#{so that is kindof a win for nuada}

[thenexusofsouls]

What is your final act as a villain?

NUADA: you succeeded with your plan, and you can see it playing out as you succumb to your injuries

glorious, glorious, you think. you don't feel the pain anymore, you just see the blood seeping through your fingertips. you are a martyr for your cause, you think. you have won, you think. the world around you bows to your glory, and you cry. and you die.

RAIDEN: you were killed by the hero, and they regret it

it was raining, and maybe they couldn't see properly. everything was mixed together like mud and clay, and they just kept digging digging digging. they didn't mean to go this far! they thought they could change your mind! and now you're lying on the cold, wet ground, your blood mixing with the rain, and your hero holds onto your face and screams at you to get up.

CARL: the hero refuses to kill you

you keeping screaming at them to kill you, but your hero just stands there weeping like some kind of fool. you grab onto their collar and scream, and you're probably spitting on them. how many times do you have to shake them for the sense to come flooding back? you both were so close to finally ending this a few minutes ago! now they're just crying and shaking their head and trying to hold your wrists. you're powerless! this is their chance! you collapse to your knees and sob.

CHANNE: you succeeded with your plan... right?

you stand atop the peak, and you look down at the wreckage. it was righteous wreckage, you think. it was necessary. now, you can begin to rebuild; a new world that will be better than the last. you don't care that your hero's body lays at your feet-- dead and useless. you don't care that they were technically doing the same thing as you: trying to make what they thought was a better world. it doesn't matter that, really, it was pure chance that it was you who came out on top. it doesn't matter. it doesn't.

FREYA: the hero decides to join you

you blink, but they're still standing there. they're still awaiting your answer. 'can they work with you'-- what kind of question is that? can they throw away their whole life? can they corrupt their morality? maybe this is a trap. maybe they're going to betray you the moment you take their hand... maybe you don't care. maybe you'll take your chances.

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[fallxnprxnce]

For the mun: first of all, I looooveeeee your blog! You write Nuada beautifully. Second: what songs do you associate with our angry, pretty prince of elves? Personally, the song It's No Good by Depeche Mode reminds me a lot of him, his time of exile, his faith in the gods, etc. Thank you for keeping alive this wonderful, underrated character!

{out of exile} OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! Ugh, I’ve had a horrible day, so thank you for this… I needed it. =)

Oh my goodness… I have sooo many songs that I associate with him. Some of them are because I saw music videos on YouTube that had really good songs and I came to associate them with him. Others are because the lyrics make me think of him in some way. There are so many reasons, heh. I will list as many as I can think of below, and I’ll write next to it what aspects of his personality, cause, situation, mindset, or just writing him in general that the song makes me think of (I also will try to find Nuada videos for as many as I can haha):

Jillian Goldin (Aversa) - Kindred (his exile, the Troll Market, empowerment, feeling accepted somewhere and by others, finding strength in solitude and in things that others fear)

Heather Dale - Mordred’s Lullaby (his family, feelings of betrayal, his dysfunctional relationships with both his father and sister, his resentment of Abe, his inability to see what’s coming for him ultimately as far as karma)

Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow (his stubbornness, arrogance, impatience, refusal to change or bend, anger, frustration, exhaustion over dealing with the humans and just being 1000% done with their shit)

Breaking Benjamin - Blow Me Away (just the warrior mentality of okay, I’m going in, win or lose, live or die, but I’m going in and I’m not afraid, and also the lyrics about being the “one to save us all” and “lonely, I will walk alone” put me in his mindset of this being a personal crusade to him)

Imogen Heap - Let Go (”now’s the time to act, can’t wait for you if you’re not with me” kind of mindset, time’s running out, a sense of urgency, but also that there is a breakdown occurring with him, it’s a spiral he can’t see happening, and there’s beauty in it… if he comes out better for it… which didn’t happen in canon but it gives me inspiration for threads that screw the canon, heh)

Visions of Atlantis - Winternight (solitude, feelings of isolation, separation from family but also resentment towards them, wanting to be accepted but also unwilling to change, having a “storm” inside him, feeling so alone and utterly without guidance, feeling suffocated)

Within Temptation feat. Keith Caputo - What Have You Done (the antagonistic love-hate relationship between Nuada and Nuala, they’re both drawn to each other naturally but at the same time it’s gone too far to be saved, she thinks he can’t be saved and he’s frustrated that she doesn’t support him, but also the references to “fate” and “curse” just makes me think about their soul bond and how neither one of them can escape it, it could have been a good thing but now it’s ruining them)

Skillet - Whispers in the Dark (Nuada’s possessiveness regarding Nuala, his frustration that he doesn’t mean more to her, how uncomfortable his obsession makes her feel, also just his wildness and how fixated it can get, how violent it can be as a driving force for him)

Skillet - Hero (this really makes me think about how villains and anti-heroes never see themselves as villains, he’s the hero of his story, he really thinks that someone needs to make a stand and he’s going to be the one to do it, he thinks he’s doing a good thing he feels, his people need a hero and he’s not going to sit around and wait for one, he’s going to be it)

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (LP Version) (this song just really makes me think about Nuada’s private thoughts when he’s alone, like what he’s thinking to himself while he trains or something, there’s a sense of a few standing with him, like Mr. Wink and such, and then him rejecting others who don’t, like his family)

Creed - Torn (another song like “Hero” that makes me think about the fact that he thinks he’s doing a good thing, being strong, being brave, making a stand… but also elements of him feeling like he’s been rejected, shoved aside, whether by humans or his family, and he’s like look, someone has to do something and I guess I’m the only one who will)

Linkin Park - Numb (trying to find hope and strength in amongst the feelings of pressure to be like his father and rejection from him and his sister, he’s tired of this shit and he wants to be proud of who and what he is instead of aching for their acceptance… I feel like this is Nuada when he decided to go into exile, when the resentment and pain of feeling rejected by his family was very raw)

Albannach - Ancestors (this just puts me in the mood to write a character like Nuada because it makes me think of the ancient Celts, which then also helps me drift to think of elves… also I feel like if I could put a sound to this “wildness” I keep talking about on this blog that resides in Nuada’s soul, it would be the drums that come in at 1:56, because it’s just such a raw, primal sound and that’s what it feels like to me when I write about it, shrugs)

Pillar - Fireproof (this is Nuada’s COME AT ME BRO song, haha… but seriously, I think of arrogance, pride, just male alpha warrior ego, heh… just this, you can’t stop me and if you try it you will be sorry mentality, but also a feel of a stalemate, that he is as immovable in his views as most humans are)

Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt (trigger warning, this video might be a little creepy for some… but yeah, no real connection to Nuada, but this was the song that they used for the Hellboy II trailer, so it makes me think of it, heh… and I guess the message in the lyrics also is a bit like Nuada, especially since he said in the movie, “let this remind you why you one feared the dark,” this song is very much in that vein… if you don’t understand the German lyrics, try this video here which has them, I just don’t like that version of the song so I prefer the other one for music purposes, and I know what the lyrics are saying anyway heh… just again, it’s creepy for some so watch with caution)

Xandria - In Love With the Darkness (like “Kindred,” this song makes me think of Nuada’s connection to darkness and how it’s not a bad thing to him, the darkness of the Troll Market and his own little home under it, not morally speaking but literal darkness, low light, shadows… he’s kindof made that his own aesthetic and finds solace in it, but Nuala obviously doesn’t agree, heh… my version of Nuada resents humans for losing touch with nature and their more primal instincts, so this song makes me think of how he revels in those things as a form of rebellion, as if to say to them, I embrace the darkness and it embraces me… and rejects you)

Okay, that’s all I can think of right now, haha, but I think that’s quite enough. Thank you for asking this, I hadn’t listened to a lot of these song in a very long time, so it was fun making this post. =)