I'm a big fan of Janka ending up strangely functional, like when they're both so bizarre, violent, and mentally ill at each other that they come out the other side. And part of that is that I am, at heart, a sap and I like to torment my blorbos but I also like when they end up happy.
And the other part is that it's extremely funny to me to envision that people have been searching for a way to fix Zanka's personal problems for years. But somehow the only thing that's really, truly made a difference and gotten him to find the long term will to live is getting him a Raider companion and letting them fight each other like feral animals. Nothing else works. Literally just this. And it keeps Jabber busy enough that he does less crime!
Win/win, except for the part where Akuta has to live with this forever now.
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Fanart of mine and @macangst oc for Our Life: Now and Forever. Maybe the Our Life brain worms will finally release me and I can go a day without checking the tumblr tag. Their name is Amari "Marz" Kyng and they will romance both Tamarack and Qiu.
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I love Jabber who has the intellect and emotional intelligence of someone with a PhD in psychology but without the compassion to actually think/care about what he’s supposed to be doing with that knowledge.
This often results in him identifying immediately if someone is feeling off (Zanka is his most common victim)and trying to comfort them in increasingly unorthodox ways that have about a 20% success rate (either everything turns out fine or gets worse in the most horrible way possible) bc it is all kind of like an experiment for him.
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The way Mirrors by MossAndMycelium has me in a chokehold! This is a scene from Ch 11. I had to draw Jabber going through mental gymnastics as he's confronted by the truth, aka Semiu. If you have not read this fanfic yet, you gotta.
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Jabber is probably weirder about holding hands than any other form of intimacy because it means that someone would have to touch Mankira and he would REALLY have to trust someone for that.
The only relationship where hand holding comes last.
I really want some Waffle House so Heres my Janka fic idea where they fall in love at a Waffle House.
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Basically Zanka works at Waffle House and he picked up one of his coworker’s shift to get some money and escape his house because his parents suck. He’s already in a bad mood because he hates working nights and his parents got underneath his skin about school and all that jazz.
The shift starts off surprisingly smooth! The customers are nice and He’s getting tipped real good. Then Jabber walks in and he’s on straight BULLSHIT, and Zanka has the misfortune of being his waiter for the night.
Zanka is trying his hardest to keep his customer service attitude up but Jabber is ragebaiting tf out of him to the point where you can see a vein bulging out from Zanka’s forehead. But surprisingly, Zanka manages to stay calm through the interaction and gets Jabber’s order without blowing out a fuse. He brings Jabber his order and Jabber pays for his food, everything is going smooth again!
Until Jabber walks up to the counter and starts asking for refund because his hash browns are burnt and Zanka is like “I can’t give you a refund but I can make you some more.” But Jabber is like “no I want a refund.” Like I said before Zanka is already in a bad mood so his customer service personality breaks because who tf asks for a refund for fuckin hash browns??
So they’re arguing about these damn hash browns and it’s about to get really ugly, Jabber is getting more slick out the mouth, pulling up his pants. Zanka is rolling up his sleeves and taking his hat, getting even more reckless out the mouth.
Jabber makes a really offhand comment and Zanka sees red before jumping over the counter and lunging at Jabber. Its most Waffle House fight ever and theyre rolling around the floor and chairs are being thrown, it’s truly a Waffle House fight.
It’s gets broken up, Jabber gets escorted out of the building and Zanka gets pulls into the manager’s office. But surprisingly Zanka doesn’t lose his job so everything good. But after that Jabber keeps coming back the Waffle House to see Zanka because he beat Jabber’s ass real good and he can’t stop thinking about it. But Zanka hates his guts and is disgusted by him so he tries to ignore Jabber but that just makes him more annoying leading to another fight.
It’s a cycle, they flirt with each other in their own weird fucked up way before one of them ends up lunging across the counter. Btw Jabber is banned from the Waffle House but security sucks so they gave up on trying to make him leave.
Things continue like this for months and Zanka grows fond of Jabber, and he memorized Jabber’s order and what time Jabber comes in to bother him. Sometimes they don’t fight and they just talk to each other, learning more about each other’s hobbies and interests.
It’s growing more obvious by the nights that they like each other a lot but they’re idiots unfortunately and they keep dancing around each other.
Until one night, it’s another one of those nights where Zanka is in a bad mood and Jabber’s itching for a fade. The fight is messy, bloody and full of unresolved tension between them. Zanka has Jabber pinned up against the wall, staring longingly at each other. Jabber doing his usual smack talk and Zanka desperately wants to shut him up, so he kisses him before pulling away.
They stare at each other for a hot minute, processing what just happened before Jabber grabs Zanka by his hair and pulls him back in for a kiss.
This kiss is way more messier than the first one, they’re practically swapping spit and their tongues are down each other throat.
But Zanka locks in and pushes away because he realizes he just kiss his “number 1 enemy”and he did in front of everyone too cause they’re still in the fucking Waffle House 😭😭
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If you read all of this, thank you. I hope you find this nearly as funny as I do
i think its fucked up that jabber's speech is portrayed real thugified (and i use that word cause it is usually larp-y) in fics and zanka on the other hand is posh n bougie af, when zanka canonically speaks in The gangsta accent of japan
like im sure he's real polite southern boy (sometimes) dont get me wrong but in most panels he stars in, he sounds like you picked him straight from the swamps and he's pissed right up bout it. im kinda upset that the anime erases a lot of his accent (but i do like corey wilder do NOT get me wrong I love them)
the translators over at kodansha (which is the official translation i think) even gave him the fucking remy 'gambit' lebeau treatment in his debut. he dont speak like a bougie ass thats for sure
th- -> d-, you/your -> ya/yer, ending g-dropping, ending t-dropping, already -> ahready. yeah im dying on that louisianian zanka hill
pause imma yap about east asia because of course I am
[real quick preface, I am relating the japanese kansai accent to the chinese cantonese dialect cause I am a 廣西仔. take my shit with a grain of salt cause i aint japanese nor am I a weeaboo. also note that kansai-ben and kanto-ben is mostly mutually intelligible (hence 'accent'), but cantonese and mandarin aint (hence 'dialect'). also also note that these two are completely different languages with their own histories, im just making a comparison, dont chop off my head, 多謝晒]
one common thing about southern east-asia (specifically japan and china in this case) is that culturally, we all sound more gangster compared to the north. because our ancestors quite literally were gang members i fear. kansai has the yakuza, southern/guangzhou got the triad. even back then, both of those area were ultra well-known for pirates, and merchants (guangdong & osaka) so it was less court-like the way kanto-ben & northern/beijing mandarin was, and more trade. think bristol vs home counties
in general, to the standard accent/dialect, we sound more direct, harsh/rough, informal, emotional, uncultured/unsophisticated (but more melodic/rhythmic) etc etc. famous for being the 'every word coming out of you sounds like an insult' accent/dialects. in normal words, they think it's street as fuck.
[internally's a different story of course cause you live the language and it's home to you. the dialects are actually friendly as shit when you look past the hooting and hollering we do]
while i think in culturally american-centric translations they could be more bostonian (with the stereotype of Fuck You With Kindness), southern accents could also work even though it has the opposite Politely, Fuck You culture. cause classism, of course. I pin zanka as louisianian cause i think kamuatari's like japanese cajuns to the ground
all in all, im just a lil bit pressed about preserving some accent only cause both japanese and chinese dialects were all victims of 'one accent/dialect unity' rhetoric (標準語/hyōjungo & 普通话/putonghua). PLUS gachiakuta's central themes, I think its probably intentional that kei urana gave their japanese nobleman character a 'street' accent. (note: kyoto used to be the cultural capital of japan, so it might just be period-based. but still)
so yall go on and give zanka's speech some banjo if you can
also. I might make a post about id go writing both janka accents soon cause that seems to be a problem with fic writers. me personally I think jabber's english is more floridian. aka he's got a fuck-all general american accent. mixing aave, latin, coastal, southern all at the same time. currently reading through papers on that so ill report back to yall later
easiest way i can explain my vision is that jabber's a yo mama guy and zanka's a yer momma guy. every bit of that's important. also my general rule is that when the accents show (aka Not All The Damn Time), jabber still uses 'you' for you, but 'ya/yo' for your. zanka uses 'ya' for you, and 'ya/yer' for your. I think that tells you enough
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