Me seeing Zhihong's name: oh right she's supposed to exist lol

-Galaxian-

I saw a picture of green bacteria and for some reason I saw them and thought of pickles and did this chomping motion with my teeth
​Pretty sure I just made Hitan gag (in an extremely sophisticated Hitan way)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Anyways Kiaane theme song yes Eliza said she found a theme song for Ryoo so there I have it--I have a song that's a response from Kiaane. 
Well. I don't know what song she had, actually. I just know mine fits for Kiaan lol.

Lyrics translation time :D lyrics analysis will be left for later (also known as never lol you know me, I'll forget if I don't do that today, so we'll see.)




"The Other Side" by Xigua JUN

The scenes of dreams silently* give forth prophecies.
Promises melt in the wind and snow, perhaps enough to leave marks in this world.

Racing behind the clearly disappearing figure, trying foolishly to combat time,
He nearly falls over and over again but remains unwilling to compromise.

The sea of flowers silently wilt, and the other side will always become farther and farther away.
 
Why does someone as innocent as him carve scars that are so similar to you?
The road in front of him has no horizon; the long path of time only leaves behind one instant of longing.**
Under the scenes of clouds, the flying snow fills up his frosted hair, but he still remembers you.***
He waits for you to say, "Take me back home."


After passing through the perils of humans' hearts,
He still has regrets he has yet to dissolve.
He remains unwilling to say goodbye.

He had supported the clash of events.****
After all, if life is completely filled with obsession,***** how can a story ever be concluded?
 
He has experienced so many life-and-death moments that they seem to touch shoulders with his heart and thoughts.
One last time...

A lonely silhouette as silent as him walks into a different time where he can reunite with you.
His memories have no end;****** your shared feelings******* also turn into a single instantaneous moment.
Under the icy mountain, the wind carves his face, but if he turns around, he'll still recognize "you."
He waits for you to say, "Take me back home."

"A silhouette as innocent as him ended up carving scars that are still alike to you.
The path before him had no horizon; the long path of time only left behind one instant of longing.
Under the dissipating light, the flying snow filled up his frosty hair;
At that time, he still remembered that past you.
He waited for you to say, 'Take me back home.'" 

"A lonely silhouette as silent as him walks into a different time where he can reunite with you
His memories have no end; your shared feelings also turn into a single instantaneous moment.
Under the icy mountain, the wind carves his face, but if he turns around, he'll recognize you.
He waits for you to say, 'Take me back home.'"********

A silhouette as innocent as him ends up carving scars that are so alike to you.
The path before him has no horizon; the long path of time only leaves behind one instant of longing.
Under the dissipating light, the flying snow fills up his frosty hair
At that moment, he still remembers you
and waits for you to say, "Take me back home."

Notes: 
* The character can mean "silently" or "with sorrow" (something like that, anyways, lol). I decided to go with "silently" for a parallel translation later on as well as an oxymoron. :D
** "Longing" is the closest translation I can think of. It's supposed to translate for "=14px牵挂," which I don't think has a direct translation in English. "牵挂" refers to a feeling where one is unwilling to stop thinking about someone who has left (in both the physical and spiritual sense), and it's not necessarily a good feeling??? I mean, it's usually associated with loss of some kind, so I guess "longing" doesn't really cut it. If you can think of a word that can match up with this sort of definition, please let me know and I'll consider it.
*** "You" is a shorthand translation for the phrase "眉目如初的你"...also known as I cut off the entire adjective phrase because it just is weird in English. The direct translation is kinda referring to someone ("you") who still has the same features as "you" had in the past, essentially referring to someone who hasn't changed in appearance. This is a repetitive phrase in the song, so this is a pretty big note. Anyways, I thought it'd be weird to put "but he still remembers you with your same past features" or something WEIRD like that, so yep, "you" it is.
**** "Clash of events" is another weird translation, and "events" itself is a preferred translation on my part. The characters can also mean "sins." :D But I felt like "clash of sins" is even weirder than "clash of events." Also, "clash" is more like a translation of characters that mean "explosion," but you know how weird "explosion of events" or "explosion of sins" sounds??? Yeah. I thought so.
***** "Obsession" is the result of yet another iffy translation of characters that can't be directly translated. In Chinese, those characters refer more to those wishes that you will try to fulfill no matter what the cost. I don't know a word like that, so I used obsessions to refer to it. Feel free to let me know if you know a word or a few that could take the place of "obsessions" for the translation.
****** You might notice "end" takes the place of "horizon." I took the liberty of switching the two.
******* "Feelings" is more directly translated as "sorrow and happiness" in particular, but because in Chinese sorrow and happiness are two of the most primary feelings, I took the liberty of just generalizing that as feelings so the translation wouldn't get clogged.
******** This section is enclosed with quotation marks because it's kind of a rap in the song. 

-Galaxian-

I'm reading a book on deception while doing homework,,, I've read more than I've done homework lol and I'm really :eyes: because honestly this is great for me writing out Rai lol

-Galaxian-

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GalaxianExplosion wrote:

When I say a mugger would have a horrible experience mugging Kaori, I don't mean that because they'd only get 5 dollars, I mean that Akuma's probably gonna spring back out and then drag them to different places to torture them for a month before killing them so adding on to the fact that crimes already aren't worth it, it'd be a terrible mugging experience

-Galaxian-

 
Wait is Akuma part of Kaori or something?

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Echo wrote:

Wait is Akuma part of Kaori or something?

Technically Kaori's Akuma's host right now, so...yeah?

-Galaxian-

 
WVHDKWBFNWF HE'S WHAT-

LOOK, I'M REALLY DENSE, OKAY?! BUT HOLY CRAP WJFJWJFB KAORI IS WIDJWJJFNE W H O A WHBDJSJF

Lol iirc the other day Specter said something like they can't imagine Hitan singing, but he sings all the time. Not to Helen lol but to kids, he sings to Garakuta a lot for instance. He hasn't sung to Galaxian before though; he's read to Galaxian.
Kaori sings a lot too. Probably why Akuma likes saying things in a sing-songy voice so often. He has a nice voice. And yeah, singing a nice lullaby while actively gutting someone is completely Akuma fashion when it feels like doing that.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Lol so when you said Akuma is hot,,, 
Also lol I think you did read that excerpt I wrote last year with Kaori and Yuu in it

-Galaxian-

 
GWJFJWNFNE THAT WAS KAORI???? HWBFJEND

I probs did and just can't remember

Iirc you said Kaori was more cute than hot right

Tbh sometimes I think about how many times I've said adult-looking Galaxian is handsome and I cringe
idk if he's actually handsome by now lol

-Galaxian-

What do I talk about to get this thread to 32 pages tbh

-Galaxian-

Me, thinking of Kiaane backstory:

-Galaxian-

I don't think I put sadness into backstories so people can read them and feel bad--I think I do it so I can read them and feel bad

-Galaxian-