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onefleshonepod · 2 years

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Strange Names in Nona the Ninth

Nona’s gang of kids, plus the Angel, all appear to have weird names because they are Nona’s transliterations of their names in their native languages into the language of the Nine Houses.

Hot Sauce nodded. Nona guessed again, “Born in the Morning.” “You mean Born in the Morning,” said Hot Sauce. “That’s what I said,” said Nona.

There are seventeen local languages (according to Ianthe) on New Rho. Nona can speak all of them, without really understanding what she’s doing, so she understands the names she hears and the meaning of these names to be synonymous.

Nona understood everybody, and could speak back to them so that they understood her, and nobody ever said she had an accent. This confounded Palamedes. When she first said that she could speak back by watching them talk and making her lips look like theirs, it confounded him so much more that it gave Camilla a headache.

(I think the same thing’s going on with The Building that Troia cell lives in; I think it’s a word in another language that means building and is used as an official name for the building, but I have no guesses as to what that could be.)

I believe Nona is able to do this both because she is Alecto, who plays the role of the Holy Spirit in Tamsyn's Catholic Trinity 2.0, and the Holy Spirit gave the Apostles the gift of tongues during Pentecost, and because she is the soul of Earth. The languages spoken on New Rho presumably came from Earth, so of course she can speak all of them!

This is my attempt to reverse engineer all of these names into House / English.

The Angel / The Messenger

BOE calls Aim "the Messenger" and the children and Nona call her "the Angel.”

We Suffer: “Usually you both meeting up with the Messenger, whom you call the Angel, would have been very bad.”

When the Angel first appears, her name is playing on the meaning of “angel” as a caring and godly being – the reader gets that it would make sense for children who love her to see her as an angel, so this remark flies under on the radar:

The Angel was what they called the nondescript, washed-out, dusty-haired personage who came to teach the Hour of Science. Why they called her the Angel was unclear.

But it is clear why they call her The Angel! It comes from a word with two meanings: the Greek word “angelos” originally meant “messenger” and later took on the meaning of “angel” or “messenger of God,” so all names originating from this word have both of those meanings.

Names originating from “angelos” include Angela (English, Spanish), Aniela (Polish), Aingeal (Irish), Anděla (Czech), Andjela (Serbian), Angèle (French), Angiola (Italian), Anzhela (Russian), and diminutives like Angelina.

The name is intended by BOE to mean Messenger, because of her societal role, but Nona is translating the other meaning of her name, Angel, because that meaning is what makes more sense to her given the way she sees and loves the Angel.

It's also possible that BOE has a more formal version of this name as a title for the Messenger and the children's "the Angel" which Nona hears as distinct from "the Messenger" is a diminutive or less formal version of the same name.

Born in the Morning

This name could be Sabah (Arabic), Akinyi (Luo from Kenya), or Asa (Japanese), all names which mean “morning” and more specifically “born in the morning.”

Honesty

This is a bit more difficult and I’m really not sure about any of these. There are quite a few boys' names meaning “honesty.” There are even more names that mean “honest” or “truthful,” but for strictly the noun “honesty” we have these names:

Pheakdei (Khmer, from Cambodia); Satyam, Onnesha, and Sachh (Hindi); Zaka and Sadaqat (Arabic); and Onestà or Onesto (Italian).

I don’t speak any of these languages, so I can’t comment on which name is most likely, and there are probably also way more possibilities that I missed in my deep dive into 457 baby name websites and dictionary translations!

Edit: I've seen "Frank" suggested a lot as a potential name, but I don't think this is likely, because "Honesty" is a noun, and "Frank" is an adjective. I think if Tamsyn intended the name to be a transliteration of "Frank" she would have used the adjective "Honest," not the noun "Honesty " – she doesn't seem the type to overlook something like that.

Beautiful Ruby

I think this name is probably just two names, in an unknown language, one meaning “beautiful” and one meaning “ruby.”

Unfortunately, there are millions of possibilities here and I can’t find any combination that particularly jumps out. If you have more thoughts on this please let me know!

Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce, of course – as a delightful choice that only serves to confuse the reader more with respect to all of these names – is literally just named Hot Sauce. You CAN put it on rice and you CAN put it on bread!!

#nona the ninth #ntnspoilers #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers #the angel #the messenger #aim #honesty #beautiful ruby #born in the morning #hot sauce #nona #edited to fix my misconception that lemuria and new rho are the same #ours

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imaginestevetony · 1 year

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Still thinking about the SHIELD profile for Tony.

Focusing on his languages: English, Spanish, Italian and Dari

I'd like to think Tony speaks fluent Italian because of Maria. And Dari after Afghanistan and Yinsen. Spanish would be really useful when he's at California.

It's not included there but in Iron Man 2 he understands and speaks French (speaking with the police before going to see Vanko).

In comics he can speak Japanese, Russian and some Urdu. I'd like to think mcu tony learned those, too. Japanese for business, Russian from Natasha (later it'll be useful with Bucky) and Urdu from Rhodey.

And additional headcanon, I think Tony can do perfect British accent thanks to Edwin Jarvis.

And if not fully fluent, at least he'd know some Hungarian curse words from Ana Jarvis.

#I'm revisiting my drafts and I have so much I need to finish #trying to get my groove back so I can finish stuff #I need a longer scene of tony wearing a leather jacket while speaking french #tony stark #iron man #my hcs

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rayclubs · 11 months

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have you talked about which of the mercs you think are most likely to know another language, and which? (some are. more obvious than others but lol)

Ooh, haven't talked about this, let's go!

Scout:

We do know from the comics that he is either dyslexis or illiterate and has trouble reading, and I don't think he would be particularly interested in learning another language.

I do know people headcanon him speaking French but I just don't see it. "Whaddya mean words have gendah? No the fuck they don't" - Scout, probably.

Learned Spanish at school, can say "Hello, my name is Jeremy, my Spanish is very bad!" but that's it.

Soldier:

Very likely knows a moderate amount of Polish. Taught Medic to say "kurwa".

Not interested in learning languages but I think foreign words just stick to him, he has tge easiest time picking them up

Pyro:

Definitely knows ASL like a champ. Tries to teach the mercs, too, with varying degrees of success.

Doesn't learn any new languages but constantly asks people what things are called in their native languages. Remembers about a third of the words he's given. Still worth it.

Demoman:

He could MASTER Russian phonetics but instead he's learning Klingon like the fucking nerd he is. I love him so much.

Probably speaks Gaelic also. I dunno, I don't know enough about Scotland unfortunately, even his speech patterns are hard for me

Heavy:

Fluent in French.

Starts out with zero knowledge of German but is very persistent and goes to great extents to learn it.

His English is piss but he probably had like. A two-week long express course before they shipped him to America. Jeebus Crust.

Engineer:

Picked up some Russian from Heavy, some German from Medic, some ASL from Pyro, some French from Spy. At some point even started saying "kurwa" in that Texan accent of his.

Probably decent in Spanish, too, cause why not.

Medic:

Fluent in Latin.

Knows like a dozen Russian words and none of them are PG-13.

Sniper:

I dunno. He reads upside down. He knows bird calls and stuff. Does that count? Morse code also.

NZSL.

Spy:

Oh, I'm gonna musspell this but. Here goes. Quebecois.

Says he can lip-read but actually can't.

Overpronounces every foreign dish name in restaurants like the pretentious bastard he is.

"Qruasön" I dunno.

Probably forgot something. Cheers!

#raynswers #tf2 language #tf2

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flung-from-the-mulch · 3 months

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Hi! Was wonderin if you could do some headcanons for Medic, Scout, Sniper, Heavy, and Spy with an S/O that loves to imitate their accent because they think it's interesting? Feel free to ignore! No pressure!:]

i'm just gonna do medic, snipes, heavy, and spy since. well. lets be real scout sounds like every guy from the midwest ever(at least to me)

Medic

-smug. so fucking smug.

-"oh? interesting!"

-will try and teach you german but probably won't last long, he's a bit impatient </3

-HE THINKS YOU SOUND SO GOOFY TRYING TO IMPERSONATE HIM. but he also starts to wonder if he really sounds like that.

-"eh.... leibling....... perhaps we should use our normal voices, ja?"

Sniper

-wow way to make a guy never speak again

-like. he's embarrassed as shit.

-he thinks you're making fun of his accent, and he's kinda pissy about it.

-he doesn't really find it flattering even when you explain that you just really like his accent, he thinks it's really weird and just wants you to stop.

-lets be real its just because scout made fun of his accent so much that he can't take any sort of poking fun at it

Heavy

-like genuinely. that is his reaction.

-WILL LAUGH SO HARD WHEN YOU MIMIC HIM OH MY GOD.

-10/10 belly laugh

-finds it adorable, and will try and teach you russian

-it's more of a 'behind closed doors' thing, though, because heavy is self conscious about the other mercs thinking it's alright to mimic/poke fun at his accent

Spy

-smug

-so smug

-hates the way you pronounce words while doing impressions though

-will NOT teach you french no matter how much you beg. he DESPISES your french

-"non, NON! i do not sound like that!!"

#tf2 x reader #sniper tf2 x reader #sniper x reader #spy tf2 x reader #spy x reader #heavy tf2 x reader #heavy x reader #medic tf2 x reader #medic x reader #sorry if this seems ooc i just. guh. this was a hard ask to write for honestly.

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sea-lanterns · 3 months

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all these asks about languages has got me thinking that some women would have lovely accents…

Thinking about Arlecchino having a French accent with the occasional Russian intonation bleeding through is sending me to heaven

And Navia saying something to you in French? She could say the most random word and wow I’m already ascending!!

Idk I also think women speaking multiple languages is so hot <3

Hnnnnn Navia speaking French to you 😍

Accents are one of my greatest weaknesses when it comes to women… I used to play genshin in English, but I feel like it’d be super sexy and hot if they gave the characters accents corresponding to their nation :0

Give me my French accent Navia! Or Mandarin accent Ganyu! Better yet, imagine they’re speaking English but occasionally they slip up and mix bits of their native tongue into their English sentences 😫😫

SQUEEEEEEE IM SWOONING SO HARD 😖

#🫧feeding the fishes #BILINGUAL WOMENNNNNN #WOMEN WITH ACCENTS #RAAAAAAAAA

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physalian · 27 days

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The Fantasy Language Translation Matrix

Whether you intend to write your own full-blown lexicon with different verb tenses and formal vs informal language, need unique words for spellwork, or just need new names for all your foreign places, behold… the Physalian patented Fantasy Language Translation Matrix.

(I kid. I have no idea if I’m the first to come up with this)

**Disclaimer!** After rolling out your fresh new vocab off the word assembly line, make sure you google it and that it doesn’t already exist and mean something you don’t intend.

Step 1: Pick your Derivative

You can make it sound completely foreign and like total gibberish, but I find it easier for you and other people to read if they have some real-world reference to compare it to, and so they have a clue for which pronunciation rules to rely on. For example: I did not know who René Descartes was my freshman year of high school. His last name was in my algebra book, and I, thinking he was Greek like so many other ancient mathematicians, pronounced his name as if he were Greek “Des-kart-ees.” I got made fun of.

Spare your readers the humiliation.

So say I want a vaguely… Russian/Latin/Italian influence. As opposed to French. Cool. That’s my starting point.

Step 2: Reorder the most common letters from English to your new language

In English, the average use of the standard alphabet by letter in order is this:

Ignore your vowels for a second. I don’t use charts like this on the regular, I use the Wheel of Fortune method and focus on RSTLNE, then go from there. I also want to make sure this isn’t a complete 1:1 ratio so it’s not super obvious I’m just juggling letters around, so I’ll knock out some “duplicate” letters and swap out singular letters for specific sounds.

The goal of this isn’t to stare at two existing language matrices and perfectly match them up, it’s to take the most common sounds and letters in English and make them new, common sounds in your new language, to sound more uniform and like you have a real etymology.

And I end up with this:

This might look a little confusing on how I got from A to Z so the basics:

All my vowels remain in the same place, they just get juggled around so I don’t end up with 8 consonants next to each other and word garbage

My “duplicate” letters are combined so I have more room for the new sounds, like c/k, f/ph/gh, h/wh, s/z. The new sounds then get the spare letters I had left over

Common english suffixes get reduced down so the pattern isn’t as obvious

If you want to include accent marks, this is your chance

I wanted to really emphasize the long “e” and long “i” sounds, so those got extra attention

Step 3: Translating

Oftentimes this is not perfect, or you end up with a word that just doesn’t fit the rest of your new vocabulary, because English is the bastard lovechild of German, Latin, Danish, and French.

I start with English, usually, but if the English word is too short or too long, I translate it first into another language, like Spanish, and go from there. Like “bus” vs “autobus”.

Using your matrix, go one by one. Let’s use a word like “letter”.

English: L-E-T-T-E-R

New: T-A-C-C-A-Z

Step 4: Polishing

So now I have my new word: “Taccaz”

Which is serviceable. I can throw an accent on either A or fiddle with the Z. I can start with “carta” instead and end up with “kizci”. The matrix is just a starting point. It’s designed to streamline the process when I’m otherwise feeling uncreative and in a rush, and it moves very quickly when I need to come up with full phrases and sentences that someone would actually say.

Step 5: Full sentences

This is only if you’re really digging deep and not coming up with the occasional fantasy curse word or new name for your fantasy land/realm/noun etc.

For this you’re going to need lots of tables. I based mine off romance languages because I know Spanish and romance languages make sense. This is where you decide how many pronouns, if any, you’re going to use, how the infinitive changes based on past, present, or future tense, how many nouns the word references, etc.

This is… a lot. Way more than you’d ever need for your manuscript. Ever. But I did it just for my own sake. Does it get long? Yes. Does it get tedious? Yes. The point here is to have little pre-manufactured word bytes you can plug and play with, with as little mental effort as possible so you can save it for the rest of your work.

I also came up with very common words already conjugated, like “to be” so I can just glance and type without having to remember to take “is” and go through the process over and over again.

Which means that I can take an entire sentence and translate it to my new language in about two minutes.

English: The payoff is worth it, this is so satisfying. New, roughly: Nu kioyb ela fyzip ne, iski ela valo nicenbalaev.

Of course, you can keep tinkering until you get something that’s easier on the eyes (I’ve been working with this language for years so I can read it pretty well), but not all languages are smooth and pretty and simple.

To be frank: Most readers will just gloss over this stuff anyway, but it shows that you put in the effort and it enhances the lore and the immersion when you do this. At least in the written medium. You can’t ignore it if this is meant to be in a screenplay.

Is this what a language professor would do or recommend? Probably not, I have no idea. Does it work? Yes. I have a fully functioning grammatical system where any input can give me a legible output.

To make this yourself, just change the order of the letters around, adjust your shortcuts, and come up with your own common sounds for those last two rows. The conjugation matrix is where you can really make it distinct, assuming you are basing yours off a romance language, which you don't have to.

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And there you have it!

Don’t forget to vote in the dialogue poll before it closes!

#writing resources #writing advice #writing tips #writing tools #writing a book #writing #writeblr #fantasy #sci fi #fictional language #language #world building

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quietlyimplode · 7 months

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the language of flowers and silent things

Whumptober 2023: Day 10: You said you’d never leave

Warnings: nightmares, discussions of time in the red room (and all that entails)

Word Count: 1.8k (gif not mine)

Summary: Natasha and Clint discuss finding Yelena (and all the ways it could go wrong).

A/N: The set up for tomorrow. For everyone who’s kept up and comments, my love for you is tenfold. It’s what keeps this going. Thank you.

Masterlist

Whumptober Masterlist

2014

BUDAPEST

Isla sits and waits.

She’s going to give Natasha ten minutes.

The black widow scratches at her thigh and takes a sip of her Italian coffee.

Budapest is chilly, but not what she would call cold. It makes Isla smile that the city where Natasha made her escape, is the one she had chosen to reconnect in.

Nevertheless, it had given her an opportunity to go shopping and purchase a new identity and set of katanas.

She sees Natasha, her red hair tied back framing her face, a single braid.

Isla knew what that meant, someone is watching.

If more braids, a different communication system, one that only the Red Room girls knew.

A French braid vs a Dutch one, could mean the difference between safety and danger, but she didn’t think that Natasha still trusted that.

Still, Isla focuses on the world around her, the sounds of people talking, idle chatter, cars and then… tunes it all out, focusing on the widows approach.

Natasha had, of course, seen her.

Isla wonders what language she will approach her in and is unsurprised to hear the Russian safe words flow out of her mouth.

She nods, and answers appropriately.

“You wouldn’t prefer English? Hmm? Your new language and lack of accent are impressive, but I suppose that is what happens with immersion.”

The dig rolls off Natasha as she responds in Russian again, smiling and crossing her legs.

“Still as pernicious as ever.”

Isla rolls her eyes, not understanding the word, thinking she will have to look it up.

“The money is deposited,” Natasha nods, “tell me what I want to know.”

Isla looks around.

“You have a sniper trained on me?”

She waves to the right, a movement of her fingers.

Natasha looks around and sees the slight glisten off mirrors under the table.

“Of course,” she nods, “and I suggest you don’t move from your seat until twenty minutes have passed after I go, otherwise…” she makes a sign for explosions using her mouth to puff out sounds.

Isla laughs.

“I didn’t even feel it underneath me.”

Natasha leans forward.

“Tell me, where can I find her?”

Isla laughs again.

“Straight to the point. I’m surprised you didn’t look sooner. She won’t want to come with you, you know? She’s the Red Room’s heavy hitter, a killer with skill and style, no conscious, no remorse, the perfect assassin.”

“Much like you were, little Natasha, before you became a traitor,” she finishes.

She leans back.

“Do you think the Red Room went easy on her after all you did? Anyone attached to you was reprogrammed, sent to the hole, the scientists and to Odessa.”

“Do you think we didn’t get punished? They wondered where they went wrong when their best efforts resulted in a traitor.”

She rolls up her sleeves, showing acid burn marks that makes Natasha look away.

“Those closest to you, of course, got it worse, and Yelena? Well, even though she hadn’t seen you or known you for years, well, let’s just say, they made her stronger, performed more experiments on her.”

The words hurt the way Isla wants them too.

Even though Natasha’s posture doesn’t change, there’s a subtleness in the air, and no longer is Isla on the defensive.

“You want to know where your sister is?” she laughs, easily.

“She’s where she’s always been; where you’ve never wanted to go.”

She shrugs.

“The question is; will you do to get her back?”

Natasha regains composure. Subtle as it is, Isla feels the shift and focuses on her.

“As agreed, as paid for,” she says, voice low, “tell me where she is.”

Isla produces a piece of paper.

“How does it feel to know that despite your best efforts to get rid of the Red Room, it just moved to a new location with a new figurehead. Do you really think Dreykov was the puppet master? Killing him did nothing.

It just made them stronger, more malicious, more deranged. And we? We got caught in the crossfire. He was a buffer, using the Red Room more for his personal gain; when they came in, they used it how it was intended. For war.”

She takes a breath, feeling the vitriol pounding through her.

“Little girls doing the bidding of wealthy men. Trafficked and sold as good little soldiers. You sister. Me.”

She snarls.

“But it doesn’t matter to you, fighting aliens, fighting Hydra, what does it matter to the great Natasha Romanoff, the black widow of Russia; defector to America?”

Isla wants to stand and move but is aware of the pressure plate under her.

Natasha is right, they gave her money and they have her at cross hairs.

She makes her heart rate slow, realising how much composure she had lost in her tirade, and Natasha, just absorbing it with her sunglasses on, face neutral and legs still crossed.

“Yelena is currently on a mission in Singapore, she’s collecting information on the G8 summit being held.”

Isla finally passes her the piece of paper.

“You’ll find her there, but don’t expect to be welcomed back.”

Natasha takes it and stands.

“The second transfer will come when you leave,” she tells her, looking down.

“Oh, Natasha?” Isla holds her drink up.

“It’s been good to see you.”

Brows furrowed, Natasha holds up the piece of paper and leaves, disappearing into the crowd.

Isla sips her coffee, then picks up her phone.

“It’s done,” she says into it, then snaps it in half and throws it under the table.

“It’s a trap,” Clint says, his voice raising slightly, “she gets you riled up and wanting to go after them, and you go because you want to help her.”

He gestures to the hotel map and points.

“This has got to be the worst access, even if I sit on the tower across here, and watch any extraction, we’d need a whole team to get her out; and if we take a whole team; it’s an international incident - even if it has nothing to do with the G8 gathering.”

Natasha hums.

“But we have to try, she’s there? Maybe even if I can talk to her-“

“What? Convince her to do that? Defect?”

Natasha frowns at him.

“Yes? I mean isn’t that the end game? Saving her?”

Clint crosses his arms over his body, then raises them up in surrender.

“We can’t take a team, even if Tony or Steve go, they’d create publicity, and we can’t afford that, we need to go-“

“Not as ourselves,” Natasha finishes.

“It’s a trap,” he starts again, “what would be protocol, if they wanted to pick you up?”

She looks at the map and the surrounding areas.

“I don’t know, I can’t tell you what I would do, but who even knows if they were telling the truth.”

Pausing, Clint calls Tony.

He picks up on the second ring.

There’s a crash and he swears.

“Hello,” he says finally.

“Can you screen entrants into a country,” Clint asks, “that have come through in the last week and in the next two days?”

Tony scoffs.

“Of course I can.”

They hear him walking and a low hum of a machine.

“This is about her, isn’t it?”

Natasha sighs.

“Yeah, it’s Yelena. How long do you think it will take you?”

Tony starts typing, and they assume he’s setting up a program. He’s silent before he answers.

“Give me twenty four hours.”

Natasha nods and thanks him, then hangs up and sighs.

“What now?” Clint asks, looking at the map.

“Make a plan then try and sleep I guess,” she replies.

She lets Clint go to bed, her mind still swirling with a question to no solution.

If it’s a trap, if Yelena will come, if she will defect, if it really is all her fault, how the red room is still standing, what happened after she left.

Her mind is a mess of questions and she makes herself focus on one.

How to get in and out with Yelena.

Everything else, all the other questions can wait.

Into the hours of the morning, she goes over everything, the way in, the way out, getting in and out of the country.

Her back up plans have back up plans.

Somewhere around 3am, Clint pads out, eyes bleary.

“Come to bed,” he asks, “we have some big days ahead.”

Natasha knows it’s true. Her eyes have been closing for the last twenty minutes and she knows she needs to rest.

Brushing her teeth, she wonders if it will work, then follows Clint into bed.

Mind heavy, sleep consumes her, followed by dreams and then nightmares.

Yelena sits in a chair, she’s 5 and Natasha covers her mouth with duct tape.

“Shut up,” she tells her.

Scared eyes watch her.

The dream morphs and there a dead girl on her left.

Yelena is holding a knife, blood on her hands.

“Did I do it right?” she asks, and looks up to Natasha who looks down on her, horrified.

It morphs again.

Yelena chases Natasha, she catches her and pushes her down, hitting her as Natasha protects her face.

“Why?” she screams.

“Why?”

“You said you’d never leave!?”

Natasha drops her guard and lets her hit her.

She did promise, she deserves the pain.

The third hit she feels herself being shaken.

“‘m sorry,” she moans.

“Nat? Natasha?”

Light fills the room.

Then a cold breeze.

Natasha shakes the dream.

Feels it fade away.

Clint sits on the edge of the bed, waiting, but she has no words for the dreams that plagued her.

“Bad dreams?” he says redundantly, handing her water.

She takes it and nods, not elaborating.

He switches off the light and turns off the fan.

“Do you want to talk about it?” he asks in the dark.

Reaching across, he takes her hand and places it on his chest.

“I promised her I wouldn’t leave,” she whispers.

“But then you got ripped apart,” he says softly, “that wasn’t your fault.”

“I didn’t go looking for her, that is my fault,” she continues.

“Natasha,” he admonishes, “you did your best with the capacity you had.”

She’s not ready to hear it, rolls over and backs into Clint’s arms.

“You always thought Barney would come back,” she whispers.

“But he couldn’t, and he didn’t,” he whispers back, “and sometimes we can’t change the things that have happened and we can’t go back.”

Natasha sighs deeply.

“I know.”

“Doesn’t make it better though, does it?”

Natasha feels silent tears fall.

She shakes her head against the pillow.

“We’ll get her Nat. It’s not your fault, okay? We’ll get her.”

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thequietkid-moonie · 9 months

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Foreign!S/O talks in their first language whenever they're angry

[ HEADCANONS ] [ Anzu, Junta, Tsukasa ]

[ Romantic Killer ]

English isn't my first language and I know pretty much no insult in english, but in spanich a know like a million and I can just invent some 20 more 💀 is pretty funny

If you could talk another language what language would you like? I think i will like to know French or Russian 🤔

Anzu Hoshino

Anzu is just pretty chill with everything so even when you two are dating you can easily get mistaken for just best friends, but she doesn't really give importance to what others think, if she is happy and you too then she doesn't see any problem

About being foreign she doesn't see a problem either, it could even be that if it isn't physicaly obvious neither with your accent then will take her a while to notice it or that anyone say it to her (she will be embarrased in that case)

She doesn't pry on your private live, so aside from asking small things from time to time she doesn't pry on how your contry or culture is, although if you are the one who directly tell her or hear you talking about it with someone else she will be happy to hear you rant about it and even get really curious

She defenitly is surprised and amased the first time she hears you talking in your mother language, since is your first language you do it so naturaly and so fluid that she can't help but want to hear more, wondering what you are saying. Although it would take her a while to get used to hear you talk in that language, you surprise her almost everytime you start talking with it

She gets worried for you whenever she sees you upset or mad (when she actually notice it since she can easily get distracted), again, she won't pry but she want you to know that if you need help with anything you can ask her, even if you just want to complain about what happened is alright for her. She doesn't try to calm you down either, as long as you don't get violent with anyone or with yourself you can express all you want

She is already surprised whenever you speak in your mother language, but the moment you start talking in it angrily she is even more shocked, even a little worried, it take her a moment to comprehend what is happening, but when she does she find it pretty funny, she start laughing but not as making fun of you

Even when she doesn't undestand what are you saying she cheer you to continue, not matter if the two of you are alone or you are saying it towards the person who make you mad, she still cheer you (having someone really mad screaming things that you don't understand could be pretty intimidating)

Later on she will ask you what it means what you said just now ago, truly curious, and thanks to that experience she ask you if you could teach her different words or expresions in your language (doesn't have to be just insults) and she will teach you different insult in english if you ask her

Junta Hayami

Junta is kinda shy some times and being in a relasionship with you already flustered him, so you being foreign make him a little more flustered (specially at the start of your relasionship)

It isn't like he thinks low of himself but he doesn't think that he is a big deal neither, so you being foreign is something that get stuck in his mind, like he doesn't fully understand what he has done to even catch your attention (specially for how he used to be ignored and bothered for almost everyone except for Anzu)

He doesn't want to pry but he tent to ask you a lot of your country and the culture (at first with the excuse of worring if you feel homesick of if it isn't too difficult to adapt), but he is genuinely interested

Hearing you talk in your mother language will always flustered him, he doesn't know why but something about you talking so fluid and naturaly in that languaje just make him skip a beat, specially the first time he hears you, at first he was confused but that quickly becomes amusment and admiration

He may not be the best at reading people but he pay a lot of attention to you since he cares for you, he want to be able to help you whenever you need it, so when he notice that you are angry he inmediatly reach your side and ask you what's wrong, he wants to help you calm down specially if whatever made you mad is still there (either a person or a situation)

If ranting and complaining about what made you mad helps you calm down then he will be there to hear all you have to say (but a little nervious though), however he gets shocked when you start talking in your first language, and since you still seem pretty angry he can tell that whatever you are saying isn't kind words

As much as he is confused and nervous for not really knowing what are you saying he doesn't stop you, also when you finally calm down and start talking in english again he just ask you if you feel better and if you need something, he is really curious about what you had say but is too nervous to ask (and if you tell him that you were saying a lot of insults and maybe even threats he will be even more nervious)

After a while he just get used to this, and even so it always make him nervous, but he will never stop you. If someone ever sees/hears you talking like that and ask him about it he won't be able to repeat or completly explain what you were saying, he just manage to shyly explain that you were very mad for something

Tsukasa Kazuki

Tsukasa is a pretty chill and mature person, and that will be expressed is his relasionship too, however for the bad experiences he had in the past when he start a relasionship with someone that person has to be of his fully trust, someone he knows he can rely on and be vulnerable with, just like you can do it with him

Also, for him you being foreign isn't an issue nor something too special, he will never make a big deal out of it, although if is something important to you he will respect it

He isn't someone who pry so he won't be asking you a lot of things about it, unless is something really small and is related to whatever you were doing/saying, although if you want to talk about it he won't stop you from do so. But as you two start a relasionship he grows a little more interesed and from time to time he ask you more or something more specific, but will never pry to much or force you to talk about it

Also, whenever you talk in your first language he doesn't seem like it but he pays close attention to what are you saying, he may don't understand but he enjoys hearing you talking like that

For the traumatic experience he had a while ago he end up learning to be a little more wary of his surroundings, specially with the people so he will learn to read your body language (even if is unconsciously) and he is the type to offer you his help either direct or indirectly

Whenever he sees you getting mad he worries and just step closet to you while trying to find out what bothered you, although if you tent to be loud with your anger it would startle him a little. In either case he will never expect to hear you talking in your mother language while being angry, he is shocked and dounfounded, but he doesn't stop you, the first time is because he is too confused but the next times he just let you be, and still he is paying close attention in case he has to stop you before you get more aggresive

He doesn't ask you about it and don't even say anything, for your expresions and the tone of your voice he can tell that you were angry, he just asks you if you are better now once you are calm

After a while he will just get used to it and will even end up learning some of the words you say without even trying, he isn't planning to use them (unless is with you and in a joking manner) he just reconize them whenever you are complaining and may even start count how many times you say it (just to kill time). And if you apologize to him for talking like that or are embarrased of it he will find it pretty funny

#romantic killer #romantic killer x reader #anzu hoshino #anzu hoshino x reader #anzu x reader #junta hayami #junta hayami x reader #junta x reader #tsukasa kazuki #kazuki tsukasa x reader #tsukasa x reader #anime and manga #anime x reader #anime x you #x reader #x gn reader #anime #manga

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How would Wandanat react to R with an accent?? I have a slight French accent which I used to get really embarrassed of..😅

oooh if wandanat had a girlfriend with an accent i think it would drive them insane. their own accents would definitely slip out more naturally and im sure it would be just a string of incoherent words through the house when natasha switches from russian, to sokovian, to french all in one sentence. best believer they have you crying out in french when their tongue deep in your cunt x

#[ ⧗ꔫ ] — asks #a: anon #answered.#𝒶𝒸𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 ꔫ #minors dni ৎ୭

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michixoxo · 18 days

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"𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮?"

what is the unO main cast's ethnicity's and sexualities?

Sera

bi queen

the head of the bisexuals actually

perfect arc sera probably had a hint that she liked girls but shoved it so down into her soul that pretty much no one would've guessed

she probably tried forcing herself to like arlo but that lasted for like 30 minutes at best...

during cripple john, she probably didn't really care about her sexuality, only being able to finally admit she liked girls.

she's not in the closet anymore really, she just doesn't tell anyone about it unless they specifically ask.

she's never brought up anything sexuality related with her parents. leilah did once and it didn't go over very smoothly.

her childhood gay awakening was shego from kim possible

she's russian but lived in the U.S. for her entire life

she doesn't speak the language but can understand certain common words and learned multiple swear words from leilah when they were kids

John

omnisexual brat

he never really cared about the genders of people he liked

he'd just see someone and think they were hot, regardless of what they presented themselves as.

though, i think his kryptonite is most definitely boobs

he blushes pretty much whenever a pretty girl talks to him

when he was younger he had the teenest, tinest crush on zirian for like two months or so

but it quickly went out the window once he dethroned him

he also may have a thing for people stronger than him, both ability wise and physical wise

he was never really in the closet so to speak, he once asked his dad if it was normal to like both guys and girls and william was the most supportive dad ever about it all

he makes jokes that make it obvious he likes guys as well, but he'll only specifically state his sexuality when asked about it.

his childhood gay awakening was shang from Mulan.

he's half-german half-american, at least thats what his dad tells him

he only really considers himself american since he doesn't know his mom

william tried both learning german himself and teaching it to john but john got bored so fast that it was a complete waste of time

like sera, he knows a few swear words and will just shout them out randomly

Arlo

bi king

so far into the closet its actually insane

at least he's well dressed (unlike a certain joker cough cough)

he definitely didn't understand anything about being gay or whatever. his parents aren't too conservative but they definitely didn't teach nor tell him anything about same sex love, and not in a positive light anyway.

he barely had any girl crushes and almost never any guy crushes, so he didn't even think about his sexuality at all.

until he entered wellston and became a little too involved with a certain blue haired king (fly high rei)

he gay panicked so hard the first time he saw rei without a shirt on, like his entire body malfunctioned and started convulsing.

till tomorrow, he'll never come out. he might have some internalized homophobia and be concerned about how the people closest to him might view him, especially his aunt.

the closet is sealed shut and bulletproof at this point

his childhood gay awakening was both aladdin and prince eric

he's french and has all the audacity of a parisian

he speaks the language pretty fluently already and takes french class at wellston for the easy grade.

he lived in Paris until he was 7 and learned to suppress his accent a lot, though it comes out whenever he's extremely pissed.

he just screams in a raspy parisian accent and its either extremely hot or viscerally terrifying depending on who you ask

Remi

pansexual girlboss

she loves everyone with no preference at all

shes always just been really non-judgemental about everything and so kind

"omg he's so cute! wait he's non-binary? omg they're so cute!"

like John, she'd just see someone and think they were cute, regardless of their gender

she remembers having her first crush on a girl at 13.

remi: mom, can i start dating yet?

mama lightning: ABSOLUTELY NOT! no boys until you're 30!

remi: ...well do I have news for you

speaking of girl crushes, I think the wellston lesbians love her. like, she's friendly, pretty, and strong to the point where its intimidating but not absolutely terrifying.

evie probably wrote fanfics about her and posted them on ao3

this sweetiepie also might've had a crush on perfect arc seraphina for about a month, but she quickly got over it once she saw just how different their idealogies and personalities were.

her childhood gay awakening was calhoun from wreck it ralph

her parents are both canadians and she made trips to both vancouver and quebec to visit family very regularly.

she picked up a little quebecois and tried speaking it to arlo. she still remembers the absolute look of disdain he gave her.

Blyke

demisexual malewife

he never felt anything like love at first sight, even towards remi

it takes a lot for him to begin liking someone, even platonically. he isn't the nicest guy and wasn't all that interested in making many friends, especially very surface level ones.

that said, he didn't really think much of it. his sexuality wasn't ever really on his mind.

it wasn't until remi that he knew what it meant to really, truly like someone. from the way they blinked to the way they breathed.

it was like his eyes were opened for the first time in a long, long while.

that said, he was low-key kinda afraid to tell his mom about it.

he just didn't want it to change anything, didn't know if it was important enough that he should even waste his time on telling her.

but when he did finally, it didn't go how he expected.

blyke: mom, I think I'm like, demisexual... or something...

blyke's mom: demisexual and still can't get a boyfriend nor a girlfriend? bless your heart

blyke: that's not even what it's.... y'know what? idk why I bother

his childhood gay awakening was Danny from Danny phantom

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER?!?!? 🦅🦅🦅

american born and raised in the mid-west

he was really confused the first time isen came over to his dorm and blyke slapped his hands on his knees and said "welp, guess it getting past my bedtime." and the dumbass responded with "it's like 7:00, are you a child?"

he then reverted to saying get the fuck out

Isen

queer prick

the most non-committal person to ever exist

went on a tangent about how "gender and sexuality constructs make people feel inclined to label themselves as something to fit into the boxes society sets up for them-"

blyke started fake snoring just to piss him off.

he's out of the closet only to his close friends like remi and blyke

his parents are conservative so he pretty much assumes that they wouldn't support him.

he isn't as upset about it as he was when he first figured it out, he guesses that's just how the world works, and he got the short end of a straw.

he's gay panic personified. he kinda thought arlo was hot after the fork incident, but it multiplied by like 100x when his growth spurt hit.

he's equal parts terrified and equal parts enamored.

same thing with cecile, there's no way he didn't show up to the press club on his first day, get absolutely berated by cecile for a shit article he showed her, and then came back for more the next day.

for some reason I always saw him as latino.

like he'd just randomly start cursing people (arlo) under his breath in spanish.

blyke will ask him for notes and he'll say okay just to write it all in spanish.

blyke: what the fuck is this dude. you fucking know I cant understand this shit

isen: sounds like a skill issue

#unordinary headcanons #unordinary seraphina #unordinary john #unordinary arlo #unordinary remi #unordinary blyke #unordinary isen #unordinary hcs #michixoxo #unordinary webtoon

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As the resident Alfred authority (imo) what languages do you think he speaks?

Dude I am very flattered you think so, but I would argue that there are way more accurate depictions of this war criminal on Tumblr :sob: But hey! you're giving me an excuse to drag out my headcanon document.

So, to start with a bit of an indirect answer, I think he speaks near-exclusively in idioms, references, baseball metaphors, and aviator slang. I admit I tend to give him a Souther vernacular. It is mostly borne of my own patterns of speech, but also, for some reason, a large number of people claim the southern accent sounds kindly. Personally, I don't understand why. But I think Alfred - all about charisma - tends to code his speech in this manner. Now, it probably doesn't work on others that know him and his tendencies, but it works enough to make others put down their guard. Makes a man more amicable to negotiations or in listening to his demands.

To give you the direct answer: it kinda changes. I have a list, but I don't take it all that seriously. I think most of the Nations are borderline polyglots anyways. However, apart from English, here are some mainstays I play with:

ASL - Alfred subconsciously will sign along to his own words when he gets into a speech. He is already someone to speak with his hands (more like his whole body). ASL is his default in many situations where his voice chances to fail. On a side note, he also occasionally uses bits and pieces of other sign languages that he's picked up over time.

Spanish - Specifically Mexican Spanish and the dialects from his closest neighbor (apart from Mattie), María. Especially in my region, if something is not in English, it will be in Spanish, if not available in both. My view here is biased.

French - It's usually Cajun or Québécois-flavored because of Mathieu. He does not speak French often and it tends to come out rusty. That, or he purposefully mispronounces it to be a dick.

German - People forget he knows (a very standard) German and to be fair, he doesn't whip it out in most settings. But you must remember that there is a long history of Germans in America, just as there is a long history in the Anglosphere.

Russian - I feel like I don't need to explain this one much. Speaks it fine, but let's just say that his Cyrillic handwriting is piss-poor.

Honorable Mentions - These are some of the languages that change when I come back to my headcanons document and beat at it with a bat. There are other vernaculars and dialects of English that he may be familiar with given his family. I like to think he knows a fair bit of Italian, as well as Polish and Czech. Mostly in reference to major demographics of the immigration booms, though certainly, they weren't the only ones. I know many say he's probably learned or currently learning Japanese, which I can see.

#callsign gremlin checking in #alfred f. jones // daring to fly #hetalia #hetalia headcanons #aph america #hws america #alfred f jones

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moonmeg · 9 months

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We had a guy come into the restaurant yesterday. He didn't speak German so we communicated in English. His English however, wasn't the best and he had struggles explaining things to us.

At one point my coworker asked him what language the man knows and he replied, shyly and almost ashamed, that his native language is Russian. I had a feeling he was eastern european judging by his accent but I didn't want to assume he spoke Russian you know... anyway his lucky day that I spontaneously jumped in yesterday and he was able to speak to me.

He was nice and at some point, randomly but genuinely curious, asked me what "Scheisse" (German for "shit") means because he was so confused. My multilingual ass brain betrayed me that very moment.

I stood there trying to think of the Russian word for shit. I immediately knew the French merde and the Italian merda but couldn't for the life of me think of the Russian word. I did remember it after a little and explained the usage of it and so on.

He left a very generous tip and it kinda was the highlight of my long shift :>

#things happening in meg's life #life as a bilingual person 😭

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anerdwrites · 1 year

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“And how many languages do you speak, Dingus?”

Steve never answered the question. He’d given her a sarcastic look and gone out to sling ice cream, but he’d never given a verbal answer. The truth was something she never would have believed, anyway.

Steve grew up with a different nanny every few years through his entire childhood, until he turned fifteen. Each of them spoke English as a second language. He knew Spanish before he knew full sentences in English. He’d learned Italian by the time he was five. French wasn’t a stretch from there, and he’d picked up Portuguese by his thirteenth birthday. Nobody knew how many languages he was actually fluent in, and he wanted to keep it that way.

None of his languages helped him with translating Russian, but they did help him with other things. When the freezer in the back had a short and the operation manual was only in Spanish, Steve fixed it with ease. When the French tourists came through the mall and stopped for ice cream, Steve was the only one who could speak to them. (He scored three phone numbers and an address to write to, but he didn’t tell Robin about it, so the board stayed the same.)

Because he was so good at picking up languages, when Dustin started speaking the occasional Elvish from The Hobbit around him, he started picking up words. He’d ask questions about meanings every once in a while, and the kid answered with the same enthusiasm he gave every other nerd thing he was involved in. Steve never let on that he was retaining it, and Dustin never figured it out, or asked why he was interested.

Nobody found out about his language knowledge until after Vecna’s defeat. A newly healed Eddie was spending his afternoons planning the next Hellfire campaign on Steve’s kitchen table. Steve wasn’t paying much attention to what he was muttering to himself, until Eddie started trying to pronounce something in Italian. His accent was horrible, and he wasn’t saying the vowels right; Steve was pretty sure his ears would start to bleed if he didn’t correct him.

“Dude, it’s guerriero,” he said quietly. “Pretty sure your warrior is a guy, right? So throwing an -a on the end would be feminine. And please don’t try to add vowels, because that’s already a nightmare word.”

“… What?” Eddie asked blankly, openly staring at Steve like he’d never seen him before.

“Did you want to say it wrong to your nerd squad?” Steve asked pointedly. He figured he’d already revealed some of his hand- he might as well keep going.

“No,” Eddie said after a moment. “Did I get the rest of it right?”

And so Steve spent the next three evenings checking Eddie’s horrible attempts at Italian. Eddie told him that the warrior was actually a bard who was talking to a warrior, and while Steve didn’t really understand, he was happy to help with translations. On the third evening, Eddie finally asked him if he spoke any other languages.

“Sure,” Steve replied. He wasn’t going to elaborate until he realized that Eddie wasn’t going to let it go. “I speak a few. Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese…”

“Oh, is that all?” Eddie asked, smiling despite his obvious bafflement.

“… No,” Steve admitted. Eddie’s eyebrows were halfway up his forehead by then, and Steve wanted to see how high they’d go. So in perfect Elvish, he said, “I learned some things from the kids, too.”

Eddie’s entire face lit up when he recognized the language, and Steve was knocked breathless by the absolute mirth in his eyes. “Harrington, what the fuck?!”

“What?” Steve asked innocently. “It’s all Dustin’s fault. He doesn’t shut up about those books. He says things in Elvish sometimes, and it’s… kind of a lot like Italian, actually. I picked it up from him.”

“Just when I think I’ve got you figured out…” Eddie eyed him appreciatively, and Steve couldn’t hide his blush in time. Eddie’s grin turned into a bit of a smirk. “Don’t you ever stop surprising me.”

“I won’t if I can help it. You have my word,” Steve replied in Elvish. It was worth it to see Eddie get flustered all over again.

#steve x eddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #multilingual Steve Harrington #secret nerd Steve Harrington #alternate universe fiction #everyone lives au

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