Inspiring Music?

[Asmodean]

Ever feel like you just can get into the skin of you character unless you sit back and enjoy a song that seems to fit them too well? I know I'm one of those players, when to comes to my midlander.  Odd part has to be I hadn't even thought about the song until yesterday thanks to listening the OST the other day and thought about how it matches both sides of him.

 

Song in question is "I am my own master now." from the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST. Both Asmodean and Moridin histories scream at me as I listen and it let me slide in to that mind set even if other wise I might not be able to.

 

Dose anyone else has an Roleplay aid to help you get into mindset of you character at all or have started thinking about it thanks to post like this?

[Hammersmith]

I build entire playlists around concepts. Short/serial stories tend to have a single song set to them.

 

Finding a single song for Hammer is a fool's errand, but this one seems to circle most of his  manic facets in one go:

 

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Yes he knows if he ever lets go

The pretty machine will swallow him whole

He has no fear

He has no sense of shame

He will not stop until everybody everywhere wants to know his name

 

He wants to live the kind of life

That will make the folks back home scream, bitch, and whine

He knows if he ever even gets to try

He will bite down hard to make the monster cry

He knows if he ever even gets a chance

He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance

He knows if he ever even gets to play

He will stomp like god to make the monster say

They can't hurt you unless you let them

They cannot hurt you unless you let them

[Shoshopu]

Oh gosh, definitely. Whenever I make a character in any RPG, single player or not, I end up associating songs with them.

 

My GW2 character had an entire playlist for her-- who I still love and mourn every day, gosh I wish the game itself was better so I could bring myself to play as much as I used to and RP her, I can't even listen to any of the songs I chose for it now without getting really sad about it.

 

So I like to pick out tunes for my FFXIV characters. I listen to a little bit of everything hoping I hit on something that's good for someone, but so far I've only found songs for Shoshopu. A lot of them are from FFXI, ironically enough, and just came into my mind immediately once I started putting her story together. All instrumentals, the best kind of mood music for me, because if a song has lyrics, if they're not 100% correct it's very distracting.

 

and

are traveling music as she and her family roam the deserts of Thanalan.

 

whenever they stop at a settlement to resupply and trade, especially if they head into Southern Thanalan.

 

(Whitegate) whenever Shoshopu visited Ul'dah for the first time as a child, in its pre-Calamity glory.

 

(West Sarutabaruta S) is... well, it hasn't happened yet, but the story I have in mind involves her father, and her Roegadyn partner Fyrilsunn.

 

 

And this is technically a Shopusunn-ship song, but "Ends of the Earth" by Lord Huron really evokes to me the image of Shoshopu riding her tortoise beneath the endless starry skies of the desert. The instrumentals are absolutely lovely!