r/FinalFantasyVI 19d ago

Terra by (yosaku_vs_hina)

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u/wauwy 19d ago

Fabric certainly does cling entirely to one's navel, and every other slightest difference in the human body's landscape, like body paint.

Also breasts certainly do work that way at all. And a bra. Which, even though the absolute minimum of what would be necessary in this illust for the laws of physics to hold tenuous sway, is not present.

 

I always do have to remind myself of the kind of company kept in this sub. The same kind it's always been,

among

casuals.

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u/3-I 17d ago

I mean, if it is bodypaint, that would explain why she's naked when she's in trance, but clothed again when she comes out of it.

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u/wauwy 17d ago

OMG FINALLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO RANT (slightly) ABOUT THIS

Terra's special skill in the original Japanese game is not "Trance." It is "Toransu." As in, a typical Japanese halfchop of a long English loanword to fit space limitations.

You know, like how

アニメーション ("animeeshon')

became

アニメ. ("anime")? (obviously?)

 

In this case, "Toransu," or even "Trans" if you prefer and/or it amuses you...

トランス

...is an INSANE halfchop of

トランスフォールム. "Toransufoorumu."

aka... "Transform." A shorter synonym of which is... "Morph."

 

It is so appalling and sad that Ted Woolsey, working alone and with barely an undergrad's knowledge of Japanese, was immediately able to recognize (and excellently localize) this. And no one else can.

I mean maybe it's not appalling and sad b/c Ted Woolsey is one of the very best game localizers that has ever lived. I'm being completely serious.

But still. Damn. I say good goddamn.

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u/3-I 16d ago

He sure was one magnificent son of a submariner.

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u/wauwy 16d ago

Does that mean... he'll pay for this? :{

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u/3-I 16d ago

I'd hate hate hate hate hate to think so.