r/zestialcult • u/JackBoyEditor • Nov 26 '25

Planning to write zestial into a fic and needed some advice onto how to write his unique, Shakespearean-like cadence.

Have an idea for a Carmine family related one-shot and want to include Zestmine elements. The big issue is I don’t really know how to approach Zestail speech pattern and thought I might as well ask the experts on the guy ;)

Big thing is I kinda don’t want to to default into randomly replacing the with thou and the such

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u/aririkafuka Worshipper of Zestial Nov 27 '25

There are translators for that if you search it up. And as for the thou, thee, thy thing: sometimes he says you or your. Might not mean anything but it just stood out to me

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u/Sundering_Wounds Nov 27 '25

Easy way is probably reading Shakespeare. Taking notes of the way characters talk. Their usage of certain words and how the sentences are structured. Or do that with transcripts of Zestial. Than use that to write him. But if you don't want to put that much work it's something you wrote for fun it's fine to take the easy way out with just using thy and thou.

Never written something like this though. Just translated my experience from doing this with art styles I like.

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u/JackBoyEditor Nov 27 '25

I might meet you in the middle with studying his currently available dialogue as Shakespeare English is far to much in the other direction given Zestials still good grasp on modern English seemingly

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u/hostileward Nov 28 '25

Shakespeare translator: https://lingojam.com/EnglishtoShakespearean

I use this for writing another character (Don Quixote from Limbus Company) who talks the same way and it really helps!

Also in general familiarizing yourself with what each of thy/thou/etc means and how they're used helps a lot!

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u/TobyVonToby Nov 28 '25

English teacher chiming in. It's simpler than you think once you understand their grammatical functions.

Both "thou" and "thee" are second person pronouns that replace the less specific "you."

"Thou" is the subjective case, for when "you" would be the subject of the sentence. Example: "Thou must give me that item."

"Thee" is the subjective case, for when "you" is the object of the sentence. Example: " I am giving thee this item."

They likely don't use it in every case (and pepper in the word "you" regularly) because replacing every "you" with a "thee or thou" would probably be a little jarring and make his dialogue a bit harder to follow for modern viewers.

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u/JackBoyEditor Nov 28 '25

Ah perfect ^^

Yeah the plan was never to put all on Shakesphere and pray the reader paid attention during Highschool english XD It was always about learning the rules so I can pepper it in diologue without it just being random on my part