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Where's the nearest waterfall? [ forget manners or introductions, she just thought of something and she's too excited to bother with anything else! in fact she couldn't even wait to sit down properly, just turned the gear thingy on while she was sitting in the grass after a training session with her ponyta. ]

Oh, um! I'm in Cherrygrove so...where's the nearest waterfall from there? [ this is all for you, Xiao'yu. clearly a waterfall is the solution to training you! there's some splashing noises coming from vaguely behind her where her feebas is resting in a bucket of water. Xiaoqiao does not seem to notice. ]

I think Flaming Rabbit will be strong enough to ride long distances soon, I've been training him every day since he hatched! So, so I think he'll be okay even if the trip is a bit long...

[ her ponyta wanders by, sitting down next to her and resting his head in her lap. yeah...her ponyta is named Flaming Rabbit. she plays with the flaming mane for a moment. ]

Or should I start with a river?

[ oh right, video is still on. ] Oh! Thank you in advanced for your assistance!

[ she totally remembers to have manners, see! ]

( HEAD CANON )

MISC. INFO

✭ Wu dialect "is often subjectively judged to be soft, light, and flowing." obviously she would not speak modern Wu dialect when speaking Chinese but that is what it'd most closely resemble I guess :|a

✭ Chang Jiang ➡ Yangtze River; given her time period she would not recognise the second name.

✭ Era names/years...she will have no idea how far into the past she comes from. Unless someone recognises who she is and tells her or someone who is familiar with Chinese era names talks to her and figures it out. When referring to specific events or a specific year she will refer to it as "the nth year of [era name]."

This timeline has the year/era each of the major battles she may had been around for. These are the rulers & corresponding era names for the Three Kingdoms period. Though technically Xiaoqiao is more a figure from later Han (just scroll up if you want to see).

✭ courtesy names, primarily used with males. if available she will probably use courtesy names to address people or by surname. ( she is confused with western names dude. she'll just use whatever name you use first and tack on an honorific by default. ) Women do have style names as well but generally a woman's name is extremely private and even when it is known it wouldn't be appropriate to address a woman by name. That said DW doesn't really follow these same restrictions (especially amoung the women) so she won't be so startled that girls are giving out their full name left and right.

bonus! good link that explains style names

✭ honourifics...chinese honourifics are a pain in the ass to translate. defaulted to Master or Lord/Lady unless I figure something else out.

✭ traditional age system: children are born at 1 year old, not zero. A person adds a year to their age every lunar new year. I avoid mentioning her actual age but this is ...just in case.

✭ ETC...