Let's Play: Heavensward - Part 63 - You're Fired
Channel: Meowing Kittens
Date: 12/12/2017

In which the power of friendship prevails...and Alphinaud politely fires everyone.

One thing that is actually completely lost in the English localization is addressed here.  The twins are actually referred to pretty formally nearly all the time, even by the other Scions (which ties into why Alphinaud, pre 3.0, is so stuck up.  People literally treated them like they WERE better than everyone).  It's lost in English mostly by virtue of how our language structure works and things like honorifics and the like are all but non-existent in everyday speech. 

The only one who really keeps formal address is Urianger, and you can write him off by his general poetic form of speech.  It's one of the reasons earlier in the patch I was upset at Thancred and Y'Shtola for their apparent rudeness to Alisaie, because they DO keep the formal patterns in other languages.

Here, Alisaie speaks up and pretty much kindly asks everyone to knock that crap the hell off and treat them like the ordinary people they are.  What's funny is that in one of the languages, either French or German, Tataru's response to this is to reply to Alphinaud in the most intentional over the top form of politeness just to mess with him.  I wish English had a similar moment instead, because it gives a little bit more personality between the relationship between the two of them, which the game has kind of left hanging the entire expansion.  This is the friendship expansion, after all, show them with more friendly banter, game!

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