I don't still have a sp*tify account (I deleted that account a few years ago) to share it neatly, but I know a few of you go feral for character playlists, and I dug out my notes about the one I had made for Eleison/Brontes because I've been working on them again, if anyone is interested:
I'm alive, but I'm dead
Hear my voice up in your head
Watch it fill you full of dread 'til you go
Is it really a surprise if I'm playing with your mind?
In control
That's how I like it and I'm never letting go
Never had a soul
So you ain't taking nothing from me when you go
[look, let’s be very clear: the story of Eleison and Brontes is about unrepentant villain-fucking with a side of hurt/comfort]
Shadow Preachers - Zella Day
You make we wanna love, hate, cry, take, every part of you
You make me wanna scream, burn, touch, learn, every part of you
I close my eyes, just close the door
You want a minute, I'll give you more
Maybe I don't want you either
We're both unsettled, nighttime creatures
[They challenge and frustrate the hell out of each other but they also just want all of each other]
Surrender - Digital Daggers
Sweet despair feel you devour me
Silently, oh won't you carry me
Home
Taken down I give into what I can't disguise
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down, I give into what I can not have
I surrender, I surrender
[You’d think this is just from the perspective of the Innocent Assassin Librarian being ravished by the threatening Dread Master, but they are both terrified of the other in their own way]
She got blood cold as ice
And a heart made of stone
But she keeps me alive
She's the beast down on my bones
She gets everything she wants
When she gets me alone
[Eleison: I can fix her; Brontes: I can make her Worse]
First Defeat - Noah Gunderson
You've got a lot of nerve
Half naked in my bed, you said
This will be the last time
[I’ll bet every time Brontes ends up in Eleison’s bed she says it’ll be the last time]
All the Thing She Said - t.A.T.u.
And I'm all mixed up, feeling cornered and rushed
They say it's my fault but I want her so much
Want to fly her away where the sun and rain
Come in over my face, wash away all the shame
When they stop and stare, don't worry me
'Cause I'm feeling for her what she's feeling for me
I can try to pretend, I can try to forget
But it's driving me mad, going out of my head
[Look, I hate how much I love this song to explain what Eleison feels for Brontes, leave me alone, I was a wee baby lesbiab in the early 2000s]
Poison & Wine - The Civil Wars
You only know what I want you to
I know everything you don't want me to
Oh your mouth is poison, your mouth is wine
You think your dreams are the same as mine
Oh I don't love you but I always will
[This one just hit me for them tbh]
I can't help but be wrong in the dark
'Cause I'm overcome in this war of hearts
[I’m waffling, but pretty sure this is Brontes being a poetic little bitch who wants to act like she’s above having Feelings]
Let Go For Tonight - Foxes
I wanna drive, I wanna drive into the open
Looking for reasons I can't find
So I call your name, the only thing I know
Is I need you here
Will you be gone forever
All that I know, all that I know
Is we're here tonight
[some themes of abandonment here, lads]
Dark in My Imagination - of Verona
There's something in your touch when we kiss
I scream god forgive me please
Because I want you on your knees
But I don't wanna think about it now
I know I won't get out if I fall in
[Eleison getting used to the idea of actually being with Brontes, getting comfortable with wanting her, but not really able to think too hard about it]
We fight every night for something
When the sun sets, we're both the same
Half in the shadows
Half burned in flames
We can't look back for nothin'
Take what you need, say your goodbyes
I gave you everything
And it's a beautiful crime
[oh, but they didn’t say goodbye]
Shake the fear of feeling lost
Always me that pays the cost
I should never trust so easily
You lied to me
Lie-lied to me
Then left with my heart 'round your chest
Take all the money you want from me
Hope you become what you want to be
Show me how little you care
You dream of glitter and gold
My heart's already been sold
Show you how little I care
[there’s a point where their relationship is very much not healthy - not enough communication, not enough trust, as Brontes and the other Masters lose themselves in the Phobis devices with their single-minded desire to go to war after the Emperor’s failure]
Leave the Door Wide Open - Black English
Don't worry if it's a cold night
Cause we all go up in in flames
We fall heavy but we're, we're so light
So leave the door wide open
And now she's tearing out her mind
You watch her do this every time
But you still wonder how she is
That convoluted happiness
[Eleison might be a little upset at losing Brontes without explanation when the Masters leave, and finding out that they were captured by the Republic and imprisoned is pretty sucky. Then Eleison misses the chance to be the one to free them on Belsavis. Then the Masters find out that the Emperor is, well, you know… the Emperor. And they lose Styrak and become madder and madder, retreating to Oricon intent on self-destruction and bringing the galaxy down with them.]
Start A War - Klergy, Valerie Broussard
So you wanna start a war
In the age of icons
So you wanna be immortal
With a loaded gun
So you wanna start a war
My God, my God
If history is dead and gone
Then how did we get here
[Brontes et al want to start a Dread War, already down one Master? You wanna start a war? Start it. I’ll finish it.]
Dark Side – Bishop Briggs
Oh, I drain your life
'Til there's nothing left but your blood shot eyes
Oh, I take my time
'Til I show you how I feel inside
[Eleison gets Dreadseeded]
Devils Don’t Fly - Natalia Kills
And when I'm gone, remember you're the one
And just because I fight don't mean that I never learned how to love
You know devils don't fly
So don't expect me not to fall
Devils don't fly
But God we almost had it all
But I got chains and you got wings
You know that life ain't fair sometimes
[It hurt itself in its confusion thinking about this song and the Fortress fight and the fact that RedBull Dread Alchemy gives you wiiiiiiings]
Black Sea - Natasha Blume
You rise, I fall
I stand, you crawl
You twist, I turn
Who's the first to burn?
You sit and stay
I don't obey
[Fortress Fight - join or die, Brontes sees no other options but for them to destroy each other]
How can you stand to watch
While I’m breaking all my bones
Tryna hold you close
Cut my heart right out my body
Tearing off my skin
Just to let you in
Isn’t it a bit unethical?
Got me on my knees
Have you any mercy
Every time you hurt me, baby?
Tell me have I not given you enough?
If you ever loved me, let me go
[Another one for the Fortress Fight, especially after I also played Eleison as a Consular and all of the lines in that story about the importance or lack of mercy and the fact that Eleison’s name means mercy, but neither of them can afford to be merciful anymore. anyway callback to Dark in My Imagination "god forgive me please because I want you on your knees" you got it but not the way you wanted oops]
Love Will Have Its Sacrifices - Soles
There’s no way for you to fight this
No spell for you to right this
No way for you to hide
From the demon of the light
Love will have its sacrifices
Love will be cruel to who it entices
Love will have its sacrifices
[I’m not certain if they’re doomed, but there is definitely a point where they are certain that it feels that way; and no it has nothing to do with this being the Carmilla theme song, why would you ask]
Cinder and Smoke – Iron & Wine
Cinder and smoke
You'll ask me to pray for rain
With ash in your mouth
You'll ask it to burn again
[in the wreckage of their relationship, there is still love, but that love would burn the galaxy down]