Randoms Things and Ish

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors (by justintimberlakeVEVO)

Am I the only one who can see Kurt from Glee performing this song? He already has JT’s hairstyle from this video.

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neriede:

Can we talk about this for a second?

Because there’s quite a few things that get lost in translation with these games, but none of those instances ever hit me as hard as this one always does. I’m not even kidding, my heart rips apart every time I see this, I’m almost crying just thinking about it.

Okay, so of course—like every country—Japan has it’s own code of etiquette, and one of the most ingrained ways of showing respect to others is bowing. It’s a reflection of how important deferring to others is in Japanese culture—acknowledging those who have seniority in something or are your superior in any way should be like second nature. Bowing can have all sorts of degrees of formality to it, from a casual nod of the head, to a full 45 degree bend from the waist, but rarely do you ever see anyone bow deeper than that.

What Sora’s doing up there?

That’s called Dogeza (土下座).

It’s the absolute lowest you can get.

I have personally never seen anyone do this, and for good reason—you don’t do it unless you’ve REALLY messed up.

You do it to say sorry—it’s the equivalent of begging, really begging for forgiveness. Dogeza is shameful, it’s humiliating, it’s absolute submission, and that’s the whole point of doing it. It’s willingly putting shame and humiliation on yourself, actively showing complete reverence to someone else. You are literally saying you are worth nothing.

Sora is basically offering himself on a silver platter here. Saix could’ve probably asked Sora to do anything he wanted, and Sora probably would’ve done it.

Which makes it all the more insulting and heart-breaking when Saix says he still can’t see Kairi.

Awh, man, this is heartbreaking, and while the states might not have a system of bowing or a name for a gesture when you’ve hit the lowest of the low, I’m pretty sure we can all agree that getting on your hands and knees for someone is nothing less than degrading. It’s practiced in religions, where you bow to the higher power to symbolize their greatness and your dedication to them, so imagine handing that kind of title to a person, y’know? Someone’s who supposed to equal to you.

“Get on your hands and knees and beg.” I’m sure we’ve all heard that or something around it, but to actually perform it. . -shakes her head-

While this moment is really terrible, there’s a lot of beauty in it. Commitment, dedication, selflessness. He’d rather give his dignity and everything he’s composed of than be separated from Kairi. sdfklsfksdjl So sad and lovely at the same time ;w;

Also sort of a tangent, but this is also one of the most purely vindictive things Saix does, if not the most purely vindictive. Through all of Days, he’s nasty and unkind, but he doesn’t really go out of his way to be nasty for no reason. He doesn’t waste his time like that. He does things with purpose.

But this serves no purpose, except to hurt Sora, the same way Saix has been hurt. By this point he’s lost the only person he valued, because of Roxas and so indirectly because of Sora. Saix dangles Kairi in front of Sora and then goes out of his way to rub Sora’s nose in the fact that there’s nothing he can do to make Saix give her back. He wants Sora to feel powerless like he was powerless. He wants to humiliate him, and then still keep his best friend from him.