Chapter 5
? I’m-holding-an-everstone levels of never ever!
This is another complicated one, and one that we actually did adapt rather heavily for the English rendition! Hitomi’s original line here is a play on words revolving around the Alltrades Abbey from the Dragon Quest franchise (or the Daama Shinden, in Japanese). The exact function of the Abbey varies slightly from game to game, but broadly speaking, it allows you to change your characters’ archetypes (or vocations, to use the in-game parlance).
For our purposes, however, keeping the reference perfectly as-is wasn’t a great option since “Alltrades Abbey” just doesn’t slot elegantly into the sort of wordplay we could use in this circumstance. Since the exact nature of the reference wasn’t really as important as the idea that Hitomi was babbling out a piece of very nerdy, semi-nonsensical reference humor, we decided to shift gears and use a different piece of archetype-changing-adjacent JRPG terminology—everstones from the Pokémon franchise—to hit the same broad notes in a manner that much more convincingly fit into English-based wordplay for the line.
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