Competition: Song of the Sea

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Song of the Sea

Prompt: Create a playlist of at least 5 songs that, if they existed in the Star Wars universe, your character would listen to or have playing in their head while they are fighting gods and monsters OR exploring the great glacial wilderness OR experiencing icy fear. You may also address any of these instances from an Out of Character standpoint and make a playlist of songs that would match the character for writing during any of the three above instances.

The songs you pick should have some kind of meaning to your character, and touch on their Personality, Combat, or General Aspects that would be found on a Character Sheet or Wikipedia article. You can be as detailed or simple as you want. You can simply list the songs your character would have on this playlist, or you can go into more detail and tell me more about why you think the songs are fitting to them.

Use the Template provided below to meet or manually match the following requirements:

  • Link to the Character Sheet/Wiki.
  • Contain a minimum of 5 songs.
  • Submitted as either PDF/Word Document, or using the Text/Markdown field in the competition.
  • Specify which of the three "themes" you are using.

Template:

**[Character Name]**(Link To Character Sheet/Wiki)

(Optional) [Youtube Playlist](Link-to-youtube-playlist)

1. [*Song*](link to Youtube/Media)* - **Artist** -- Optional Text/Explanation
2. [*Song*](link to Youtube/Media)* - **Artist** -- Optional Text/Explanation
3. [*Song*](link to Youtube/Media)* - **Artist** -- Optional Text/Explanation
4. [*Song*](link to Youtube/Media)* - **Artist** -- Optional Text/Explanation
5. [*Song*](link to Youtube/Media)* - **Artist** -- Optional Text/Explanation

Grading:

  • Judges will analyze the relevance of the songs to your Character’s Aspects (Combat, Personality, or even just in General) and how well the playlist paints an overall picture of your character.
  • While a Character Sheet is not required to participate, you will need an approved Character Sheet to place. This is to have some basis for grading, with apologies to all the wonderful characters we know and love from writing/RPs that don't have CSs yet.
  • Level of detail used to explain song choices that have been selected.

All participants will earn points for participation in the comp. Top three placements will earn additional points towards the overall competition. Points earned will be as follows:

  • 1st place will receive 3 points
  • 2nd place will receive 2 points
  • 3rd place will receive 1 point
  • Participation will earn 1 point
Competition Information
Parent Competition
Blood on the Ice
Organized by
Master Ruka Tenbriss Ya-ir, Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra
Running time
2022-01-10 until 2022-02-13 (about 1 month)
Target Unit
Clan Arcona
Competition Type
Other
Awards
Third Level Crescents
Participants
25 subscribers, of which 22 have participated.
Results
Member
Exarch Marick Tyris Arconae
File submission
Zig Playlist Entry.pdf
Textual submission

Attached as a PDF with hyperlinks! ^_^

Placement
1st place
Member
Envoy Zuza Lottson
File submission
Cole's Battle Playlist.pdf
Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Vahrosa De
Member
Vahrosa De
File submission
DJB playlist thing.pdf
Textual submission

Vahrosa De, https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/15002
I like to imagine him in some glacial wilderness, looking for artifacts, and he has his headphones on to keep him occupied.

1. I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nrEaHinGmY - Glass Animals -- Vahrosa is at his peak performance when he's not taking himself seriously, and his choices in music reflect this. By listening to music with a clear beat it helps keep him focused. The song is also silly at a face level, but under the thin veneer, the songs lyrics reflect how Vahrosa avoids thinking about his past entirely, pretending it never existed while performing this playboy, casual persona.

2. My Hallelujah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEBv0-8lJ2g - Autoheart -- Frankly, its just good music. But then, Vahrosa hears the lyrics "I don't know what you're hunting, its me its something else, and I cannot deny that I am hurting." and he can't help but relate. I imagine him alone, on the glacial ice, sorting through antiquities he's found and getting sidetracked by the fact that this song HURTS him. He will never be someone elses Hallelujah. He's not the waiting kind.

3. Smalltown Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjbosSgeHk8 -Orville Peck -- I imagine him traveling on the ice, earpods in to get rid of the noise of the engines. The cold hurts, but he lets it hurt him. There are moments in Vahrosas life where he can't keep pretending he's not a deeply wounded person, and this song really digs into the problems. "The answers you seek will never be found at home. The love that you need will never be found at home." Despite all his wealth, and power, and items he can accumulate, sometimes Vahrosa is still just a runaway boy.

4.Frozen Pines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_WCN3PdZk -Lord Huron -- Sometimes a song just makes sense for a winter exploration. There's a warmth despite the cold theme, and Vahrosa likes to have appropriate music. All of Vahrosas music is him pretending he's not a deeply sad person, really. The song also makes him think of the night that he had to leave home and never look back.

5. It's All So Incredibly Loud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx0YftuyDU - Glass Animals --This is the song for when Vahrosa is overwhelmed and can't take any single thing anymore. This is his song for when things are falling apart and he can't control it anymore. Vahrosa is prone to anxiety attacks if he doesn't have enough stimulation, and so being out in the cold with just him and his thoughts is probably enough to drive him into a panic attack while he settles in for the night before the dawn comes.

Placement
3rd place
Member
Qyreia Arronen
Textual submission

Writing **Qyreia Arronen** in the Selenian arctic

* [Wiki](https://wiki.darkjedibrotherhood.com/view/Qyreia_Arronen) - horribly out of date, and I feel attacked :p
* [Character Sheet](https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/13244?page=2)

1. [*Winterspell*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLqiQWAXQh8)* - **Two Steps From Hell** -- This song has always been a staple of mine for writing cold weather action and movement, and so might be used equally for the *glacial exploration* as with *fighting monsters*. In fighting, the song starts slow and quiet, providing either a "calm before the storm" or (if possible) the point where Q has found an opponent and is quietly working her way into a spot where she can safely ambush the target from. When the music picks up, that's when the action kicks in. From an exploration/survival perspective, it suits more of a frantic movement, such as if the glacier fissures underfoot, or one of the volcanic undercurrents suddenly becomes an *over*current. It's calm and cold at first, snowy, all before natural chaos breaks out.
2. [*Cold*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZeSYsU0Uk)* - **Jorge Mendez** -- This sad-sounding piece provides a good lonely feeling while out *exploring* the vast icy wilderness; even touching on the *icy fear* aspect with its somber tone. It easily picks up the windy, blustery solitude of the frozen wastes in a montage sort of capacity, whether the sky is obscured by snow or clear and shimmering with aurora. As an alternative, it works for writing those sad moments where either Q is injured but separated from combat, or for running across the devastation once again caused by the so-called *gods* and their creatures.
3. [*Battle in the North*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQThgfXT30)* - **Unknown Artist** -- Don't mind the three hour time stamp on this, as the song runs on a loop. This song is something that fits the mental headspace for the less-optimal but more prevalent style of *fighting* for Q: running and gunning. The instances of solitary piano and lighter, airy tones of the melody provide that sweeping mental image of blowing snow, while the tempo and harmony provide the heart-pumping action feeling. Perhaps an instance of Q advancing toward a building to save someone, or a case of running away, trying to stay at least a few paces ahead of the closest caxquette.
4. [*War of the North*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iZ4uiw_3C0)* - **Danheim** -- This band is always good for some heavy-beat music. For me, this is one of those songs for *combatting monsters/"gods"*; when things have gotten into the close, tense, hair-raising moments where the opponents are either staring each other down to search out their next move, or where Q is exploring some dark research station, moving steadily and warily with her gun at the ready and danger around every corner.
5. [*Lullaby*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSfkeTpXYhE)* - **Ulla Pirttijärvi** -- Taking a sharp turn from the other music, this selection was born from a recent personal trip and experience at a museum exhibit that played a Sami lullaby to accompany a craftwork cradle-pack; this is the closest approximation I could find of that tune. In my mind, writing out the various scenes of these fictions, this is the calm moment(s) that are devoid of storms, combat, or fear. These are the times where Q can sit outside her tent, or be walking along, and generally appreciate the auroras or the snowy landscape and find a semblance of peace in where she is and what she's doing.

Placement
4th place
5th place
Sera Kaern
Member
Sera Kaern
File submission
Snowy Songs.pdf
Placement
5th place
Member
Adept Mune Cinteroph
File submission
Song of the Sea.pdf
Placement
6th place
Member
Dr. Aru Law
File submission
Song of the Sea.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Vorran Shadowfeather
Submission
Vorran Shadowfeather opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Krath Adherent Edema R'uh-Kalinor
File submission
Song of the Sea.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Tomora Nay'ek
Textual submission

**[Eilen Ru'tyari](https://wiki.darkjedibrotherhood.com/view/Eilen_Ru%27tyari)**

1. *[Luminescence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRjkL5TEAY)* - **Paradox Interactive**
2. *[White Trees](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_EduzGGuXM)* - **Juhanni**
3. *[Winterbliss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvfF2c1amLY)* - **Cycerin**
4. *[Wavelight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc4lIlboH2M)* - **Creo**
5. *[Soar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3dMBANetk4)* - **Blackhole12**

Eilen likes good trance and synth that makes the fur on her back stand up, especially if she can tie it to a physical experience. These are some that want, standing atop a bright, icy peak, or hurling at breakneck speed through snowy winds.

Placement
No placement
Member
Aedile Tali Sroka
Submission
Aedile Tali Sroka opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Tyga Orn Nilim
File submission
Song Of The Sea.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Luka Zarkot
Textual submission

**[Luka Zarkot]**(https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/15207)

[icy explorations](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPpOEm4bJEQsrJsjK-gRzmBuBQUlMWtK5)

1. [*"we circle through the night, consumed by fire"*](https://youtu.be/xBTxZHfWRNI)* - **Max Richter** -- Luka's first reaction to seeing the icy expanse. Solemn but serene. There's an odd beauty to the place, despite the bitter cold and the dangers ahead.
2. [*Draum*](https://youtu.be/srGOC5LEjxY)* - **Silje Helle** -- Luka heads out with Bico behind them. They don't take things as seriously as one might. Bundled against the cold, there is more exploration than a sense of duty.
3. [*Ice Cavern*](https://youtu.be/XVcCyUg4rt0)* - **Nobuo Uematsu** -- Luka and Bico avoid the caxquettes for the most part. They explore the caverns and dart away just as they're spotted. They toe the line with danger throughout.
4. [*The Crossing*](https://youtu.be/jvMkchZhzzI)* - **Austin Wintory** -- Luka finds a squad that has been destroyed and left in the icy wastes. They start to feel the gravity of the situation.
5. [*Rachel's Song*](https://youtu.be/YnwKeiJflBw)* - **Vangelis** -- Luka is mesmerized by phantoms in the blizzard.
6. [*Path 5*](https://youtu.be/N84hEgk8b1M)* - **Max Richter** -- Caught in the snow, Luka remembers a tune their late wife used to sing. Memories of Tattooine keeps them warm against the biting cold.
7. [*Water Ripples*](https://youtu.be/dwNfWqxAjXE)* - **Enno Aare** -- When Luka wakes and continues their travels, it seems just a bit brighter out.

Placement
No placement
Member
Mex
File submission
Untitled document.pdf
Textual submission

Mex would listen to a lot of dark synth I think...

Placement
No placement
Member
General Ood Bnar
Textual submission

**[Ood Bnar]**(https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/14900)

[Youtube Playlist: Fighting Gods & Monsters](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjGNwzlphQk5sheXcT7XrlOyPUwvahjR4)

1. [*Cantata: Carmina Burana - Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - O Fortuna*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRH5K8yFwI&ab_channel=jj6042a)* - **Unknown author of "Carmina Burana" (13th century) & Carl Orff (1895-1982)** -- gotta start with something like an "O Fortuna" for this one
2. [*Peer Gynt Suite n°1 - Åses Død*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7kbmxJsfI&ab_channel=SeattleSymphony)* - **Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)** -- While technically meant to be mourning, it is also a good sound to depict a grim, lifeless landscape or setting
3. [*Peer Gynt Suite n°1 - I Dovregubbens Hall*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nMUr8Rt2AI&list=PLjGNwzlphQk5sheXcT7XrlOyPUwvahjR4&index=1&ab_channel=SeattleSymphony)* - **Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)** -- Starts slowly (sneaking around) then suddenly bam (you've been found out, time for fast action bits)
4. [*Suite from Romeo and Juliet - Death of Tybalt*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usTPo1NVzA&ab_channel=SergeiProkofiev-Topic)* - **Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891-1953)** -- the fight
5. [*Symphony n°9 in E Minor: From the New World - 4th Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jOPAGJq-M&ab_channel=SoundtrackSuites)* - **Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904)** -- ending of fight & finale

Placement
No placement
Member
Archian
File submission
Siren Song.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Proconsul Diyrian "Diy" Grivna
Textual submission

**[Kobign Settgré]**(https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/9393)

This playlist is ooc only. It's what I'd listen to to write Kobign faced between a choice of his morals or orders as his fellow Collective agent moves to farther cripple the power grid.

1. [*Force*](https://youtu.be/8J20dQsSl8s)* - **Joseph Powell, Henry Parsley, Zeeko & Matthew Bento** — powerful emotional piece, envokes the feeling of needing to battle for redemption, to do what's right. The rolling tension in the music that fits that of intense battle.
2. [*Hero*](https://youtu.be/mQ65x5FtP5E)* - **Mountains vs Machines** — ooc this gives me not the vibe for renown and fame the song originally intends but Kobign knowing now is the time to act, to stop being on the side lane scared of death. He needs to act against his fellow agents for Good.
3. [*Evidence*](https://youtu.be/LhnD8Klz_8I)* - **Falling Up** — ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ can't at all be the constant burying of evidence he does. Trying to evade being found a traitor from both groups and this song when combined with some Fate: Winx scenes is literally what I imagine for Kobign murdering his collective agent to stop him. (Said [music video](https://youtu.be/j52vwVl2ST0))
4. [*Out of Breath*](https://youtu.be/F690S3CGFzc)* - **Really Slow Motion & Giant Apes** — an epic dramatic piece thats just stellar for intense emotional fights. The art in that vid just also gives the fighting against hands tied feel.
5. [*Avalanche*](https://youtu.be/c_wWXRCmA4M)* - **James Arthur** — something about burying your character in an avalanche and writing their Space Coyote daddy finding them.

Placement
No placement
Member
Reaper Ryuu Suoh
Submission
Reaper Ryuu Suoh opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Battlemaster Karran Val'teo
Textual submission

**[Karran Val'teo]**(darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/15737)
Fighting gods and monsters

[Songs of the Sea](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyGuAH-Ht7a_YhjeoQWaDHRp-Wb_BgTt2)

1. [*My Mother Told Me*](https://youtu.be/uGbyf-w3leE)* - **Performed By Peyton Parrish**
2. [*Wolf Totem*](https://youtu.be/SKvua0qKipE)* - **The Hu Ft. Jacoby Shaddix**
3. [*Freight Train*](https://youtu.be/BwOslwhcrlI)* - **Alan Jackson**
4. [*Popular Monster*](https://youtu.be/jakpo7tj7Qw)* - **Falling In Reverse**
5. [*Invincible*](https://youtu.be/8EKw2_JYSTM)* - **Daddyphatsnaps**
6. [*Legend*](https://youtu.be/x5JLTKLg1SY)* - **Daddyphatsnaps**
7. [*Unbreakable*](https://youtu.be/l7gwyXXDS1w)* - **Daddyphatsnaps**
8. [*Valhalla Calling*](https://youtu.be/PLO7P9pfXCw)* - **Jonathan Young**
9. [*Drengr of Ragnarok*](https://youtu.be/bgjtsolBxRA)* - **Peyton Parrish Ft. Jonathan Young**
10. [*Indestructible*](https://youtu.be/aWxBrI0g1kE)* - **Disturbed**

Placement
No placement
Member
Ranger Kant Lavar
Textual submission

**Kharoc Garrlan** [[Wiki](https://wiki.darkjedibrotherhood.com/view/Kharoc_Garrlan) | [Character Sheet](https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/15642)]

[Youtube Playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyNt0JYYCG1KN9Fg4YUWOIAdWoHK1yLdS)

Note: Artists noted with "arr." indicate credit for the arrangement of others' music. This does not apply to cover versions of songs.

1. [*Aliens Colonial Marines Theme Combat Drop*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzQJ9ZquTNk) - **Kevin Riepl** -- Military gear-up/preparation sequence, followed by orbit-to-surface insertion
2. [*Klendathu Drop - Starship Troopers Soundtrack*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk) - **Basil Poledouris** -- Rapid deployment and opposed landing/ground battle atmosphere
3. [*Patton: Attack*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZKnRTIA58) - **Jerry Goldsmith** -- Rapid military advance into enemy territory
4. [*Pacific Rim - Epic Orchestral Cover*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvrR2Lbfl_s) - **parademics** -- Optional Text/Explanation
5. [*Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Battle In The Mutara Nebula*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhZW7xssl8) - **James Horner** -- Preparation for battle followed by stealthy maneuvering/rapid attack
6. [*Iron Man 3 - Main Theme*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYKec-R8Nxw) - **Bryan Tyler** -- Optional Text/Explanation
7. [*Star Wars - Epic Battle Mix*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwzYDyx2ro) - **arr. Shadic Advent** -- Generic Star Wars battle sequences
8. [*Star Wars - Imperial Navy Suite*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z56uEsUuUzo) - **arr. The Last Sith** -- Imperial-themed battle music
9. [*1 Hour Epic Star Wars Music Mix | Battle of The Heroes X Duel of The Fates*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2fIGOvXVa4) - **Samuel Kim** -- Fighting alongside and/or against Force users
10. [*Star Wars: The Force Theme (Luke Skywalker Theme) | EPIC MANDALORIAN VERSION*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7VSNT5lIc) - **Samuel Kim** -- "Holy shit look at what that Force user did"
11. [*The Mandalorian Main Theme (Gingertail Cover)*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63TQKWokqeU) - **Alina Gingertail** -- Generic movement while in combat gear, not active combat
12. [*Battlestar Galactica | Epic Background Theme*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu4pz3XtK4) - **arr. Odenrider Studio** -- General background music

Placement
No placement
Member
General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos
Submission
General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Avery Watson
Textual submission

**[Avery Watson](https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/character_sheets/15740)**

1. [*Paralyzed*](https://youtu.be/cYhJfAnoNlU)* - **NF** -- Avery’s navigation through his ‘mid-life’ crisis has often left him feeling like he doesn’t know himself and that he is stuck. Before this event he’s been on the hunt to find a purpose and part of that has been becoming a Mandalorian. Key Verse: “Where is the real me?”
2. [*Guidance*](https://youtu.be/QB2Nsj6jXHs)* - **Jacob Lee** -- Avery does not subscribe to any religious ideology and would definitely consider himself an atheist and that most things can be explained through natural means via science. This song displays the conflicting existential nature of pondering if God is real. Key Verse: “I spoke to God even though I don’t know if He’s real.”
3. [*R-Evolve*](https://youtu.be/4OgjqvYgDic)* - **Thirty Seconds to Mars** -- There is a permanence to Avery’s decision to become a Mandalorian so he must adapt to the changes that come with that. Key Verse: “The policy is set and we are never turning back.”
4. [*Hero*](https://youtu.be/7yeksMKVOno)* - **Skillet** -- Avery, by nature, tries his best to uphold positive values by standing for what’s right and protecting those who can’t protect themselves as well as working closely with friends toward a greater good. Of course there’s a disconnect between who he would like to be and who he really is. Even stepping into his Mandalorian armor, there’s still a sense inside of him that he’s vulnerable and maybe not the hero he wants to be. Key verse: “I am just a man, not superhuman.”
5. [*Talk Heavy*](https://youtu.be/dZpPPa9Vr-M)* - **Unlike Pluto, Mike Taylor** -- Having worked for a lot of what he’s earned, Avery always prefers to show his work than to talk about it. If someone wants to talk down about his work, it gives him more motivation to prove them wrong by doing. Key Verse: “Stay ready and you ain’t gotta get ready while people talkin’.”

Placement
No placement