#lesson 0

The start of a 10 page intro to show how the twins entered the Devildom. I may decide to remake Lesson 0 someday, but for now enjoy this little series. The rest will be under the cut.

That’s a great question Higumom!! (  ^ ω ^) Actually, the perfect topic to start with, so maybe this is Lesson 0?

LESSON 0:  Japanese Honorific Titles

So, what’s the difference between –san, -kun, -sama, and all that?  They’re all different endings that you can attach on to names, and occasionally other nouns of position, like doctors or lawyers or even bakers!  They can be attached to first or last names!  Whether you use a first or last name actually depends on your personal relationship with the person you’re speaking to or about.

-san (さん) is the standard politeness level, and is like a conventional Mr/Mrs/Miss.  You can use this with just about anybody you meet once you learn their name without offending them.  Along with this, you would typically use someone’s last name + san if you just met them, and until they tell you to call them by their first name.  I add –san to everyone’s name when I talk to them <(￣︶￣)>

太宰さん • だざい • Dazai-san

敦さん • あつしさん • Atsushi-san

皆さん• みんなさん• Minna-san • Everyone (polite)

お客さん• おきゃくさん• O-Kyaku-san • Mr. Customer

You can even add –san to the word for a shop in order to refer to the owner!  

パンやさん• Panya-san • Mr. Baker (literally, Mr. Bread shop!)

本屋さん• ほんやさん• Honya-san • Mr. Bookshop owner (Mr. Bookshop!)

肉やさん• にくやさん• Nikuya-san • Mr. Butcher (Mr. Butcher shop!)

医者さん• いしゃさん• Isha-san • Mr. Doctor

Companies even use –san to refer to other companies, which is common on small maps in phonebooks and business cards. The ADA could be referred to as:

武装探偵社さん• ぶそうたんていしゃさん• Busoutanteisha-san • Mr. Armed Detective Agency!  ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

We can even use –san as a cute way to refer to an animal or inanimate object ^^

うさぎさん• Usagi-san • Mr. Bunny ／(^ × ^)＼

魚さん• さかなさん• Sakana-san • Mr. Fish or Mr. Fishy! 

-sama (さま) is much more respectful than –san and is often used by people in the business and service sectors to refer to their customers.  It’s often written on letters instead of –san, and you’ll see it often on Japanese receipts from just about any store!  Of course, you can also use it to refer to someone you really respect, if their position relative to you warrants it.  We also tend to use it to refer to various gods.

お客様• おきゃくさま • O-Kyaku-sama • Honored customer

皆さま• みんなさま• Everyone (honorific)

神さま• かみさま• Kami-sama • Honored God   (シ_ _)シ

-kun (君• くん) is more informal and is usually used by people of more senior ranking to refer to people of more junior ranking, or among male colleages, or between male friends.  You can certainly address male children with –kun attached to their name, or to close friends and family of any gender.  But it can even be used by males of more senior status to younger female employees!  This is why Dazai-san occasionally calls me Kyouka-kun ^^

鏡花君 • きょうかくん• Kyouka-kun

樋口君• ひぐちくん• Higuchi-kun <3

-chan (ちゃん) is also informal and shows that the speaker finds a person endearing or cute, and adds a sense of cuteness to the name (chan is cuter than san!).  Of course it would be rude to use this with strangers.  You can use it for babies, young girls, female friends, grandparents, and even young boys!  It’s very common for mothers to shorten their son’s name and attach –chan or –kun to it as a nickname!  It’ll eventually get dropped as the boy gets older, at least in public ^^  Atsushi-san always calls me this (≧◡≦)

鏡花ちゃん• きょうかちゃん • Kyouka-chan

あくちゃん• Aku-chan or  あっくん• Akkun (Akutagawa)

I’ll bet Gin-san used to refer to Akutagawa-san like that ^^  

It’s also used to refer to cute things and animals!!

猫ちゃん•  ねこちゃん• Neko-chan

-tan (たん) An even more cute version of –chan!! It’s like baby talk (widdle instead of little) and mascots often have it added onto their names.  Only used with young children in a family or among very close friends or family to add cuteness as a nickname.  Actually, all sorts of different endings can be made up to create a cute nickname  (*≧ω≦*)

-shachou (社長• しゃちょう) Company president.  In the working environment, it is very common to use your boss’s title when referring to them, or other appropriate titles to refer to other workers.  You can also use the title as a standalone as well, without attaching it to a name:

福沢社長• ふくざわしゃちょう• Fukuzawa-shachou •Company President Fukuzawa

部長• ぶちょう• Buchou • Department Manager

課長• かちょう• Kachou • Section Chief

会長• かいちょう• Kaichou • President/Chairman

-sensei (先生せんせい) Used to refer to people who have authority in a particular field of knowledge, like a teacher, doctor, artists, musicians, accomplished writers, martial arts leader, etc.  It can also be used as a standalone title without the person’s name! Kunikida-san would have been called this by the students in his math classes!

國木田先生• くにきだせんせい• Kunikida-sensei • Prof. Kunikida

-hakase (博士• はかせ) Does this one sound familiar to anyone?  I’ve heard it used by Ash in referring to his Pokemon professor in the new Alola anime ^^  Similar to sensei, but this should be used if the teacher has a doctorate’s degree to indicate much higher learning!  Like Sensei, it can be used as a standalone title.  Literally means Professor, whereas Sensei can be translated as ‘professor’ or ‘teacher’.

-senpai (先輩• せんぱい) Senior.  Used to refer to somebody of senior status (more experience) in a school, workplace, or club.  It can be used as a title on its own or attached to a name.

kouhai (後輩• こうはい) Junior, the opposite of senior, but you don’t actually use this one as a form of address!!  A junior would simply be addressed with their name + kun or some appropriate suffix!

tono (殿• との) Historical title used to refer to a feudal lord or samurai!  But mainly used in official documents and certificates now.  It becomes ‘-dono’ when attached to a name.

殿• との • Tono • Lord

信長殿• のぶながどの • Nobunaga-dono • Lord Nobunaga

-ue (上• うえ)  This literally means above, and gives a high level of respect.  It’s not really used anymore, but was commonly used to refer to one’s own mother, father, or sister when speaking to them.  I don’t think Chuuya-san uses this term to refer to Kouyou-san…

父上•ちちうえ• chichi-ue • Honored Father

母上• ははうえ• haha-ue • Honored Mother

姉上•あねうえ• ane-ue • Honored Older Sister

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You rarely use honorific titles to refer to your own self, unless you want to be seen as arrogant…

Oh, one final note, is that Japanese people rarely say the word ‘you’ when speaking to someone!  Unless, of course you’re deliberately being rude, or you don’t know the person’s name and absolutely have to refer to them in some way.  Normally, you use the person’s name plus appropriate suffix.  So if I was talking to Chuuya-san and wanted to ask him what he ate for lunch, I could say, “Chuuya-san wa nani o tabemashita ka?”, which literally translates to “What did Chuuya-san eat?”, which in English sounds kinda cute when you’re speaking directly to that person. A more natural English translation would be, “What did you eat?”

the ring

the well

the scratching

the nails

under the house

moving

In the garage

In a jar

trapped in plastic

trapped in brick

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a tunnel of darkness

the traveling through a waterslide

Into your space

crawling uphill

fighting water

wanting to go back

seeing people hind you change

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looking foward

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knowing something is kinda guiding me

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feeling fine

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the pixel I can protect

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joy

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Longer toughtful breaths

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would I actually say this out loud.

who would have the attention space for this

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a typical story with demons

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dirty laundry

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clean pixel

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Discovering my value.

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Discovering how to make the calculation

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discovering my value.

seeing it as a vector.

things I know i've grown

seed.

knowing where I started

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a different value not less

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only one.

of many

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describing it

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having something to share

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a type of product

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a pixel

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Idk joy

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honey

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being or nice or something

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attracting flies from nowhere

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seeing them in my space

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tears destrying them

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narcs

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not able to handle

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peroids

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and space

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like the bowling ball objects, my family

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bowling ball gravity

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so many mephors

physical spaces

putting the phun in physics

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being on the edge

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while someone else

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the tip

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antarctica

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shelter

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space coldness

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helping exist

below water

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submarine

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advance phyics

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this is a hard topic

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stay away

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hannah barberra framework of religious values

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keeping you in the dark

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samara

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name of our country after dropping the bomb.

what even happened.

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suidal tendencies

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scattering

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Islands forming

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middle of nowhere

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grandpa was there

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he made a

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something

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memecoin

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artifact

he found

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cribbage board made from a wing that crashed

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Pearl Harbor

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go fish

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I think you get it

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you.

three fingers pointing at me.

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I get it

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because I thought of it and wrote.

now you "get" to undertand it.

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feeling sheepish for taking up so much time

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sheep looking for direction.

which way to go sometimes

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sheep not being evil.

sheep never murdering

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sheep bunding together and stayingn in the grass in the shadows

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protecting thier water

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milk a cummy substance to nurse babies

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food broken down

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protein

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consumed

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water prodects

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liver and stuff

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writing out the water

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the image

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woder loving it

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swimming with the fish

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Iron

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great

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perhaps best burial

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feeling our ballon back to water

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looking to lemmings sometimes

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an axis a course

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blinds

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hidden directions

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warp zones

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warp toilets

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bidet

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cleaning your fecal matter.

ready for sex

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microbial tissue

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did you buy a bidet or paper

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a crossing

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obedience

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changing

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lines drawn

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calculous

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panic fear

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symbol

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maintaoin

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water striking taint

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I'm glad i'm a liberal

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I'm going to whipe that off with paper now.

thats a little wet.

Its throwing off my balance.

oh wait, why is it so dry.

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foreskin

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Is this an ecliipse.

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do they actually do it or is it fake.

whats the percentage

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sex feeling good no matter the looks.

whats happening

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stress.

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power

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unbalanced

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sex for sex and sextra credit

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sex trophy.

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you're number one. now take care of this thing

were not going to make it easy

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we conquered you.

but we have blackmailed people

people you'll never have contact with

contact

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electrical reference

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off

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no triangle

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our little electricity dot we turn off to see how things coagulate aroudn it maybe and we use it to sense depth and we talk secretly when we are scared out of instinct because we've been hunted before. by humans and other things. things surviving for more than just a pixel but a coagulated ivory tower. a dragon coming down

a whale. an entire econnonomy monolpoly. moneybags of proections

Illusions

harry potter blankets of protection

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Into this new strange closet.

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disconnecting from us

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bing boing

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needing

space

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needing your space to become less.

less volume in the news paper

fewer pixels with your name being formed.

formed to be scanned.

the brail

the pixel

our eye scanning across the brail

japan writing right to left up and down no gaps different grammer etc

ways to keep private on purpose at some point.

standardizing at random

rules still being learned

Info lost accidentally

not knowing it was lost

RPGMaker

- Beginner’s Guide -

Lesson 0:  Beginning and Opening Projects

This is written in and for RPGMaker MV. Generally speaking everything I’m doing in MV can be translated into another RPGMaker.

I will make a note when I do something restricted to a certain RPGMaker.

Before you do anything else you will need to know how to make a game in RPGMaker. I am also including how to open a file here because it might not be immediately clear how to do so.

Just to start you all off speaking in Japanese, this lesson will focus on how to introduce yourself in Japanese. Of course you’ll be able to expand your vocabulary from here as the lessons continue but for now let’s just learn the basics of how to present ourselves. はじめまして。わたしのなまえは _______ です。わたしは _______ さいです。いま _______ にすんでいます。どうぞよろしく。

Also finding a sewing machine has turned into a bitch of a project in and of itself even though we have a campus solely dedicated to interior design (though admittedly that is a major that is basically architecture and engineering, so.)