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My heart was yearning to see her again.

Actual Google results for “World’s Greatest Detective”:

So I’m Korean, and there’s this very rebelcaptain-y stuff ‘bout Rogue One Korean subtitles/dubs and I don’t think I’ve written about this on tumblr, so here goes:

“Welcome home” is kinda tricky to translate into Korean because there’s no distinction (not really anyway) between a HOME and a HOUSE. So getting the sentiment across by directly translating the sentence is kinda difficult. You could ~sort of~ pull it off, but the sentence would probably run longer, and you’d have to specify some stuff, so the end product would be something like “welcome to your (new) house”. The sheer length of it all on screen wouldn’t look so pretty (when matched to the short line of “welcome home”) and the specifications (possession markers like “your”) would look weird. And since we’re still keeping the word “house,” some might find the line out of place. (*home translates to 집 in korean, and the most basic meaning of the word -as in, the #1 definition listed on dictionary- is HOUSE.)

So what the super-duper people working with Disney Korea decided to do was to have Cassian say “I’M DIFFERENT [from the people who ran from Jyn obviously].”

Seriously, “I’M DIFFERENT.”

Not even a “WE’re different.”

It’s such a blatant self-appeal on Cassian’s part that I always go “OOH ARE WE ATTEMPTING AT A FULL ON ROMANCE NOW? (blush)(blush)”

Methinks somebody’s a shipper.

Jyn: “I’m not used to people not leaving me and not giving me up when terrible circumstances arrive upon me.”

Cassian: “This is what family does.”

When Cassian approaches Jyn with his mates to offer himself up, the conversation goes as such:

Cassian: No one believes you. Jyn: Well, thanks for that. Cassian: I’m different from them. I believe you.

He then goes on to the spiel about spies and assassins, stressing at the end not so much a “I couldn’t face myself,” but more of a “There’s absolutely no point in any of this if I just quit now.”

So then, in the dub, Jyn tells Cassian, “I’m usually on my own when things go bad, so this feels weird/different”.

Instead of “welcome home”, Cassian says, “You’ll get used to [the feeling] soon,” implying that he fully intends to stick around and be by her side whenever shit hits the fan.