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Marcille Revealed in Five Keywords

5 keywords section from the Adventurer's Bible, this is transcribed from the EHScans translation for more info you can check this post. My own notes will be at the end of the post. All of these have spoilers btw

1. Family

Marcille's mother is an elf, and a mage currently employed by the royal court. Her father was a tallman who conducted historical research at the royal court. Marcille's father fell in love with her mother because she had personally experienced all the things in the history books he was studying, and he started making his moves at age 15. This continued until they married when he was 32. After he passed away of natural causes, Marcille's mother remarried to a gnome, and moved away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Incidentally, Marcille had a pet bird named Pipi when she was younger. The reason why she wants to eliminate the differences in lifespans between the races is largely due to the impact experiencing the deaths of her father and Pipi had on her at a young age.

2. Half-Elf

Born from a union between an elf and a tallman, Marcille is a mixed-blood race known as a half-elf. The reason why she kept this fact hidden from those around her was not due to an inferiority complex; rather, she felt that explaining her whole background would have been a hassle. By the way, one unique characteristic about half-elf ears is that they are slightly more rounded than elf ears.

3. Honor Student*

Marcille enrolled in the Magic Academy as a researcher. There, she conducted research behind factors causing sickness and injury; she was also involved in the creation of new healing magics. Marcille also was able to learn all the spells she used in the dungeon in a single day this required rather extensive knowledge and technique. Sadly, her party members are unable to comprehend how truly impressive this feat was.

4. Ancient Magic

The reason Marcille studied ancient magic was in order to eliminate the differences in lifespans between races. However, as ancient magic is also used to summon demons, ancient magic spells are considered taboo and its usage is heavily regulated.

5. Romance Novels

Marcille is a romantic type at heart, and is an avid fan of "The Daltian Clan"** series of romance novels. She's also constantly engrossed in the details of other people's love lives. When the party was attacked by succubi, Marcille's taste in beauty was put on full display; it's likely that the succubus' appearance was heavily influenced by her taste in romance novels.

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*It's translated as Honor student in the official english but Marcille is not actually a student but a researcher (as the description says) EHScans translated it as "Academic Prodigy" but the original text is "優等生" which as far as I can tell does directly translate as "honor student", my guess is that it means she's good at studying/learning, because it would be weird to actually mean a student at the school since it's specified that she was not actually a student in chapter 57. She says "私は生徒じゃなくて研究者だからね" (not a "student/pupil" [ 生徒 ] But a researcher [ 研究者 ] )

**EHScans translates it as "D'Arcian Clan" but I decided to edit it to match the official english "Daltian Clan" just for consistency, since that's how it's referred to in this blog.

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just watched Grian's video from yesterday where he ends it by saying that Cleo is gonna return any second now, but also Cleo just tweeted that they're still a hundred thousand blocks away, which results in the hilarious mental image of permit office!Grian standing in front of a nether portal for fourteen hours, occasionally looking at his watch and saying "aaany second now", entirely unmoving.

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

Things aren't great, and I'm a bundle of anxiety myself. But please keep hanging in there, ok?

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