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Hello, I'm going to be splitting this into two parts (Our Shattered Heart, Twisted Bastard, Radio River, and Seas of Static being the first part and the rest being the second part) Hopefully the next three songs don't drastically change my opinions and fully negate anything I say here but who knows.

Okay, first thing I noticed is the lore of this series seems VERY well hidden. The only reason I know most of the characters’ names is because of a comment I found on Seas of Static.

Koharu Rikka is called Fritz and has the cyan color scheme, Genbu is called Tickets and has the orange color scheme, and Tsurumaki Maki is River, who has the blue color theme, (Lopes referred to this character as ‘The River Star’ in the description of Radio River and I am unsure of the significance of this)

Main thing I gathered from the first few songs is that there's some sort of negativity between Fritz and Tickets. In Seas of Static, reading the first bit of colored text says “Tickets, eat your heart out.” Also from listening closely in Our Shattered Hearts, Tickets sings the harmony with the “You”s and “Me/I”s swapped, implying Fritz is singing to him. Also from looking at the lyrics of Twisted Bastard it would seem he’s singing to Fritz “It’s about time orange prevailed over teal” (taking into account their associated colors) as well as the line "If you think I’d trust you after that, you are just a twisted fool" being also written in teal.

There are references in OSH to Tickets going insane and killing people, making me think Radio River is also being sung to Tickets, considering the line directly saying “Since you killed me.” Speaking of the killing, the Puppetmaster character in particular is confusing me at the moment. At first I thought maybe she controlled Tickets to commit the murders but the introduction of Radio River makes me think otherwise, or at least that he had some sort of say in it happening.

There also seems to be some connection between Tickets killing both Fritz and River, and the gems/necklaces they wear. Fritz is just holding the heart gem in OSH, and is wearing a necklace with them on it upside-down, (I also believe there is significance to the necklace being broken) River also wears a necklace with a crystal heart in Radio River, and we also know she is killed by Tickets. There are also many references to different gems, crystals, and minerals in the songs, notably Fritz and River being referred to as Beryl and Cobalt, two gemstones whose names can also just refer to a color which I find clever with the color theming. Other gems/minerals referenced in OSH are Ivory, Iolite, Onyx, and Gold. Interestingly, Rouge, Russet, Sage, and Crimson are not gems (Though a Mountain Gem Russet is a type of potato, unsure if this has any significance.)

I was also intrigued by the different types of glitch effects used in the videos. OSH has a more classic kind of mixed-glitch aesthetic but Twisted Bastard has a specific 'old film' look, and Radio River has a VHS tape filter over it. SOS has similar glitch footage to OSH which I find notable. OSH does have a scan line effect over it which makes me think of 8-bit style retro arcade games which could be a theme for Fritz. I'll have to see if this continues.

EDIT: Heres all of them now!

Today’s song is Radio River by Lopes3V (Alissi-P) featuring the Synthesizer V voicebanks Tsurumaki Maki and Solaria

https://youtu.be/sVwFcIZoVNs

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