⏪ playlist meme

[teaserving]

I like to think most of us listen to a particular set of tracks or have a playlist going on that make us think of the characters we play! And in turn, why not see if someone else has songs that make them think of your character?

⏪ Top level with your character! Include your playlist if you already have one! Maybe also include music that makes you think of the game I dunno
⏪ Comment to other people with songs that make you think of their character or maybe specific CR!
⏪ I just really like music please spam this post with music

GO HAVE FUN KIDS

Comments

Princess Allura | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[heartofalioness]

I've got a playlist here (that I seriously need to update), but I'd love to hear and add more suggestions!

Grimm | Hollow Knight

[hagrides]

Luciferian Blues - Matt Skiba
Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) - Yacht

come at me

[graftage]

this is a good song for dark circus aesthetic which i feel grimm def has

[profanation]

The Greatest Show Unearthed - Creature Feature. More of a general ‘dark carnival’ theme, so listen with more of a ‘this is what Elderbug hears muffled through the walls of his house’ ear.

Night of the Dancing Flames - Róisín Murphy. This isn’t perfect for Grimm as it’s obviously meant to be sexually charged, but there’s some elements that fit! And the title is perfect at least lol it might make a great Grimm/Brumm song tbh if you’re into that.

Planet Hell - Nightwish. BIG Grimm Troupe visiting dying kingdoms vibes.

Nakajima Atsushi | Bungou to Alchemist

[tigerpoet]

Ungrateful - Streetlight Manifesto

and that's all I got, hit me

[graftage]

slides this at you

Leone Abbacchio | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

[teaserving]

I don't have much that I've added yet, but I have:

⏪ Ghost by Mystery Skulls
⏪ Lamb to the Slaughter by A-HA
⏪ I Am My Own Worst Enemy by Robert Pettersson THANKS ALEX
⏪ All is Violent, All is Bright by God is an Astronaut thanks again alex
⏪ Land of All by Woodkid

Also of course here's his canon theme.

come at me kiddos

[hagrides]

no moody blues 0/10

John Steinbeck | Bungou Stray Dogs

[graftage]

I've got a whole playlist over here because if there's one genre that fits Steinbeck to a T, it's Dark Southern Gothic. I'm always down for more songs for him, though!

[hagrides]

apparently all I have on hand is steincraft and a shitpost

Reimi Sugimoto | JJBA: Diamond Is Unbreakable

[doreimi]

Reimi's soundtrack is always a really funny endeavor to me because outwardly she's so bubbly and generally pleasant and then all of the songs that fit her best are like STONE COLD VENGEANCE JAMS so here's what I've got so far (in approximately chronological order, canonically speaking), and why:


♡ ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by Blondie

I will drive past your house
And if the lights are all down
I'll see who's around
One way or another I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya

♡ SOPHIA by the Cruxshadows

When life has slipped behind this isolation
Cruelty & hatred have become
The cause of those whose eyes are full of wanting
The truth will still abandon none...
So you must carry this light into the darkness
You shall be a star unto the night
You will find hope alive among the hopeless
That is your purpose to this life

Do not injustice to another
Defend the weak and innocent
May truth & honor always guide you
Let courage find a life within
Stand up when no one else is willing
Act not in hatred or in spite
Be to this world as a perfect knight
Even if it means your life...
Here I am,
Alive among the injured and the dead

♡ MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE by The Police

Just a castaway
An island lost at sea
Another lonely day
With no one here but me
More loneliness
Than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair
I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle

♡ NOVOCAINE by Fall Out Boy

This is a black, black ski mask song
So put all of your anger on
In the truly gruesome do we trust
I will always land on you like a sucker punch
Singing I am your worst, I am your worst nightmare
I am your worst, I am your worst nightmare
If you knew, knew what the bluebirds sing at you
You would never sing along

♡ LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Taylor Swift

The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama
But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma
And then the world moves on, but one thing's for sure
Maybe I got mine, but you'll all get yours
But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time
Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time
I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined

I don't have a lot of character-centric ones for her yet, so please feel free to offer suggestions!

[hagrides]

stone cold vengeance jams you say

I love reimi. fuck kira up.

minako arisato | persona 3 portable

[foolaround]

minako's weird because she tries to be a very positive person but she's basically all depresso all the time on the inside whoops.

of course her canon themes pull the trigger, wiping all out, burn my dread (+burn my dread -last battle-), and memories of you

▶ the birthday massacre - the dream
her fabulous invention, what strange imagination shown.
her glorious intentions, a sea of doubt beneath her own.
it said "you're not the first to dream this, little girl.
you know it's never happened once in this world.
it never crossed my mind that one so young could hope to find a power greater then my own."

▶ s.j. tucker - stolen season
i never meant you any harm at all,
did not think i'd come here just to watch your castle fall.
by moonlight and by falling snow,
i call upon your oath to let me go.
i must wrap my world around me and leave you where you are.
i can't believe i've lost you after flying half this far,
but it was just a stolen season
in a lovely house of cards.
[...]
even in our dreaming, we are running out of time,
but it was just a stolen season in a land that wasn't mine.
we have fair destroyed each other, souls together, worlds apart,
but what you call a stolen season was the harvest of my heart.

▶ kamen rider girls - warera omou, yue ni warera ari
i find myself asking ‘why was i born?’
but if i just think, i’ll never know why
that’s why i’ll live with my soul burning brightly
to someday find the answer!

to each and every friend i’ve made throughout my life
we think, therefore we are!
to all of my friends, let’s create an all new history
we think, therefore we are!
we all get just one shot at life…
so live it to the fullest!
[...]
it’s just a fact that everyone dies
someday you and i will die as well
so at the very least
let’s spend the time that we have
living together!

▶ amalee - cruel angel's thesis
if there is meaning in two people meeting
then, maybe we're doing this right
within this trial, that might be the bible
the way that we'll both reach the light

this was all a cruel angel's thesis from the start
it is time for the sorrow in us to arise
you held tightly to all that's left and tangible
stuck between both the dream world and the actual
[...]
people who weave love create without knowing
and carve a path through history
though i'll take a stand, i'm still only human
the goddess you need can't be me

[piercedyourheart]

"Someday You Will Be Loved" by Death Cab for Cutie is some Big "I Had to Do This, But You'll be Alright" Energy that is P3's ending in a nutshell.

i cannot pretend that I felt any regret
cause each broken heart will eventually mend
as the blood runs red down the needle and thread
someday you will be loved

Ren Suzugamori | Cardfight!! Vanguard

[thedarkbond]

Ren has a playlist that is...quite long...it's split into canon stuff (character songs and op/ed themes) and non-canon stuff (everything else). Some of my particular faves from it are:

>The End of Turn - it's ren's villain song tbh

"all the power against you to demean you
was born from a great hatred where it formed
only i can give humiliation to you
you will rot starting now...
come on, let's end it right now"

>Maybe Final Turn - a duet between ren and one of his friends about their messy history

"i was too young to say i'd made a mistake
craving victory so much i wouldn't turn against it
but when you made such a sad expression
i swore on a new today that i'd never do it again
no matter what"

>Believe in My Existence - JAM Project (best vanguard op)

"there's a pain i can't heal, worry, uncertainty
i can't go anywhere from where i'm standing now
i shall find all my dreams that i lost on the way
right at the borderline between the light and dark"

>Amour - Rammstein

"amour amour
everyone just wants to tame you
amour amour, in the end
caught between your teeth"

>Pretty Little Head - Eliza Rickman

"boy, where's your mother? fall down dead
dirty mind, dirty mouth, pretty little head
i wish you were here, i wish you'd make my bed
dirty mind, dirty mouth, pretty little head"

>The Clairvoyant - Iron Maiden

"just by looking through your eyes
he could see the future penetrating right
in through your mind
see the truth and see your lies
but for all his power couldn't foresee his own demise"

>Crack the Skye - Mastodon (the whole album b/c reasons)

"Between heaven and Earth
Wisdom and the knower
A planet collide
Divisible we fall

[...]

How long has it been since we flew through the shadows
I have walked on many other planets"

otacon / metal gear solid & travis / no more heroes

[codecmoment]

A lot of these are retro new wave to fit Prisma's theme/aesthetic and also I like that type of music.

Prisma Vibe
Futureland Vaporwave Remix
Scandroid - Neo Tokyo (Dance With The Dead Remix)
Linkin Park - Numb (80's Remix) please listen to this it's high art
Cher - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Ariana Grande - Greedy
Matsuura Aya - Ne~e?
Mega Drive - Godspeed Us To The Stars
FM-84 - Running In The Night
The Midnight - Sunset
The Midnight - Shadows
Blooming Villain (Metal Cover) (gonna be September as both my characters hang out with bad people in a threeway)


Otacon/Hal

Personal Character Theme
Plastic Tree - consent.
(note: a "konsento" is actually an electrical plug... wasei eigo is wild)

Prisma-centric
The Midnight - Crystalline
Yota - Limelight
Plastic Love Remix
Fly Me To The Moon (Utada Hikaru Cover)
May'n - UNIVERSAL BUNNY

Gen/Character/Stuff I Always Do His Tags To
Cruel Angel's Thesis (Eng Cover by LeeandLie)
Magia (Eng Cover by LeeandLie)
Araki - WILDFIRE!!!
M2U - Marigold
GUNSHIP - Tech Noir (Carpenter Brut Mix)
Unlike Pluto - Worst In Me for the rougher CR/bad people CR
Bryce Fox - Horns (STéLOUSE Remix) for the rougher CR/bad people CR
LUVORATORRRRRY! (kradness Cover)
Duran Duran - Nice
A Perfect Circle - Sleeping Beauty
T.M. Revolution - Madan ~der freischutz~
Ujico - Tears of Ruins
Kimi Ni Mune Kyun (Maria Holic Ending)
Kagamine Len - Toluthin Antenna

Travis

Personal Character Theme
Ninja Sex Party - FYI I Wanna F Your A

Prisma-centric
Carpenter Brut - Leather Teeth
Carpenter Brut - Beware the Beast
PiNK CAT (shoose Cover)
Hexencraft - A Flame in The Void

Gen/Character/Stuff I Always Do His Tags To
Pleather for Breakfast (actual game OST wowowowow)
Natalia Kills - Boys Don't Cry
Natalia Kills - Trouble
The Glitch Mob - Mind of a Beast
Carpenter Brut - Roller Mobster
Dance With The Dead - Poison
Tool - Stinkfist
bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin

Gwenhwyfar | Original

[gwenhwyfar]

A quick disclaimer: I'm a big metalhead.

- Ulvinde, Myrkur (hell, NPR did an article on this single)
- Wolves of Sibera, Behemoth (link NSFW)
- Born from the Serpent's Eye, Wolves in the Throne Room
- Politics and the Life, Daniel Pemberton & Gareth Williams
- Nail Ther Tongues, Primordial
- Epona, Eluveitie
- Dessumiis Luge, Eluveite
- Kverandi, Einar Selvik
- Krigsgaldr, Heilung
- Sverker, Corvus Corax
- Dacw 'Ngharaid (Welsh folk song)

Also, if you haven't listened to Eluvietie, do it now.

Enrico Pucci | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

[raptura]

Pucci music
Say Amen (It's Saturday Night) by Panic! At The Disco
Been traveling in packs that I can't carry anymore
Been waiting for somebody else to carry me
There's nothing else there for me at my door
All the people I know aren't who they used to be

And if I try to change my life one more day
There would be nobody else to save
And I can't change into a person I don't wanna be, so
Oh, it's Saturday night, yeah


White Ball by Miracle Musical
On and on the awakening light will bathe
Slumbers of ethereal sights
Today is renewed
Is reborn
Each day
I am new
I am yours

So please dismiss what they claim about this
Being in vain to explain
How expressed with a kiss
Taking passionate steps
Floor suspending abyss
Such impossible bliss


Canned Heat by Jamiroquai
You know this boogie is for real.
I used to buy my faith in worship,
But then my chance to get to Heaven slipped
I used to worry about the future
But then I throw my caution to the wind.
I had no reason to be care free
No no no, until I took a trip to the other side of town
Yeah yeah yeah, you know I heard that boogie rhythm
Hey- I had no choice but to get down down down down.

Mohammed Avdol | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

[nonehorse]

Avdol tunes
Wooden Doll by Kenshi Yonezu
You're not as awful as you think;
Certainly sometimes, it must be someone else's fault
I won't say to stop wishing pain on others;
That's just another part of you...
But you see, you're only looking at what you've lost,
Yet have you counted what you've been given?
If you've forgotten, then make yourself remember;
If you don't, I'll be so sad...

Make sure to speak, as loud as you can, now open your eyes - wah-hah-haha!
I love you even when you hate yourself - do you hate me, too?
It's always this way; deep in their hearts, everyone looks down on others,
Paralyzed by the fear of being looked down upon...


Mirage Song by Kenshi Yonezu
I always thought about how I wanted to stroke your hair,
Because your voice would someday go away
"I wonder if we can keep living the same way in the world of tomorrow?",
Spoke yesterday's self in the mirage

Have I feared anything? Even when I can't take or give...
Have I sought anything? Even though you're always beside me...


Grey and Blue by Kenshi Yonezu (there's a theme here)
This waning moon before the sunrise -
Are you watching it too, somewhere?
It's not like I can explain why, but my chest hurts;
Blurring faces, misty colors...

I suppose shouting about my sadness now
May just be too late for anything...
If I could walk it again from the start,
I'd want to meet you, as if passing you by...

Sigma | Overwatch

[harnas]

I use Spotify like a total nerd but here is the sad gravity man. I tried to make it go in chronological order from before to after the Tragic Backstory kicked in.

Honorable mention: The Melody. The song that Sigma is almost constantly hearing and won't shut up about.

Feel free to give me suggestions!

[spah]

This one just a little bit. In an inner turmoil sorta way.

Spy | Team Fortress 2

[crabbmarche]

Spotify again. I’m always down to hear suggestions!

[spah]

the lyrics are debatable but this gives me a Spy vibe anyway

besides the fact I'm biased for Tom Waits ofc

Hifumi Togo | Persona 5

[asaqueenshould]

Setting Jams:

Fear Is Never Boring - the Raisins (As seen on Test Drive #2! Normally I tell people to ignore the video and enjoy the song, but in the case of this game the video is very #aesthetic.)
Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads
Roma Fade - Andrew Bird
Love You Madly - Cake
Touch Me - the Doors

Hifumi in particular:

I've Seen All Good People - Yes (I wouldn't know an 'overwrought shogi metaphors' song if it hit me in the face, partly because my Japanese isn't anywhere near that good, so 'overwrought chess metaphors' will have to do.)
You Can't Call It Love - Roger Daltrey
Hobbit on the Rocks - Toad the Wet Sprocket

Castmates:

Everything Bounces - the Stalking Horses (Joker)
Come Downstairs and Say Hello - Guster (Futaba)
(ANN AND RYUJI ARE MY P5 SOUNDTRACKIN' WEAK POINTS, PLEASE SUGGEST THINGS)
Happier - Guster (Akechi)
Crawl - Barenaked Ladies (Yusuke)
Two Points for Honesty - Guster (Makoto) (Don't ask me why Guster works so damn well for the PTs, they just do.)
Daughter - Pearl Jam (Haru)

moira o'deorain • overwatch

[biotictouch]

I'm just going to link you all this playlist that will probably dominate my Spotify Yearly Roundup this year.

Top three for Moira though?

1. Half God, Half Devil - In This Moment.

I can be your heavenly or I can be your hell
I can say a prayer for you or I can cast a spell
I push you to the darkness just to pull you to the light
Cause I can take away your breath or I can bring you back to life

If you don't think this is her power trip song, I have nothing for you.

2. Tiny Dancer - Elton John (covered by Florence and the Machine)

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

This isn't so much a song about Moira as it is one that she probably sings to herself when she's working. It's a guilty pleasure song of hers, she imagines dancing with an SO/lover to it.

3. Savages - MARINA

One man can build a bomb
Another run a race
To save somebody's life
And have it blow up in his face
I'm not the only one who
Finds it hard to understand
I'm not afraid of God
I am afraid of Man.

If that doesn't sum up her outlook on her own work idk what does.

I'm down for suggestions, ideas, shippy songs, I throw most anything on here.

Crowley | Good Omens

[whateternityis]

Having already covered setting jams with Hifumi, we proceed directly to Character Songs:

Bittersweet Symphony - the Verve
Every Angel - Beth Kinderman (Fun fact, an old friend of my wife's wrote and performed this one.)
After the Fall - October Project
Heretics - Andrew Bird
God Shuffled His Feet - Crash Test Dummies (Go on, tell me was that a parable or a very subtle joke? doesn't STRONGLY resonate with this canon. I dare you.)
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla (aka 'tell me all your thoughts on God, 'cause I'd really like to meet her.')
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Falling for the First Time - Barenaked Ladies
Calling All Angels - Train

Ineffable Husbands Material:

Just What I Needed - the Cars
It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies
Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette
These Apples - Barenaked Ladies

Obligatory Best of Queen Tape:

Seven Seas of Rhye (I managed to go most of my life without hearing this song and am still not over how much it packs into three minutes ok ok.)
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
You're My Best Friend
Another One Bites the Dust (Ah, Tchaikovsky, this is more like it!)
Somebody to Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Don't Stop Me Now
Killer Queen

ignis (ffxv), sombra (ow)

[tayoru]

Ignis' playlist is over on his journal! And I have a Sombra playlist on youtube.

mollymauk tealeaf • critical role

[shadowonthe]

I have like three playlists for Molly, but all three have decent amounts of Fish in them (sorry not sorry)

So here's the one with the least lol.

If you wanna peek my profile and find the one with all the Fish in it, don't, cause here it is.

There's a lot of Panic! At the Disco and Greatest Showman garbage, but hey, that's just how I do.

Yukari Takeba | Persona 3

[piercedyourheart]

oh, time to slam the fuck into this meme

Game Setting
Every Day is Night from the VA-11 HALL-A OST
Inner Animal from the Hotline Miami OST
MACINTOSH PLUS - ライブラリ (3D BLAST Remix) by 3D Blast

Character Songs

Despite being an almost functioning adult after P3P's ending, there's still a lonely kid who's worried all their friends will eventually leave them. Therefore, all of the character songs I associate her with radiate sad energy.

While not technically her character theme from P3, Heartful Cry always reminds me of that time Yukari fought her friends to try and bring Protag from the dead because she wanted to see them again and it makes me want to lay down on the floor. Her official theme from Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is Pink Sniper.

As for songs I listen to while tagging, we got:

Twilight Galaxy by Metric

did I ask you for attention
when affection is what i need
thinking sorrow is perfection,
i'd wallow 'til you told me
there's no glitter in the gutter,
there's no twilight galaxy

Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds

and i'm sad to the core, core, core
(yeah!) every day is a chore, chore, chore
(wow!) When you give, i want more, more, more
i wanna be adored

Time Won't Let Me Go by The Bravery

all these precious moments
you promised me would come in time
so where was i when i missed mine?

time won't let me go
time won't let me go
if you gave me back those years
i'd do it all better i swear
time won't let me go

Hem by the Western Den

if you're a thread i'm a sharp knife
always cutting loose ties
it's habitual, akin to repeat
hemmed up waiting, oh still waiting

[profanation]

Disclaimer: I'm garbage at picking music for characters.

ARDYN
You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen
Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning
for the help that never came
You want it darker?
We kill the flame.

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
You're one microscopic cog
In his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed
By his red right hand.


THE HOLLOW KNIGHT
The Weeping Song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Oh Father tell me are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch
Oh then I'm so sorry Father
I never thought I hurt you so much

Sonne - Rammstein
Alle warten auf das Licht
fürchtet euch, fürchtet euch nicht
die Sonne scheint mir aus den Augen
sie wird heut nacht nicht untergehen

Rey | Star Wars

[provenforce]

so I already have a Rey playlist here and the friendly folks at Disney were also nice enough to make her an OFFICIAL playlist which is here. I am always looking for new music for her, though!