Analysis for one of Vergil's lines in Visions of V chapter 25.2
Time for analysis!
So, while this particular line spoken by Vergil that I will talk about may not be major and in translation it sounds alright for how I wrote it so it could be more natural, because it might have sounded odd if I had written the version, the direct one that you will see further in the post.
I want to mention that there is a certain nuance there because of the way it was written in Japanese, to me it suggested something due to the way it was constructed, so you will see how it would have been translated directly.
The first time I read that line, it sounded peculiar, but I got an idea of what could be the intention behind it.
There’s…no one to seek help from…
The way that Vergil’s line is written in Japanese, from a grammatical perspective, it suggests a negative command, an order to not do something, and this is interesting because Vergil was alone then. To whom could he have given an order?
The answer I concluded was that he was saying that to himself.
I reached that conclusion because I thought of a situation, something that I went through and perhaps you have also gone through.
Imagine that you are going through a tough time and maybe you don’t have anyone to reach out to.
Did you have times when you were talking to yourself for reassurance?
Saying things out loud such as “Don’t be silly,” “Stop thinking like that,” and maybe sometimes even adding your own name after, because it’s yourself you’re speaking to.
Hopefully I made sense, basically that’s sorta how I interpreted Vergil’s line, I will translate it differently and make a note about something.
“Don’t ask anyone for help…”. So imagine he gives this order to himself
"Don’t you (Vergil), ask for help.”
See what I am getting at?
To me it said something about the fact that he was probably the type not to rely on help from others since he was a kid, that he’d rather do things himself.
It kind of sounded like he was reprimanding himself, that he was reminding himself that if he wants to get something done, he has to do it by himself.
Furthermore, through the use of another word present in his line which is used for emphasis to express strong feelings about the subject, here, given the context it’s about negative feelings, it would seem that the idea of “help” is something that Vergil is dismissive about.
助け (tasuke) means help/assistance and なんて (nante) is used to emphasize what is before it, to indicate that the speaker has strong emotions for, and often it is used to express disbelief, surprise (positive or negative) or contempt.
“A thing such as ‘help’, I do not seek”, if you want a more literal interpretation of that line.
In this page here, he seems to be affirming that he won’t seek help by saying “that’s right” (or it can be ‘yes’)
So yeah, that line says something about him. Perhaps that the whole “I will do things by myself” can be from his status as the older sibling who had to project reliability, that he is the one to offer help, not to receive it, but despite that, back then, he also wanted to be helped.
Recall chapter 23 and the conversation with the little boy.
“Is it wrong?!
“No…I also wanted to say all of those things.”
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