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yamanorakuen · 2 years

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I've been reading your hcs and noticed that we might share some similar taste in music!! If you could, which artists would you recommend to each of the Obey Me characters?

Hi! Thank you leaving me a request. I'll use some of my favorite artists (top 25 or so most listened to artists) here so you can see what kind of artists I usually listen to! I'll also include other artists that I may not listen that much myself but I think fits the vibe.

Lucifer

Fiona Apple

Example lyrics:

I have never been so insulted in all my life

I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride

First you run like a fool just to be at my side

And now you run like a fool but you just run to hide

I can't abide

Others: Doesn't he like, love classical music? He'd probably like classical musicians from the human world too, like Vivaldi, Bach, Debussy or Beethoven. When he's feeling risque, he might switch up to jazz, who knows.

Mammon

Måneskin

Example lyrics

Oh, mamma-mia ma, ma-mamma-mia, ah

They treat me like if I did something criminal

All eyes on me I feel like I'm a superstar

I'm not a freak, I just thought it was a carnival

Others: Mammon likes anything that gets you to dance, whether it's pop, rock, hiphop or something else. He'd like anything that's trending on TikTok. Maybe stuff like Lil Nas X or Willow, but also has a secret soft spot for stuff like Ricky Montgomery, Conan Gray and Harry Styles.

Leviathan

宇宙ネコ子 (Uchū Nekoko)

Example lyrics (translated from Japanese->English)

Living in a manga world

Without any difficulties

Devil lies dormant within my days

You looked into me

Barely laughing at those feelings

Barely showing a smile

Others: Levi would love all j-pop and k-pop. Also Vocaloid and video game music. He'd probably prefer girl bands, like Dreamcatcher, BLACKPINK or TWICE.

Satan

Mitski

Example lyrics:

So if you need to be mean

Be mean to me

I can take it and put it inside of me

If your hands need to break

More than trinkets in your room

You can lean on my arm

As you break my heart

Others: I feel like Satan would have an eclectic music taste. He'd like a lot of different genres, but tends to stick with the same artists for a long time. I can see him vibing to St. Vincent or Bon Iver though, so maybe indie mostly? He'd also love to listen to rock and alternative whenever he's pissed off.

Asmodeus

Taylor Swift

Example lyrics:

What must it be like

To grow up that beautiful?

With your hair falling into place like dominoes

My mind turns your life into folklore

I can't dare to dream about you anymore

Others: Honestly, any pop girlie, especially Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa and Doja Cat. Also femal rappers like Nicki Minaj, Lizzo, Cupcakke (botn ironically and unironically) and Cardi B.

Beelzebub

The Orion Experience

Example lyrics:

Cookie, I wanna be the flicker that sparks your red-hot cinnamon smile

Wild cherry, pixie stix, can I get a little fix?

Once you get me fired up, I don't know when to quit

Others: I feel like he's be down with some rnb and hiphop. Frank Ocean came to my mind first. Would also like some late 90s to 00s rock bands, like The Killers, The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand.

Belphegor

Mother Mother

Example lyrics:

Back in the head where I see red

Where the beast and the beauty coalesce

I give in to a morbid fantasy

Death to a billion families and me

Others: He'd love emo and alternative bands from the 00s and 10s, like My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco. He actually likes Olivia Rodrigo but would never admit that.

Diavolo

Queen

Example lyrics:

Here we stand or here we fall

History won't care at all

Make the bed, light the light

Lady Mercy won't be home tonight

Others: Diavolo would like all music from the human world, but I think the would prefer upbeat songs. Maybe rnb or soul, like Beyoncé, maybe The Weeknd? Janelle Monáe?

Barbatos

Regina Spektor

Example lyrics:

And somewhere on the hill

Inside the past we hear the bells

Catching only parts of thoughts

And fragmens of ourselves

'Til we begin again

Others: Again, isn't it canon that Babratos likes metal music? I'm from Finland so there were and stil are a lot of cool metals bands in here, like Nightwish, Amorphis, Children of Bodom, Sentenced and HIM.

Simeon

Flower Face

Example lyrics:

You laugh like an angel

With comatose love in your eyes

Like a sleeping city

You put me to rest in your gravestone chest

Tell me I've never looked so pretty

Others: I feel like Simeon would like a lot of older music (50s-80s) and indie folk. He's totally love The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and Bee Gees but also Fleet Foxes and Sufjan Stevens.

Solomon

Wolf Alice

Example lyrics:

A moment's madness

Compliments your innocence

I tried all night to initiate

And I only ever try to have fun

I'm only old when I don't feel young

And if you're with me, yeah

You can come, yeah, along

Others: Solomon would like a lot of different music too. He'd also absolutely watch The Eurovision Song Contest every year. I think he'd usually go for rock, pop, psychedelic stuff or punk. I could see him listening to Paramore, Radiohead, Gorillaz and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

Luke

ABBA

Example lyrics:

Chiquitita, tell me the truth

I'm a shoulder you can cry on

Your best friend, I'm the one you must rely on

You were always so sure of yourself

Now I see you've broken a feather

I hope we can patch it up together

Others: Disney sounds tracks! Just generally lighter, chill music. Pop, lo-fi or folk mostly. Also gospel/worship music. Maybe orchestral/instrumental to seem more mature. Also jams to older music with Simeon. Examples: Cavetown, Lord Huron..

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montpahrnah · 7 years

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i know you've given your thoughts a few times re: sirius and remus, but i'd also love to hear what you think of female hawke and isabela. your characterisation of them is incredible, and generally quite a bit more mired in existential angst than other fics i've read. and since i'm in love w/ your music taste, are there any songs you feel would fit them? thank you v much!

thank you for asking because i definitely don’t talk about hawke/isabela enough lately…

tbh it’s the sort of ship i’m almost invariably drawn to, i.e. two characters with a long, fraught history who are both massive fuckups in their own rights, and also one of them is dead. when i first started writing them it struck me how rare that is between female characters–women are rarely allowed that kind of narrative in anything, that connection/obsession/inevitability spanning years and conflict and chaos etc etc complete with personal odysseys that drag them back together again… that’s what i live and breathe for

as a character i think isabela’s writing can be a bit clunky and i’ve seen people say she’s such a trope in canon, which i can agree with in some ways (and certainly understand where people are coming from w/ that), but if i can be cheesy about this for a minute she’s always meant a lot to me and i’m grateful for a female character who is such a sloppy mess sometimes. she doesn’t always want to do the right thing and she’s selfish and loves to lie to everyone including herself and even after she’s done bad things she’s sometimes fairly unrepentant about it. she’s terrible at being nurturing or comforting or–at times–emotionally available. she’s manipulative and sometimes she’d love to get away from herself. like remus she’d rather run away than deal with anything, but unlike remus isabela at least has the courage to come back, put things as right as she can, and then take off again.

some of the things i find most interesting about her are suggested or only mentioned rather than explored outright in canon, and i guess i always found it frustrating that fandom was okay with fluff for these two but didn’t often dig into the richness there that i found so interesting (for the record, i don’t blame anyone for not wanting to engage with some of that, and i think a lot of it is symptomatic of fandom’s wider issues wrt writing female characters, but that’s an entirely different post). isabela was sold into marriage by her own mother; years later she killed her husband. she commanded a ship full of men and she is very painfully aware of what the world is like for women–her first instinct the moment she meets hawke is to be protective. tragedy sort of trails after hawke like a very weighty train and isabela gets dragged along for the ride, which would be exhausting. hawke can be sanctimonious and a bit insufferable and she doesn’t always understand/try hard enough to understand where isabela is coming from, but the same could be said of isabela with hawke. they don’t communicate well, especially before isabela runs off. isabela would much rather get out of dodge than stick around and see things to the end like hawke does.

and then there’s isabela’s whole Love Is Fake thing which turns out to not actually be true haha oops which balloons like a spectacular mushroom cloud into her prolonged freakout, as you do, when she realizes what she’s done, and that she’s fucked up someone else, too. i love that most of that–her best and her worst–doesn’t change after she hooks up with hawke, like there are a few lines i hate (“hawke is my purpose” or however it goes because yeah, no) but isabela doesn’t change. she doesn’t soften and settle down and magically become a perfect partner and communicator and fade into self-sacrificing contentment. and then of course they only get in a bit of good time before hawke takes her martyr complex and gets herself killed.

i like thinking about their relationship in the context of kirkwall’s worsening conflicts, because i don’t think there’s any way to get around how it affected both of them. isabela is an amazing character–she’s cunning and caring and sometimes cowardly, and her heart is (usually) in the right place even if it irritates her a little. the stupidest and bravest thing she ever does is fall in love with hawke even though it comes back to bite her in the ass, and she knows it’ll come back to bite her in the ass. basically it’s never going to be a hallmark original movie for them either, but i wouldn’t want it to be.

the fun thing about thinking of hawke/isabela otp songs is that i can choose from any era–not that it isn’t fun to stick to canonical hp eras, but there’s something deeply freeing about not having to restrict yourself… anyway, here u go bud (recs in this vein encouraged btw!!!):

shelter from the storm – bob dylan (lol)fall in love with me – iggy popi get nervous – lower densdo you need my love – weyes bloodactor out of work – st. vincentworth the tears – sheer magi started something i couldn’t finish – the smithssweet dreams – angel olsengame of pricks – guided by voicesthe whole of the law – yo la tengodirty hands – black lipsshut up kiss me – angel olsenhounds of love – kate bushpeep hole – guided by voicesgloomy sunday – billie holiday (i was only dreaming…)

#female hawke/isabela #music

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