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avergehistoryenjoyer · 1 year

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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s official! I’m writing a musical!

For those of you in the community who have known me for a while, this is nothing new, but I’ve been working on it for quite awhile, so I finally want to unveil what I have so far.

The show is officially called “Tyrant! The Story of Robespierre” or just “Tyrant!” for short, and here’s my first concept for the album cover below!

As for the actual story and songs, right now I’m planning on having 16 songs per act, and I’ll format the songs I’ve written or am currently in the process of writing!

Italic = work in progress

Bold = fully written

With that being said, this is the song catalogue and all I’ve gotten done so far!

Act 1:

Tyrant! (Show opener) - immediately after his death

Address for the King - early childhood

Never shall we part - transition from childhood to adulthood, meets Camille

Song addressed to Miss Henriette - young adulthood

And So I Reminisce - trio song for the siblings

He Just Can’t Stop - lawyer career in Arras

Let Us Speak/We Swear - Estates general + tennis court oath

Camille’s Address (Bring It Down) - Storming of the bastille

Hey Ladies! (Theroigne’s song + Women’s March on Versailles)

Bienvenue aux Jacobins - Joins the Jacobin club and meets Danton, gets elected president of the club

Never shall we part (1st reprise) - Camille’s marriage to Lucile

Escape (Louis + Marie flee Paris, Champ de Mars massacre)

There’s Safety Here (Robespierre meets Maurice Duplay, moves into the Duplay house)

This Means War! (Speeches against the war and Brissotins, war gets declared anyways)

The Tuileries Tango (Storming of the Tuileries and overthrow of the monarchy)

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité For All (Establishment of the republic, Robespierre at his height, his big “I want” song)

Act 2:

Incorruptible (Saint-Just’s debut and Robespierre’s election to the National convention)

So Ends the Reign of Tyranny (Louis’ trial and execution)

Bienvenue aux committee/ Bienvenue le Jacobins (reprise) (Appointment to the CPS)

Choose Your Side/And So I Reminisce (reprise) (Charlotte and Augustine’s fight, fracture in the family, duet with Élèonore, PLATONIC, NOT ROMANTIC)

Principio Ad Finem/ A late night’s walk (“darker” ‘I want’ song, NOT A VILLAIN SONG )

What is he doing? (Camille publishes his paper and says stupid stuff)

Never Shall We Part (2nd and 3rd reprises) (Max and SJ duet, Camille’s denouncement from friends to enemies)

A Meeting/Make Him a Monster (CPS meeting, Thermidorian villain song)

You’re Unwell (Eleonore and SJ duet, Max falls ill/ slowly loosing his sanity)

So Ends the Reign of Tyranny/ Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité for All (reprise) (Arrests and executions of Camille, Danton and their followers, closest thing to a villain song for Robespierre)

This Glorious Day (Festival of the Supreme Being, more Thermidorian conspiring)

Principio Ad Finem (reprise) (Max writes his 8 Thermidor speech)

My Final Bow (8 Thermidor speeches for the convention and the Jacobins)

We Swear/Let Me Speak! (9 Thermidor denouncement and arrest)

Requiem (Hotel De Ville siege, bullet to the jaw, death, 11th hour power ballad)

May You Ne’er Be Forgotten (basically charlotte’s ‘who lives who dies who tells your story’, her 11th hour power ballad, grand finale of the show)

I know that was a lot thrown at y’all, and obviously I’ve still got a long ways to go, but I’ll be working hard at it all summer, and I hope to have at least half of the first act finished by the end of this summer! I’ll keep working on asks too now that my schedule’s freed up, but I thought it’d be a fun announcement to share with all of you for Max’s birthday, and I can’t wait for you to see the rest of it! Love you all! ❤️❤️❤️

-Syd

#robespierre #Maximilien Robespierre #Tyrant! The story of Robespierre #musical #musical theatre

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gotbeanz · 5 months

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ok I have two major problems with the goth poser “looks like a goth but listens to taylor swift” discourse I’ve been seeing a lot of recently which are:

1. Why are you assuming the “poser” in question never listens to goth music?? “all their top songs are tswift” ok and? I listen to a lot of genres with varying frequency, recently I’ve been listening to a lot more hozier than the birthday massacre. I bet if you looked at my top songs from the last month you’d be saying those things about me but here’s the crazy thing, next month could and probably will be completely different. It’s the same thing as not dressing goth all the time. humans aren’t always consistent! interest isn’t always consistent! it’s weird to assume you know this person based on such a minute snapshot of their personality and interests and perhaps you should consider withholding judgement until you’ve at least had a conversation with the person you’re judging.

2. Believe it or not, subcultures evolve and branch out over time. Maybe they’re not what we’ve established as goth, but maybe they’re using the word goth because they just haven’t found one for themselves yet. maybe instead of being nasty you could give them a chance to figure out what they’re doing and even explain why they don’t necessarily belong to the current goth subculture to help them figure out where they do belong.

I don’t know I think I’m just tired of listing to people being mean for no good reason. and just to hedge any bad faith readings I’m not talking about the bully gave you shit for being goth in high school and never apologized who’s “goth” now because it gets them likes on tiktok. I’m talking people who genuinely enjoy and feel comfortable in goth fashion but maybe just aren’t as into the music. moral of the story is that there’s space for everyone in the metaphorical goth boarding house and if there isn’t, it’s pretty damn easy to make a new space for the people who don’t fit yet because the goth boarding house doesn’t actually exist in physical space and can therefore expand infinitely. also stop being an exclusionary dick for no reason :P

#goth #alt subculture #maybe we should put all our mean energy into coming up with a name for them instead #just a thought #idk #¯\_(ツ)_/¯#discourse

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sattlersquarry · 2 years

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Elegia II (Steve Harrington x Reader)

Summary: Keith takes your Walkman at work, and you get a visit from Vecna.

Word Count: 2000

Warnings: ANGST CITY!!! Language, grief, guilt, mentions of blood, flayed family members, Vecna shenanigans. Also want to put a warning for verbal abuse, which might be a little strong to describe it that way, but I want to be safe.

A/N: The reader's siblings have names now—gotta love lore! The older brother is Sam, the younger sister is Grace.

This takes place after the events of ep. 7, "The Massacre at Hawkins Lab."

Read Part 1 Here. Read Part 3 Here.

For the next 24 hours, you continued listening to “Elegia.” Steve and his friends hadn’t given you a clear explanation as to why you should, so you weren’t even really sure why you did it—it just seemed like the right thing to do.

Unfortunately, your boss Keith caught you listening while restocking the shelves at work.

“Hand it over,” Keith barked, holding out a sweaty palm. “No music on the floor.”

You fidgeted with the cord of the headphones, panicked and unsure how to explain yourself.

“No, I can’t,” you said. “I need to listen.”

“Store policy. You have to be attentive to the customers, and you can’t be if you’re distracted by music. So! Hand. It. Over!”

You sighed but gave in, slapping Nancy’s Walkman into Keith’s waiting hand. He slinked off to the back office to lock it in his desk.

The rest of the day was tough without “Elegia.” Your headaches got worse and worse, and dealing with the shitty customers didn’t help.

One such shitty customer was pissed because you didn’t have The Muppets Movie.

“As I mentioned, ma’am,” you said, hoping the pain you were feeling wasn’t evident in your face. “It’s checked out. It’s supposed to be returned on Saturday.”

“But my son’s birthday is today!” the cranky woman snapped. “I need it now. What kind of a business are you running?”

Chime!

A wobbly reverberation echoed through the store. You straightened up, looking behind you.

The customer didn’t like that.

“Excuse me!” she barked, snapping her fingers at you. “I’m not quite finished.”

“Did you hear that?” you said.

“Hear what? Ugh, you’re hopeless. Let me speak to your manager.”

Summoned by those magic words, Keith appeared at the front counter.

“What seems to be the problem here?” Keith said, with his best ass-kissing smile.

Even though you weren’t supposed to leave, you slipped off to the back office. Steve told you to listen to “Elegia” if you heard a clock. That horrible warbling was reminiscent of the antique clock at your great-aunt’s house, and you didn’t want to take any chances.

You were halfway through picking the lock on Keith’s desk drawer when the trippy chiming got louder. You winced and covered your ears.

You turned and gasped when you saw a grandfather clock melting through the wall like a Dalí painting, directly to the right of the Phoebe Cates cardboard standee that Steve liked a bit too much.

“Y/N…”

A deep, rumbling voice rattled in your brain. Heartbeat quickening, you tried harder to pry open Keith’s desk drawer.

“Why did you say those horrible things?”

Suddenly, it wasn’t an unfamiliar voice talking to you—it was your older brother Sam’s voice!

You looked up and let out a sob. Sam towered over you, covered in 3rd-degree burns, as if he hadn’t died but walked right out of that fire.

“You told me to drop dead,” he said. “And then I did. You killed me, and you killed Mom, too.”

“I didn’t!” you cried out, stumbling backward.

“You did,” he spat.

“You were the one who said horrible things!” you said, voice shaking. “You told me you hated Grace and me! You said you wished I had never been born!”

“So you two are glad I’m gone?”

“No! I didn’t mean it like that!”

Back pressed against the wall, you sidestepped trying to get away from him. But Sam followed, continuing to encroach.

You blinked, and you weren’t in the back room at Family Video anymore. You were at the Fun Fair. It was that fateful night—July 4th, 1985.

Sam’s burns were gone. He still towered over you, glaring, and said, “It’s a goddamn carnival! No one fucking cares!”

“Sam,” your father said. “Don’t talk to Y/N like that.”

You remembered this conversation. It was the last one you and Sam had.

You couldn’t stop yourself from reliving it, couldn’t stop yourself from saying, “Grace has been waiting all summer for this, and you want to bail? You’re being a dick, Sam!”

“It’s fine, Y/N,” Grace said, standing close by your father and avoiding Sam’s angry gaze. “We can go home.”

“Maybe we should,” your mother said wearily. In the days leading up to the fire, she and Sam had been a lot more tired than usual.

“No!” you said. “The Fun Fair is special to Grace, so it’s special to me. Sam can’t ruin our fun. He can wait in the goddamn car.”

“You’re such a fucking bitch, you know that?” Sam spat. “God, I wish you’d never been born.”

White-hot fury exploded in your chest, and you said the words you’d regretted for months: “I hope you drop dead.”

Sam sneered at you and stalked off toward the parking lot.

You felt a hand on your shoulder. It was supposed to be your mother’s hand, telling you that she’d calm him down, that they’d be right back—only for them to end up at the mall.

You turned and screamed: it was not your mother. It was the Devil.

Desiccated, leathery skin was wrapped around his body, with tentacles sticking out of his back. Milky blue eyes bore into yours, as if he knew every thought, every feeling inside you.

You tried to run or to scream for help. But the Devil dug his claws into your shoulder, rooting you in place.

“You couldn’t even see how much pain they were in,” he said, referring to Sam and your mother. “You were too self-absorbed, too preoccupied with your frivolous fun.”

The Fun Fair melted away, revealing a nightmarish, blood-red landscape.

The Devil pinned you against a gnarled tree, tentacles reaching closer.

“Your suffering is almost at an end, Y/N.”

You started to cry. This was it, the end for you…

…until you heard it: the soft opening chords of your favorite song.

Like a siren’s song, you felt pulled to “Elegia.” You had to fight back.

You scowled at the Devil and gave him a swift kick to the kneecap.

He sputtered and stumbled, giving you time to sprint away.

Off in the distance, you saw…yourself! You were having an out of body experience. There you were, standing alone in the Family Video backroom.

Wait! You weren’t alone! Steve was there, shaking your shoulders, calling your name and trying to snap you out of it. He’d put the headphones back on your head. Robin was there, too, holding the Walkman and humming loudly along to “Elegia.” Both of them looked terrified.

The music got louder the further you got from the Devil and the closer you got to yourself.

You ran, and ran, and ran, through an ocean of blood, before diving through the portal to the real world.

You gasped and fell to your knees, shock overtaking you. You pulled the headphones down around your neck, “Elegia” now barely audible.

“Y/N!” Steve cried out, kneeling next to you. “Jesus, I thought we lost you.”

“I’m going to kill Keith for taking the Walkman!” Robin said, eyes blazing. “I swear to God, he’s a dead man.”

Robin stormed to the front of the store, shouting, “KEEEEEEITH!”

You let out a shuddering breath, unsure of how to comprehend everything that just happened.

“I—I saw someone,” you said, unable to look Steve directly in the eye. “He was like this…demon. He pretended to be my brother, and my mom. He showed me these horrible memories...”

“It’s okay, Y/N,” Steve said, rubbing circles in your back. “I’ve got you.”

Steve’s concern was sweet, but you couldn’t help but be angry with him.

“You knew,” you said, voice barely above a whisper. “You knew that thing would try and get me!”

Steve paled and cleared his throat. “I mean, well, technically I—”

“That’s what your friend Dustin meant when he said it was life or death to listen to the song,” you said. You stood to your feet shakily, stepping away from Steve. “Oh my God!”

“Y/N, wait, I can explain!”

“Why didn’t you warn me?!” you said. You paced back and forth, furious. “If I had known what would happen without ‘Elegia,’ I would’ve taken off work or fought Keith on store policy! I could’ve died just then! I can’t believe you!”

You whirled around to yell at him some more, your displaced anger hard to shake, but stopped short when you noticed a red stain on his abdomen.

“You’re bleeding!” you said.

Steve adjusted his Family Video vest to hide the blood.

“It’s nothing,” he said. “I just got bit by a dog.”

“You’re a terrible liar,” you scoffed. “Sit down, I’ll bandage it up for you.”

You collected the store’s first aid kit and watched as Steve sunk into Keith’s desk chair, moving as if every muscle pained him.

“Sorry if my hands are cold,” you said, pulling a chair next to Steve’s. “Hold up your shirt for me?”

He lifted up the hem of his polo. You got a better look at the blood seeping through a messy, haphazard bandage job.

“It’s not as bad as it looks!” he said sheepishly, as you gently removed the bandage.

That was unlikely. The gruesome wound definitely looked like a lot more than a dog bite. You didn’t pry, however, and began to clean it.

“I’m sorry,” Steve said, after a few minutes of you working in silence. “I should’ve been more clear about the danger you were in. I should’ve told you everything. I just…”

He sighed.

“I wanted to keep you safe from everything that’s been going on,” he continued. “Evidently, I failed at that.”

“Technically,” you said, “you and Robin saved my life. So, not a failure.”

The first aid kit was pretty barebones. There weren’t bandages big enough to cover the whole bite, so instead, you covered it with a bunch of small ones. They were for kids and had aliens printed on them, but Steve didn’t seem to mind.

“I’ll tell you everything,” Steve said. “If you want me to. But be warned, it’s a pretty fucked up story.”

“More fucked up than meeting the Devil at the Fun Fair in my subconscious?”

“Surprisingly, yes.”

You snorted, before sticking one last bandage to the bite.

“All done. You were a great patient.” You looked up from the now-bandaged wound, shocking yourself at how close your face was to Steve’s. All the air escaped your lungs. You felt the desire to kiss him, despite the horrendously bad timing.

“You were a great doctor,” Steve said quietly. Oh, that gaze…there was something dangerous in that gaze.

“Y/N!”

Startled, you stepped away as Robin raced into the room.

“Keith said you can leave early today,” she said. “I also told Keith to never, ever, ever take your Walkman again.”

She paused, noticing how nervous you and Steve looked.

“Am I interrupting something?” she asked, a smirk playing on her lips.

“Not at all,” Steve said. “Y/N, you should go home and rest. Robin and I will hold down the fort. Keep listening, yeah?”

You wanted nothing more than to run out of the Family Video and hide under your covers for eternity, but you knew that wouldn’t solve anything. That Devil could still be lurking in your mind…and how long would the music keep him at bay?

“My dad and sister are visiting family during spring break,” you said, “and I don’t really want to be alone right now. Any chance you can tell me the truth about whatever the fuck is going on with me? And maybe help me try to fix it?”

Robin and Steve shared a look. Steve gave an imperceptible nod.

“How about we meet up after our shift ends,” Robin said. “We can gather the group and tell you everything we know about that thing you saw, and what’s going on in town.”

You agreed on a meeting time and location and left, determined to keep those headphones on for the rest of the damn day.

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Tag List: @scenesofobx

I am considering writing a part 3 after Volume 2. Let me know if that's something you all would want to see :)

#steve harrington x reader #steve harrington #steve harrington fanfic #st4 spoilers #stranger things 4 #st fanfic #my writing #elegia ii #st fic: elegia

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gods-favorite-autistic · 2 years

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the rtc kids having a movie night headcanons ?

Oooooh yes

They always have it at Mischa’s house since they always end up having at least one horror movie on the list and Noel and Ocean scream so loud

They all pick one movie and Constance, without fail, always picks either Grease or Last Night In Soho

Noel loves Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee

He likes performing along with the movie and always ends up staring at Ocean during the “lousy with virginity” line until she’s comes out as ace and then he stares at Mischa because he once drunkenly told him he’s a virgin

Noel is a theatre kid so he always brings a musical movie

Ocean likes coming of age films but specifically The Breakfast Club

Ricky once brought the Cats movie just to torture Noel

(Ocean paid him 5 bucks to do it)

Penny likes schlocky horror so she always brings some sort of slasher

She really likes Slumber Party Massacre 2

Ricky likes action movies but specifically Star Wars

He has been banned from bringing Star Wars after he exclusively brought the first movie four times in a row

Every time they watch a horror movie it’s starts with Ocean and Noel being on opposite sides of the room and ends with them digging their nails into each other’s skin

Mischa is a big fan of Danny Zuko

Mischa says he wants to perform along the movie to You’re the One That I Want but he doesn’t have a Sandy which is immediately responded by Noel springing up like a goddamn jack-in-the-box

And that’s the story of how Noel and Mischa starts dating

Every Halloween and every Christmas Noel’s choice is The Nightmare Before Christmas

No one is complaining

Ocean once got so scared during a horror movie that she started hyperventilating and they had to shut the movie off to calm her down

Safe to say that movie is now banned

They are divided into two sides: The ones that like M&M’s in their popcorn, and the ones that will instantly die

Except for Constance, who just dips popcorn into Nutella (try it it tastes delicious)

Constance brings sweets for everyone

Every times it’s someone’s birthday they have to include Happy Death Day it’s the law

Mischa has a Burger King crown that Ricky got him that says King Of Horror and it has drawn on blood on it

When Nischa got together Ricky made Noel and matching crown that says Queen Of Horror

Penny likes cuddling during movies

Their pizza orders are all super specific especially Penny and Ricky’s which are somehow the exact same

It includes pineapple and ham

Noel is literally the only normal one because he gets just cheese on his and literally nothing else

Sometimes the pizza place gets it wrong and puts either sausage or pepperoni on the pizza and he always gives away the toppings

If it’s pepperoni Ocean gets it if it’s sausage Mischa gets it

They all have an undying hatred for Disney that none of them understand

#ride the cyclone musical #ride the cyclone #rtc #ocean rtc #mischa rtc #ricky rtc #constance rtc #noel rtc #penny rtc #ocean o'connell rosenberg #mischa bachinski #ricky potts #constance blackwood #noel gruber #penny lamb #tw cursing #cw cursing

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addicted-to-his-knife · 9 months

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WHAT THE REPO! CHARACTERS WOULD LISTEN TO.

Do you find yourself bored, looking for new music? Do you happen to like Repo! The Genetic Opera and have you ever wondered what music the characters would listen to? Here are my headcanons! I'm submitting them directly to "addicted-to-his-knife" since my blog doesn't have much reach, I have like 30 followers and I also think this blog is great ♡ Songs are taken from my own gothic rock-metal/darkwave/goth playlist.

Shilo Wallace: I have a feeling Shilo would really like Siouxsie And The Banshees, I can see some of her favorite songs being Sick Child, Happy House, The Lonely One, Spellbound or Cities in Dust. I think she would also like The Birthday Massacre, particularly Looking Glass, In The Dark, Shallow Grave, The Sky Will Turn and All Of Nothing. Shilo would also find solace in the lyrics of So Alone by Anna Blue, Illusion by VNV Nation, Isolated by Chiasm, Coma Baby by Nicole Dollanganger and Walking On Air by Kerli. After all the isolation and grief she's gone through, Shilo needs music that makes her feel understood.

Nathan Wallace: Nathan, as we all know, is going through it. I can see him listening to some Joy Division songs with lyrics he would find comforting, such as Disorder, Shadowplay, Dead Souls, New Dawn Fades and I Remember Nothing. Nathan would also enjoy some Depeche Mode songs, for example Enjoy The Silence, Ghosts Again, It's Called A Heart and Strangelove. Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy is another song he really likes. He will listen to Bauhaus as well, classics like Dark Entries, She's In Parties or Bela Lugosi's Dead. Anesthesia by Type O Negative or Spectre by Christian Death are songs Nathan would like as well. Overall, he needs music that helps him deal with the pain within his soul, torn between being a protective father who wants to keep his daughter safe at all costs, even if that means lying to her, and a bloodthirsty, macabre and violent Repo Man.

Graverobber: Graverobber listens to Rob Zombie, and he actually tries to imitate his style. Songs like Dragula, Superbeast, Feel So Numb, The Life And Times Of A Teenage Rock God and Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown are some of the tunes he listens to while he's partying with the Zydrate addicts. Graves also enjoys Light Asylum, with songs like Shallow Tears, Dark Allies or Knights And Weekends. Sometimes he listens to Absence by Ludovico Technique, Dig Up Her Bones by Misfits or The Wanderer by The Cemetary Girlz. Graves finds that music helps him relax as well as petting any rats he comes across. Other songs he also vibes to are Rats by Ghost, Drunk On Shadows by HIM, Entombed by Deftones and Grave Robber At Large by Creature Feature.

Blind Mag: When she's not blessing others with her beautiful voice, Mag listens to Within Temptation, songs like Forgiven, Stand My Ground, Angels, Somewhere, Our Farewell and The Swan Song are her favorites. She sings along to Phobic Sea by Autumn's Grey Solace, Procession by SRSQ and Bless The Child by Nightwish. Mag also enjoys Lebanon Hanover, particularly Midnight Creature, Saddest Smile, Gallowdance, Hollow Sky and The Last Thing. Mag is a sad soul, a caged bird who can't escape so she just sings. Music helps her feel a little more free.

Amber Sweet: Amber is definitely into Diva Destruction, she loves their aesthetic and their sound, especially their songs Tempter, Snake, Valley Of Scars, Cruelty Games, Enslaved, Screaming Inside and The Broken Ones. Hole is another band she likes, with songs such as Reasons To Be Beautiful, Doll Parts, Violet or Nobody's Daughter. Amber also enjoys The Raveonettes, their songs Love In A Trashcan, Kill or I Wanna Be Adored (a cover) are just a few examples. She likes the song Gothic Girl by The 69 Eyes as well. Amber is very girly but also very gothic and that tends to reflect in her music taste.

Pavi Largo: Pavi listens to Male Tears, with some of his favorite songs being Hit Me, Model Citizen, Trauma Club, Good In The Dark and Embrace Death. He also likes Drab Majesty, with songs such as Kissing The Ground, Forget Tomorrow, Too Soon To Tell or 39 By Design. Pavi likes The Cramps too, especially The Way I Walk, Human Fly and Goo Goo Muck. I also feel like Pavi would vibe to Barbie Girl by Aqua, his bisexual ass loves both Kens and Barbies. He also likes Lullaby by The Cure, Beast Of Blood by Malice Mizer and Dressed For Death by Fear Cult. And if it's possible in the Repo! universe he would definitely listen to Skinny Puppy as well lol.

Luigi Largo: Luigi has severe anger issues and I think his music taste would reflect that. Luigi listens to Korn, songs like Falling Away From Me, Coming Undone, Freak On A Leash or Make Me Bad. Luigi likes She Wants Revenge as well, especially their songs Tear You Apart, Written In Blood, Take The World and Red Flags And Long Nights. And he probably likes some Shayfer James songs too, like Villainous Thing, For The Departed and Where We Belong. He would also enjoy In The Dark You Die by Dark, Watch You Bleed by Haunt Me, and Samael by Ankst.

Rotti Largo: Rotti has lived a very privileged life, but he's dying and he thinks none of his kids are worthy heirs so I can see him turning to music for comfort. A song I think he would like is (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult, since it would help him feel less afraid of death. As CEO of GeneCo, he probably has contacts and associates in other countries, since GeneCo would probably exist on a global scale, so I can see Rotti enjoying music in other languages as well. She Past Away would be another band he'd listen to, with songs like Ruh, Monoton, Kasvetli Kutlama or Ritüel, as well as liking Molchat Doma, for example their songs Kletka or Sudno. He would also like Crow Baby by The March Violets and Dead, Cold, Autumn by This Cold Night.

Thank you all for reading, feel free to make similar posts if you'd like, add more songs in the comments, or make playlists, if you enjoyed it maybe I'll submit some more in the future! Have a great night/day wherever you are ♡ Stay kind and spooky! The best season of the year is around the corner.

#submission

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moved05 · 2 months

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🧚‍♀️ elf.maid (Discord)

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hi hi, my name is myskia (theorised to mean 'bat' in Old Swedish - it is found on a runestone, other meanings may also include 'to darken', 'twilight', 'gloom' and 'dusk').

interests; majorly interested in all things to do thats whimsical, fantasy + gothic themes, supernatural creatures + morbid themes etc, all fascinate me + 99% of things i like includes one of those things 😭

👾 gaming - skyrim, stardew valley, hogwarts legacy, elden ring, bloodborne, witcher, wizard 101, alice:madness returns, legend of zelda twilight princess, angels of death, the witch's house, dragon age inquisition, Ib, Outlast, Sims 3 Supernatural + more

👻 films/tv series/books - beetlejuice (musical), the dark crystal: age of resistance, what we do in the shadows, v for vendetta, dune, matrix, hannibal tv series, hannibal movies (silence of the lambs, red dragon etc), avatar, house of the dragon, the witcher, twilight, the crow, the munsters tv series, the addams family, monster high, disney films, LOTR, interview w/ the vampire, the vvitch, the lost boys, queen of the damned, van helsing, scooby doo, the craft, hocus pocus, crimson peak, sleepy hollow, 99% of tim burton films (nightmare before christmas, frankenweenie, coraline, corpse bride, alice in wonderland, sweeney todd, beetlejuice, Edward scissorhands etc), casper the friendly ghost, my sister the vampire book series, room on the broom, + lots more 😭 basically anything whimsical, witchy and spooky i usually love 😭

🎃 anime + manga - soul eater, death note, shiki, elfen lied, madoka magica, sailor moon, the cat returns, castlevania, berserk (+ manga, tw warning tho), witch hat atelier, siuil (girl from the other side) + more, i am getting back into anime + manga so pls send me recommendations 😭

🦇 music - zheani, moonspell, nightwish, björk, kate bush, cher, emilie autumn, chelsea wolfe, rob zombie, nina hagen, yeule, switchblade symphony, the birthday massacre, cocateau twins + so many more,this list is gonna get too long 😭 i'll have my spotify in this post somewhere, check #🦷 mp3 / #🧚‍♀️ mp3 if you want to find more i haven't listed here

🐈‍⬛ fave creatures + other - zebra jumping spider, hercules beetle, luna moths, death hawk moths, black witch moth, dragons!!, black cats, worms, leeches, white plume moth, ghost slug (first found in my country! 😍😭 tho i think the theory is they accidentally got here), mermaid purses, moon jellyfish, poison frog + glass frog, silver foxes, wolves, magpie (my fave bird, why do they sound like a machine gun but look so pretty waa 😭),

🌙 misc - the colours purple/black/lavender blue/dark green, fascinated with the culture surrounding death, the ocean + space, collecting teeth, weird medieval art (like fighting snails, tooth 'wyrms' or skeletons tending to gardens 😭), welsh mythology (love celtic mythology in general though), abandoned and/or haunted places, the smell of soil after rain (petrichor), elves and fairy faith, crystals, amethyst (birthstone), astrology (i like both western + vedic!), thelema, norse mythology, sword / knife collecting, foraging, the poison path (usage of poisonous plants in witchcraft/ritual), carnivorous plants, anything lore-wise about hedge riding (using trance to "fly" or astral project), dreams / dream symbolism / dream dictionaries etc, divination (tarot especially).

#intro #SoundCloud

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robbiefischer · 5 months

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Can I ask 🎶 for Julian AND any other OCs you’d especially like to answer it for?

Of course you can, anon! Sorry to sit on this for a few days, but apparently music taste is a thing I will agonize over. Hopefully it's okay, but I think I'm going to do this for Niko, Alexei and Elijah as well. Thank you so much for this lovely ask, I really appreciate it and I hope you're having a great day! 🖤

🎶 MUSICAL NOTES — what type of music does your oc like? do they listen to music very often?

Julian listens to music all the time. Well, okay, that's likely hyperbole but he'll often have music playing in the background if he's doing something else and really likes being surrounded by it whenever it's practical. He just really enjoys setting the vibe with music, and also thinks it's crucial for him to listen to a wide range of genres and artists to inspire him as a musician. He considers it research, in a way and gets a lot of inspiration for his songs and new sounds to explore with fables from listening to other bands and singer-songwriters. There are very few genres he won't explore and doesn't enjoy, but if he's just listening for pleasure he tends to gravitate towards indie folk and indie rock, alternative, emo, singer-songwriter, indie pop, twee, chamber pop and avant garde. Think some Matador Records (both current and historical - he loves Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, boygenius, Shearwater, Sonic Youth, Boards of Canada, Modest Mouse) with a twist of Sufjan Stevens/Elliott Smith/Seabear confessional and that'll give you a good starting point for what he tends to like. I'm really hoping to upload a Spotify playlist pretty soon of what I imagine a lot of his all-time favorite songs are, but it might take me a little bit because it needs to be perfect for my boy.

Niko's also a fan of having music playing whenever he can. His tastes in music tend to run a lot heavier and darker than Julian's in general. He's more into post-punk, art rock, alt rock, funk, electronica, goth rock, industrial metal, darkwave, synthpop, glam rock, that kind of thing. He loves The Cure, Soft Cell, Joy Division, The Talking Heads, Sisters of Mercy, The Birthday Massacre, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Bauhaus, PJ Harvey and Queen, to name a few. He also loves Hozier, go figure.

Alexei likes anything pop or dance pop. Really, if it's got a good beat, he's into it. He doesn't listen to music all the time (partly because he can't) but it's always on in the car or when he's getting ready for work to pump himself up. He tends to especially love female artists most - he really loves Carly Rae Jepsen, Dua Lipa, old Madonna, The Go-Go's, Kesha, La Roux, Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, Ladytron, Lizzo, Taylor Swift, Kylie Minogue, The Donna's, Olivia Rodrigo, Adele, Ladyhawke, Billie Eilish... but he's pretty open to new genres and artists.

Elijah tends to have music going in the background most of the time, but what it is depends on what he's doing. He listens to a wide variety of genres and will try pretty much anything. When he's streaming, in scrims or running strats with his team, he's probably listening to some lo-fi hip hop/chillhop kind of thing because the lack of lyrics works better for him and it doesn't distract him from whatever game or match he's focusing on. Other than that he tends to gravitate towards electronica, techno, house, EMD, electronic pop, synthpop, triphop, dance-punk and new wave.

#oc ask meme #my ocs #oc: julian #oc: niko #oc: alexei #oc: elijah #*kicks my spotify account under my bed*

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nanshe-of-nina · 6 months

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Halloween playlists:

[Playlist]

45 Grave — Evil

45 Grave — Partytime

Emilie Autumn — Dead Is the New Alive

Balzac — Inside My Eyes

The Birthday Massacre — Happy Birthday

The Birthday Massacre — Horror Show

Birthday Party — Release the Bats

The Brides — The Strange Passing of John Coal

The Brides — Whore Money

Bloody Hammers — Witch of Endor

Coven — The White Witch of Rose Hall

Creature Feature — The Greatest Show Unearthed

Creature Feature — Here Be Witches

The Cramps — Goo-Goo Muck

The Cramps — Surfin' Dead

Don Hinson & The Rigamorticians — Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood

Einstürzende Neubauten — Ein Stuhl in der Hölle

HorrorPops — Where They Wander

HorrorPops — Walk Like a Zombie

Hamburger Brothers — Omar the Vampire

Inkubus Sukkubus — Belladonna & Aconite

Inkubus Sukkubus — Corn King

Inkubus Sukkubus — Song to Pan

Inkubus Sukkubus — Wytches

The Irish Rovers — The Banshee’s Cry

Jack Off Jill — Cinnamon Spider

Jack Off Jill — Witch Hunt

Killing Miranda — Burn Sinister

Mandragora Scream — Dark Lantern

Ministry — Everyday is Halloween

The Misfits — Die, Die My Darling

Mister Monster — I’ll Watch Them Die

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — The Curse of Millhaven

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — Red Right Hand

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — Up Jumped the Devil

Richard O’Brien — Science Fiction Double Feature

The Ramones — Pet Sematary

Rasputina — Gingerbread Coffin

Shonen Knife — Devil House

Siouxsie and the Banshees — Spellbound

Skycycle — The Ghost Is Here

Skycycle — It’s Terror Time Again

Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows — The Inexperienced Spiral Traveler II

ThouShaltNot — The Haunted Phonograph

The Tiger Lilies — Start a Fire

Jill Tracy — Evil Night Together

Jill Tracy — The Fine Art of Poisoning

Traditional — Down in the Willow Garden

Traditional — Pretty Polly

Traditional — Twa Corbies

Traditional — The Lyke-Wake Dirge

Type O Negative — Black No. 1

Type O Negative — Wolf Moon

Vermilion Lies — Circus Apocalypse

Xmal Deutschland — Incubus Succubus II

Zombina and the Skeletones — Come On

Zombina and the Skeletones — Hey Weirdos

Zombina and the Skeletones — Island of Zombina

Zombina and the Skeletones — New Orleans Incident

Zombina and the Skeletones — You’d Scream If I Knew I Did Last Halloween

Instrumental: [Playlist]

Johann Sebastian Bach — Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Béla Bartók — Music for Percussion, Strings and Celesta: III. Adagio

Hector Berlioz — Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath from “Symphonie fantastique”

Johannes Brahms — Hungarian Dance No. 5

Fryderyk Chopin — Piano Sonata No. 2 III: Marche funèbre: Lento

Coil — Main Title (unreleased Hellraiser Theme)

Philip Glass — Candyman theme

Gustav Holst — Neptune, the Mystic from “The Planets”

Gustav Holst — Saturn, Bringer of Old Age from “The Planets”

Gygory Ligeti — Requiem

In Slaughter Natives — Beauty and Bleeding

Franz Liszt — Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Franz Liszt — Totentanz

Lustmord and Robert Rich — Hidden Refuge

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Dies irae from “Requiem in D Minor”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Lacrimosa from “Requiem in D Minor”

Midnight Syndicate — Born of the Night

Midnight Syndicate — Carousel Ride

Modest Mussorgsky — Night on Bald Mountain

Nox Arcana — Calliope

Nox Arcana — The Doll House

Nox Arcana — Haunted Carousel

Nox Arcana — Hall of the Witch Queen

Nox Arcana — Once Upon a Nightmare

Nox Arcana — Shock Treatment

Nox Arcana — Temple of the Black Pharaoh

Nox Arcana — The Witching Hour

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff — Isle of the Dead

Camille Saint-Saëns — Danse Macabre

Michael Shields — Ginger Snaps Opening Theme

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky — Part I: The Adoration of the Earth from “The Rite of Spring”

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Swan Lake - 19 No. 10 Scène (moderato)

#halloween #music #playlists

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theharrowing · 7 months

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anon message from curious cat: you seem to have a really lovely grasp of horror. can i ask for any favorite books, movies, etc? music, maybe?

hello, anon!!! wow, thank you for saying that! horror is a favorite genre of mine, for sure!!!

i don't read a ton of books, tbh; i am very very very picky, i suppose. but some horror titles that have stuck with me have been House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Come Closer by Sara Gran, Dracula by Bram Stoker. i read a lot of Anne Rice as a kid/teen, and although she's definitely a vampire mommy, her revisionist version of history is extremely cringe, so i don't tend to add her to my lists. but she does get credit for my obsession of heartbreaking longing.

as for movies, i have to deliver this nonsense under a cut because i thought of so many favorites! a lot of these are not in English lol.

i am a huge vampire fan and i love A Woman Walks Home at Night, Interview with the Vampire, Dracula, and even Queen of the Damned (it came out when i was a teen and it is absolutely iconic to me lol.) also Blade, Lost Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie!)...so many great choices. for anything involving witchcraft or lore that seems witchy in nature (including folk horror!) i love The VVitch, Blair Witch Project (shout out to Book of Shadows, the goofy, unhinged sequel that i adore), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Huesera: The Bone Woman, The Queen of Black Magic (2020).

i really enjoy hauntings, like the Paranormal Activity films, and Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. i don't like zombies at all, but Train to Busan gets an exception. the v/h/s films have their moments (i think 1 is the best.) i don't fuck with aliens lmao i get TOO unsettled. slashers like Scream and Climax are fun, and the Fear Street series. gosh, this has gotten long haha. i really like horror. and for TV shows, Sweet Home is so good!!! if there is a specific genre you would like me to go into more, lmk because honestly, i could just keep chaotically word vomiting on the topic all night. my lists are LONG.

also, does anime count? Perfect Blue for psychological horror and slasher, Tokyo Ghoul and Devilman Crybaby feel like they might fit? tbh Evangelion feels a little like psychological horror but that might be a stretch.

music-wise, i do like some goth music, but i don't listen to a ton of it. but if you want something cute and unsettling, i have been revisiting The Birthday Massacre while writing. and i am going to try to put together a fun creepy playlist for Carnival of Terror, which may scratch this itch a little more, down the line.

i am going to cut this short but please reach out to talk all things horror again, if you would like to!!! 💜💜💜

got something you'd like to say to me on anon? send it here!

#i love horror wow lmaoooo #this list barely scratches the surface for films #curious cat message #lovely anon #you've got mail 💌

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batsandnerds · 2 years

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Tagged by @memezeek

Name: it's in my bio

Star sign: aquarius

Height: 155 cm

Birthday: February 15th

Favorite artists: The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Birthday Massacre

Song I have stuck in my head: Isolator by House of Harm

Last film I watched: The Cabin in the Woods

Last show I binged: I genuinely don't remember, I'm not a big fan of shows

Blog created: I don't remember

Other blogs: photography blog I don't use

Last thing I googled: Cult of The Lamb follower forms, I wanna catch 'em all

Why I chose this url: because I like goth music and gaming. Also it was like 2014 so everyone had cringy urls like this

Followers: 1336, 2/3 of these are bots and dead blogs though

tagging @skeletonvintage @bloodstonegoth @wesleyccxx @whiskybravo

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daxwritesstories · 1 year

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Dire: Story Playlist

Spotify Link

Track list under the cut

12 Through 15 - Mayday Parade

“You said the problem’s in your heart, but the problem’s who you are”

Carnival - Ghost Town

“I want the bad, the worst in you. You disgust me but I still want some. I wish it didn’t have to be this way”

Desperate Measures - Marianas Trench

“For a first effort this feels kinda last-ditch, I guess this just got kinda drastic”

Devil Town - Cavetown

“We’re all dead in devil town, that’s fine ‘cause nothing’s gonna scare us now”

Ever After - Marianas Trench

“I would make a better liar, I never face the music when it’s dire”

Fucked Up World - The Pretty Reckless

“No mountain made of money could buy you a soul”

Haunted - Laura Les

“I’ve been up for three days, everything is haunted, everybody’s evil”

House Of Wolves - My Chemical Romance

"You better run like the devil 'cause they're never gonna leave you alone"

Lonely Road To Absolution - Billy Talent

“Conscience had been cast away, evil has been blessed with praise”

Monsters - All Time Low

“Why do I run back to you like I don’t mind if you fuck up my life?”

Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks - Panic! at the Disco

“With the way you’ve been talking every word gets you a step closer to Hell”

Oil - Gorillaz

“I was on my own there in the psychic silence”

Pretty When You Cry - VAST

“I didn’t wanna fuck you but you’re pretty when you’re mine”

Smoke - PVRIS

“You make your way into my veins, course right through my limbs and dig your way into my brain”

The Horror Of Our Love - Ludo

"Love I'd never hurt you, but I'll grind against your bones until our marrows mix"

Try Honesty - Billy Talent

“I’m insane, it’s your fault”

Tsunami - Finana Ryugu

“Fire, wind, and earth can’t stop me, I’m a natural disaster”

Video Kid - The Birthday Massacre

“I know we’re just pretending, there’s no window for mistakes”

x2 dose - dynastic

“I did something wrong today and I meant it in the right way”

#dire #story playlist #Cyra's world #been listening to this all day lol

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whoviancumberbunny · 1 year

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Small Miracles - Part Two of My Scanlan Shorthalt fluff fic

Part one: Tentative Love

Small Miracles

Scanlan Shorthalt and Other Vox Machina characters Created by Critical Role

Story By Melissa C. Scraper

Few months before Scanlan had proposed to Lucy they had all journeyed to the abanadoned Collins Family Estate “I said to stay in the basement for a reason.” Lucy said looking away they had found their way into the formal dining room using Pike’s connection to the everlight, “You asked about the scar on my arm. The secret package behind the south wall has suit of armor in it. When I started running I tripped over it.”

“This was a massacre. Like the Briarwoods did to my family.” Percy sees a portrait of Quentin “I think your father was a business associate of my parents he looks vaguely familiar.”

“Please don’t look at that portrait. I hated sitting for it. It was family tradition for everyone In the family to sit for portrait on their 15th birthday.” She looks “wait a minute, i looks like at some point Gabriel damaged it there is letter in the frame.” She gets it out.

Scanlan “Where is the music coming from?”

“My father’s spirit is playing his piano for me.” It would take all night for them to figure out how to carefully remove the seven bodies of Lucy’s family. ”the trick will be actually burying them in the graveyard. The caretaker never consistently locked the gates.”

A few days later at the Inn “It’s okay everyone this is the Collins family attorney, in name and in title, Desmond Collins this is my..boyfriend, Scanlan Shorthalt.” she didn’t want to call him lover because they were intimate in other ways everyone else introduced themselves “Make Sure my family gets grave markers and bury Eli in my crypt.” They look at her “as soon as we are presented publicly we are assigned crypt in the collins mausoleum. Desmond has one too.”

Desmond “I will make sure everything gets done.”

“Sell the mansion. My home is Whitestone.” She looked at him “Sell the dead to the family company to the workers. I know part of the reason they hate our family is because it has always profited off their work and barely paid them.”

“Are you sure?”

“it never felt like home to me, Monty. I know it never felt like home to you either or you never would have left town with Leticia. The same time my parents met.”

Desmond takes out last will and testament “Your grandmother left everything to you.”

“I know.” she signs all the papers “Time to burn bridges and not look back. I want you to give 10, 000 gold pieces to Mister Stokes the former groundskeeper I saw that he is living in town now. Tell him whatever you wish. He deserves it after years of dealing with Gabriel.” She looks at Desmond “Monty, set aside money so you and Leticia can adopt I know you always wanted kids but never were able to have your own.”

Scanlan stands there mindlessly strumming his mandolin he was still trying to finish the song, he had been trying since they officially started courting to write this song. He sits with Percy “She is so gentle how is it possible that after all she has been through she still wants to help people?”

“The best I can say, my friend is that Lucy wants to help people not end up the way her family did.” He looked at him “Stop trying to r write the song. It will come to you when the time is right. I have feeling her family has enemies in this village. Did you see the people glaring as we arrived.” After Desmond leaves Lucy sits with them.

Lucy takes the note out she found in her portrait out and opens it.

Lucy, I don’t know if you will read this I hope you are somewhere happy and safe. You’ve probably met with Desmond by now. I have feeling I know what you will do with the house. I feel like I was terrible father to you. I am sorry for the things I may have forced you to do in your life, I am sorry for betraying your mother. She tried so hard to change me but I was already of questionable morals when I met her. Your mother had an older sister who lived in town before she. I couldn’t stay loyal to one woman. Their brother came to town intent on shooting me after their sister was found dead.

But I don’t need to burden you with my issues. I left money for you with a friend of mine in Whitestone. Desmond doesn’t know about it but should you ever end up there ask for help. Live your life, I was never allowed to live the life I wanted. I wanted to be a sailor. Do be the light in someone else’s life that you were in my brief and corrupted life, your father Quentin Charles Collins

She hands the note to Scanlan “Her father has money somewhere in Whitestone. That he buried there for her.” After spending two weeks and finally figuring out that it had been buried near the Sun Tree.

“I know normally men kneel when they are about to propose but I am already shorter than you. Lucero Angelique Harridge DuPres Collins will you take this humble jack ass as your husband I will do my best to continue taking care of you.” Suddenly trinket lift him up where he is looking her In the eye “What’s your answer.”

“Yes.” He kisses her as his hand gently caresses her cheek “I love you. I do I do I do.” He looks at Vex “Can trinket put me down his nose is in awkward places.” They laugh as Trinket lowers him to the ground

A little over a year later “Calm down it is not deadly disease unless you think of baby as a parasite.” Lucy says as she returns from her visit with the De Rolo Family Physician. Suddenly it dawns on Scanlan what she just said and he trips over the fireplace hearth as he goes over to her

“Really?” his face breaks out into a big dopey grin “I never thought I could be more happy that I was when you became mrs. shorthalt.” He stands up and kisses her “I guess I won’t be able to sit on your lap for few months. That was one of his favorite things about coming home to her. Sitting on her lap as she’d played with his ponytail “You’re my home, you know that right?” he said

“You’re mine too. You saved me in more ways than you understand.” She whispers “If the baby is a Girl we should name her Daphne Juniper.” She smiles at him “Let’s go for walk we haven’t been for walk in few days.” As they walk “I think the baby was conceived that night at harvest festival in Vasselheim.”

“when you accidentally figured out playing with my ears…turns me on.” He said with a smirk “I can’t believe you remembered I told you my mother’s name, was Juniper.” They sit on the bench Percy, Vax and Grog carved for them as a wedding present. “Your father appeared in one of my dreams shortly after we got married. He told me not be the man he was.”

“He saw his own mistakes too late, his music was the only way he could think of to show me love because he was raised by an emotionally distant father who always waited for him to make mistakes.” She smiled “You are wearing the shirt I made you.”

“I like it more than the shirts I paid for before you gave it to me to keep me warm. I never thought I would be a father. You never explained why you refuse to hold seances.”

“Because they don’t just create an opening for the ones you want to talk to. They create an opening for dark spirits to enter too. My mother’s journal said Shortly after I was born, my father roommate from university showed up at the mansion with cursed mask that belonged to warlock and he put it on while under the influence of the warlock he tried to seduce my mother. My father had to stab him. And he fell off the cliff and into the water.”

“How are you the only sane one born in that house?” he said smiling pulling her out of the morbid mood that she tended to switch to when her family was brought up “If we ever have other children I think we should name one of them Elijah. After your brother.”

“That’s a good idea. I was just thinking about what you did for my birthday. Not in the bedroom.”

“I still can’t believe I convinced Grog and Percy to be part of that dance number.” He grinned “But I love to see you laugh and smile though.” She flinches a little “Should I make a brilliant cover story for he bruise I will obviously get from tripping over the fireplace?”

“Have you forgotten that Percy tripped hitting his head on the dining table when Vex announced she was pregnant. He’s way more dignified than you. I swear he mumbled fuckin’ ow.”

“You weren’t there when Vesper was born. He forgot to open the door first and walked into it.”

Meanwhile inside Percy “I am going to have the craftsman make crib for them.”

“Percy Darling, you are blacksmith. You could give them silver rattle as a token of good luck. Like Lucy has done for our daughter.” They all look down at their wrists, they had gotten so accustomed to the hand woven bracelets she gave them for their birthdays that they almost forgot they had them “She made the dream catcher we have over our bed.”

Vax looking out the window “There’s going to be another death in village soon. Our lady of the ravens is roaming around.” He knew Lucy could see it too but lucy had learned not to spoil their calm moments by mentioning the frailty of existence “She uses the money she has to help others. We should do what we can to make her pregnancy comfortable.”

Vex “Brother, we all agree with that. Come here we are going to show you how to sew and we are going to make baby quilt for their baby.” Lucy had taught her how to do quilts and sometimes she would do it as form of meditation. She laughs as he cusses under his breath every time he pokes himself with needle “Honestly Vax you can handle daggers and swords but 1 tiny needle draws blood.” The intended to work on the quilt when Lucy and Scanlan went for walks. “Why aren’t you making your husband work on this thing too?”

“Because, Vax, he’s making his own gift for Lucy and Scanlan’s baby.” On fact Percy would go overboard and fashion silver rattle and build and cradle for baby Daphne himself. Lucy deserved his respect and he knew she would never accept a title.

A few months later with Pike as Midwife, Scanlan paced nervously outside the bedroom and when he heard the baby cry. He carefully knocked on the door “Is it safe to come in.”

Lucy “Come say hello to our daughter.” She said quietly “Daphne this idiot here is your father.”

“Hello there little one.” He smiled at lucy and brushed her hair out of her face “I can watch the baby while you sleep.” He carefully takes the baby into his arms “Hello Daphne Juniper. Your mom and I promise to do our best to protect you and let you just be yourself.”

“Don’t forget t you need to eventually let her sleep too, Scanlan.” She kisses him and as soon as the door is closed Lucy falls asleep

“Hey everyone say hello to the newest member of our group. Daphne Juniper Shorthalt.” He looked at them “Before you ask. It was my choice to wait outside.” He said to Percy.

“That’s not what I was going to say.” He pulls out gift he made for Scanlan. “I figured it would be good for you to have rocking chair in proportion to your body so you don’t accidentally hurt yourself of Daphne.”

Scanlan “Before I forget again. Lucy wants Vax and Pike to be Daphne’s godparents.”

Vax’ildan “Why me. I was dick to her the first time I said anything to her.”

“Because she wants Daphne to learn about the balance between light and dark. Life and death. One can’t exist without the other.” He looked at percy “Thank you. You went overboard . you hmade an ornate hand carved crib, a silver rattle and whatever that is.”

“it was supposed to be silver spoon but I couldn’t get it right and kept cutting them so I made it into windchimes.” He blushed “What can I say I like it better making gifts than I did making weapons when we were just roaming band of psychos.”

Pike “But gods we have good stories to tell the kids when they are old enough.”

“I never told you about the in the chest with the money Quentin left for Lucy.” Scanlan said “It said we are all stories in the end. Make the rest of your story the best one you can.”

Percy “The people of the town want to make Lucy the first saint of Whitestone.”

“She is not a saint she is just person who wants to atone for the sins of her family.”

Kiki “She found a dead bord in the manor garden and insisted we have funeral for it. Let’s go for walk Vax.”

A few weeks later “I know I am expected to stay in bed for two months. But I hate being in bed.” Lucy looks around “Where are Scanlan and Daphne.”

“He takes her for walk in her pram, to help her sleep when you are sleeping.” Percy explained as Lucy sat down “Here have something to eat.”

“As long as someone else cooked it. last time I ate something you made, Percival. I was sick for three days.”

“What can I say?” he smiled “I am a good blacksmith but apparently cooking requires a delicate touch.” He placed a bowl of stew in front of her “Believe it or not. Scanlan made this. He’s asked Vex and Pike to show him to make food for you and when she starts eating solid food, Daphne. You’ve made him a better man. He was a decent man.”

“I saw the man he hid from all of you. He was afraid you’d reject him if you knew his truth.” She sighed “That’s how I felt.”

When Scanlan gets home with baby daphne. He takes her out of the baby carriage and walks over to lucy and kisses her “Hey princess.”

“Hey there handsome. What is the baby wearing.”

“A gift from Gilmore and Deidre.” It suddenly dawns on the other that h the baby is wearing beret that matches Scanlan’s “I think it is adorable.”

“She’s only three weeks old she doesn’t need to draw attention, people are drawn to babies anyway. It is not the beret I object to. Babies have sensitive skin and Gilmore gave her a silk romper.” She sighs everyone, in their lives, wanted to spoil the baby

A few months later “Pike, can you watch Daphne tonight. My wife and I need time to ourselves for a little while we are going to the Inn.” When Lucy comes out of the bedroom after putting on the clothes that Gilmore just made for her, his jaw dropped “Be Still my heart.”

Gilmore “I told you I could make an outfit that makes him speechless without showing cleavage.”

“Thank Diedre for the hat too.” She said as she went ot pay him

“No. it is gift. I can get paid by other customers you are a friend.” He kisses lucy on the cheek “be careful not to accidentally create another life tonight.”

“You just want a boy to see if I will make you a godfather, Gilmore.”

“If I did have a godson his presentation outfit would be fabulous.” He said as he left

Lucy giggled and went over to him as he stood on the stepstool to kiss her “Hey there handsome.” she said, it would be obvious to people who didn’t even know them well that he made an effort to always show he loved her. “I love you. I didnlt forget you birthday I just hadn’t finished you present yet.” She goes overo the window seat and opens the cabinet taking out a wooden box containing and hand carved bamboo flute

He opens it and stares at it for few minutes “Lucy. Is this why you have been borrowing books from the library.”

“I gave those to her as a gift, Scanlan.” Vax elbows Percy “Ow. You didn’t need to elbow me that hard Vax’ildan.” Scanlan starts playing the lullabye he’s been writing for Daphne, it was obvious to everyone around them that his inspiration was now his wife and daughter and not just self praising prose.

To be continued…

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023

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