Mic Check, Please! track #8: "it started here"
After 10 months (oops), the FINAL track is here!! Fun fact, this was actually the first song I wrote for this back in 2020, before I planned on writing any other ones. It was also the first full song I had written in at least 3 years at the time!
Song Art by @watermelonmountaindew <3
Mixing by my brother Alec Ferris (check out his music!)
Lyrics under the cut!
(Verse 1)
When I was younger
All I wanted was the crown
My father wore atop his head
I swore I’d never let him down
But look at me now
(Chorus 1)
Cause every dragon that I slayed
Was another pill to take
And every smile he shot my way
It wasn’t enough, it was never enough
Maybe I was never enough
(Verse 2)
Expectations
It was all part of the game
That I loved with all my heart
Still it broke me all the same
They only loved me for my name
(Chorus 2)
All those walls that I built up
Just to keep from crashing down
No one tried to break me out
They didn’t care, no they didn’t care
to show me how
Until you came around
(Bridge)
A rocky start when it began
I thought I couldn’t let you in
You saw right through the mask I wore
You changed my world, you unlocked the door
You ended my own inner war
(Chorus 3)
Was punished for all that I’d done
For all the wars I could’ve won
And all those ways that I’d fucked up
But you didn’t care, no you didn’t care
You showed me love
(Ending verse)
I was waiting for my life to start
After all that I’d gone through
But now I know straight from the heart
It started here, it started with you
It started with you.
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There are three kinds of actors:
Those who say/sing their lines during soundcheck
Those who just say/sing something random
Those who tell terrible jokes
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No for real not to set expectations too high but Infinite Wealth literally has the makings of being one of the best games in the series thus far. Like, the team on this is insane.
You've got Yokoyama, Furuta, and Takeuchi writing. I think the last time they all collaborated (to a seemingly lesser degree than they are on 8, even) was 0, which doesn't have to be anyone's favorite, but is undoubtedly the franchise's most well-received entry for a reason.
Yokoyama (In My Opinion) hasn't written anything but bangers since like Ishin (again Ishin and 7 don't have to be anyone's favorites either, but they're INCREDIBLY solid scripts). Furuta has the best track record of any of the writers (his worst script is like... well okay it's Binary Domain but Within RGG it's 6, which all things considered is not as bad as it could be. But like. Dead Souls. Judgment. Lost Judgment. Near-immaculate scripts.) Takeuchi is criminally underrepresented but he's got a photographic memory and regularly writes for RGGO's events and character stories and so on, which... is some of the best writing in the entire series, to be honest?
Not to mention the directors. It's only Horii's and Ito's second time directing, but given their first times were 7 and LJ, I've got nothing but high hopes for them; Horii's been a force for social consciousness and responsibility in the team as well, being the youngest (well. he's my age so not by much lol), so that's been great to see. It is Mitake's first time directing (he's mostly been an art director on 7 and others), but like... Ito was a programmer before LJ, I'm not worried.
When a team like that says they themselves think this looking to be their best or (at least) biggest and most ambitious title, when the cast and crew so far has nothing but praise for it, when Yokoyama says it's the most fun he's ever had... I mean, my playstyle and opinions tend to be pretty closely synced with the studio regardless, so at the very least I'm going to believe it's (probably) going to knock it of the park for me personally. It's not like them to bite off more than they can chew.
I also think a lot of it's just like, for many, this is the first "big" new release since they got into RGG, but it's not the first time any of this has been done. At one point Y3 was "the biggest and most ambitious title" and now it's been dwarfed by almost every release since then, at one point Kiryu was presumed dead between 5 and 6, even with Ishin Kiwami there was all this grumbling about "fanservice" and "going RPG" even though that's literally always been the premise of Ishin, to have an all-star cast and RPG-esque progression. It's never really spelled disaster for the series or even the games in question.
Kiryu's return was definitely something I needed to come around to too though, but at the same time, Gaiden has been set up since before 6 even came out and pretty overtly spinoff-baited in 7, so I would've been more surprised if there was no follow-up. I can understand misgivings about 8, but... y'know, it is chiefly still Ichi's story. It starts and ends with him and they don't share equal screen-time like Majima and Kiryu did. I dunno. I'm gonna let 'em cook
yeah see boys 👯♀️ nothin to worry bout 👯♀️ at WORST the game'll be Good at BEST we're gonna cry our eyes out once we realize it's over and we realize we'll never get that one-of-a-kind first-time-playing experience again 👯♀️
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Can Gerard get like . Super vocal about being into necrophilia or something. I know they have it in them and I want that bitch cancelled so I can get pit tickets next tour go around.
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I literally hate it when people say SA instead of sexual assault I don't care if it's censorship or just an abbreviation to save time it's cringe as hell and immediately tips me off that I'm talking to a child
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Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Shinsou Hitoshi
Characters: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Shinsou Hitoshi, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Gods & Goddesses, Japanese Mythology & Folklore, God Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Adopts Shinsou Hitoshi, Vignette, Angst, Pining, Alternate Universe - No Quirks (My Hero Academia), Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Summary:
“I have heard the prayers of thousands of men across a thousand lifetimes,” the god mused and Shouta held in a gasp at the sheer power the voice held. “And as their souls speak to me, they tell me their name. But you...
“I do not know your name.”
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Okay. Someone talk with me about what Cocomelon in Desert Bluffs is like.
CAN YOU SPOT THE SMILING GOD?
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