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Royal Menagerie Translation

A lot of people already pointed out how there are differences between the different localizations of Final Fantasy XIV in what exactly is said and how that sheds a new light on characters. A friend of mine asked me to take a look at the German version in regards to Zenos, so here we go for all who are curious.

Below the cut is a direct comparison between the English dialogue with Zenos and the German version, with a literal translation of it.

Heavy Spoiler warning for the Ending of 4.0, of course.

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blackwraithtea

Painted Zenos because I really wanted to try this brush. He seems like the kind of guy would just wear a shirt around the Wol with his tits exposed tbh.

compulsive

deathflare

they are in santa monica

sarmaril

No actually I'm still hung up on it.

Zero's "a friend is a person your trust" revelation DIRECTLY followed by the WoL thinking about Zenos.

Zenos, whose feelings towards the WoL were so strong that they not only broke through Meteion's Ultimatium, carried the Warrior on his back, and then as he lay dying STILL had a strong enough sway over the dynamis in at the edge of everything to save the WoL's life, letting himself die at the end of it, their conversation ending with Zenos, through his final act, confessing that the only happiness he found in life was with someone that he didn't know how to love in a way that wasn't violent and selfish with a passion enough to tear the world apart.

"A friend is a person you trust" not to WoL, not ONLY at least, because they had a friendship that was not built on the foundation of a mutual trust, but on the foundation of challenge, and acceptance for the other as the broken, fascinating thing that they are.

My enemy, my friend.

kosmogrl

mightier

drape Will I have left a mark on the tapestry of your life?

tolrone

final fantasy xiv Zenos-yae Galvus

herssian

the comedy of zenos popping up at the imperial palace happy to throw hands with his genetically-modified, ascian-occupied body, all while simply being in a random elezen’s flesh suit, and then elidibus seeing him and choosing to leave instead of having to fight this crazy bastard? insane, 10/10, incomparable storytelling

jalajalapeno

So even funnier, is he *didn’t just run*. Zenos found him so little a threat that he thought he fled.

Zenos claims that the ascian ran away and we don’t find out till Elidibus’s pov that actually no, he tried to fight back but was completely overwhelmed.

Zenos thought so little of Elidibus he didn’t consider it a fight at all.