Part 71: Diluted Symbolism
nothing important coming out of cinna's mouth
as usual
"'GUYS I'LL BE RIGHT BACK I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE SHE IS' gee do I have some egg on my face now"
"Boss! Have you found Holly?"
"I think I saw that chick..."
no baku we don't know, we don't all have hawaiian creole english levels of precognition
"Da kine," which I'm sure at least some of you have heard before, is the HCE generic stand-in word. It can be used to describe a word on the tip of your tongue, but it tends to just take the place of an inferred term. It is all very contextual, but at the same time it takes a certain measure of familiarity with a speaker's tendencies because they might use it from the outset. It's all gleaned from locational and social cues and it's a very clever substitute, even if refined folk might find it to sound a bit crass.
Kauai HCE also seems to have a local variant of it that refers to objects, actions, and persons (but not locations) in which they use "stuff" instead, whereas in other variants of the creole, the same object would still be referred to as "da kine."
"Eh we go da kine (the beach)"
"Oh you mean like Kahului? (the liquor superstore)"
"Nah, like Keanae side (the beach). Too much trouble go downtown (the liquor superstore) first. Jus' bring 'um (alcohol) instead"
"Oh, okay, shoots, jus' come my house first, I follow you"
THAT CHICK
not shown: some 1970s "just missed 'em!" cartoon shit
"No you insensitive asshole I'm undead"
"Yup, I'm the man who abducted yer princess!"
"Let us forget about that. It happened a long time ago."
"No wonder women are runnin' the show here. Gwahahaha!"
"Then it is probably better for her not to return to this city for a while..."
"I thought she'd be back here, but I can't find her anywhere."
"Have you looked in the resting place?"
"... Y'mean like a bood-wah?"
"... There are a couple of favors I'd like to ask you...
If you see Princess Garnet, please tell her not to worry about Alexandria...
She must take care of herself first.
I'd like you to give something to her."
"You mean, like a deep-dicking?"
"You just couldn't resist, could you."
•••
"You can talk again!?"
"I've been thinking that I have to become a queen and bring peace back to Alexandria."
"My primary concern was how to talk and look like a princess.
That didn't change when my mother died and I was about to become a queen...
I only thought about how to look and act like a queen.
I don't think the people will accept me as their queen the way I am right now."
"Beatrix wanted me to give this to you."
"No, it's a giant red crack-rock. What do you think."
"The stone made a wish...
'I want to shine!'
The stone traveled from person to person, in keeping with its wish...
And now, it's shining in your hand, Holly.
If you're willing to make an effort..."
"There's no rush. The important thing is to have the desire."
"'Cause I don't care what the Internet says, Makie is the shittiest character to have in your party."
"The one that helped me make my last big decision..."
"You mean the one where we told you come up with a realistic Hawaiian name and you couldn't even do that?"
"Uh-huh"
"The one where you had three goddamn tries?"
"Uh-huh"
"No"
holy shit kilika's hair is unrealistically gigantic
... And an alternate link for those of us who enjoy self-flagellation
look game i know you're trying to make a point here about the hair and all
but like honestly hair clippings are messy and gross
The text is pretty hard to read because of the FMV compression, but it says,
"HILDAGARDE III
MADE BY
LINDBLUM
AIR CRAFT FACTORY"
AIRSHIP TIME FUCK YES
"it thought of your ugly face and it was so scared that it ran away"
yeah i like to listen to this song when i go driving so
"Holly! You can talk again?"
"Yes... I'm sorry I made you all worry."
"Short hair doesn't suit me?"
"It's hideous"
"You're so mean, Makie"
"No"
"Well we'll shoot from the hip I guess"
They're talking about Huihui, of course, but I could swear this is a reference to something in FF7.
