The text has 苦労してるもんでな. Which is literally something like It's because I'm struggling/going through hardships + [sentence ending particle used--mostly by men--to soften an assertion]. It's a straightforward sentence, but I always worry about getting both the meaning and the characters' voices across.
Eh, like I said, it's been years since I read the novels, so my memory's fuzzy. I'm pretty sure Leo never has any connection to Soupy-kun, though.
I think the reason Soupy-kun ends up being so popular (as the fan comment on the poll seems to confirm) is that Raquel keeps using him in her spells. Like, I'm pretty sure she reconfigures her Thor spell into a swarm of little Soupy-kuns at one point, and one giant Soupy-kun at another. Then in Giat she uses Ægir to gather a bunch of water into the shape of Soupy-kun and then rides around in it like it's a mech or something (she has to keep her head sticking out of its chest so she can breathe, the sight of which causes Shannon and Cernes to stop and stare in the midst of battle). In one of the supplements, she has a virtual Soupy-kun possess Shannon as a countermeasure against brainwashing. There are probably many others I'm forgetting. X D;
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Date: 2011-09-07 12:20 am (UTC)Eh, like I said, it's been years since I read the novels, so my memory's fuzzy. I'm pretty sure Leo never has any connection to Soupy-kun, though.
I think the reason Soupy-kun ends up being so popular (as the fan comment on the poll seems to confirm) is that Raquel keeps using him in her spells. Like, I'm pretty sure she reconfigures her Thor spell into a swarm of little Soupy-kuns at one point, and one giant Soupy-kun at another. Then in Giat she uses Ægir to gather a bunch of water into the shape of Soupy-kun and then rides around in it like it's a mech or something (she has to keep her head sticking out of its chest so she can breathe, the sight of which causes Shannon and Cernes to stop and stare in the midst of battle). In one of the supplements, she has a virtual Soupy-kun possess Shannon as a countermeasure against brainwashing. There are probably many others I'm forgetting. X D;