Soundtrack and Poetry Meme

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Soundtrack and Poetry Meme

‣ make a toplevel for your character (you can link songs and/or poems in it or leave it blank)
‣ go around tagging other people with songs and/or poems you associate with their characters/the game/etc.
‣ listen to a lot of music, read a lot of poems

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The Crossing

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(for posting songs you associate with the game as a whole)

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You Are Dead from the game Total Distortion

You are dead, dead, dead
Your heart has stopped and your brain is cold
You are so so dead!
And now your body is starting to mold
You are so so dead!

and more kindly, All Things End by Hozier

And all things end
All that we intend is scrawled in sand
or slips right through our hands
And just knowing that everything will end
Should not change our plans when we begin again
We begin again

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this is now for poetry too okay okay

here's my favorite poem about death and grief: The Worm King's Lullaby by Richard Siken.

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

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A bit from the Angelarium which I guess hasn't made it to the website yet.
One should fear accumulating forever without release. The burden of carrying all moments of one’s life is too great. It is better to lighten the load, lest we become paralyzed by the weight of memory. Or worse yet, crushed beneath a thousand tiny burdens.

[urtitan]

Vogel im Käfig / Bird in the Cage (with subtitles - this one is really about life and its inevitable end, and how incomprehensible they are to humans)

Hopefully one day we'll be able to understand
We go to the other side of the horizon
We walk with a firm step

Everything living will die one day
Whether we're ready to die or not
The day'll come certainly

With sorrow and decisiveness in our hearts
We show the will to move on

Afterlife (Evanescence) (I'LL SEE YOU IN THE AAAFTERLIIIFE... this one's perhaps a little too edgy for most of the Crossing cast, but it's just such a banger!)

Nagito Komaeda

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first we've got official stuff, songs associated with him on the soundtracks and also his character songs:
trapped by the ocean scent - SDR2 soundtrack
abnormality on the girls front line - UDG soundtrack
poison -gekiyaku- - megumi ogata
I believe that hope / and will offer my pulsating heart / for the sake of that brilliance
zettai kibō birthday - megumi ogata
I keep waiting with bated breath for the very moment you wake up / in the muddy stream of red tears, being pushed and swallowed, sinking further down
zansakura -zanka- - megumi ogata
at the moment I realized, the withering branch had been left behind all alone / had been broken, still decaying, still keeping on yearning

and now the stuff I picked out:
blow my brains out - tikkle me
unlucky me, aware of the pain / all 'cause I happen to have some brain
millie, warm the kettle - rabbitology
millie, can't you stop them? you slow no omens / like exhaling it never ends
tongues and teeth - the crane wives
I will only break your pretty things / I will only wring you dry of everything
spiracle - flower face
and I want your violence, your silent sedation / your moon eyes, your telescope, morbid fixation
laplace's angel (hurt people? hurt people!) - will wood
the only ones in need of love are those who don't receive enough / so evil ones should get a little more
feel better - penelope scott
'cause someone loved me, someone fucking loved me / someone fucking loved me, I loved them too
teen idle - marina
and the day has come where I have died / only to find I've come alive
curses - the crane wives
ashes, ashes, dust to dust / tell me I am good enough
saint bernard - lincoln
I said make me love myself so that I might love you / don't make me a liar, 'cause I swear to god / when I said it I thought it was true

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I don't songs a lot but here's a poem

My Death by Raymond Carver
If I’m unlucky, as I deserve, well, I’ll just
drop over, like that, without any chance
for farewell, or to press anyone’s hand.
Or say how much I cared for you and enjoyed
your company all these years. In any case,
try not to mourn for me too much. I want you to know
I was happy when I was here.

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yes

I was going to quote the most fitting line but actually that would just be the whole poem ty for this gift

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suggests a little less self-loathing than he's got but not a whole lot of esteem, either! certainly seems like a small regret, since he can't remember if this in fact happened.

Need

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I'm not great at associating music with characters but I can generally get other peoples' picks and that's fun!

There's an official filk song about Need which is about her origins and purpose but doesn't touch on the more reserved and contemplative side of her which is a lot more prominent in-game.

(there's also Blade of Desire but it's more about sleeping-Need and a bearer and applies even less lol.)

so let's a poem or two.

Louise Glück "Lamium"
The sun hardly touches me.
Sometimes I see it in early spring, rising very far away.
Then leaves grow over it, completely hiding it. I feel it
glinting through the leaves, erratic,
like someone hitting the side of a glass with a metal spoon.

Joy Sullivan "Horse girl" which apparently I can only find here anymore
I've always been afraid to admit I love horses. Growing up, I
worried I'd be labeled a horse girl. More than just being kind
of weird, I knew that horse girl meant something worse. It
meant that you loved too much. That you loved wrong.

Cmdr. Allybee Shepard

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I made a playlist that I should probably update - Allynbee's playlist

A lot of the songs on the list are from the actual soundtrack, but some of my choices.

Thought I Was Dead - Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA
Y'all wanna take what I got/But y'all do not got what it take
Allynbee can be particularly salty when she thinks her chain is being yanked. Also newly revived and having to 'I told you so' at the entire known universe was definitely A Thing.

Strangers -Raj Ramayya - Wolf's Rain
We've found a kind of paradise, below a sky so new./ We've weaved a web of mystery so wide, we need the light of day.
Due to events in Mass Effect 3, I associate this song with Shepard and one of her crewmates, Tali-Zorah

Voices - Bossfight
'Cause everywhere I go /I'm seeing faces / I'm hearing voices /Telling me I ain't good enough
Lyn's not traumatized byt losing folks during the war. No.....

Will comment with more.

Frieda Reiss

[urtitan]

It's all AoT music! I need to listen to more songs with lyrics to make a mental playlist for her...

Requiem der Morgenröte / Requiem of the Dawn (focus on Historia, who chases after her memories of Frieda and her friend / love interest Ymir, but also relates her losses to those of her fellow soldiers and more generally the people of the Walls)

Yuugure no Tori (eerie song that actually showed much of the Eldians' history AT A BIZARRELY EARLY POINT IN THE SERIES... in S2, when this was the ending song, the audience didn't have any context for most of the imagery yet!)

Barricades (instrumental piece associated with Frieda and the Founding Titan)