Random Progress Report:
I know that this isn't really time to be talking about the "Play" story. That might not even come out this year. But this opening poem is pretty important. And I wanted to give progress updates to make this seem like I was doing work, okay.
So, in story, Cyras is doing this in a play wherein she's playing a character who is singing this to Empress Owlis, but fun fact! She's also literally singing this to Empress Owlis who is watching the play about her own self. But, funner fact:
So in N:Era, insofar, all the main villains have one thing as a shared trait: Their love for Cyras. Cyras is in severe danger of this unfathomable love of all these villains, from her father Reynard. To Echo who wishes to serve her. Or Kryyk who lives in spite of her. So this is Cyras' anti-love song or "GET THE FUCK AWAY".
The song so far takes two different major inspirations. So, the song takes inspiration from "Fire" by Illium. I didn't even know that the song was called Fire at first, but the image of Fire was super important to how I pictured this part. I just found out about Fire as a song like, three days ago, probably 1/16th. This should be out on 1/18th. (1/19th actually, lol.)
https://youtu.be/VEuk3jnGi58?si=SjdIQrkquFirRsMp
But the next inspiration is Going Under by Evanescence, "Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself."
However, here's the opening lines.
Split Soleus Operatic Faculty OF TRAGEDY
(To be or not to be never was the question.
And who are you to deny my flame when yours ends?
I was in lack of crisis of the faith in myself
I question rescue from heroes who want for theirself.
Who saves the damsel from the savior's evil?
Who drowns by the visions of fallen siblings
(Ophelia, ophelia, ophelia-a-a-a. )
The Ophelia part isn't canonically part of this. This is just something I sing mildly to get the cadence, so I can get back into the song if a different song enters. (Though tbh now I sing to cadence of "No Longer You" in Epic: The Musical. Specifically: "I see your palace, covered in red." Doesn't match perfectly so have to enlengthen the note, so like
To be/or not to be/never was the/question
I see/your palace/ covered in/red.
You can see the opening line was a reference to Hamlet. And the final line in this first stanza is how "Fire" ends with a sorta eerie note of who is being talked to. "The one your gift of prophecy creates". And I wanted to replicate that feel, like, "wait, I know who she's talking about." And so I wanted this first stanza to end with a twist. However, this isn't about who she's talking to, as much as who she's talking about, and this "Ophelia" is everyone being harmed that Cyras' hesitation is preventing her saving. Same as how Hamlet's hesitation is what ended up murdering Polonius and ended up with Ophelia falling in a river. And you can get a sense of vagueness on how direct that is, because no one knows why Ophelia really dies.
One of the keywords here is Fire, as the theme or feeling of burning is very important in this arc, and the background of the novel for official art may even be red or black, like fire and smoke and mirrors.
So a major theme is Cyras's own accountability. The line of "don't want your hand this time" gets turned into "I question rescue . .. who saves the damsel . . . " This relates to the evil of trying to save her, because no one is saving Cyras the Cyras, they're trying to save Cyras the Princess, Cyras the symbolism of Owlis' failure to stop Sumhyr, Cyras the symbol of Kryyk's hatred of women, Cyras the daughter. No one wants to save Cyras for what she wants saved, but only what they can tap from her. So the middle actually references the Watchguard, or: Who watches the watcher?
As the Ethereal King said: The structures and Laws of good people are used by evil people as yokes. Who saves peoples from saviors when those saviors are corrupt.
Anyway, yeah, this is current progress report. Uh, go ahead and give your thoughts. Do you think any lines are janky or mixed up, you think the symbolism makes sense or no.
Don't have any official ending, so, give your thoughts and get a life, scumbag.
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