#my dad is a huge BOC fan so it kinda

[spaceytears]

Just gonna expand on this for a hot little second. The guy who wrote the song, Buck Dharma, Blue Oyster Cult's lead guitarist said in an interview in 1995 that "It's basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners." He was inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but not the whole "drink some poison and stab myself" bit, the "love transcends death and physicality" part. Which, in my opinion, is what a lot of people get wrong about the song. It's not the glorification of suicide, it's embracing the eventual inevitability of death. Especially when you add in the whole "Johnny is the one naming the quests and writing the descriptions after Jackie's death" detail, it just gets better. Robert John Linder is not a sloppy man when it comes to inherent meaning and subtext, and a large, complicated part of him and V becoming friends is understanding him as an artist, and understanding, from his perspective, his hunger to be understood as he intended to write and act. And then he fucking hands you a love song on a silver platter? Not only that, but one that's ultimately meant to be comforting? A "We're all going to die, I'm here for you, we're doing this together?" Absolute perfection.

rogue: johnny's idea of a romantic date is blowing up arasaka's hq

so, Don't Fear The Reaper? the ending that is only available if you have a specific type of relationship with Johnny? the one that you achieve only after V and Johnny bare their souls to each other willingly? say no more cdpr👍