she definitely speaks with a "Chinese person who's bad at Japanese" accent in XX and Xrd's audio dialog (couldn't find audio for X & I'm too lazy to boot it up atm but idk why it'd be any different). It's not great. In X/XX they made her English text dialog fluent but for some reason went back on that for Xrd. I guess maybe to be more accurate to the source material?

She uses アル (aru) a lot, which is a signifier that a character is Chinese. An English equivalent would probably be something like a Russian character speaking English and forgetting to use grammatical articles, since Russian doesn't have them, like Heavy from Team Fortress 2 ("I have yet to meet man who can outrun bullet"), except racist once you take into consideration Japan and China's history with each other. Her grammar in general is just as broken as the Xrd English translation is.

Here is the Jisho definition for aru:

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.) 1. be; is​ - Jocular, humorous term, Colloquialism, used in place of だ [da] when attributing an utterance to a Chinese person; poss. from Manchukuo pidgin

Jam is... really unfortunate... She seems like a moderately successful restaurant owner and genuinely works hard to get where she is so that's at least a saving grace, but there's a lot about her that's just straight up Chinese stereotyping...

I feel bad answering this with so many negative things about Jam, I hate being asked about something and having it all be negative haha... Like, I don't think it's bad enough to cancel ArcSys over or anything, but there is a lot of room for improvement. With how they've handled Bridget and Testament for Strive, I feel pretty good that they'll do the same for Jam. Here's hoping!!