gracen my beloved + 🎶 OR vee + 🎶
(give me a character name + 🎶 and I'll put their playlist on shuffle and tell you the most fitting lyric of the first song I get)
gracen & vee both hail from darkling, my speculative fiction king lear retelling!
shuffling the gracenlist gave me simmer by hayley williams which is... one of Thee essential gracensongs. literally top two or three gracensongs. it's about the constant slow-burning wrath that underlines everything she does
Rage is a quiet thing
You think that you’ve tamed it
But it’s just lying in wait
AND, of course, the older sister role that's basically a parental role at this point because she's the only person attempting to protect her younger sisters at all
If my child needed protection
From a fucker like that man
I’d sooner gut him
‘Cause nothing cuts like a mother
god she is so fucking mad all the time because she's been pushing all the trauma and emotion down for most of her life. she makes me insane. we move on,
shuffling the veelist brings us... monsters by the boy least likely to!
This town is full of monsters
Holding hands with other monsters
And attempting to be human beings
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And I don't know why
It is they scare me
But they do
And the thing that really frightens me
Is that all my friends from school
Are turning into monsters
songs doubly accurate for vee because not only does he have serious paranoia (it's the undiagnosed psychotic disorder), he ALSO lives in dovermorry, where everyone is jacked up on their own overpowered magic & obscene wealth and everyone is ready to stab each other in the back at any given time! cool city. normal place
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8:09 AM EST February 14, 2024:
Witchfinder General - "No Stayer"
From the album Death Penalty
(September 1982)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
File under: NWOBHM
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Smthn about escapism and why someone (me) might choose to stay with Kinito even tho he was a bit mean and also didn’t like that u had freewill lol
Also a little bit of thinking abt how Kinito and the Player Who Stays (the Stayer???) share a lot of parallels (working hard to deserve nice things, crippling loneliness, selfish reasons for clinging to one another, self awareness, dissatisfaction/disappointment with their respective realities leading to them idealizing the concept of each other, etc etc)
(The song lyrics are from ‘Woof woof’ by ARTHUR. It took a few listens to rlly appreciate it, now it scratches my brain in v nice ways)
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i had this idea pop into my head a couple nights ago and i finally put it into words! hope u all enjoy <33
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yet another meeting.
charlie had gathered everyone in the hotel’s lounge area for a rundown of new team building exercises that she wanted to explain to everyone. it wasn’t that you weren’t interested in helping out, you were.
it was just the fact that the couch cushions you were currently sat on were providing the utmost comfort and it also wasn’t helping that you were trying not to nod off in between sentences — you swear you closed your eyes at “trust fall exercises” and opened them back up at “writing out your feelings is also important”
and then there was the red radio demon you were sat beside.
alastor.
everyone feared his presence, wouldn’t dare to even look in his direction. but the way he was with everyone else, he wasn’t the same way towards you. you didn’t know how to describe it; sitting beside him right now, you felt a sort of… warmth. and of course with that usual smile he has plastered on his face, you don’t know which emotion he’s feeling.
but it doesn’t make you wanna run away and hide. instead, you feel contentment. you feel safe next to him, even though you know that he could have you dead in cold blood within seconds.
and this is perhaps the fifth time he’s watched you, out of the corners of his eyes, nod off for what seems like five seconds, only to almost jolt awake again in what seems like… panic? oh you poor little thing.
“you know, cher” he’s not even focused on charlie’s tangent anymore, instead on you, the tired little doe that can barely keep her eyes open. he still keeps his eyes trained forward. “if you’re feeling so out of sorts, i could provide you with a tad bit more comfort, if you truly desired” his voice is a low whisper, careful not to disturb the other hotel stayers as he’d rather not bring attention to the fact that he maybe cares about someone. how preposterous.
you look up at alastor through your tired eyes. he has one leg crossed over the other, his hands resting on his kneecap — you think he looks so handsome sitting this close to you. he meets your gaze with a turn of his head, careful not to cause such a commotion as he glances between you and his shoulder.
oh?
it’s a very sweet gesture. especially coming from the radio demon himself because you know he hates when people invade his privacy. and even though you’ve always wondered what it’s like to fully be in his touch…
you’re scared, shy, all of the above.
and you think the dust of pink on your cheeks gives it all away.
“no need to get so bashful on me, sweetheart, it’s just a simple gesture. besides i can’t have a belle like you being exhausted all day, now can i, hm?”
alastor trains his focus back towards charlie as you shyly take his offer, slowly laying your head down on his suit-clad shoulder and it’s… very cozy, you decide. the small amount of contact feels very serene as you nuzzle your cheek against his shoulder. and god forbid anyone looks in your direction, otherwise you probably wouldn’t hear the end of it. especially angel dust who’s been bugging you about your little crush on the radio demon.
you decide to go a bit further and link your arm around his, only for a bit more warmth your mind declares is the perfect excuse while your heart fluttering in your tummy, watching for any disapproval alastor has. but he shows none. it’s the greatest feeling in the world to be this close to him. you shouldn’t get used to this… but god, do you want to, so bad.
“you gonna put me to bed too after this?” you whisper jokingly in alastor’s ear, seeing his ear twitch just the slightest. how can an overlord be this adorable?
“don’t push your luck, cher”
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