#this musical is being written fully by yours truely

[hoperays-song]

Ryan and Johnny’s Written Out Backstory for the Planet of War

They were tasked with fully fleshing out the planet’s story before their proposed changes to their scenes could be made. This is what they came up with. (All of this is based on my continuation fic... and is my poor attempt at advertising before I finally post it so I hope you enjoy).

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The Shadows and the Scarlets have been fighting for so long that the true point of the war has become unknown. When they were young, both Princes, one legitimate, one not, were passed off and kept hidden from the other kingdom or so they thought. In reality, both princes were given to the same royal family to be raised and they grew up together as good friends from the ages of six to ten. 

However, Achlys was called back to his kingdom with the death of his half-sister to be the next in line for the throne and was indoctrinated by his father and mother to hate the Scarlets for her death. He grew to be cold and merciless on the battlefield and forgot all about Fallon. 

Meanwhile, Fallon had never forgotten his old friend who he had begun to like and was brought up as a scholar by the other royal family for years. However, eventually his family did call him back and his uncle made him next in line as all of his children had died. This is when Fallon was first really exposed to the war and while he participated on his family’s behalf, he never truly believed in it and hated the bloodshed for a long-forgotten cause. He also never forgot Achlys and longed for his old life in the Villa of his childhood. 

The king of the Shadows however had learnt of the Royals siding with the Scarlet as well and ordered their execution. At the battle however, Achlys was confronted by Fallon who had come to protect the people who had raised both of them. In a moment of “weakness”, Achlys hesitated to take out Fallon and the Royals which resulted in his father and mother’s army murdering the Royals and kidnapping Fallon. Achlys was rewarded for distracting them and was given his own troops and promoted to his father’s right hand. 

Fallon manages to speak with Achlys before his execution and eventually convinces him to let him go, only because he felt he had failed to save his foster parents, and this would make him even. Months later, when they meet again on the battlefield, Fallon keeps trying to talk to Achlys who insists there’s nothing between them and Fallon’s out of his debt since he saved his life as payment for the Royal’s deaths. Fallon is shown to get angry for the first time and retorts that nothing will ever make them even after what he did to the only people Fallon ever loved. 

This results in the two starting to actually act like enemies as Fallon’s anger over Achlys’s foolishness with the war and hand in his foster family’s deaths changes his perspective on Achlys and the war, becoming motivated with revenge. Achlys, however, takes on Fallon’s old perspective and starts to have doubts about the war after watching how it changed his former friend and how a lot of people were suffering but was still too stubborn to see where his family’s views might be wrong.

After months of this fighting, eventually Achlys and his troops were captured by the Scarlets. Fallon and Achlys manage to talk some under the pretense of interrogations and eventually the two make up to the point Fallon helps Achlys and the surviving soldiers escape. The two continue fighting each other as their world crumbles, all the while starting to fall for each other. 

However, as the obvious decay on their world becomes more and more visible, the war starts heating up. The Shadow family and the Scarlet family don’t want their enemies to survive the inevitable ending and destruction of their world. The war reaches a tipping point, with the head families on either side being slaughtered. 

Meanwhile, the princes start meeting up in secret to spend time together and to plot to stop the bloodshed. At the end, Fallon and Achlys are the highest-ranking royal family members left, knowing the other’s death will result in the conclusion of the war but unwilling to strike down who they love (musical scene). The two eventually admit their feelings for each other and decide to guide their people to safety together, uniting the survivors under one banner as they escape the destruction. 

The two go on to be an amazing power couple and the new kingdom under their rule is prosperous. It is implied that they raise the last of descendants of the Royal line as their own children, therefore having everything come full circle.

***In the fic, they do go on to make this into a TV show :)

[lesbian-in-leather]

Okay so I'm fully aware that this film doesn't deserve the amount of thought that I'm putting into it but. The stepmother's song was heartbreaking like... I'm choosing to pretend my version of Vivian from my previous post is canon so the way the song was musically written as almost a villain song but not quite, combined with the way Idina acted it genuinely hurts and I've already rewatched it several times. And some of the lyrics in particular really stand out to me (so naturally I decide to dissect all of them)

I don't care, this is life

It's not fair, it's not right

Okay first of all we have the fact she she just believes this is how life has to be. She's a woman who has been completely destoryed, and she know it isn't right or fair but she genuinely thinks this is how it has to be, that this is the only was to live

All that hope and that pride

It's a waste, it's a lie

Anyone who thinks the concept of hope is a "waste" and a "lie" is clearly a victim of something like sorry this line hurts me

All you want is to breathe

Little girls should run free

But your corset's too tight

And your heels are too high

She clearly sees so much of herself in Ella and, I mean... look at this. These are the words of a woman who feels so trapped and has just given up and let herself be convinced that this is how the world has to be

The treasure you found? Bury it!

The only way out? Marry it!

That shadow of doubt? Carry it!

Carry it down to your grave, oh...

She feels like she has to hide anything that brings her joy, and that the only way to be safe is to marry. She doesn't even feel safe voicing her true feelings - and she isn't even wholly convinved by this system but she thinks that that means she's wrong. And that she has to carry that doubt to her grave, and just continue with the way things are done. And the really interesting thing is that, at this point in the song she leaves Ella's room. But she doesn't just walk out, no, she runs away with a face full of grief and regret for what she's forcing Ella into

The world doesn't need another dream girl

The world doesn't need another dream girl

She sings the first line alone, looking almost regretful. Like she's convincing herself that what she told Ella was right. And she repeats it into the mirror. She's tearing herself down, burying the doubt deep inside so she can save her daughters (all three of them, but especially Ella, the one who is the most like her) from the pain she felt

You're too dumb, you're too young

Full of heart, so naive

You're so blind, you're so green

You'll give up, just like me

After convincing herself that she's in the right she goes on with her tirade, berrating all of her daughters... by comparing them to herself

The wings are ornamental

They have no intention of letting you fly

First of all, this links back to the corset and the heels being a cage women are forced into, but also, she acknowledges that the temptation and illusion of freedom are right there. But women aren't allowed to try. Which is so obviously about how she was allowed to persue her dream by going to a music school, only to be torn down and insulted by her own husband for doing so. Her use of "they" shows that she isn't the one enforcing these rules - they are being imposed upon her just as much as the girls

Don't be sentimental

During this section, she's holding a butterfly. A green butterfly, so not Ella's magical godmother. Perhaps it would have been her own. But she waves it away after this line, getting rid of the oppurtunity for her life to be changed, because she's been given that chance before and it was a trap

Some legends are born in the wrong time

She knows she could have been great, but she also truely believes that women in this time aren't allowed to be. That neither she, nor Ella, nor any other woman can achieve anything but heartbreak and disappointment in the society that they live in, and that there's nothing to be done but wait. And it echoes so true for so many real women born throughout history and even into the modern day

This treasure you found? (Bury it)

The only way out? (Marry it)

That shadow of doubt? (Carry it)

Carry it down to your gravе

Her daughters join in, and she's clearly been teaching them this from a young age because, despite the sadness and almost fear they show, they don't fight her like Ella does. She truely believes she can never be great, and that she'll have to live with only the broken hope of who she could have been

(Bury it. Marry it. Carry it)

Proving further that this isn't a true villain song, other female character join in. The maids in the palace feel they must bury their individuality. The queen feels she had to marry the king and, in doing so, forfeited her right to an opinion. Gwen feels like she'll have to carry her ambitions to the grave, because she'll never be listened to or even taken seriously by the people with any power

Carry it down to your grave (Bury it)

Your grave (Marry it), your grave (Carry it)

(Bury it) bury it, (Marry it) marry it, (Carry it) carry it

More and more women join in, and Vivian just looks so sad. And the repitition of "grave" shows that she really thinks that this is her life, and that she'll die how she's lived - unfulfilled and ignored

(No, no, no, no ah!)

Bury it! (Bury it!)

Marry it! (Marry it!)

Carry it! (Carry it!)

Bury it! Bury it! Marry it! Marry it! Carry it! Carry it

Carry it down to your grave!

Your grave! Your grave!

This bit gives me chills every time because they all go absolutely feral. Every woman, even Vivian, is just kicking and tearing and screaming because it's so blindingly unfair and there's nothing they can do but they all have the same pent up rage, from the queen to the servants to the women in streets. And if reason won't work then they'll tear the whole goddamn world down. And internally that's what every woman there wants. But they all hold it in because, like Vivian, they've been punished and controlled and stepped on so many times that they've been convinced they're the problem, that everyone else is content with the system so why can't you be?

[Piano Instrumental]

And then finally. Finally Vivian is alone again. And her hair is dishevelled and she looks like she's trying not to cry and she plays the piano so beautifully and so loudly and so wildly that she's like an entirely different person. And then she almost does cry but she shakes her head and smiles a little and I have to applaud Idina's acting because it feels so real. There are no singers, and there's no other music. Just Vivian, and everything she could have been. All the parts of her she's been repressing, finally allowed to be seen for one honest and heartwrenching moment

And it reminds me so much of the final scene in the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler (which happens to be one of my favourites). Where the controlled character of Hedda just lets go and play the piano we've never seen her touch, and she plays wildly and loudly and it's so different to how we've ever seen her before. And her husband tells her to be quiet and she says she'll never make noise again - and then she commits suicide to ensure that she doesn't

The world doesn't need another dream girl

And then this. This line breaks my heart. Because she just sings to herself in the most broken voice, in a quiet, croaked whisper as if she's afraid someone might hear. And it shows how much she's hurting, how much she wishes the world could be different. This song was never directed at Ella. She only sung it to try and save her from the life that Vivian herself lived. Vivian is the dream girl, and that line is always, always directed internally. No one else ever sings it and it's never sung with anyone else on screen. It was always about her, and it was never a villain song

[hoperays-song]

The Planets from Out of This World as Aesthetic Moodboards

The Captain

Planet of War

Planet of Joy

Planet of Love

Planet of Despair

*** These were made on my phone so photo quality sucks, sorry y’all.