1. Fortnight as Leroy and Evline.

Leroy and Evline are two characters that spawned on my mind on January 2024 and refused to leave. They are two brothers that are fated to grew apart and end up in completely different positions, where Leroy has power but no will over it and Evline has no power yet a very loud voice. They are both manipulated into wanting to get rid of the other while they're keeping deep love for the other.

So. Fortnight evokes a lonely Evline after committing a big mistake, ps walking around the places where they grew up and seeing with clearness how they both hurt eachother and how, even though Leroy did something unforgivable to him and he went one step further, he cannot bring himself to hate his brother.  "I love you, it's ruining my life" quite literally applies to the misery that Evline feels in his soul.

2. The Tortured Poets Department as a Kyri Convallaria and Kenna Hart.

These are two ocs from a story called Xeroba, where they both go to encounter death itself (the Tanda Amara) so it can rewrite their lives. Throughout the story they kinda date and they constantly fight and bicker and make fun of the other while holding feelings.

The song is about a long time relationship that never actually get serious and the parts see their bond as some legendary tragic love story, but is nothing but childish love. They both have to grow up and (in this case) one will simply not. So. I imagine them walking through the valleys and cliffs of Xeroba, thinking they're THE modern legends while they're actually looking for death for it to fix their lives. Like idiots.

3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys as Padmé Amidala.

STAR WARS MENTION 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Padmé and Anakin's relationship can make me talk for hours. I don't know what to say to convince you that this song is her's other than "go listen to it".

BUT HEAR ME OUT:

"The voices on (Anakin's) head called the rain to end our days of wild (literally join the dark side, taking the path she cannot follow)". "You should've seen him when he first saw me" as literally the whole Episode II, their plot is that they want to get together and it's a feeling stronger than any norm. "I'm queen of sandcastles he destroys". No comment.

"Cause I knew too much, there was danger on the heath of my touch. He saw forever so he smashed it up". The Revenge Of The Sith. That's it. Padmé going to get him with the help of Obi-Wan is what ultimately leads Anakin to the dark side, as Obi-Wan is literally THE DANGER. Padmé and Anakin HAD FOREVER IN FRONT OF THEM, she was pregnant, they were married. And yet he didn't trust her enough to believe she wanted the best for him.

Note: on the demo version of the song Taylor makes a few small changes to the lyrics and that specific version reminds me of Leroy and his romantic interest Aurembiaix. He doesn't kill her dramatically but she does bolt the moment their relationship gets too real. "Said forever then (she) blew it of" as she literally promises him they will talk about their future the night before she runs away.

4. Down Bad and Eugene from Underworld Office.

I will literally break down some lyrics for this BUT BEFORE. The song uses an alien abduction as metaphor for a brief and magical relationship that ends up abruptly and leaves the narrator in a "fuck you all I still want to be with you" mood. The narrator is Eugene and the alien ship is the office, this takes place on Chapter 4 of UwO.

"Did you really beam me up (...) showed me this world is bigger than us, then sent me back when I came from?" Is an accurate description of how Eugene felt after being denied the entrance to the Underworld. He is even some sort of experiment if you think it enough, as mortals should NOT be constantly separating his body and spirit just for the sake of it. He's is the wrong result.

"For a moment I knew cosmic love" being he getting the recognition he wanted, knowing he's been helpful for a bit. He got what he wanted and then it got away.

"Everything comes at teenage petulance, 'fuck it if I can't have us'. I might just die, it would make no difference". For starters, Eugene's reaction is apathy to the mortal world as he desperately looks for what he did wrong (a very childish attitude tbh, he literally asks Joan to tell him without evaluating himself).  Then, this is the part of the game where he puts himself on danger just for the sake of it, he jumps into action knowing the possible outcome of him dying and his thought process is "well, this is what I have to do to prove myself I am useful".

"Down bad, waking up in blood" (I interpreted this as his nightmares). "Waving at the sky, come back and pick me up" again, he being obsessed with getting back at the office without making the reflection needed for it. "I might just not get up, I might stay down bad". I mean. Didn't he skipped school right after?

"Just to leave me here (...) in a field in my same old town that somehow feels so empty now? They'll say I nuts if I talk about the existence of you". For the first part, there is literally a dialogue on how the same streets look empty after being with the office. Second part, he censoring himself when talking to Luke.

Idk. Listen to the song. It's pretty Eugene core.

5. So Long, London as Charlie in Underworld.

We are in a roll aren't we? Song is about saying goodbye to a long term relationship that had been feeling wrong for a long time now and it's been slowly dying until the end becomes inevitable. On this I will center on the last part of the song (please remember I made this platonic please please please)

"Just how low did you think I'd go 'fore I'd self-implode? 'Fore I'd have to go be free" This always reminds me of River and how she was literally trapped with the office and big part of her containment is sugar-coating the world for Eugene. This line sets the mood for me.

"You swore that you loved me but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof" I get this more as a "you swore to help us yet we kept hurting" and that in itself being the lack of proof. Of course I know Boss was not a complete asshole, still his actions and lies ultimately destroyed his found family via omission.

"You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days". So. In the CiU tmi one of the creators said that Boss didn't knew at the start that he was lying but he did chose to keep lying both to save them the suffering and to save himself the agony of seeing them part. The memory of his darkest days create a path-dependance on how the story plays out.

"And I'm just getting color back into my face. I'm just mad as hell because I loved this place for so long" THIS IS EUGENE. Chapter 6 is him being mad at Boss, taking a stance that makes him indubitably maddest both at Boss and at himself. At the end of the game (Charlie in Underworld ending) he literally gets his spirit back into his body and gets his colours back after spending seventh chapter in black, as if mourning. Which is understandable because he spent from 6 to 10 years with the office and trusting Boss, he gets to mourn whatever he wants to.

Also the last chorus uses the "stitches undone" bit that to me represents a wound reopening after a long time. To Eugene would be the comeback of the mirror nightmare and the crippling shame that accompanies it.

"Two graves one gun, you'll find someone" is again Boss and River. I don't know how to explain it, it's just them.

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