Continuing to rewatch save data team vids on tgaa and damn, the more I remember the whole professor/reaper deal the sadder I become. Like wdym Gregson arranged Van Zieks' alibi every time?? Wdym he purposefully invited him to gentlemen clubs so others could witness him being them??? Why are they so tragic???
it's not obvious how susato ought to feel about this - six is pretty young, kids don't process stuff like this the way adults do. but she's clearly sad about it now, whether or not she was then. her father returned, and one can only imagine he had a LOT of feelings. toward her and about her and around the family. susato was too little to understand any of that; she barely understood who he was supposed to be to her. and she was supposed to...just become his daughter. having been raised in what seems to be a loving household by her grandparents up until now.
did she feel responsible for his emotions? his grief for her mom, his guilt over leaving, his desperation to become closer to her? even if she didn't, even if he was enough years removed to tell her all the right things and make sure she knew nothing was her reponsibility and it was okay if she didn't regard him as a dad yet, the emotions were there, and a kid inevitably learns to manage a parent's emotions if they feel very present between them.
as she got a little older and got to understand things clearer, i'm sure she resented him for leaving. anyone would. she was just a baby; she needed her dad more than her dad needed an escape and/or some ~career opportunity~. but knowing susato, she also felt terribly guilty for resenting him. he was in so much pain at the time; maybe it's all he could do; how can she resent him when he's made such a nice home for her now and provided so well for her education?
i wonder if this is partly why susato knows so little about his time in london and nothing about his partnership with sholmes. he can see that the topic of london makes her disappear into her head a bit. she won't talk about why (but he can reasonably guess.) also i wonder how she feels about her dad trying so so hard for her now -- yujin is pretty hardcore in promoting his kids' chosen careers, he'll help her skirt the law to stand in court, he'll...not scold her for disassembling his pocket watch and not knowing how to put it back together. is she afraid of taking advantage of his guilt and not meriting everything he does for her?
at what point did susato find out that kazuma wanted to go to london and hoped for his assistant to come along? what must she have thought of that? you'd maybe expect resistance, but as far as we can tell, she's eager to go to london. maybe, contrary to the other messy feelings, her perception of studying in london is actually positive because yujin can't quite hide how wonderful his time there was. (of every japanese exchange student in these games, yujin objectively has the best time in london.) maybe he DOES tell stories -- holding back all the pertinent details and the main character, but expounding on the scale of the city, the sights and sounds, the technology and culture...
ryuu is in "poor everyone" mode but it's noteworthy that he views susato talking about her feelings/her past as a rare opportunity not to be squandered. it suggests she does feel as if she's speaking ill of her father just by telling the truth, and she feels guilty for doing it. she doesn't want others to think ill of her father, but that means she holds this stuff back even from close friends.
susato tells the next part over a black screen so i'm just gonna transcribe it:
It took time to adjust to having Father around. But just when I was starting to get used to it...he called me into his study one day. He told me that a great friend of his had passed away in London. And that the friend had left behind a son. A boy, seven years my senior. Father told me the boy had made a promise to his late father...so he was studying to become a defence lawyer.
it took six years for susato's dad to come home, but at least he DID come home. kazuma's dad never returned. i think this might be why she latched onto kazuma so strongly. they're linked together, in that their fathers left them at the same time in the same way and were together in london, but she has her dad now, and he doesn't. helping him in some way lets her take back a bit of agency, even, in the matter of fathers disappeared halfway across the world.
also, she has a pretty tight relationship with her dad now, but at the time he was still barely more than a stranger to her. the fact that she attached to kazuma's mission in life, when he was literally a complete stranger, makes more sense when you think of it that way.
also also, regarding kazuma: WHAT promise? the phrasing, "promise to his late father", is ambiguous - it initially made me think the promise was made before genshin's death but i'm convinced now that it's a unilateral promise kazuma made to genshin after genshin died. it makes sense that kazuma learned what happened to genshin and promised to become a defence attorney and reform judicial systems in japan and/or england in order to help save people from false convictions like the one that led to genshin's execution. i wonder sometimes how that links into kazuma's revenge plan, though. namely, if he'd gotten to england as a defence attorney, how would he have taken revenge on barok? defeating him in court doesn't seem like enough. and his plan seems to have involved needing a loyal defence attorney for himself (see: smuggling ryuu). it bedevils me not knowing exactly what he was thinking. i wonder if ryuu or susato would ever ask, post-canon, and if he'd tell the truth.
and that's all she says! there isn't even a line about kazuma coming to live with them, so i'm not quite sure when that happened. if it was then or later or what.
afterthought: if you buy into my supposition about susato attaching to kazuma because the shared dad trauma made her care deeply for kazuma's loss of his dad (at least initially (she obviously just likes him and likes the job now)), then her being so persistent and emotional about the case of kazuma's "death" on the way to england makes sense in a different way. not just "my legal partner who i was partly raised alongside is dead, or perhaps not, and that's upsetting because i love that guy," but "i cannot have a second asogi die by misadventure on a study tour to england ON MY WATCH. i was supposed to help set that right in some fashion; solving the case on my own is now the most direct way of setting something about this right."
there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well
and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it
the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother
You don't even need to study for the Rorschach test, btw, it's super easy. All they do is show you a bunch of stupid pictures of your dad getting eaten by a horse
This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.
Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)
Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.
Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!
Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)
So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.
I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.
But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.
....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.
imagine being watson's editor in the 19th century and having to beg him to write like a normal heterosexual person only for him to keep waxing poetic about holmes's long, sensitive fingers every five pages and writing shit like "his lips grazed my ear" and "i felt holmes's hand steal into mine" and "holmes's cold, thin fingers closed round my wrist". i would quit honestly
there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here
and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado
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