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magicwhiskers29 · 1 month

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I can't believe I haven't talked about this before, but augh, I've been rotating stuff about the Beast at Ichor Mountain and Audrey in the brain -- namely how I think you can draw some interesting parallels between the King of Hearts and Audrey.

Firstly, to get it out of the way, the nomenclature Audrey Redheart. Who is the beast at Ichor Mountain? The names clearly link our two suspects, and I think it's interesting that Audrey is one of notably few characters to actually have a given surname, in this game. Miriam doesn't. The Bard doesn't. Heck, none of Hala's family do, because they don't need a surname to remind you they're all related. (Iirc, Audrey may actually be the only Wandersong character with a surname!) So why Audrey?

Why Audrey, the character who gets referred to by her epithet, the Hero, more than her name anyway?

Because it's important, of course. For one, it gives Audrey a stronger sense of identity, specifically of the identity Audrey worries people won't care about her for. Audrey tells us her own surname, clearly indicating that she thinks important you know exactly who she is. But also, and more importantly for what I want to talk about, what it means.

It identifies red as Audrey's colour, suggesting a sense of strength. And I don't specifically mean physically -- rather, because it's paired with "heart", I'd interpret it to be implying strong emotions which, yeah, tracks. Audrey is angry throughout the game just as much as she's smug or entitled. I think it's even that anger that defines her more, because the haughty attitude is an act to play up being the Hero, whereas her anger at the Bard and Miriam for interfering comes from a very genuine place of fear.

Contrast this to the King of Hearts, who's established to be represented by pink, along with a lot of the rest of Ichor Mountain. Or, namely, the outside of Ichor Mountain and the core. At the heart of the mountain is the Overseer's palace, pink like him. And he was initially kind, the kind of happy-go-lucky guy we see the Heart Fairy to be, presumably. A very different kind of strong emotion. So he's the heart of the mountain. Okay, then he must be the "Beast at Ichor Mountain", right?

I think the phrasing of this act's name is interesting. It's not the Beast of Ichor Mountain, or the Beast on Ichor Mountain, but the Beast at Ichor Mountain. It's incidental. The beast isn't necessarily a native; they're just there, the beast who's found themself haunting the mountain named after the blood of the gods.

So I'll ask again. Who is the Beast at Ichor Mountain?

Well, it's Audrey. The King of Hearts is scary. He chases you down, fights against you, snarls at you, and enacts horror movie tropes on you, but we know what he's supposed to be like because we meet the Heart Fairy -- the next Overseer of Hearts. And we see this in the King of Hearts when the Bard sings to him, and it works, somehow it works, to start calming him down. The Bard, ever the bleeding heart, does what they do best, and offers the King of Hearts their heart and soul in the form of a song, and it works!

Until Audrey cuts him down. Audrey, who's decided to devote herself to a mission that has to go against what her heart says, because we know her motivation for ending the world, and it's not because she believes in the cause, cuts down the King of Hearts in the middle of a mutual display of unconditional love and compassion. Audrey, who sat there at the heart of mountain finally confessing that she's being Eya's champion to end the world and finally escape being Audrey Redheart, a nobody, and promised right there to give compassion a chance and face her struggles rather than clinging to more than just a self-sabotaging, but a world-ending lifeline, kills the King of Hearts.

Audrey only allows herself to be vulnerable without her sword. She needs it to feel important and powerful, and only allows herself to feel things about her mission, and process things about herself, when she can't just go slicing through hoards of monsters to earn some surface-level adoration and praise from people she never stops to make an actual connection with. So when she gets it back... She can't return to being Audrey Redheart, someone who maybe could have fitted in on Ichor Mountain had she listened to the Bard and continued to follow their example. She has to be the Hero, even if that's the hero who becomes the beast at the mountain.

And because this is Wandersong, let's do a little musical analysis.

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04:46-05:10, specifically. Why? This is the mash-up of the Heart and Hero motifs. Overpoweringly, we can hear the Hero motif blaring on guitars in the foreground, but also the sure and steady Heart motif from the Heart Fairy's theme in the background. The Hero motif is stronger because Audrey is clinging to it, absolutely, but also because two people are using it. And they always have been.

The Hero motif is first used in the prologue to be just that, a theme for the Hero. But then the Bard reclaims it in Chapter 2 for "I wanna be the Hero", and also "I'm going with you". These are the times the player is going to first notice it, because it's shown to them so clearly! It's only associated with the Hero, and Audrey, again later on, because it's a concept, not a person. It's a concept any character can cling to, and unlike the Bard, it's Audrey's whole identity. It becomes her motif by force.

So in this piece where it's used, it's Audrey, or more accurately, the Hero, vs the King of Hearts. And the music already shows us who will win. We've discussed which motif is played stronger.

So who is the Beast at Ichor Mountain? She's the one who takes her sword in hand and tries to slice her way through the heart of Ichor Mountain.

#Wandersong #Wandersong spoilers #audrey redheart #wandersong audrey #audrey wandersong #king of hearts wandersong #Whiskers rambles #Long post #Analysis

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dailywandersongincorrectquotes · 1 year

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Queen Order: Ew, what kind of tea is this King of Hearts: I boiled some gatorade

#wandersong #queen order wandersong #king of hearts wandersong

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monochromealien · 1 year

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some wandersong fanart i hadn't posted :-) the mask was drawn for @probablyatrashcan as part of a secret santa!!

#wandersong #mask #king of hearts #id in image description #wandersong fanart #my art #brazilian artists

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autisticqueenorder · 8 months

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#wandersong #my art #manny #viola #ash #tape #tape pmtok #he thiks hes on da team #queen order #moons queen #king of hearts #queen chaos #queen of winds #suns king #dream king

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puffstoolz · 1 year

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💔"Yeah, well. I lied."💔

#art #my art #wandersong #wandersong fanart #audrey redheart #king of hearts #kiwi #digital art #audrey

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songwings · 1 year

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all of the fairies AND THEIR OVERSEER FORMS!!! all icons free to use with credit!

#wandersong #dream fairy #dream queen #wind fairy #king of winds #chaos fairy #king chaos #order fairy #king order #moon fairy #moon king #sun fairy #sun queen #heart fairy #queen of hearts #fairies #overseers

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slime-gods · 7 months

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(I spent way too long on this lmao /lh)

Another redraw!! I keep listening to The King Of Hearts whenever i listen to music and got this idea a while ago for redrawing an old artwork so!! finally got it finished last night

I'm sure it's quite noticeable but I made another new brush to play with!! I wanted harsher shading compared to my other brush, so both got used

2019 version! (4 years of improvement holy shit)

and two versions, one without the bubble (because I liked Audrey's face and you can't see it clearly lmao) and one without the King and the mountains in front!

(I did so much shading back rhere and you can't see half of it,,, lmao)

either way, you'll likely be seeing both shading brushes from now on because i really do like them both :3c

#text #image #art poggg #wandersong #audrey redheart #kiwi #wandersong kiwi #wandersong bard #King of Hearts #artists on tumblr #digital artist #redraw #2019 vs 2023

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dragontamerkiwi · 10 months

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Funny thing is that Wandersong did it first

#wandersong #wandersong king of hearts #wandersong spoilers #pokemon #zacian #please play wandersong

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sword-that-shoots-lightning · 4 months

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The winners of the poll!

#wandersong #moon fairy #king of hearts

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i3utterflyeffect · 7 months

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ascension au audrey rq. basically she got Thrown Into The Void™️ for a thousand years and went nuts and also got depicted as way scarier than she was in history as a distantly remembered legend. but it's okay bc bard and miriam can deal with her

#she gets soo fucked up #ascension au #also i told you she was werewolf #she looks like the king of heart methinks. so it's very fucked up when the new queen of heart runs into her #wandersong #wandersong au

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sandcastle-art · 1 year

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Here's all of them together! :] (not to scale) Quite happy with most of the designs! Although it was kind of hard to put something together for the late-game ones, since i didn't have as much to go off of. I'll do main character designs sometime soon!

once again, spoilers under the cut! (although it's nothing new if you saw my last post)