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Flights of Fanciful Fandom: Only the Music
Sep. 4th, 2024 01:01 amHow strange the different directions my fannish thoughts may wander.
I was listening to Niko’s theme on the Dead Boy Detectives soundtrack. It reminded me of something; one of the strains. I couldn’t remember what.
It came to me while I was unloading the laundry; listening to Fred Mollin’s score for Forever Knight Season 1: Dark Knight.
I wasn’t thinking of Niko’s theme at all. I was too delighted to recognize the moment when LaCroix and Nicholas were reunited while Alyce Hunter watches, feeling a utter shiver of delight which I kept private for years.
Yes, I was part of the Unnamed Faction. LaCroix and Nick didn’t have to touch, just speak and look at each other. I was utterly enthralled.
Recognizing that moment brought back that swoon, that moment of excitement.
The score to Dark Knight gave way to Lori Yates’s song; Touch the Night. I recalled how it was used in one of the Forever Knight boxed sets as a Nick’N’Natpacker video. I found myself appreciating that aspect for the first time as I listened to the music, the lyrics.
Natalie Lambert could touch the night when she touched Nick, feeling her own mortality, her inner ticking clock, along with the temptation embodied by him.
I have softened so much towards this pairing with time and the easing of homophobia; if Nat is allowed to be a full, complete character rather than reduced to some feminine ideal of love, guiding Nick to heaven. If she’s allowed to be tempted, falter, facing with snark and her wits the many obstacles between Nick and herself.
All of this was in my mind when I realized what Niko’s theme reminded me of; the music playing in Daughters of Darkness when Elizabeth Bathory lit the black candles for a final meal with Valerie and Stefan before Elizabeth and Valerie make a meal of Stefan. There’s something delicate about the strain as Elizabeth plays her final word game with Stefan, right before he gives into his violently possessive feelings about Valerie, rousing the violence in Elizabeth, and awakening it in Valerie.
Elizabeth is denying being a ghoul, lightly saying she’s one of those outmoded characters, the beautiful stranger in a lonely setting. Stefan responds by saying death follows her everywhere.
Curious to hear an echo of that strain while Crystal speaks to Niko on Dead Boy Detectives; the two girls discussing the lonely voids in their lives left by lost family members, voids which echo and overlap, drawing them together.
It’s only the music, as Heather Alexander sang years ago in a song or is it?
Regardless, it’s a lovely tune.
I was listening to Niko’s theme on the Dead Boy Detectives soundtrack. It reminded me of something; one of the strains. I couldn’t remember what.
It came to me while I was unloading the laundry; listening to Fred Mollin’s score for Forever Knight Season 1: Dark Knight.
I wasn’t thinking of Niko’s theme at all. I was too delighted to recognize the moment when LaCroix and Nicholas were reunited while Alyce Hunter watches, feeling a utter shiver of delight which I kept private for years.
Yes, I was part of the Unnamed Faction. LaCroix and Nick didn’t have to touch, just speak and look at each other. I was utterly enthralled.
Recognizing that moment brought back that swoon, that moment of excitement.
The score to Dark Knight gave way to Lori Yates’s song; Touch the Night. I recalled how it was used in one of the Forever Knight boxed sets as a Nick’N’Natpacker video. I found myself appreciating that aspect for the first time as I listened to the music, the lyrics.
Natalie Lambert could touch the night when she touched Nick, feeling her own mortality, her inner ticking clock, along with the temptation embodied by him.
I have softened so much towards this pairing with time and the easing of homophobia; if Nat is allowed to be a full, complete character rather than reduced to some feminine ideal of love, guiding Nick to heaven. If she’s allowed to be tempted, falter, facing with snark and her wits the many obstacles between Nick and herself.
All of this was in my mind when I realized what Niko’s theme reminded me of; the music playing in Daughters of Darkness when Elizabeth Bathory lit the black candles for a final meal with Valerie and Stefan before Elizabeth and Valerie make a meal of Stefan. There’s something delicate about the strain as Elizabeth plays her final word game with Stefan, right before he gives into his violently possessive feelings about Valerie, rousing the violence in Elizabeth, and awakening it in Valerie.
Elizabeth is denying being a ghoul, lightly saying she’s one of those outmoded characters, the beautiful stranger in a lonely setting. Stefan responds by saying death follows her everywhere.
Curious to hear an echo of that strain while Crystal speaks to Niko on Dead Boy Detectives; the two girls discussing the lonely voids in their lives left by lost family members, voids which echo and overlap, drawing them together.
It’s only the music, as Heather Alexander sang years ago in a song or is it?
Regardless, it’s a lovely tune.
