Pandorasv13

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Final chapter of "Detention Log of a Lost Prince" is up with the epilogue!

Thank you again to everyone who indulged in this space opera with me 😄 I had so much fun creating it and seeing your thoughtful, funny, and utterly adorable comments every update really made it so much better.

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Hi Pandora!! I hope you’re doing well, it’s been long time since I saw you active on any platform and I’m such a huge fan from when you actively posted on AFF! You’re the reason I started writing in the first place and found my shelter in inventing settings and plots. It’s a way for releasing stress from work and other in real life situations and I only have you to thank for making me discover such a big passion. Apologies if this sounds rude, however I saw a few posts of people who requested your fic “With Love, Delirium” and you said there’s a pdf copy available for readers. I loved it very much on AFF and commented under every chapter there, eagerly waiting for the next one. Would you mind sharing it with me too? 🥹 You’d make me very happy if you could.

Hello!! Oh wow long time no see! I'm so happy to hear you're doing well and that you've found such a love for writing. It's really one of the best hobbies in the world (hahaha I'm my very biased opinion 😂) writing and sharing for years on AFF was my comfort too and it wouldn't have been the same without so much love from everyone always reading. I'm actually still active on Archive of our Own (Ao3) but I havent written for SJ in a very long time 🥲

Thank you so much for the kind words and I'm happy to share the link with you for Delirium!

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Detention Log of a Lost Prince: Two-Part Finale

CHAPTER 42: IFRIT V 

Content warnings: unhinged Dabi, bottom!Hawks, shenanigans 

Aaaaah I’m so excited to share the second to last chapter of Detention Log of a Lost Prince. This work has been a monster to work through and I’ve loved it all. 

The final chapter will be up tomorrow or Monday and then there’s still an epilogue :) 

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I'm unsure if anyone is searching for the genshin fics I just deleted but if you are, I'm not interested in producing stuff for that fandom anymore 😓 there's a whole lot of stuff I don't want to be involved with.

I really dislike drama, discourse, and have zero interest in engaging when I see even the beginnings of something messy. I'm definitely the type to completely remove myself from any situation I find distasteful and that includes deleting works immediately.

Apologies to those who enjoyed reading those fics and thank you for reading them!!

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Hii:) I read your fanfiction With Love, Delirium a long time ago and I really liked it.. I saw that you started posting it on Tapas and I would like to ask if you will continue the story or not. Anyway I would really like to read it again so I’m wondering if you could send me the fanfiction version. Thank you:)

Hi! Sure thing, just shoot me a message and I'll send you the link to the pdf copy 😊

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hello! i was wondering if With Love, Delirium was deleted on all of your platforms??

Hello! Yes the original fanfic was deleted but I keep a pdf copy for anyone who wants one. Send me a message if you'd like the link!

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Japanese vs. English Dabi - A 290 Comparison

Dabi is Touya.

This is something we’ve all known for a long time, but today marks the one-year anniversary of everyone’s favorite theory being officially confirmed in the manga. So what better time to revisit this incredible reveal than today?

I’ve been asked about the line of his name reveal as well as his speech to Endeavor, which is why this post is going to focus on that, but I won’t be talking about the broadcast (maybe one day) since those are two separate speeches and it would get too confusing to have both in one post. And let’s be real, his speech to Endeavor is a lot more fun and you’re about to see the many many reasons why this is even more entertaining in Japanese than in the English translation.

「おーういたいたこっから見るとどいつも小っさくてお！？焦凍もいンのかこりゃいいや！」

「おーう ; oooh 」-> Oooh

「いたいた ; ita ita 」-> there you are

「こっから ; kokkara 」-> from here (casual version of ここから)

「見る ; miru 」-> to see; to look

「と ; to 」-> when

「どいつも ; doitsumo 」-> everybody*

「小っさくて ; chiissakute 」-> small

「お ; o 」-> Oh

「焦凍 ; shouto 」-> Shouto

「も ; mo 」-> also; too

「いン ; in 」-> to be (casual version of いる)

「のか ; noka 」-> question marker particle seeking an explanation

「こりゃ ; korya 」-> this (casual version of これは)

「いい ; ii 」-> good

「や ; ya 」-> sentence ending particle; shows reluctant acceptance

=”Oooh, there you are. When you look from here, everyone (derogatory) is s-maaall- Oh!? Shouto is here too, isn’t he? Whatever!”

To start things off, you’re gonna see a lot of "(casual version of X)" in this. Technically, everything in this speech is casual, but some words are just extra casual.

Doitsumo is the ruder version of daremo meaning everyone. This word has a negative nuance, though, so it often gets translated as “bastard” or similar.

Chiissakute would normally be chiisakute. The っ creates the so-called glottal stop, meaning there is a small pause, with the sound coming before being almost cut off. Here, Dabi uses the っ for emphasis to show that everyone is really, really small, maybe even ant-sized. Additionally, the standard form of the word is actually chiisai. Replacing the last i with kute turns it into an adverb which is done either to list things or connect it to another sentence or word. But then the “Oh!?” follows, so once he notices Shouto there, he essentially stops mid-sentence and changes the topic to acknowledge his younger brother’s presence.

Notice the n in いン (the “n in in” what a great string of words) is written in katakana? You can’t exactly italicize words in Japanese so that’s when writing words in one of the other three writing systems that are being used comes in really handy. While it doesn’t change the meaning, it shows that he’s emphasizing the word. So yes, he used three different ways to emphasize words here, keeping everyone on edge. Maybe Endeavor can’t be proud, but Compress sure is proud of this incredible entertainer!

Ya is a particle at the end of a sentence that often attaches to ii, like in this sentence. It shows indifference or reluctant acceptance, so kind of the opposite of what his facial expression would lead you to believe, basically him sarcastically saying “Shouto, it’s great that you’re here” when in reality it’s more of a “Urgh, I guess, if you have to be here…” which I was actually surprised about cause I figured he really was excited to get to see both Endeavor’s and Shouto’s reaction, but I guess this means that his dance really was only for Endeavor’s eyes and Shouto’s present was indifferent to him at best cries in youngest sibling.

Next, we get Endeavor’s one line during this whole speech:

「荼毘！！！」

「荼毘 ; dabi 」-> Dabi

= “Dabi!!!”

【T/L: Dabi means Dabi】

And back to Dabi:

「酷えなア。。。そんな名前で呼ばないでよ。。。」

「酷え ; hidee 」-> cruel; heartless; harsh (casual version of 酷い)

「なア ; naa 」-> sentence ending particle; used to seek confirmation

「そんな ; sonna 」-> such

「名前 ; namae 」-> name

「で ; de 」-> by; with

「呼ばないで ; yobanaide 」-> don’t call

「よ ; yo 」-> emphasis particle

= “Cruel, isn’t it… don’t call me by such a name…”

As you may have noticed in the very first sentence we looked at, there are a lot of casual versions Dabi uses, and he continues doing so here, as you can see with changing the hidoi into hidee. This isn’t just a casual way of saying the word cruel, but notice how it’s also changing the oi sound into an elongated e sound, which is once again done for emphasis.

And the emphasis doesn’t stop there - in the standard form, naa is actually just na. But you can elongate it to really dwell on what you’re saying. Additionally, the a at the end of なア is once again in katakana instead of hiragana for emphasis. So here, Dabi wants Endeavor to know that it is really, extremely, absolutely, undeniably, painfully cruel to be calling him “Dabi” there. How dare he!? Anyway, imagine not loving this absolute drama king! Couldn’t be me.

Another thing worth looking at is the yobanaide, as there are different ways to tell someone to do/not do something in Japanese. The polite way of asking someone to (not) do something is to conjugate the verb to its te-form and then add -kudasai, so in this case, the polite way to request Endeavor not to call him Dabi would be to say “yobanaide kudasai” - however, the kudasai can be dropped in casual speech. While this might not be surprising, the reason I’m bringing it up is that there is also a command form in Japanese, which isn’t really a thing in English. So while in English, “Don’t call me by such a name” could have multiple tones to it from begging to commanding, in Japanese there is a clear difference. Here, he’s basically just requesting for Endeavor to not call him Dabi. Which, of course, to Endeavor would seem strange. Why shouldn’t he call him Dabi when that is his name? What else should he call him if not that? Well, that’s when we get to everyone’s favorite part of this chapter - the reveal!

「燈矢って立派な名前があるんだから」

「燈矢 ; touya 」-> Touya

「って ; tte 」-> quotation particle

「立派な ; rippa na 」-> splendid

「名前 ; namae 」-> name

「が ; ga 」-> subject marker

「ある ; aru 」-> to be

「ん ; n 」-> explanatory particle

「だから ; dakara 」-> because; therefore

= “Because I have the splendid name ‘Touya’.”

First things first, this seems like an incomplete sentence in English. Keep in mind this sentence is basically connected to the preceding sentence of “don’t call me Dabi.” In Japanese, you would also usually have that sentence come first - start with the cause and then proceed with the effect. But you can switch it around like here for suspension. After all, the alternative order of “Because I have the splendid name ‘Touya’, don’t call me Dabi.” would have nowhere near the same effect, while “Don’t call me Dabi” and then pausing as he turns his hair white gives Endeavor and the others at least a few seconds of going through the possible reasons why they shouldn’t be calling him by the name he’s known for until everyone is finally hit with the one reason no one (in the bnha universe) would’ve been able to foresee: Dabi is Touya Todoroki.

「顔はこんななっちまったが。。。身内なら気付いてくれると思ったんだけどなぁ」

「顔 ; kao 」-> face

「は ; wa 」-> topic marker particle

「こんな ; konna 」-> like this

「なっちまった ; nacchimitta 」-> to have become fully/regrettably (なる+しまう)

「が ; ga 」-> but

「身内 ; miuchi 」-> relatives; one’s family

「なら ; nara 」-> if

「気付いてくれる ; kidzuitekureru 」-> to recognize for the speaker

「と思った ; to omotta 」-> thought

「んだ ; nda 」-> explanatory particle

「けど ; kedo 」-> however

「なぁ ; naa 」-> used to say something emotionally when looking back on the past

= “My face has completely/regrettably become like this, but… I had thought if it’s my family, they would recognize me, however...”

The shimau - or in this case chimatta - addition to a verb expresses that something happened fully, unintentionally, or regrettably. While this may sound like him being insecure, it kinda goes with his dramatic performance here overall, almost as if he went “Oh, what a shame!! Look what has become of me! Oh! What a tragedy!” or something similar to that.

The kureru at the end of kidzuitekureru is used to say that something was done for the speaker. So in a very literal translation this would be “doing me the favor of recognizing me” - so adding to the list of things Endeavor failed to do as a parent for his kid, recognizing him now goes on the list, too! Father of the year, we love to see it<3

Finally, this may sound like an incomplete sentence, ending it with kedo, but you can actually use this at the end of the sentence to express your emotions better. In this case, it shows his frustration/disappointment of not having been recognized by his own father.

「でも俺は忘れなかった言われなくてもずうっとおまえを見ていた」

「でも ; demo 」-> but

「俺 ; ore 」-> I

「は ; wa 」-> topic marker particle

「忘れなかった ; wasurenakatta 」-> didn’t forget

「言われなくても ; iwarenakute 」-> even if someone isn’t told

「ずうっと ; zuutto」-> continuously; all along

「おまえ ; omae 」-> you

「を ; o 」-> direct object marker

「見ていた ; miteita 」-> have been watching

= “But I didn’t forget. Even though you weren’t told, I’ve been watching you continuously.”

The zuutto is usually just spelled as ずっと (zutto), so with a small pause between the zu and the to without the additional u. But here, Dabi elongates the u sound first. Emphasis, once again. I’m beginning to wonder how long it took him beforehand to decide how to emphasize each word best. Either way, it really highlights the fact that this continuous watching has been going on for a long, looong time.

「皆が皆清廉潔白であれとは言わないおまえだけだ」

「皆が皆 ; minna ga minna 」-> every single one; everybody

「清廉潔白 ; seirenkeppaku 」-> to be upright and cleanhanded; selfless and pure, without greed

「であれ ; de are 」-> should

「とは ; to wa」-> adds emphasis to the prior word/phrase

「言わない ; iwanai 」-> don’t say

「おまえ ; omae 」-> you

「だけ ; dake 」-> only

「だ ; da 」-> be

= “I’m not saying everybody should be selfless and pure. Only you.”

The term seirenkeppaku refers to someone selfless with a pure heart and without greed. And while it’s great if people are that way, it’s okay to not be that way 100% of the time. However, considering Endeavor has pretty much only ever been the exact opposite of seirenkeppaku, Dabi just really needs him to finally be that way because anything else wouldn’t help Dabi (or the rest of the Todofam for that matter). Anyway, I think these are some wise words we should all live by: only Endeavor needs to be selfless, the rest of us can go wild.

I also still find it incredible that, despite Dabi being the one saying this and the fact he’s talking to and about Endeavor, the panel shows Shouto. This is the first time he gets advice from his big bro! How adorable! But also I think that that whole call-out is an important thing for Shouto to hear, especially since the public started to approve more of Endeavor as the Number One so he's even more surrounded with people praising the person that caused so much pain in Shouto's life.

「事前に録画しておいた俺の身の上話が今全国の電波とネットを走ってる！」

「事前 ; jizen 」-> prior; beforehand; in advance

「に ; ni 」-> at

「録画しておいた ; rokuba shiteoita 」-> prepared a video recording in advance (録画する+ておく)

「俺 ; ore 」-> I

「の ; no 」-> possessive particle; similar to an apostrophe

「身の上話 ; mi no uebanashi 」-> life story; personal narrative; story of one’s life

「が ; ga 」-> subject marker particle

「今 ; ima 」-> now

「全国 ; zenkoku 」-> the whole country

「の ; no 」-> possessive particle; similar to an apostrophe

「電波 ; denpa 」-> radio wave

「と ; to 」-> and

「ネット ; netto 」-> internet

「を ; o 」-> direct object marker

「走ってる ; hasshiteru 」-> spreading

= “I prepared a video recording of my life story in advance that is now spreading across the whole country’s radio waves and internet!”

When he says internet, do you guys think he made his own little website or did he upload it to, I don’t know, YouTube? Twitch? I mean it’s probably similar to the Stain video, which constantly got taken down and then reuploaded by random people again, but the idea of Dabi having his own website/social media account is immensely funny to me. Just imagine if the LOV suddenly received one of those YouTube plaques because Dabi got thousands and thousands of subscribers.

「いけねえなんだか愉しくなってきた！！」

「いけねえ ; ikenee 」-> oops; no good; bad (casual version of 行かない)

「なんだか ; nandaka 」-> a little; somewhat

「愉しなくなってきた ; tanoshikunattekita 」-> have come to enjoy (愉い+なる+てくる)

= “Oopsie, I’ve come to somewhat enjoy it!!”

A couple of things to note about the tanoshikunattekita. First of all, the kanji used here is not the common way to write tanoshii, that would be 楽しい. In fact, if you look up tanoshii in a dictionary, you’re most likely not even going to find it written with the kanji Horikoshi used here. After doing some research, apparently, this kanji is more commonly found in novels and self-help books (remember when Touya asked his mom if she read some enlightening books? Guess he’s read them, too lol).

Anyway, this way of writing tanoshii generally refers to joy due to a clear mind free of anxiety, as well as referring to a joy that comes from your own thoughts and feelings. So here, Dabi is referring to the joy he gets from his plan finally coming to fruition. I mean, waiting ten years to get back at Endeavor - talk about patience! So much like the rest of us that had been anticipating his reveal finally taking place, Dabi is having an absolute blast here.

「どうしたらおまえが苦しむか人生を踏み躙れるか。。。あの日以来ずうううううううっと考えた！」

「どうしたら ; doushitara 」-> how can one do something

「おまえ ; omae 」->you

「が ; ga 」-> subject marker particle

「苦しむ ; kurushimu 」-> to suffer

「か ; ka 」-> question marker particle

「人生 ; jinsei 」-> life

「を ; o 」-> direct object marker

「踏み躙れる ; fuminijireru 」-> can crush with a foot; can trample underfoot

「か ; ka 」-> question marker particle

「あの ; ano 」-> that

「日 ; hi 」-> day

「以来 ; irai 」-> since

「ずうううううううっと ; zuuuuuuuutto 」-> continuuuuuuuuously

「考えた ; kangaeta 」-> thought about

= “How can I make you suffer? How can I trample on your life? ...I have been continuuuuuuuuously thinking about it since that day.”

I don’t think I need to point out that the zutto is emphasized here. Anyway, the English official translation didn’t bother in the slightest to translate this (or any of the other words he emphasized) so it really doesn’t become notable just how dramatic he really is here.

「自分が何故存在するのか分からなくて毎日夏くんに泣いて縋ってた事知らねぇだろ」

「自分 ; jibun 」-> myself; I

「が ; ga 」-> subject marker particle

「何故 ; naze 」-> why

「存在する sonzai suru 」-> to exist

「のか ; noka 」-> question marker particle seeking an explanation

「分からなくて ; wakaranakute 」-> don't understand

「毎日 ; mainichi 」-> every day

「夏くん ; natsukun 」-> Natsu-kun

「に ; ni 」-> to

「泣いて ; naite 」-> to cry

「縋ってた ; sugatteta 」-> was clinging to; was hanging onto; was relying on; was depending on

「事 ; koto 」-> nominalizes the preceding sentence

「知らねぇ ; shiranee 」-> don't know (casual of 知らない)

「だろ ; daro 」-> probably

= “You probably don’t know that I was crying and clinging to Natsu-kun every day because I didn’t know why I existed.”

In order to combine two sentences in Japanese, you put the verb that’s at the end of the first sentence into its te-form. While this can be simply used for that purpose or to list several things, it can also be used to mean that the second sentence is a result of the first sentence. So here, as a result of Touya questioning the reason for his existence, he always went to Natsuo for support.

Sugaru, meaning to cling, is just one way to say that you rely on someone else. However, this word has a negative connotation in that it specifically means you’re relying on someone else because you cannot help yourself. It's the same word used to say 藁にも縋る - wara nimo sugaru (lit. to grasp at straws) meaning even if something couldn't possibly help, this is better than nothing. With that, Dabi is showing that he fully understands that going to his little 8-year-old brother for help wasn't a proper solution, and yet it was better than the alternative, which was to bottle all his emotions up instead, possibly turning himself into an empty shell in the process since none of the adults responsible for him ever gave him actual help (trying something and then giving up after it doesn’t work because “well, at least I tried my best” is not, in fact, enough).

「最初はおまえの人形の焦凍が大成した頃に焦凍を殺そうと思ってた！でも期せずしておまえがNo.1に繰り上がって俺は！おまえを幸せにしてやりたくなった」

「最初 ; saisho 」-> at first; in the beginning

「は ; wa 」-> topic marker particle

「おまえ ; omae 」-> you

「の ; no 」-> possessive particle; similar to an apostrophe

「人形 ; ningyou 」-> doll; puppet

「の ; no 」-> possessive particle; similar to an apostrophe

「焦凍 ; shouto 」-> Shouto

「が ; ga 」-> subject marker particle

「大成した ; taisei shita 」-> completed; accomplished

「頃 ; koro 」-> time; around; when

「に ; ni 」-> at

「焦凍 ; shouto 」-> Shouto

「を ; o 」-> direct object marker

「殺そう ; korosou 」-> will kill

「と思ってた ; to omotteta 」-> was thinking

「でも ; demo 」-> but

「期せずして ; kisezushite 」-> unexpectedly; accidentally; by chance

「おまえ ; omae 」-> you

「が ; ga 」-> subject marker particle

「Ｎｏ１ ; nanbaa wan 」-> Number 1

「に ; ni 」-> to

「繰り上がって ; kuriagatte 」-> to move up in rank

「俺 ; ore 」-> I

「は ; wa 」->topic marker particle

「おまえ ; omae 」-> you

「を ; o 」-> direct object marker

「幸せにしてやりたくなった ; shiawase ni shiteyaritakunatta 」-> wanted to make you happy

= “At first when your doll Shouto was completed, I thought I’d kill Shouto! But, unexpectedly, you moved up to Number One, and I! Wanted to bring you happiness.”

Korosou is the volitional form of korosu. This form is usually used to say “let’s do~” in order to suggest plans to someone but when speaking about your own solo plans, it shows your will to do something. So it’s not like “I’m thinking of maybe, possibly killing him” but instead it’s far more determined. Which makes sense, for the drama, since it wouldn’t sell as well to just write it off as a fleeting thought. In a way, it’s him saying “I was dead set on killing Shouto!” to shock the audience before revealing that he has actually changed his plans since.

The ~teyaritakunatta means that Dabi wants to do this for Endeavor. However, this ~teyaru is a rude form that you would only use to someone you don’t respect and can additionally show you’re trying to mess with their situation (we’ll see this a couple of lines below again). In other words, while “I wanted to make you happy” sounds nice in theory, it’s said with absolutely zero respect and with an ulterior motive, obviously so considering Dabi wanted to see Endeavor succeed for once so that his downfall would be so much worse.

「九州では死んじまわねえか肝を冷やした！『星のしもべ』や『エンディング』を誘導して次々おまえにあてがった！！」

「九州 ; kyuushuu 」-> Kyushu

「では ; dewa 」-> in

「死んじまわねえ ; shinjimawanee 」-> don’t drop dead (しぬ+neg. casual てしまう)

「か ; ka 」-> question marker particle

「肝を冷やした ; kimo o hiyashita 」-> was struck with terror; was scared to death; was terrified

「星のしもべ ; hoshi no shimobe 」-> Starservant

「や ; ya 」-> and

「エンディング ; endingu 」-> Ending

「を ; o 」-> direct object marker

「誘導して ; yuudou shite 」-> to guide; to lead

「次々; tsugitsugi 」-> in succession; one by one

「おまえ ; omae 」-> you

「に ; ni 」-> to

「あてがった ; ategatta 」-> allotted with; supplied with; applied to

= “Won’t he drop dead in Kyushu? I was scared to death! I had led Starservant and Ending and one by one gave them right to you.“

Shinjimae is actually an insult meaning “drop dead” (lit. it is the command form of the verb to die + shimau meaning doing something completely so you’re essentially commanding someone to fully die), though it’s not exactly used as an insult here. Instead, it’s more to show that he’s not worried about his sweet papa passing away (I could have phrased this worse, just so you know, be grateful), but man would it fuck up his revenge plans should the old man drop dead.

Ategatta can be used in the sense of assigning someone something without them asking for it, like giving a kid a toy or assigning someone a job. So without Endeavor asking for Starservant and Ending to appear, Dabi decided to send them his way.

「念願のNo.1はさぞや気分が重かったろ！？世間からの賞賛に心が洗われただろう！？」

「念願 ; nengan 」-> one’s heart’s desire; one’s dearest wish

「の ; no 」-> possessive particle; similar to an apostrophe

「Ｎｏ１ ; nanbaa wan 」-> number one

「は ; wa 」-> topic marker particle

「さぞや ; sazoya 」-> surely; certainly

「気分 ; kibun 」-> feeling; mood

「が ; ga 」-> subject marker particle

「重かったろ ; omokattaro 」-> was probably heavy (重かった+だろ)

「世間 ; seken 」-> world

「から ; kara 」-> from

「の ; no 」-> possessive particle; similar to an apostrophe

「賞賛 ; shousan 」-> praise; admiration

「に ; ni 」-> by

「心が洗われた ; kokoro ga awareta 」-> to feel refreshed; to feel soothed

「だろう ; darou 」-> probably

= “Your biggest wish of Number One, it surely felt heavy, right?! You probably felt soothed by the admiration from the world!?”

‘What? The Chicken Soup For The Soul line isn’t the proper translation?’ I hear you say in shock. Indeed, he doesn’t say that at all (although I guess the meaning is kinda the same). Dabi sure has a funny way of performing his speech, but there are better ways to show that than by inserting weird English expressions.

「子どもたちに向き合う時間は“家族の絆”を感じさせただろう！！？」

「子どもたち ; kodomotachi 」-> children

「に ; ni 」-> to

「向き合う ; mukiau 」-> to face

「時間 ; jikan 」-> time

「は ; wa 」-> topic marker particle

「家族 ; kazoku 」-> family

「の ; no 」-> possessive particle; similar to an apostrophe

「絆 ; kizuna 」-> bond

「を ; o 」-> direct object marker

「感じさせた ; kanjisaseta 」-> made to feel

「だろう ; darou 」-> probably

= “The time you faced your kids made you feel the “bond of family”, right!!?”

You might have noticed it already, but aside from finding all kinds of ways to emphasize words, Dabi also loves to end his sentences with darou. This word is pretty much used when you want confirmation from the person you’re speaking to. And him ending several sentences in a row that way is him trying to get inside Endeavor’s head, kinda like the bad cop in an interrogation constantly pressing the person being interrogated with questions in hopes of the pressure eventually pushing down on them in order to get a confession.

「未来に目を向けていれば正しくあれると思っただろう！！？知らねエようだから教えてやるよ！！！」

「未来 ; mirai 」-> future

「に ; ni 」-> to

「目を向けていれば ; me o muketeireba 」-> if you shift your attention

「正しくあれる ; tadashikuareru 」-> to be able to exist correctly/proper (正しい+ある)

「と思った ; to omotta 」-> thought

「だろう ; darou 」-> probably

「知らねエ ; shiranee 」-> don’t comprehend (casual of 知らない)

「ようだ ; you da 」-> seeming/appearing to be

「から ; kara 」-> therefore

「教えてやる ; oshieteyaru 」-> I will teach you

「よ ; yo 」-> emphasis particle

= “You probably thought ‘if I shift my attention to the future, I’m able to exist correctly’!!? I will tell you, since you seem to not comprehend!!!”

Tadashikuareru consists of the words tadashii (correct; right) and aru (to exist) with the latter being in the potential form. The areru part can be used to show that there is more of a conscious effort to be a certain way. Instead of just being more right, he is consciously being that way (or at least he thinks he can be that way).

Once again, we have Dabi emphasize a word, shiranee, by having it in its casual form and with the e at the end written in katakana.

The oshieteyaru is one of those constructions that mean one person is doing something for someone else as we’ve already seen a few lines ago. But remember that Japanese is all about social hierarchy, especially when considering how to talk to others. So the standard way to have the speaker say they will do X for the listener would be to use ~teageru. ~teyaru, as used here, on the other hand, would only be used when speaking to someone who is inferior to you and often to say that you’re doing something to stand in their way/mess with their situation. In other words: negative respect from Dabi to Endeavor. He's not about to teach him something to do him a favor but to give him a much needed, traumatizing, life lesson

Now for the final part. The last sentence is something I actually already translated last year when the chapter came out, in fact, it was my first translation post! So now we’re really coming full circle here.

「過去は消えないザ！！自業自得だぜさァ一緒に堕ちよう轟炎司！！地獄(こっち)で息子(おれ)と踊ろうぜ！！！」

「過去 ; kako 」-> history

「は ; wa 」-> topic marker particle

「消えない ; kienai 」-> doesn’t disappear; doesn’t go away

「ザ ; za 」-> emphasis particle

「自業自得 ; jigoujitoku」-> paying for one’s mistakes; reap what you sow

「だ ; da 」-> be

「ぜ ; ze 」-> emphasis particle

「さァ ; saa 」-> emphasis particle

「一緒に ; issho ni 」-> together

「堕ちよう ; ochiyou 」-> let’s fall down; let’s descend

「地獄 ; jigoku 」-> hell

「こっち ; kocchi 」-> here

「で ; de 」-> in

「息子 ; musuko 」-> son

「おれ ; ore 」-> I

「と ; to 」-> with

「踊ろう ; odorou 」-> let’s dance

「ぜ ; ze 」-> emphasis particle

= “The past doesn’t go away!! You reap what you sow. Well, let’s fall together, Enji Todoroki!! You shall dance with me here!!!”

That za is one of many sentence ending particles that really just add a bit of emphasis and emotion to the sentence, however, normally this particle is written as sa. Changing it into za adds even more emphasis. And, of course, this is written in katakana to - you guessed it - add emphasis! Are you tired of the word emphasis? Well... that’s not the end of Dabi adding emphasis (but don’t worry, we’re almost done) -

shortly after, we have the saa written with katakana at the end for emphasis to really bring attention to what he says next.

The ze sentence ending, which we see twice here, obviously also adds emphasis, but with a sort of inviting, yet commanding, tone, which makes sense considering he is, in fact, inviting Endeavor to something.

Ochiyou is not written with the standard kanji here (that would be 落ちる). When the word is written with the kanji used here, it’s specifically referring to more of a metaphorical falling and generally to say there has been a moral failing and loss as a result of it. So while a lot of people are reading this to mean “let’s die together” it’s far deeper than that. They’ve been already corrupting themselves and created a lot of loss (no, this isn’t about Dabi’s infamous 30+ victims, but rather the fact that he created an entire villain persona and had his family believe that he died all so that he could avenge his kid self - he’s not wrong in doing so, but there are undeniably many losses because of this both in his and his family members’ lives).

As you may have noticed there are two words in the last sentence where I added something in brackets. Those are the furigana, which are used to tell you how to read the kanji. However, in writing sometimes those furigana don’t match how those kanji are actually read. This is done when one character says one thing but means something different. When this happens, the furigana represent what the character says, while the kanji represent what is actually meant.

This means that Dabi doesn’t actually say this iconic line of dancing in hell out loud, but it is the true meaning behind his words.

The son / I part itself is obvious: Dabi is Touya and thus Endeavor’s son, making these two words synonymous. So why bother with the two versions? The reason that Dabi says ‘I’ but means ‘son’ is to underline the fact that this isn’t the villain Dabi inviting the hero Endeavor to face him; it’s Touya inviting his father. In other words: it’s personal.

What about the hell / here part, then? Dabi says ‘here’ - referring to the battlefield around them. His invitation isn’t for later; he wants to do this right here, right now and with the broadcast showing at the same time, the dance has essentially already begun, anyway. But does ‘hell’ as the true meaning refer to the battlefield, too? Should it just be to emphasize the scene around them? It could also be that Dabi already sees the world and life as hell and now he’s simply going to share it with Endeavor. How sweet of him!

If we take the two parts together, it could also imply that Touya is in hell, either in the sense that his upbringing was hell or because he metaphorically died as a result of Endeavor’s obsession. And now, that very same obsession is going to be Endeavor’s own downfall. Having someone decide Touya wasn’t good enough and thus being tossed aside and replaced by someone else was hell for him, and now it’s Touya’s turn to decide Endeavor isn’t good enough and has to say goodbye to his future as hero. Unfortunately, one year later, Endeavor still hasn’t faced any real consequences and is, in fact, still the Number One Hero.

And this concludes our revisiting of the iconic Touya reveal! I think the main takeaway is that in the original Japanese version, Dabi is a lot more dramatic by emphasizing words wherever and however possible, repeating words to make Endeavor sweat, and just the way he speaks, of course, and it all comes together to an epic performance, which, unfortunately, doesn’t have that full effect in the English translation despite the fact that a lot of it could’ve been included.

Even after one year, I think this part of the story was done so well and is such a fun read that really shows what kind of character Dabi is and just how funny his presence and this particular appearance are.

Anyway, this was probably another long read so thanks for reading if you’ve made it this far, and hopefully, you have an even better idea of Dabi now. I guess the conclusion of this whole post is that, if Dabi had to be summarized in one word, it would be:

✨emphasis✨

[lookinghotwiththosewings]

Read the Love Letters to My Landlord and couldn’t stop thinking of the description of Dabi in an oversized cardigan and sweatpants. I also added his large hat because I thought it was cute

[pandorasv13updates]

OMG THIS IS ADORABLE!!! 🥺🥺🥺 I love him so much and his vibe is captured so perfectly here! 😍🥰💕💕💕 the big floppy hat totally suits him too 🤣 (it's his gardening hat in my mind)

Thank you so much for drawing such cute art 💛

[ao3commentoftheday]

how to block an author from your A03 feed

details found in this news post on AO3

First, grab the author's User ID number

Open the profile page of the author you want to block. You can get there by tapping on their username and then Profile

On their profile page, copy the number you see under My User ID is:

Then, create (or edit) a site skin.

Log into your account

Go to archiveofourown.org/skins

Tap on the Create Site Skin button (or edit your skin if you're already using one)

In the CSS box, type .user-000 { display: none !important; }

Replace the 000 with the author's user ID you copied above

To block multiple authors, separate with a comma like this .user-000, .user-111, .user-222 { display: none !important; } 

Save or update your skin. If it's new (or if you weren't already using it), you'll also need to hit the button labelled Use

As long as you're logged in and using that skin, that author's works will be hidden from you.

[pandorasv13updates]

In Detention Log: what do Keigos wings do during the copious spicy times? Are they held close to his back or are they hanging limp? Or do they flap to add some thrust? Enquiring minds want to know.

Ah yes the real questions are being asked now 🤣 no seriously though I sat and thought about this for a couple days.

Depending on the position and who is doing what, the wings are in various states of disarray.

For example, if the space is cramped like in a shower stall, he sheds the feathers.

If Touya is bending him over on a beach, then his wings are limp and maybe twitching when Touya strokes them (which he does a lot in that position).

If he's above Touya and pinning him down, then they alternate between flapping for some extra help and going taut. On particularly possessive days, they curl around both of them like a cocoon and Touya pretends that he doesn't notice (but its secretly his favorite wing behavior because it makes him feel safe).

[pandorasv13updates]

DabiHawks Week Day 5: Coffee Shop/Bakery

I really wanted to do a comic for this one so here you go!

[ao3feed-dabihawks]

by pandorasv13

Keigo and Touya break-up but still share an apartment. Their friends try to understand what’s happening. —- “He’s here most weekdays and finds somewhere else to go on weekends when I’m resting here. Oh, sometimes we overlap for a few minutes or even an hour but then we just stay in our rooms until it’s safe to come out,” Keigo rambled.

Rumi gave him a long look before nodding ever so slightly. “Right.”

Words: 4127, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of DabiHawks Week 2021

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks

Relationships: Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks

Additional Tags: Post-Break Up, Getting Back Together, Civilian!Dabi, POV Outsider, Todoroki Touya Never Becomes Dabi, DabiHawks Week 2021, Fluff and Angst

[ao3feed-dabihawks]

by pandorasv13

Hawks is unofficially adopted by the Todoroki siblings when he’s 11. He grows up with them while crushing super hard on the eldest, Touya.

Words: 3454, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of DabiHawks Week 2021

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks, Todoroki Family (My Hero Academia)

Relationships: Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks

Additional Tags: Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Manga Spoilers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-Relationship, Childhood Friends, hawks has a crush, Todoroki Touya Never Becomes Dabi, Civilian!Dabi, Family Fluff, brief family angst, DabiHawks Week 2021

[ao3feed-dabihawks]

by pandorasv13

Hawks rescues a severely injured vampire from an auction house and reflects on how they settled into domestic bliss.

Words: 2439, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of DabiHawks Week 2021

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks

Relationships: Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Creatures & Monsters, Vampire!Dabi, Possessive!Hawks, Pillow Talk, Sleepy Cuddles, Weird Fluff, Dark fluff, Blood Drinking, Domestic Fluff, DabiHawksWeek21, Introspection

[pandorasv13updates]

Is Keigo's father still at large in Detention Log?

👀👀👀 Good question. Haha we'll learn a bit more about that in the upcoming arc/planet

[ao3commentoftheday]

Somewhere in my notes in the last few days I saw someone add some tags that I’ve been thinking about ever since. I wish I could find them again (or that I’d just saved their post at the time) because I think they made a lot of sense.

They were talking about how fanfic is becoming more and more mainstream while still remaining largely transgressive. It’s such an interesting dichotomy to think about!

On the one hand, you have sites like AO3 and realities like widespread high speed internet access being more and more accessible to larger and larger groups of people. This makes it incredibly easy for anyone at all to find and read fanfic.

On the other hand, you have the roots of fanfic. It was born out of marginalized groups such as women, people of colour, and members of the queer community deciding to take the stories that had been aimed at a largely male, white, heterosexual audience and inverting them into something they could enjoy and relate to. To this day, fanfic is a place where people write the kinds of stories that don’t get made into movies and TV shows. The kinds of stories that don’t get published or end up on the New York Times bestseller list.

Fanfic used to be written and shared in secret. People used to hide it. People still do hide the fact that they read or write it. But it’s becoming something that more and more people are becoming more and more aware of.

So now there’s a spotlight starting to shine on fanfic. People who aren’t looking for transgressive works are finding them where they always were. People who think the status quo is fine are getting upset when they enter a place where the status quo is constantly being upended.

The tags on that post that I can’t find made the point that popular media is curated and sanitized and stripped of most of its controversy in order to appeal to the widest possible audience. But that also makes that audience expect all media to be curated and sanitized in the same way. When they encounter the messy, controversial, ugly, radical, difficult things that people write in fanfic, they’re unprepared.

Fanfic isn’t big media. Fanfic authors aren’t being edited and filtered and polished - and nor are their works. The clash between the expectations of people new to fanfic and accustomed to popular media and the realities of what fanfic is and what it’s being written for - that’s part of this struggle that fandom is going through right now. It’s been going on since the beginning of course, but it’s getting louder every year.

I’m still thinking my way through this, but it really does make a lot of sense to me. If those were your tags, please let me know so I can credit you with the ideas at the core of this post.

And if you have any ideas for how we as fans can better introduce the newbies to the culture and expectations in fandom, I’d love to hear it. The better we can guide people into our space, the better they’ll fit in when they join it.

[sparkylurkdragon]

While I’m not entirely sure how, here are a few what ideas. If you’re coming into fanfic new, here is what you need to know. Perhaps other folks can think of more diplomatic ways to frame these thoughts.

Fandom has historically been dominated by the weird. Weird people, weird stories. That isn’t a bad thing. A lot of folks in fandom wear weird as a badge of honour, something we reclaimed from bullies and other abusers who slung the word and related ones at us. We are not normal and do not seek to be normal. If that idea bothers you, you are still welcome, but know that you are a guest. A lot of folks in fandom have been burned by aggressive normalcy, and start baring teeth when it intrudes into our spaces.

The author is dead. All this means is that the original canon author or authors can tell you their interpretation of the story, but they cannot control your own interpretations or imagination: their interpretation is no more or less important than anyone else’s. Something being noncompliant with canon does not make it badly-written.

Alternate universes exist. If someone wants to write characters from a serious crime drama in a sitcom, they are allowed to do that. If someone wants to explore what would happen if that horrific mass murderer was redeemed or never evil, they are allowed to do that. If someone just really likes dragons and wants to write about everyone being a dragon, they are allowed to do that.

If you write fanfic, you are also an author, so you are also dead. Once you release your ideas into the wild, other people can and will do weird things with them. The sooner you accept that, the better.

You will find porn of it if you go looking. If you don’t, some folks will take that as a challenge and go make some. As long as good-faith efforts are made to keep out people who shouldn’t or don’t want to see it, there is nothing wrong with this.

A canon being made for kids and teens does not mean that all sections of the fandom are for kids and teens. Adults can be into works for the younger set, and as long as there are clear boundaries between work that’s appropriate for kids and work that isn’t, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, and absolutely nothing wrong with adult or dark works based on those stories.

Some people will really hate your favourite characters. Some people will think your favourite pairing is gross, or boring, or that the characters would be better off with someone else. Some people will think that show or game or book that got you through the roughest moments of your life is absolute trash. And that’s okay. Not everyone has to like your favourite things.

Someone writing dark stories about terrible things happening to your favourite characters, even dark stories that may mirror some trauma you’ve been through, are not writing about you. They’re not. It is none of your business why they’re writing it. Their only duty to you is to make sure you can avoid their work if you want to. Again, the sooner you accept this, the better off you’ll be.

It’s okay if you want to write something dark and depraved. Lots of people do, and if it’s weird, well, fandom has historically been dominated by the weird.

It’s okay if you want to write nothing but fluff.

It’s okay, no matter what you want to write.

Just be courteous and tag your work. Even if all you want to tag it with is “this may contain dark topics.”

Welcome.

[jemariel]

This feels related to a post I saw a while back about how so much of fandom is rooted in neuro divergence. The hyper fixation, the “squeeing”, the encyclopedic knowledge. And how, as fandom gets more and more mainstream, those hallmarks of being a Fan get tagged as *cringey*

Idk. Makes you think.

[olderthannetfic]

I love almost every point here, but if there’s one thing I would tell new fans, it’s this:

Most fanfic is straight.

These are the best hard numbers I have (with multi/other including all fics labeled as more than one of m/m, f/m, and f/f along with ones labeled as multi/other):

AO3 is the gay porn bookstore, so AO3 is the site that cares about:

Being free from corporate overlords

Not monetizing your data in creepy ways

Minute and detailed kink labeling

Protecting the freaky content

If you hate Bad Kinks, that’s fine. Just know that you will never get the kind of labeling AO3 has from the people who pander to the mainstream. If you want to get rid of The Bad Stuff, the kind of websites you’ll end up with are a sea of nigh unsearchable het, like Wattpad. And the same kinks will be there. They just won’t be labeled clearly.

People imagine that fandom is mostly queer because their own bubble is, because queer stuff sticks in their mind more as anomalous, making it seem more frequent than it really is, and because the only places that label clearly are the queer ones.

If you want to tear down the places with queer+freaky content, you will end up tearing down the only places that protect queer content at all.