#translation buggery

‘Adult reputation’ or rather, ‘reputation among the adults’.

Just in case it needed emphasising why the translation choice of ‘public image’ and ‘celebrity’ was just plain bad.png

It wasn’t to do with his image. At all. 

That is but a side effect of his charisma. It’s to make things easier for him, for adults to accept him, for people to give him less of a hard time for his age and situation....

....as he alluded to before, even. 

Hell, he was empathising with Sae’s plight for the exact same reason- struggling to get by in the adult world. Needing to grow up. Needing to be smart, and cheat the game that you’re thrust in, lest deal with the cards you’re dealt.

Though he does talk about ‘his fame and trust vanishing’, that doesn’t change that it wasn’t the thing he held in the highest regard. He desired to be useful and reliable to adults, because for one, the second he’s not useful he’s ‘punished’ in some way, ruined or dead meat thanks to Shido (just in case that hasn’t been emphasised enough)....

..and for another, Goro wanted to be seen by Shido as worthy, and essential as his right-hand man. To change Shido’s cognition of him.

To not have to FEAR him.

That meant no matter what, Goro had to surpass everyone else before him. Every adult. Ergo, his reputation had to be airtight, and with that, he was constantly on the climb, thinking that he would at least get ahead of him, and eventually have him respect him. That he would one day pose an legitimate threat despite being an illegitimate child.

Expectation, on top of expectation. One task, one crime, after another. And it was all for naught - it simply wasn’t enough. And he realised too late.

Lookie here. This is the ‘honest beliefs cannot always get you through’ line.

This isn’t just about a competitive world, it’s about a world in which you are forced to grow up. The adult world. That’s what he’s saying....

One way or another, rebellion of the heart is pretty much the root of how the Metaverse costumes manifest. So this would have to do with his awakenings- his rebellious spirit and his resentment, both. These go hand in hand in both awakenings of course, but... at different intensities.

There’s something else about this word which is interesting, though. 

It can also refer to one having backbone and resilience, as well as spirit of defiance. The latter I suppose is where ‘contempt’ might have come from, but what I’m getting from this is, this rebellion was a spirit to not be crushed. 

Okay so... this was the ‘someone like that saying he’d support me’ line.

....I’m not seeing a ‘like that’ (dubious on its own..), but.. ‘like you’...? If that is so, and it’s referring to power, that is most evidently a reference to Goro’s Metaverse-using ability rather than the specific power of ‘rampage’.

Why?

(x) 'Dance’, huh... Just the word alone suggests 'in the palm of your hand' control and manipulation. And he ‘enjoyed it’ as well...?