Describe your character(s) with music

That’s it, that’s the thread.

Post a song that describes your character, or maybe a life event that really changed them. Maybe you always play this music when you’re writing for them. Could be that the song you post is the inspiration for your OC.

I, personally, always play the DOOM Eternal ost when I’m writing for Sint. It’s just something that amps me up and gets me to push through the piece. A personal favorite is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T12ygsp9Mvg .

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lZLdgb3kZpM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfeKcWXEk1M&ab_channel=NewRetroWave

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https://youtu.be/a-5jvi28jcw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqc0J41ImJs
Kinda obvious really…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PKCaHjBOU

Asian Inspired Trap/Hip-Hop is the perpetual theme for Lianshi.

If anyone who remembers Samurai Champloo would get a feel of the mixtape this kind of character would have dedicated to her. With more somber elements like classical Oriental folk music or even jazz.

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https://youtu.be/FnkTuHP9q3o

For anyone interested in a translation:

Who will sing me
Into the death-sleep sling me
When I walk the road to Hel
And the tracks I tread
Are cold, so cold

I sought the songs
I sent the songs
When the deepest well
Offered drops so mighty
Of Valfather’s pledge

I know it all, Odin
Where you hid your eye

Early or in fading day
Still the raven knows if I fall

When you stand by the gate of Hel
And when you must tear loose
Follow you I shall
Across the bridge of Gjöll
With my song

You will be free from the bonds that bind you
You are free from the bonds that bound you

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https://youtu.be/M15SRGZHzhA

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Pretty much every song from Ghost, but this one in particular is what I usually listen to when doing his midnight patrol.

https://youtu.be/LU6ZN_CJICo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpJGGQHSqc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjlZx20wuU8

Thuum isn’t as villainous as Volibear, but they have similar themes of primal strength, connection the land, mistrust of civilization, and unbridled bloodlust. Thuum wants to control his, whereas Volibear kind of relishes in it all and believes only the strong survive. Thuum would agree that only the strong survive, but that’s why he’s always encouraging everyone to be their best, and offering a hand up to those who need it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWGab3vJHQ

Heed, it’s like calling the rain
It’s like bearing in pain
Like embracing life and decaying in death
Heed, it’s like calling the rain
It’s like the caress of a mother
Like life to go withered, a perennial pneuma
I will not forget what I arose from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCema7g9oM

Ooooh,
Tooth is fang, twisting under skin
Ooooh,
Foul tongue, black breath
Change,
Snap inside, the Beast about complete
Change,
Soon infects the rest.

Thuum, all his life, has wrestled with a great darkness within. It was only during recent events that he realized what it was. When N’zoth arose, Thuum went mad. Madder than most. He fled to Northrend so that he would not hurt anyone. There, mountains and glaciers - and undead - felt his fury.

When Sylvanas shattered the veil, Thuum got to the Shadowlands as quick as he could. Though N’zoth was dead, the young shaman would do anything to hide from the Void and its whispers…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhop5VuLDIQ

And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bstrds lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

Rise again, rise again; though your heart it be broken
And life about to end
No matter what you’ve lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

Because all of my characters need a Stan Rogers song. Like the Mary Ellen Carter and the crew who dragged her up from the bottom of the sea, Thuum has no quit in him. Also he was originally going to be a Kul Tiran and I was literally going to put this story as something that happened in his backstory.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8saA4BN4lOI

This track is a big mood for my heroic characters. Conjures the image of a gigantic ensemble of heroes all playing their part.

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For Tam? I’ll really any use pop music from any era could work, but I think 20’s-40’s jazz is most fitting. If I had to pick an overall theme, it’d probably be…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4f0HYCJ18&ab_channel=JazzysCookieJazzysCookie

However, I don’t think it accurately communicates to others just how much of a drama queen she can actually be. And since that’s many peoples’ main take away, I think the following does a better job of preparing them :stuck_out_tongue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDJ_oUN2PIY&ab_channel=F.Levanios-Topic

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P6VyV6AIks

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https://youtu.be/Zy_y9yOrgxk

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZW1BBkquFA&t=203s

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https://youtu.be/VI5VmOFpw88

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How in the world do you share with links, what sort of dark sorcery is this.

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Should give you some ideas.

https://youtu.be/DelhLppPSxY

https://youtu.be/JWhlYsN8n_4

https://youtu.be/kGCoWMkeTIM

Rakham’s personal theme

https://youtu.be/f55CqLc6IR0

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That Tiktok skeleton song but more dumber

https://youtu.be/HRI3wsdZe7w

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