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- Member: DigtalSenshiSakura
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- Title: Full Circle
- Premiered: 2005-06-19
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- Evanescence Haunted
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"Why did you betray me, Inuyasha!?"~Kikyo
Honestly, when I first had the idea for this video, I was not a Kikyo fan. Sure, I could tolerate her, but I was way more towards the anti-Kikyo than pro. But after taking time and listening to this song, it slowly made me realize what she goes through. She has to deal with hating the man she once loved, and still does to an extent. Betrayal and guilt twist inside of her until she can’t bear it anymore.
This song is the mere essence of her. It’s about how her life haunts her, never leaving her alone of her hurt, anger, love, hate, lust, and everything she feels towards life and Inuyasha. She does not belong in this world, and she knows it. Still, she walks the earth, trying to find the solace she never got in death.
The weird thing is that the story Ben Moody supplied Amy Lee with to create the song is eerily how Kikyo’s situation is.
“A little girl around 8 or 9 in a little white Easter dress is walking down a neighborhood street bouncing a little red ball. As she approaches an obviously deserted large house with a sinister demeanor, her attention moves from the ball to the house. Not paying attention to her bouncing, the ball hits the curb and ricochets toward the house. As she chases the little red ball toward the house, the ball picks up unnatural momentum and bounces right into the huge gaping front door. The little girl pauses for a moment, looks up at the house, which now appears to be staring down at her, and cautiously enters the house in search of her little red ball. as she slowly walks into the atrium, she surveys the decaying mess that once was obviously a beautiful mansion. She becomes mesmerized by the exquisite detail of every inch of the banister winding up the seemingly endless staircase in front of her. Suddenly her thoughts are broken by a horrifying commotion. She whips around to run out the front door, but finds only a blank wall where the door once stood. Frightened, she runs down the first hallway she sees, trying desperately to find a way out, but with every turn the world behind her changes, bending to the will of the house, so that even finding a path back to the atrium where she began becomes impossible. Terrified, the little girl sinks into a corner, puts her head in her hands, and weeps.
10 years later....
The little girl wakes up in a panic, now a young woman. Dirty, scarred. She's now clothed in black pants, work boots, and a black wife beater. Her skin is pale and dirty. Sun has not graced her flesh in over a decade. She wakes to find a meal placed on a dirty silver tray before her, just enough to sustain life, just like every morning before. Placed there by a figure she can only see in passing, around a corner, walking through a door.... a figure that has become her only friend, and her only hate. Her entire existence has become nothing but to hunt and destroy this shadow that keeps her here. As she hunts him relentlessly day after day, she becomes lost in the dichotomy of her being. This thing that keeps her here, this person that repeatedly rapes her mind and watches her when she sleeps, has become her only friend. For is this person left, she would cease to exist. For she live only to kill him. But lives only FOR him. Every day the house changes around her, so that every day she wakes in a foreign land. The only constant... is him. She hears his heart beating, she smells him, she can only think of finding him, but he is also the only thing she knows of love.”
Creepy, eh?
The very beginning of the video, before the first verse, is pretty much her haunting the earth, never finding her answer though she keeps looking. The first verse is her resurrection, when she has no soul, and has no idea why she was brought back to this life. No thought, no will, no control. In the chorus, she gains her soul back, and the first thing she sees? Inuyasha. All her anger and hate is welled up into that moment, compelling her to kill him. In the next verse, she’s looking back at how Inuyasha betrayed her, and how she sought after his life. The chorus is pretty much the same, with her twisting around Inuyasha’s feelings to satisfy her reason to be there. If Inuyasha is dead, her resolve in life will be solved, then she can die peacefully. Yet that changes in the guitar riff, as she sees him protecting her, her heart yearning for his love again. She realizes he has things to live for, while she, a dead spirit, has nothing. The last verse is her life coming to full circle, how she remembers for a final time the pain and suffering, before at last leaving and moving on.
"Long lost words whisper slowly to me
Still can't find what keeps me here
When all this time I've been so hollow inside
Watching me, wanting me, I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you, loving you, I won't let you pull me down
Hunting you I can smell you alive
Your heart pounding in my head
Watching me, wanting me, I can feel you pull me down
Saving me, raping me, watching me
Watching me, wanting me I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you, loving you, I won’t let you pull me down”
Finalist At: Anime Expo 2005, Sakura-Con 2006
Opinions (3)
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- Overall
- 8.00
- 8.67
- 9.67
- 9.33
- 9.50
- 9.33
- 7.67
- 9.00
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