#🎵. my alcoholic friends - the dresden dolls

[lifeintheworldtocome]

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this year- the mountain goats

up the wolves- the mountain goats

sockhead- destructo disk

oh ana- mother mother

my alcoholic friends- the dresden dolls

[skyllion-uwu]

🎵!!!

I'm taking down the number of the times/So when we get the sign from God/I'll be the first to call them/I'm taking back the number of the beast/'Cause six is not a pretty number/Eight or three are definitely better

-"My Alcoholic Friends" by The Dresden Dolls

[visceravalentines]

when u get this u have to put 5 songs 🎵 u actually listen to, publicly. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨

Since I am apparently The Most Loved and got this ask twice, 🤗💚 I'mma list some of my unskippable songs for this one.

1. My Alcoholic Friends, the Dresden Dolls

2. Rhinestone Eyes, Gorillaz

3. (Coffee's For Closers), Fall Out Boy

4. Murder at the Bingo Hall, Amigo the Devil

5. From Eden, Hozier

[zenobomber]

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PROMPTS // ACCEPTING !

[ 🤷‍♀️ ] how does your muse approach strangers? how does this compare to how they interact with close friends or lovers?

This is actually an interesting one! Maeno interacts with almost anyone in a very casual, carefree manner - even his own patients - and always extends kindness to them. The ways he interacts with people does change based on the circumstances, but generally everything is rooted in kindness - misguided or otherwise. With close friends and/or potential partners, he's a little more honest about his thoughts and his feelings and he doesn't try as hard to mask the deeper feelings he has behind a smile. He could be seen as a bit more somber this way but...

...he still loves having fun with the people he's close to, when he's able!

[ 🎵 ] is there a specific song or songs you associate with your muse? why is that?

Oh man. This will be a long one. I have a whole playlist - which I'll link here ! But if I had to pick a few off this list that I really like for him...it'd probably be Kodoku no Syukyo ( The Religion of Loneliness ) by Syudou, My Alcoholic Friends by The Dresden Dolls, and Misery Meat by Sodikken. Kodoku no Syukyo fits some of his "bad endings" more rather than the ending I use when writing him. But I also think the song as a whole fits his relationship with Tsugino, from Tsugino's perspective. Chasing that unhealthy "love" and trying to find a purpose in someone who can't give it to you, and the descent into that relationship from both sides. Wanting to get close but worried about the loss, wanting to get close and chase a love that cannot be obtained. It's a mutually unhealthy dynamic and it fits them well! For My Alcoholic Friends I think it fits very well for the period of time between when he cannibalized Natsu and when he became a psychiatrist / researcher. That sort of period where he was very guilt-ridden and depressed and struggling to grab hold of the reality he found himself in, while also throwing himself right back into it. Maeno had a very bright future ahead of him, but is held back by the guilt of his own actions and his desire to make amends for them, and others who suffered from ZENO.

Misery Meat...I think is kind of self explanatory! The song as a whole has a lot of cannibalism symbolism and imagery used to explain an unhealthy / abusive relationship. This is how I imagine Maeno's dynamic with Tsugino when it comes to light that Tsugino's trauma is centered around witnessing Maeno cannibalizing Natsu, although Maeno was unaware of it. In some branches of the game, when Maeno realizes this truth, he willingly gives himself up to Tsugino - he will let himself be hurt, or be cannibalized, if it means it can help him and he doesn't have to live with the additional guilt.

[ 🐺 ] does your muse like solitude? do they prefer it to being around others? how easily does your muse get lonely?

Kind of. After Natsu died, Maeno became the sort of guy who feels lonely even in crowds, because of her absence; she was his best friend's little sister, after all, and someone he saw as his own family. He's learned to cope with it in more recent years - but that feeling has never really gone away. So he gets lonely easily but...he hates being alone, because that feeling only grows and he has to think about what he's done. He usually just throws himself into his work when this happens - and since its psychiatric work for the military, he's never really alone like that.