#also val's playlist is called halfway to the horizon

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

📻📻📻 for my beloved Tritchet plssss but also val has such an aesthetic I'm 📻📻 to learn ones that are on hers aswell

I can always count on you to indulge my love for my silly little dragon girl!! 🥰

📻 Giants by Bear Attack!

is pride of place on Tritchet's playlist because it's my Pock Siblings Song. It's Tritchet's love, belief in and absolute loyalty to her sisters, told from her perspective. It reads like a triumphant climax song because that's kind of what it is for her! It highlights her private wants and desires as well as her pride in being a part of the WoL's entourage in a way that feels actually tangible. (And maybe the last line highlights some of her long-held anxieties too, who knows. :>)

📻 Don't Freak by the Aces

And SPEAKING of anxieties! This song got slapped onto Tritchet's playlist because contrary to popular belief, she had a LOT of insecurities, especially pre- and mid-ARR. This song, to me, highlights Tritchet's earliest feelings of not being good enough, and the self-talk she kept up of, "Bury it, you'll deal with it later, no one wants to see you freak out, just DO what you've gotta DO!!!" Which worked out really well for her until Stormblood. 😂

📻 Swim Naked by Betcha

This song, on the other hand, is pure Tritchet Pock Advice Time. Miss "Feel Your Feelings 100%" was especially keen to advise Certain Other People to really indulge in the good things in life, whether that's cutting loose or traveling the world or just existing without being beholden to anyone. Heavensward-era Tritchet was especially keen on this, and hadn't added some of the caveats that came with her later experiences. I also really like this song because it blends a somewhat guitar-heavy verse with a very synth-y, chill vibe chorus, which feels about correct for Tritchet's overall Deal.

And now, for Val!!

📻 Too Much Is Never Enough by Florence + The Machine

AH YES, the song that I slapped onto Val's playlist with enough force to break the sound barrier. Funny thing about my soft-hearted traveling gal: she has (had?) a self-sacrificial streak a mile wide. And the funny part about becoming very attached to your adventuring party - so much that you would literally die defending them - is that you grow to have some very conflicted feelings about dying to defend them. I mean, the song is called Too Much Is Never Enough; i.e., giving too much, giving it ALL, still isn't quite enough for the depth of attachment she has to her fellow idiots. And it's such a sweeping, triumphant-sounding song by the end, with so much of the knight-devotion-to-their-sworn imagery, and Val is SUCH a paladin, GOD -

Also, the line, "And who cares if I'm coming back alive? So what? 'Least I've got the strength to fight." UGH. Florence, just come kill me in my sleep why don't you

📻 Ditchdigger by Tyler Lyle

You mentioned Val's aesthetic so I would be remiss in not putting this song down. I have a few very laid-back, folk/country-adjacent songs on her playlist, but this is the one that I always think of when I think of encapsulating the things that Val really wants in life. Despite the sailor's swagger and the holy sword, despite the world-saving and the tendency to make herself a shield above all else, Val's REAL simple when you get right down to it. Her goal, when the aforementioned world saving is over, is to get a little place somewhere quiet out in the middle of nowhere and spend the rest of her days traveling to and from it. (...with Rona. And probably a handful of dogs. But she hasn't found the courage enough to pop THAT question yet.)