#UTY got me back into western music

[not-that-mustang]

Hear me out: Staroba fic or animatic but set to the plot of Marty Robbins’ El Paso where Star shoots Chujin and things go from there

[indigosandviolets]

Could I request a HC for first dances with the basterds?? Could be like undercover or on a night out or something love your writing!! ❤️

ooo, i’ve actually never seen one of these as a headcanon! i’ll do my best!

all of these songs should fit in the time period. i know it’s not important if they fit well with the time or not and even Tarantino doesn’t give a shit but i do.

Aldo Raine

Your first dance was after the war while you two were stuck in the UK trying to finalize everything about how Operation Kino came to a close. He somehow put word in to get the record wayyy before Kino was even in the foreseeable future and you know damn well this man was smug as fuck about it.

Donny Donowitz

You and Donny had your first dance after you got back home from the war. He was still having trouble with his prosthetic after Kino and he wasn’t sure if he was going to be able to dance with you ever, so you found this on the radio after you two had listened to a baseball game and you got him to dance even though he was really reluctant to at first. Once he was up, you knew he loved it.

Hugo Stiglitz

OKAY. LISTEN. HUGO IS A BIG FAN OF WESTERNS. HE LOVES THEM TO DEATH. I know this song isn’t really a “dance” song but hear me out. This man didn’t know Westerns could exist in song. He heard this for the first time at your parent’s house, and had no other choice but to dance with you in the living room. It’s actually part of the reason he won your parents over.

Wilhelm Wicki

As per usual with my headcanons about Wicki, your first dance was before the war. You two heard this song on the radio at the diner where you first met. It was pretty empty that night and you figured, hey, why not? Truth is, Wicki had been wanting to dance with you for a while but waited until the right song came on, and that was this one. Since you were mostly alone, you weren’t expecting the waitress to clap when you two finished dancing. Scared the ever loving fuck out of you.

Smithson Utivich

So you and Uti’s first dance was actually in a little motel in the middle of France during the war while you were on R&R away from enemy lines. Someone was broadcasting this on the radio and you two happened to pick it up on the tiniest radio you could have possibly had. It was a little spotty and there were some parts where the static popped, but for a first dance with Utivich? Pretty perfect.

Gerold Hirschberg

I know the title does not make this sound like the most romantic of songs, but neither is Hirschberg. Somehow, this man managed to convince you to dance with him because one of the other Basterds bet that he couldn’t make this song romantic. BOY, WERE THEY FUCKING W R O N G. He managed to make you feel loved as hell while dancing, and earned you a pack of smokes in the process (and a few kisses on the cheek from him).

Omar Ulmer

This was your first dance, and it was slow, and it was sad. It was after you two had finally confronted your feelings about each other and you were in a hospital in England because of Omar getting injured in Kino. The night before he was discharged, this song came on the radio that you had gotten him so he wouldn’t be bored in his bed all day, and you just held onto each other and swayed to the music in that hospital room.

[not-that-mustang]

The more I think about how uty has influenced me I keep forgetting I only discovered it 6 months ago. Like this game got me to delve back into the 50s country and western music I was raised on, and has taught me a bunch of guitar I never would have learned otherwise. The whole Wild East segment inspired me to pick up my old BB gun again and buy an upgrade, and now all my coats have lead pellets in the pockets. I don’t know how all this happened so quick but I wouldn’t change it for the world.

Happy anniversary everybody 💛