So it’s mention and shown in iron and sulfer that Adam speaks Slavic( and by extension Ian) as a secondary language so what are some of the headcannons you have for it?
I’ll (sort of) answer this here but for future reference the Electrochromic series has a dedicated ask blog: @askelectrochromic !
Honestly I’m not sure how much I want to say about this now; it’s something I was hoping to discuss in more detail later in “Prussian Blue” while Samus and Adam are in the process of reconciling and getting to actually know one another better.
In a more general sense, I have a hc that a lot of Human regional languages have survived into the space-fantasy-future in one way or another. Many of them have sort of “reverse-differentiated,” with similar languages blending back into a sort of pidgin (eg. some Romance languages like French/Spanish/Italian might blend back into something that resembles modernized Latin, some Slavic languages blending together as well). Some languages still exist in an unblended form, or at least the rules and specific vocab have survived in some way (eg. Samus was able to pick out a specific “old language” in Adam’s dialect) but the bulk of spoken usage is probably becoming heavily blended by this point.
Even “Standard” is a blended dialect like this, borrowing vocabulary from the majority languages human settlers used when they left Terra (maybe a dedicated post on this whole idea later - contrary to the manga, I don’t envision Daiban as actually-just-Earth). Semi-realistically, “Standard” is probably a weird blend of something like English+Arabic+Chinese, plus common words and structures from other species in the Federation.
In Adam and Ian’s case specifically, it stems back to their immediate family growing up, or rather, some issues with their immediate family. The associated memories are not happy ones, hence where that information was kept in Adam’s digital construct. I’d like to go into it more in the actual story, but suffice to say they didn’t use it all that often. Ian disliked speaking that way in general, and Adam preferred to use it only when he didn’t want to be overheard. Notably it still slips out when he gets audibly upset, which isn’t often (he does his best to keep a very tight lid on his temper!), so it’s pretty telling when he does lapse out of Standard, especially if it’s full sentences and not just scattered profanity.
