#jupitertherevolution

i was wondering if you ever had kanji picked out for maya's name? the crazy shiratorizawa boys soccer captain. im workshopping a haikyuu oc team rn and have a character who i want to give the surname maya but i can't find anything good around. so i wanted to ask if you had some picked out that i could use as like a starting point or anything?

Ayy enjoy art school, that's awesome!!

I'm gonna be real with you... I based a lot of the names on actual members of japan's national soccer team, so "Yoshino Maya" comes from actual person Yoshida Maya, who now plays for the LA Galaxy 🙈 you can look at the kanji used on his wiki page as a starting point.

i don't know what that is :') i'm a fraud sorry

my nj italian voice is not the one on tv, and is more the white suburbanites who still make sunday sauce without a recipe. however pennylvania and virginia people have informed me you can hear it.

here is a list of italian things I say bad:

sfvee uh tell / sfvee uh dell = sfogliatelle

stroo fuh luh / stroo foo luh = struffoli

zepp oh la = zeppole (to be fair this is just that I say the singular instead of the plural like people saying "fish" over "fishes.")

tatos = totos/tetus which are apparently also meatball cookies

rih-got = ricotta

pro shoot / pro zhoot = prosciutto

min eh strohn = minestrone

pasta fazhool = pasta fagioli

cappa cohl / capp ih cola / cappy = capicola (I only say gabagoul ironically)

m uhtz a rell = mozzarella

ny oh key = gnocchi

bru shette ah (sometimes dropping the "ah")= bruschetta

pin yoh lee = pignoli

I am super aware most of those are incorrect in my time learning actual italian, but has just kind of stuck. I get the gist that's true for a bunch of people in my town and surrounding areas bc other people say it that way too. I also think this is regional bc when I finally met my dad's (staten island and brooklyn italian) family, they say it similar but different. i worked in an italian skewing deli / sandwich place and

(his eyes are white and his hair is black btw, i just did fun color stuff in the drawing)

here you go!! hope you like it :))