#(MCR has The Five Of Us Are Dying/Welcome to the Black Parade

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I didn’t realise Rock Hard, Ride Free had a demo version called Fight For Your Life

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Random MCR facts

-Frank and Mikey were both investigated by the FBI. Frank for making a song called “ I am going to kill the president of the untied states”, and Mikey for bootlegging Disney movies to get money to see the smashing pumpkins every show on tour

-Gerard nearly burned down the house when he was a kid

-Gerard identified more feminine than masculine when he was younger, and when he learned about transgenderism he felt that suited him.

-Ray and Bob made out before Bob was in the band

-Gerard played Peter Pan in a 6th grade musical

-Mikey used to whisper “Disenchanted” in the members ears at night to try and get them to pick the album for the record

-Gerard uses they/he pronouns

-Bob and Patrick Stump lived together for a little while

-Frank was stoned out of his mind when My Chem asked him to be the rhythmic guitarist, and he pretended to be unconscious when in reality he was full on panicking

-The band refers to Planetary (GO!) as the “dancing song they’ve been trying to write for years”

-Frank proposed to his wife on an empty dirt road

-Gerard had a gun put to his head, execution style when he was 15

- My Chemical Romance was Franks favorite band before joining

-Gerard and Mikey went to different schools

- Dr. Death Defying is played by Steve, Righ?, and the head Draculod (the tall one) is played by Jimmy Urine, guitarist and singer of Mindless Self Indulgence

-Gerard was kicked out of his first band for not being able to play sweet home alabama

-Gerard is pansexual

-Frank has been vegetarian since he was a kid

-Mikey got the name for My Chemical Romance out of a book about drugs. 

-Gerard got clean in 17 days

-The original name for Welcome To The Black Parade was The Five Of Us Are Dying

-Mikey had a mental breakdown during the making of The Black Parade, and had to leave. 

-All of the bass on The Black Parade is actually Ray; Mikey was gone

-Mikey decided to come back after hearing Famous Last Words

-Frank associates The Kids From Yesterday with his twins, because he heard the finished song walking out of the hospital with his daughters

-Gerard and Frank got high off the spray paint used for the background in Vampires Will Never Hurt You

-Frank came up with the Na Na Na riff

-Party Poison was supposed to be called Death to Disco, but Gerard liked his killjoy name so much he asked Frank if he could change it. Frank said he doesn't care

-Gerard, Frank and Mikey all have copies of Deathwish, a fan-made comic about the members of My Chem

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5 songs that made 10 year old me FEEL things

Our story begins in the year of our lord 2006. It was a different time, a simpler time. I still had a bright yellow CD-playing Walkman, which I mostly used to listen to The Indigo Girls’ album Rites of a Passage while I rollerbladed around my backyard (I wasn’t allowed to go outside of it yet). All my cred came from my pink Razr phone, which could only be used to call my parents in emergencies. That is to say, I had no cred.

Picture, if you will, this girl: 10 years-old. Bad hair, worse teeth, a purple and orange Moosejaw t-shirt. Summer in rural Michigan. That kid is walking up the gravel road from her grandma’s house on the lake to go feed the horse that lives a half mile away some wrinkly apples. She’s stolen her older brother’s iPod, and is JAMMING to all the songs her mom doesn’t want her to hear. Songs like Ben Folds’ cover of Bitches Ain’t Shit, and pretty much all of Green Day’s discography. Just picture it. Fat red cheeks, crooked center part, and temporary butterfly tattoos.

Nostalgia is cool again, so here is the list of songs that made that kid up there feel things, things she had no context for, no name for, but felt nonetheless.

Honorable Mention: Monster by Meg and Dia, Here’s to the Night by Eve6, Miserable at Best by Mayday Parade

5. White Houses by Vanessa Carlton

Let me preface this by saying I first heard this song through a Teen Titans amv on Youtube. If I didn’t mention that this whole segment would be dishonest, because to this day I still think of Raven when I hear this song.

That being said, 1000 Miles ain’t shit compared to this song. I remember watching the actual music video and wondering if she had a twin, because I didn’t know that video editing existed (I was similarly confused upon watching Lindsay Lohan’s best work, The Parent Trap). Is this song about losing your virginity at ballet camp? Yes. Did I know that? No. I had never had a crush on a boy in my life. Perhaps that’s the fault of excessive Indigo Girls listening, but I digress. When I listened to the quiet, wounded “maybe you were all faster than me”, I was touched. Yes, Vanessa, in my heart it is the five of us. Did I even have five friends? Debatable. But in my heart they were there, in white houses.

4. Iris by GooGoo Dolls

Admittedly, this song is not from the emo days, but you can’t deny that it has that spirit. I have no doubt it was an influence. I mean, seriously, “everything is made to be broken”? That is some emo shit right there! I eat it up every damn time! At ten years old, I didn’t know this applied to hearts or souls, I thought it was a very sad song about dishware. But god, that broken plate got me. I was ready to get the super glue. Also, “I don’t want the world to see me, because I don’t think that they’d understand”? HOO BOY. I relate to you, sad ghost with broken dishes. I relate.

Every time this song plays in the vicinity of my parents now, they fondly recall how four year old Claire thought the lyrics were “everything hates to be broken”. Honestly? That works too, but is a little more Paramore-esque than the real lyrics. See Let the Flames Begin from Riot! (2007).

3. Dark Blue by Jack’s Mannequin

I had never been to a school dance, because elementary schools don’t have those last I checked, but this song is how I imagined it would be. Alone in a crowded room. It would flood. An ambulance would be there, picking me off the floor. This, right here, is a prime example of pop-punk boy voice. The pounding piano, nasal tones, and declaration of isolation marks it clearly as a product of its time. If I’m being honest, it still goes hard as hell.

2. It Ends Tonight by All American Rejects

It Ends Tonight made me feel some sort of deep existential sadness. I had no idea what was ending, but I was mourning it with my whole little heart. The long trick is over, people, it ends tonight. Tyson Ritter asked for a little insight, and as a literal child, I had none, but I sure felt that maybe it was best you leave me alone. Leave me alone to feed these apples to this horse. I mean, this song made me feel at least as sad as when in the first grade I drew a picture of my family under a rainbow and another kid ripped it up. At least. The music video for this song is like a modern version of Nocturne in Black and Gold, shooting off fireworks into an inky black sky and watching the lights sparkle and die. I’m sure that’s what they were going for, I’m sure they’re huge fans of Whistler.

1.Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance, and actually just all of The Black Parade

Where it all began. The Black Parade is a lot of angst to be contained inside of one little body, but there I was. Famous Last Words was my favorite, filling me with some sort of manic zeal for life. Living just to spite the enemies inside your own head didn’t register at all, because at the point my head was all friends. All I knew is that it made me feel powerful, and ready. The download always skipped just a tiny bit at the opening of the guitar solo in Welcome to the Black Parade, which persisted no matter how many times I played it. Probably because my brother downloaded all his music off of Limewire. I remember sitting on the bus on our class trip to the zoo and mouthing “misery and hate will kill us all”. I showed my friend Meghan the music video for Ghost of You (yes I know that’s from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, I’m not an amateur) and definitely cried over Mikey Way tragically dying on the beaches of Normandy. I was slightly scared by Gerard Way but that was probably just because I was attracted to him and didn’t know what to do about it. In any case, he was a masterful storyteller, and I hung onto every word. If you can make a midwestern child raised on puppies and glitter with no mental health struggles (yet) feel all that emotion, you are something super special.

Also, I run an MCR blog now so we all know how this story turns out.

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321wecametofuck:

Haha, it was an interesting read. I’d actually forgotten most of it! But then, it was over four years ago that I learnt these facts…

The End:

It used to just be called “Intro”

The line “when I grow up I want to be nothing at all” is a direct response to people who used to tell Gerard he would never make anything of his life

Dead!:

They started work on this song in 2005

Frank pushed for the ‘tuba part’ in the bridge, and said “if you hate it, come see me about it. Shit’s tough, I don’t care what you think!”

This Is How I Disappear:

The opening riff was written in a parking lot of a San Francisco venue

The song was the first time Ray and Frank wrote different chorus melodies and then smashed them into one part

The Sharpest Lives:

Gerard told Frank to write a ‘spy guitar part’ for the pre-chorus, and Frank said yes (“because that’s what you say to a dude you love and respect.”) But he realised he was screwed as soon as Gerard left the room, because he’s “never seen a 007 movie”

Welcome To The Black Parade:

Frank came up with the original title ‘The Five Of Us Are Dying’

They started work on it in 2002 and re-wrote it four times before finally releasing it in 2006

I Don’t Love You:

At the end of the ‘Life On The Murder Scene’ DVD there’s a clip of Gerard and Ray singing the original version of the song

House of Wolves:

Frank wrote the guitar riff – It started as a song he wrote for his dad during a time when the writing process of Black Parade had come to a stop (due to personal issues), and ultimately, the song was what got the record going again

Cancer:

Ray played bass on the studio record, not Mikey

It’s Frank’s favourite song MCR have ever written – every time he hears it, he has to “fight back tears”

 Mama:

Liza Minelli sings on the track, as does Donna Way, Donald Way and Linda Iero (and Frank found out his mom “sings like a gypsy, which is the coolest thing in the world.”)

It’s Frank’s second favourite song on the album.

Sleep:

The tape recording at the start was inspired by the night terrors Gerard was having in the Paramour Mansion, where he would wake up in the middle of the night and feel like somebody’s hands were around his neck, choking him. (“It feels like somebody’s gripping my throat and squeezing.”)

And the recording creeps Frank out

Teenagers:

Gerard wrote the lyrics when he was on a busy subway, to distract himself from a panic attack he was having due to the number of teenagers surrounding him

Disenchanted:

It was originally called ‘Shut Up and Play’ and there are live versions of it on Youtube, from 2005

It is Mikey’s favourite song on the record: he fought to have it on there. He used to go up to the guys in the band when they were sleeping and just whisper ‘Disenchanted’ to them

Famous Last Words:

Gerard wrote the song for Mikey when he left the band during the making of The Black Parade. The line “I see you lying next to me” refers to Mikey sleeping on the floor in Gerard’s room in the Paramour Mansion (because he was too scared to sleep in a room alone)

Mikey said when he heard it, he knew he couldn’t leave the band

Blood:

I don’t have a fact about this song. So, I’ll just say I interpret ‘Blood’ to be metaphoric about how obsessive people can be, and how they can want so much out of their idols. MCR could put their heart and soul into something, pouring out every ounce of themselves in their work, but it would never be enough for their fans. (“Give them blood, blood, gallons of the stuff, give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough.”) 

I just found a document on my computer saved under 'The Black Parade song facts'

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Mewtwo is also a jerk to the other Unrivaled Pokémon but isn’t part of the clique with Charizard and Pikachu and doesn’t support their beliefs about the others just existing to fuck humans - it’s only a jerk because it’s misunderstood. After the Eevee events ended, it befriended Eevee the Unrivaled

Eevee is Hisuian Samurott’s prodigy. She is also the only Unrivaled Pokémon to not be from her species’ region of origin (counting Hisui as the region of origin for Hisuian Decidueye the Unrivaled, Hisuian Typhlosion the Unrivaled and Hisuian Samurott the Unrivaled) - being from Hisui instead of Kanto. All four Hisuian Unrivaled Pokémon arrived through temporal rifts

Hisuian Typhlosion the Unrivaled has a pet ghost flame. It belonged to a soul that died at an inconvenient time (as in if it had lived it could’ve gone through character development or something idk I came up with this part on the spot. I haven’t even assigned it a gender). The ghost flame loves to sing, especially Hisuian Typhlosion’s two favourite songs Welcome to the Black Parade and Famous Last Words (both by MCR). Oh yeah, sometimes The Five Of Us Are Dying (demo WttBP) comes up as well

Each Unrivaled Pokémon had a life event proving their worth and granting them the Mightiest Mark (Mew’s is obviously defeating Mewtwo). I haven’t really thought about what most of these would be but Hisuian Typhlosion the Unrivaled helped Sada and Turo move on to the afterlife, granting him the mark, and Hisuian Samurott the Unrivaled trained Eevee the Unrivaled, probably granting both of them the mark simultaneously

Arceus has a thing against Dark-types (despite being able to transform into one) and has tasked Hisuian Typhlosion the Unrivaled with purifying the soul of Hisuian Samurott the Unrivaled. It didn’t work and the two of them are in a polyamorous relationship with each other and Hisuian Decidueye the Unrivaled

Hisuian Decidueye the Unrivaled prefers to stay on the ground, unlike his Alolan counterpart (in this context I mean Alolan Decidueye the Unrivaled. I just meant random members of the Hisuian version of the species in the original post)

In their free time during their stay: Mewtwo and Eevee didn’t have a free week but before their stays Mewtwo the Unrivaled watched the spotlight events occurring in preparation for its event and Eevee the Unrivaled met and befriended the other featured Eevee from the Mass Outbreak event (who also had some free time at this point). Hisuian Decidueye the Unrivaled explored the forests, Hisuian Typhlosion the Unrivaled purified lost souls and guided them to the afterlife and Hisuian Samurott the Unrivaled explored the oceans and trained a bit by battling the Pokémon in the ocean

Updated version of the relationship chart, now with Mewtwo, Hisuian Decidueye, Hisuian Typhlosion, Eevee and Hisuian Samurott but no Pawniard or Event-Exclusive Paradox Pokémon

Cinderace and the non-Hisuian versions of the Hisuian starters have one-side rivalries on Delphox and their Hisuian counterparts. Also I wasn’t sure what to put for Mewtwo and Eevee so I reused the prodigy colour

Headcanons for the Unrivaled starters and Pikachu (I can reblog it at a later date to include later Unrivaled Pokémon):

As a Scorbunny, Cinderace used to protect Inteleon (who was a Sobble at the time). Inteleon has got a lot more confident as he evolves. The two of them grew up together. Rillaboom is not childhood friends with them but ended up in their trio because he is very friendly

The Kalos trio are also very close but they met in their middle stages. Delphox typically acts as a leader, both for their trio and when the Kalos, Galar and pseudo-Hisui trios get together, due to her Psychic typing

Decidueye, Typhlosion and Samurott aren’t officially a trio but they have become friends at some point. Decidueye is from Alola, Typhlosion is from Johto and Samurott is from Unova but they are descended from their Hisuian counterparts, which might explain Typhlosion’s Ghost Tera type

Charizard and Pikachu don't get on well with the other Unrivaled Pokémon. They've formed their own clique. They also both insist that they’re the best and no one else can top them (other than each other) and see humanoid Pokémon including Delphox the Unrivaled and Cinderace the Unrivaled as worthless beings that only exist to fuck humans (remind you of anyone? *cough* the average fan *cough*). And their natures are lies, they’re not modest or quiet

During the period between their event weekends, the Unrivaled Pokémon stay in Paldea and like to meet the local Pokémon. Charizard started a few forest fires and Rika (Poppy has a type disadvantage, Larry was too busy and Hassel trains Dragon-types which aren’t exactly known for putting out fires) was forced to put them out, Greninja did some target practice, Pikachu battled a bunch of Pokémon (including Walking Wake and Iron Leaves, which it did not successfully beat) with the intention of proving it’s the best, Decidueye hung out with a Quaquaval, Samurott hung out with a Skeledirge, Typhlosion hung out with a Meowscarada, Inteleon participated in water sports with a Pawniard he befriended, Chesnaught accidentally managed to get the Iron Treads from their spotlight event obsessed with him (it was very cute) purely because he was trying to comfort one, Delphox hid away on Glaseado Mountain to practice a routine for a Pokémon Contest in Hoenn (she didn’t have any specific plans to enter one, given her nature is Timid) and got watched by some sneaky Sneasel that were able to avoid detection due to their Dark typing, Rillaboom hid away to practice drums. During the period where the events were postponed, Chesnaught had some stuff he had to deal with back in Kalos and his accidental army of Iron Treads decided to follow him

Cinderace the Unrivaled has a one-sided rivalry with Delphox the Unrivaled. As a Psychic-type, Delphox is fully aware of the rivalry but chooses not to act on it

Decidueye the Unrivaled spends most of his (awake) time flying. Others (the people of Alola) wonder how strong his wings are for him to constantly be flying (I think I just came up with this headcanon because he’s a birb Pokémon but it works extra well with his Flying Tera type)

Basically this is there relationships with each other Key: Light blue = best friends Dark blue = close friends Purple = one-sided rivalry (on Cinderace/Pikachu’s side) Red = enemies or otherwise hostile (basically just Charizard and Pikachu vs literally everyone else excluding the Imaginary Paradox Duo and Pawniard) Walking Wake and Iron Leaves haven’t met the others other than briefly meeting Inteleon and any others sharing an event with them but they still haven’t properly got to know them (as Psychic-types, Delphox and Iron Leaves are aware of each other’s existences but other than that they don’t have any real relationship). Other than that (and the stuff with Pawniard), every pair without a connection is relatively close but don’t interact frequently enough to be considered close friends

I know the purple line between Pikachu and the Imaginary Paradox Duo only connects on Iron Leaves’s side but Pikachu also has a one-sided rivalry with Walking Wake (by the time I noticed, I’d already added in all the red on top