[007] Happy New Year

[kougameleon]

So, another year has passed...

Comments

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Happy new year!

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

"Happy New Year"? Is that the traditional name where you're from?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

I am just wishing you a good new year.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

...thank you.

By the way, did I ever give you my name?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Your welcome!

Uh...I don't think so.

わたしは左衛門です. It's like Death Note...

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

My name is Saemon.

The three kanji, or the Japanese symbolic letters used in my name are means "east" (sa), "guard" (e) and "gate" (mon).

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you Seamon!

East guard gate?...Thats an odd name.

Calligraphy lesson

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought it seemed strong.

[SOUND: Wagami paper crinkling]

Not sure if I have this right.

[SEND IMAGE: name written vertically]

左
衛
門

See? Where I'm from, we write out names in symbols and each one can have more than one meaning. The first symbol for "sa" means "east"left, second symbol for "e" means "guard" and the third one for "mon" means "gate" looks like one.

I can also write it in a different way. This is only kanji

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Thats really neat!! I don't think we have anything like that in my world.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Oh? How do you spell out your name?

And do you use brush as well?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Just R-u-b-y.

Well I normally don't write. But I have never seen Hiro use a brush before.

ルビー (rubi)

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Hmm...you have a foreign name, so I'd have to use katakana. Your name would have three symbols like mine.

Also, I've heard of some style to spell out such names without the use of symbols, but it almost seems elusive to Japan. [font size=1]due to circumstances[/font].

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Oh thats cool!!

Really?...Oh so not everyone in your world writes like that?...That has to get confusing.

Romaji

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

...here is your name.

[IMAGE send: Ruby's name in Katakata]

ル
ビ
|

First symbol means "Ru" and second symbol means "bi". The dash at the end means a long hold maybe a second on the previous letter.

As for your question, it's not that. Traditionally, we write by symbols. However, it seems that...outsiders invented a way to write my language in a way that they can understand it.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

...Its not as cool as yours. But still cool!

Outsiders? Do you get a lot of them there?

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

...no, because of the regime's aim.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Regime's aim? Is that a good thing?

the differences

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Military supremacy, dealings, mistrust...just sin.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

...Oh...

Ow

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Foreigners were mostly mistrusted and could be considered as spies or perhaps just filthy barbarians.

But, on the contray, there were some that accepted them. Or so I heard.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

I see. It sounds like your world is going through some complicated changes.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

I suppose.

If you were to have power, what would you do with it?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

I really don't know...I think I would have to understand both sides before I take desperate actions.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

How do you define "desperate actions"?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Uh...I guess like...violent.

信念を (Faith/belief)

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Rules, increase in power, paranoia, commitment, religion, differences, the arrogance of the higher class, the boredom of man, the desire to form a result.

Have you even been a war Ruby-san?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

...

Never.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Eh, I thought you've witnessed it.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

No. Not the kind of war you are talking about. This one is a little different.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

...how so?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Well...its hard to explain. All I know is this one guy wants to take over the world, and we were taking the only girl that could stop him to the Goddess. ...Something like that.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is slightly different. A one-man war against you, but it's still war, cause of the oppositions, the violence and the time it takes.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

I never said it wasn't war. Just a different war. And I am really just along for the ride. I only help out every now and then, when they need me.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

You did say that you were a dragon.

The way I image it...were you summoned? Or are you independently moving with a sense of justice?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Uhh...My best friend Hiro decided to help this girl. So I followed along. I was with him long before that...girl came along.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Oh I see.

Were you...upset?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Upset about what? That wench trying to steal my Hiro?...Yes.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I did not know. Did you defeat the person who wanted to rule your world?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

No. We were on the boat to take us to the city the Goddess was in when I was dropped in this world.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

Is this "Hiro" here with you?

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

...No. The only person from my world that is here is Nall. And he currently doesn't remember me.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

I see. Odd.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

It is....and its a bit upsetting.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

I bet it feels lonesome.

[ruby-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Knowing that. It dose. But I have gained so many friends over theses months that its hard to be lonely for to long.

[kougameleon.livejournal.com]

You seem to be that type.