Video Game Odds & Ends

Hoochee Daddy

[Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - Super Nintendo]

So let's say you're a really powerful super being. A god of terror who rains terror down from a floating island because you hate humanity and think it sucks. And let's say a group of heroes decides that you can't do that anymore. So when they storm your shrine in order to kick your ass what do you say to them? How do you express the rage you feel when a bunch of silly mortals have the audacity to challenge you on your home turf?

That's right. You call them hoochees.

Little hoochees.

Now I don't know why this choice was made. Especially since it seems to make no sense. What the hell is a hoochee anyway?

Well I tried to find out using some basic google-fu. I started out by googling "hoochie" because I assumed "hoochee" was another one of Natsume's wonderful typos. This is what I got:

hooch·ie ˈho͞oCHē/ noun informal•North American noun: hoochie; plural noun: hoochies; noun: hootchie; plural noun: hootchies a young woman who has many casual sexual partners or who dresses or behaves in a sexually provocative way. "I'm not going to become a hoochie or anything, but I don't know if I'm going to wait for a ring on my finger

Daos is old fashioned and thinks these dag nabbit kids need to stop being so darn loose with their morals.

Well for your information Daos, Maxim already liked it. So he put a ring on it. XP

Other results I found were prohibition slang for booze (hooch), a thatched hut, a barracks and a prostitute's dwelling. There's also a provocative belly dance called the hoochie coochie. The origin of hooch and hoochie appear to be corruption of coucher, which means to go to bed.

Perhaps Daos wants them to go to bed and stop bothering him. Can't they see how late it is? Don't they know that he has genocide to commit in the morning?

Maybe he's calling them a barracks or a thatched hut. Maybe his mother is a wardrobe and his father is a bed sitting room. We'll probably never know.

According comment left by tofukitten on a previous Tumblr entry I made about this subject, the original Japanese text was something to the tune of "You little pests!". Again, pretty lame for a god of terror. But better than "You little hoochees!" any day.

Perhaps after so many centuries Daos no longer knows what "it" is. Much like Grandpa Simpson he used to be with "it" but they kept changing what "it" was. Now everything is weird and scary. No wonder he wants to destroy humanity. That way no one can laugh at him for being so out of touch with what's cool. Let the poor guy yell at clouds in peace. Gosh darn kids!

"Hey you rotten kids! Get off my island!"

"You see this Dual Blade? It's mine now! I'm keeping it!"

"I know each and every one of your mothers and they're all getting a call from me!"