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let's head back to 12:25. please forgive us while we flounder at describing music in basically any scholarly way whatsoever. the melody here is a somewhat dissonant, repeating, exposed one of roughly six notes. it plays with a little more instrumentation on its second repeat. you hear a couple different variants on it, it fades out, "frenemy" jumpscare is accompanied by a repeat of the first four notes of that melody instead.

we say usually six notes because, well, as you've heard, the first four are the part of the leitmotif that usually gets quoted. the full one doesn't always appear, except for when it does, and later in the video there's scoring that does the sort of hovering-finger-in-front-of-your-face-"i'm-not-touching-you!" thing with the motif where it's a little too similar for us to shrug off but a little too different for us to not think we might be overanalyzing. swagever

anyway, that's the decem leitmotif! who or what exactly decem is happens to be a whole other can of worms that we have too much schoolwork to properly explain at the current moment -- but all you should need to know going into this series is, again, this legundo is super ultra turbo haunted. by some advanced eldritch nonsense that sneaks into the soundtrack sometimes.