video; un: jean | Business

[rustyhonesty]

[Magic is being weird, so Jean has floofy German Shepherd ears on his head. Clearly he's just doing this for this particular promotion and not accidentally though. Yes... that's what it is.]

So this is a weird time to start a business, but since I'm ready to open it anyway. Besides, it might provide something nice to do?

[Anyway... he clears his throat.]

I'm opening an agility place for animals named Barkour. [He looks sort of embarrassed by the name, but he's trying his best not to show it. Though his ears kinda go down when he says it.] It has indoor and outdoor facilities and is designed for all sort of animals. It's also a good place for any animal mages to come and practice their magic.


[And there's one more thing. A moon rabbit kit can be seen in front of the camera, photobombing Jean. Hello! What is this? Sniff sniff. Shake shake... gnaw?]


... please come help me with the moon rabbit kits, they're everywhere and won't listen to a thing I say.


[A good start for his business: the moon rabbit kit season.]



[ooc: info on his business. Might do a log later this month.]

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[starshaper]

[... Oh. She's somewhere between calming down from laughing and sighing at how he still doesn't know that.]

I guess I never told you, huh?

[rustyhonesty]

Never told me what?

[What secret is he about to find out? Is Usagi actually a moon rabbit disguised as a human?]

[starshaper]

[It's not even a secret! But you know what, that's close! Besides she kinda is that here with her animal magic!]

The meaning of my name! It's Japanese because I'm from Japan -- Tsuki means moon, Usagi means rabbit and when you say Tsukino Usagi there, it means Rabbit of the Moon. So apparently this world couldn't resist the joke of giving me Mochi the Moon Rabbit as my familiar~!♥

[rustyhonesty]

[Oh. It was a name thing. He thought it would be something a little more exciting.]

Do all Japanese names have meanings like that, then?

[starshaper]

[It was supposed to be funny???? Amusing?????]

Most of them if not all of them, yeah.

[Wait wait wait, she can think of something, that will excite him, so Usagi winks at Jean!!]

Do you already know what Mikasa means~?

[rustyhonesty]

[Wait what? Jean's ears perk up.]

Her name is... Japanese? And has a meaning?

[starshaper]

[Usagi is so surprised by those questions! Blink, blink, almost dropping her phone!]

Wait, what you didn't know any of this? How-- Oh, you don't have Japan where you come from?

[But also her eyes kind of look excited about telling the next part to him??]

Mm, yes, her name is Japanese and mm-mm, Japanese names can be written in various ways with our writing system called kanji, or that's the most complicated part of our writing system, and names have different meanings depending which kanjis are used to write the name. There are pleeeeeeeenty of kanjis and other name meanings for her, do you want to hear~?

[rustyhonesty]

We don't really have names for places, except for villages, towns, districts. I don't even know what the "country" I am is called, or if it even has a name.

[His world is weird, okay.]

Sounds complicated... but I'd like to hear them, yeah!

[starshaper]

... Oh. Right, that... Come to think of it, that doesn't really surprise considering what I've heard of it by now.

[That Titan World sure is one of the worst ones... Weird too, but it all just makes her wish she could help them as Sailor Moon.

Ah, moving on from depressing topic??]

It's complicated, kanji can be so hard to learn but then you start looking at it like it's pictures and then maybe you have easier time to remember it... But I bet it's also really fun time for parents to come up with name meanings for their children with them!

Okay, first of all we had Battleship Mikasa, which was a real battleship once upon a time -- but we also have Mount Mikasa, that's part of mountains, where its name means bamboo hat because the mountains look like three bamboo hats.

Mi is really common in names and most of the time, I think, people write it so that it means beauty. But it can also mean fruit and kindness! Sometimes it also means progress.

[She smiles. She's seen Mikasa, she's beautiful.]

Then you continue with kanji for ka from that and it has meanings like beautiful, lovely, summer, incense, flower, song, among some others, that I really can't remember right now.

And sa means things like bloom, sand, vividness, color, help someone... But we can also write her name with two kanji only and then the meanings would be something like three shade, beauty formation, beauty umbrella.

[She also sends all of those as text to Jean, so that he doesn't have to try to remember all of these nor go back on the video to hear it all again.]

So which ones are you favorites?

[rustyhonesty]

[Jean appreciates the text and all of this information and just absorbs it like a sponge since it's about Mikasa and all. It would probably be fascinating even without the additional Mikasa bit, but because it was about Mikasa's name it as even more so.

A lot of things about beauty. That is very appropriate. Many of the other words fit very well as well and Jean thinks about the various combinations in his mind.

... but when asked.]

A-All of them?