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i wanted to thank you for your level-headedness about the sentencing yesterday. im sure we were all just ready for it to end, but if he does go ahead with the appeal, hopefully he will get a fairer hearing with a verdict that actually makes sense

Aww thank you! I appreciate that 💖 I hope so too, and if I may, I should take this opportunity to explain as best as I can why the verdict may have ended up like this despite how ridiculous it is.

Let me preface by saying that I’m not a lawyer, nor do I study law, and just like you all, I was in a state of shock and went through all sorts of emotions before overcoming it. But, I have a background in science, so I do like to ask questions and do my own research, and this is what I did to my dad who studied law in the past (he’s not a lawyer either but I guess there has always been this law influence in the family lol). This is my way of getting the most impartial answer possible from him, and I’ve done this alongside briefly researching and analysing current reports and articles which ended up supporting his points.

First, it’s worth pointing out that a military court is a completely different entity compared to a civil court and therefore is essentially a completely different ball game altogether. The reason being is that in military court, it’s not actually run by a judge as you would know, but a really high ranking military officer - a colonel usually. This was the case for that sentencing trial.

Original link:

https://eng.scourt.go.kr/eng/judiciary/introduction.jsp

Original link: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/08/13/verdict-former-bigbang-seungri-receives-3-year-sentence-in-prison/?fbclid=IwAR2vZaBVFbF2I_6wf6Wi6IuzmhGf6wkyah-xj_d9krFqyX0QazTMXIIolGM

However, what I’ve learnt recently is that in military court, they don’t see the grey areas unlike the civil court - they only see it as black and white. Strategically speaking, this is bad, because depending on the evidences presented, it becomes a make-or-break situation but amped up. This comes from the high influence of morality in the judicial system (Business Mirror also mentions this too in the article I linked) so when you consider what the general stance on issues such as prostitution and gambling are, you get this harsh realisation that they may have already formed a ‘bias’, but much worse if it were military court. This was likely why in spite of all the witnesses that ended up speaking in his favour, it ended up being disregarded in the end, because you also have to take into account that background checks would’ve been vigorously carried out beforehand, which would’ve included finding out their profession, and those things can be major red flags if said profession is not deemed ‘reputable’ (I mean this in the sense that say, if they find out one of them is a prostitute, their credibility is already questioned because of their pre-established stance, though I find this confusing because these witnesses were from prosecution’s side).

This leads into my next point - how did the prosecutors end up winning this? Well, as Business Mirror pointed out, it was mainly down to strategy, especially when you consider the nature of the military court. If you remember, the arrest warrant trials were done in front of civil court, so in front of a judge - and they were rejected twice. The fact that it took place in a military court meant that because of the reasons I mentioned before, the odds were already stacked against him, and the prosecutors may have used this to gain an advantage. As much as the defendant brought in evidence that clearly shows his innocence, this may not have been enough.

For this reason, my dad pointed out that SR should’ve just accepted the arrest warrant at the first instance. This is because if one gets arrested, that is essentially the shortcut to be tried in civil court, which would’ve been dealt with quickly. Arrest warrant is just a way of making sure he doesn’t escape. We know he wouldn’t, but this is strategy we’re talking about. As a result, there would’ve been some possible scenarios: if he ends up forced to go into conscription by then, the lawyer can explain to the judge why he couldn’t make it to trial, and they would’ve either allowed the lawyer to represent him, dismiss the case or have the civil court contact the military and ask them to have him be on trial via video conference etc. The fact that the arrest warrant got rejected twice may sound good, but then having to go into conscription is what made things get complicated and ended up stacked against him in military court.

So what does this mean going forward? Of course, there is a chance to appeal. And there is a reason why some people have said that the moment he appeals, is where he will likely win the case. That’s because should he appeal, the case will likely continue into High Court, which is a civil court, so it’s like starting again on an almost clean slate (though I have been also told that it may not be actually a High Court but High Military Court):

There is also the Supreme Court which is the last step, as it is the highest in court hierarchy, and that is also a civil court.

If I may, I think it’s worth keeping in mind that this took place in a military court, and based on what I have quickly googled, it may not have been in front of an ACTUAL judge, but just a really high ranking military officer: https://eng.scourt.go.kr/eng/judiciary/introduction.jsp

This makes sense if you compare his arrest warrant trials where - if I remember correctly, this took place in a civil court, so in front of an ACTUAL judge, to this military trial.

Lastly, this VIP lawyer sums up (with English translation) what I wanted to say, but now that there is evidence to back it up, I’ll say it anyway: the public may have got what they wanted, but the moment he appeals, is where it will start again on an almost clean slate: https://twitter.com/taniassszzz/status/1425868676889186304?s=21

Also just to be clear Seungri still has not, and has never, admitted to anything other than the single transaction charge. I’ve already seen people saying he “pled guilty” and um… no.

The “yes” is simply an acknowledgement to the sentence, not an admission of guilt. He has a week to appeal, which if he does, would mean his discharge would carry on as per the norm.

Reminder the sentencing was based off statements like this: 

“The gambling of celebrities who are receiving attention from the public has a huge ripple effect, such as undermining our society’s sound working consciousness.” He(the judge) added, “The quality of the crime and the offense are not good for teaching.”

Reminder Seungri has had all witnesses (women and men) come forth in his favor (and has never once been accused by one woman of a single crime).

Reminder this isn’t, and has never been, about victims, of which Seungri has none.

Reminder the predators of the Molka case, a separate case from Burning Sun and entailing said victims, were sentenced to less than Seungri, and have already appealed their ways to punishments even lesser.

Reminder eating the headlines and keeping your attention on scapegoats like Seungri perpetuates legitimate predators and criminals to keep getting away with crimes like what the Molka case perpetrators are getting away with.

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Tell them, king👑

classic disney humor. Also, fantastic how Aerith doesn’t even stop to help Donald and just starts running after Yuffie even though he got kerslammed right in front of her. ∩(︶▽︶)∩

In case anyone’s wondering what the two names are:

1. Mayu Kiyomizu (or Shimizu) - not sure on the surname LOL

2. Megumi Yamamoto

I usually don't repost tweets but shout out to these 2 animators!

At this point they are like survivors

“Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!”

Not y’all spreading misinformation about Daesung when he got into that mess because of Seungri. Daesung was cleared, Daesung owned up right away and spoke out the day of that mess trying to involve him. Seungri acted cocky enjoying being talked about when he fucked up and ruined his career yet here he is still in trial having fans lie and make shit up about his case so ppl do like him. Don’t compare the two when one them actually is innocent. Y’all will through the other members in the dirt just to prove your sad theories about Seungri and it’s pathetic. Y’all joined this fandom right when burning sun happened you know nothing and probably think it’s quirky and cute to stan Seungri since no one does anymore. Most people never liked Seungri because he was always gross towards women.

I did first hear of BigBang through Burning Sun. It was big enough to reach overseas and my first introduction to Seungri was all these headlines maligning him with disgusting accusations. I thought "gross," and didn't venture any further into kpop. A few months later my friends and I hear a BigBang song in a Korean restaurant. I remember my friend Shazaming it and both of us seeing it was BigBang and going "ew, that's that gross group with that gross guy." But I liked the song, so I looked up the group. I opened articles about Seungri, read past the headline, and saw even through bullshit sources like AllKpop/Soompi nothing against him had been proven, it was all alleged, and he hadn't been convicted of anything. Discovering that took maybe five minutes of effort. I had no attachment to Seungri/BigBang. No parasocial relation that had me desperately wanting the things I'd heard about Seungri to be false. I went into it completely unbiased and saw the truth for what it was, which is that he was slandered not only by media, but also bandwagoner twitter stans as well as BigBang's own fanbase. The extent to which the slander has reached is sickening. The stupidity of the masses, to not only believe such unverified claims, but proceed to spread them with the intent to damage and ruin an individual out of nothing other boredom, is sickening. “VIPs” who’ve had a longstanding dislike of Seungri, who have used this witch-hunt to justify that, disregarding proof and evidence to continue reveling in their finally announced and now supported, lie-backed hatred, are the most sickening. “Most people never liked Seungri because he was always gross towards women.” I’m sorry- what? Where? I may be a newer fan but I’ve had a year in quarantine to spend an unhealthy amount of time catching up on any and all BigBang content I can get my hands on. When the hell was Seungri ever “gross towards women?” The only possible example I can assume is the time in 2012 when a girl he slept with took pictures of him asleep in bed and released them to media outlets; I’ve seen this brought up before but fail to see how Seungri is the gross one. The kiss and tell wasn’t what some were expecting, I guess? Nothing wrong with a vanilla sex life, but that’s your business, just as whatever he does in his bed is his. What’s “gross” to me is Seungri’s image as a womanizer being pushed from the start of his career. You know, when he was 15. And already being pigeonholed as some sex-crazed little maniac who then releases Strong Baby as soon as he’s of age and proceeds to do an entire promo centered on the message of being “all grown up” complete with sexy dancers and a suggestive MV. He looked like such an awkward kid and was clearly uncomfortable in so many instances during performances and behind the scenes, has said many times after he doesn’t like this image of himself, and has spent his entire career trying to distance himself from it. People couldn’t afford him a courtesy as basic as recognition, so I don’t know why I was ever surprised at how they’ve reacted to the Burning Sun nonstory. To finally address what you’ve said about Daesung... please show me where I’ve “through” (throw/thrown*) him/the other members in the dirt? I said already to the anon who mentioned him I don’t believe shading other members results in anything positive. Hypocritical of you to criticize a method you utilize yourself in the same paragraph, making the claim Daesung “got into that mess because of Seungri.” Erm... what? How? Elaborate? I don’t follow you there at all. I also don’t follow you on where fans have “made shit up” about his case. Are all the police/judges/district employees assigned to Seungri’s case his sasaengs? Is that why official police documents/court evidence continues to be released in his favor? Are all the witnesses that have come forth in favor of Seungri hoping that, by helping to clear his name, they might get a TGS signed album in return? It is an interesting theory, but I’m going to go ahead and say also most likely false. At this point there’s no excuse for anyone to be unclear on Seungri’s innocence; you would appear to still be enamored with the inflated sense of self-worth slandering him gets you, and as such it’d be ill-fitted to assume your dislike of him was wrought from anything besides a popularity chase that arose on tumblr in particular when this whole thing broke. Most times such endeavors are annoying at best, but it becomes more than that when you use defamation as a manner to your measure. Luckily, the same media outlets that laid the foundation for you and others to proceed this way have since been publishing updated articles detailing Seungri’s innocence, and the sheep are being herded back in the right direction. You seem to be lagging somewhat behind the flock.

Kairi’s Grand Adventure: An Analysis of Kairi’s Character Arc

It’s a common complaint in the Kingdom Hearts fandom that series director Testuya Nomura doesn’t seem to know what to do with Kairi. Despite giving her a Keyblade in Kingdom Hearts II, he hasn’t done anything significant with her in the story since then. We all thought that Kingdom Hearts III was going to be her time to shine, but that ended with her getting captured and apparently killed by the bad guys right after her first time as a party member. Sora and Riku have been growing and evolving over the course of the saga, but Kairi has for the most part stayed the same. 

@blowingoffsteam2 pointed out parallels between Kairi’s scenes with Sora in Kingdom Hearts III and the events of the 100 Acre Wood in the same game. Pooh has sensed that something about his connection to Sora has changed, and tries to hold onto it while Sora is there helping to harvest Rabbit’s garden. Kairi senses that something about her connection with Sora has changed and tries to hold onto it by sharing a paopu fruit with him. While the parallels make sense when you look at them, it also seemed like something certain subsets of fandom would easily twist out of context to argue that people who noticed the parallels were “infantilizing Kairi” or some other BS accusation. Plus, I couldn’t for the life of me understand why Nomura chose Pooh specifically. 

But then I was watching a video on YouTube by Six Degrees of Kylo Ren Podcast analyzing Disney’s live action film Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and they mentioned something that got me thinking. They talked about how in a coming of age narrative, leaving the romantic tension between the two leads unresolved so the protagonist could go home and dance with her father was the storytelling equivalent of cutting her coming of age short to keep her trapped in childhood. That was when it hit me: 

From the very beginning, one of the biggest aspects of Kairi’s character is her fear of change. She expresses concern over Riku having changed the night before Destiny Islands is consumed, and of course we all remember how she tells Sora “don’t ever change.” And when you think about her backstory, it’s no wonder that she’d be afraid of change. 

Her home world was conquered by Maleficent when she was four, and Xehanort proceeded to fling her out into the universe hoping her powers as a Princess of Heart will lead him to a Keyblade Wielder. She then washed up on Destiny Islands with no memories of where she came from. Of course she’s going to be reluctant to do anything to challenge the status quo. Her life on the islands and friendship with Sora and Riku is all she knows. I wouldn’t be surprised if she wasn’t actually on board with the whole “leave on the raft and explore the worlds” plan from Kingdom Hearts 1 and only went along with it because she didn’t want to be left behind. 

So when I started thinking about that “trapped in childhood” comment, it suddenly hit me why Testuya Nomura chose not to give her more to do in the larger narrative of the Dark Seeker saga. While Sora and Riku are out exploring the universe and growing up, Kairi is metaphorically stuck in childhood. Kairi is actively trying to hold on to the past, staying on the islands where everything is comfortable and familiar, sheltered from all the great cosmic battles her friends are fighting out in the wider universe. 

The reason that the games have explored her past so little beyond her cameo in Birth by Sleep is that in contrast to Sora’s willingness to take on the burden of other people’s pain, for most of the Dark Seeker saga Kairi isn’t ready to handle the pain of her own past. And she won’t be ready to handle that burden until she accepts that the idyllic life she has on the islands with Sora and Riku won’t last forever. 

While it may frustrate the fandom that she hasn’t really done much, there’s a reason that Kairi’s arc hasn’t gotten as much spotlight in the games compared to Riku and Sora’s growth, and it has to do with another Disney parallel. 

In Kingdom Hearts 1, her body ends up in Neverland after the destruction of the Destiny Islands and is kept in a cell along with Wendy Darling, who Hook and Riku initially believe is the last Princess of Heart. The central narrative of the film Peter Pan is that Wendy starts out afraid of growing up but comes to accept that it’s not a bad thing. Part of what helps her come to this development is seeing firsthand what the consequences of not growing up are. 

For Wendy, she sees the pettiness and immaturity of Never Land’s residents and realizes that staying young forever isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. For Kairi, staying behind on the Destiny Islands means that Sora and Riku continue to leave her behind when they go off on their adventures while she stays the same. 

When I thought about the parallels between Pooh and Kairi in Kingdom Hearts III, I realized that those parallels could be accurately described through the lens of a particular Pooh film. In the 1996 Direct-to-Video movie Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, Christopher Robin has gone off to school and left a note explaining to Pooh where he is. Thanks to Owl misreading the note, the stuffed animals of the 100 Acre Wood believe that Christopher Robin has been kidnapped by a monster and taken to an ominous cave known as Skull. With a map provided by Owl, Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, and Eeyore set off to rescue their friend. 

While each iteration of the 100 Acre Wood in the Kingdom Hearts franchise includes the iconic locations visible in almost every Pooh film, Pooh’s Grand Adventure is the only specific movie in the Winnie the Pooh franchise to be referenced in a Kingdom Hearts game. The storybook map in the Kingdom Hearts II visits to 100 Acre Wood confirm that the Spooky Cave area is the same Skull cave featured in this movie.  

The film begins with Christopher Robin attempting to break the news to Pooh that he’s going off to school and won’t be able to spend all of his time in the 100 Acre Wood anymore, but Pooh continues to brush over his attempts to bring up the subject. The film’s opening musical number, Forever And Ever, hammers the point home that the idea of things changing and the status quo not being the same forever doesn’t even register as a concept in Pooh’s mind. The rest of the movie centers on Pooh coming to accept that things change but that he and Christopher Robin will always be connected. The words “even if we are apart, I’ll always be with you” are central to the movie’s themes of growing up and accepting change. 

When you think about Kairi’s character arc as a parallel to the plot of Pooh’s Grand Adventure in addition to the Wendy parallels, it solidified that Kairi’s arc over the course of the Xehanort Saga has been about her letting go of her fear of change and accepting that things won’t stay the same forever, and that it’s a normal part of growing up. 

In KH1, we see Kairi trying to stop things from changing, or even deny the possibility of change, when she talks about how Riku has changed and tells Sora not to change. While Riku and Sora were out gathering supplies for the raft, Kairi was making a charm for good luck to ensure that they would return to the islands safely. And when she gives the charm to Sora late in the game, she makes him promise to bring it back to her.  

Kingdom Hearts 2 shows her beginning to acknowledge that things are changing and she can’t stop them. She begins to realize that waiting for Sora and Riku to come isn’t good enough for her, but she doesn’t actively seek out a way to leave the islands until Riku covertly presents her with one in the form of a Dark Corridor to Twilight Town. Once she met up with Hayner, Pence, and Olette, her plan went back to “wait for Sora to come back”. 

By the end of Kingdom Hearts 3, Kairi has finally accepted that things are changing. Regardless of what shippers assume, the context of the game’s themes frame Kairi sharing Sora a paopu fruit as a promise that even though things have changed between them, they will always be friends. One of the major themes of Kingdom Hearts 3 was accepting separation and letting go. While this certainly applies to Kairi saying goodbye to Sora at the end of the game, it also applies on a deeper level to Kairi finally accepting what she’d been trying to deny since the first game: that things are changing and there’s nothing she can do to stop it. 

So despite our frustration at her lack of spotlight, Kingdom Hearts 3 wasn’t Kairi’s true time to shine. Only when she says goodbye to Sora at the end of the game has she finally overcome her fear of change and growing up, and she has a lot of catching up to do. Kairi’s real time to shine will be in the Lost Masters Saga, when she finally starts to confront her past. Kingdom Hearts re:coded involved Data-Namine testing through Data-Sora whether the real Sora was ready to accept the hurt of others into his heart. Kairi’s role in the Dark Seeker Saga was about preparing her to face the hurt in her own heart so that she can move on from her past. 

TL;DR: Kairi has lagged behind Sora and Riku because her fear of change was holding her back from growing up and reaching her full potential, but by the end of Kingdom Hearts III she has finally overcome that obstacle. 

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Black Lives Matter.

I’d pay top dollar to watch this for an hour

Isn’t it absolutely endearing that, behind Sora and Riku’s precious bond, there is another genuine friendship between their voice-actors. <33

Sora’s VA vs Riku’s VA — Who can shriek sing the highest?

They’re idiots, but they’re Nomura’s idiots.

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