Deep Burning Question

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

I am wondering, has anyone here read the light novels? I fell upon an entry on TV Tropes regarding them, and it blew my mind. I have burning questions and am illiterate in Japanese. Is there anyone out there?

And if this is not allowed, please do not hesitate to slap me. D:

I read on TV tropes that Laharl's Aunt Yasurl/Yasuruu is responsible for Laharl's aversion to busty women. What exactly did she do to him?! D:

Comments

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I haven't read all of the novels, but I read most of them pre-2009. Er, did you have a specific question about them, or something?

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

Ah, I do! THANK YOU! :D I shall PM it to you so as to avoid spoilers for people, is that alright? :3

[burnfist23.livejournal.com]

No, don't PM it. Just mark this for spoilers. I wanna know the answers to your questions too!

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

Asked and marked! :D

[nenena.livejournal.com]

A PM seems excessive to me. Why not just ask right here?

Edit: Oh, I see that you edited your post to ask the question. Okay! The answer is that Laharl just doesn't like her. That's why.

(LOL @ that question warranting a spoiler warning. ^^;;)

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the answer! ^w^ Very kind of you!

And here I thought it was something horrible! XD I'm glad it's just that!

[defade.livejournal.com]

Implied heavy abuse. Laharl's resistance to poison was thanks to her trying that trick on him a few hundred years ago. As Etna jokingly put it, "Thank your aunt~"

Laharl wasn't amused.

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

DD: So it was something horrible?! Where was his dad in all this?!

And thank you for the response!

[shadowdancer09.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. o.o Although that is kind of amusing XD

And, um, sorry if I'm bothering you by butting in like this, but I've been curious for awhile. Is it Vesuvio or Yasurl who is Krichevskoy's sibling? I mean, Vesuvio looks similar to Krichevskoy in some of the recent art of him, but at times it looks like Yasurl has the antennae.

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

Iunno man, abusing a little child, demon or no, is 32 flavors of wrong to me! D:

And but in all you want! I've always wanted a riveting discussion about the light novels!

My money is on Yasurl being Krichevskoy's blood sibling! I....don't really know my reasoning...XD;;

[shadowdancer09.livejournal.com]

Well, it's more the fact that Yasurl reminded me a lot of Etna in terms of looks, so the fact that she's pulling something like that... I guess part of it depends on the circumstances?

See, I've always wanted to know more about them, but can't find the information anywhere. XD And I don't know enough Japanese yet to be able to read much of anything, otherwise I'd grab them up for myself in a heartbeat. I especially would love hearing what kind of information they have on Mama and the whole Angel!Vyers thing, but considering how he's my favorite character... that's probably to be expected. 8D;;

I can kind of see it going either way. Though Yasurl being to Krichevskoy what Etna is to Laharl is kind of an amusing thought to me.

[nalina.livejournal.com]

Oh gads, yes, info on Gwen (Mama?!) from On Love would be EPIC to have along with wth Angel!Vyers. ;-;

[nalina.livejournal.com]

Oh snap... that is awesome! Thank you for the info. :D I've been wondering about that for years. |Da lol

[nalina.livejournal.com]

CLEARLY HE WAS FAILING AS USUAL. :|

I'm seriously of the opinion now, as much as Laharl's anti-love was formed from his mother's death, clearly Krichevskoy epic failed during this time as a father as well. lol

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

I know right?! How does a father not notice his son being abused?! He is such an epic fail parent, no wonder Laharl doesn't care! XD

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

I know! I want to read those novels like HNNNNGGHH. But Lolz, Japanese. D: They're just so awesome! Laharl's mom, his extended family, Ozonne, Jane... ; A;

[shadowdancer09.livejournal.com]

lol, not to mention the fact that his dad died before he even fell asleep and he was the only one who didn't know. Even the reasons. It seems like most of the vassals had SOME idea of how he really died (as in: not by food), Etna sans memories not included, EXCEPT Laharl.

[nalina.livejournal.com]

I'm almost to the point of being willing to offer my first born child for a translation of them. T___T

[nalina.livejournal.com]

Well, what the game does tell us is when the queen died, he split the earth in two... Soooo... it's reasonable to assume he was pretty entrenched in his own grief to give the attention his son so very needed. While he believes Laharl's answer of hate is 'a demon answer', there is certainly a sense there's more going on than just that, lol

*has clearly discussed this FAR too much with shadowdancer09*

[defade.livejournal.com]

Absent and in lala land. It was just a while after Gwen(Laharl's mom)'s death, so I guess he's off somewhere mourning or sth, haven't read to that part yet.

The main thing is, he left Laharl in care of his aunt....who pretty much thinks humans are lower than dirt and believes his blood is 'soiled'.

Yeah, horrible things ensued. Laharl is still suffering some trauma from it.

[defade.livejournal.com]

Haha.

I'll take that into consideration. Right now I'm drawn up in 2 major translation projects and university applications, so probably not anytime soon, but I've been thinking of doing snippets of it.

Until then I could answer questions? lol Keep in mind that I'm still halfway through the 2nd novel though. I read something about Laharl's mom in On Love - she was the wife of some king, IIRC, and she carried Excalibur(yes, that one) which attracted the attention of Sakura, a former angel general now maddeningly obsessed with collecting all kind of swords...I think she kidnapped Gwen to Netherworld and made her work for a few hundred years before Papa swept in. Lots of stuff happened, Excalibur ended up in Laharl's hands and he beats the shit out of Sakura for mistreating his mom by firing up Excalibur with 6~7 Omega Fires.

I've only read that part so I'm still in the dark about the detailed circumstances.XD

[defade.livejournal.com]

Vesuvio. He's K-man's younger brother.

[shadowdancer09.livejournal.com]

*scratches out amusement at attempted poisoning* That... wow. Just... wow.

[shadowdancer09.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay! Thank you!

[nalina.livejournal.com]

a;sdij;aa;s <3 I've been waiting years for more info on the novels... just these bits are AMAZING. Anything more even if I have to wait more years would still be amazing.

They looked interesting, but I had no idea they had THAT interesting a story. W-wow...

Lmao, I..I guess this answers about Gwen's (yay it is mama *A*) life expectancy... not that it explains it, but I guess she's like Marjoly or something. lol

Gosh... Laharl seeing his mom again... asiojd;a o.o If you ever do get to reading it, I hope you'll be around to give us the scoop. ^__^ Cause... man...