This is a prologue to my multi-part fic about Wufei's past, starting early-on, ending shortly after Meiran's death. If you like Wufei read this! If you don't then you'll probably hate this...
Prologue: Five
By: Khali
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Names are a big deal for we Chinese. Honestly, Wu Fei (or Wufei as I am now more commonly known as) is a strange name. To those with a shallow knowledge of my native tongue, who know basic words, but not necessarily the different stressing, Wu Fei might seem fairly normal. Wu, can sometimes mean 'military', a common character for a boy's name, and the Fei in my name means 'to fly', not so common, but still normal. However, my name uses Wu that means the number five. Numbers are very strange characters in a name. And my gundam being 05, well, it makes my name seem so auspicious (or inauspicious) that a fortune teller would be proud.
Of course, when I was young, I was jealous of my friends who had more 'normal' names. My best friend as a child, De Xiong, was a prime example. His name, 'virtuous hero', was the kind a Chinese boy could be proud of. It wasn't an awkward and unusual name like Wu Fei. Or Tou Han for that matter. Tou Han was a friend of mine as well. His name meant, 'to pass through' and 'writing'. He was proud of his interesting name, however. He argued that it connotated determination and intelligence.
Now, I have grown to love my name. It's odd how names seem to effect the way a person really is. Always I will consider De Xiong to be virtuous and a hero, and Tou Han was excellent at writing and could pass through anything in life. And me, Wu Fei, the fifth of the Gundam pilots, ones who fly, so to speak. I wasn't always sure about girls' names, though. They were always pretty and floaty, but seemed to hold no real value. Ri Mei, 'sun plum', and Yue Ying, 'moon flower', were two girls I remember from school. And of course, Mei Lan [1] was 'beautiful orchid'. Yet there is something so poetic about a Chinese girl's name, they are so beautiful.
At seventeen I often find myself yearning for the childhood that I was torn from only a few years ago. Training with friends I had known since early childhood, going to school, playing, fighting. I wonder, to myself very privately. who still lives [2], where they are. For now, I only have memories.
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Geu man (Finish in Korean ^_^)
[1]- I will use Mei Lan, (not Meiran) which is the proper Chinese pronunciation
[2]- In the series, Wufei's colony, L5, was destroyed; however, I think it is possible that some of the people would have escaped
If there's any errors with my Chinese, please tell me. Other than that R&R!
Next: Wufei's first day at school! Cute chibi-ness! Yaaaaaaaay!
Prologue: Five
By: Khali
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Names are a big deal for we Chinese. Honestly, Wu Fei (or Wufei as I am now more commonly known as) is a strange name. To those with a shallow knowledge of my native tongue, who know basic words, but not necessarily the different stressing, Wu Fei might seem fairly normal. Wu, can sometimes mean 'military', a common character for a boy's name, and the Fei in my name means 'to fly', not so common, but still normal. However, my name uses Wu that means the number five. Numbers are very strange characters in a name. And my gundam being 05, well, it makes my name seem so auspicious (or inauspicious) that a fortune teller would be proud.
Of course, when I was young, I was jealous of my friends who had more 'normal' names. My best friend as a child, De Xiong, was a prime example. His name, 'virtuous hero', was the kind a Chinese boy could be proud of. It wasn't an awkward and unusual name like Wu Fei. Or Tou Han for that matter. Tou Han was a friend of mine as well. His name meant, 'to pass through' and 'writing'. He was proud of his interesting name, however. He argued that it connotated determination and intelligence.
Now, I have grown to love my name. It's odd how names seem to effect the way a person really is. Always I will consider De Xiong to be virtuous and a hero, and Tou Han was excellent at writing and could pass through anything in life. And me, Wu Fei, the fifth of the Gundam pilots, ones who fly, so to speak. I wasn't always sure about girls' names, though. They were always pretty and floaty, but seemed to hold no real value. Ri Mei, 'sun plum', and Yue Ying, 'moon flower', were two girls I remember from school. And of course, Mei Lan [1] was 'beautiful orchid'. Yet there is something so poetic about a Chinese girl's name, they are so beautiful.
At seventeen I often find myself yearning for the childhood that I was torn from only a few years ago. Training with friends I had known since early childhood, going to school, playing, fighting. I wonder, to myself very privately. who still lives [2], where they are. For now, I only have memories.
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Geu man (Finish in Korean ^_^)
[1]- I will use Mei Lan, (not Meiran) which is the proper Chinese pronunciation
[2]- In the series, Wufei's colony, L5, was destroyed; however, I think it is possible that some of the people would have escaped
If there's any errors with my Chinese, please tell me. Other than that R&R!
Next: Wufei's first day at school! Cute chibi-ness! Yaaaaaaaay!
