NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN
no wait... strike that.
I've gone through old music lists and an old CD (I have to find the other one, wherever it went) and I really am developing my characters' lives into a friggen musical.
The first song I've got listed is Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. I don't think I can start the story here, but it's got to be early on. This is where Zong essentially asks Yue to leave her world behind and stay with him forever. Where most musicals have the guy get the girl in the end, honestly, they didn't have much trial and tribulation to go through to get here. Okay, their parents weren't exactly encouraging the union, but Zong knows better than to listen to his mom, she's crazy, and Yue's parents would essentially tell her as long as she's happy while keeping an eye on the boy at all times, and she's a romantic. She goes where her heart takes her~ ♥
Next song I've got slated is Mysterious Ways by U2. The story shifts here to include Jhao. During Zong and Yue's marriage (or around that time) he meets Suki. They share one night and, in the morning, she leaves. Just like that. No clinging, no hoping that it was anything more than it was. And he can't get her out of his mind. He needs to see her again, needs to make her want him, crave him, worship him. That's really all he understands. And Zong knows everything that's going through his brother's head.
Then comes Sugar We're Going Down by Fallout Boy. Before long, Suki becomes his. At least, that's how he sees her. It suits both of them quite well to have an open relationship, except that Jhao doesn't play by the rules. And as his relationship becomes mundane and loses his interest, he develops a new fixation on the one girl he knows he can't have: his brother's wife. It should be noted that Jhao is an unforgivably despicable manslut.
I think we might all know where this is going... Which leads to Talk by Coldplay. Let's face it. Jhao's obsession with Yue has nothing to do with Yue. She plagues his thoughts because she's all Zong can see. And this song is from Jhao to his brother (possibly with some reciprocation), about how he feels like he's losing him. A bit of the baww baww, crai moars in here.
Not too long after this... well... Jhao takes advantage of the fact that he and Zong are twins to take advantage of Zong's wife.
Here enters the confrontation, the falling out of the brothers, with Harder To Breathe by Maroon 5. It ain't pretty, what happens when you back Jhao into a corner. The boy is all offense and all hostility. Rather than admit that he may be even a little at fault, he plays the part of the King, all "How dare you take such a tone with me, I'll see you exiled" and whatnot which, when he discovers this is less than convincing, turns to "You never had it so good. Just you wait, you'll miss me." This is when his woman leaves him and his brother cuts all ties. The boy can't handle being wrong or, more specifically admitting that he's wrong.
Here's either Through the Glass by Stone Sour or else My World by SR-71... Probably the former... All about how Yue has spent years in Zong's world, become a part of it, but she's still blind to the family that surrounds her. Hated and looked down upon by her mother-in-law, envied and lusted after by her brother-in-law. The amount of naiive innocence in this girl... But he distances himself because every time he looks at her right now, all he can see is a blind hatred towards his brother for taking the one good thing he had and twisting it into something dark and painful, all he can think is how it would destroy her if she knew what Jhao had done, how easily she was fooled.
Which is when we get to Lovefool by The Cardigans. Yue decides that she has to leave. She doesn't want to go, hasn't stopped loving Zong and probably never will. But he's stopped loving her. And she can't stay with him if he doesn't want her anymore. She owes it to herself to be with someone who loves her, wants her, needs her... She owes it to their newborn baby boy.
And... we wrap this all up with Every Car You Chase by Party Ben (a mash-up of Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol and Every Breath You Take by The Police). I really want to cycle back to the beginning, and while at first it was a cheesy love song that kinda sorta fit the story, I feel that it just means even more at this point. And when you throw in the posessive bits it grabs from Every Breath, it's evolved beyond simple idealist romance, even grown more selfish as Zong learns what it is to be selfish in love.
And on an unrelated note, I hear Jack...?
I've gone through old music lists and an old CD (I have to find the other one, wherever it went) and I really am developing my characters' lives into a friggen musical.
The first song I've got listed is Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. I don't think I can start the story here, but it's got to be early on. This is where Zong essentially asks Yue to leave her world behind and stay with him forever. Where most musicals have the guy get the girl in the end, honestly, they didn't have much trial and tribulation to go through to get here. Okay, their parents weren't exactly encouraging the union, but Zong knows better than to listen to his mom, she's crazy, and Yue's parents would essentially tell her as long as she's happy while keeping an eye on the boy at all times, and she's a romantic. She goes where her heart takes her~ ♥
Next song I've got slated is Mysterious Ways by U2. The story shifts here to include Jhao. During Zong and Yue's marriage (or around that time) he meets Suki. They share one night and, in the morning, she leaves. Just like that. No clinging, no hoping that it was anything more than it was. And he can't get her out of his mind. He needs to see her again, needs to make her want him, crave him, worship him. That's really all he understands. And Zong knows everything that's going through his brother's head.
Then comes Sugar We're Going Down by Fallout Boy. Before long, Suki becomes his. At least, that's how he sees her. It suits both of them quite well to have an open relationship, except that Jhao doesn't play by the rules. And as his relationship becomes mundane and loses his interest, he develops a new fixation on the one girl he knows he can't have: his brother's wife. It should be noted that Jhao is an unforgivably despicable manslut.
I think we might all know where this is going... Which leads to Talk by Coldplay. Let's face it. Jhao's obsession with Yue has nothing to do with Yue. She plagues his thoughts because she's all Zong can see. And this song is from Jhao to his brother (possibly with some reciprocation), about how he feels like he's losing him. A bit of the baww baww, crai moars in here.
Not too long after this... well... Jhao takes advantage of the fact that he and Zong are twins to take advantage of Zong's wife.
Here enters the confrontation, the falling out of the brothers, with Harder To Breathe by Maroon 5. It ain't pretty, what happens when you back Jhao into a corner. The boy is all offense and all hostility. Rather than admit that he may be even a little at fault, he plays the part of the King, all "How dare you take such a tone with me, I'll see you exiled" and whatnot which, when he discovers this is less than convincing, turns to "You never had it so good. Just you wait, you'll miss me." This is when his woman leaves him and his brother cuts all ties. The boy can't handle being wrong or, more specifically admitting that he's wrong.
Here's either Through the Glass by Stone Sour or else My World by SR-71... Probably the former... All about how Yue has spent years in Zong's world, become a part of it, but she's still blind to the family that surrounds her. Hated and looked down upon by her mother-in-law, envied and lusted after by her brother-in-law. The amount of naiive innocence in this girl... But he distances himself because every time he looks at her right now, all he can see is a blind hatred towards his brother for taking the one good thing he had and twisting it into something dark and painful, all he can think is how it would destroy her if she knew what Jhao had done, how easily she was fooled.
Which is when we get to Lovefool by The Cardigans. Yue decides that she has to leave. She doesn't want to go, hasn't stopped loving Zong and probably never will. But he's stopped loving her. And she can't stay with him if he doesn't want her anymore. She owes it to herself to be with someone who loves her, wants her, needs her... She owes it to their newborn baby boy.
And... we wrap this all up with Every Car You Chase by Party Ben (a mash-up of Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol and Every Breath You Take by The Police). I really want to cycle back to the beginning, and while at first it was a cheesy love song that kinda sorta fit the story, I feel that it just means even more at this point. And when you throw in the posessive bits it grabs from Every Breath, it's evolved beyond simple idealist romance, even grown more selfish as Zong learns what it is to be selfish in love.
And on an unrelated note, I hear Jack...?