#i can see this be a pale gamkar song anon thank u for showing it to me

[ceabu]

Okay, I'm a little too busy to type up a full analysis of "It's Alright", but I had this analysis here already typed up from a while ago, so here you are:

Okay so an animatic by BunnyTriesToAnimate YT got me listening to Gang of Youth’s “Achilles, Come Down” and thinking about all the Gamzee vibes it holds, so here is my half-rambling half-organized essay:

Why “Achilles, Come Down” has Soft Pale Gamkar Vibes:

You’re scaring us / And all of us / Some of us love you / Achilles, it’s not much but there’s proof

Gamzee terrifies everyone with the violence and general instability; not everyone loves him after his actions but Karkat still chooses to calm him rather than kill him

The lines “You crazy assed cosmonaut” and “The self is not so weightless / Nor whole and unbroken” are giving me strong Sopored Gamzee vibes

Hurt and grieve but don’t suffer alone / Engage with the pain as a motive

Gamzee grieving Tavros + Gamzee’s Abandonment Issues (“don’t suffer alone”)

Tonight of all nights / See how the most dangerous thing is to love / How you will heal and rise above

“The most dangerous thing is to love” giving me huge “Gamzee putting stock in people who abandon him (Goatdad) or don’t reciprocate (Tavros, initially)” vibes, AKA Gamzee’s Abandonment Issues; but that’s not to say Gamzee can’t rise above that hurt and get better.

And then the voice encouraging Achillies to jump can be likened to the voices Gamzee was hearing in withdrawal, with lines like “No audience could ever love you // You crave the applause” being so poignantly GAI.

And then lines like “your act is a ruse” or “Don’t listen to what you’ve consumed” have a sort of double meaning that applies to both Sopored and Withdrawal Gamzee; the sedated state he’s in when on the sopor isn’t really him, but neither is the murderous and unstable subjugglator struggling through withdrawal and a litany of other issues; Gamzee needs to stop poisoning himself on sopor and letting it cloud his mind, but he also needs to not listen to the voices telling him to murderize and subjugglate. And then “Just put down the bottle” also has a sort of double meaning to it—put down the sopor, put down the club.

“It’s chaos, confusion / And wholly unworthy / Of feeding and wholly untrue” being in reference to the voices and withdrawal and ICP video.

And then the next few verses, about not seeing any meaning in life, but one should grasp onto one anyway, because it’s more courageous to fight through and overcome , all ring of certain key aspects of Gamzee’s story—using sopor (and repression in general) to deal with the shitty situation with Goatdad, only for that to turn into an addiction and rot his pan into “conjecture and gloom”; being calmed down by Karkat being the “bells [ringing] deep in the soul.”

And then “Throw yourself… a triumph” just reeks of Gamzee daring to be more than his blood, more than the murderous rage that killed Equius and Nepeta, more than the pan-addled sopor addict who was too sedated/high to actually process what was happening around him.

Now, at this point, after a full 450 words of analysis, you might be wondering how, exactly, this is strictly related to Gamkar. Though this whole analysis is subjective, the major theme of the song is Achilles being talked down from the edge—which reeks of moirallegiance. Hence, Pale Gamkar. I end this overwrought analysis with this:

What vibes do you get from this song?

okay first of all.......that animatic really hurt lol like i actually felt really down after that ( can u guess the fucking reason aodishoasdgh )

but oh man u really had this laying around huh

i cant really add anything lmao other than yes i agree 100% with this

ur half-rambling half-organized essay was beautifully worded and if i were the teacher i would give u A+ ( u give letters as grades in america right?? asdohasd ) WITH SHINY STARS ALL AROUND

thank u for sharing this with me anon ( u 3 u ) mwah

#ceabu's asks #i do know bunny lol in a way #she follows me and i often check out her twitter cuz i like her art #but oof........this one animatic hurt a lot for me lmao #:'( #bUT YEAH #i can see this be a pale gamkar song anon thank u for showing it to me #i love reading ppls analisys on stuff im interested in #but when u turn around n ask my opinion lmao this is where i pull the breaks saoifhasg #cuz i am in no way good with words im sorry #but i will listen to the song again tomorrow ( its 2am here ) #and try to ''feel'' the song more uwu