Notes of ways I notice Paimon using Japanese in the dub bc what is up with her??
I don't have any pictures of Paimon but this thing kind of looks like her
i also did one of these for Xiao, Albedo and a couple others
-Paimon speaks like a little monster
-she will routinely catch me off-guard with the shit she just. Says.
-uses オイラ as her pronouns? which is just mildly bizarre and I can't really find why they did this just other people also asking why
-it's a solidly masculine pronoun and it's associated with certain specific dialects? I've read in more than one place that it sounds like rural/redneck almost
-yes this is the same pronoun Sans Undertale uses
-absolutely one of those things you'd get made fun of for having dialect if you let it slip in school or something it's not common in standard Japanese at all, it's not even common in media and always stands out when it's used
-the content of her dialogue isn't really as shocking as like the way she delivers it
-there is no respect, there is not toning it down, her commands are as aggressive as possible, she talks abt other people as rudely as possible, she does not change this even for like gods or govt officials
-if I could say one thing to Paimon I would remind her that there are children in the room
-I need this to be clear Paimon has some of the most aggressive sounding dialogue in the game and she is more rude than Xiao by far
-it sounds exaggerated bc I'm making a big deal abt it tbh it's just anime and you get used to it fast, but starting the game and her yelling at you for wandering off path was like "WHOA ok" and there are still moments like that on occasion even being used to it
-I think it's to play up how small and helpless she is as a little fairy that can't even walk? Like she talks big but can't back it up all bark no bite kinda thing
-tbf if it was like a male mc talking like that or like some like random buff fighter guy or whatever it would still be like "oh it's the tough guy" vibes but I guess that's common enough that it isn't notable? The fact that she's like this little pink fairy girl talking like that does just exacerbate the whole thing into wtf territory at times and she has a very rough flair to her speech that's usually associated with masculine language (these are stereotypes of course real life Japanese people don't exclusively speak one way dictated by their gender, but it's important to note that Japanese is a very implicative language and conventions like these play a big role in how they establish characters. esp since language like this isn't used commonly in real life by men or women tbh)
-I don't know very much abt Chinese yet so I can't speak for the content of her dialogue but the feel is completely different
-like I booted up the game in CN and she sounded like a different character like her delivery was completely different, she was like. Nice. Normal. When I could pick out the ways she referred to other people they were normal.
-I'm probably missing smth but as it stands I have absolutely no clue where JP and ENG Paimon came from
-JP Paimon speaks like a little monster and I feel like she would be literally unintelligible outside of anime
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