Re: Copper's Corner
Thought about doing this in the Lyrics and Videos thread, but then I realized, that's a lot of lyrics. And it doesn't quite fit with Funny/Awesome Video Tiem, so I figured I'd put this here. What I've got is a "soundtrack" to the game that I'm playing in currently, Geist - The Sin-Eaters. It's a White Wolf TTRPG and the first thing that happens to your character is you
die. And at the moment of death, you make a pact with a Geist to basically bring them back from the 'other side' in exchange for them helping you fight off the reaper and granting you niftly little plasm-based tricks. Throughout playing the game, I've found that certain songs have just lent themselves very well to the characters and situations in the game, and thus, I composed a soundtrack for it. What follows are said songs, what they represent, and links to videos so you can hear them. Just a little fun thing I thought I'd do. Enjoy if ye wish!
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- This is Becca's song. Becca is my character. Becca had her throat ripped out by a vampire who was chased away by one of the other characters. She's new to this whole sin-eater thing but she's kind of getting a crash course in what she can do and learning that the world out there is a lot bigger than she thought it was. It's fun. Granted, her geist isn't exactly a monster, but still...
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- This is Jace's song. Jace is Becca's boyfriend. Jace is an Italian monk who happens to be a Hunter. He was chasing the vampire that attacked Becca and made a choice to stay with her and call an ambulance, not to mention stay in her hospital room for the three days she was unconscious. For all the crazy shit he deals with and "brings home," so to speak, he is pretty much one of the few stable things in Becca's life at the moment. She just recently found out that Jace is half-fae thanks to a deal his mother made with a Fae Lord and that's part of the reason why the man he thinks is his father is trying to kill him. Jace is currently in a holding cell in a fae realm, waiting to be sacrificed so a megalomaniac with dreams of granduer can try and become a fae lord himself. Think Jafar from Aladdin. If he survives that and Becca manages to rescue him, then they have to deal with his family reunion/retirement from active duty ceremony. In Italy. That his mother thinks is also going to be his and Becca's wedding.
Confused yet? Good.
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- This is Xander's song. Xander is Jace's cousin who is also a sin-eater. Xander was sacrificed by her grandmother, the high priestess of a death cult, to help revive their goddess. Didn't take. Xander was also being groomed to be not only Jace's archivist (Think Watchers from either Highlander or Buffy) but there was talk in the family of those two getting hitched. (Something that seriously squiggs Becca out, and Jace, too, since he sees Xander as more of a sister than anything else. That, and she's too freaking willful to get married and be forced to settle down and make little Hunter babies.) Xander's also a very powerful sin-eater and sort of the unofficial leader of the krewe that's in town.
I also think it's funny that the three main characters are all inspired by/soundtracked by songs by the same band.
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- This is Matt's song. Matt is an Australian photographer for National Geographic who won a Pulitzer for his photos of a sunset taken during a brush fire in the Outback. The reason Matt was there to take the pictures? The fire trapped him and his hiking companion and it was the last thing that he did before he died. And then he came back. Yup, another sin-eater. Matt's what's referred to as a "bone-picker." They're the ones that, after they come back, tend to live life to the fullest it has to offer. He was the first sin-eater that Becca met and kind of let her know that she wasn't alone out there. He, along with Jace, are Becca's "rocks" in her life. Things get to be too much for her and she can, luckily, count on him to at least be there for a hug and a pat on the head. Becca also takes great delight in stealing the black cowboy hat that he's always wearing.
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- This is Julian's song. Adam is also pretty much what Julian looks like (Thanks to me. The GM had a different guy in mind but the response was "holy crap, you're right!") The song pretty much sums up Julian's early life which was, in a nutshell, a train wreck. He was an Olympic class gymnast that had his leg wrecked in a car crash and pretty much turned his life into a huge mess. He finally got himself turned around, starting his own clothing line, boutiques, the works when he found out he was dying of AIDS. A few days after Matt came to see him (heh, surprise! They're a couple.), he had his chance to make his Deal. He's still a bit of a party-boy at heart, but he's got a sensible side to him as well. Becca's "Auntie" Julian that, despite his hedonistic demeanor, she can count on as much as she does Matt (since where you usually find one, you find the other.) Jules is currently in the *same* holding cell as Jace, waiting to be part of the aforementioned sacrifice. This doesn't really surprise the rest of the group, since Jules is the Daphne in the Scooby gang that is their krewe.
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- The GM's suggestion for Matt and Julian's song after I introduced her to Adam Lambert. Given that Julian was a "wolf in sheeps clothing" when he first met Matt, the mess that his life turned into after his accident, and the fact that Matt could still come back to him, not to mention stay with him, lends itself very well this song.
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- Recently found this one, thanks to a friend, and I find that it fits Matt and Julian very well, though not so much as a relationship song but as a narrative to their respective Deals. Matt died in a brush fire in the Australian Outback and Julian died in a hospital bed. And both of them came back because of the other. Again, slightly amused because their songs are coming from the same artists.
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- This is Onnagata's song. Onnagata is Becca's geist. For those of you that don't know and to save you looking it up, an Onnagata is a male kabuki performer who traditionally plays the parts of women. So Becca's sharing her soul with a Japanese cross-dresser. Who's gay. Her only saving grace in this is that they at least have the same taste in men (("What of your Jace? He's *very* pretty." "Yes, he is, but please, I don't want to scare the boy off." "At the rate you're going, nothings going to happen." "I'm not trying to get him into bed!" "You're lying." "No, I'm--" "You're lying." "Okay, I'm lying, but I actually *like* him. So, please, can we try this my way?" "*pout* Fine.")) Onnagata's somewhat benign as geists go. Once you get past the eyeless mask she wears and the fact that there's blood seeping out from under it onto her kimono from her slit throat, she's been relatively easy for Becca to get along with. She's only possessed her once without permission and has been a big help to her, especially when said megalomaniac was trying to get into Becca's dreams.
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- Pretty much the theme song for Geist.
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- Another sort of Geist theme song.
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- We're likely going into a hostile fae realm that also, effectively, exists in Purgatory/The Underworld to battle someone with a god complex that has a great deal of magic and nasty creatures at his disposal to rescue a pair of princes that are currently being held prisoner. I think it fits. Not to mention the Underworld itself can be somewhat hostile in general.
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- It's mostly the line about standing up at the gates of hell, but Jace has remarked that Becca's soul has more life than sense and she has a tendency to have more brass than is probably good for her but she's definitely not one to back down, especially not when she or her friends are threatened.
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- A song about life and taking chances in it, which is what Becca's doing. There's also a line about looking fear in the face, which is another thing she's probably going to have to do, very very soon.
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- So I didn't know it was her when I first heard this but the song seems to fit Becca well. Again, she's not one to back down from a challenge and even if she doesn't succeed the first time, that doesn't stop her from trying again.
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- So, in the course of the game, the bad guy forced a mage in his employ to ressurect Jace's mentor and put him in a situation where he could stay alive, but only at the cost of other souls. And then pretty much presented him to Jace and Becca. So Jace had to go through losing the man that was effectively his father figure *again*. And so, after that in the game, where Becca's pretty much got an emotionally distraught Jace curled up against her, this comes on. I swear my radio knows.
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- A song for Becca and Jace. Jace is a monk. Jace is under a vow of chastity that protects him from certain mind affecting abilities that vampires, mages, etc. have. So while they're a couple, there's no hanky-panky. Doesn't stop the want from being there, though.
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- A more apt song for Becca and Jace, particularly when she realized she really could be falling in love with him. Jace's family is
loaded. He's hot. He's got the aura of mystery and danger. He spoils her rotten with gifts, like a full dress kimono or a custom made cosplay gown or having VIP access to one of the hottest clubs in town. And all she cares about is having him come home safe so she can curl up in his arms. It's not about the money or about sex or any of that. It's closeness and companionship that she craves more than that.
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- It was pretty much the first and third stanzas of the song that got me, not to mention the religious setting. Jace does patrol the streets, protecting the innocent, and he *did* spend three days at Becca's feet, even if she was unconscious at the time. It's not a perfect fit for the two of them, but it's close.
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- Okay, so technically, it's about a woman, but the majority of the song fits Cassian and Raphael, who are Julian and Jace's fetches, respectively. A fetch is a fae construct, identical to their replacement, who takes their place in the real world after the original has been abducted by the fae. The krewe came to find out that M'brook had done so with these two and, traditionally, when the original gets loose, they usually kill their fetch. They couldn't exactly do that, since Raphael was supposed to be taking his place as heir to Jace's dad's Hunter clan (because he paid M'brook to a. provide him with a worthy heir and b. get Jace out of the picture. Nice guy, huh? Ohyeah, and he tried to choke Becca to death.) Cass and Rafe are *literally* made for one another (a little jab by M'brook). Their hearts are each a half of this huge diamond and they can't help but be together. It's cause a bit of emotional distress in the past, but they're working around it. Still, the song seems to fit.
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- Hey, we stopped the ritual, killed the bad guy, and made it out all in once piece, with the Queen of the Summer Court in tow. The krewe definitely earned this. Along with all the booze they consumed.
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- So, even though we're currently in the third campaign of our Geist game, the Boston krewe just doesn't want to rest. In between dealing with megalomaniacs, Becca and Jace have been planning their wedding. Was sitting with the GM one night and I posed the question as to what would be Becca and Jace's "first dance" song and the GM handed me this on her iPod. Because it fits. Perfectly.