#Crustacean leitmotif

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Rex Duodecim Angelus

Album: AlterniaBound Composer: Malcom Brown Leitmotifs: Rex Duodecim Angelus, Crustacean, Lemonsnout Turnabout, Desperado, Virgin Orb, Horschestra, Walls Covered in Blood, Keepers, La2t Frontiier, psych0ruins, BR8K Spider Characters: Black King, Karkat Vantas, Terezi Pyrope, Tavros Nitram, Kanaya Maryam, Equius Zahhak, Nepeta Leijon, Eridan Ampora, Feferi Peixes, Sollux Captor, Aradia Megido, Aradiabot, Gamzee Makara, Vriska Serket, Skaia

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[S] Rex Duodecim Angelus (Fantastic fan animation)

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Stumpy, my dear friend Stumpy, will you tell us your favorite crustacean? And your favorite video game soundtrack?

I'm going to say fiddler crab bc I went to the marsh recently and saw them eating at low tide. They're funny lil lopsided guys.

Fav video game soundtrack off the top of my head is halo 3 bc I had like 3000 hours in that and it had leitmotifs from combat evolved and it hurts the most.

Outer Wilds is a new recent favorite and it hurts too.

Also the Shipbreaker game that is pretty recent has a nice soundtrack on YouTube. I haven't played it but the soundtrack is good for working/writing

[peridots-pixiwolf]

~Mostly Mollusk~

Part 6 - Part 7 Here

Extras. (Including some of the “meta” stuff I mentioned--much shorter than the other posts)

Extras/Misc

i want to add him…

---Quirrel

He/him

Iridoviral Armadillidium vulgare

Traveller, Terrestrial 

A pillbug. He's just Quirrel, a friendly adventurer who's good with a nail.

...Maybe keep him away from the bay. And the jellyfish.

Service: None

(jk that's ✨intellectual property✨ and i'll ✨have to ask permission✨)

--History...?

So far, the only known lore regarding this subject is that most vertebrates (currently, Grek and Genni being the only exceptions, as Tan’s host has been dead since the frog went into hiding. The bodies of most other dead organisms have been reduced to bones) have gone extinct some undescribed quantity of time, and many terrestrial bugs have moved to the shores during this (giving a chance to finally reconcile with their amphibious crustacean kin), though nowadays life further inland is no longer uninhabitable. The vertebrate die-off is possibly due to radiation caused by humans inland, as insects such as cockroaches seem to be less negatively affected by it--or this is simply the reason for the invertebrates' migration towards the sea.

--Quests

Reunion (Main Quest, Ceras)

A Meal of Great Elegance (Genni)

Prosthetics (Bem)

Ballad of Copi, which shall go unnamed (i can't think of a real name lol)

Sisters Estranged (Allibel and Sepinti) 

Track Down the Beast (Beowi) (the Beast being Genni)

--Dialogue

Fess: Ceras!

F: Come back in soon or else I'm eating all the anemone without you!

Ceras: You wouldn't!

(... (Ceras doesn't come back inside and continues doing Whatever They Doing.))

F (after some time passes): Ceras, I'm serious! The rip current's coming back soon and I don't want you to be caught in it!

C: Alright, fine, in a second!

()

C: ...Did it just get quieter?

: Wait.

: Oh no.

(~rip current time~)

(...)

Lidii: What even is that?

Rantan: Obviously a sea slug, Lidii.

Gorge: Yeah, it's an aeolid nudibranch, Lidii.

Rantan: How--

Lidii: Well, I'm gonna eat it. It's obviously dead, and doesn't seem like either of you want to.

(Ceras arises.)

Lidii: Oh!

Rantan: 'Obviously dead', huh?

(Ceras looks around, the two insects look at them.)

Lidii: ...Is it sentient?

--Soundtrack

(Taranoake Theme)

(Citadell Theme)

Turn Up the Tymbals, Bring On The Beat! (One of Sepinti's themes)

Renin (Renin flashbacks, much more jovial than WfR)

Waiting for Rain (current Renin theme, has Renin's leitmotif, but slower/more melancholy)

[heir-of-puns]

Leitmotif tribute for Crustacean by Toby Fox, and therefore a theme for Karkat. A real strife-y one.

Arrangement of:

The King in Red - Tensei

The King in Red (Beta) - Tensei

Crustacean - Toby Fox

Karkat’s Theme - Toby Fox

Iron Knight - DJ 最テー

Oppa Toby Style - Toby Fox

Frustracean - Toby Fox

Songs belong to their artists and/or What Pumpkin. Crustacean by Toby Fox.

[abundantchewtoys]

Strife 2 reaction

Time to listen up on Strife 2! We're pumped to hear what cool tunes Tensei has concocted. We deliberately didn't listen to any of the previews - I don't think Blaperile even heard about those songs' titles before now!

Just looking at the track list, I can see we're in for good stuff. Off the bat, what I expect is a good few remixes (Arachnofunkia), extended versions (Spirit of Storms) and possible shipping songs (Aerosoul - John/Dirk? Or  :P).

I'm glad Tensei was able to create a finished version of King in Red, I'm interested to hear it based on the snippet in White Host, Green Room. I saw Heel Girl as a WIP on his Tumblr, but I don't remember exactly in what way it differed from Of Gods and Witches. Well, it's a Grimbark Jade song, that much I remember.

I wonder if the track art contains a lot of Homestuck references - I saw the artist post the track art they finished on Tumblr but I scrolled over it and don't really remember, but I think so.

HOLY SHIT, Blaperile just unpacked the downloaded album and it contains a MASS load more of songs. I saw "Duet" pass, and he saw "Dance of Thorns", omfg!

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1. Spirit of Storms

Maybe this song won't get extra track art when the artist finishes up the rest, because it's the first song on the album.

... THAT is a lot HIGHER pitched than I thought this remix of Stormspirit would start. Wow. This is a nice rearrangement of the small soundbit we got at the start of Strife.

2. Sanguine Panchromatic

Sufferer song? I think this is gonna be a Sufferer song. Track art TBD.

Oooh, Blaperile's right, it's like it references Iron Knight. So, is it more like a Karkat song? ... Are those violins? Strings in a Vantas themesong? I like it.

3. G4M3 OR D13

Latula song? I'm betting a Latula song.

... Is that Troll Game Grl. Pfffff. Troll Game Grl is a Tealblood, of course!

Awesome track art, sneaky game sprites but we spotted them.

I wonder how Tensei is going to go about this. I mean, 8-bit music combined with his kickass guitar riffs, uhmmm?

... I'm not 100% sure, but I might have heard this song on his Tumblr before, or maybe I did click on the preview at the time... Yeah, that last one. Straight up forgot about it until now, shame on me.

Hahaahh, so yeah, he does it masterfully, 8-bit + riffs right there.

I gotta say, I love how Tensei's songs have, like, chorusses and crescendos. (That's about all music creation lingo I master, though.)

Pure golden awesomeness.

4. Rouge on the Rox

... Roxy song, hands down.

N'aww, track art TBD.

... Samba!! Pfffff. What, Walls Covered In Blood remix somehow? :P ... Loungey music, I dig it.

If Roxy was a James Bond-esque spy as well as the classy superhacker she already is, this would be her themesong. Heh, the first part of the leitmotif on the guitar reminded me of the Kid Next Door opening theme, actually, probably intensifying the spy impression I got.

5. Perfect Cascade of the Heart

Somehow I doubt Tensei is remixing Total Eclipse of the Heart, but I don't even know the motif of that song, so who cares?

So, yeah, Cascade remix FTW? Potentially rewritten for Dirk?

... Pffff, Elevatorstuck 2.0 wasn't what I was expect-----

NEVER MIND.

There's the Cascade-esque sounds. AND SAXOPHONES OMG. Oooh, and the windy-music from Knife's Edge, I think!

Now this is song fit for "lösgehen", niiice.

The last three songs have been salacious.

6. Hope Strikes Eternal

Now, I don't want to hope that Tensei would remix Eternity Served Cold, but I also don't want to NOT hope, you know? :P

... That is not Jake in the track art, that kind of looks like a Jade-troll. With cherub wings and antler horns. WTF. The colours are Hope, but the symbol of the outfit is like a feather, heheh. Like the feathers in the wings.

Well, okay, an angel is part of the Hope-aspect's theme. Skaian clouds in the background.

... That piano opening, wow. It reminds me of the Rose-meteor shower song from Vol 10, I think.

At 1:15, that little bit reminds me of one of Tensei's songs, maybe Atomyk Bonsai?

I think Tensei had a whole original story to tell, perhaps not linked to a specific Homestuck kid but more like, the Hope aspect itself and how powerful it is?

7. Aerosoul

So yeah, what, John song? John/Dirk song? Erisolsprite song? What is it going to be? ... Maybe a Tavrosprite song out of left field. Or (Tavros) song, since "soul".

The feeling I get from it is kind of a grimmer Heir Conditioning. So, what, like a grimdork John song? :P

8. Arachnofunkia

Serket song on Number 8 FTW!!

So yeah, how's this going to sound versus Spider8reath? I'm pictuing something more closer in spirit to Midnight Spider, but who knows.

Heheheh, track art with a four-horned troll on the guitar, which reminds me of the track art for ... MeGaLoVaniac from LOTAM. So yeah, I have to wonder, also seeing as to how it's Arachn-O-Funk-Ia, whether it might contain a MeGaLoVania reference, or at least be similar in spirit?

... That sure is a funky spider right there.

Even though none of the songs so far were remixes of anything besides Tensei original sounds, I like how there's still that FEEL about them that makes them spiritual remixes.

Bit around 2:40 reminds me of Heir Conditioning's piano bit, which is again an example of what I was saying.

9. The King In Red

Of course this makes me think of the Red King from the Alice Through the Looking Glass story, but also of a blood-drenched king. So this could really go a lot of ways. But I distinctly remember a choir from the bit in White Host Green Room, so I'm leaning towards the latter...

... Wow that track art. It's like a combination of the Grand Higblood's throne room, and the White Queen's throneroom. Prospit Dreamer gone mental?? Is this supposed to be, like, a brownblood troll Mirthful Messiah follower or something?

... "REMIXES 'CRUSTACEAN'" WTF???

Pipeorgan opening for dramatic effect.

... Well this sure would fit nicely with a king gone mad, that's for sure. (If King Lear was a Prospit dreamer.)

Oh yeah, I recognize the Crustacean part on the piano.

Dear God I get the (positive) goosebumps from the dreadful feeling in this song. I understand fully well that Tensei's been toiling on this song for so long!

10. Heel Girl

So if this is supposed to be Grimbark Jade song, what's the track art going to show since it seems like all original characters each time? (I was already reminded a few times of the track art on Sburb OST.) Some other corrupted character? ... Oh, track art TBD.

... Well, at least I should be right that it's Jade-themed, it remixes Courser.

This song is definitely old though, I just realized that I first listened to it before Songs Unsung was even out.

... Yes that sure is what I remember!!

Atomyk Bonsai meets Knife's Edge.

2:00 Oooooh, instrumental intermezzo! No, I'm wrong, the rest of the song is the Courser remix, Tensei style! Awesommmmmme.

Boy these last two songs are jawdroppingly good. Together with the 3rd to 5th songs they make up my top favorites so far.

11. Unite Division.

So in what sense would this song reference Unite Synchronization, I wonder?

"Remixes 'Liquid Negrocity'"! OMFG, what, is this going to be kind of more like a counterpart to Time On My Side, specifically written for Dirk this time??? Or something else entirely.

We know he can do great things with the Liquid Negrocity riff, in any case.

Maybe it's the song to officially fit with the track art?

... This ALSO sounds like it could fit a character gone mad. So, maybe more like a Jack song still. I'm not 100% sure, but maybe Tensei had posted this as a nameless WIP soundbit on his Tumblr as well. Years and years ago, that is. (That I remember, speaks to the memorability of his songs, doesn't it?)

12. Spirit of Storms (reprise)

Well, this sure is going to be a reprise of Spirit of Storms. I wonder how it will sound now that it's the closing part of the album versus the opening part.

... Wow that sure is festive ^_^

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And that's all 12 official songs, now on to the bonus!

Well, actually, we'll listen to it at a later date, it's been enough.

^-- A later day turned out to be the next day... --v

Part 2!

I wonder what bonus songs could be on here. We spotted Dance of Thorns, so I wonder if he remixed it, if so how, or extended it, if so how. Also, what was that thing I saw regarding a "duet" - Tensei doesn't sing AFAIK, not in his Homestuck songs anyway, so, like, is it a collab song?

13. The King in Red (Beta)

Oooh, coool! Just like how Volume 8 contained the "beta" (aka original) version of Cascade as a bonus track, it seems some of the bonus songs here will be beta versions of pieces on the album! (That may or may not have been said on the funding page, bluh, I don't want to go check at the moment.) So, what, that includes Dance of Thorns?? I wonder how a 1.0 version of it would sound, taking into account the difference between Anbroids and Anbroids 2.0, for instance.

So, here's the familiar choir and pipeorgan in any case, it's not like the instruments are different.

Ooh, there is (something akin to) that choir piece that came in White Host Green Room! (somewhere between 01:00 and 01:30). And a small quoting of Crustacean's already in this version, too.

Well, that sure is a shorter version of the final song, I'm glad he extended it.

14. Unite Division (Beta)

I spotted another few (Beta)'s underneath the listing of the previous song, heheh. So, if the previous song is anything to go by, the quoting of Liquid Negrocity in this bit should be smaller.

Hmm, this beginning kind of reminds me of the Lemonsnout Turnabout, heh. Wow, sudden snaring bits.

Maybe it was this version of Unite Division Tensei posted that time on his Tumblr...

Hmm, the start of this song was very different from the original, I liked it a lot as well!

16. Arachnofunkia (Beta)

Well, as long as we're in this beta zone, might as well :P

I wonder what the differences here will be. There were more differences to the final version with Unite Division than the King In Red, will this one fall somewhere in the middle?

... I think Tensei removed some of the blaring basses to get that 'funk' feeling in the final version. ([s]That certain je-ne-sais-quoi[/s])

17. Heel Girl (Beta)

So I figure this is the version I heard of this song on Tumblr as well.

I think this might be the closest to the end product of all beta's so far.

18. daet with roze

... Is this something from the perspective of Roxy? LMAO. Or... Drunk Rose, pffffff. Actually, Blaperile immediately thought of SBaHJ, and Drunk Rose gets her Roxy on with regards to spelling and such, so yeah.

A date with Drunk Rose. Aka Jasprosesprite's precursor. Welp.

... Wow, blues-y. Jazz is... Well, it kind of is fitting for Jazz-prose (sorry not sorry), but also brings that Midnight Crew/Felt feeling along. (9-in-the-evening dress FTW!)

... Wow, those... I don't know what to call them, 8-bit-trumpet-blares? Sound good - by the end a bit silly, but yeah, seeing as how Rose gets when she's drunk...

19. Dance of Thorns (Karaoke)

... WUT.

I...

WUT.

BUT DANCE OF THORNS HAS NO LYRICS!!!! (When suddenly, it does.)

I... I guess this means it's a whole new instrumental version??? Fit for singing to in a bar. Well, given what I said earlier in this reaction post, Tensei's songs often sound to me like they could have a chorus and verses, Dance of Thorns is certainly no exception.

I'm intrigued...

... It sounds like it might start a bit more bitty, I'm not sure???

... Ooooh, after the start it suddenly goes a whole nother way!! IT'S A REMIX!!!

Aww, no violins in that one part that's the same as in the original version...

... You know, I'm suddenly wondering if this Dance of Thorns without the violin parts??? Pffff, as in, BRING YOUR OWN VIOLIN KARAOKE NIGHT! Hahahahah.

Yeah, that MUST be it, wow... Hahah. Awesome. It sure sounds like a remix this way, so different in parts.

(Also,I suppose there was no 'duet' in this list, I just misread 'daet'.)

19. Bound in Blood (Beta)

Oooh, a song he didn't put in the final version. The name doesn't ring any bells, in any case. (Unless it was made into the Sanguine song.) I wonder why, did he just not see it fit in, or was it difficult to extend the original bit?

It starts out instrumental, and then that... dancey... leitmotif from Doctor, I think, comes in, wow. (Or well, Penumbral Phantasm more like.)

... WOWWWW. Rock on.

This went a whole other way than we're used to from Tensei.

20. Duet

*tableflip* Okay, so I WAS not mistaken, hahahahah.

But uh, duet between who? I kind of think there won't be a guest artist collaborating on this song, but I don't know?

I don't really have an immediate thought between which characters this could be a duet, either. (Wild unsubstantiated guess: Bicyclopsdad's two heads. :P)

... Piano bit start is John's, probably. Then the violin starts... And I think I heard this one before on his Tumblr, too!

This just goes to show how varied Tensei is in the genres he can do. Like Blaperile points out, this is reminiscent of Jit's style of songs, like October on One Year Older!

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Wow. Cool album, that's for sure.

He's did it again. There's guaranteed to be a few ear wurms in this batch, I can tell you that.

[rainywishes]

Musical Quotes I think I found in Strife 2

Spirit of Storms: Stormspirit(Strife!)(?)

Sanguine Panchromatic: Septette for the Dead Princess(Touhou EoSD)(?) 

G4M3 OR DI3: Live and Learn(Sonic Adventure 2)

Rogue on the Rox: Jojo~Sono Chi no Sadame(Jojo Part 1), Stardust Crusaders(Jojo Part 3)(?)

Perfect Cascade of the Heart: Time on my Side(Strife!), Cascade(Beta)(Volume 8), Heartful Cry(Persona 3)

Hope Strikes Eternal: The Vast Glub(CaM Universe B)(Unintentional), Snow Halation(Love Live)(?)

Aerosoul: Lighten Up(Song Unsung), Open Your Heart(Sonic Adventure)

Arachnofunkia: Keep Yourself Alive 2(Guilty Gear XX), Unintentional Touhou(CaNW)(Unintentional)

The King in Red: Crimson Flames(Naruto Shippuden), Crustacean(Homestuck)

Heel Girl: Round Two(Homestuck)(?), Courser/Umbral Ultimatum(Volume 6), Atomic Bonsai(Strife!)(?)

Unite Division: Liquid Negrocity(Homestuck), Thin Red Line(Blazblue), She’s a Spider or Of Gods and Witches(AlterniaBound, Volume 10/Songs Unsung)(?)

Spirit of Storms(Reprise): Spirit of Storms

Some of the info taken from xzazupsilon’s leitmotif list: http://xzazupsilon.webs.com/nsnd.html

I do feel like I missed some stuff but this is everything I have.

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Karkat's Theme

Album: AlterniaBound Composer: Toby Fox Leitmotifs: Crustacean Characters: Karkat Vantas

You may know this from:

[S] Past Karkat: Wake up. (Alterniabound) (Flash Broken)

[S] Kanaya: Return to the core. (Returniabound)

[S] Karkat: Greet friends! (From MSPFA "Karkat Goes to a Convention")

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Crustacean

Album: Alternia Composer: Toby Fox Leitmotifs: Crustacean Characters: Karkat Vantas

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Death of the Lusii

Album: Alternia Composer: Toby Fox Leitmotifs: Crustacean, Death of the Lusii Characters: Karkat Vantas, Gamzee Makara, Crabdad, Goatdad

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She's a Sp8der

Album: AlterniaBound Composer: Tensei Leitmotifs: BR8K Spider, Megalovania, Eridan, Crustacean Characters: Vriska Serket, Mindfang, Eridan Ampora, Dualscar, Karkat Vantas

[heir-of-puns]

Next few leitmotif arrangements: explore, homestuck anthem, courser, serenade, walk-stab-walk, carefree victory if I can figure out how to make it not suck like the first time I tried it, upward movement, crustacean. Maybe english, lemonsnout turnabout, and a better version of megalovanity...and anything else i remember. By leitmotif at this point I mostly mean songs with enough versions in the music canon to let me build a whole arrangement on them. Anything major I'm forgetting/suggestions?