Spoony?!!!

[mimi_sardinia]

"You spoony bard!"

Spoony? What is that suposed to mean? I supose I can be happy that it didn't get changed due to tighter translation but every time I have ever seen it I have always wondered what it's suposed to mean.

At least I know where it comes from now!

Comments

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

LOL Oh FFIV. Just wait until the "SCREEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAM" part. Lol. XDDDD I laugh my ass off at that part EVERY TIME I play the game.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Ooooo-kay... I'll watch for that.

Edward is such a wimp anyway, he's weaker than Rydia is at the moment and it gets annoying when he runs away before I can use a Cure spell on him.

I had to replay from the Water Cave save point and backtrack to Kaipo anyway because I didn't have enough potions the first time. Blew all my money on potions, pheonix downs and tents. Gil's easy to make anyway, getting more MP? That's the hard part!

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

It's not until much later in the game. Probably about 17 hours into it. (The game's not very long. I can beat it in 19 hours... which is a shame because I love it so)

BUT... no matter how much I am in love with that game, there are a lot of times when you're in a party with Dumb and Dumber, and no matter what, Cecil does all the work, lol. I.E. Right now when you are in a party with Cecil, Rydia and Edward. Although Rydia has black and white magic, it really doesn't matter because, like you said, MP is a pain in the ass. MOst of the time, I just allow her to fight, cheer when she does 1hp damage, and then have Cecil do the 250 damage to kill the fiend. >.>

Then there are times when you're like, "YAY NEW PERSON IN MY PARTY... and you are JUST as useless." >.> That happens quite a few times. You'll see what I mean, lol.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Tents are a godsend, but I think I will be missing Tellah and his Fire spells (until Rydia gets over that issue - I just read part of a plot analysis) and his nice high MP too.

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

It's so funny because I played FFIV again after playing X and X-2, and then I was like, "Oh yeah... GOD I miss savespheres and their 'yay touch me and i will heal you!' abilities..."

WHere exactly are you? Are you at Damcyan yet?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I'm just about to head into Antlion's Cave for the Sand Ruby.

I got this far my first time but I was hurting like hell because of no potions and no MP - didn't realise Edward's Heal ability wastes potions (oh Eru, he's like Larsa in that repect!). Hopefully I'll do better this time since I have a better potion supply and I know how to hit multiple targets with spells.

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. One thing that amuses me out of that game... is it's always Cecil saving Rosa. He's so busy trying to rescue his damsel in distress that he gets sidetracked from saving the world. It amuses me so. :D

....it just irritates me how little you can play with Kain. I love Kain so much... and it's like... *sigh* Woe is me.

Edward just usually attempts to fight whenever I have him in my party. And Hide. He's good at that. >.>

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I really want to get to know Kain - if mainly because he's first choice for Bahamut. Besides, what I do know of him, thanks to Wikipedia, he's damn interesting - moreso than Cecil seems to be shaping up to be.

Scratch my idle thought about Cecil and Rydia, I poked FF.net and found a C2 for Kain and Rydia. That's a pairing that sounds interesting!

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

The only problem is that you don't get to know him all that well... or what you do get to know is limited. He is just such a fascinating character, and the further you get into the game, you will see it.

.... I'm a homewrecker. I like Kain/Rosa. Or... unrequited Kain/Rosa since Rosa/Cecil is canon. Then of course I am madly in love with Kain/Valvalis. *see icon* :D

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Heh, homewreckers the both of us! I'm not really a bit fan of canon pairings in general - something my last post brought up - the pairing meme (though I filled out all five, I felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel by using Cid/Shera, Mickey/Minnie, and a bloody Baldur's Gate PC/[romancable NPC] pairing).

I've heard of Valvalis, but it will probably be a while before I actually see her, considering I seem to be getting in, at most half an hour's play a day.

Maybe the impression I get of Rosa being a typical damsel in distress is putting me off her a bit. I like female characters that have a bit of strength to them instead of just mooning over the protagonist.

Plus I think Larsa's had another side effect on me, he's shoved my tolerance for chan up higher than it's been since I left the HP fandom.

[thesoulwithin.livejournal.com]

I'VE SEEN THAT MENTIONED BEFORE And in a game very similar to FF4, nonetheless

"There'd be hundreds, that, those who'd gone attending the big fete. But if you count the spoony bards...that's a different matter altogether."


Oh god. WTF!?


'tis probably no more than a dirty term for...err, someone dirty?
OH AND I FORGOT:
Hi.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Possibly. It sure looked like Telleah was using it to be insulting.

The only place I've really seen it is in icons - usually Demyx ones so I'm presuming FF fans borrowing the phrase.

[thesoulwithin.livejournal.com]

Haha.
I'm assuming it's some form of censorship Square made up, since the only other places I've seen it on is FF2 and FF12. Wonder how that'd sound like in Japanese XD

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Maybe the phrase got reused by the translators out of sentimentality - I'm sure anyone who knows it previous usage would be amused to see it in FFXII.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I found an explaination for the "spoony bard" line on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Chris_von_Muir) -

(and the word "spoony," which means "enamored in a silly or sentimental way" is used more or less correctly here)

Interesting to note however that the rest of the scene has far more insulting speech - if you analyse the japanese. Most of the time that Tellah says "you" in the scene, the japanese word used there is "kisama" - apparently the rudest way of saying "you" in japanese - akin to saying "you bastard" or "you son of a bitch".