Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-27086661-20151126215905

anyone noticed that he literally has a 'red right hand'

so this has two meanings, one, the obvious red right hand trope. And the red hand in Irish folklore.

So for ya'll who aren't on the British side of the pond I'll explain. So this symbol origanated in the pagan times and was asscociated with Labraid Láhm Dhearg (Labraid with the red hand I think, my Irish Gealic is very poor). So anyway this King has no heir, so he agreed that there should be a boat race to decide who'll be the next king, and the winner is the guy who's hand touches Ireland first. So our boy Labraid is losing so he chops of his hand and throws it to the shore, thus winning the race, technically he's cheating but no one wanted to f*ck with a guy who just chopped off his hand to win. It later became a family crest/heraldic symbol thing.

Not sure how this ties in with the story but if anyone can find a more reliable versoin of this online I'd be happy because I got this version from a book of Irish fairy tails and it's not very accurate.