#character backstory playlist

[little-peril-stories]

Character Backstory Playlist Tag

I was tagged in this post by @mysticstarlightduck. Thanks for the tag!

Rules: Pick 5 songs you feel represent/inspired your OCs' backstories, or just otherwise fit their past's vibe/aesthetic. Choose as many or as few OCs as you want.

I'm leaving this an OPEN TAG - please play if you want, and let me know if you do! 💕

So I did once make a playlist for The Prince of Thieves (find it here), but it is a typical WIP playlist - not backstory-focused. (I *did* steal a few songs from there, though.) So this was a fun challenge!

Will and Jamie Wardrew

Tough to be a Dreamer by Felix Hagan & The Family

I built my castle on broken dreams, and as time goes by, I must admit it seems that I was sold a lie.

In the Meantime by Randall Kent

You’ve got a friend when times get mean; yeah, in the meantime, I’m on your team.

Same Suit, Different Tie by The Maine

All done up in my hand-me-down clothes, shaking off the dust and assuming a pose. Well, these threads are so old, but they'll never know. No one will ever know.

Is It Really You? by Loathe and Sleep Token

Face away, deal with the pain your own way.

Some Days by Brent Morgan

Some days I'm overwhelmed. Some days I'm lost inside this hell.

Bree Cooper / Breanna Hatchett

Sleepless Nights by Faber Drive

Put yourself in her position; all she needs is recognition. Love's not enough when you say it. Don't you know you gotta mean it?

Because of You by Kelly Clarkson

I will not make the same mistakes that you did; I will not let myself cause my heart so much misery… I was so young; you should have known better than to lean on me.

Running Away by Midnight Hour

I'll never let you find me; I'm leaving you behind with the past. No, I won't look back.

All I've Ever Known from Hadestown

I was alone so long, I didn't even know that I was lonely. Out in the cold so long, I didn't even know that I was cold.

(Un)Lost by The Maine

And you are not allowed to be anybody else. Control what you can and confront what you can't, and always remember how lucky you are to have yourself.

Colette Meunier

Boulangerie by Recent Rumours

She's gone, she's gone, she's gone; she's not coming back.

The Man by Taylor Swift

I'm so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man.

mars by YUNGBLOOD

She can't be herself when she's somebody else... Do you feel like you're irrelevant?

Perfect by Simple Plan

Hey, Dad... Did I grow up according to plan? Now it's just too late, and we can't go back. I'm sorry I can't be perfect.

Safe by All Time Low

Gotta take your time, find your space.

Geoff Marks

3 Hours of White Noise

Bonus Songs

Jamie & Will: I Steal Everything from Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier

Want food, but got no money? I’m screwed, or so it would seem… That’s why I came up with this brilliant scheme! Just steal everything!

Bree & Colette: What the Hell by Avril Lavigne

All my life I've been good, but now I'm thinking, "What the hell?"

Will: I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie

In Catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule, I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black, and I held my tongue as she told me, "Son, fear is the heart of love," so I never went back.

Will: Where Dreams Go to Die by The Downtown Fiction

Teacher thinks you're rude, says, "I don't like your attitude." Well, maybe you're just condescending. But bring us up to follow rules and throw us all in cubic rooms - but we're not gonna sit by idle.

Breanna H: According to You by Orianthi

According to you, I'm stupid, I'm useless, I can't do anything right

Me begging my sisters for song recs because I had NO CLUE…

[bloodofyou]

CHARACTER PLAYLIST | THE VAMPIRE ARMAND | ► LISTEN

”am i my history i have endured?” // “my first memory. i'm being run down by slavers in Delhi.” // “he was rescued from a brothel when he was 15, named... named Arun then, i think.” // “i served him with all my heart.” // “still… Amadeo had a skill.” // “he looked like a boy masquerading as a gentleman. but I sensed his ancient power right away.” // “the only thing that kept me from the fire… were the old rituals.” // “i could not prevent it.” // “you’re going to teach me how to be fascinating.”

[flea-palace]

was anyone else fundamentally changed as a person when they watched the 2004 phantom flashback scene at way too young an age and made their entire personality revolve around some french incel's tragic backstory for the next ten years or so or was that just a me experience

[quarklynx]

when the urge to draw a fake album cover for a d&d oc playlist beckons, one must heed the call

[mysticstarlightduck]

Character Backstory Playlist, Tag!

I've been writing a lot of character backstory lately for Enchanted Illusions, and listening to a lot of music, so I figured it would be fun to have a tag game relating to backstory writing in that light.

Rules: Pick 5 songs you feel represent/inspired your OCs' backstories, or just otherwise fit their past's vibe/aesthetic. Choose as many or as few OCs as you want.

Augustus Grimmure

Where Is The Justice - Death Note

Birth To My Creation - Frankenstein the Musical

Friends on the Other Side - Princess and the Frog (rock cover)

The Hearse Song - Rusty Cage

Me and the Devil - Soap and Skin

+ Bonus: Proud of Your Boy - Aladdin

Harriet Sharppe

Atlantis - Seafret

A Million Dreams - The Greatest Show (female cover)

Family Jewels - Marina and The Diamonds

Achilles, Come Down - Gang of Youths

Husavik - Will Ferell, My Marianne

Evangeline Daemitya

Father's Lament - Poor Man's Poison

Tough Love - Villain's Lair

Milk and Cookies - Melanie Martinez

I'm Here - Matilda, the Musical

Am I Supposed to Apologize? - Maria Mena

+ Days in the Sun - Beauty and The Beast

Cailean Telkerly

It's Alright - Mother, Mother

My Petersburg - Anastasia

Brother - Kodaline

Run, Boy, Run - Woodkid

Bottom of The Deep Blue Sea - Missio

Valentine Concordium

The Longer I Live - Dracula the Musical

Just Missing You - Emma Heesters

Broken Crown - Mumford and Sons

Black Flies - Ben Howard

They're Only Human - Death Note

Tagging - @tabswrites, @oh-no-another-idea, @little-peril-stories, @writernopal, @clairelsonao3, @gummybugg, @sm-writes-chaos, @dreaminggoblin, @lassiesandiego @memento-morri-writes, @inky-duchess, and @liv-is

[thedeafprophet]

people say they want more complex female antagonists and can't even handle Calypso in EPIC

[mayorofcattown]

ooh that OC profiles website I was playing around with a few months ago lets you put spotify playlists on character pages now. as someone who absolutely goes crazy for making playlists for my OCs this is Very Good

Alas like. half of the playlists I've made have major spoilers implied so I can't share all of them. but I did add these two cause they were fine

Go look at my children:

[famewolf]

i need to inject d&d straight into my veins

[yeehonks-sketchbook]

Hi Tumblr! it's me again. Say hello to my mutant OC!

[probablyaseamonster]

I just had a prediction.

Aimsey and Guqqie's investigation will eventually end with someone (maybe the last pirate left) finally discovering that they were lovers after a long period of debate and denial.

If the discovery happens in a person's final moments, there will be one line. Something like "oh. they were in love."

(this might also tie in to Owen's comment in his intro where he mentioned that the trope "history hates lovers" applies to this world of pirates as well. Maybe if Owen's the one to figure this out (as a Heron no less) he will relate their story to his backstory)

Also I should probably say that I am now rooting for Olivesleepy. I barely followed Rats and I knew nothing about Olive before this but now I want them to be the one to avenge. Even if they die trying, I will be satisfied.

[fen-the-space-dragon]

Guyssss, I made a Spotify playlist for Middlepaw and now they’re sad… they weren’t the most joyful creature before, but now I like actually made them sad a little bit. Maybe more than a little bit, haha. They just kinda pretend they’re not sad and try to avoid thinking about it. “Fake it ‘till ya make it!” If they act not sad, then they’ll become not sad, right?? (Spoiler alert: that doesn’t work)

[galionne-speeding]

Still working on them D6 Playlists

Sadly I have yet to find anything for Zom & Zik

ZAVOK -Samurai Spirit (Rise of the North Star) -Le Charnier des Épouvantails (Magoyond) -End of the Road (The Ferrymen)

ZAZZ -Baseball Bat (SiM) -Dot Your Eyes (Five Finger Death Punch) -Aaj (Bloodywood)

ZEENA -Me Too (Meghan Trainor) -Guys Don’t Like Me (IT BOYS!) -You Don’t Know (Kobra and The Lotus) -Basilisk (Edge of Paradise) -Black and Gold (Thundermother)

ZOR -A Conversation with Death (Khemmis) -Black is the Brightest Color (Ravenstine) -Dance Devil Dance (Avatar) -Mantra (Bring me the Horizon)

[koumeowkami]

i'm creating SOMETHING

[jesytr]

you don't see color & want to go back to black & white .

it hit her like a nail pushed into a coffin. the needle lunging in deep enough to keep its living corpse trapped within. she could feel a thought stirring deeply within her noggin'. rustling around with other more important thoughts. those like . . . define black and white ?? . . . what did it matter to him ?? . . . and how'd he guess it so easily??

reading her like an educated tutor telling their student how to do mathematics. she didn't enjoy the thought that what he was doing was digging deeper into the parts of her that lacked color. that crept forwards with an afterthought of feeling left behind. that how she saw the world was exactly like a colorful giraffe on a tight rope. eventually they'd either break the rope , or . . .

" ya' know me. " she chewed out her words. though with slight fascination on how he had figured it all out in the span of a couple words. MASKING QUICKLY BEHIND BLUE EYES THAT LOOKED AWAY, " it's not my fault. " she added. her hands flexed and she pulled out a chewable piece of candy. rolling it in her fingers. feeling the texture of the wax paper settling against her fingers.

" ya' don't know this about me, but my dad used ta' kick me around. " eyes went down. no longer presently there. her mind floating away from her body. pulling up out of daydreams she was somewhere else. listening to looney tunes intros on repeat. as if that old man could still reach her from his stay plugged up in Gotham height's hospital bed, " yea . . . real messed up childhood. ma didn't think ta' leave him then , only when it was her turn ta' look black n' blue. "

she pulled the papers off her piece of caramel before plopping it in her mouth. sticking to candy as one of her main habits of nervousness. not quite stable enough to understand maybe it was a coping skill. settling back in her seat. legs crossed. hands beginning to fidget. keeping up a described version of what anyone wanted out of herself. she let out a nervous chuckle. one that pitched almost to the extreme. only laughing at the memories of her father. kept safely locked behind her eyes. she laughed, and laughed before settling on her next words, " Ahh! Too funny! I haven't laughed like that in awhile. maybe next time I'll tell ya' about this boy I knew. he thought he'd hurt me like my old man. " she wiped tears out of her eyes before continuing, " I knocked out a few o' his teeth. "

[alissyathestrange]

Made another tav, meet ilethana tenar, a cleric of Ilmater who's backstory is still brewing, i have a playlist im building to help brainstorm ideas. :3

[mysticstarlightduck]

OC Defining Backstory Moment OST (:<

Okay, so, I've been wanting do to a new OC song tag game and I think going with something a bit backstory related would be rather fun (:

Rules: Share songs that define your MCs main defining event (s) in the past, negative (traumatic) or positive (important nice moments). Any moment which at least defined some of their misbeliefs in the main story.

Let's go with some of the main cast of Crash Stardom! for this one (:

Arden Ellis:

(positive)

All You Need To Know - Gryffin, Slander

Simple as can be I got your hands in mine And you don't have to listen carefully I'll tell you a thousand times

Anything you feel, put it all on me All of your thoughts, I want everything And when you get sad, like you do sometimes Put it all on me Put it all on me

I'll lift you when you're feeling low I'll hold you when the night gets cold You'll never have to be alone And that's all you need to know No love lost, we've got you and I No clouds, we shoot 'em out the sky You'll never have to be alone And that's all you need to know

If We Have Each Other - Alec Benjamin

The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad If we got each other, and that's all we have I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand You should know I'll be there for you When the world's not perfect, when the world's not kind If we have each other, then we'll both be fine I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand You should know I'll be there for you

You should know I'll be there for you

(negative)

Tag You're It by Melanie Martinez

Looking at me through your window Boy, you had your eye out for a little "I'll cut you up and make you dinner You've reached the end, you are the winner" Rolling down your tinted window Driving next to me real slow, he said "Let me take you for a joyride I've got some candy for you inside"

Running through the parking lot He chased me and he wouldn't stop Tag, you're it, tag, tag, you're it Grabbed my hand, pushed me down Took the words right out my mouth Tag, you're it, tag, tag, you're it Can anybody hear me when I'm hidden underground? Can anybody hear me? Am I talking to myself? Saying, "Tag, you're it, tag, tag, you're it" He's saying, "Tag, you're it, tag, tag, you're it"

For Your Entertainment - Adam Lambert

Let's go, it's my show Baby, do what I say Don't trip off the glitz That I'm gonna display I told ya I'ma hold ya down until you're amazed Give it to ya 'til you're screaming my name

No escaping when I start Once I'm in, I own your heart There's no way you'll ring the alarm So hold on until it's over!

Oh, do you know what you got into? Can you handle what I'm 'bout to do? 'Cause it's about to get rough for you I'm here for your entertainment

Tristan Mallory

(positive)

Its Alright - Mother Mother

It's alright, it's okay, it's alright, it's okay You're not a monster, just a human And you made a few mistakes It's alright, it's okay, it's alright, it's okay You're not gruesome, just human And you made a few mistakes It's alright, oh It's okay, oh [...]

It's alright, it's okay, it's alright, it's okay You're not a demon, there's a reason You're behaving that way It's alright, it's okay, it's alright, it's okay And I believe, yes, I believe That you will see a better day

Me Too - Meghan Trainor

Who's that sexy thing I see over there? That's me, standin' in the mirror What's that icy thing hanging 'round my neck? Um, that's gold, show me some respect, oh

I thank God every day (uh, ha) That I woke up feelin' this way (uh, ha) And I can't help loving myself And I don't need nobody else, no, uh

If I was you, I'd wanna be me too I'd wanna be me too

(negative)

Habits (Stay High) - RainParis version

I eat my dinner in my bathtub, then I go to sex clubs Watchin' freaky people gettin' it on It doesn't make me nervous, if anything, I'm restless Yeah, I've been around and I've seen it all

I get home, I got the munchies Binge on all my Twinkies Throw up in the tub, then I go to sleep And I drank up all my money, dazed and kinda lonely

[...] and I gotta stay high all the time To keep you off my mind, ooh, ooh High all the time

Bad Child - Tones and I

My family always said I was the bad child Throwing me away into the bad pile All my life been putting on a fake smile Sitting on my own, feel like I'm exiled

Feeling like I always do the wrong things Telling all their friends that I'm the bad kid Now I'm on my own, I lost my magic Dealing with your bullshit, now I'm over it

And you took a part of me Left me with the memories, oh We were never a family Now you're standing in front of my door Like none of this happened at all, all, all

I guess I'm always gonna be the bad child I guess I'm always gonna be the mad child

Randall Sloanne

(positive)

Wild Uncharted Waters - Little Mermaid

All I ever wanted Was the open sea and sky Freedom from the life I always knew Now all I am is haunted As days and hours roll by All I ever think about is you

There you are, over me Taking me with your song

To wild uncharted waters Miles beyond the sea I was darkness-bound, I had almost drowned 'Til you came around, and you found me Now I am on the shoreline But I'm still lost at sea In these wild uncharted waters Come find me again

All I do is wonder Who you are and where you'll be In my mind, your melody goes on Stronger than the undertow The night you rescued me

A Million Dreams - Greatest Showman

I close my eyes and I can see A world that's waiting up for me That I call my own Through the dark, through the door Through where no one's been before But it feels like home

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy They can say, they can say I've lost my mind I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy We can live in a world that we design

'Cause every night I lie in bed The brightest colors fill my head A million dreams are keeping me awake I think of what the world could be A vision of the one I see A million dreams is all it's gonna take A million dreams for the world we're gonna make

There's a house we can build Every room inside is filled With things from far away The special things I compile Each one there to make you smile On a rainy day

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy They can say, they can say we've lost our minds I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy

(negative)

The Dismemberment Song - Blue Kid

Hold still, my sweet, I’m trying to measure the space between Your molar and your jaw. This calipar, no cause for fear, no it doesn’t hurt; It only helps me measure how much skin you have, Oh and the top-most layer of fat, But I won’t make an incision, ‘ Til you’re nice and numb, oh and laughing gas can be so much fun, Please don’t doubt my decision This’ll be ooh! This’ll be aah! This’ll be absolutely whee! This’ll be nice, this’ll be neat and bring you closer to me, So don’t you squirm, don’t you fret, I’m not gonna hurt you.. yet. I just feel the need to be gettin A little of you, a lot of blood-letting, I know the sensation you’re probably dreading, but Cutting you up’ll be so refreshing

Mastermind - Helluva Boss

Fuck it! I am the mastermind The hand that holds the strings No simple imp of mine could master the disaster Oh, it stings that you thought You had caught the schemer of the schemes I wrought! I confess, it was me and I have no regrets!

I have regrets.... Why am I throwing my freedom away for this idiot? I would rather be dead Than live life without you by my side

So if it keeps you alive--- I am the mastermind!

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