Because Music is better than screaming.

So today I thought I'd tell you about the music and who belongs to what. The first one in the song list is "In My Place". As Fionnaula mentioned, Coldplay was one of the most inspiring groups going during the time that I was really exploring Furth. During one marathon brainstorming rp session between Kajm and myself, I first demonstrated Kilara's love by quoting the lyrics to "In My Place" as a song about Kita. This became the song mentioned in Tilana's chapter dealing with the Blind Maestro in Lawninium at the end, after their conversation.

The key verse in "In My Place" is the heartfelt "Please. Come back and sing with me." Granted that's very little to go on, but Kilara has always been waiting for that love.

The second song as told by SpideyGeek is "God Put a Smile On Your Face" again by Coldplay. This is the song that most moves me for Kita, and is the song she sings in the earlier work in my scraps, when Kilara dances circles around her. [link]

The third song is "Kensington Line" and I've probably spelled it wrong. Anyway, the song starts with a motorcycle firing up and rolling away. Beside the obvious at that point, I've always seen Jasper identifying with the sentiment of that point of view. Ordinary Joe working for a living, tired of the situation, heading off with an apology to the woman (or world in Jasper's case) that he's leaving behind.

Fourth is "Turn It On Again" by Genesis. While this again comes at a point unwritten in a character's life, the whole of the song is an upbeat shout to the entertainment industry, or perhaps to the television in general. But after Tresha gives our downtrodden Tom something to work for, I see him dancing on an empty stage every time I hear this song.

I suppose the fifth and sixth songs are my head wanting to move on to new stories even though I've yet to finish the ones I'm working on. My unwritten Archeologist keeps popping up in the most unlikely places. The part I've written and shown here is a later time in her life. But even though she has yet to tell me her name, she's told me of her fight through her culture, and her awakening as it were. "Speed of Sound" stirs my soul, and through her antropology studies, it seems to stir her as well.

But work isn't her only calling, and while the sixth song seems to be from a point one of her male suitors would understand more than she would, I still attach it to her. In her struggle to set her scientific world on it's ear, she struggles with love of two males, who unfortunately don't seem at the moment to believe in her work. What is a rabbit to do?

Seven in the list is "Daffodil Lament" identified by Fionnaula. I've mentioned before that when I first started creating Tilana as a character, I had been playing Kilara a while, and thought at first that it was Kilara reacting to this song I'd found while driving a big rig across the country. Yet the more I thought things through and paid attention to the images in my head rather than the road (which is why I no longer drive big trucks) the more I realized this wolf woman was a totally different person. The whole of "Daffodil Lament" matches Tilana's making the decision to leave Alghwin, leaving the house and dancing in the field below in the morning. Even the instrumental part of the song belongs to the moment Alghwin rises before her at the forest's edge.

I should grant that the last three are difficult for anyone to identify, and impossible for anyone to match to characters they don't know. The eighth in the list is of course "Clocks" again by Coldplay, pointed out by SpideyGeek. "Clocks" is a beautiful song, as pretty for its music as for its lyrics. And though the last movie about Peter Pan and Neverland beat me to it, it's a grand song for a movie soundtrack. For my purpose, Clocks could be the Blind Maestro's "Song of the Morning".

The last two songs, "Your Time Is Gonna Come" and "Porch" fit me and my dragon alter-ego, just because that's how life has seemingly gone for us both. Romance just isn't our biggest success. Everytime I hear these, despite their depressive subject matter, I find myself lifted by the fact that other folks know where I've been.

Anyway, thanks for your interest. I'll probably put up ten more, without the need to point to characters. Somebody ought to be able to identify some music!

k

So in the tradition of the fine little “ten songs” game going around, I thought I’d go ahead and throw up my own. However there’s a bit of a twist in mine because I’m really a twisted individual. While there are ten songs they’re not all by different artists. So see if you can do the usual (the song and the name of the artist) but also if you've got the mind see if you can match the character that goes with each song.

Yeah, cause I’m like that. To help you, here’s a character list. In some order:

Tilana Yarrow
Kilara Sominest
Kita Blacksocks
Blind Maestro
Bourke Gonwin
Jasper Ringtail
katarthis / Me!
Archaeologist Rabbit

Finally, for the hint. Me and the Rabbit both have two songs. Yes, there really are four songs from the same band.

Now for the music. Have some fun, maybe?

"I was scared, I was scared, Tired and underprepared, But I wait for it
And if you go, if you go, And leave me down here on my own, Then Ill wait for you, Yeah" In My Place - Coldplay - Kilara Sominest

"Where do we go nobody knows?
Dont ever say youre on your way down when
God gave you style and gave you grace
God put a smile upon your face" God put a smile on your face -Coldplay - Kita Blacksocks

"Didn't like the look I see Runnin' in the autumn leaves
Hasn't got a brain or peeve Oh, the walls are closin' in
Hey, I'm headed out of here
Oh, I never meant to leave you cryin'" Kensington Line - Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Jasper Ringtail

"All I need is a TV show, that and the radio
Down on my luck again, down on my luck again
I can show you I can show you some of the people in my life" Turn It On Again - Genesis - Bourke Gonwin

"Ideas that you'll never find, All the inventors could never design.
The buildings that you put up, Japan and China all lit up.
The sign that I couldn't read, or a light that I couldn't see,
some things you have to believe, but others are puzzles, puzzling me." Speed of Sound - Coldplay - Rabbit Archaeologist

"And it feels like tonight.
I can't believe I'm broken inside.
Can't you see that there's nothing that I wanna do,
But try to make it up to you?" Feels Like Tonight - Daughtry - Rabbit Archaeologist

"I have decided to leave you forever, I have decided to start things from here, Thunder and lightning won’t change, What I’m feeling
And the daffodils look lovely today" Daffodils Lament - Cranberries - Tilana

"Singin’, come out if things aren’t said, Shoot an apple off my head
And a, trouble that can’t be named, Tigers waitin’ to be tamed" Clocks - Coldplay - Blind Maestro

"Don't care what you say 'cause I'm goin' away to stay
Gonna make you pay for that great big hole in my heart
People talkin' all around
Watch out, woman, no longer is the joke gonna be on my heart" Your Time Is Gonna Come - Led Zepplin - Me!

"Hear my name, take a good look
This could be the day
Hold my hand, lie beside me
I just need to say
I could not take a just one day
I know that I would not ever touch you
Hold you...feel you...ever hold...never again..."Porch - Pearl Jam - Me!


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Probably a bit big a challenge. I mean, I know I couldn't figure out which song moves which character of anyone else's. But see what anyone can do.

k

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"So you want to know the best way to address a dragon do you? Well, keep this at hand. Pencil and paper. You thought I was going to say "wit and wisdom" or such no? But you're wrong. For when dealing with dragons, if you're face to face with one, then you've already left wit and wisdom far behind you." ~ Taleron Kindrake

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Letum Ad Machinum ~ Death, Destruction, etc to machines. Me, Myself, and I. (As far as the machines are concerned.)

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Do not save your words and flowery speeches for your friends when they are dead, share your feelings with the living, speak them now instead.