My version of the profile pics for the boys... because, why not!?
These boys are all yummy...
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Lucien: Garda, you are in very big trouble, young lady, and we have no choice but to punish you!
Garda: But...
MC: No dinner for 1,000 years!
[insert ultimate sad face with squeaky voice]
Garda: 1,000...
[Lucien looks to MC then comforts Garda]
Lucien: We would never starve you, sweetie.
[Lucien puts his hands to Gardaâs shoulders and smiles with a dark aura around him in full seriousness]
Lucien: But you will lose your TV privileges. For 1000 years~.
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All the love to the MLQC VAs! â¤ď¸đđđ
Youâre all amazing for being a part of this game and sticking with it. I bet itâs tough for you guys to give your 100% when youâre seemingly being forced to voice lines that are translated poorly, or youâre given bad/awkward vocal direction from someone who may not understand English-speaking-culture.
Thanks for sticking with it, we love you, and I hope youâre in a happy working environment!
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Lucien Firefly Date Analysis
One of Lucienâs charms is that many literature works are quoted or mentioned in his story and dates. He is like an onion with layers of complicated allusions and foreshadows. Sadly, Elex excluded one of them in the Firefly date.
Many people tend to gloss over the Firefly date since itâs kind of a tutorial date. But itâs one of the dates you must read if you want to understand what Lucien thinks about humankind and evolution. And how his moral values are challenged by MCâs.
In Lucienâs firefly date MC and Lucien free some fireflies in the woods, but one firefly is weak and is unable to fly. Iâll provide an exact quote of this part.
The firefly, wings fluttering, leapt from my palm to Lucienâs fingertip. A sudden breeze from the depths of the thicket sent the fireflies scattering. The one in our hands, though, continued struggling to fly. Hair and shirt whipping in the wind, Lucien gazed at it with soft, kind eyes.
Lucien: Itâs getting windyâŚ
To struggle is the only to survive.
Maybe itâs not exactly wrong, but itâs still incorrect translation, especially the two lines in italics. Since those two lines are actually supposed to be quotes from the French poem âThe Graveyard by the Seaâ by Paul Valery.
I wonât post the whole poem since itâs too long, but the last part of the poem goes like this:
The wind is rising! ⌠We must try to live!
The huge air opens and shuts my book: the wave
Dares to explode out of the rocks in reeking
Spray. Fly away, my sun-bewildered pages!
Break, waves! Break up with your rejoicing surges
This quiet roof where sails like doves were pecking
Lucien is actually quoting âThe wind is rising!â and MC is quoting along in her monologue: âWe must try to live!â So the correct translation should be like this:
The firefly, wings fluttering, leapt from my palm to Lucienâs fingertip. A sudden breeze from the depths of the thicket sent the fireflies scattering. The one in our hands, though, continued struggling to fly. Hair and shirt whipping in the wind, Lucien gazed at it with soft, kind eyes.
Lucien: The wind is risingâŚ
We must try to live.
Elex managed to erase Lucien and MC having an intellectual moment, and left out a foreshadowing about how the future stories are going to be. From the tutorial date itâs already hinting that this is not a fluffy dating game that many people were fooled to believe. This game is about the storm that is coming, about having to struggle just to survive, and how the characters have different values of what is right and wrong.
 Lucien is a firm believer of âsurvival of the fittestâ and âthe weak are the prey of the strong.â This is also the belief of Black Swan that Lucien/Ares is part of.
MC: Perhaps small acts of kindness can bring some warmth to the cruel world.
MC thinks differently however, she thinks even the weakest ones are doing their best to survive and gently encourages the little firefly to keep trying. And she feels sad that no matter what, some life are sacrificed to keep the world going, a notion that to Lucien was the law of life and felt indifferent about it.
Already this is more than a date. This is a clash of different values between Lucien/Black Swan and MC.
They think non-evolvers are weak and not fit to survive. They also think that 'the strongâ victimizing/manipulating/preying on 'the weakâ is justified. Black Swanâs values are similar to Social Darwinism. Instead of discriminating people. with race or gender they are doing it with evolver/non-evolver and 'weakâ evol/'strongâ evol.
But MC has a different opinion. She knows how to cry for the little firefly. She encourages the little one to keep trying.Â
âItâs getting windy. We must try to survive.â Same line from the poem, but Lucien and MC are interpreting it in an opposite way. Lucien thinks that the weak fireflies are not going to live long, MC encourages and helps the weak ones to fly. She tells Lucien: âPerhaps small acts of kindness can bring some warmth to the cruel world.â Lucien was thinking of individual struggle and competition, while MC thought of mutual help and coexistence.
Did Lucien think her too naive and idealistic? Do you?
If you want to see more of my Mr. Love Queenâs Choice analysis. I have tagged them under #mlqc analysis. Or look them up in Mr. Love Reddit.
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Oooo, interesting... I didnât know this at all, so this is something to think about. Lemme get back to this after getting past Chapter 7 đ
I was just thinking
What kind of relationship do Victor and Kiro have? Like Kiro doesnât know that Victor is the souvenir chef, or does he, but he still goes there religiously when Victor opens it. Victor obviously knows who this kid is, and how he goes there EVERY TIME heâs open, and letâs him eat to his heartâs desire, and knows how much money he has to spend on a meal, Victor youâre a billionaire stop, and he now knows that Kiro was the one to bring MC there cause of the waiter guy I forget names Iâm sorry. And I distinctly remember Victor freezing time when he went to MCâs studio at one point and he froze time and Kiro was there and was all like confusion and MC saw Kiro moving and wondered if he was an evolver. And Victor noticed it too but didnât seem to mind? Like do the know each other? Theyâre both like super rich so maybe they get along or have an understanding?? Their personalities are such vast opposites that I have to wonder. . . .
I mean, we see Victor and Lucien interact and thatâs such a Dramatic Dumpster Fireâ˘ď¸ I canât even. I think someone explained it as a clash of titans but I thought it was so fucking funny tbh. And kinda cool what whatevs.
We havenât seen Gavin and Victor meet yet but I think MC has mentioned Victor to Gavin and vice versa. And Gavin is always so defensive and Victor likes to attack so thatâs real easy to imagine.
In one of Gavinâs dates Kiro and Gavin meet and itâs not as dramatic as the Dramatic Dumpster Fireâ˘ď¸ but it can be explained as a cinnamon roll gathering.
But I havenât seen Kiro and Victor interact verbally like. . . At all??
So I wonder what that would be like or if they already know each other or something idk.
Discuss.
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