Drabble no. 2
May. 21st, 2004 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Look, it's fluff! Teeth-rotting sap! In Korean, no less!
A little bit of background: Angelette and I are fans of Hot-Blooded Woman, a manhwa being scanslated by JanimeS. It's shoujo on crack--the main character, Haji, is a local high school gang leader, known as the infamous Doberman. She prides herself on her power and status in the school and her reputation among the other gangs. She gets into a motorcycle accident on her way to a fight and ends up possessing the body of another girl, Aram, who is frail, beautiful, rich, (and a shallow, self-absorbed, little moron). Aram has a crush on Shinwoo, who's one of those oujisama rich boys so classic to the shoujo genre, but he despises her and tells her to wear glasses, put her hair in dorky braids, and generally look as ugly as possible, if she wants to go to the same school as him. Why she listens to him is beyond me, but she does all this and trails after Shinwoo like a little dog and ends up in a coma after attempting suicide. Anyway, Haji ends up possessing her body, and typically, is upset because now she finds herself weak and sickly. (I mean, this is a girl who can beat up most guys and likes to do three hundred chin-ups everyday to stay in shape.) She starts regaining her strength, dresses normally (and causes half the boys in the school to suddenly fall in love with Aram's natural beauty, although Haji's totally oblivious), and readies herself to challenge Shinwoo for position as the jjang (gangster leader) of the school. Shinwoo is naturally completely confused and ends up falling in love with her, not in the least because this new "Aram" seems utterly uninterested in him in a romantic sense. (Well, naturally, because Haji believes that one of the rules of being a jjang is to avoid getting involved with anyone until s/he turns eighteen.)
Anyway, finally, Shinwoo defeats Aram in a fisticuffs duel, once and for all, and she gives up on the jjang position. In the meantime, however, she's started to recognize, in her own hilariously muddled way, how attractive Shinwoo is ("he has a face that looks good from every angle"), and thus their pseudo-courtship begins. It's full of hilarious misunderstandings on both sides--Shinwoo is incapable of expressing his emotions, and Haji is just emotionally immature to begin with. (Then the whole series just gets a lot more twisted, and there's intergang politics and rape and messed-up childhoods and homicidal maniacs...Haji eventually returns to her own body, but she's lost all memories of her time as Aram.)
I wanted to write something creative in this drabble, but all I've really managed was to come up with a "typical" encounter between the two. Angelette asked for something humorous, and um, I tried, but it's hard to have the requisite dry wit in Korean. Actually, it's just hard, period, to write well in Korean--I don't have the wide vocabulary, and frankly, the style of Korean prose has very different standards and mechanics than English. I'm not even sure what would be good writing in Korean, just that this isn't it. Ah well, it made for good practice at least. I'll put up a translation eventually, so the rest of the friends list can boggle at how bland and boring my writing sounds when I switch languages. >_<
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aetherangelette
아람은 보통 사람 같이 거를줄 몰랐다. 식식한 목소리로 떠들면서 사람들이 자기를 처다보는지도 모르면서 아람이 뛰어 다니는 소리가 학교 먼 끝가지 들릴 수 있었다. 지금도 신우는 자기 책상에 앉아있으면서 그 소리를 알아듣고 마음을 준비했다.
"그래. 이번에 꼭 성공할거야." 주머니에서 거울을 끄내고 자기 얼굴을 살폈다. 왜 이렇게 힘들었지? 마직막 한번 자기 미소 짓는 연습한 다음에 거울을 도로 숨기면서 문을 처다 보고 기다렸다. 하나...둘...셋...인제 올 때가 됐는데...
"박신우!" 쾅! 아람은 문을 부러트리지 않고 여는 방법이 있다는걸 몰랐다.
신우는 고개를 들고 생긋 웃었다. "어, 아람아...안녕!" (성공!)
아람은 자기가 얘기하려는 말을 까먹고 한참동안 놀란 표종으로 신우를 처다봤다. 걱정하는 목소리로 무렀다, "너 어디에 머리 부디쳤니?"
신우는 금방 도로 얼굴을 찡그렸다. "뭐?"
"아! 얼굴이 보통 모양으로 도라갔네. 잠깐동안 정말 닭살 돋은 기분이었어."
(내가 웃는게 그렇게 이상하나?!) "그렇게 내 웃는 모습이 싫으면 딴 사람 찾아가서 귀찮게해."
"아니 아니, 그냥 그 순간 도안 너무 여자답게 생겨서..."
(여자?!) 신우는 차갑게 대담했다, "내 자존심 당하는게 재미있는 모양인데, 누가 마지막 싸움 이겼는지 잃어버렸군. 이런 쓸때 없는 수다나 떠들여고 왔으면 그만 나가 봐. 난 바쁜 사람이야."
아람은 그 말을 듣고 얼굴이 빨게졌다. (와, 화날 때 도 아라은 여전이 아름답지!) "미안해요, 짱. 그럼 이 종은 이제 가버리겠소."
(또 도망가잖아! 박신우, 넌 정말 바보...빨리 뭔가 더 말해봐.) "아...잠깐만..."
그렇지만 아람은 벌서 문을 닫으면서 딴 데로 뛰어가고 있었다. 신우는 한숨 쉬면서 고개를 수겼다. "야, 한아람, 그렇게 멍청해야되니? 나를 힘들게 하지말고 내 마음을 알아줄 수 없니?"
학교 어딘가 안에 아람의 밝고 식식한 목소리가 들렸다. 정말 그먼저 벙어리 같았던 아람하고 달랐다. 신우는 어떻게 아람이 그렇게 빨리 변했는지 아직도 이해 못했지만 그의 먼저 침묵 깨뜨림에 자기 마음이 자유러워진걸 알았다. 이 새로운 아람을 잃어버릴 수 없었다. 자기도 모를게 자연스러운 미소를 짖고 속으로 말했다, "하긴, 그런 멍청하고 순진한 모습이 정말 귀업지."
거울을 다시 끄내고 한번도 웃음을 연습했다.
Next up, Weiß Kreuz, forrimedragona. Let's see if I can manage to pull off a combat scene and Crawford's precognition at the same time! >_<
(Drabble requests are technically still open, by the way. Since my main two finals are over, I'll probably actually finish them more quickly now. I plan to spend my entire weekend writing and working on the Cloud skin. So yeah...even if you've requested already, feel free to ask again--if you want to see some more writing from me that is.)
...Tari
Look, it's fluff! Teeth-rotting sap! In Korean, no less!
A little bit of background: Angelette and I are fans of Hot-Blooded Woman, a manhwa being scanslated by JanimeS. It's shoujo on crack--the main character, Haji, is a local high school gang leader, known as the infamous Doberman. She prides herself on her power and status in the school and her reputation among the other gangs. She gets into a motorcycle accident on her way to a fight and ends up possessing the body of another girl, Aram, who is frail, beautiful, rich, (and a shallow, self-absorbed, little moron). Aram has a crush on Shinwoo, who's one of those oujisama rich boys so classic to the shoujo genre, but he despises her and tells her to wear glasses, put her hair in dorky braids, and generally look as ugly as possible, if she wants to go to the same school as him. Why she listens to him is beyond me, but she does all this and trails after Shinwoo like a little dog and ends up in a coma after attempting suicide. Anyway, Haji ends up possessing her body, and typically, is upset because now she finds herself weak and sickly. (I mean, this is a girl who can beat up most guys and likes to do three hundred chin-ups everyday to stay in shape.) She starts regaining her strength, dresses normally (and causes half the boys in the school to suddenly fall in love with Aram's natural beauty, although Haji's totally oblivious), and readies herself to challenge Shinwoo for position as the jjang (gangster leader) of the school. Shinwoo is naturally completely confused and ends up falling in love with her, not in the least because this new "Aram" seems utterly uninterested in him in a romantic sense. (Well, naturally, because Haji believes that one of the rules of being a jjang is to avoid getting involved with anyone until s/he turns eighteen.)
Anyway, finally, Shinwoo defeats Aram in a fisticuffs duel, once and for all, and she gives up on the jjang position. In the meantime, however, she's started to recognize, in her own hilariously muddled way, how attractive Shinwoo is ("he has a face that looks good from every angle"), and thus their pseudo-courtship begins. It's full of hilarious misunderstandings on both sides--Shinwoo is incapable of expressing his emotions, and Haji is just emotionally immature to begin with. (Then the whole series just gets a lot more twisted, and there's intergang politics and rape and messed-up childhoods and homicidal maniacs...Haji eventually returns to her own body, but she's lost all memories of her time as Aram.)
I wanted to write something creative in this drabble, but all I've really managed was to come up with a "typical" encounter between the two. Angelette asked for something humorous, and um, I tried, but it's hard to have the requisite dry wit in Korean. Actually, it's just hard, period, to write well in Korean--I don't have the wide vocabulary, and frankly, the style of Korean prose has very different standards and mechanics than English. I'm not even sure what would be good writing in Korean, just that this isn't it. Ah well, it made for good practice at least. I'll put up a translation eventually, so the rest of the friends list can boggle at how bland and boring my writing sounds when I switch languages. >_<
웃어라, 박신우!, for
aetherangelette아람은 보통 사람 같이 거를줄 몰랐다. 식식한 목소리로 떠들면서 사람들이 자기를 처다보는지도 모르면서 아람이 뛰어 다니는 소리가 학교 먼 끝가지 들릴 수 있었다. 지금도 신우는 자기 책상에 앉아있으면서 그 소리를 알아듣고 마음을 준비했다.
"그래. 이번에 꼭 성공할거야." 주머니에서 거울을 끄내고 자기 얼굴을 살폈다. 왜 이렇게 힘들었지? 마직막 한번 자기 미소 짓는 연습한 다음에 거울을 도로 숨기면서 문을 처다 보고 기다렸다. 하나...둘...셋...인제 올 때가 됐는데...
"박신우!" 쾅! 아람은 문을 부러트리지 않고 여는 방법이 있다는걸 몰랐다.
신우는 고개를 들고 생긋 웃었다. "어, 아람아...안녕!" (성공!)
아람은 자기가 얘기하려는 말을 까먹고 한참동안 놀란 표종으로 신우를 처다봤다. 걱정하는 목소리로 무렀다, "너 어디에 머리 부디쳤니?"
신우는 금방 도로 얼굴을 찡그렸다. "뭐?"
"아! 얼굴이 보통 모양으로 도라갔네. 잠깐동안 정말 닭살 돋은 기분이었어."
(내가 웃는게 그렇게 이상하나?!) "그렇게 내 웃는 모습이 싫으면 딴 사람 찾아가서 귀찮게해."
"아니 아니, 그냥 그 순간 도안 너무 여자답게 생겨서..."
(여자?!) 신우는 차갑게 대담했다, "내 자존심 당하는게 재미있는 모양인데, 누가 마지막 싸움 이겼는지 잃어버렸군. 이런 쓸때 없는 수다나 떠들여고 왔으면 그만 나가 봐. 난 바쁜 사람이야."
아람은 그 말을 듣고 얼굴이 빨게졌다. (와, 화날 때 도 아라은 여전이 아름답지!) "미안해요, 짱. 그럼 이 종은 이제 가버리겠소."
(또 도망가잖아! 박신우, 넌 정말 바보...빨리 뭔가 더 말해봐.) "아...잠깐만..."
그렇지만 아람은 벌서 문을 닫으면서 딴 데로 뛰어가고 있었다. 신우는 한숨 쉬면서 고개를 수겼다. "야, 한아람, 그렇게 멍청해야되니? 나를 힘들게 하지말고 내 마음을 알아줄 수 없니?"
학교 어딘가 안에 아람의 밝고 식식한 목소리가 들렸다. 정말 그먼저 벙어리 같았던 아람하고 달랐다. 신우는 어떻게 아람이 그렇게 빨리 변했는지 아직도 이해 못했지만 그의 먼저 침묵 깨뜨림에 자기 마음이 자유러워진걸 알았다. 이 새로운 아람을 잃어버릴 수 없었다. 자기도 모를게 자연스러운 미소를 짖고 속으로 말했다, "하긴, 그런 멍청하고 순진한 모습이 정말 귀업지."
거울을 다시 끄내고 한번도 웃음을 연습했다.
Next up, Weiß Kreuz, for
rimedragona. Let's see if I can manage to pull off a combat scene and Crawford's precognition at the same time! >_<(Drabble requests are technically still open, by the way. Since my main two finals are over, I'll probably actually finish them more quickly now. I plan to spend my entire weekend writing and working on the Cloud skin. So yeah...even if you've requested already, feel free to ask again--if you want to see some more writing from me that is.)
...Tari
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Date: 2004-05-21 06:11 pm (UTC)YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TROUBLE IT TOOK ME TO READ THAT?!?!?!
Graaaar!!!! (You should try to translate this in altavista... xD It's impossible! xD)
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Date: 2004-05-21 11:35 pm (UTC)...Tari
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Date: 2004-05-21 08:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-21 11:34 pm (UTC)...Tari
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Date: 2004-05-22 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-22 05:06 am (UTC)BTW, your affiliate-button is up. Sorry that it looks so sucky ><;; I'll integrate it better into the next layout, I promise -_-;
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Date: 2004-05-22 09:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-22 10:10 am (UTC)And the affiliation button looks fine, so no need to apologize. ^_^
...Tari
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Date: 2004-05-23 08:40 am (UTC)Can't really say much about the drabble either, since I can't read Korean.
Oh yeah, it might be just my browser, but those drag down menus in Have Faith aren't working properly for me...
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Date: 2004-05-23 09:35 am (UTC)I'll go check it out, but all I know is that it should work fine in IE 6.
And yes, one more convert! ^________^ I'll post up a translation for the rest of my friends list later today, but the manhwa is much better than my labored little drabble.
..Tari
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Date: 2004-05-23 09:44 am (UTC)