Whether you use them or not, they can be interesting.
Do you have a song to represent your muse? Yay or nay? Why no, if not? Which is it, if yes? Why that song? What parts stick out and make that song represent your muse?
I knew someone who had a song for their character based on the feeling of the song rather than the lyrics, and it was interesting. I go for lyrics and overall feeling, personally!
For instance, Vaxir’s theme song would be “Deathstars - Greatest fight on earth”, basing it on the lyrics and feeling.
The disease, the love, the claws, the blood The empty clinics of savaged hearts The rusty nails in lidless eyes And the skin won’t ever be cleansed from the dirt
Come here Now come here Let me smell your fears
Cry here Now cry here Let me enjoy your tears
Fitting, yes?
I get not everybody likes having a song, but some of us even make playlists! Perhaps you have a playlist to listen to when RPing?
I don’t know of any music track that would capture Lintian fully, but “BrunuhVille — Spirit of the Wild”, while not portraying Lintian’s introverted scholar side, does have that feel I associate with her as an elven explorer.
I don’t have a theme song for all of my characters, but Zuuka here is one who does have her own; it’s “I’m Still Here” by John Rzeznik, from the Treasure Planet soundtrack.
Very fitting for a goblin with a slowly dwindling number of blood relations and a large found family.
No lyrics to a classical piano piece, but it just fits Obahar’s vibe as a character, and the inspiration behind it’s composition very much fits with the void shenaniganary that he puts himself through.
Rachmaninoff wrote this piece after suffering a dream in which he was present at a funeral, only to walk up to the casket and find himself in there in a very “Ghost of Christmas Future” kind of way.
So a long, long time ago in a RP scene far away (read: Warlords of Draenor) I hosted an event for a blood elf guild wherein we travelled to the Outlands for the retrieval of a prisoner from the Scryers. What should have been a fairly straightforward task proved to be a set-up for a dastardly ambush but in the end the mission was a succes and the prisoner was retrieved. This particular former Sunfury would become my paladin, Yssandra.
Much to my surprise I would be contacted by a participant of this event and online friend only days later and they announced they wrote a song based on Yssandra’s tale, which I also wrote a short story for.
After dropping this news and bestowing this awesome gift, this friend logged off forever and I never spoke to them again.
I haven’t the heart to do away with the character and still keep the song on a tab, dubbing it something of her official theme. So if you have the time and want, please give it a listen to memorize a kind gesture of a person I hope is well off someplace they’re happy and loved.
Ain’t got no theme song, I believe, but, I guess,make a catchy explorative tune with a cash register and falling gold coins, and that would be Lochton.
I’ve got playlists. I tend to make them when I’m conceptualising a character because it helps me to come up with ideas and refine the theme I’m going for.
Lyrics: “No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes…”
It is because of Sildor Wallace Thorn his inner conflict and strugle. Balancing the role of seeing to be a protector to the House and also fighting with the magic he commands. And for the fact that Sildor hides much of his pain behind jokes, smiles and calmness.
Technically I can answer both of these, no I don’t use them because I think writing tends to give a certain rhythm and prose and I think that applies to any form of creation including roleplay. If I added a song through my profile I worry that may ruin people’s perception of my character.
That said, I like to think of a song that resonates with what I want to go for in a character, so here it goes;
