#icarus bastille

[divine-draws]

WIP animatic :3c character: Stanford Pines (Gravity Falls) song: icarus - Bastille

[digowrites]

ICARUS

A Niragi Suguru work of fiction. ‼️‼️SPOILERS FOR S2‼️‼️

No idea how many words, had fun writing.

No Beta, we die like Karube and Chota.

None of this is canon and is purely of my brain. Not My Gif!!!!

“Icarus is flying too close to the sun, And Icarus’ life, it has only just begun” Music blasted into Suguru’s ears as he walked under the bridge on his way home. He drowned out the insults hurled his way, hoping to make it past the bridge so he was left alone.

He could only hope to get past before they noticed he was there, before they noticed he was ignoring all of them. Suguru was lucky today, he was ignored for the most part and made it home without new bruises or scrapes.

Sighing, he let his guard down once inside his house, noticing his mother and father were gone again. A stack of money on the counter and a note saying not to spend it all, that they would be back in a week. He was fine with being alone again, he didn’t have to worry about them seeing him potentially come home, beaten and bruised from school and the walk home.

He was able to stop by the library before returning home the next day. He got a book, a myth to be specific. It was the myth of Icarus. The tale of the boy who flew too close to the sun.

Week after week passed, his parents came home, gave him more money and were gone once again. He managed to escape to the library occasionally, constantly checking out the myth of Icarus. He was fascinated by the idea of being able to fly away from his life with only wax wings carrying him away. He wished to be Icarus, care free and able to fly.

Years passed, now owning that copy of Icarus. He sat waiting for his bus, only to see fireworks. Those fireworks that made him blink. When he opened his eyes there was nothing.

The bustling city was now barren, not one person in sight. His book was still in his hand, the only normalcy he had as his first game commenced. An eight of spades. Someone took a shot at him and that book was tucked away in his shirt, right in front of his heart.

He understood he survived because of Icarus, so he lived as though he was a man with wings.

He joined The Beach, became a militant with excellent marksmanship. He was feared by the members with a well known name, he was finally better than those that put him down for years.

When Hatter was killed, he was excited. He could fly higher than ever without being told no.

During the Ten of Hearts, he flew higher and higher. Taking his place atop the roof as a sniper for the tenants trying to flee from the game. As he was burned he believed he had flown too high and his wings melted, burned by Chishiya and falling to his death. He believed that was the end, he had flown too high and melted his wings, now plummeting back to earth much like Icarus.

The wreckage of The Beach was slowly dying out, the fires done and the embers cooled. Niragi woke up, his body had survived the fall and the burns. He stood in pain, believing he should be done for. But there he was, standing in the charred rubble of the home he had known while in this strange world. He was alone, much like when he was young.

He stumbled around, narrowly escaping the King of Spades, making it to the King of Clubs. He was greeted by Usagi, Arisu, Tatta, and Kuina, horrified by the sight of him. After the game, he escaped death once again and he was back to stumbling around. He had flown higher than thought, feeling the rush of almost being killed in a face game.

The standoff was how he got to where he lay now, bleeding out. He tried to kill Chishiya, only to get shot by Arisu, knocking him off the car and onto his back against another. He felt in his heart that he would fly higher once again. Eventually, night fell and the Queen of Hearts blimp held its position steady, tricking him and anyone who saw into believing Arisu had lost. Mumbles were heard, but he never registered the words, only the oh so familiar voice that followed after every game won.

Time seemed to halt as Suguru saw what could only be described as light passing his line of sight in the darkness of the city taken back by nature. His burns tingled and his bullet wounds stung. “This is how it feels to take a fall, Icarus is flying towards an early grave” He mumbled out loud. The final lyrics of the song that once protected him, were now the lyrics that forced his realization.

He finally flew too close to the sun. Suguru was Icarus, flying too close to the sun only for his wings of wax to melt.

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[dryya-doesnt]

Doodling them bc they hit me like a truck during my finals (overtook my mind)

[tsunosagun]

i flew too high, please catch my fall

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

icarus is a jason song i'm screaming tearing at things with my teeth sobbing wailing even

[pickastitch]

the icarus who chose her own sun

the icarus who wrapped themself in the void

the icarus who killed the false sun

the icarus who the stars gave up their life for

the icarus who crash landed onto the earth's surface

the icarus who finally saw her sun; only to see a moon

[screamingcrows]

Sunday: "Falling was originally just another name for flying." Stelle: "Falling and missing the ground" Sunday: ...

[artofhaileyd]

Look who's digging their own grave

That is what they all say; you'll drink yourself to death

Look who makes their own bed, lies right down within it

And what will you have left?

[galaxy-flowergirl]

Icarus

Saltburn - Emerald Fennel // Oscar Wilde // The Fall Of Icarus - Jacob Peter Gowy // Icarus - Bastille // “Daedalus and Icarus” - Ovid // The Lament for Icarus - Herbert James Draper // Burn - Hamilton // I, Carrion (Icarian) - Hozier // Sunlight - Hozier

[andromedaexists]

When Hozier said "If the wind turns, if I hit a squall \ Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me \ If I should fall on that day \ I only pray, don't fall away from me" and when STARSET said "Fell out of the air and you broke your wings \ Like you're doing every other time \ Made a new pair \ Out of broken things to give it all another try \ And you climb right up to the highest peaks \ And reach out to the edge of the world you seek \ Afraid of heights so you don't believe \ You could ever be good enough" and when Kyle Stibbs said "I'll be lesser than dirt to you \ Isn't it thе opposite of Icarus where wе find our meaning?" and when Bastille said "Look who's digging their own grave \ That is what they all say; you'll drink yourself to death \ Look who makes their own bed, lies right down within it \ And what will you have left?" and when Ripto said "So, Apollo, bring me back \ To the place I was before I met you \ And Icarus, lead the way \ To where I need to go" i felt that

[h0rsegirlpercy]

[portrait0fthem00n]

Icarus by Bastille, Icarus & Apollo by Ripto, Icarus by The Crane Wives and I,Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier I love you all

[mx-anthony-janthony-crowley]

what are everyone's bets for the crowley playlist?

[wiwiurikawa]

ok but am i the only one who icarus by bastille reminds of james norrington in 2/3 potc movie?

[tenderlystupendoussoul]

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1560);

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (poem), William Carlos Williams (1960);

"Musée des Beaux Arts" (poem), W. H. Auden (1938);

“ICARUS”, STARSET;

“Icarus”, Bastille;

“Fun”, Coldplay;

“Sunlight”, Hozier;

“I, Carrion (Icarian)”, Hozier;

Icarus's passing is seen by Bruegel, Williams, and Auden as a minor incident in the grand scheme of existence. Williams' "quite unnoticed" serves as a reminder/memento mori of our own mortality. Dying is not such a remarkable occurrence, life moves on without us when we pass away. And sometimes all that can be heard at the end of a life is a just a brief splash sound.

"Icarus" by STARSET is about a self-destructive character. They interpret the story of Icarus as an allegory for being too self-absorbed at the expense of others. The lines "you'll never be good enough" and "you always fly right up until it burns" as well as "you'll never go through them" all allude to a tendency to constantly pursue the same route over and over no matter what.

Bastille's "Icarus" retells Icarus's story alongside a modern tragedy. The opening scene of "Icarus" shows a person preparing to "dig their own grave" and "drink themselves to death." The song continues by drawing a comparison between death and Icarus, who is "flying too close to the sun/ And Icarus's life, it has only just begun". With these lines, Bastille adapt the Icarus myth to a more contemporary setting, creating associations with tragedy and the carelessness of wasted youth.

In the song "Fun" by Coldplay, the singer likens himself to Icarus and confesses, "I know it's over before she says/ Now someone else has taken your place/ I know it's over, Icarus says to the sun". The Icarus myth is reframed by Coldplay as a tragic love story between a young person and the sun.

Hozier's song "Sunlight" describes how he is ready to die (metaphorically) in order to be with the person he views as his sunlight. While Hozier's main concern in "I, Carrion" is his lover's support, even in the face of death. The narrator's deep yearning for their lover's companionship leads them to embrace death willingly. Just as Icarus dismissed Daedalus' warning about flying too high, Hozier shows a similar disregard, blinded by love, prioritizing his over to the point of placing them over his own life.