“Do you as the author have a set of song lyrics that you associate particularly with your character? When did you make the connection?”
(Question by characterization-queries on Tumblr.)
Oh, yesh – LOTS! ^^;
Most of them were made when I was a teenager and in my early to mid 20s.
Like, my own webcomic character, Sha Pris Amaranth aka Shadow, for example – her theme songs are “Away From Me” by Evanescence, “Gotta Get Away” by The Offspring, and “Stand My Ground” by Within Temptation. Her love styles are “Anything For You” and “Surrender” both by Evanescence. (She shares these songs with her past life, Jung Sha-Mina aka Kagemitsu, btw, since they’re both part of my innermost self.)
Her Hubby at one point, Leopold Florel’s song is “Every Breath You Take” by The Police. He’s possessive, and it influences her to become possessive with later lovers (this being based on his inspiration, Raphael Sorel from Soul Calibur, who influenced me much in the same way – hence, “Surrender” being our love style song).
Her first boyfriend and fiancé, Steven Gayle, has a lot of Tommy Shaw theme songs, LOL! Inspired by Android 17’s connection to Styx and Tommy Shaw in our heads (“Man in the Wilderness” was his theme song on Juunanagou’s Temple, for example).
I wrote a songfic based on “Haunted” by Evanescence to describe Kagemitsu’s feelings for her first master (before Yoshimitsu), when she was still a Soul Calibur fanfic character. Another songfic I wrote later on in my 20s was based on “It’s Just The Rain” by Journey for Christian Amaranth (my character’s brother) and Judy Aveil. Their dynamic is similar to Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong from Resident Evil, or even Batman and Catwoman from DC Comics.
“If We Try” by Don McLean describes the innocence of Viktor Amaranth (my character’s brother) and his feelings for Mitchi Applewaite, who was my first created character actually, going back to 1998 – while “Kiss Me Hello” by Tommy Shaw is Viktor’s feelings about Amy-Belle Florel, and her vampyric sway over him.
I have several playlists dedicated to our characters from our stories on my YouTube channel – there’s so much inspiration in music! 😊
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