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The Umbral Arrow- character playlist for Canelo de Riva

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Track Listing:

"TRIALS-reimagine"- STARSET

"R.I.P. 2 My Youth"- The Neighbourhood

"Bowspirit"- Balmorhea

"Fancy"- Orville Peck

"Whore"- In This Moment

"I Dreamed a Dream"- Chase Holfelder

"Save Me"- Avenged Sevenfold

"Make a Shadow"- Meg Myers

"Take Aim"- Sleep Token

"How to Disappear Completely"- Ane Brun

"Lifetime" Three Days Grace"

"Train Wreck" James Arthur

"Stars"- Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

"Sympathy"- Too Close to Touch

"My Immortal"- Dan Vasc

"I'll Be OK"- NOTHING MORE

"Yellow Flicker Beat"- The Bass Gang, Colm R. McGuinness

"Game of Survival"- Ruelle

"I Wanna Be Yours"- Arctic Monkeys

"Bury Me Face Down"- grandson

"Punching Bag"- Palaye Royale

"Feathers"- A Perfect Circle

"Diving Bell"- STARSET

"Heads Will Roll"- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

"Holding Out for a Hero"- Nothing But Thieves

"What's Up Danger"- Blackway, Black Caviar

"Start a War"- Klergy, Valerie Broussard

"Insomnia"- IAMX

"Everything Ends"- Architects

Good is Not Nice- Sometimes Good is a Grumpy Middle Aged Necromancer

Track Listing:

"We Don't Have to Dance"- Andy Black

"I Can Hold a Grudge Like Nobody's Business"- Adam Jensen

"Graveyard of Empires"- Evans Blue

"Sorry"- Nothing But Thieves

"Eat Your Young- Bekon's Choral Version"- Hozier

"Existential Dread"- NOTHING MORE

"Jaded"- Spritbox

"Will You Love Me When I'm Dead"- Almira Elfeky

"Mummy Dust"- Ghost

"A Grave Mistake"- Ice Nine Kills

"Sign of Life"- Motionless in White

"Dead!"- My Chemical Romance

"Afterlife"- Holding Absence

"Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man After Midnight)- Brian David Gilbert

"We're All Gonna Die"- NOTHING MORE

"The Headless Waltz"- Aurelio Voltaire

"The Foundations of Decay"- My Chemical Romance

"Songs for Ghosts and Lovers"- Whitey

"There's Fear in Letting Go"- I Prevail

"No Light, No Light"- Florence + The Machine

"dark things"- STARSET

"Rain"- Sleep Token

"Paint It Black- Epic Trailer Version"- Hidden Citizens, Rånya

"Black Sheep"- Palaye Royale

"Routines In the Night"- Twenty Pilots

"Spiracle"- Flower Face

"Meet Me on The Equinox"- Death Cab for Cutie

"Oh Death"- Noah Gundersen

"The Apparition"- Sleep Token

"Keep the Streets Empty for Me"- Fever Ray

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Why these choices?

Color: Pink is his favorite color, and that particular pink on the sheet is a great pink.

Flower: Gladioli, or sword lilies, symbolize many things. Among them: strength of character, resilience, and faithfulness. Luca had to be resilient to make it out of childhood a mostly functional individual. Though his father and brothers adore him, if you have seen anything I've posted about Luca's childhood you know that once his magic manifested, it was as though his mother stopped loving him. This was a trauma response to her own awful childhood being a soporati among a family of mages who treated her TERRIBLY. Was her treatment of Luca right? No, but he understands now as an adult. Still didn't make the absolute emotional neglect he felt from her any better, and since his father is a career military man, he was often on assignment. When it comes to strength of character, Luca easily could have joined his former long-term lover, Aulus, when he joined the Venatori. All that power Aulus was promised could have been Luca's as well. And yet...Luca wasn't even tempted a little bit.

Animal: Pride, leadership, strength, and courage are pretty prominent parts of Luca's personality so this is the perfect choice. Plus that majestic blonde mane speaks for itself.

Scent: Ozone- He's an electromancer, constantly rocking a static charge. As though I could pick any other scent for him.

Song: (Link) I dunno, this song to me always felt kind of like how ADHD can feel sometimes. And in a setting where Luca wouldn't have a word to explain why his brain feels the way it does and why sometimes he just can't do anything he might feel paralyzed.

Feeling: Again, his brain never stops. It feels like a cacophony of sounds, too many tabs open, too much all the time. He's figured out coping strategies by now, but it's always there. I like to think it's why storm magic was what his magic manifested as. Brain static building and building until it can't contain it anymore and then...ZAP! A nice outburst AKA bolt of lightning.