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Anastasia "cuddly lion pit" ([personal profile] constellates) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-03-05 04:20 pm

russian intensifies

[When you wake up on this fine morning and check your Retrospec feed, you'll find... Russian spam? It begins - ]

Доброе утро. Меня зовут Аня. [ - and it continues on from there, resulting in a full paragraph.

For anyone who can read Cyrillic, they'll find the following message: Good morning. My name is Anya. Is anyone able to understand this? I recognize it as Cyrillic, as Russian, however I don't recall ever being able to speak this language. I woke up and suddenly it's all I knew. If the people on here remember horses, maybe they remember me speaking differently? Properly? Maybe? Please let me know.

In an entirely separate text, she tries again. In two more languages.]


おはようございます。私の名前はAnyaです。わかりますか?これは日本語です。でも昨日でAnyaは日本語を話しません。

[ - and that also goes on. An English message, with the same approximate fluency level as the Japanese, to explain the whole situation is finally provided at the end. Third try's the charm?]

good morning. my name is anya. i am sorry to try again but i am confused. today i know how to speak russian and japanese. the russian is easy but the japanese is harder. english is also harder now. even though yesterday i only spoke english?

??? why?

if the people here remember horses do they remember the anya that did not know russian? please help. please. thank you.


[ ACTION ]

[ a: авария

Normally Anya is full of life. There's a skip in her step, there's a smile on her face, there's a whole-hearted willingness to tackle the day and everything that it brings her. It was easy to call Anya cheerful and friendly.

That doesn't appear to be the case anymore.

She avoids her friends. She ducks her head and doesn't make eye contact at school. She doesn't open her mouth to speak once, brows furrowed and lips pressed into a thin line.

Yet with her head bowed as it is, it's hard to steer clear of others, isn't it? Which is why she bumps into you - somewhere. She still wanders, even if she isn't at her best. Whether it's at school, at the dance studio, wandering around the city, she seems to have accidentally run right into you.

Startled, she exclaims in smooth Russian:]


Извините! [Then her eyes widen and she seems to pause, having to take a sincere moment to recall the words she's looking for. Even now, a distinct Russian accent colors her words.] Ah, um... I'm sorry...

[There's no helping the sad, defeated look on her face - but Anya is still a very gentle girl. Even though she wants to be by herself, she finds herself looking up to whoever she ran into uncertainly.]

Are you okay...?

[ b: секрет

Distracted as she is, Anya isn't really noticing any of the secrets that are posted around today - or her own. So there's a neat little sign posted on her back, whether it's detailing something small like:]


i ) Anastasia sometimes sneaks out to climb the rooftop of her house even though her mother has told her not to.
ii ) Anastasia used to be a cheerleader.


[Or something a little bit more telling like:]

iii ) Anastasia doesn't like to be left alone.
iv ) Anastasia is too scared to be an idol anymore.


[ ooc: anya's regain was her canon language tick! an example can be found here! complete with sprinkles of Russian and accent. an additional note is that if you hover over the different alphabets, the exact translation should come up! AND FINALLY, Anya's hair used to be the lightest shade of the blonde in the world - and now it's gone full silver, but that's the least of her problems.]

[personal profile] appraiser 2017-03-08 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ryoji will be her energy and cheer until she returns to her usual self and outshines them all. In the meantime, he hugs her back, tight as he can as if he could physically transfer all of his fluency in English... because crash course in learning Russian is full on English ban, no more English! ]

Anya... мой друг. Я люблю Anya!

[ there it is... ]

[personal profile] appraiser 2017-03-10 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ryoji has no idea what difference the word creates, but if it made Anya laugh, then he does too. His self-imposed rule of no English makes it hard for him to communicate exactly what he wants to say, but it's a ban he can lift whenever he wants, unlike Anya who is stuck with what she knows and learns so he stick with it... with only a little bit of cheating by the means of hand gestures because look, gestures are universal. ]

Поговорим потом? [ He holds his hand to the side of his head, thumb to his ear, pinky below the chin like holding a telephone. ] Школа?

[ And a gesture to her backpack, because after that broadcast this morning, he's sure Anya's classmates would be worried over what happened and even more so if she fails to turn up for class. Be a good student and don't skip school! If you think full lectures in English will make it hard, missing entire days will only set you back, Anya, don't mess up your academic future just to talk to Ryoji :( ]