A Guide to Eorzean

[byheartandblade]

[ Syhr'd been fortunate enough to Echo the information correctly enough to infer, she believes. So she's going to do this for others there. ]

Eorzea is my world. So I figured I'd give a quick guide so you lot can understand what's being said.

Ilm seems to translate to inch.
Fulm would be foot.
Yalm is yard.
Malm is mile.

We use bells, not hours.

Our year is about three hundred eight-four suns.
Suns are days.
Moons are months.
An epoch is a measurement of twelve years, as opposed to a decade.

We say nameday instead of birthday.

Onze instead of ounce.
Ponze instead of pound.
Tonze instead of ton.

I can answer any questions you have, if you have them.

Comments

[whiteofcrime]

[ Kaito knows a lot of things but the date of metrication for one specific country is not amongst them unfortunately. ]

Really? What year are you from again?

[angel_of_death]

1944. Try not to panic if you're Japanese.

[Because, yes, that year puts him firmly in World War Two, where, yes, his country is at war with Japan. He's had that conversation before.]

[whiteofcrime]

Why would I panic? I might be Japanese but I'm from decades after that war. If you were going to attack me or anyone else for being Jap you'd have done it by now.

[ Basically: to hell with time periods; Walter has not presented as anything other than a genuinely nice guy. In his own way. ]

[angel_of_death]

I appreciate your vote of confidence.

[He does, really. Not having a close coworker suddenly worked up over that information is really good.

Granted, if Kaito ever called him a "nice guy", Walter would probably immediately check him for signs of fever or overexposure to the sun. And then possibly for signs of possession. Just in case.

Primarily for the sake of teasing, naturally.]

[whiteofcrime]

I believe in my friends and I consider you a friend, so.

[ He is possibly too trusting for his own good but... Trust before suspicion. That's his belief. ]

[angel_of_death]

[Well, he certainly wasn't expecting that. It takes him a good while to respond on account of it, because, frankly, he doesn't quite know how to respond to it.]

I can only imagine the look on the faces of my co-workers back home when they find out. They'll probably think I've finally gone completely mad.

[whiteofcrime]

What, for having friends? You're not THAT much of a loner are you?

[angel_of_death]

Let's just say I'm used to a certain degree of isolation back home. It's just the way things are.

[On the upside, he's made actual friends here in this world. So the world that a lot of people seem vexed by... isn't so bad to him. It's a fixer-upper with a couple of assholes that need to be removed from the equation if at all possible, but it's not totally unsalvageable.]

[whiteofcrime]

[ Unexpectedly, he finds himself empathising with that. He has friends, but only one or two whom he can trust with his personal worries - and his mother isn't one of those. ]

Do you consider anyone here a friend? Doesn't have to be me.

[angel_of_death]

I've [There is a second of hesitation to his writing that anyone watching at the time will be able to notice.] made a few friends, actually.

[Hence why he made the quip about his co-workers thinking he'd gone insane if they found out. Not one, but multiple friends? The very idea would have seemed ludicrous to even him a year ago.]

It's [There's another pause.] different.

[whiteofcrime]

Different because you're no longer on your own?

[angel_of_death]

[He's not exactly sure what Kaito means when he writes "on your own". He didn't exactly live alone.

Maybe it was one of those normal people things.]

Just different. I don't know a way of explaining it that doesn't involve me going into the details of my background.

[whiteofcrime]

If you don't want to here then I won't ask.
As long as it's not a bad different, that's the main thing.

[angel_of_death]

It isn't a bad different.

[whiteofcrime]

Good.
Now that we've settled that, we should all have a house party sometime. ^^ As your friends.

[angel_of_death]

[Yeah, he's going to stare at the page for about a solid minute. A house party? As friends?]

I suppose doing something lively will help improve morale.

[whiteofcrime]

Yep! We're overdue a bit of fun after everything that's happened.

[angel_of_death]

I won't disagree with that.