#i'm very glad this is the song that's going to forever be associated with crastle duo in my head now

[kozzax]

So the other day I was listening to music, minding my own business, and ran into a song that reminded me almost immediately of the Crastle duo. Now I need you to hear me out on this one, because it's a bit of a bold claim, but:

Bohemian Rhapsody is a crastle duo song.

"Mama, just killed a man / Put a gun against his head / Pulled the trigger now he's dead" [Bdubs, about the firing squad]

"Look up to the skies and sing" [the jukebox from the day 1 alliance]

"I don't wanna die / I sometimes wish / I'd never been born at all" [Cleo, setting up alliance after alliance to keep them safe]

Proper analysis under the cut because it got longer than I'd wanted it to!

Take a look at the early verses-- specifically at the "mama, just killed a man" verse. Super easy connections here: Bdubs, at the firing squad, killing etho and tango and saying 'ah, yeah, i killed someone. oh. i killed someone'. If I remember correctly, it was the next session that bdubs missed, so even the end of that verse-- "if i'm not back again this time tomorrow" can be interpreted in really interesting ways if you contextualize it as a conversation between him and Cleo.

The verse after it, too, can very easily be read as Cleo in the moments where Bdubs is gone. "Goodbye everybody / I've got to go" as she declares war on the Red Army for good, leading into her deal with Scar and the Widow's Alliance being set up as defensive measures.

Perhaps instead you'd think of the call and response "will not let you go / let me go!" portion. The back and forth of it reads the same as Cleo's final stand against Ren; as she chases him down in one final attack against him, with the repetition of 'no' at the end being the moment Cleo falls. Immediately after, swapping over to "mama mia! Mamma mia!" etc, as Bdubs and Tango race up into the crastle and Bdubs comes to the realization that Cleo is gone.

What about the lines right afterwards? "So you think you can love me and leave me to die? / Oh baby / Can't do this to me baby" featuring Cleo's grave, before Bdubs goes in on the attack for the rest of session eight. That final guitar section the final battle of Dogwarts, leading up to Bdubs in the Crastle again and looking down on everyone outside.

And the end: "Nothing really matters" as Bdubs pockets a clock and attacks Impulse, the alliance from day one forgotten. The faint "Any way the wind blows" at the end as Cleo's ghost, faint and barely there just as the line is, as Bdubs walks alongside Scar to his doom.

In conclusion: Bohemian Rhapsody is, in fact, a Crastle Duo song.

#3lsmp #team crastle #should i? tag bdubs and cleo? #uhh. probably huh. since this is a post about team crastle #bdoubleo100 #zombiecleo #i have a lot of thoughts about this #i have not stopped thinking about it since two days ago #so what if i dont have the energy to make an animatic #i can make the movie in my head #and then yell about it on tumblr #fun fact even though i have a whole list of songs that gave me mental animatics for third life #none of them were for the crastle duo?? there's one for cleo but #it's very much. focused on cleo not the both of them #every other group has one and joel has one too so it was about time #i'm very glad this is the song that's going to forever be associated with crastle duo in my head now #they deserve it