Cats in Boxes: The FST
So you've met the characters. Maybe you've even read the story.
Maybe it made you cry a little.
Maybe it made you cry A LOT.
Either way, here's a soundtrack that's sappier than maple syrup and definitely far more bitter than Saix's coffee.
[Quote-enabled, spoilerish for the story if you really care about that kind of stuff, no real reason behind half the song choices except that kytha is a bleeding heart and enjoys spending hours sobbing into her pillows.
Also, fair warning: single-song links, because my connection is yeah verily a whore and I can't upload the whole thing in one go. ANYONE WANT TO ZIP + UPLOAD IT FOR ME? XDDD;
COURTESY OF zhynchan
FULL FST, MEGAUPLOAD LINK
FULL FST, SENDSPACE LINK]
art by kytha, coloring by Janus of zaphkiel
1. 2nd Life -- Yoko Kanno
Death has come to their timeless kingdom at last.
2. Katie's Song -- Apoptygma Berzerk (VNV Nation Remix)
Come lie next to me
Know why you and me are one
Come lie next to me
No lies, you and me are one
The change happens slowly, like grains of sand that build up to an avalanche.
3. 24 -- Jem
Been given 24 hours
To tie up loose ends
To make amends
His eyes said it all.
If he can remember thought, then he can remember self. If he can remember taste and touch and smell -- the feeling of paper in his hands, the warmth of coffee in his mouth. He will remember and he will exist, and he will remember --
4. Lullaby -- The Cure
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
The image of Vexen intrudes on Saix's sleep more often now, slipping into the usual flesh-driven lusts that plague any physical body.
5. Flood -- Jars of Clay
Rain, rain on my face
It hasn't stopped raining for days
My world is a flood
Slowly I become one with the mud
If Saix is the only one who can perceive him, then he'll have to take what he can get.
6. Will I? - Rent
Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow, from this nightmare?
For a brief, shuddering moment he can almost pull all those scattered thoughts together again, gathering them up like so many broken bones and muscles and organs.
7. The One -- Foo Fighters [Spot the pun, guys.]
You're not the one but you're the only one
Who can make me feel like this
You're not the one but you're the only one
Who can make me feel like shit
Saix didn't respond, too occupied in trying to yank Vexen's hands off his jacket; he missed whatever Vexen said after that, because the scientist had leaned back in, and Saix's lower lip had suddenly tasted like blood.
8. One Week -- Barenaked Ladies
It's been one week since you looked at me
Dropped your arms to your sides
and said "I'm sorry"
Five days since I laughed at you and said
"You just did just what I thought you were gonna do"
Silence is a game they both play at, and the first of them to break it has already lost.
9. Time is Running Out -- Muse
I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created
Only one of them is a scientist; only one of them can really be looking at this from a scientific angle, but they can both rely on the excuse that they're curious about the boundaries of the living.
10. Two Step -- Dave Matthews Band
Hey my love do you believe that we
Might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this?
Our flesh and blood it ties
You and me right up
The concept is understandable on a physical level -- a body craves to be fed, watered, and it enjoys the meals it has become accustomed to -- but Vexen lacks a certain vital part of that equation.
11. The Scientist -- Coldplay
And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing tails
Coming back as we are
For a moment, Saix's mind gives him a flash of green eyes, and the memory of cold fingers on his skin.
12. Running Up That Hill -- Kate Bush (Kiki and Herb Cover)
Do you want to see how deep the bullet lies?
You're unaware you're tearing us asunder
There is thunder in our hearts
You've got so much hate for the ones you love
Now, as he peels off his coat and drops it on the nearest chair, he finds that he simply can't care.
13. How to Save a Life -- The Fray [a.k.a. The 'if you download one song from this FST, download this one.' song]
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
"It's out of time, Saix," he says, almost kindly to the berserker's ignorance. "It's not able to burn."
14. Closing Time -- Semisonic
Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world
Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl
Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here
When the door closes, Vexen's shade fades into the dust.
15. Goodbye My Lover -- James Blunt
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
But when he looks at Kingdom Hearts in the sky -- the source of all hearts, and some would imagine, all life -- Saix still smells coffee in the air.
Maybe it made you cry a little.
Maybe it made you cry A LOT.
Either way, here's a soundtrack that's sappier than maple syrup and definitely far more bitter than Saix's coffee.
[Quote-enabled, spoilerish for the story if you really care about that kind of stuff, no real reason behind half the song choices except that kytha is a bleeding heart and enjoys spending hours sobbing into her pillows.
Also, fair warning: single-song links, because my connection is yeah verily a whore and I can't upload the whole thing in one go. ANYONE WANT TO ZIP + UPLOAD IT FOR ME? XDDD;
COURTESY OF zhynchan
FULL FST, MEGAUPLOAD LINK
FULL FST, SENDSPACE LINK]
art by kytha, coloring by Janus of zaphkiel
1. 2nd Life -- Yoko Kanno
Death has come to their timeless kingdom at last.
2. Katie's Song -- Apoptygma Berzerk (VNV Nation Remix)
Come lie next to me
Know why you and me are one
Come lie next to me
No lies, you and me are one
The change happens slowly, like grains of sand that build up to an avalanche.
3. 24 -- Jem
Been given 24 hours
To tie up loose ends
To make amends
His eyes said it all.
If he can remember thought, then he can remember self. If he can remember taste and touch and smell -- the feeling of paper in his hands, the warmth of coffee in his mouth. He will remember and he will exist, and he will remember --
4. Lullaby -- The Cure
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
The image of Vexen intrudes on Saix's sleep more often now, slipping into the usual flesh-driven lusts that plague any physical body.
5. Flood -- Jars of Clay
Rain, rain on my face
It hasn't stopped raining for days
My world is a flood
Slowly I become one with the mud
If Saix is the only one who can perceive him, then he'll have to take what he can get.
6. Will I? - Rent
Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow, from this nightmare?
For a brief, shuddering moment he can almost pull all those scattered thoughts together again, gathering them up like so many broken bones and muscles and organs.
7. The One -- Foo Fighters [Spot the pun, guys.]
You're not the one but you're the only one
Who can make me feel like this
You're not the one but you're the only one
Who can make me feel like shit
Saix didn't respond, too occupied in trying to yank Vexen's hands off his jacket; he missed whatever Vexen said after that, because the scientist had leaned back in, and Saix's lower lip had suddenly tasted like blood.
8. One Week -- Barenaked Ladies
It's been one week since you looked at me
Dropped your arms to your sides
and said "I'm sorry"
Five days since I laughed at you and said
"You just did just what I thought you were gonna do"
Silence is a game they both play at, and the first of them to break it has already lost.
9. Time is Running Out -- Muse
I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created
Only one of them is a scientist; only one of them can really be looking at this from a scientific angle, but they can both rely on the excuse that they're curious about the boundaries of the living.
10. Two Step -- Dave Matthews Band
Hey my love do you believe that we
Might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this?
Our flesh and blood it ties
You and me right up
The concept is understandable on a physical level -- a body craves to be fed, watered, and it enjoys the meals it has become accustomed to -- but Vexen lacks a certain vital part of that equation.
11. The Scientist -- Coldplay
And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing tails
Coming back as we are
For a moment, Saix's mind gives him a flash of green eyes, and the memory of cold fingers on his skin.
12. Running Up That Hill -- Kate Bush (Kiki and Herb Cover)
Do you want to see how deep the bullet lies?
You're unaware you're tearing us asunder
There is thunder in our hearts
You've got so much hate for the ones you love
Now, as he peels off his coat and drops it on the nearest chair, he finds that he simply can't care.
13. How to Save a Life -- The Fray [a.k.a. The 'if you download one song from this FST, download this one.' song]
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
"It's out of time, Saix," he says, almost kindly to the berserker's ignorance. "It's not able to burn."
14. Closing Time -- Semisonic
Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world
Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl
Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here
When the door closes, Vexen's shade fades into the dust.
15. Goodbye My Lover -- James Blunt
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
But when he looks at Kingdom Hearts in the sky -- the source of all hearts, and some would imagine, all life -- Saix still smells coffee in the air.