૮ ․ ․ ྀིა .ᐟ.ᐟ a synopsis, “if you can’t let it go, then it’s not worth holding on to.”
ever heard about a girl so obsessed with a character that she dedicates a whole tumblr account to them? well, now you have!! my name is holley, holls for short, and my hyperfixation with attack on titan has been around since 2021! i also really love the show yellowjackets and have a whole manga collection in my bedroom! :3
i am a minor, and my dream is to become a writer in the future.
some more interesting facts about me is that i love soccer, history, philosophy, and looking through fanart!!
i am an enfp-t, an april aries, and a chai addict!
a few things that don’t sit well with me are racists, homophobes, misogynists, and people who suffer from a bad case of maga-mind-control . . so i advise those who match this description to dni!! as well as the people who believe that the rumbling was the best choice and support eren’s choices past season three.
my favourite attack on titan characters!!
armin arlert
jean kirstein
eren jaeger
mikasa ackerman
sasha braus
i also wish for no hate for any of the characters on my page—including floch and gabi—because i do really like them and want this space to be for praising isayama’s great writing skills.
if you have anymore questions for me, you can answer the q&a in my bio!! ᢉ𐭩
i think its fucked up that jabber's speech is portrayed real thugified (and i use that word cause it is usually larp-y) in fics and zanka on the other hand is posh n bougie af, when zanka canonically speaks in The gangsta accent of japan
like im sure he's real polite southern boy (sometimes) dont get me wrong but in most panels he stars in, he sounds like you picked him straight from the swamps and he's pissed right up bout it. im kinda upset that the anime erases a lot of his accent (but i do like corey wilder do NOT get me wrong I love them)
the translators over at kodansha (which is the official translation i think) even gave him the fucking remy 'gambit' lebeau treatment in his debut. he dont speak like a bougie ass thats for sure
th- -> d-, you/your -> ya/yer, ending g-dropping, ending t-dropping, already -> ahready. yeah im dying on that louisianian zanka hill
pause imma yap about east asia because of course I am
[real quick preface, I am relating the japanese kansai accent to the chinese cantonese dialect cause I am a 廣西仔. take my shit with a grain of salt cause i aint japanese nor am I a weeaboo. also note that kansai-ben and kanto-ben is mostly mutually intelligible (hence 'accent'), but cantonese and mandarin aint (hence 'dialect'). also also note that these two are completely different languages with their own histories, im just making a comparison, dont chop off my head, 多謝晒]
one common thing about southern east-asia (specifically japan and china in this case) is that culturally, we all sound more gangster compared to the north. because our ancestors quite literally were gang members i fear. kansai has the yakuza, southern/guangzhou got the triad. even back then, both of those area were ultra well-known for pirates, and merchants (guangdong & osaka) so it was less court-like the way kanto-ben & northern/beijing mandarin was, and more trade. think bristol vs home counties
in general, to the standard accent/dialect, we sound more direct, harsh/rough, informal, emotional, uncultured/unsophisticated (but more melodic/rhythmic) etc etc. famous for being the 'every word coming out of you sounds like an insult' accent/dialects. in normal words, they think it's street as fuck.
[internally's a different story of course cause you live the language and it's home to you. the dialects are actually friendly as shit when you look past the hooting and hollering we do]
while i think in culturally american-centric translations they could be more bostonian (with the stereotype of Fuck You With Kindness), southern accents could also work even though it has the opposite Politely, Fuck You culture. cause classism, of course. I pin zanka as louisianian cause i think kamuatari's like japanese cajuns to the ground
all in all, im just a lil bit pressed about preserving some accent only cause both japanese and chinese dialects were all victims of 'one accent/dialect unity' rhetoric (標準語/hyōjungo & 普通话/putonghua). PLUS gachiakuta's central themes, I think its probably intentional that kei urana gave their japanese nobleman character a 'street' accent. (note: kyoto used to be the cultural capital of japan, so it might just be period-based. but still)
so yall go on and give zanka's speech some banjo if you can
also. I might make a post about id go writing both janka accents soon cause that seems to be a problem with fic writers. me personally I think jabber's english is more floridian. aka he's got a fuck-all general american accent. mixing aave, latin, coastal, southern all at the same time. currently reading through papers on that so ill report back to yall later
easiest way i can explain my vision is that jabber's a yo mama guy and zanka's a yer momma guy. every bit of that's important. also my general rule is that when the accents show (aka Not All The Damn Time), jabber still uses 'you' for you, but 'ya/yo' for your. zanka uses 'ya' for you, and 'ya/yer' for your. I think that tells you enough
Tfw you're stuck in a fatal timeloop with your worst enemy who happens to know you better than yourself
@pearlescentime 's Janka series Poison Garden got me in such a chokehold that I HAD to draw fanart of it before I even drew any other Gachiakuta stuff! Highly reccommend
I DONT want janka to be canon, or at least not in the "they should smooch" kinda way, moreso i want whatever weird thing they have going on to just get weirder and weirder, i want the fights to get more tense and charged, and have it never go anywhere, i want the coding to go crazy but idc if it ever get actually acknowledged cus i dont think THEY would be fully aware of it either, but i do think it getting acknowledged by a completely unrelated character seeing their situation and making assumptions would be very funny and i would in fact like that.
But yeah i want them to basically just become equals and both keep continuously pushing each other to get stronger and fight for FUN for BOTH of them and nobody really gets it but it works for them and they always get beat up but its not as bad as before, the gap was wide, now its always a struggle for both of them, just like they want it to be, so nobody stops em cus neither is truly in mortal danger, neither would kill the other, not now that they've found the perfect playmate in the other...
They both provide what the other "needs", and both actually ENJOY it, unlike other options... sure zodyl can beat jabber up, but he takes no pleasure in it, and its less fun cus its not a mutual thing, and theres no STRUGGLE either, javber loves to fight and fight and fight, he doesnt want to just get whammied immediately and have it be over! He wants the fight to LAST, he wants it to be HARD FOUGHT and he wants to be truly beat by the end, its not about pain (tho he does enjoy that) its about the STRUGGLE. tho I'm sure zodyl does satisfy jabber's need to feel helpless, knowing he could probably never beat him, i think thats really the only aspect of it he fits.
And sure zanka could get strong enough to beat other "geniuses", but nobody else CARES, there's no investment or stakes or risk of disappointment if he loses, he could eventually beat Hyo but i guarantee you she does't fuckin care. She wins, fine, she loses, whatever, she would move on with her life. She has no expectations of him, she probably doesnt even remember him much, if at all. She seems like she doesnt care about much, really.
So basically they, if they're on equal footing where theyre always strugglig to beat the other, can provide those things to eachother in a mutually beneficial (if unhealthy) way. Tho if thats something they began to do regularly they could lay down some ground rules in a way you can't when just fighting randos or literal mindless trash monsters (which is what they do, respectively, to get out their weird shit and get stronger now. Both are constantly risking their lives currently to achieve their goals and THAT i think is MORE unhealthy than having one guy you fight recreationally every so often in a way that has a lot of weird sexual undertones)
