Language LOL: Translator Malfunction

[rumham]

You know what's cool? Chatting with your pals. Reading the Internet. Navigating the roads because you can understand the Gods-damned street signs. You know what's not cool? Not being able to do any of that. By that metric, one might describe today in the Nexus decidedly uncool.

It's utterly without warning that the multiversal hub goes from automatic to manual translation. Shop signs, radio and television broadcasts, conversations on the streets between vendors and friends and businesspeople are suddenly a jarring cacophony of dissonant languages. Then there's the silence. Then there's the shouting. Turns out people get pissed off when nobody understands them!

Momentary chaos dies down as the average people of the Nexus come to grips with their new situation. Shopkeepers wait outside their stores and stands with expectant expressions, impatiently waiting for the translator to pull itself together and start working again.

Except...

It sort of doesn't.

No, it super doesn't.

Citizens of the Nexus, it would appear you're going to have to adjust...

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Comments

[grantuseyes]

Oh, those...sure are words. Not the sort they've long since grown used to hearing, given that Yharnam is english-speaking and also hates foreigners and immigrants. It's a totally cool and totally not xenophobic place like that. But hunters ARE from other cities, other far-away locations, from the Hinterlands to the Eastern Kingdoms. Just because MOST of them are Yharnamites now doesn't mean they haven't heard other languages. It just means Yharnam has the biggest beast mess at the moment.

And besides, Adia still knows a Very Good Word without even having to speak it.

So with that being said, the messengers wave back to Adia and then set to doing what they've come to do: draw and help. Crayons are dumped out onto the floor and little grabby hands all get to work. They seem excited! Eager to draw something for her! Enough that all five that are present gather around the paper and get to work. When it's done, the messengers present it proudly.

[chiron_survivor]

Perhaps it is the way that they stare at her a moment before waving in return, or maybe the moon rune itself alerting her that something is off today, but she gets the impression that they don't understand her. She bites her lip worriedly, although that concern is eased once they get to work on the drawing for her.

She smiles warmly at the finished product. They remembered her hat! "είναι όμορφο," she tells them, and though they won't understand that she just called their painting beautiful, the sentiment is obvious in her voice.

Pointing to the drawings of the runes, she says something that sounds like another foreign word, but to the Messengers, they will sense something else, too. She is saying "moon." More than that, she understands what that rune symbolizes, a conscious wisdom that she has gained since they saw her last.