#Astral the Synth

[lucilleandherrobots]

Astral (Gen 2.8 Merc/Rogue Courser)

Introduction:

Fallout 4 Astral

Name Origins

Astral and Alicia are Siblings

Astral Likes Cats

Lore:

First Day Rogue

Killing People is Bad M'Kay?

We Make a Dirt Castle When we Think of Murder

Zen and Pan Dulce

Music Soothes the Savage... Astral

[lucilleandherrobots]

Astral chose their name for two reasons- they like space and stars and the similarities to their Institute designation, A5-87/2L. They didn't particularly care at first if someone called them by their designation, it just better not have been followed by a recall code.

Now, however, they feel a sense of dread and unease around it. Since Anu, the previous personality running their body, reemerged, there's been a sort of... lingering fear surrounding the code. They don't know what from. Anu suspects it's from all the times they were reset after failed missions or from one of the personalities turning rebel... or showing emotion at all.

Astral, themself isn't sure- but they'd rather not feel the scratching feeling at the back of their skull, the cooling system going into overdrive, and all of their internal workings collapsing inside them when they hear their designation.

My personal reasons why they're called that after the cut! :D

I originally made Astral as a Cyberpunk 2077 character. Honestly, I was just kinda having fun with making a merc with Blue Hair and Pronouns and a cool name. After a bit, I really started to vibe a bit with their personality and decided they just really like space- that's why they chose it.

In Cyberpunk 2077, you can't really choose a name for yourself- the name is already chosen for you. However, I like to think that, for Astral, it's just cause they really liked V from V for Vendetta and no one else knows they go by Astral all the time in their head. I actually don't have an idea for a deadname for Cyberpunk 2077 Astral.

They're transmasc so I'd assume it would be a name they consider too feminine for them. To me, they're just Astral, but someday I'd like to come up with a backstory for them beyond just Night City.

which oc does not go by their birth name? do they still use it for some occasions or not at all? how do they feel when they hear their birth name?

[synthwolf]

Keep your hands off the pale blood!!

[astralfuchs]

🌟 Stardust 🌟

[dungeonsynthguide]

Aindulmedir Star Lore (2023, Hypnagoga Press)

[bruitmoderniste]

derek bailey-sounding jam on the organelle-m, with fabulous distortion by fairfield circuitry's roger that

[thenighteternal]

Celestial Sword - Thy Dracul Blade

[darktripz]

ASTRAL DEATH / MORTWIGHT - Death Initiation

[vampyrska]

𝕬𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔩 𝕱𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔰 - 𝕮𝔬𝔰𝔪𝔦𝔠 𝕮𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝕺𝔣 𝕿𝔥𝔢 𝕷𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔩𝔶 𝕾𝔱𝔞𝔯 (𝕱𝖚𝖑𝖑 𝕬𝖑𝖇𝖚𝖒)

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

Listen/purchase: Experimental Synth Music #9 by John Martini Music

Now playing on Bandcamp 

 Experimental Synth Music #9 

~by John Martini Music 

[lucilleandherrobots]

In a world where Az, @sswitchblade03's courser OC, isn't present, Astral fills the older sibling/guardian role for Alicia.

[c-40]

A-T-2 385 Dope Library Music With A Space Theme

Holst's suite The Planets written as what the composer described as "a series of mood pictures" (in a music lesson at school we were told to close our eyes listen to this piece of music and let images appear infant of our eyes) I'd argue it was very influential in the development of space music. Mainstream public interest interest in space travel is believed to have come from a Soviet youth magazine published October 2nd 1951 which outlined how two men might fly to the moon and back, thus kickstarting the Soviet lunar programme. This is published in the US and the space race is born. The Space Shuttle era begins in 1981

John Cage composes Imaginary Landscapes No.1 in 1939. In the 1950s with the onset of the space race there was a boom in space films. The film Forbidden Planet came out in 1956, it's soundtrack was made entirely electronically (reportedly to get out of paying musicians and union rates), this helped solidify a connection between space and synths. Electronic music is considered to be futuristic in nature, and in the 1950s it was (in 2022 watching films set hundreds of years in the future but they're still dancing to 1990s electronic dance music is a bit of a joke.) In 1963 Doctor Who appeared on UK television screens with it's electronic theme music realised by Delia Derbyshire using musique concrète tequniques. Like with the John Cage piece I mentioned the sounds electronics can produce often sound alien, sound can be manipulated way beyond what a musician playing wind, strings, percussion, or a voice can do. In that way these sounds might be considered futuristic or even emanating from outer space. Electronic instruments also seem more scientific, it's often called tech, closer to computer laboratories and rocket controls than pianos, saxophones, drums, or guitars

We tell stories about space. Star Wars ushers in a renaissance of space fiction and it remains popular to this day. Ridley Scott's second space film Bladerunner comes out in 1982, which has one of my favourite soundtracks

Space library records are popular with fans of electronica and they usually have great sleeve artwork. That space library albums have a funky beat makes no sense at all, there's nothing particularly spacey about drum breaks, still I am drawn to them

Gaston Borreani recording under the name Galaxy for De Wolfe

Galaxy - Jupiter

Again for De Wolfe Unit 9 who did two space titled albums Delta and Over The Moon. Also check Fission Chips from Over The Moon and Omicron (before it was the name of a covid19 variant and we believed in progress and the future, ah! innocent times) from Delta

Unit 9 - Pi

Earforce Band - Sky Racer brilliant German one off for UBM Records. Bassist Dieter Petereit and drummer Willy Ketzer were both in the fusion band Passport. Space is big enough from harpsichord

Roger's New Conception - Expectation from the album Infomatic 2000. Roger Roger & Nino Nardini sounding like something from the 1960s or 70s. Sleeve artwork is nicked from the CTI album Moon Germs by Joe Farrell and isn't a million miles away from the sleeve for China Crisis' debut album designed by Peter Saville Associates. Anyway, beats

Christian Chevalier - Strange Pop from the album Christian Chevalier & Alan Feanch - Space Résonance. Alan Feanch followed up with sister album Flash Résonance: Space Dream

Miha Kralj - Jupiter from the Yugoslavian state owned record label PGP RTB album Odyssey

Roland Brocquet - Epsilove another French offering, this one from the album Robot Rose "Claviers Synthétiseur"

The Astral Dimension - Black Holes from Italy, not to be confused with Astral Sounds. A spooky ambient one this

[astralfuchs]

⋆⁺‧₊ ☾ ₊‧⁺⋆ Happy Halloween ⋆⁺‧₊☽ ₊‧⁺⋆

[dungeonsynthguide]

Forlorn Kingdom Northern Spirits Call From Afar (2020, Dungeons Deep Records) Compiled from Walking the Paths of Old and lost demos

[bruitmoderniste]

rainy afternoon meanderings