Tsubasa RC Chapter 155 translation

[inarikami]

I huffed and puffed a lot about the new POTC installment, but after checking some original clips on YouTube I'm beginning to think that 60% of the suckiness was really the fault of the dub after all. O_o A second viewing might help...? Curse you, multiplex cinemas!

Comments

[r_u_k_i_a]

Thank you very much for the translation.

The thing with the names is, Foy's real name is in fact Fay. The one that we know as Fay is named Yuui. Now CLAMP only has to tell us why this name change occured.

[inarikami]

Huh?? Where was this? I really can't gather any of this sort from the chapter... *confused*

Fai is the one behind the bars, Yuui is the one in the pit with the dead bodies. Did they switch places in some previous chapter I can't remember...? Though I vaguelly recall Fei Wang talking to one of the twins, but which one was it now?

[sabinareborn]

Maybe it IS our Fay; we're still not clear on what happened. I'm holding out for CLAMP's official version... like when everybody thought Fay was stronger than Yuuko, and later it was explained that that wasn't the case.

[r_u_k_i_a]

In the ch148 flashback FWR talked to the one in the pit, Yuui a.k.a. the one we know as Fay, and their conversation resulted in the death of the twin who was in the tower a.k.a real!Fay. At least it seems that way.

[ariadnechan]

hohohoho!!!! no one know where Chile is either all think we are part of argentina or something!!!!, if they not think is spacy condiment!!!
thanks for the translation
about the chap poor litle Yuuy and Fay, it seams fay is really Yuuy no?
and they are two cutes ass litle chldrens!!! T_________T
sure Clamp have more evilness for them!!!

[shisanka]

Thank you! ♥♥♥

So... the one who survived is the one on the bottom = Yuui?

Aww, those poor kiddies! Page 11, 13 and 17 are heartbreaking!
Now I'm curious what happened to Valeria (<- pretty name!). Maybe they were in a war with Celes?

[tamerlane1]

Thank you. So our Fai = Yuui and he is the one at the bottom trying to climb his way up to his brother.

My guess is that he took his brothers name as a way to honor his memory and to never forget. That way when he is traveling to all the different worlds...his brother is with him like they had planned to do when they escaped.

I am not sure that there is anything else left to do to Fai unless Clamp plans to kill him off. D:

So....how is everyone else going to find out about Fai's past? Currently all they know is that this world is dead and there is some super creepy looking kid accusing Fai of killing him. This can be so easily misinterpreted....I hope they do not act rashly and do something that will hurt Fai further...else I will rant...and it will not be pretty. >=(

[tamerlane1]

Maybe the Zombie kid isn't real, but an illusion/figment of Fay's imagination. We haven't seen any of the other group react to zombie!Fay right?

[tamerlane1]

I think that would be even worse. x_x

I mean after all that Fai has been through now it would just look like he is talking to himself. And I could practically see them thinking....he has finally cracked, knew it would happen sooner or later.

;_;

[starlady38]

Nicely done. Thanks for the translation!

You know, in some really old, pre-historical societies, there were in fact sibling monarchies. Even Japan may have had them for a while. Usually, however (at least in Japan), it was a brother-sister monarchy, not brother-brother. And at times in Roman history there were co-emperors, too. Interesting.

[inarikami]

Oh right! I remember roman co-emperors now that you mention it. :)

In Japan however, there was always one emperor/empress and the regent (in case of an empress, her brother or other in-law), who was responsible for dealing with the bureaucratic stuff, while the emperor/empress is always the figurehead.
Ancient Japanese law clearly states, "no two kings".

Though we can disregard this as this whole Valerian Country seems to be rather based on the European concept, which could leave room for the sibling monarchy.

[starlady38]

yeah, and after I posted that, I thought of the Ptolemies in Egypt marrying brother to sister.

In Japan, though, I was thinking of the Kofun period and before: early Yamato, proto-Yamato, and pre-Yamato. Let me preface that (or rather, end that) by saying that my knowledge of the history of that period is abysmal, and I'm thinking of a book about The Tale of Genji I read which talked about this, so both I and the book could be wrong. :)

[inarikami]

Just for fun, 'cause it's nice to have ppl who are interested in this: ^^

Kofun-period is actually before Yamato. :) Yamato is called Yamato because of the Yamato-taikoku, a kingdom like state with scattered tribes that were united by an empress.

It's interesting that this should be in a book about the Tale of Genji, since that's already way into the Heian period, in which the whole state structure was different. The "no two kings" rule actually comes from the first written "constitution" of Japan (which I had the pleasure to read in the original, brr), that was written around 610. The state structure and law changed in 645, but the "emperor/empress + regent from an influential blood-related family" system goes way back before that.

(Sorry for the too much info, but I just took a semester-long class on this and learnt way more about the topic than it's healthy. xDDDD) *sucks at Egyptian history though*