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CHARACTER PLAYLIST PROMPTING MEME
MUSIC IS AN ART FORM WHICH HAS ALWAYS INSPIRED CREATIVE WORKS, BE IT OTHER PIECES OF MUSIC, DANCE OR WRITING. THIS MEME IS A WAY TO LET OTHERS BE INSPIRED BY MUSIC YOU ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR CHARACTER TO CREATE A SCENE. HAPPY LISTENING! HAPPY PLAYING!

How to play -

1. Comment with your character's name, fandom and preference in the subject line.
2. In the comment field, leave at least two song titles (links welcome) from your character's playlist for others to choose between.
3. Others leave a starter for your character with a scenario inspired by one of the songs.
4. Thread it out!

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( info in journal. tldr; the son of a rising up and coming rich family in taisho era japan who has been brought up in the house of a count whose daughter he falls in love with as a young adult, despite their relationship being impossible. ota for shipping, no smut. )

TALKIN' 2 MYSELF (ayumi hamasaki)

Reality always / Plays cruel pranks and leads us in circles / But look, in that midst / An answer just for you lies hidden / If you have any unsatisfied feelings / Those are created by none other than / Your own two hands

I DON'T WANT ETERNITY ETERNALLY (tatsuya kitani)

Even if these hands tremble, the future is changing / I don't care if today is the last day / I want to be staring one second ahead / Even a cursed destiny / I'll continue to resist, eternally

Or bring your own!

• Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms

and you can trust me not to think / and not to
sleep around / and if you don't expect too much
from me / you might not be let down

• Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier

when i was a child, i'd sit for hours / staring
into open flame / something in it had a power /
could barely tear my eyes away

[ Also available: a playlist for getting into cliff's headspace or a playlist of songs he would listen to. Don't mind the duplicates... ]

Edited 2026-01-19 21:27 (UTC)

* Say, John Mayer.
"Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you'd be better off instead
If you could only
Say what you need to say."

*Here we go again - Beth Crowley
"Just when I think I’m done
I’m halfway out the door
You pull me in again
Promising to give me more
Yet I’m still surprised every time that I get hurt"

*All The Kings Horses, Karmina.
"I knock the ice from my bones
Try not to feel the cold
Caught in the thought of that time
When everything was fine"

[Playlist also available!]

Mili - In Hell We Live, Lament feat. KIHOW from MYTH & ROID (cw: cannibalism/body horror references in lyrics)
Then I realized / someone's heaven could be the source of my torment
Life is allowing yourself / allowing yourself to step on fire / (Life is to consume) / (Life is to become food for each other)
Shed tears on bloodied routes / (No matter evil or good) / (Life is fairness, life is inequality) / Eternally in hell / (Life is in the motion) / We live by default

VNV Nation - Cold
Let your blood run through my veins / blade shall numb you from the pain / no tomorrows / just submittance / no remorse of self indulgence
Let me be the one you need / I shall be the one you feed / all I am and all you see / is all I will and ever be

LUNA SEA - TRUE BLUE
In a loneliness that threatens to consume me / I aimlessly count stars
In my unsatisfied feelings / I embrace this half-finished puzzle
In the empty night outside the window / a shadow falls upon the glittering city
The hands of the clock madly whisper silence

Gentle Giant - Just the Same
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do?
Nothing more and nothing less than you
Read no thoughts, I didn't think myself
Just the same as anybody else

half•alive - Creature
I know I'm made of clay that's worn
Blinded by imperfect form
But I will trust the artist molding me
In a room that's growing dim
Illuminated from within
The pull of tension's empathy

I am creation, both haunted and holy
Made in glory
Even the depths of the night cannot blind me
When You guide me

Rob Dougan - Born Yesterday
And she thinks that I was born in another age
She thinks that I get up with the sun and dream my life away
And she thinks 'cause I'm saying nothing that I've got nothing to say
Just 'cause I smile like a child born yesterday

[Full character playlist here, if you want to see more. This character is a very polite walking corpse, who doesn't have any memories of what his body was before death.]

[ ooc: These are all about Ian (see journal for info) and frankly I'm sick about it. ]

If I ever leave this world alive - Flogging Molly

If I ever leave this world alive I'll take on all the sadness that I left behind If I ever leave this world alive The madness that you feel will soon subside So in a word, don't shed a tear I'll be here when it all gets weird If I ever leave this world alive

Good luck, babe! - Chappell Roan

You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling (well, I told you so) You can say it's just the way you are Make a new excuse, another stupid reason Good luck, babe (well, good luck), well, good luck, babe (well, good luck) You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling

Come to me - The Goo Goo Dolls

I caught you burnin' photographs Like that could save you from your past History is like gravity It holds you down away from me You and me, we've both got sins And I don't care about where you've been Don't be sad and don't explain This is where we start again

The Midnight - "Good In Red"
The curse of small desires easily acquired
It's time to set your gasoline heart on fire
Kill your demons, kill 'em dead
In your mirror, in your bed
In your heart, in your head
Don't you look good in red?
Slay your devils, kill 'em all
Take your throne, paint the walls
And if you make it out alive, hold that bloody head up high

Frightened Rabbit - "My Backwards Walk"
I'm working on erasing you
Just don't have the proper tools
I get hammered, forget that you exist
There's no way I'm forgetting this
I'm working hard on walking out
Shoes keep sticking to the ground
My clothes won't let me close the door
These trousers seem to love your floor
I been working on my backwards walk
There's nowhere else for me to go
Except back to you just one last time
Say yes before I change my mind

Gaslight Anthem - "Mae"
I was born beside a river that flows to a raging sea
That will one day serve to quell or one day be the death of me
In my faded jeans and far away eyes and salty carnival kiss
That all my former lovers say was once magnificent
I wanna see you tonight
Would you come for a drive?
You can lean into me
If you ain't, oh if you ain't been in love for a while
Still the city pumps its aching heart for one more drop of blood
We work our fingers down to dust and we wait for kingdom come
With the radio on.

Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

Come Healing - Leonard Cohen

O, troubledness concealing An undivided love The heart beneath is teaching To the broken heart above

demons → hayley kiyoko.

burning in the lava
you can't go and pray this type of pain away
don't bother me, my misery
it's holding me
won't let me speak

prime → allie x.

why not give it a try?
be a beautiful monstrosity
when you're just getting by
and happily terminal
yeah, breathe it in 'til we're high
healthy isn't fun or amusing

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