Ship Song
So I was at my bi-weekly D&D game, and I found my mind wandering to the farscapefriday challange of Leonad Cohen songs, and for some crazy reason I beleived there was one called "Ship Song" and on that base I wrote this story, in between dancing at Elvin revels...
Title: Ship Song
Fandom: Farscape
Character: Moya
Rating: G
Spoilers: Vague ones for "Dog With Two Bones" and all before it
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Ship Song
Of all the things Moya has come to appreciate about having passengers and a crew, her favourite is the concept of music, for Leviathans have no songs.
Pilots do not sing. They tell stories, to be sure, complex and richly woven tales of intertwining threads, but the melodic pitch of voice is not a form of expression Pilots use.
Luxans sing, great booming songs of battle, and when feeling sombre play the shilquen. The bittersweet soft tones echo through Moya and she feels filled and whole again.
Delvians also sing, Moya discovers to her joy, rich and long slow songs, devoid of lyrics but full of meaning and emotion all the same. The songs become more beautiful when there is a second voice to take harmony, deeper but clear and bright. The songs grow slow again and sad when only the deeper voice is left to sing.
Humans sing, a staggering variety of songs. Steady and hopeful songs of home and journeys, slow and sad songs of family far away, quick and bright songs of love found, harsh and howling songs of love lost. Most of them have words, as incomprehensible as they might be on occasion, and they can be taught - to Luxans and Nebari and Delvians and Baniks and even DRDs, but mostly to Sabeceans.
Moya knows the vibrations of her deck and hull in flight sound like humming to her crew but she can't perceive them. She can, however, perceive through their link the sounds that Talyn makes. He has notes, rumbling and chaotic but beautiful, building to the loud and sharp crescendo at the end.
She listens to the voices within her, and scatters the notes of her one and only song in the holy burial grounds, a hymn.
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...but there is no such Leonard Cohen Song, or at least I can't find it in The Leonard Cohen Files. Appaerently, I became confused by Hugo Weaving including a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song in amongst all the Leonard Cohen he sings as his character in True Love and Chaos. Whoops. The lyrics have nothing to do with what I ended up writing, so I haven't bothered to link to them.
Guess I'll just have to do either that "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" John Angst fic, or that "Suzanne Takes you Down" S/Z fic I started in March and eventually abandoned because it was crap.
Title: Ship Song
Fandom: Farscape
Character: Moya
Rating: G
Spoilers: Vague ones for "Dog With Two Bones" and all before it
~~~
Ship Song
Of all the things Moya has come to appreciate about having passengers and a crew, her favourite is the concept of music, for Leviathans have no songs.
Pilots do not sing. They tell stories, to be sure, complex and richly woven tales of intertwining threads, but the melodic pitch of voice is not a form of expression Pilots use.
Luxans sing, great booming songs of battle, and when feeling sombre play the shilquen. The bittersweet soft tones echo through Moya and she feels filled and whole again.
Delvians also sing, Moya discovers to her joy, rich and long slow songs, devoid of lyrics but full of meaning and emotion all the same. The songs become more beautiful when there is a second voice to take harmony, deeper but clear and bright. The songs grow slow again and sad when only the deeper voice is left to sing.
Humans sing, a staggering variety of songs. Steady and hopeful songs of home and journeys, slow and sad songs of family far away, quick and bright songs of love found, harsh and howling songs of love lost. Most of them have words, as incomprehensible as they might be on occasion, and they can be taught - to Luxans and Nebari and Delvians and Baniks and even DRDs, but mostly to Sabeceans.
Moya knows the vibrations of her deck and hull in flight sound like humming to her crew but she can't perceive them. She can, however, perceive through their link the sounds that Talyn makes. He has notes, rumbling and chaotic but beautiful, building to the loud and sharp crescendo at the end.
She listens to the voices within her, and scatters the notes of her one and only song in the holy burial grounds, a hymn.
~~~
...but there is no such Leonard Cohen Song, or at least I can't find it in The Leonard Cohen Files. Appaerently, I became confused by Hugo Weaving including a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song in amongst all the Leonard Cohen he sings as his character in True Love and Chaos. Whoops. The lyrics have nothing to do with what I ended up writing, so I haven't bothered to link to them.
Guess I'll just have to do either that "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" John Angst fic, or that "Suzanne Takes you Down" S/Z fic I started in March and eventually abandoned because it was crap.