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...

((The temporary LANGUAGE LOL is now underway! It's freeform fun until you're done and participation is completely optional. Don't feel like this event should stop you from making threads which are unaffected by the LOL in the mean time. If you want your Language LOL'd character to interact with a non-LOL thread, please ask the OP if they want to play that dynamic first. For the OOC and organization post, GO HERE. ))

Comments

[grantuseyes]

Oh no! The messengers are shaken off, though a few remain steadfast and dedicated, clinging to his pant leg until the very last. One gets pulled almost entirely out of the portal they all loiter in and leaves its silly stick-like legs and blocky feet dangling before it thumps to the floor and slides back into waist depth in the bubbling silver.

Perhaps hoping to explain their adoration and excitement, one messenger gets to work on some drawings. It glances up every now and again as if taking stock of Majima's features, like a toiling caricature artist. It looks proud and eager by the time it offers up its labour.

[gorogorogoro_chan]

"I ain't got time for this shit!" Majima slowly halts efforts to thwart this assault when the artistically-inclined slime baby offers him the scrap of paper.

"Wow, uh ... Thanks? Is this me?" He holds it at arm's length, head tilted. Huh. Huh. "Yanno, no one's ever drawn me before."

He turns the paper back around to face the artist, pointing at the red exclamation points. "What's up with the red things, though?"

[grantuseyes]

Yes! It's you! The messengers nod in confirmation. Some are clasping their hands together as if anxious for his approval. One goes the extra mile in making sure they're clear that it's a portrait of the man by pointing one finger at Majima while touching the spot where its nose would be if it had one. Bingo!

But how the explain the red things? Hmmmm. Another drawing is soon started in earnest before it's presented like the one before it.


Has Majima ever looked cooler than he does in this artwork. Bet not.