rhymes with chameleon

Background: Per Wikipedia,

Born in Osaka, Japan, into a well-established doctor's family,[2] Yasunari was orphaned when he was four, after which he lived with his grandparents. He had an older sister who was taken in by an aunt, and whom he met only once thereafter, at the age of ten (July 1909) (she died when he was 11). Kawabata's grandmother died when he was seven (September 1906), and his grandfather when he was fifteen (May 1914).

Kawabata Yasunari was the first Japanese writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He was once asked in an interview about which piece of his was his favorite. He answered, "Mother."

This is my translation. I finished it haphazardly in about two hours tonight and there were a few verb tenses I didn't understand, but hopefully I've retained enough of its appeal.

( Mother )

I don't even ship Henry/Lissa but this may be one of the best things I've seen out of Henry.

(And I've seen almost everything out of Henry! Though I admit that my strong like here is for biased reasons.)

( Cutcutcut )

GUYS

GUUYSG GUYS GUUYS

GUSYG GUYSU GYSUYY G UGYYS

The doomed timeline DLCs contain unique father-child conversations! Like, they're different for each kid and father!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

(you know what's coming up next, right)

(dude there is legit character development in this it makes me really happy okay)

( Translated -- Inigo and Henry )

Behold, the most interesting support set that I wish didn't end in marriage, and that apparently no one else cares about. (Neither its original Japanese was ever fan translated at SF, nor is its localization currently transcribed there.) I don't quite have the time to grind up a Henry/Maribelle S in my no-hetero file for the sake of comparison, so I'm leaving the localization column blank until some SF goon slaves away for my convenience. *shot* (FWIW, C support seems to be intact.)

EDIT 4/12/13: Updated with the English.

But really, their supports are all about fear of death and lack thereof. They're wonderful and you should read them. (Don't be misled by C support!)

( C )

( B )

( A )

( S )

In which Dheginsea makes some pretty good points in the Japanese.

( Spoilers or something )

I took a look for this for a fic I'm working on and thought you all might find it interesting too.

( 1-8 Vika )

These are basically everything I found interesting (ie practically all the non-gameplay ones). This is quite long, beware!

( Translations )

Partly because I'm curious, and partly because the one thing I can always seem to find the motivation to do is translation.

( Strategist )

Fun fact: No one addresses Soren by name in this entire conversation.

SHH, HE'LL HEAR YOU--

You know what I realized? I realized I never did a nice translation of Ike/Soren A. (Actually while doing this I had vivid flashbacks to doing this translation before, but eh this take is probably better anyway.)

WELL THEN.

(Obviously I should do this the night before a math exam I haven't studied enough for.)

( Ike/Soren A )

Genealogy of Fala - Ch 3

Genealogy of Fala (ファラの系譜) is a Japanese fanhack of FE4, featuring Alvis as its protagonist. As with most fanhacks, there is no existing translation patch. mark_asphodel was quite interested in this one, and I found some script online, so I decided to give it a whirl. As far as I can tell, it's a work in progress. The last update was at the end of December in 2011, when Chapter 10 was completed. So there's still hope that this will be finished, I'd say.

I'm starting with Chapter 3 for the simple reason that this is the earliest chapter whose script has been transcribed on the site I'm looking at. If there's interest, I'll go back and attempt to find transcriptions of the prologue. (Failing that, I could read from the hack myself, but trust me when I say that'd take several times longer than having a nice typed up transcription.)

All the stuff below the line is translated from the original webpage. This is a rough translation and has not been proofread in the interest of time. It is also very lazy, with nuances noted in when I couldn't quickly think of a good way to phrase it retaining that nuance.

% = Two lines merged into one.
Notes are in brackets, as well as translations that are less literal or mildly speculative.

( Genealogy of Fala, 3 )

Credits:
Game: I sincerely cannot find any hint of authorship in any of the text files or elsewhere during a casual glance on the internet. I'll get back to you with the authorship when I find it. (Click the button partway down the page to download.)
Transcription: A guy who calls himself Gale (ゲイル), but goes by Ex (エクス) in FE fandom.


By the way, if you like this, there's a "like" button ("clap", with the little hands) at the bottom of the original page I've linked to.