#asks!!!!!!!

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HI HELLO!!!!!! I’d happy to share, I love talking about these things!!!!! It might get a bit rant-y but I promise I’m just trying to cover all bases :]

Some context: my dad grew up with cats, specifically the 1983 broadway album, which means that while he’s never seen the 1998 movie, he has seen the show live 2-3 times, (my family is pretty musical-my grandma saw the og show with Betty Buckley, and I’ve never been more jealous of anybody in my entire life).

So: we were talking about stuff and nonsense and I explained the newsies vs cats poll. Obviously he knew a bit about both shows, as I’d recently been in newsies and made him watch the Broadway version.

He of course immediately started talking about how many criticisms you could do of each show. It quickly devolved into him bitching about Skimbleshanks and Santa Fe, because he hates both of them in equal measure, (although Santa Fe may take the cake. He despises the entire plot line).

I brought up the criticism that many musical fans seem to have about cats: “it’s not about anything” or “it doesn’t have a theme/plot.”

“That’s just blatantly not true, munkustrap, (I called him gray cat guy in the conversion), explains the plot in the third song. You know, jellicles go to the jellicle layer, blah blah blah.”

“Well, sure,” said he, “but what’s the show really about then?”

“Uhhhhh,” I said, it being like 11 o clock at night, “it’s mostly about second chances and forgiveness, right?”

To which he said, no. Cats is about pride. More specifically, ego death.

All of the cats are prideful. The Rum Tum Tugger, obviously, but also the Gumbie cat, the old theater cat was the best there’s ever been, as featherfore-whatever his name was. You know, even the stupid train cat. They’re all walking around talking about how great they are, or were, except Grizabella.

She just says “hey, I’m here, I’m done, I’m down and out, and I’ve got nothing and no one. I’m just here. Times were great, but without the memory, I have nothing”

hi hello!!!! Sorry I didn’t answer this for a week, I got sick and then got depressed. It seems to have left for a minute so here we go!!! :D

I’m not real knowledgeable when it comes to specific non-replicas, I haven’t seen Warsaw yet, I know that’s one of the main ones, and a lot of the cool looking ones don’t have boots or any sort of recordings 💔💔💔

But, one of the non-reps that’s never going to leave me alone is Thunerseespiele 2017. Not only is it a German production, using the Vienna translation which is my favorite, but the costumes are SO gorgeous. The wigs make them look like raggedy Ann dolls, and I’ll never get over it.

I refuse to believe that there’s NO recording of the show, because they have plenty of high quality clips for a trailer, and it just doesn’t seem right that someone would make something this cool and then just. Not record it.

Victoria is a standout costume. She looks so gorgeous, I’m so unbelievably jealous that I don’t look like this. Honorable mentions to Thunerseespiele Bombalurina, Grizabella, and Sillabub

wheeeeee yippee!!!! hi hello!!!

1. Prehensile Tailed Porcupines

LOOK AT THEM AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2. Whale Shark

Majestic. 10/10. Like if the galaxy was a whale. Shark.

2. Jackrabbits/Hares

They know everything I wish I knew. They know where the rivers run. They know when the stones fall. I also wrote a story about Jackrabbits that I’m really proud of :)

3. Cats. I tried to look up pictures but there were too many perfect ones. So og Bluebelle from Munich <3

4. Evil birds (crow, blue heron)

Crow because they’re smart, funny, and fun for drawing. Heron because it haunts me. Fell asleep during a practice test, and jumped awake because it appeared in a flash. I’m still afraid I’ll see it in my sleeps

5. GOLDEN TIGER

*answers sheepishly two(2) months later*

babes i am SO sorry :{ i don’t check my asks very often and when i do they sometimes just. wont register. ahem anyhow !!! i’ve been thinking about bluebelle a lot lately so hooray! this is probably way past relevancy, but better late than never :)

2. What sort of music do they like? different genres or bands? favorite song?

Bluebelle likes comforting, nature-adjacent music, think Aurora Asknes, Yaelokre, maybe Liana Flores, rather than more personalized, experience based music. She would like weird ambient playlists on youtube with 1.5k views, with weird synth and the works.

for favorite song, i’m going to pivot in the other direction, and say Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 🧚 🍭🩰, because i associate it so much with her, and it’s a classic <3

4. How crafty/resourceful are they?

very! it’s sort of in a DIY way, as there was no one really to teach her sewing techniques, or similar skills. Living mostly alone, (hopefully not for long (motivation PLEASE bless me this summer)), she has to fend for herself, and becomes a bit of a scavenger for the things that she needs, and makes do with what is available to her. she’s a tough gal, even if she doesn’t think so :)

15. How big or small is their family? who did they live with growing up?

This is actually very embarrassing on my part, i have not given much thought to her upbringing and family. i have small inklings that her mother was likely along longer than her father, and that she doesn’t have any siblings. i’ve floated around relations with other’s ocs, but never finalized anything lol.

Not having parents around isn’t some sort of traumatic abandonment or loss for her, (though i’m sure she wishes they hadn’t left), but simply the way things go to her. it’s not like her mother hated her, it was just the way that things ended up. Bluebelle floated around as a kit, in different families of cats and humans, before finally settling on being alone.

23. How would you describe her voice? Can they sing?

her voice is lower than you would think from someone with her shy demeanor, with a mix of different, strange vocal affectations from all the cats that she lived with when she was younger. accents waver in and out on certain words, but the most noticeable, especially on specific phrases, are casual english, irish, and welsh.

bluebelle can definitely sing, but not in a ‘singer’ way. no big vibrato or vocal technique, more of a ‘i love music and i am alive :)’

in my head, i’d say she sounds like a slightly lower, slightly nervous jemima. if i ever find a match, i will run screaming with joy to tumblr, i can promise that.

26. how do they move? are they clumsy? light on their feet? do they use mobility aids?

as a result of her tersichorium powers, bluebelle is quite graceful? but not in the sense that she is pirouetting around, more as if she is sort of walking on air. probably clumsy sometimes, who isn’t, but generally, she moves in a smooth, unremarkable way that leaves you very surprised that she is suddenly standing right next to you.

33. how would other characters describe them? those around them?

hi yall!!!! If you have something you wanna see in my style

(cats the musical, cats the musical ocs, fraggle rock if any of you like that, I’ll even try don’t hug me I’m scared)

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY THIS MAKES ME!!!! MY PROPAGANDA IS SPREADING!!!

I’m SO glad you watched and had a good time!!! The fraggles are my favorite little guys in the whole wide universe they’re SO cute

The soft spoken one is Mokey!!!

She’s so cute and I adore how she moves and talks compared to the others.

THE RED HAIRED SCAREDY CAT IS BOOBER I LOVE HIM FOREVER AND EVER!!!!

I NEED TO BE HIM SO BAD, HES JUST LIKE ME FR!!!!!! (Credit to @icetobes for this adorable image (it’s my profile pic for so many things now))

The little green one is WEMBLY 💖💖💖💖

(They’re so so so so so so cute I’m literally gonna throw up the them forever <333333)

He’s just a green little guy!!! He’s very special to me!!! My anxious little dude!!!

Then there’s RED

CHAOS INCARNATE. JACK OF ALL TRADES! Truly just the best girl ever. I love you red

last but not least GOBO!!!!

He’s such a BITCH I love him so much. He’s so sassy his accent is so cute n funny. I love how in seasons 3 and 4 they just give him these silly ass hats. No explanation. He just wears them now

SORRY THIS TOOK A HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS I WANTED IT TO BE PERFECT

Hi hello!!!!! I will very gladly talk about Bluebelle, she’s the love of my life forever :D 💙💙💙💙💙

Important note: I’m a very um dramatic person when it comes to creating oc backstories. I am nothing if not a little bit pretentious, and giving ocs weird and angsty backstories is my passion project, and that’s part of the reason it took so long to collect my thoughts, and come up with something concrete, (or as concrete as possible)

I’ll start with facts about her that I like and then backstory regarding the fabled music box :))

-her design/colors are based off of a stuffed animal I bought in Munich :)

-the songs I most associate with her, (I have a playlist because I wanted one), are probably A Dangerous Thing/Everything Matters by AURORA, The Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker, and I came to your party dressed as a shadow. Adore those songs

-the only jellicles that she has met, (by choice), are Victoria, Misto, Plato, and Demeter. Or rather, Demeter knows of her, but Bluebelle doesn’t know Demeter

-this is mostly bc she’s pretty paranoid about meeting new people, and prefers to stick to her people. It took her a while to warm up to Plato, but eventually she got used to him

-this is also despite Vicci’s best efforts to convince Bluebelle to at the very least meet Jemima

-SPEAKING OF JEMIMA, if you haven’t heard, here’s my little jellicle magic theory: The cat’s magic relates to their eyes, just vaguely. Jemima and Misto each have white eyes, and you may have noticed, Bluebelle has those eyes as well. Because she’s. Blue. And that’s not a typical cat color, I figured I should just run with it. I see Bluebelle’s magic as a combination of Jemima and Victoria! Yes, Victoria is magic to me and that’s not just because she’s lovely and beautiful, but because of the way she uses the music in the show, and the way some productions seem to use her as a metaphor for the Jellicle moon, relating it to her dancing. This is especially true for me when I hc Vicci as deaf, because it implies some sort of magic when her solo syncs with the music. Bluebelle has the same sort of music and dance magic as Victoria, and the same sort of eerie unearthly-ness of Jemima. Basically I combined all my favorite girlies into one and made her <33

Really incoherent n convoluted story under the cut lolllll