I need to do an entire post about story playlists sometime! Music helps me brainstorm when I have writer’s block, and my N&S playlists are helping keep my imagination going right now when college is borrowing so much of my writing time. Since I posted My Characters’ Aesthetics in Song Lyrics for Adin (who was named Alin at the time), I’ve come up with so many more lyrics that fit him! I’ll probably do another post about Adin sometime.
Anyway, this post is about Star, who is a small goblin prone to snarky comments at inopportune moments. Part of my inspiration for this character came from Rocket the Raccoon in Guadians of the Galaxy, so seeing Rocket’s character arc this year in Infinity War and Endgame was really special for me. #nerd
I love this personality type a lot! I’m not always particularly nice to Star, but he has been a champ.
“Living like lions but trapped in a cage. . . with the blood of a king and the heart of a slave” – Run Wild by for KING & COUNTRY
“I was choking in the crowd/Building my rain up in the cloud/Falling like ashes to the ground/Hoping my feelings, they would drown” – Believer by Imagine Dragons
“They’re trying to take me and make me like them/No, I won’t go ’cause I know how that ends” – System Victim by Matthew Parker
“As a child you would wait/And watch from far away/But you always knew that you’d be the one/To work while they all played” – Warriors by Imagine Dragons
“My mind is a home I’m trapped in/And it’s lonely inside this mansion” – Mansion by NF
“Why won’t you speak/Where I happen to be/Silent in the trees/Standing cowardly” – Trees by Twenty One Pilots
“show me where my armor ends/show me where my skin begins” – Pluto by Sleeping At Last
“Your eyes, they shine so bright/I want to save their light/I can’t escape this now/Unless you show me how” – Demons by Imagine Dragons
“show me how to lay my sword down/for long enough to let you through” – Eight by Sleeping At Last
“Do you dream of a home you never had?/An innocence that you cannot get back?/The pain is real, you can’t erase it/Sooner or later you’ll have to face it down” -Loved by JJ Heller