Biases

I made this post because I felt like it. Maybe it will be useful somehow someday. This list has something of a leaning toward romance type things, because I guess when it comes down to it that's what I associate with gratuitousness.

You may now proceed to psychoanalyze me.

Gratuitous and Sometimes Problematic Things Ammie Secretly Likes (Despite Any Snobby Statements Otherwise):
( Biases )

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( Turn-Offs )

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I think that's probably most of them. Wow this post is too long.

Oh well, it's there for if I ever... enter any exchange type thing... yeah.

<--- has never entered an exchange type thing.

Translational Liberties: Zihark and his girlfriend

Not usually my domain, but I was looking through the artbook and the kanji for death caught my eye, so what the hell.

From Zihark/Muarim A:

English	Japanese	My Rough Translation
It...was too much for her. We couldn't be married, and the pressure was too much for her to stay with me. But I've never loved another woman. To this day, I think that I never shall.	そうだな… 結局、添い遂げることは できなかったが……▼ 俺は今でも… 彼女以外の女性を愛したことはない。▼	That's right... In the end, to be married for life was impossible, but... Even now, I... I shall never love another woman.

(Note: The way the conversation is set up is a tiny bit different, which is why the lead-in looks different.)

Originally, I thought the English was a bit odd. Zihark's girlfriend left him based on the pressure? His trauma seemed a little... deeper than that. The Japanese supports are open-ended on the matter, although the tone is quite... fatalistic. Being from Daein, I'd figured she was lynched or something.

Well, thanks to the artbook, I've found out that is pretty much the case.

Picture from the artbook.

シイハーク
義に厚き剣士

デイン生まれの剣士。　ラグズを守るためにラグズ狩
りを行う自警団に潜入した際に、アイクたちと知り合
う。獣牙族の恋人と死に別れており、ラグズに味方す
るのはそのため。デイン＝クリミア戦争終結後は、デ
イン解放軍の一員として戦った。

Normally I'd do it line by line so you can tell where things are roughly, but some of these clauses are kind of ridiculous so I didn't bother. Here, have a paragraph.

Zihark
The Swordsman Burning with Righteousness

A swordsman born in Daein. At the time he infiltrated the laguz-hunting vigilantes to protect the laguz, he became acquainted with Ike's group. Separated from his beast tribe lover by death, for this reason he supports the laguz. After the end of the Daein-Crimea War, he fought as one of the Daein Liberation Army.

So yeah. Zihark's girlfriend? She died.

Given the nature of his angst... probably on a laguz hunt, too.