are you saying in japan everybody calls everyone else by their last name what the hell why were FRIENDS im not allowed to call you by your first name do you have to swap spit with someone before they get to use it
It's very simple, POLNAREFF. [just gonna casually outline the point there]
Given names imply a certain level of familiarity. I suppose that you could compare it to calling someone by a nickname in most other contexts. Everyone calls me 'Kakyoin' because there's a sense of formality to family names that I prefer. Only my family calls me 'Noriaki'. ['Family' here having a loose definition.]
In Jotaro's case, I don't think he cares that much. When I met him I was already addressing him informally and he never bothered to correct me, so I just kept doing that after things got a little less chaotic.
Did you completely overlook that all of us used each other's last names aside from Jotaro? Constantly? I know you tend to miss details like that, but I thought it was a little obvious.
[Huh! Well. This is interesting, and not something he really thought meant all that much. Japan is weird, and way too weird about shit that isn't all that important, but he's not going to be a dick about it.]
i was following all your lead all right i was the one who joined last
[Names were a little more important to Kakyoin than they were to most people--sure, he liked the distance and formality his last name implied, and he liked that it made the few people who did use his name that much more significant. Jotaro (who tended towards Nori more often than his full first name), Holly, Giorno--he made a note to mention the concept to Caesar at some point, too.]
[It was just a little more than a matter of a simple first name, even so. It was the name he chose for himself and the person he wanted to be rather than the isolated child he used to be. Kakyoin Tenmei was some weird nonentity like some sense of old shame, the reason he'd admit to changing his name 'because he didn't like how it sounded' without going any further into how he disliked the kid that used to carry it.]
[Noriaki was different. Noriaki was something that he'd chosen, proof that if he didn't like something about himself...then he could just work to change it.]
[Which was something he needed to be reminded of more and more often lately.]
Just don't overdo it or anything. After this long it'll be weird to just hear you stop calling me 'Kakyoin' altogether.
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Date: 2016-04-03 05:54 am (UTC)text;
Date: 2016-04-03 05:58 am (UTC)if you
you know
A S K E D
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Date: 2016-04-03 05:59 am (UTC)text;
Date: 2016-04-03 06:00 am (UTC)where do you think i got those in the first place
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:02 am (UTC)or jotaro gave you them maybe i dont know i dont think about where you get your earrings i just see them and act
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:05 am (UTC)i was wearing them the whole trip do you really think jotaro would have given me a pair of earrings immediately after i met him
least of all after punching me in the face
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never mind, the point is that i made them
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:07 am (UTC)five whole days without me
a lot of shit happens in five days
ANYWAY you should show me how
in general
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:09 am (UTC)but fine. it's easy, so i can show you sometime.
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:11 am (UTC)text;
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:17 am (UTC)and wire
make me emerald earrings i can pretend im your boyfriend
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:28 am (UTC)[On one hand, it was hard to miss. On the other, Polnareff.]
That's not funny.
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:30 am (UTC)text;
Date: 2016-04-03 06:31 am (UTC)And someday when you least expect it?
They will explode.
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:36 am (UTC)[Goddammit, Mista.]
JUST BECAUSE JOJO LETS EVERYONE DO IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT'S STANDARD PRACTICE
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:37 am (UTC)what the hell
why
were FRIENDS im not allowed to call you by your first name
do you have to swap spit with someone before they get to use it
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:46 am (UTC)It's very simple, POLNAREFF. [just gonna casually outline the point there]
Given names imply a certain level of familiarity. I suppose that you could compare it to calling someone by a nickname in most other contexts. Everyone calls me 'Kakyoin' because there's a sense of formality to family names that I prefer. Only my family calls me 'Noriaki'. ['Family' here having a loose definition.]
In Jotaro's case, I don't think he cares that much. When I met him I was already addressing him informally and he never bothered to correct me, so I just kept doing that after things got a little less chaotic.
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:48 am (UTC)but look
i mean ill call you whatever but we're pretty damn familiar
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:50 am (UTC)text;
Date: 2016-04-03 06:51 am (UTC)just don't do it like that. this is important to me, so at least give me the chance to say 'you can call me noriaki if you want to' first.
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Date: 2016-04-03 06:54 am (UTC)i was following all your lead all right i was the one who joined last
so
kakyoin
can i use it?
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Date: 2016-04-03 07:13 am (UTC)[Names were a little more important to Kakyoin than they were to most people--sure, he liked the distance and formality his last name implied, and he liked that it made the few people who did use his name that much more significant. Jotaro (who tended towards Nori more often than his full first name), Holly, Giorno--he made a note to mention the concept to Caesar at some point, too.]
[It was just a little more than a matter of a simple first name, even so. It was the name he chose for himself and the person he wanted to be rather than the isolated child he used to be. Kakyoin Tenmei was some weird nonentity like some sense of old shame, the reason he'd admit to changing his name 'because he didn't like how it sounded' without going any further into how he disliked the kid that used to carry it.]
[Noriaki was different. Noriaki was something that he'd chosen, proof that if he didn't like something about himself...then he could just work to change it.]
[Which was something he needed to be reminded of more and more often lately.]
Just don't overdo it or anything. After this long it'll be weird to just hear you stop calling me 'Kakyoin' altogether.
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