a while ago i saw a post by @sideblogdotjpeg about how the cycles in c3 seem a lot more personal/familial. and i kind of went insane in the tags at the time and i’ve been thinking about it a lot since because like…
you have the heroic cycles that the band of boobs parallel/break on this large scale. the idea of these broken trios of adventurers is there throughout the campaign, but they really start to engage with it towards the end— with the divine hearts, and thiala, and the wheel of suffering/wheel of joy idea. the thing hardwon says as he takes the divine heart, that no matter what anybody chooses from then on it’s with love in their hearts, i feel is very relevant to how they break the cycle. they love each other, and they choose over and over to hold each other tighter rather than be driven apart.
and on the other hand, you have duck team’s refusal of fate vs their family’s resignation to it. look at swag working with mothership, oliana’s contrition, and the stuff that is currently ongoing with gowan. you know— sol is a version of swag who fully rejected mothership and found his friends instead. callie refused to be a part of her family’s business, and her love for the wild and the serpents is giving the world a chance. calder, when he makes the deal with ultrus, telling callie and sol that he trusts them to save him. and now calder is refusing to sit back and let gowan handle things in the ice knife.
it's not that duck team aren't trying to save the world. they are. and it's not that the boobs didn't have a personal connection to the cycles they were breaking. they did. but it's like... well... how do i put this into words. right--
the song melora's boon plays when the boobs arrive at the heart of the world and speak to melora. when she talks to beverly about duty, shows him the places he faltered and how at the last second, he gets back up. (later, when they face thiala, bev doesn't go unconscious once. at one point, he's the only one standing.)
for sol, this is the song that plays when he expresses his fear of going down again. when he admits to callie that he's scared of the day that she and calder are down and he's the one that needs to stand up alone. when callie says she's not afraid of that day, and sol finds himself empowered by the mushroom in his chest. the moment that sets up sol's long death monk ability, where he's able to refuse to go down and keep on fighting.
melora’s boon is also the song that plays for moonshine’s boon at the heart of the world. there are actually two songs in this scene, hardwon’s is different, and the transition back happens when melora says there’s a part of herself that moonshine hasn’t embraced. when she speaks to moonshine leading her people to a better future like an alpha wolf leading her pack.
for callie, it plays when she tells hardwon and sol that she’s a liability and she needs to change— to embrace winter— in order to get calder back, even as they reassure her that she doesn’t. it also plays when callie asks the others to help her protect honeysuckle while he’s weakened. when they promise to lead honeysuckle home and free him from his connections to gromdal.
the writing on the wall plays when the boobs reach the court of gods. there's the wall of prayers there, and they hear the prayers of the people of bahumia, reaching out to them. prayers of protection-- for and by them. prayers that put the future of bahumia in their hands.
for callie, this is the song that plays when she sees aryox's carving of her reaching the cave. when she realizes her mother acted the way she did because she could see what was coming in the future. when she realizes her mother was leaving the world in her hands.
the songs that the boobs first encounter at the end— when they’re basically demigods stepping up to face thiala— return for duck team in these personal moments. when sol finds the strength to refuse death. when callie talks about embracing winter, her mother’s season, something she eventually finds strength in, to save her friend. when callie asks the others to help honeysuckle, one of the serpents that she’s promised to protect partially due to the harm her family caused to the wild. and when callie realizes her mother saw the future and acted as she did because of it, pushing callie to walk the path she’s walking now.
anyway. this was a post about naddpod music.
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KEY MY NOTES: ENG LYRICS
FRAGMEM IS FINALLY HAPPY FOR ONCE??!?!?!??!?!?!
KURODE
Always reaching out, far far away
Until this desire dies out
CIELOMORT, KLARKSTELLA
Opening the door to something changing
KURODE
The key is always in the heart
KURODE
On a note I don't know anything about yet
I write out about this day
CIELOMORT
Someday the future will be a blank slate
I'll let you take the right steps
KLARKSTELLA
It's not about the surface, looks don't matter
You don't have to fit in if you don't want to
KURODE
So that I can be more than I am right now
ALL
A stage (world) that no one has ever seen before
The image (imagination) that will eventually overtake us
CIELOMORT
Keep on drawing, until you can grab it
KURODE
I'll let this throbbing take care of me
ALL
The deeply rooted inferiority tearing you apart
A longing that sounds faint and far away
KLARKSTELLA
Creating a signpost which looks like a nightmare
ALL
Together in this chest, a memory
CIELOMORT
The sound of raindrops piercing through stone
You say it as if you'll get it
KLARKSTELLA
If you could have the best sound that makes you lively
KURODE
No matter how absurd or buggy it is
I can't help but love this world
KURODE
Always reaching out, far far away
Until my wish comes true
CIELOMORT, KLARKSTELLA
Like noticing the scent of bellflowers
KURODE
The key is always in the heart
ALL
Even with the clumsiness under neither shade nor sunlight
Sometimes we let go of our weakness
CIELOMORT, KURODE
Let me protect all of them if you need me to
ALL
The tears that overflow from your face along with your usual broken smile
KLARKSTELLA
So you could be yourself
CIELOMORT
This chest, this memory
KLARKSTELLA
Sincerely, forever
KURODE
I'll make it echo all around
Together, a melody
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