All scenes with only MHA characters will be written in English, for ease of reading, but the characters are actually speaking Japanese to each other.
"This sentence is in English, but shhh." This is for when the scene is from a Japanese character's POV and they don't understand English, or, if they understand some words, those are not underlined.
"Tea wa dokodesu ka?" [Where is the tea?] For scenes from an English character's POV that does not understand Japanese except for any words shown in bold, which may be none. The bracketed translation is for the audience.
"Dialogue in Japanese that is getting translated in real-time." If all words are in bold, and the scene is from an English character's POV, the character can understand everything that is being spoken in Japanese. Or if the scene is from a Japanese character's POV, and they are speaking in Japanese, they can obviously understand the Japanese they are speaking, even if an English character can't.
If a scene is being translated the entire time, and there are no language issues anywhere in an entire scene because of a translation device, the scene will just be written as normal. But you know who speaks what. I believe in you.
I realized writing this chapter that I should have said this last chapter! I suck at coming up with creative, extra heroes. So if anyone wants to drop any OC's from the MHA universe in the comments, feel free. If they fit my purposes for the plot you may just see them somewhere! I can't guarantee it, but I have at least two more places I could use some.
Quick reminder that I'm gonna be using curse words for some characters
This chapter suuuuucked to write. Not only was it long, but the most important scene had like a million cannon things I had to account for while writing. _Q.Q_ It looks nothing like the first draft, let me tell you. I've spent like a week and a half on that scene alone. Working almost every day on it. But I really wanted to get this chapter correct, since I basically haven't had action up until now.
Part of me feels bad this chap took so long, but the other part of me is like, it took this long to be good. Sooooo....
Tuesday, September 11th,
8:23 am
On top of an industrial-sized grill sizzled all manner of meats. In the back, ribs seared on high heat while brats and hotdogs cooked more slowly up front. Grease dripped, sending a wave of flames up from below.
Brats were tricky. Such a powerful food with all their fat.
Lunch Lady smiled. They were perfection incarnate. Just like the giant bowl of potato salad sitting on the checker-clothed table nearby.
Moving the German sausages so they wouldn't burn, the older woman paused when an intense prickling crawled up her girthy neck with the stick-legs of a beetle.
Her lair was under attack.
Flipping the dials of the grill off and closing the valve to the propane tank, the ghost shot into the air and toward the disturbance.
No one was ruining her Fall barbecue! Not even the Phantom child!
Reaching the point where the ghostling's aura was strongest, she paused. A field of boulders floated, undisturbed, except for one that practically stank of the lair-wrecker's ectoplasm. He had to be hiding on the other side.
Lunch Lady propelled toward and through the rock, a battle cry ruining the ambush as she manifested escrima ribs in yellow-gloved hands.
The dark grey surface gave way to the damp, too-sweet air of rotting trash as the ambient light of the Zone vanished.
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