#also haha not the lyrics 'will you cage me
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Hey 🥺 I'm finally coming here 😩 I've read Just friends so many times it marked a before and after in my life LETMME tell you that you're the greatest writer ever ?? This Yandere Konig just will live with me forever and I will cherish him forever😩 I'm literally the lyric ,"my old man is a thief and I'm gonna stay with him till the end" (I'm sorry I'm a Lana del Rey enthusiastic)
Girl I can't STOP stressing the fact that that fanfic is life-changing hell, even now that I'm talking bout it I want to read it again (I wish I could read it for the first time again 😩) like just thank you thank you for making so many incredible written masterpieces caUSE IM READING also the ghost bodyguard and im LIVING for it ok?? My ass was shaking with the las update fucking mind-blowing and PERFECT.
So returning to my man König, you know I'm Hispanic (you didn't know but hey I'm Hispanic) and I would like really want to know how would König react or behave having a darling that is Hispanic (? (This is pure self indulgence, like I want to fucking put myself there) I mean, I don't want to appropriate any stereotypes but when sometimes can be a lot and we donate pretty different from everyone else(? So idk I just like would like to know kajsosib
Thank you again for making so many good content I told you before and I tell you know you're my cult leader 🙏
Hey babe you're too sweet! I can't believe my crazy story and crazy interpretation of König has had such an impact 🩷💕😭 Thank you for telling me, I'm just so glad that we can all buzz about this hot, insane man! And cult leader!? Haha omg this sounds dangerous (I love it, let's gather the whole toxic König crew and go to Austria together and build a shrine for this man, we can share headcanons thrice a day, dinner is served right after the compulsory fanfic writing workshop)
As for your ask, I'm sorry, I don't think I know enough about Hispanic culture to go too deep into detail & I wish to tread very carefully with stereotypes too, I hope this take is ok 🩷😘
The way I see it, there's two ways this thing would go….
An emotional, lively, feminine woman who has strong family values would be a dream come true for König. If you identify with the concept of marianismo at all, if you're loving and loyal and want to support your husband-to-be (König won't settle being just your 'boyfriend'), want to get married too and embrace your femininity while he gets to be The Man, your provider and protector, well, damn. This guy is on his knees! König will worship you, return your support and love tenfold, hundredfold. It will be the love story of a lifetime (and a story of traditional gender roles too but König would only view it as romantic 🩷)
But if you're "a lot", perhaps more outgoing than König thinks is appropriate, if you don't give a shit about his Ordnung muss sein-mentality and laugh at his attempts to cage you…? Sorry but you'll drive the poor man crazy!
He needs to possess protect you, which means your "temper" is a weed in the garden of your love. It needs to be pulled out, and you need to be tamed. König will go out of his mind as he tries to both please your every wish and try to put you on a leash. Lots of arguments ensue as you try to explain to this man that he's overreacting (and König is like Was?? He's not overreacting or hysterical, you're hysterical), lots of passionate reconciliation sex follows as he tries to prove you that you're his and his alone and no other man is allowed to even look at you.
So please don't torture him too much ❤️, he's not used to women's company and has a lot of suppressed energy and emotion, he just wants to take care of you and be the head of the house (and that you two worship each other 24/7 and carry each other's blood in small little vials or something omg)
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“Children of the Crystal” Fic Notes Season Two
Children of the Crystal is “officially” done! I still might go back and add short (non-plot) fics set in this verse further down the line, but the story is all wrapped up at a monster 14 (15) fics.
I split the fic notes into two “seasons” just because there’s a lot to cover, so the other post has notes for the first 6 fics. This one has the playlist, the notes for the rest of the fics, and discussion of the original outline/plan. This fic series doesn’t get an “epilogue” section because I’m keeping all those ideas in my back pocket in case I end up doing fics on them.
Playlist:
Haha so. This series had a playlist that was originally like seven songs long.
Then I couldn’t sleep one day, and suddenly this story had a plot(??) and the playlist exploded. I’ll cover the plot thing later, but here’s the finished playlist (I also listened to my canon Catra, Adora, and Catradora playlists while writing this).
Just Friends — Morgan Saint
Illusion — Carlie Hanson
WASTE OF CONFETTI — Meg Myers
S.T.A.R. — Mothica
hallelujah — Bea Miller
For God’s Sake — Morgan Saint
Highlights — Mothica
Crazy Bitch — Sizzy Rocket feat. Mothica
feel like shit — Tate McRae
Once More, With Feeling! — XANA
Battle demo [not released to the public. Listen, the vibe is “I don’t want to fight you, but if that’s what you’re going to do, then let’s go”]
Jealousy — Pale Waves
i did this all for you! — XANA
Two Sides — Ari Hicks (this one is for Light Hope, because I think I’m funny)
I Don’t Believe In Anything — Deathbyromy (THIS IS SUCH AN ADORA SONG OK)
I’m Trying (Not Friends) — Maisie Peters (aka the fic 13 song)
Only Love [Acoustic] — PVRIS
General Notes:
⦁ For the ease of future rereads, the big plot heavy-hitter fics are (generally) every other fic: 1, 3, 5, maybe 7, 8, 10, 12, maybe 13, and 14. I was intentionally spacing them out (as best I could) so there would be a plot beat, then something that fleshed out the universe/characters, then another plot beat, but that wasn’t always the best thing for the series so there’s exceptions.
⦁ Several of the fic titles from this series are inspired/from lyrics from a couple of songs. They are as follows:
The “Crystal Kingdom” song from The Adventure Zone led to the fic titles “Beckoning to Break the Seal,” “Locked in a Cage of Glass and Steel,” and “This Is Where Separation Ends.” I listened to that way back in the day and that song stuck with me for some reason. I thought about it again after naming the fic Children of the Crystal cuz. you know. Crystal.
i did this all for you! by XANA is the origin of “Carve Your Name in My Bones.” Full lyric: [in my brain] I love what you’ve done with the place/really made it your own/carved your name in my bones.
“I’d Die Just to Be Someone” is a lyric from Crazy Bitch by Sizzy Rocket (feat. Mothica). (Side note: can anyone tell me if Sizzy Rocket is a terf? One of the people she has a feature track with has a sus line)
The fic and chapter titles of “One of Us Has to Keep a Promise” come from I’m Trying (Not Friends) by Maisie Peters. These are the only chapter titles in the entire series not in title case. More info on songs and lyrics later >.>
Finally, “Once More, With Feeling” is a XANA song (on the playlist, too) that’s actually not happy but the title was a great fit for them returning home and falling back into their relationship with a lot more peace and happiness between them.
Locked in a Cage of Glass and Steel
Chapter 1:
⦁ God the ENTIRE series was leading up to this fic. I wrote it all in one sitting. Actually, I wrote the final chapter of Halls That Make a Home, all of this fic, and all but the last two scenes of Carve Your Name in My Bones in the same day. I wrote 12.7k words that day, my highest single-day word count ever (my previous being 12.1k, which was insane and not at all usual. My average word count is 2k a day).
⦁ I guess I leave it a little ambiguous (mostly because other people lie about it), but what happened with Entrapta was that Scorpia had bonded HARD with her, so when Shadow Weaver attacked Entrapta to stop her from trying to free the captured princesses, Scorpia turned on the Horde. She can’t exactly feel for a pulse with her pincers, though, and she thought Entrapta was dead. She then freed the rest of the princesses, and when they went to recover the sword, Shadow Weaver had roused to tell Hordak that Scorpia took the side of the princesses, bonded with the garnet, and killed Entrapta in the process. He didn’t believe her, but then Scorpia showed up leading the charge of princesses into his sanctum, crackling with electricity. So he pulled the lever.
Chapter 2:
⦁ I talked about this a little in the first author’s note, but figuring out the set-up of the portal is… interesting. I think the wider fandom has kind of agreed it has something to do with who pulls the lever? Like the portal was built around Catra’s wishes? Which makes sense, IG, but it could easily be a collective thing, or just a weird mindfuck, or Adora could have some control over it too because it’s her sword powering it. Personally I think it’s a mix of all of that, but for this fic I went with the idea that it’s the person who pulls the lever, because in canon I find the angst of Catra’s “perfect world” being one where Catra is still just “second best” but it doesn’t matter to her anymore because Adora is there absolutely delicious.
⦁ In the show, the Portal was kind of “an easy sell” because Adora did know a life in the Horde, and all the Bright Moon stuff was just a recent divergence. Everybody was pretty much “with their own” in the portal, Bow in Bright Moon, Catra and Adora in the Horde, etc. In this portal, a bunch of the princesses were locked up in the Fright Zone (because they… were in the Fright Zone IRL when it was set off) and Catra and Adora found themselves transposed into this foreign world so everything would be simple for Hordak and his greatest nemesis were now working for them.
The portal bridged that gap by co-opting their memories. Instead of running and playing in the woods, they were fighting rebels in them. They remembered how fighting felt from when they would fight the Horde, but when they were actually forced to fight rebels in the portal, it all felt completely wrong.
The other way the portal tried to form its perfect world was by giving Adora what she always wanted: freedom from duty. She wasn’t She-ra and there was no magic destiny to weigh down on her shoulders. As much as she will deny it and doesn’t even believe it, that’s what she wants. She wants to just be able to live her life and be useful, yes, but not have the weight of the planet on her.
Chapter 3:
⦁ Before I even started posting this series, I posted “sorry” because I had just outlined this wallowing scene and Catra deciding to go to the Horde. Obviously I’ve written breakups, self-loathing, etc in the past, but I felt like I was really lulling y’all into a false sense of security with this AU. It doubly applied since I had already outlined the AU’s end, too.
⦁ Because that was such an early outline, though, in that outline scene Catra discovered for the first time that Light Hope could appear in the room they thought was private. I ended up including that earlier in the series, because it’s not much of a reveal if you don’t already know that she’s not supposed to be able to do that and I thought her having the realization when they weren’t together yet but had said some Things in the privacy of the room worked better.
⦁ Btw, Light Hope did “usually” try to leave them alone in the room, especially when they were kids and her overwrite instructions hadn’t been fully installed by a reset, but she absolutely was intending to lie to them when she said she couldn’t listen to that room. It was not a misunderstanding. Those happened sometimes, but a lot of “misunderstandings” were intentional.
⦁ I considered giving Catra a breakdown haircut in this because those are fun, and by “considered” I mean I did and then I read the scene I just wrote and went. This is scary. Like I actually felt I couldn’t include it without a significant trigger warning and what the hell even is that trigger aside from Bitch Not Well so I cut it.
⦁ I had a whole freak out with the end of this fic and whether or not it made sense. Basically, I wrote the first scene of On Stumbling Feet way before this. A consequence of that (and how long-held my headcanon for Halfmoon is) is that I just completely fucking forgot whether Halfmoon running under the Fright Zone was established. I tried to put in more hints to it in the scene itself (stuff like the mentions of their last entrance being patched up) and went back to the fic where Catra calls herself the last of the magicats to edit in more context for future reads, only to find I already outright said there that Halfmoon was near the Fright Zone. I edited the wording slightly to make it more clear it was under, but I mostly panicked for nothing.
Carve Your Name in My Bones [one shot]
⦁ I’ve talked a couple of times about this AU being where I was able to finally put my backstory headcanons for them, but they did have to be tweaked to accommodate the story. For Catra, I imagine she was just scooped off Halfmoon’s street at a battle like this and brought back to the Fright Zone. Halfmoon being the mine beneath the Fright Zone is my headcanon, but not it being connected to the Crystal Castle or anything. I did that mostly to get around 1) Light Hope would have had the foyer door locked when Adora was that age so she couldn’t get out at all to help Catra if there wasn’t another way since that blocks off the override too and 2) to force Catra back through castle when leaving the Fright Zone. The original outline called for her trying to “confront” Light Hope, which I feel would be justified considering she had emotional ties to her just like Adora in this AU, but it would be pretty dangerous and a little stupid, so making it just be something she was forced to do made more sense.
⦁ Rescuing Catra was the first time Adora had left the castle since she was a baby. Feeling the surface of the rock was really shocking to her after being used to the perfectly smooth surfaces of the castle, only broken up by the texture of her bed and clothes. Everything else is metal or crystal. Catra introduces something as simple as touch to her life, that’s how incredibly isolated she was.
⦁ Catra’s parents in this are the same ones I made up for her in TTFT, Leona and Felina. Only one of them is actually her biological parent (magic inception, common for gay couples on Etheria) so Leona has Catra’s heterochromia this time to pass it down.
I’d Die Just to Be Someone
Chapter 1:
⦁ Shadow Weaver was willing to believe Catra’s story pretty easily given she defected to the Horde for similarly petty reasons, but willing is different from believing and she knew there was a chance it was a ploy, or she could be flipped again, which is why she went in hard on her immediately. Shadow Weaver was also dying and losing her shit anyway.
⦁ Hordak growling and Catra commenting (internally) on it was because he’s an alien clone and like, reminiscent of an elf, sure, but actually has his own rules to play by.
⦁ The story Shadow Weaver told Hordak was that Scorpia turned on them and let the princesses in because she wanted to take her powers, and when she did she electrocuted Entrapta (it was implied to not be an accident). It’s kind of a ridiculous sell if you know anything about Scorpia, but Hordak barely knew her name, and when he saw her using lightning powers and fighting alongside the princesses, it checked out, especially with her leaving afterwards.
⦁ Shadow Weaver was desperately trying to either 1) break Scorpia’s connection with the Garnet so she could begin using it again or 2) find a way to siphon energy off of it with Scorpia still connected to it. If Catra hadn’t shown up, she probably would have gathered herself up after her collapse and tried to slip away to Rebellion and trade “insider intel” in exchange for healing, but with Catra calling a medic, and them taking her under observation, she never had a chance. And… yeah, she wasn’t looking good and we don’t see her again. Read into that!
(If you are interested, though, her story would have been that she worked with the Horde out of fear for her life as she needed the Black Garnet to live, trying to gain an ounce of sympathy, and then she would have tried to trade Entrapta’s location for healing. To them she would have said Hordak sent Entrapta to Beast Island when he heard of her treachery.)
⦁ Grizzlor gets to take over Shadow Weaver’s job because in the original show he was the… warden? Boss? BGIC? of the Beast Island prison. It was either him, Octavia, or Lonnie in this version, but I didn’t have room to throw in Lonnie being promoted to Force Captain in Scorpia’s place (though it definitely happened) and it feels like Octavia isn’t very respected considering the eye thing and that she still sleeps with the cadets.
Chapter 2:
⦁ When Catra mentions trying to line up to whisper in Adora’s ear during the fight, I wanted to leave it ambiguous if she was trying to gloat, but she was actually looking for any opening to tell the Princess Alliance that Entrapta was alive. She was always on missions with other people and the least trusted person on the squad, though, so she couldn’t even try to work it into a “taunt” to pass off because it wasn’t common knowledge and would give away that she was sneaking around.
⦁ Catra’s recognition of the hex-sided screwdriver is because she did spend enough — friendly — time around Entrapta in this universe to pick that kind of thing up.
⦁ When Catra says she “hasn’t managed to do anything about” the transport log, she means both that she hasn’t figured out where Entrapta was sent and she hasn’t managed to tell the Alliance she was live at all.
Chapter 3: Interlude
⦁ This wasn’t supposed to be here but I was thinking about how Adora must be feeling and then I was like maybe I have to write a one shot about this…. So I just stuck it in as an interlude.
⦁ Let’s! Talk! About! The Alliance! Okay, so like, Catra is right, they really should have known better that she wouldn’t go join up with the people who just murdered her friend and kinda-pseudo parental figure, but there’s a reason they “accepted” her defection.
First of all, they were already annoyed with her for disappearing (though everyone was equally, if not more, annoyed with Adora for being a fucking idiot). Being mad at someone makes it a lot easier to believe the worst of them.
Second, they had already experienced Entrapta’s defection, which was feeling more and more like a true defection as Scorpia told stories about her in the Horde, even though it was a kind of halfway thing for her.
Third, Adora and Catra were really codependent, like ridiculously unhealthily so, but it had never been something they needed to work on when Catra and Adora were “doing fine” and there was a war on. When Adora broke her heart, it was possible Catra totally snapped because neither of them knew how to be a person — or even what a person really was — without each other.
Four, several of them had picked up the vibe that Catra had some bitterness over Adora’s magic destiny from comments she made over time. And like, they weren’t wrong, that is what spurred her to go to the Horde, she just wasn’t joining them.
And then five, of course: they were fighting her and watching her not respond to their attempts to talk. No matter what you believe, when you have enough evidence in front of you, eventually you have to give.
None of that should erase the fact they knew Catra was a good person, and especially that she should want to destroy the Horde more than ever at that moment rather than joining up since they had just killed her friend, but just like they shouldn’t be too mad at her, Catra can’t be too mad at them when she didn’t tell anyone. Them believing someone they know is a good person would do Very Bad Things is kind of a commentary on how sometimes they struggle to be good friends, like how they get annoyed with Entrapta and both sides have to learn how to accommodate each other in the show.
⦁ Adora not walking all the way into the entry and leaving immediately kind of saved the planet here. With her first visit, it was quick and she got further into the castle, but Light Hope was willing to wait until a second visit before she went as drastic as locking her in, because it was going to be pretty hard to talk her into setting the Heart off at that point. This time, Adora didn’t get past the large door that could seal the main chamber from the entry walkway (the door that was closed when she and Catra were little, and that Catra squeezed through in The Start of a Legend). Light Hope technically could override the outside door, but she wasn’t prepared to do that, especially when she couldn’t do anything about the override door Adora could easily slip through. Honestly, she anticipated Adora’s breakdown taking longer and being able to use her fragile emotional state to manipulate her, but instead Adora fucking booked it away from the terrible memories and guilt.
⦁ It wasn’t fair, but one of the reason’s Glimmer was mad at Adora was for everything Catra did while defecting. They were friends, after all, and Adora breaking up with her is what drove her away, so even though Glimmer was already mad at Adora for the shitty breakup, she was also mad at them both for every shitty thing Catra did while defected because they shared the blame to her. It was more aimed at Catra since she was the one, you know, doing it, but Glimmer has a proxy-blaming problem (see: her partially blaming Adora for her mom’s death) so she was mad at them both.
Chapter 4:
⦁ Shadow Weaver “limping off to die” was actually her trying to sneak off to the Rebellion for survival.
⦁ The dent on Emily’s hull is this-universe’s version of the scratches. Emily tried to go into Hordak’s lab trying to find Entrapta after she “died” and Hordak grew enraged at the sight of her as a reminder. He threw the closest object at her and made the dent. She skittered away still not knowing what happened to Entrapta, but she picked it up soon after.
⦁ Emily has seen Catra before, back in that single battle where Entrapta got captured, but she’s dressed differently and on the other side, and it was possible there were multiple people named Catra, so she wanted to “verify” by showing Catra the projection.
⦁ I (Catra) shifted over the course of the chapter from calling Emily “it” to “she” to show how Catra was bonding with her. Using feminine pronouns for her did make it more confusing (which “she” is this she referring to, etc), but Catra really needed something to latch onto, so anthropomorphizing Emily hit hard.
⦁ I fucked up here. I came up with a cool idea literally the day after posting the chapter. Catra should have tried to take some of the files on the Heart so the Horde doesn’t find them, get caught sneaking out, and have to choose between keeping them or helping Emily to safety. She would choose Emily, ensuring the files fell into Horde hands and leaving her certain that Hordak — and thus Horde Prime — knows about the Heart when he arrives. Unfortunately, I only came up with that while writing fic 13. It’s a causality of posting as you write, even though I was ahead.
On Stumbling Feet (Find Your Home) [one shot]
⦁ Because this fic takes place before the last few, Catra is still under the mistaken impression that fire played a big part in Halfmoon’s downfall. The problem with this series is a lot of people are lying or just straight up wrong and so they contradict each other or even themselves a lot and I worry it looks sloppy when it’s intentional, just kind of misleading. I actually wrote the Halfmoon report scene before I even wrote the get together fic and wasn’t sure where I was going to stick it but had the idea for a “catch all” snippets fic possibly in the future.
⦁ Adora’s language around “manifesting” is because it’s one of those words/concepts that are new to her, since that scene is set fairly early on, like a few months in.
⦁ Adora saying “She’s going to need to hold onto these moments for the future.” just really goes to show that she can’t even let herself have good moments purely for the sake of them, but rather has to categorize how they could be useful to justify them. This girl needs therapy so bad.
⦁ The make out scene basically exists to tease Adora’s access to her powers without the sword. Obviously, canon shows her powers predate the sword, but with her runestone trapped. Originally the idea was that it would be a little one shot, but then it was brief enough of an idea to use in something like this. I ended up giving a “preview” to this kind of thing with her glowing eyes in the library fic, but she still had the sword (literally) on her then, so this showed that “disconnect” for the first time.
Otherwise, this fic would be the kind of filler/fluff I would stick at the end of the series as “not part of the plot arc,” but that particular scene needed to be read before fic 14, so it ended up in the main arc. A little fluff was also desperately needed here.
⦁ The make out predates the scene in the library with her eyes glowing, but Adora still called that new because it had never been tied to anger before, and she didn’t fully understood what her eyes were doing in this scene. What she caught in the mirror was just them being extra blue.
A Thousand Years in the Making
Chapter 1:
⦁ The “true colors” in the fic description do refer to how Light Hope turns on them, but also to how she really does love them and wants to protect them from her own programming.
⦁ “The failsafe would kill the user” and Catra’s resulting “Wait.” reaction were actually because Light Hope was — in the only way she could — trying to help. She was informing Catra both of the risks and that it would work by explicitly not saying that it wouldn’t, since that’s the most logical way to dissuade its use.
Chapter 2:
⦁ The language Adora uses to describe the moving of Etheria in the library fic was carefully chosen to conflict but in a believable way with what Light Hope says here. Adora says “Mara made Light Hope move the planet,” which is what her impression of the situation was, in the sense that Mara ordered it, but what Light Hope actually says here was that Mara forced her hand and made her move the planet for everyone’s safety. Of course, that’s a total lie and Mara moved the planet without Light Hope’s consent, but it was part of the narrative needed to reach Light Hope’s goal of getting Etheria back where it should be so they can set the bomb off.
⦁ In the show what (kinda) breaks through to Light Hope is Adora mentioning Mara, which is a really cool moment I fucking love and was sad to strip away, but in this one it just made more sense for Adora to use their own bond since they had a deep one and she never discovered a lot about Mara without the signal tower.
Chapter 3:
⦁ This was the one and only time that Catra ever referred to Light Hope in a maternal way. She doesn’t really see her like that but she also… doesn’t… not see her like that, you know? Light Hope was her guardian, not her mom, but especially with the wound of Glimmer losing her mom recently, that’s what spilled out.
One of Us Has to Keep a Promise
Chapter 1:
⦁ I vagueposted lyrics from the song “I’m Trying (Not Friends)” when I was thinking obsessively about Catra’s “betrayal” twist and then untwist. The chorus really works for the clusterfuck that their relationship becomes and those two lyrics in particular were feeding my brainrot so hard I could not shut up. The urge to drop songs on the playlist that were massive spoilers and hinted at what was to come was so hard to fight. At one point I almost just posted “CotC spoilers: there’s XANA on the fic playlist” because like. if you know XANA’s music that is a spoiler. She has very few happy or wholesome songs. Most of them are breakup songs or intense shit that still implies a hot and heavy relationship like Catra and Adora don’t appear to have in this series. I was going absolutely nuts keeping all this to myself and knowing for about 7~ fics everything was going to look Fine and then it was getting insane.
I then vagueposted again with lyrics from “Crazy Bitch” later thinking about Catra’s “betrayal” because this fic had a vice grip on my brain. For a while I was writing like 4-6k every other day with 1-2k in between and it still wasn’t enough to get it out.
Chapter 2:
⦁ The reason Prime hit the surface so hard and then pulled back was because he was planning on wiping out the planet and all its residents completely to cover up Hordak’s messy rebellion (as he says in the show before Catra interrupts his plan by telling him about the Heart, so he’ll spare Etheria), but he pulled back as speculated when he became aware of the Heart and its potential uses.
⦁ The position they’re sitting in while discussing their relationship in Catra’s tent is a mirror of the one they sat in while listening to music right after they came together as kids back in Carve Your Name in My Bones.
⦁ “She wants to ask Adora if she’s sure she loved her the way that Catra loved her, but while she can walk into the Horde ready to face any danger, she’s still a fucking coward when it comes to things that matter.” Yeah so Catra is saying her life matters less to her than whether or not Adora loved her here. Which is totally healthy and normal and she for sure doesn’t need therapy.
⦁ Catra eating the bread instead of throwing it back like she normally would have done is a result of both her imprisonment and her few weeks on the run/digging through Halfmoon. She’s also aware they’re running on rations and would probably be more conscientious even if she wasn’t painfully aware how important real food is at the moment.
Chapter 3:
⦁ Glimmer is basically bribing/guilting them BOTH to stay in camp using each other, because really they both need to recover, and everybody needs to fall into sync again before going out in the field together.
This is What Separation Ends
Chapter 1:
⦁ The title here has so many different implications. As I said earlier, it’s a lyric from Crystal Kingdom, but it pulls triple duty. It’s “separation” (being broken up) ending between Adora and Catra, it’s separation between Adora and She-ra ending with the breaking of the sword, and it’s separation between wider worlds ending as Horde Prime is defeated and they’re all finally free.
⦁ This first chapter was actually all stuff that was supposed to happen in One of Us Has to Keep a Promise. Then I was just… too into the whole breakup/deflection/come back together concept and the fic ended up expanding a lot from the initial concept of “quick slice of awkwardness with them on the same side again now it’s all hands on deck fighting the Horde” (exact quote from my outline doc). Yeah more was needed by the time we got there and I wanted to write more anyway lol.
⦁ Their time going back to be alone in the tent… Man, even I don’t know what they did in there LOL. I will say I did consider having them have an implied “end of the world, plus weeks of tension with their relationship” hook up, but them just cuddling and being needy also makes sense. Making out like they did in the last fic makes sense. They definitely kissed at least once in that tent, but the rest I wouldn’t be able to say definitively without actually writing it and feeling it out.
⦁ Okay, in Castaspella’s defense, Catra was very convincing, and Casta let Shadow Weaver of all people lead her off alone without telling anyone so I think this is in character for her lol.
Catra basically went “yep, Adora was 100% dead and She-ra brought her back to life in the Heart, so she can heal someone else when they use the failsafe, but we don’t know if the failsafe will destroy She-ra if she did it herself, and we can’t risk that.” In this verse, they’re very aware that only a First One can be She-ra and they’re fucked without Adora.
That, combined with some guilt-tripping and the valid point that they need a tiny strike team if they’re going to have any chance of infiltrating Mystacor (and that either Castaspella or Micah has to be on said team if they’re going to have a chance), convinced Castaspella to go. Catra said she would leave the message with Emily to deliver a few hours after they left to ensure they got in and out before the Alliance could catch up and ruin the plan by immediately getting caught (because let’s be real, that’s what would happen).
The Mystacor infiltration was way more high stakes with a lot higher chance of failure without Melog by their side to camouflage them, so this was riiiiisky, but they didn’t have a lot of options.
Chapter 2:
⦁ Adora’s powers didn’t exactly get an upgrade post-alignment, but her perception of She-ra did, and that allowed her tap deeper into her, which is what led to stuff like the shooting blast, especially on complete accident.
⦁ So I did (briefly) consider having Catra get chipped here and Prime commanding her to walk off the cliff instead of the stabbing. TBH, I just wanted to do my own thing without retreading so much ground from the show (which was kind of my whole philosophy when it came to this AU) and there wasn’t much point to it anyway since Catra would be chipped and unchipped within hours. It seemed far more logical to me that Prime would just kill her, keeping her alive only long enough to utilize her to get the sword. He wasn’t going to risk keeping the failsafe (Catra) alive long enough to really go through her memories, so chipping her didn’t have much use, and leaving her unchipped seemed like more effective blackmail (because who would want back their loved one when they know they’re indoctrinated? Somebody who understands love, you idiot).
⦁ In the initial outline of this chapter that I did a month and a half ago (lol), Prime didn’t stab her, instead just throwing her off the cliff. But. I mean. The drama. I had to go with stabbing. The fact he was doing it with Adora’s sword, which is supposed to be the home to a goddess of healing and protection but has been perverted and turned into a destructive weapon waiting to end the world, was just too poetic.
⦁ Okay okay okay. The sword-shattering thing. I have written that into two AUs now. The first one was an idea I came up with in October 2020 and was definitely destined to just be one of those “talk about it with your friends in Discord and never actually write” AUs, and then again into… well one that didn’t end up happening.
Then this AU came around and I realized I could finally use the idea. In each iteration of it, the circumstance was entirely different and the reason why the sword had to break was a little different too (Adora needing healing beyond the sword’s capabilities and She-ra’s power surging into her; being too far away from it to save the world; and needing to heal Catra leading to agony surging her power past the sword’s breaking point), so it always felt fresh and exciting while also being something that I was excited to finally incorporate because the drama. I was refreshing my inbox all day after posting this chapter because I love the end of it so much and I wanted to see people’s reactions.
⦁ Okay but what are the mechanics of it, I hear you not asking. Well, I’ll tell you. So one, my headcanon is that the sword was forged using the Heart for realsies, not just in this AU. Like I said, I was able to shove a lot of my headcanons into this AU because it was actually reasonable for them to have discovered that stuff in this ‘verse.
Anyway, She-ra’s runestone was as old as the other runestones and used to work like them too where she just had to be magically connected to it, not physically, to use her powers, but it was placed in the sword’s hilt so the sword could “impose order” on She-ra. Basically, the Sword of Protection was supposed to keep her locked as a First One and give her a “weakness” in the form of making her tied to a physical object. If She-ra becomes a problem, just take the sword away and she’s gone.
The sword is old, though, and She-ra’s magic is very powerful. Adora has been in a lot of tight spots before, but none of them as devastating as this, and her connection with She-ra is strong now. If Catra had died the same day that Adora got the sword, it probably wouldn’t have worked like this, but between knowing the sword is just an object now and the strength of her powers, she could reach for She-ra’s runestone even with it locked inside the sword. When she grabbed that connection is when the magic started manifesting around her, but she still couldn’t transform with the sword around it despite trying and trying. So She-ra broke the lock.
⦁ Oh yeah, what actually happened when Adora was going a little insane. As soon as Catra fell, her friends started fighting and the clones that had parted for Adora rushed her. They made the mistake of trying to hold her down and pull her away from Catra, though.
That’s when her eyes started glowing. As she internally spiraled and fought against the hands, she started to glow, and the power began to swirl around her. Pretty quickly, some clones were forced to let go, and others were knocked away. The remaining ones were knocked flat when she went full power-aura a la Save The Cat, and then she screamed, it did actually cause a minor local earthquake, and then she transformed.
Chapter 3:
⦁ Remember She-ra’s earthquake powers? Because Adora certainly doesn’t seem to with how little she uses them in the show LOL. Okay, but that feeds into my “full power She-ra” thing. In episode two where Adora does that, she’s kind of… overtaken by the avatar of She-ra. She’s almost mechanical in movement, she’s absolutely glowing with power like a beacon… you know, the stuff she was doing here. She-ra definitely has a deeper power that Adora can tap into at times, and that’s what she did here when she broke the sword. Prime was dealing with She-ra like he had never seen her before and the world had never seen her since before Mara.
⦁ In the initial version of this, Etheria started surging up to meet her and those cracks in the earth started pouring magic, but I changed it because that’s more related to my post-Heart headcanons then pre-Heart and I just don’t think it would work like that.
⦁ The outline of this scene included Adora bringing Catra up to the top of the cliff and then putting her down to fight Prime, but that was… a bad idea, so I had Adora put her down on the ground. I considered having the grass grow under Catra as a part of She-ra’s “life” powers (another headcanon), but that felt too close to Perfuma’s powers, and Perfuma was literally there, so I just had Perfuma do it and she made the protective tangle while she was at it.
⦁ I’m not entirely sure that the ending I wrote here is possible. Let me explain.
My interpretation of Prime’s hivemind and body jumping is that he basically can’t be killed because, like Corypheas (to everybody who just cringed internally, I salute you, we did time in the trenches together), he always moves to the next body when his current one is damaged. Thus, you have to disable the entire hivemind before you can trap his current body and kill him off in that.
That means that in this canon, Adora can’t kill him off yet because she hasn’t yet destroyed the mothership, but I went with the logic that once she has started that… magic purge thing she does, he can’t move, and without him in the system imposing order on it, the hivemind becomes a thousand discordant voices that don’t even know how to speak on their own, essentially debilitating them until the mothership is destroyed and they all become individuals. The clones do calm down, but right now they can barely think and are prone to lashing out.
⦁ I forgot not everyone is as insane about this show as I am when someone brought up the failsafe in the comments, so I’ll clarify here: the First Ones alphabet is phonetic. A reading/writing guide was uploaded to the show/Dreamworks’ social medias with all the details, but basically the failsafe/word Heart from the show is formed from a base word bar with two decorative elements sticking out of the top on both ends to form the top of the heart. The language is read right to left, so the outlines for the bottom half of the heart are made from the sounds/letters H and R on the right, and T on the left. So when Adora says she has H and R, she means she quite literally has one half of the heart, while Catra has the other containing the T, like one of those half-heart best friend necklaces totally not baby-lesbians get with each other.
⦁ The Hearrrrrrrrrrtttt sceneeeeee god okay. Man I really like this fic can you tell XD Them intertwining in the Heart is something that can be So Personal- OKAY I swear I’ll stop memeing now. The intertwining thing was born of them needing to share the failsafe for Catra to survive it (initial outline just called for Adora “taking” it from Catra via She-ra and the healing magic, I changed that and it’s way better this way) but then I absolutely loved what it led to. It also really helps resolve a lot of their personal issues to see each other, stripped and honest and incapable of hiding. Adora can feel how Catra truly, truly doesn’t need her to be useful to love her, and Catra can feel how Adora loves her even when she doesn’t show it how Catra needs, not to mention how her friends in general love her and think about her when she isn’t there. All of these are things they realize over the periods of weeks and months and years post-canon, but they got to kind of speedrun that process here. And also it’s just so fucking yuri I had to do it.
⦁ In the finale of the show, someone on crew (pretty sure it was ND) said the original idea was for the burst of magic to shoot up and destroy the mothership, but someone on crew (and I know he named and credited them, I just can’t remember who right now) came up with the idea for it to be overtaken by that tangle of plant life instead to reclaim it, and he thought that was a better idea. And I don’t disagree with that. But in this one they went with that first option and just blasted him out of the sky lol.
Once More, With Feeling [one shot]
⦁ These two dumbasses blush when talking/thinking about the Heart for so long, half the Princess Alliance is convinced they had victory sex down there or something, but no, they’re just so fucking gay.
⦁ It's... kind of a headcanon? For my own fic? But they do end up going out to explore space with the help from some reformed clones (when it comes to spaceship building/repair and intergalactic navigation) at some point after the war and eventually come across Krytis, because I can't leave Melog there forever.
⦁ I have a list of some more ideas for this universe, so I will return at some point, but I need a break. I had SO much fun with this fic, it was absolutely wild, but it was also a long ride and my creativity needs a bit of a rest or I might burn out.
Original Outline:
Originally this series wasn’t supposed to have plot and I had disclaimers about that. Okay, there was supposed to be some plot (Fics 1 & 3, the breakup, and the finale fic) but there was very little aside from that. Even the finale fic, I didn’t have context for how that happened, it was just “confrontation with Horde Prime looked different since Catra never got captured since she was never with the Horde.”
Never with the Horde. Yeah.
So. When I was first planning this series, I only briefly considered the possibility of not breaking them up, because in this AU they’re extremely codependent and it’s not healthy. They absolutely needed to learn to function independently of each other, and I love angst. However, the initial idea was just that they would break up and Catra would run away to the Whispering Woods, having her own adventures, getting caught up in shit but luckily never any missions with Adora.
Then I went to sleep (while writing the first fic, I think, but maybe just planning), and by the time I got up the next morning I had written the entirety of the deflection fic (that’s what I called I’d Die Just to Be Someone for a while) in my head. I sat down in front of my rough timeline for the series that acted as an outline and went “‘kay how do I mess this up because this idea is so angsty I can’t not.” I mean I did consider not, I outlined like three or four different back halves of the fic using the deflection and not, but in the end I hammered out my best version of them with the deflection in place.
Having such an arc determined for the series really changed the way I thought about it in that it needed to have structure now rather than doing whatever I wanted like before, but I kept the nonlinear nature of the series like I first planned.
When I constructed the arc, it had an overall pretty simple structure with 1 plot forwarding fic followed by one character/world building or backstory/fluff fic, repeat 5/6 times. This changed almost immediately because I kept having ideas for new insert fics. Maze (Literal, Metaphorical), Girls Talk, and Halls That Make a Home were not in the original list of ideas, and HTMaH was just supposed to be a filler fic once inserted but ended up somewhere halfway between that and plot since it brings up the Entrapta thing before we hit the portal and is where Adora reveals her backstory.
The fact I kept wanting to move around fics didn’t help. The first 3 fics were as planned, the forth fic was supposed to be “something in the Rebellion,” which I suppose it is, only the ideas that were supposed to go there ended up being in the 11th fic in the series. Then the 5th was as planned, 6th and 7th were come up with while writing the series (the single fic that was supposed to take their place ended up as a scene in the 11th fic), and 8, 9, and 10 were as planned. 11 kind of fluctuated but was originally the library fic before that got moved earlier (because I really wanted to write it and it was a good way to introduce the Entrapta thing). 12, 13, and 14 were all as planned again, though.
BTW, when I say “as planned,” I mean the fic topic was as planned. Some of them still saw changes within that fic, but most of them were just a few sentences of summary so there was plenty of room to grow.
Also… let’s talk about those other endings. Because I ended up with two “main” versions once the deflection was planned, so there was a second version of the ending I was toying with up until the point of no return (fic 8). The other version of the end was that Scorpia never connected with the Garnet, but they discovered the Heart, and Light Hope was forced to try to activate it. Without the Garnet connected, it couldn’t go through, but it started enough for Prime to pick up signals and he (at least kind of) realized what Etheria’s deal was. This was the first way I explained the sword being kept intact (though Catra did still help Adora out).
What did this result in? Well, Prime figured out the temporal thing and started sending clones back in time to fight Etheria. This led to a much different looking war, with clones at first supplementing the Horde’s ranks, and then overthrowing Hordak when they realized what was up and marching on everybody. Once sent back in time, however, they were cut off from the hivemind and it was a disorganized mess, so Prime himself eventually realized that was the problem after sending waves and waves of clones back in time and went back himself. The stand off happened pretty similarly, Adora purified him and freed all the clones in their time, and then they used the Heart to move Etheria into the wider world, scattering the army in the process.
Honestly, there’s just a lot of logistical problems with this version of the end, and maybe I could have hammered them out and changed things around, but I liked the version I used better because it was just simpler and I feel like all that timetravel and different-looking war stuff would have gotten convulted and muddied the story pretty quickly. As much as I liked the idea of going in on my time travel headcanon, it was just too much. It would have necessitated at least two more fics that I don’t think would have been that interesting. I love how this series came out, so I think I made the right call there, lol. The only loss was that “This is Where Separation Ends” doesn’t also represent Etheria moving into the universe anymore since that already happened two fics ago, but it’s still the effective joining with the universe since Prime’s army was cutting them off, so good enough lol.
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Catra’s clothes (Wild, Weird)
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Upcoming:
I’m torn between two projects right now, so I’m not sure yet, but it’ll be a short multi-chapter fic either way so it will probably start in the next couple days
#cotc#fic notes#ficmeta#HOO BOY#okay we're here we're done XD#for those curious. the fic notes are 8k.#hlep me im unwell#im so sorry i posted this without the read more at first lmao#fixed it#sorry about your dashes
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Wanted to share my tdp playlists bc i honestly like how they turned out! 💃
Some of these were recommended by dragonprinceofficial! (a, c, v, s)
(Very in depth and thought provoking comments about my fave songs under the cut >>>)
AARAVOS
Time, Stars, Universe Pretty ethereal star god vibes
Play with Fire Whatever his beef with the Sunfire peeps, im enjoying it and am glad he is too. slay queen (literally)
Dishonored 2 Main Theme creepy ominous spider-spinning-its-web vibes ok?
Inside the Cage Listen to sexy mental breakdown song.
In the Palace ~ Agitato Creepy fucked up butterfly beast. For context watch HxH, its fun!!! 😀 (< dead inside) Also soundtrack for Aaravos losing his mind in prison and making his puppets dance till their feet bleed! 😍
Adore Adore The story can change at the roll of a dice babeyy 😎 no fr the lyrics are fire
Throne Wrath and violence on planat earth
Nosk Spider-pulling-in-its-prey vibes. Callum wyd 👁👁
Dark Matter The drama.. the vibes.. "bring me your soul bring me your ~HATE~" *insert elmo fire gif*
Black Train/End Credits ~piano~ Also death etc. etc. idek. damn should this be on viren or claudia's playlist instead? 🤔
CLAUDIA
Restless Year I always imagine her dancing or playing the bass to this. Also this song was literally written about her /lie
W.I.T.C.H. We all know this would be on her playlist in a modern au.
My Zero It's fine, she's just gradually losing grip of her family and also herself, she's losing her beginnings 😀👍 ok
Selfless "You're mucking off, but I will live for you, my selfless love". Screaming crying throwing up etc.
Fireflies Nothing to say here except that it's perfect.
A Victory of Love Objectively a bop. Songs that make me Ascend™
Galaxies Honestly im just rlly invested in the modern au where she's a bassist in a cool band and this is one of the songs theyd be playing. but also the lyrics kinda fit
Spanish Sahara She can have a little vengeance as a treat. Also trauma <3
Young and Tragic sad :( baby magefam feels :((
VIREN
The Unquiet Grave he's a corpse 👍
Werewolf Heart Thinking about Harrow, thinking about Lissa maybe. also those wolves and screams?? sir... 🧍♂️ Also sexy bass. what more do you want.
Mohammed Most sexy guitar ive ever heard ever im not joking. leave me alone
LA PAURA DEL BUIO lyrics fit pretty well. also this playlist has a criminal lack of angry rock songs
Fight Like Gods Lyrics and such
Way down We Go idk how to describe it without saying the word sexy again :/
The Sun Pretty 😳
Sleep Oughg (< relates a bit too much)
Ashes to Ashes idk man, its just pretty. like Viren <3 <3 <3
Into Dust damn ok tdpo
SOREN
Beautiful Day idk this just has Soren all over to me. the early sunrise wake up feeling, the hopeful optimism idk man
Uptown Funk Originally wasn't putting this in but it is Sooo S1-2 Soren. Also this
Back Against The Wall A+ rec from tdpo
Ode To The Mets I am so normal about this song so normal i listen to it a regular amount haha *insert one of those feral stick figures with blood all over*
Run Magefam feels 💃
Edge of Darkness Next on Songs that make me Ascend™. "I've got love in my heart for an army apart" :(
Fill Your Heart This is one of my fave songs ever its so joyful i love it and I love Soren
Obstacles This song is already Not Ok on its own, but combined with the Soren-Claudia feels it's an atrocity 👍 Songs for floating away on a river never to return
What's Up Ya boy might not always be the brightest but he's definitely the more emotionally intelligent one also i love him so much hhskvhvhhvhvhbv
#the dragon prince#aaravos#claudia tdp#lord viren#viren tdp#soren tdp#i spent WAY too much time on this#at least it was fun#songs were chosen based firstly on vibe and secondly on lyrics#also i have sacrificed like more than 5 strokes songs are you proud 😪#balance in all things etc. etc. 😊#anyway this is me showing you my neatly sorted pebble and/or rock collection except they're songs#i just think they're neat#my thoughts#music tag
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moots!!! followers!!! who listened to ttpd, what are your favorite songs <3
where do I start?
I truly think “Whose afraid of little old me?” Is one of her best songs to date. my fav lyric is “I was tame, I was gentle 'til the circus life made me mean” I picture this whole song with the cage scene of the lwymmd mv. I feel like this is what the media thinks the rep era was. ALSO THANk YOU AimEE LIKE??? IN THE MIDST OF IT WE BRING THIS BACK?
“But daddy I love him” was truly my fav the first time I heard the album, “I'll tell you something about my good name It's mine alone to disgrace” I heard this line and immediately thought about the letter someone posted on Twitter and I always wondered how she might react to that, and well here it is. I also really like the contrast of this song with “I can fix him” bc i think it’s like an oh shit… maybe MAYBE he was not all that.
“Florida!!!” Truly has something in it that idk but I didn’t think I was going to like it but it is amazing.
With “The smallest man who ever lived” I went with expectations of it being about joe never stepping up but I never expected it to be about MH. I also never expected the title track to be abt mh like,,,
And I feel like “the manuscript “ was a great last song for album, it reminds me of “dear reader” like a closer idk why.
Sorry for the rant, I have no one to talk abt Taylor swift with and you asked haha
What did you think abt the album?
omg no don’t be sorry anon!!! YOU CAN DM ME ILL ALWAYS BE HAPPY TO TALK ABT TAYLOR :)
who’s afraid of little old me is so so good!!! thank you aimee is sooooooo-
she was sick with but daddy i love him omg thank god that woman came to her senses later. yk what it’s not one of my FAVS but just cause she says my name i’ll always defend her!!
omg not that i hated florida!!! on the first listen but i was so surprised but it really grew on me and i had “it’s one hell of a drug” stuck in my head yesterday 😭
i never expected us to have any song about that man on ttpd fr but here we are 💀
when i tell you the end of the manuscript RUINED me i mean it like- such a sad ending
what i thought abt the album omg!!! i was so overwhelmed during the first listen to the point i was like “pls not a double album” because i literally couldn’t process anything happening with that album but we did get a double album and it made it sm better to me because i’m an aaron girl :’) and there’s still a few songs i barely listen to but the album is really growing on me. (i think aaron saved it and maybe jack and taylor are- oh)
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Thought immediately about Rue and LSDL, so Enver’s POV: Hometown & Young - Blackout
https://open.spotify.com/track/1l2tobE9EUNepryZCNrpG4?si=cLp44sbySXaMyrZBIs-jGQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0udP9yp8qTYTAoCEBc4n9R
My love's a cigarette death (everything he once loved ended badly or rue being deadly af?)
And I don’t even know where she runs to (rue going back to the temple or leaving after arguments)
Half the time in my head (not being able to concentrate cuz of her)
But lord I’d love to figure it out (him trying and trying again to figure out where the temple is)
Slowly she comes back to me (self-explanatory)
My thoughts of a wedding ring (their lil convo in the latest chapter ARGH)
My love has grown so cold as ice (after everything that’s happened to him, Bane being anti-lOvE & anxiety when it comes to rue)
My breath is white (Mephistopheles/Mephistar/Cania heist?)
Can you please take it away from me? (Him praying to Bane, trying to push down the weakness *cough* feelings)
Slowly she comes back to me
She says she wants everything (every single life, killing everyone for bhaal)
My heart, my head can’t explain (being torn between rue and following his plans & duties)
But in a blackout that’s all she says
My brains a silicon chip
My body is a suit to slip in to (putting on a show/mask & his anxiety coat)
But it seems I don’t fit (not being wanted by anyone in his life before?)
But I can hear her calling my name ("you only call me that when you want something" ~~Enver~~ pwease)
The silence it thrives at night (not being able to sleep at night, especially without the clutches of his fav Bhaalspawn)
Who knows how, when, or why? (Thinking about her promise to kill him last)
Blackened palms up to the sky (Bane worship & when rue and him tried to find out who myrkul‘s chosen is, by "praying")
When thoughts they come in then bleed out of my mind (engineering ideas, scribbling them down, building ˋem & not being able to keep up with thoughts)
And I try so hard to forget (trauma, his past)
Aim for my head cause that’s where the trouble is (maybe consuming alcohol?)
She snaps my neck back into place (latest chapter: him having a tantrum and rue giving advice what to do)
With her blue fingertips (isn’t rue a Mephistopheles tiefling?)
What a wasteful mistake (rue‘s line about their previous hookups)
Oh my god (maybe being overwhelmed, bane pwease h e l p)
And I can smell her skin (self-explanatory)
I know that, That this cage I’m in (bane owning him, his soul)
I’m broken (trauma & past)
She sang (either him to sleep haha or drawing him in like a siren?)
She sang
ANON I AM HOLDING YOU SO CLOSE TO ME RIGHT NOW THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER!!!! YES YES YES TO ALL OF THIS!!!! YOU SEE THE VISION!!! YOU GET THEM!!!!! <3<3<3<3
IT WORKS IT FITS!!! im buzzing i cannot form the right words but know this has gone STRAIGHT to my heart and now im overthinking about them again!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!
"My heart, my head can’t explain" (being torn between rue and following his plans & duties)"
thinking so hard about this. there's a line ive got planned for one of the later chapters that fits around the theme of rue vs his duties and :)
enver gortash your mind is so fun to dive into. call me a mindflayer parasite the way im wiggling around in there
i love love love analysing lyrics to fit them and this??? perfect, no notes at all!! fun fact i started writing up key lyrics from songs that are on the playlist i made for them that Capture Their Vibes Perfectly just like that im so glad to see im not the only one who goes line by line + puts things into their perspective. (i am. normal about these two i promise!!!!)
also i immediately added it to their playlist i have for them. linked it below because its the only thing i listen to anymore
(+ also listening to more of hometown & young. they are so good how have i not stumbled across them before. thank u dearest anon<3)
going to think about this for the rest of the day anon thank u for this!!!!!!!!
(+ yea rue is a mephistopheles tiefling despite her claims that shes "not a tiefling" and "is bhaals flesh" she's lying do not believe a word she say. i think the mephistar heist is going to be so funny because of it.)
#; tea time#anon#; let sleeping dogs lie#this has actually made my day i love this#thank u anon!!!! your mind!!! you get them!!!!!
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I like to listen to your unhinged playlist while waiting for the chapter to set the mood. And sometimes I'm so baffled how accurate some lyrics are 😅
Bodybag by Chloe Moriondo
"Don't know if I hate you or if I wanna date you
Put you in a body bag instead of my bed
I don't wanna like you, I just wanna tie you up
Then keep you in a cage and watch you sleep for ages"
And
"Wanna kiss you on your cheeks but I also wanna punch your teeth"
I can see in my mind how Pete could feel so conflicted. Being so frustrated by Vegas to the point of thinking of being violent but on the other side he does want to tie Vegas up and keep him in bed. Sometimes wanting to kiss Vegas until he says something weird and now he wants to punch the teeth out.
But even though Pete is conflicted and gets really angry at Vegas all the time. He is also very possessive. I mean most people would expect Vegas being "keep you in cage" type. But Pete can be as possessive and obsessive over Vegas too. He just didn't let himself be like this yet. The most is hidden under all his survival instincts.
I love this type of dynamic between them. And I can't wait for Pete to become more possessive over Vegas. (And being feral about it is also my favorite)
I don't remember if I asked what song lyrics you chose for this chapter? 😁
Also I find it funny how after this song the next one is Use Me which is so filthy and could be interpreted as Vegas's answer to Pete's conflicting desires 😄 I love to imagine some kind of plot with these songs. It's such a fun addition to this pairing ❤️
ahh i love that you're listening to it!!! omg yeah some of the lyrics are like supes disturbing and SO them like it really does set the mood hahahahha
oh yes i totally agree pete does have a possessive streak that we've only really seen tiny hints of (and there will be more scenes later where pete makes it very clear to others who vegas belongs to lol he will not be sharing)
oh!!! i don't think you have but i am settling on obvious blase by the used for this one! its got a great mix of angst and hopefulness which is where i think vegas is sitting emotionally atm and feeling kind of bittersweet about his situation:
'Broken so completely, built me up in the same way
Devour me so sweetly, you prefer me sick this way, I’ll stay sick this way
Six feet in my guilt, Broken hinges on my casket
The way it has to end is always bittersweet, Take this, take this away from me"
oh i love that idea!!! tbh ive just chucked them in once im certain a song hits their vibe there's no particular order to them (besides the first few songs which are in order of each corresponding chapter title of the fic in case nobody noticed that haha)
but i love that youre making up side plot with the songs!! we love a song headcanon for sure!
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FOAMING AT THE MOUTH. I DEMAND YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR HEADCANONS ON THE CHARACTERS FROM 斑紋胡蝶譚 (AND THE PREVIOUS 3 MUSIC VIDEOS) OR WHATEVER YOU WANNA SAY ABOUT THEM.
HI!!! I’m really glad to find someone who also appreciates this MV series, it definitely deserves more recognition!
Idk if I have too many specific thoughts on them but I’ll give it a shot!
Disclaimer: While the lyrics are very literal my understanding of Japanese is minimal, so for things that don’t have an EN translation I’ve been using Google Translate + going off things that JP fans on Twitter have mentioned about it (also using Google Translate��..OTL). If anything is inaccurate feel free to correct me!
I don’t think the characters formally have names (Bakui’s wavebox had multiple people asking but nothing was ever confirmed…?) so I’ll just refer to them by titles.
The Thief/Writer/Young Man: Headcanons… He gives me the impression of having a reserved and somewhat finicky personality even prior to his spiral into sin. For some reason he struck me as the kind of person to try to write a mystery novel, but since he ends up mired in the crime and underworld business that he once thought of for fiction, it eventually loses its charm and becomes the source of his writer’s block. Although the lyrics in 斑紋胡蝶譚 seem to indicate that he’s reached the end of the road, I like to think someone found some of his manuscripts once he fled and at least preserved them so they didn’t just end up in the trash…
I’m also a little curious about the specifics regarding his family history since the songs drop hints here and there… In Romance in Full Bloom, he mentions that the heiress is out of his league and that he doesn’t know much about dancing and wine, and in Cheap Visionary, he’s obviously struggling financially, saying that the money that he took from his parents before leaving has dried up. But in 狂犬夜行譚 it looks like he was part of a wealthy family prior to his entanglement with his boss… maybe this is why he’s so good at keeping a mask and performing thievery? Also, it seems like his boss had a hold on those associated with the young man’s history, so I’m not sure if he’d been a target/accomplice the whole time or was just particularly unlucky.
^ I really like this shot for some reason... I think his forehead is a charm point lol
^ I also love this sequence in Cheap Visionary/狂犬夜行譚 a lot! The variations he rotates though are really fun and it's really effective at portraying his struggle with his sense of self
Unrelated but I think he and Narou (from For Dear Life) should meet since they both embody the struggling artist archetype haha
The Heiress/Young Woman: Despite growing up in such a stifled environment she gives me the impression of having an assertive and crafty personality when allowed to express it. Although it isn’t the first time someone has gotten close to her with the intention to steal her inheritance, it’s been a long while since she’s made the mistake of letting her guard down. The young man considers his soul stained from all the crimes he’s committed, but I feel like if they met again, she would be pretty understanding aside from forgiving him for stealing.
Also, it’s kind of subtle but she doesn’t seem at all surprised when she enters the dream in 斑紋胡蝶譚 unlike the young man, who seems a little disoriented to me (well, he did just kill a man). Maybe it’s because she’s used to dreaming and imagining scenarios to escape the current cage of her life...?
I'm glad she got a larger role in the series! Her design is really simple but cute... My post-MV cope is that the young man follows the railroad tracks to where the young woman's train is going, eventually meeting in real life and helping him change his identity/sponsoring his writing endeavors. He is similarly familiar with the workings of upper class dealings and how easily they can coexist with underworld business, so I think he could help her navigate affairs once she inherits the company from her family. At the very least, he would be able to alleviate the boredom by weaving the stories that were unable to escape his pen while he was selling his soul.
For some reason 御涙頂戴 by Miyuu/Teniwoha makes me think of them too… but it might be because they're close together on one of my playlists.
Random thoughts about the 斑紋胡蝶譚 MV:
Although it’s bittersweet, I think it’s a perfect place to end on. I’m not sure if Makabe-san has any more plans for this series, but I hope he and Bakui-san work together again in the future!
Nene’s vocals complement the dreamy mood and Makabe-san’s vocals so well! <3 I like the softer direction this song took compared to the previous three, which were high energy and chaotic.
The butterfly motif… people mentioned how butterflies are associated with the departed (especially given the lyrics), but I couldn’t help but think about how the use of dreams reminded of me Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream, esp in regards to the two characters’ regrets finally resolving despite not actually meeting in person 🥹
My favorite part is at 3:13 where the action has a rotoscoped feeling to it… it’s totally different from Bakui’s usual animation style which makes it more impactful to me! I love the color scheme as well, the limited color palette is reminiscent of the dream sequences in THINGS SO FAR and DIE IN THE SEA.
I was saying this earlier but this series is a really good showcase of Bakui-san’s growth as an animator/artist and I’m really glad Makabe-san lets them have a noticeable amount of freedom when handling the MVs…(me pointing at the first mural in 斑紋胡蝶譚: nunokami sighting ⁉️👆)
Like... they’ve been trapped in the Nilfruits basement for part of this year (lol) and since he’s really popular there are probably stricter guidelines for the MVs and promo material? So it's nice they can exercise their own flair outside of their original works. I remember Bakui saying they like drawing characters’ angry faces the most, and it really looks like they had fun portraying the young man’s inner turmoil and the MVs in general for this series!
...I did not mean to write this much... But thanks for reading my disorganized thoughts, I hope they're to your liking :-]
If you have any headcanons/etc I'd love to hear them as well! Thank you for the ask! :'D
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Savanaclaw Character Songs and Associations
Continuing with one of the most driven dorms on NRC's campus, Savanaclaw! What music may mesh with Leona, Jack, and Ruggie's characters?
Notes: Every song is from my liked songs playlist (so feel free to judge me for my taste, haha!) and I only allowed myself to use an artist once for this project. There is also some strong language and mature themes in some of the songs, so be aware if you choose to listen to them.
I've included:
- A song that represents them
- A song they'd listen to
- and (for some) an additional song, depending on the character and circumstance
The full Spotify playlist for ALL songs and characters is linked at the end of the post.
Heartslabyul | Octavinelle | Scarabia | Pomefiore | Ignihyde | Diasomnia
Leona Kingscholar
Represented by: Glory and Gore - Lorde
Leona is, underneath his lazy exterior, an incredibly competitive and clever character. He is highly capable (if he puts in the effort), and is aggressive, but is loyal to those he chooses to be around. This song reflects that cunning, competitive Leona. He'd also definitely listen to Lorde. I'm sure of it.
Listens to: Lateralus - TOOL
Leona would love the mood, heaviness, and cleverness of prog rock, and would listen to a lot of TOOL, Dream Theater, etc. Lateralus has a unique rhythmic pattern, lyrics that seem to mean a lot but mean basically nothing, and plus, it's connected to mathematics and theory. It would be something Leona would really like to listen to while laying about. He'd find the song clever and amusing.
Jack Howl
Represented by: Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Jack is an incredibly loyal, respectful person. Though he has a tough, strong exterior, he is truly soft. He deeply cares for others at his core... even if he won't admit it. This song is similarly gentle, and akin to his loyal and genuine nature.
Listens to: Barracuda - Heart
This song is just cool. It's dynamic. It gets a person in a certain mood, feeling like you can defeat the entire world and all its injustices. Jack would 100% listen to this song, as well as other music by Heart, especially while working out. He would love the music, and would feel driven by the power and intensity of the vocals and instruments.
Ruggie Bucchi
Represented by: Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant
Ruggie is a VERY hard worker, even though it's not always by choice. This song really reflects Ruggie's worldview, worries, pride, somewhat selfish nature, and what he does to support himself and his loved ones. On the other hand, it's a very fun piece of music, which similarly reflects Ruggie's upbeat nature.
Listens to: One Week - Barenaked Ladies
One Week is upbeat, fun, and a little goofy: just the type of song that Ruggie would listen to in his spare time, or while working on something else. I think that he'd just vibe with songs by the Barenaked Ladies in general. Ruggie would also probably memorize and learn to sing this whole song (and would definitely use it to win some bets or competitions!)
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nauyak said: *chanting* YES. YES. YES. YES! YES! GAY COWGIRLS MY BELOVED. I was so hoping you'd write something sapphic lol. This is absolutely PERFECT. Thank you so much! I had a fabulous time reading it. And the nod to the various iterations of The Hunt was so cleverly done. I never would've likened it to cattle driving but it fits really, really well. Definitely gonna have to listen to that song now haha
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I'm so glad you liked it!!!
Yeah, I usually listen to The Ventures's version of Ghost Riders In The Sky (I just think it's more fun to bring a little surf rock into it) but the original lyrics to the song go hand-in-hand with the concept, I think. This idea of cowboys doomed to chase cattle in the sky for eternity as payment for their crimes on earth... It's always given Wild Hunt vibes to me, always.
So I decided to make those vibes a little more explicit in this fic by bringing in Hecate and chaos and dominion over storms. I was also kind of going for... I guess there's a particular vibe to a lot of old American folklore, those old Jack Tales and all, that morality and supernatural are all tied up together, and you can be a little naughty but if you go too far there will be supernatural consequences for your misdeeds. I wanted to depict two cowgirls on the cusp of damning their souls for eternity... and for two women like that, being trapped in a constant race for a prize you will never win, being caged by your own misdeeds, would be their own version of Hell.
haha I just wanted to write something spooky and a little romantic and I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Maybe I will end up putting it on AO3... I think it was a bit too long to be comfortably read on tumblr. lmao
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no one asked for this, don't read all this, keep scrolling, save yourself
i was inspired by @canary44 's theo raeken coded playlist, and i really wanted to make theo a sad boi playlist of songs by my favourite artist. aurora's music is very special to me; she makes me feel a lot and has gotten me through some very tough moments in life. so i wanted to pick songs for theo that i thought sounded like echoes of his grief, or invitations to lean into his softer parts, and to not let pain tear him apart.
did i add like, half of her discography? yes but i could have added more so don't fucking try me🥰💅✨
if anyone doesn't wanna listen to the whole thing but wants the vibes, here's a breakdown.
grieving songs: Runaway, Little Boy in the Grass, Lucky, Winter Bird (he would 100% cry to it while thinking about tara, argue with the wall), Through The Eyes Of A Child, It Happened Quiet
healing songs: Conqueror, Warrior, All Is Soft Inside, Infections Of A Different Kind, The River, Daydreamer, Soft Universe, Giving In To The Love, This Could Be A Dream
"fuck you dread doctors and fuck you god" songs: Running With The Wolves, Churchyard, You Keep Me Crawling, Blood In The Wine, The Devil Is Human
"haha i'm fucked up" songs: In Boxes, Soulless Creatures, In Bottles, The Innocent
i'm also going to add some lyrics from each song that reminded me of him here bc i love her lyrics so muuuuuuuuch🖤
Runaway
and all this time i have been lyin
oh lyin in secret to myself
i've been putting sorrow on the farthest place
on my shelf, la-di-da
and i was runnin far away
would i run off the world someday?
nobody knows, nobody knows
and i was dancing in the rain i felt alive and i can't complain
but no, take me home, take me home where i belong, i got no other place to go
Running With The Wolves
there's blood on your lies
the sky's open wide
there is nowhere for you to hide
the hunter's moon is shining
i'm running with the wolves tonight
In Boxes
calling out for the lonely, i am going home
i've been doing awful things again
i hear them laughing in my head
Little Boy In The Grass
when will my healing come?
when will my healing come along?
sinking like a stone
when will my healing come along?
finally i am over it all
finally i am over it all
Conqueror
broken mornings, broken nights and broken days inbetween
open ground the sky is open, makes an open scene
Lucky
i, i don't know where i am, where i'll go
where to even begin when i know
what lies behind, makes no sense in my mind
but i know that it's time to let go
and i feel the light for the very first time
not anybody knows that i am lucky to be alive
Winter Bird
silent things
violent chase
we are dancing again in a dream by the lake
my tears are always frozen
i can see the air i breathe
got my fingers painting pictures on the glass in front of me
lay me by the frozen river where the boats have passed me by
all i need is to remember how it was to feel alive
Through The Eyes Of A Child
when a human strokes your skin
that is when you let them in
let them in before they go
i would rather feel alive with a childlike soul
with a childlike soul
Warrior
i can't recall the last time i opened my eyes to see the world as beautiful
and i built a cage to hide in
i'm hiding, i'm trying to battle the night
let love conquer your mind
warrior, warrior
just reach out for the light
warrior, warrior
All Is Soft Inside
i don't know why, but i feel down
you need to know, i can't go on
i was a rose, i was an animal
don't let me change, don't let me go
all around is stone, all is soft inside
It Happened Quiet
you fell apart
like a stone can be broken into sand
a thousand pieces
spread across a crying land
and you can't remember that day
but you know it happened quiet
so quiet
Churchyard
hate followed him gently
black seeds in his heart
roots tearing the love in him apart
he told me i belong in a churchyard
he told me i could walk away but i wouldn't get far
tell me how do people know what is hurt, what is love?
he told me i belong in a churchyard
Soft Universe
don't let me turn into pain
all of this is loveliness
chaos came, we laid our head
down on a feather cotton bed
you find a heart and catch your breath
let the universe go red
speak to me, speak to me
with love in your words
make for me, make for me
a soft universe
Infections Of A Different Kind
and i beg, i beg to be drained
from the pain i have soaked myself in
so i can stay okay
and more than okay for a while
for a while, for a while
The River
don't forget who you are even though you are hurt
you are caught in a wire and soon it will burst
you can cry
drinking your eyes
do you miss the sadness when it's gone?
and you let the river run wild
Daydreamers
i step on broken glass
and dream of soft clouds
when feelings are heavy they become
all we are
and we become
nighttime dreamers, street walkers, small talkers
when we should be
daydreamers, and moonwalkers, and dream talkers
Soulless Creatures
never knew this curious head of mine
never knew what is love if kept inside
nothing but an endless empty heart
like laying a seed within the dark
give me a piece of your heart
give me a piece of your hands as we go
In Bottles
i will kindly watch you sleep
i find out that your eyes are open
i hide all the pieces that you never would have liked
if you knew about them
so i hide my children
oh, cover your eyes, cover your eyes
hide me inside
under your spine, under your spine
Giving In To The Love
cause if i'm not loved, i guess that i am cursed
i gotta know how to beat it, beat it first
if i'll be somebody i'll never let my skin decide it for me
i never had the world so why change for it
i never had the world so why change for it
giving in to the love, giving in to the love
giving in to the love, the love, the love, the love
You Keep Me Crawling
if i keep, if i keep forgiving
maybe i'll believe that you never meant for life to hurt for me
maybe i'll recover if you set me free
but why does it make me feel like i am weak and small?
why do i keep begging like the animal?
maybe it's because i need to serve someone
so you keep me crawling on my knees
The Innocent
danger in the boy that would lose control
when everyone thought he had a heart of gold
i remember how we used to play
he'd let me win if i let him stay
left without a single trace
i don't know why he said goodbye to love
Blood In The Wine
i was given a heart before i was given a mind
a thirst for pleasure and war
a hunger we keep inside
we fell from sky with grace, and life gave us a sweeter taste
you can drink, you can feast
there's beauty in your beast
the flesh and the fruit and the blood in the wine
come on feel alive, lover
come on feel the love, like a sinner
shout it louder, shout it for the ones who can never say
i won't feel ashamed, mother
can you break the chains, of her
shout it louder, not a sinner
she's a lover
This Could Be A Dream
feeling so alive can hurt so very much
when you're losing touch
but if i touched you, would you feel it there?
could i trust love, even if i'm scared?
oh i wish i could give like i'm longing to give
oh i wish i could live like i'm longing to live
The Devil Is Human
oh do you envy how i'm free?
how the life in me is real
running barefoot through the fields
oh does it hurt how i don't look at you with fear?
do you like to watch me kneel
'cause the way it makes you feel?
and i hear you don't like it
i don't care if you don't
...if you actually indulged me and read all this i'm sorry but what is wrong with you
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I will never resist talking about my favorite things, especially when I can combine two of them in the same post -- in this case Yugioh 5Ds and music. @yu-gi-overload has given me the excuse, and I'm going to run with it, lol.
This playlist was up to 98. Then Certain People (you know who you are, yeah, you) gave me more and now its up to 110. Granted, some of them I hear and think to myself that I should actually take them off because they don't fit as well as I initially thought (most of those are from when I watched it originally 10+ years ago, so that explains why) but I'm lazy and have not. All that to say: this list does not have 110 songs on it. But probably pretty close.
Some of these songs probably only make sense to me and my weird brain. I will not be offended if anyone looks at this and goes "what the heck is that song doing on here?" Because it makes sense to me and that's all that matters.
There are also characters that have only one (or even none) songs for them. This makes me sad. If you have any good ones, please let me know.
On to the playlist! (Categorized for Convenience!)
****All link are to YouTube****
****Feel free to add your own in the comments/reblogs/tags! I'm always happy to find new stuff!****
Yusei
- Now or Never - Josh Groban
- Soldier, feat. Fluerie - Tommee Profitt
- If I Die Young - The Band Perry, cover by Sam Tsui
- So Silent - Zack Hemsey (Less 'perfect lyrical fit' and more 'it's got the Vibes' but... Yusei at Jack, Aki, Godwin in that order on the verses)
- Where the Skies End - Starset
- Can You See Me? - Krista Siegfrids (Second verse doesn't totally work but eh.)
- Take Me Over - RED (Same vein as Where The Skies End)
- The World You Want - Switchfoot
- Renegade - Daughtry (More the Vibes than exact fit but eh)
- Believe in Myself - Fairy Tail OP21, English cover by NateWantsToBattle
- Child of the Stars - Fish in a Bird Cage
- Still Alive (Looking For A Reason) - RED
- Rise - Ashes Remain
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Jack
- Run Run Rebel - Hidden Citizens (Burning Soul arc)
- From Now On - The Greatest Showman (Post Fortune Cup)
- When I Was King - ONE OK ROCK (Post Fortune Cup)
- Good For You - Dear Evan Hansen (More, other people about him, pre-series)
- Kings - Tribe Society
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Aki
- Innocence - Nathan Wagner (Pre-series through mid-way Dark Signers)
- Paper Crown - Alec Benjamin (Arguably ship-y but only if you watch the video, lol)
- Monster - Beth Crowley (Pre-series through Fortune Cup)
- I Want To Live - Skillet
- Masayume Chasing - Fairy Tail OP15, English cover by AmaLee
- Surviving the Game - Skillet
- Ignorance - Paramore
- Unbreakable - Fireflight
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Villains
- Monster Made of Memories - Citizen Soldier (Dark Signers)
- Feed the Machine - Poor Mans Poison (Rex Godwin)
- How Villains Are Made - Madalen Duke (Pretty much all of them, but specifically Godwin and Z-ONE)
- World So Cold - 12 Stones (More like Yusei about the villains but. Hard one to categorize, haha.)
- Will I Make It Out Alive, feat. Jessie Early - Tommee Profitt (Z-ONE et al)
- SCAVA - Hollywood Undead (Z-ONE et al)
- With You Til the End, feat. Sam Tinnesz - Tommee Profitt (Z-ONE et al)
- Last Survivor, feat. Nilka - Unsecret (Z-ONE)
- The One to Survive, feat. Bruce Williams - Hidden Citizens (Z-ONE)
- The Sound of Silence - Disturbed (Z-ONE)
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Other Assorted Characters
- Iridescent - Linkin Park (Lua/Leo)
- The Chosen One - Smash Into Pieces (Lua/Leo)
- Pretender - AJR (Lua/Leo)
- Something Big - Shawn Mendes (Lua/Leo)
- See You Again, feat. Charlie Puth - Wiz Khalifa (Bruno, or rather the others about him but)
- Memories - Maroon 5 (Bruno, or rather the others about him again)
- All Eyes on You - Smash Into Pieces (Crashtown arc Kiryu/Kalin)
- Hell's Comin' With Me - Poor Mans Poison (Kiryu/Kalin)
- Far From Home, feat. Sam Tinnesz - Tommee Profitt (Crow, Dark Signers arc)
- Higher - The Score (Crow)
- Counting Stars - OneRepublic (Crow)
- Fight Song - Rachel Platten (Luka/Luna)
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All Six Signers
- Young - Hollywood Undead
- Relate - for King & Country
- Answer the Call, feat. Claire Guerreso - Hidden Citizens
- All For One - Hidden Citizens
- Hey Brother - Avicii
- Heart of the Darkness, feat. Sam Tinnesz - Tommee Profitt
- Saviors of the World - Skillet
- We Won't Give Up - The Afters (I specifically associate this with the WRGP but)
- Caught In the Fire, feat. Sam Tinnesz - Tommee Profitt
- Strike Back - Fairy Tail OP16, English cover by NateWantsToBattle
- We Are - ONE OK ROCK
- Unleash the Power, feat. Sam Tinnesz and Rayelle - Tommee Profitt
- Born For This - The Score
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Combinations
- Where We Rise - Neoni (Jack and Yusei)
- Ready As I'll Ever Be - Tangled: the Series (Signers vs Dark Signers. I feel like this one needs a breakdown but only upon request, lol.)
- Hall of Fame - The Script (Jack, Crow, Lua/Leo; post-series)
- No Limits - Zayde Wolf (Yusei and Jack)
- Alive - Daughtry (Yusei, Jack, Crow, Aki) (Warning: flashing)
- Hold On For Your Life, feat. Sam Tinnesz - Tommee Profitt (Yusei vs Kiryu/Kalin; Jack vs Carly)
- Face Down - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (Yusei at Divine about Aki)
- Brother - Kodaline (Yusei, Jack, Crow)
- Who I Am - Citizen Soldier (Yusei and Aki)
- Carry On - The Score x AWOLNATION (Yusei and Aki)
- Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush, metal cover by Jonathan Young and Caleb Hyles (Aporia and Team Ragnarok)
- The Hero - Nathan Wagner (Yusei and Z-ONE)
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Ships
- Still Worth Fighting For - My Darkest Days (JackxCarly)
- Angel With a Shotgun - The Cab (JackxCarly)
- Monsters - Katie Sky (YuseixAki. Could absolutely be interpreted platonically too imo.)
- Better Than One - The Score (In my head, YuseixAki, but any really)
- Island - SVRCINA (JackxCarly. Feel like this one needs an explanation but it's a Whole Essay so not on this post, lol)
- I Found the Answer in You - Loving Caliber (YuseixAki)
- Stolas Sings (Owl in a Cage) - Helluva Boss [Sam Haft], cover by Caleb Hyles (One-sided JackxCarly)
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General
- Meet Me on the Battlefield - SVRCINA
- Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons
- Here We Stand - Hidden Citizens
- Finish Line - Skillet (Specifically always makes me think of Jack pushing his runner during the WRGP, but... lol)
- This is War - Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Not Gonna Die (+Intro) - Skillet
- Shattered - Trading Yesterday
- Lost and Found - Zack Hemsey (First two arcs in particular)
- Hero - Skillet
- Witching Hour, feat. Brooke Griffith - Tommee Profitt (Dark Signers Arc)
- The Greatest Show - The Greatest Showman (Riding Duels)
- Catalyst - Linkin Park (Satellite)
- Midnight Sun - Phillip Phillips
#yugioh 5ds#ygo 5ds#yugioh#ygo#music#playlist#there are surprisingly few songs JUST for jack#there are a lot in combinations with others though i guess lol#one of these i was going to change to jack AND aki but then i forgot which one lol#oh well#so much music yall. so. much.#i'm not tagging every character because i'm lazy lol
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xtc, and on the side andy and the dukes?
im about to have an autism attack so extreme i love you johnny
FOR XTC:
favorite song:
this is so difficult because obviously a lot of their songs mean a great deal to me, but generals and majors i think will always come out on top.
close runner ups are battery brides, chalkhills and children, runaways, toys, and probably a few more. i wont exhaust it lol
least favorite song:
i hate saying this because i love xtc so much but its definitely cynical days. and theres times when i even like this song too!
close runner up is all of a sudden its too late, theyre kind of the same to me
favorite album:
BLACK SEA! black sea forever and ever until i die! i love the concept i love that it was orignally going to be called working under pressure and it was going to be a play on being a deep sea diver and also a musician under the scrutiny of record companies, i love its music videos, i love the artwork for it, everything about it is beautiful.
close runner ups are oranges and lemons, big express, and english settlement
least favorite album:
i genuinely dont know if i can say. i really love them all.
song that got me into them:
same as my favorite! generals and majors! my friend recommended me it in sept 2020 and i decided i loved it so much i had to hear the album it was on. after that xtc changed my life forever
seen live:
no haha they stopped touring in 1982
rate: 1 billion/10 they are the best band to ever exist
FOR THE DUKES:
favorite song:
mole from the ministry! its the boys' favorite music video, too! i love the mastering and the effects used in this song so much.
least favorite song:
ummm probably shiny cage. sorry colin! i like the lyrics but its a bit boring sonically
favorite album:
25 o'clock! i like both mini albums but i like 25 o'clock's vibes more. 25 o'clock feels more like alice and wonderland to me and psionic psunspot is a little different
also, andy illustrated the cover himself! :)))
least favorite album:
psionic psunspot, but they only released 2 mini albums and a compilation of both so its not like i dislike any aspect of it haha
song that got me into them:
idk, i guess 25 o clock? i just found out about them bcs they are literally xtc LOL
seen live: no lol they never toured as the dukes
rate: 1 million out of ten
FOR ANDY:
favorite song:
wonder annual. its in my opinion his most beautiful song, i could talk about it forever and ever.
youtube
least favorite song:
you like me?. its so fucking bad. i hate it so much. not even gonna link it
favorite album:
ive only heard up to volume 5 of fuzzy warbles but i think vol 1 is still a big favorite, though i do like 2 a lot and i think 4
least favorite album:
probably fuzzy warbles volume 3? though i do like a lot off it. maybe 5?
song that got me into them:
well i listen to his solo stuff bcs hes the lead man of xtc, but at some point i found out about young cleopatra and remembered liking it, so i guess that was a catalyst lol
seen live:
the entire reason xtc stopped touring in 1982 is because of andy's anxiety disorder and withdrawal, so he definitely wouldnt tour on his own lol
rating:
1 million out of ten
#thank you so so much johnny im gonna die#johnny ask#JACKIE LOVE XTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!11#long post#sorry haha dont mean to bombard all my followers with my diseases.
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Lucky number 13 :P?
Lucky #13 is BlackBoxWarrior / OKULTRA by Will Wood.
This is by far the hardest one to convert into a fic. I don't know if I can, haha. Like every track off The Normal Album it is, um. Lyrically dense. The second title is a reference to MKULTRA which is, ah... not... not something I think transitions very smoothly into fic, haha. So I'd most likely take that proverbial surgeon's scalpel, keeping with the intense medical theming, and cut out a small sample of a verse and the chorus to reel back the extremes which the song cycles through twice a second.
His rib cage was a hornet’s nest, palpitations set the beat
His vagus nerve a turk’s head knot, an axel hitch, a carrick bend
He wondered if Christ-Consciousness would charge a cancellation fee
Auf wiedersehen, au revoir, he gripped his wits right by their ends
For what? For what? For what it’s worth
If it was going to kill you, boy, it would have by now
For what? For what? For what it’s worth
There’s no more looking back, it’s looking up or looking down
This brings to mind Murdoc's various scrapes with danger and death, via overdose, barfights, misbegotten dealings with devils or inmates and other tragically mundane or exceedingly supernatural circumstances. I am of course a bit more drawn to the brushes with overdose, and I think that's adequately fitting to these lyrics. This really captures the mania that Murdoc's speed habit exacerbates; my mind immediately goes pre-band, but a version could certainly exist post-Gorillaz, most likely between P1 and P2 when the band has their first hiatus. It could be about Murdoc taking his Winnebago and hitting the bricks, leaving trails of fraud and illicit deals behind him, seeing phantoms of Stuart through the south but he'll be goddamned if he's going back north. Maybe one day he sees him, really sees him (or maybe, definitely maybe, because he'd, he'd know, wouldn't he?), his eyes straining to follow his towering gilded shape in a crowd; but he can't trust his own head, which he’s washed nostril to skull with powders and booze. Maybe he's hidden among the caravans in the fields outside the funfair, at ends with his impulses toward flight and his animal need to follow Stu's heel, his resentments at the band's squandered glory, his ego, his obsession, every fuck-headed thing he's done in his life for all the fuck-headed things done to him first, and has an exceedingly bad night in there. I don't think he'd confront Stuart before or after, and uses the money he robbed them of to buy a plane ticket instead.
I could also see the manic-survival incident in the immediate days before his acquisition of Plastic Beach, but the layers of grief and mental duress added atop that obviously darken what was already rough subject matter much further, and I've talked a lot about Plastic Beach already. But I admit, the more I look at the lines, the more clear a route that seems...
The song as a whole is heady in very different ways, so again this is just me trying to distill a small portion into something I could realistically see plotting, not at all saying this is an accurate portrayal of what it's about. Mulling on it for this ask does make me want to pin those lyrics into a nonexistent Murdoc moodboard though.
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9, 22, 25 for both :)
To save everyone else from my lengthy answers, they're provided under the cut haha
9. Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?
Loezia:
"No, I didn't mean to get you deep in the back of my mind // Just swimming around it // All these bruises and your scars down within // No one here to see you under them"—"Again" by Mako
The song as a whole reminds me of them both together and the effect they have on each other, but this verse feels particularly "Loez" to me.
Wuld:
"He retreats like frost in sunlight // Melts like wax beneath a flame // A kindly dog, when cornered, bites // He must be caged if he can't be tamed"—"The Bird Is In The Birdcage" by Dirt Poor Robins
This is just Wuld's reality and I think highlights how his nature might have been changed by his nurture. I like to think Wuld would or could have been a pacifist—much like Loez—but instead, he is a pacifist by necessity and action only, and at heart . . . ohhhh he would love to kill people.
22. What character alignment would you consider your OC to be?
Loezia:
Obviously none of these fit for either of them, because the alignments are used as a sort of tool for when you're starting off with a character, but if I had to simplify to the most accurate metric, Loezia would be Neutral Good.
He's Lawful when he feels beholden or joined to a community or communal effort, but Chaotic when he's severed. He's therefore Neutral by default, but does not hold himself above Lawful or Chaotic because he holds himself above no one.
He is Good, but also not so Good that he might not make a Neutral decision, such as killing someone innocent for a personal reason he believes justified (the killing people thing with him is uhhh Complex). But there we get into how Good is only of substance when there is an Evil in opposition, and Evil is almost always determined by politics (and I mean Evil specifically, not Right/Wrong). The fundamental distinction of import is that Loezia does not think himself Good or anyone else Evil, and that matters.
Wuld:
Here we once again run up against the struggle of what is demanded of Wuld in order to survive vs who he actually is. Societally, he is Lawful Neutral. Personally, he is somewhere between True Neutral and Chaotic Neutral. The Chaotic part is purely a result of what he has endured as an ostracized and subjugated "member" of any society.
He does not care whether people are Good or Evil. He cares about virtually no one except himself. He only cares about the law because if he doesn't obey it, he will be punished (and is perfectly aware that the law doesn't protect him even when he abides by it).
25. What is your favorite thing about your OC?
Loezia:
I think it's his humility. Not because I think it makes him a better person—I think it's just as much a flaw as it is something that's helped him survive—but because it makes him a really fascinating narrator. He's self-aware and observant, but dependably unreliable regarding his own abilities and achievements. While he sees himself accurately, and he knows exactly what he's capable of, he never assumes he's better than any situation or person he's up against.
Again, this has helped him survive, but it's lacking in the context that shapes everyone else's reality. As a result, it's been really fun to write him in the most recent chapters, where readers can hopefully begin to pick up on just how isolated his self perception is.
Wuld:
So much of Wuld's character is proportioned and strengthened by the necessity of survival, so saying that my favorite part of him is his adaptability, for instance, is strange, because the immenseness of his character that encompasses that is a result of him needing to utilize that part of him for his survival. If that makes sense.
Because of that, I think my favorite part of him is where his survival mechanisms break. He's extremely adaptable in a hostile environment, but deeply brittle in a welcoming one.
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Incredible things, bird cage, and I did something bad for that taylor ask game that I have no idea wtf is going on with😐😂
lol they are definitely pretty specific fandom/lyric references 😂 even i don't actually know a few of them 🤪 but it's funny how kinda random it would seem to someone not in the fandom lol
incredible things: what are 3 things off of the top of your head that make you go “wow”?
carrie wilson, dirty candi, jatp 🤪 jk but that is the first thing i thought of lmaoo ummm talented people, music, ... jatp :D (which includes both of the first two 😂)
human-sized bird cage: do you have decor that is a little (or a lotta) out of the ordinary? what is it?
hmm idk if this counts but .. i have like ,,, ,, ,,,,,, ,,,,,
This lmaooo 😳🤪 it's not super out of the ordinary i guess maybe more out of the ordinary is the graduation gown hanging by my window 😂 but that's just more like idk where else to put it lmao i don't think i have anything really weird tho
i did something bad: what is something you did that people told you you shouldn’t have but you nonetheless enjoyed it?
i am not exactly the best person to ask this ,,, bc usually if people tell me not to i won't do it 😂🥴 the only real things i can think of are academically related and i didn't Hate doing it but i didn't necessarily really Enjoy it but that would be like taking HL math, doing a math EE, taking physics, taking HL art 😗✌️ like people were mostly just like you should do that it's too hard or whatever and i guess i don't necessarily regret any of them??? idk if i have a more fun answer to this question tho 😂
taylor swift asks 😋
#idk if the second thing is embarrassing or not lmao but#it's what i got lol and i like it so#yeah 🤪#i do also have some book related posters you can see in the mirror in that pic lol#tbh that might be weirder than the taylor swift wall idk 😂#asks#neversatisfiedwithlife#also you didn't ask but the context for these is#'incredible things' from a lyric from her song 'blank space'#the bird cage i think is referencing the bird cage in the 'look what you made me do' music video that she swings in#unless she has like a human sized bird cage just as decor 😂#and i did something bad is a song 😋#also all eyes on me just came on shuffle haha 🤪 almost appropriate forthe first question lol
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thanks for the amazingly edited chapters and translations, i'm always elated when i see that a chapter has dropped on your twitter and i have a lot of fun trying to rap the lyrics out loud. on a lighter note, if the characters in hypnosis mic were animals, which ones do you think they would be? (don't feel confined to the rules of basic biology, siblings can be different animals and so can parents, also multiple characters can be the same animal if you so please)
Ahhh that's a really kind thing to say haha. Now I'll need to put extra effort into the raps... some of them are very much rappable, and some of them I look at later and go, "Wtf? How in the world did that come out of my mouth?"
Hmm... this is a very interesting question... I haven't thought about it much before, but let me give it a shot. Under a cut for length.
Ichirou - Ichirou seems pretty dog-like to me. He’s very oriented around the concept of family and would do anything to protect them. He’s also happiest when playing around with his family, loves food, and is happy performing services for other people.
Jirou - I think Jirou would make a good dolphin. He’s playful and athletic, very empathetic, and does best when surrounded by friends and family.
Saburou - Saburou is, I think, a young horse. He likes to show off and is very talented and flashy, but he can be a little skittish or fragile deep down.
Samatoki - Samatoki reminds me of a crocodile. He’s quick to lash out and very aggressive, but he can also be plenty social and quite friendly when he’s in a good mood.
Juuto - Juuto is a swan. He looks elegant on the surface but can be mean to make ends meet. He also becomes very aggressive whenever anything near and dear to him is threatened.
Riou - Riou is a capybara. He's pretty chill when left to his own devices, and he is incredibly social, capable of getting along with just about anyone.
Ramuda - Ramuda is a sun conure. I like using the caged bird image a lot for Ramuda - thanks, parrot outfit, for giving me a canon justification for this - and so I think a parakeet fits him well, especially the younger Ramuda. He's very inquisitive and likes mimicking human behavior in addition to showing off and being cuddly. He enjoys being around people and can end up depressed when left on his own. He's also loud and obnoxious but perhaps in a good way.
Gentarou - Gentarou's a chinchilla. He's very fastidious with how he presents himself, and he relies on his social groups for his own mental health.
Dice - Dice is a cattle tyrant, because he goes after thrills the way these birds make quick maneuvers in the air to go after insects. Plus, he often hangs around capy Riou to be fed, who enjoys his company.
Jakurai - My friend Cha suggested Jakurai would be an elephant. Besides the size, he also moves slowly and deliberately, is very intelligent and empathetic, and strongly cares for community and taking care of children.
Hifumi - Hifumi is a bowerbird. He can look flashy and delights in showing off for women, but he also takes pride and joy in building and maintaining a good home.
Doppo - He reminds me of a periodical cicada that spends much of its life underground, going about the serious task of feeding, then rarely emerges all at once to make a glorious display of sound.
Sasara - Sasara is a chimpanzee. He's clever, creative, and often playful, but he also boasts a more aggressive side. I think chimps also like melon if they can get it... melon soda...
Roshou - Roshou is an emperor penguin. He looks elegant from a distance but may be a little silly up close. He's very concerned about raising children right in a group environment and is perhaps rather more loyal than he should be.
Rei - Rei is a crow capable of making clever plots and creating complex tools to help him out. He likes horsing around and mocking other people in addition to collecting shiny bling like that gold necklace.
Kuukou - I think he would be a mongoose. He's a little guy, very fierce, and completely unafraid to take on even the most fearsome guys out there. He has a lot of courage and a heart of gold.
Juushi - Juushi would be an owl butterfly or another butterfly or moth with eyespots on his wings. Metamorphosis is a big theme for him, and he uses his flashy outer appearance as a means to confuse and throw off those who would hurt him.
Hitoya - Hitoya is a honey badger. He's tough and can fight to protect the ones he cares about. He also doesn't take shit from anybody and can be a little prickly at times, but his tenacity is what people admire about him.
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