home
☆１月３０日☆
・ゼルダの伝説 スカイウォードソード (05:29 ⇒ 07:14)
I knocked down a wasp nest and got stung by a bunch of wasps but also I caught a bunch of wasps, so who really won. (I lost several hearts, so uh, probably not me. Hah.)
Anyway, I’ve made it about two-thirds? of the way through the forest temple and haven’t needed to consult a guide for it yet, so I guess I’m doing well.
I learned that there’s a quest where you help Pipit’s mother by cleaning around the house, and she pays you despite them not exactly having the money to do so, and Pipit finds out, and you apparently are given zero option to side with him or apologize or pay him back or anything. I’ve been rotating an idea for a fic where you do while trying not to yet because I don’t know the details of the quest, I don’t even know when you get it, but I was thinking of making her disabled, since laziness doesn’t really exist the way people try to paint it as, and there’s usually something at its source—ADHD, depression, chronic pain, chronic fatigue… just to name a few. (The posts I saw kinda painted it like she was just being lazy.) But it seems she likely is! If you sit down on one of the chairs inside the house, she says, “あら、リンクちゃん。疲れちゃったの？？ わかるわぁ、その気持ち…… おばさんもいつもそうだもの！ ゆっくりしていってね。”
I don’t know how the quest is written, but I know the situation definitely isn’t as clear cut as either Rubia or Kikoa being in the right and the other being in the wrong. Yes, she needs help, and yes, they don’t have the money to hire that help. So it feels kind of scummy that you have to side with her without considering Kikoa (your friend and reliable senpai!)’s feelings on the matter and that he does have a point. They’re both right, and you should get to choose—and, ideally, have a third option where you acknowledge that they both have a point.
Also Kikoa would totally feel guilty, wouldn’t he. He (I imagine) joined the academy in part because of the salary; there’s money and status that come with being a knight that would allow him to give his mother a better life. Except it also takes him away from her. He used to be the one helping her with the housework (うちのキコアは学校でもがんばってるかしら, implying he also worked hard at home), but between class and training and his duties as a fledgling knight (and his night patrol shifts which apparently aren’t standard and he picked up for the extra money), he can’t physically be there for her the way he wants to. If he weren’t a knight, she wouldn’t have felt the need to hire someone since he’d be there to help her, but also they’d have even less money, and since he is a knight, they will have the money to hire help, just… not yet.
Anyway the fic idea turned into a fake dating one. After the confrontation and apology, Link does still want to help when he’s on Skyloft, but Kikoa finds the whole “Link accepting payment from Rubia and then giving it right back to him” thing exasperating and needlessly convoluted and tries to talk his mother into letting Link help out for free, but she’s stubborn and won’t take no for an answer. Well, Link wonders who she would let help for free, but barring family (of which they have none), it would probably only be the person Kikoa’s dating—which, he’s not currently dating anyone and he’s also not gonna ask someone out for the express purpose of conscripting them into free labor. Link latches onto the idea and suggests they tell her they’re dating. They plan to leave it at that (Link’s my boyfriend so please stop giving him money, and then never bring it up again), but they end up actually having to play the part, like with Link joining them for dinner when he’s on Skyloft and Kikoa’s eating at home, and stuff like that, but they find that it starts bleeding into their daily lives as well as they start falling in love for real.
Bonus points if Kikoa had thought he was straight before all of this and realizes he’s not during one of their dinners and then has to pretend he’s not having a queer crisis in front of his mother whom he’s already come out to as bi lmao
January 30th 
though I suppose I can’t justify buying more until I’ve read a few of the books I have..
The first book you finish is such a wonderful milestone - you should be super proud of yourself 
Home post
Seems like optician and optometrist aren’t the same in Japan like they are in Norway. Now, I haven’t been to any eye specialists in Japan so I could be wrong, but I get the impression someone working at a glasses store (optician) over there only do refraction and make glasses for people, whereas they don’t really handle the ocular health part like an optometrist would do. For that I get the impression you have to go to a clinic. Though I could be wrong.
: 12 manga vols, 1 LN | 
Case 1/5 COMPLETE
this is why I’m learning the language after all.
31
Finished!
