Song Interpretation - Blog Posts

Hi!!! I loved the fifth chapter of Rakul and the third chapter of Shimsiam. I'm so happy that you are writing them, and I'm always excited when I see you upload a new chapter 🥰 I was wondering what stories inspired you to start writing about demons. Can you recommend some? 👀

Hello and thank you so much for the Ask! While I can’t think of any one story that inspired my Demon original characters, in my notes from 1/31/22 just over one year ago, I reference a few movies as story and place inspirations: Maleficent, Legend (1985), and The Last Unicorn. I’d written a little over 1k of a story, inspired by the dark and romantic lyrics of the song “The Killing Moon”, about a demon Thrawn who finds a teenage girl, Elise (female Eli) in the forest, captures and seduces her, then takes her to the Black Fortress as an offering to the evil Demon King there (demon Emperor Palpatine), but in the last minute lets Elise escape from the rest of the demons and he is imprisoned. Elise helps him escape his prison cell, but she is severely injured and near death as he flies her away from the Fortress. So there are several elements of that story that DID end up becoming part of Rakul, but that specific story is one of my few truly abandoned ideas. And it was reborn into Rakul and the sequel to Rakul, which will feature demon Thrawn and demon Thrass, as well as Elise as female Eli once again (which is at least half written, but the exact ending point is undetermined at the moment). That sequel was begun on Feb. 2, 2022, and the first chapter of Rakul was begun Feb. 23, 2022 and published on AO3 2/25/22. Anyway, most of the inspiration for all of these stories was simply some dark song lyrics and a certain mood. I actually didn’t start reading a lot of romance novels until later in 2022, and I actually haven’t read any demon stories like mine before, so there isn’t any specific novel I could recommend that inspired my demons unfortunately.

Finally, there IS a very lovely romantic fanfic about demon!Thrawn and human Eli already on AO3:

Hai, this is puppy creampuffs with my second two interpretations of songs off of disjecta Membra.

*NOTE this is just my thoughts on these songs, and everyone sees them differently, so if you don't agree with them, i totally understand

Also, i am a very bad writer, so if this is badly structured, please don't say anything about it*

My interpretation of The Hard Part

This song is about the struggle of being alone after a breakup and how he is finding it hard to be alone and be healthy. In this song he is insisting that they will figure something out and he won't be alone anymore. He is trying to solve the problem and fix his broken relationship by making up false solutions and drinking to avoid the problem. As he continues to hopefully wish that it'll fix itself He is slowly burnt out from all the alcohol and parties and is growing weak but continues to live in denial. As time passes he starts to see how they have changed and moved on but he hasn't. He then starts to realize he should stop denying reality because he has wasted years doing so. Throughout the song he is saying

“this is the Hard Part

We’re gonna make it

You won’t be alone no more

This is the Hard Part

Please don’t worry

We’re gonna figure something out”

indicating that he is still believing he will figure it out and they will be together again, but at the end he says

“This is the Hard Part

I can make it

I won’t be alone no more.”

which shows that he finally accepts that he is alone and has to figure it out himself.

My interpretation of Sound Man/Low Fidelity

Part 1: Sound Man

This is a fun song about a man who helps mix the sound of music and how he loves his job. It is said that this “sound man” takes his work seriously even if his ears hurt from the noise. All this guy wants is to make things sound beautiful, and that's what he is doing.

Part 2: Low Fidelity

So i have two theories about this song

(theory 1)

This is a continuation of the last song. The sound man has gone too far and was going crazy and started mixing all the music loud and with low fidelity which ruined his career. This is him saying he still wants to be in a band but warns them to keep him away from the soundboard or he'll mix it loud and low fidelity.

(theory 2)

This is just will saying he likes low fidelity songs lolz.

If you liked this, i will be releasing more and linking them to each other at some point sown here.

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