steal away with me: a mix for isabela (DA2)
I'll be the first to acknowledge that Dragon Age II has some serious flaws (… honestly, who thought that designing just four combat maps was going to work out well :| ) but I love the characters to pieces. And Isabela is certainly my favorite love interest; she probably competes with Varric for my favorite character, period. She's a pirate. She cracks jokes at the fourth wall. She spends seven years standing in essentially the same spot, drinking the same crap ass alcohol. She's open and honest about her interest in sex (which is… very high, really), and -- well, I could go ON and ON.
But here's the mix. Enjoy it for its own merits. It reflects, to a certain extent, a romanced Isabela, but many of the songs work just fine for Isabela on her own. There are spoilers if you squint. This is actually the first mix I've shared with the world at large - so - okay I'M NERVOUS, I'M A WUSS-FACTORY. Anyway, enjoy! Download link below!
o1 - bandit queen - the decemberists - THE SIREN'S CALL
And sitting up, she adjusts her turban
And takes another swig from a bottle of bourbon
And listening to the whistling of a train at station
Odds are it will never reach its destination.
'Cause the Bandit Queen, astride her steed will ride
O let me be the one to lay within your theivin' arms tonight.
She's my Bandit Queen, laying beneath the moon
In a bandit cave, there's a blanket laid for two
If I could find a way to your hideaway by the sea
O Bandit Queen, steal away to me
o2 - not a virgin - poe - "MEN. WOMEN. ELVES."
Darlin' I've been around
I took a walk up your block
In fact I have been all over town
o3 - i like you so much better when you're naked - ida maria - ISABELA/HAWKE, ACT ONE & TWO
I won't mind
If you take me home
Come on, take me home
I won't mind
if you take off all your clothes
Come on, take them off
o4 - i get around - dragonette - ISABELA DITCHES
Quietly slide away off the mattress
Find my clothing on the bed post
o5 - hurricane drunk - florence & the machine - THE RELIC
No calm,
Nothing to keep me from the storm,
And you can't hold me down,
'Cause I belong to the hurricane,
It's gonna blow us all away.
o6 - jigsaw - lady sovereign - QUESTIONING BELIEFS, ACT THREE
I got you on mind, I got shit on my mind
I got plenty of time to just sit and rewind
And just call up your line and sip on my wine
'Cause this is bugging me out and I wish you were mine
I went too far, stole your car
Messed about but heard me out
Didn't mean to scream and shout
But won't you forgive me now?
My heart's like a jigsaw puzzle, pick it up and fix it for me
Can you figure it out, figure it out?
o7 - what shall we die for - hans zimmer - THE LAST STRAW
[instrumental]
o8 - strike a chord - charlene kaye - ISABELA'S CHANGING FEELINGS/POST ENDGAME
you strike a certain chord in the thick of me
and i'm too aware it's ringing out in you as within me
i know you've had such a hard time to get me by your side
but i've heard this song before in a different key
and i fear we might be singing out too late or too early
to set the stage for one more right gone wrong
steal away with me; a mix for Isabela