#aroace palentine's day 2024

[pandor-pandorkful]

Just saw Wind's Nocturne (Luna's Boat Song) on a "Most* Romantic VG Love Songs for Valentines Day" playlist and uh, I must respectfully disagree. (*edit: misread it, it was MOSTLY, not most. ^^;;; Does that negate the need for this ramble? No. :B)

Not to get too spoilery if you haven't played through Lunar:SSSC, but the context of the song super isn't "Oh, I am feeling some romantic yearning tonight!"

It's an "I want" song with the basic message "Oh damn there's definitely something different/wrong about me, sure could use some divine/cosmic intervention about that."

I can understand the confusion though, the song is preceded by a scene where Luna frets over maybe having feelings for Alex (her BROTHER BY ADOPTION btw) and the phrasing from the song of "foolish dreamers" (implying a false plurality in this lonely experience) and "there's a hole within my soul/what will fill this emptiness inside of me" (which could be misconstrued as meaning "I need a romantic partner to fill that emptiness".)

BUT DO NOT BE FOOLED. Up until this point, Luna has been tormented by nightmares/visons of her birth, having just awoken from one before going above deck to sing about her complicated teenage feelings. Her narrative in the game up to that point has been 70% "wtf is wrong with me", 10% "maybe i have the hots for my brother idk" and 20% nagging every npc and party member she comes in contact with. (Don't get me wrong, I adore Luna but I calls it like I sees it: the kid is a mess.)

Wind Nocturne is about that inner turmoil of not knowing yourself, and praying desperately that one day you'll be granted true self aware clarity. It's romantic in the sense that it's full of romanticism, but it's not romantic in the Valentines Day Fall In Love Swoon Swoon way.

I'd say that's just my onion, but no I'm gonna stand my ground and say I think you'd be super misreading the situation and context of the song if you think it's a love song.

All that said, I wouldn't object to seeing it on an AroAce Palentine's Day playlist. :3c

Tl;dr: The song is about being a fucked up orphan.