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Admittedly, this didn’t come across very well in the final draft, and part of that is down to the framing and variety I wanted to give it. I was initially going to give Ingo a more frenetic energy as he was trying to complete the pokedex, which lessened as he got to know the Pokemon and people in Hisui– and then picked back up once he realized he was getting distracted.
The second portion would actually correspond to chapter 33, and is fairly self explanatory.
I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map. I knew that somehow, I could find my way back.
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A little dramatic, but it fit the feeling of being stranded and abandoned in a way I really liked. The second portion was also relevant for later… and another piece is relevant to something else that I’m not going to spoil yet.
No particular lines to highlight for this one, though I suppose 3:43-4:10 would fit. It was more the tone of it, and, to be honest, my own personal associations with this version of Ghost.
The word 'highlands’ is purely coincidental. I had this on a character playlist, and it stuck out to me for this project, too. It just has a heaviness to it that I really liked for day to day life with the rift and then the red sky hanging overhead.
It’s just got a weirdness factor to it that I like for the trek across the Highlands, building up to the primary conflict at the Temple of Sinnoh. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can really describe it better than that. Sorry!
Sticking with vanilla on this, both because I think it still fits, and it’s a really nice track imo. I wasn’t initially going to add it here, since that seems redundant, but it felt like leaving a conspicuous empty spot at the story’s climax.
I liked this one for being a little more upbeat without being a happy song; it strikes me as having a sense of 'let’s see this through’ in some parts, which I think works very well as we’re warming up to the final arc. While I don’t think it fits this chapter’s content perfectly, I did realize in hindsight that it plays during a coat-related scene in Ghost Trick, and I subconsciously connected the dots.
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This is probably one of my favorites to apply to this story, because I can see it working from at least two different perspectives. For one, I would put it firmly in this range of chapters just based on who/what we’re dealing with. For the second (which is the POV that the second stanza would also be relevant to) I would also add 33 to that range. I feel like one POV is obvious, but the other might be a little more out in the weeds.
This one was baked in from the early chapters. I knew the call on the mountaintop was going to happen basically from the beginning, and felt like this encompassed the range of emotions really well. Maybe it doesn’t match up perfectly with the final product, but it’s still inextricably linked in my mind. xD
It’s also something of a bridge in and of itself, but we’ll save that for later.
Coming soon.
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Coming Soon.