Suggest a song for the character above

Similar to the "suggest a song to the above poster" thread, but for specific characters instead of plots/themes.

Leave a description of your character. I'm not talking about their appearance or job or favorite color. Tell us about one of your characters' hopes and dreams, their feelings and struggles and motivations.

Then leave one or two songs that you think would resonate with the previous poster's character.

Someone else start?

My character is a girl that wanted to go to university, but couldn't because of financial concerns. When she gets a great job as a prestigious royal assistant, she is happy, but she feels that she can't always keep up with them because they have more education and life experience. She is working constantly to keep up this intelligent facade but it's killing her. However, she is a very good and sweet person. She dreams of being able to spend time with her family, with who she is forcibly seperated (it's complicated). She is in charge of a royal princess and loves her charge dearly, and yet also hates her for keeping her away from her family and forcing her to give up her normal life.

And darn it, I can't help anyone with their character's song....

Maybe this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2pH0w-viDs I'm not sure, though. Yours is really difficult, haha. XD Maybe someone else will find something better.

Mine... Hmm... Mine is a boy. He goes to this other world (think Narnia-esque. It's nothing like it really, but close enough) and he fights by his friends' sides, he loses his arm and he falls for his best friend. As he's leaving, he's ripped away, thrown back in time in this other world and stranded. There, he spends most of his time trying to get home while involved in yet another war until he realises he's fallen in love with the king and wants to stay. They grow old, have kids and live happily ever after.

Hmm... maybe this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVJRzrHb-A Mystical, a little sad, a little strong, seems to fit the dreamlike quality of your synopsis.

Alright now. Mine is a 13-year old boy with medical issues in his lungs that prevent him from doing a lot of things and weigh on his shoulders a lot. He's very quiet, a little shy, reserved, and intelligent. His parents are Slayers (which kill the beasties that need slaying) and since it is his dream to be just like his dad, he tries to find out a way to overcome his sickness. He finds out in the process that it's not caused naturally, but instead by an inherited virus-like quality from both his parents because of their past experiences. (i.e. book one, heh). Anyway, although he's not very social, he loves his little sister and tends to be very protective over her.

Hmm, Karmagrl, got a character for me to give a song to? In the meantime, I'd recommend for Cloud 10's character the song "Into The Light" by Honor By August. Not sure why, it just seems kinda fitting... video for it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq7D5N0-i7A

To describe my character, I must first describe the situation: six ordinary strangers in a subway car suddenly find themselves transported to an alternate universe in which everything follows the rules of an adventure story (e.g., the cooler something is, the more likely it is to work). My character is an 18-year-old girl who is absolutely thrilled that this happened, though she doesn't necessarily want to stay there. She takes charge of the situation, being extremely genre-savvy (i.e. she can manipulate the rules of the typical adventure story to her advantage), and leads the group of strangers despite being the youngest one there (not counting the two-year-old). Got all that? Excellent. Personality-wise, she is rather quirky and exuberant. She likes to charge in without thinking. She likes being in charge, but doesn't necessarily like dealing with all the issues that come with leadership. Not the greatest as far as social skills are concerned, but very good at voicing her opinions. She's also a chronic nicknamer.

@ karmagrl76

I saw "grunge" and "90s" and I admit, my first thought was Nirvana. Maybe the song "Dumb", or All Apologies"? Such a cliche, lol.

Um. Okay. Let's pick a character (I have like, twenty main characters kill me now). Okay. This character is a witch. She has a twin sister who she struggles to get along with - her sister is louder and brighter and more outgoing then she is. She's recently moved to a new town, and has bumped into an old flame of hers (that her sister also fooled around with, ,of course). She's shy and she's timid and now she's being thrust into this situation where she has to essentially save the world, along with her sister and her old flame and a whole bunch of other people that she doesn't know. She's intelligent but totally lacking in social skills, and she has this real hero complex: "I have to help everyone, I can save everyone". She tries so hard to be tough, bless her, but it's just not her. Hmm. What else? She's got these big green eyes and flowing black hair, I sort of see her as very nymph-like (if that makes sense!). She's a mellow girl, but I think if push came to shove (and her family was in danger, her friends were in danger) she probably would be able to step up to the plate. She just needs an oppurtunity to prove herself.

@miss_dede

It's a hard one and i'm not really good in choosing songs for others, but anyway i'm trying to do my best.

The list i came up with;


Monica - Until It's Gone
Birdy - Shelter
Delilah - Go

I hope it's good. ;$

My story is about a whole group of children. But the most important character is Liam. He has one very good friend, her name is Kayce. People see Liam as the standard-hero, but inside he is very insecure. He never let anyone down, and he easily get lost in his own thoughts. Liam is 17, is blonde and is muscular, but not very overdone.
He's always looking for answers and the truth is very important for him, trust and faith to.

My first thought for Liam is Uprising - Muse because of the answers and truth being very important to him.

One of my main characters is a girl who is stuck on a farm in the midwest but dreams of moving to Hollywood and making it as an actress or singer with her boyfriend, but halfway through the novel her boyfriend is drafted and he has to go to war. So the girl has to go herself and try to make it in Hollywood.

@jsullivan This Year - The Mountain Goats. Not so much the verses, but the refrain - I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me.

Okay, give me a song for Leroy. Twentysomething former chess prodigy who snapped as a teenager just after winning a worldwide championship match against an opponent in his fifties. His DNA was stolen at that match by a Russian cloning syndicate, in order to make thousands of brilliant replicants. He's now a recluse who is brought out of hiding to help with a war on the Russian Federation and its supposed cloning-related "human rights violations" and develops an overprotective brother-sister relationship with my 16-year-old MC, Hannah. He might be a little unstable, but he's still brilliant and one step ahead of you.

myyearinlists: For some reason, I'm really thinking Suicide by Star by God Is An Astronaut. Or maybe A Different Complexion by Collapse Under The Empire. Y'know. If instrumentals are your thing. If not, this shuffled through my iTunes recently and your description kind of reminded me of it? In The Shadows by the Rasmus? (: (And I love your username-- Los Campesinos!? ♥)

So I've been looking for ages and I can't find something that truly grabs the sort of playful amorality of my supporting character, a certain Puck. He ruins my MC's life systematically, but only to get her to follow her 'destiny.' He tries his best to be helpful within parameters but really can't help himself when it comes to tricking my MC, constantly making jokes at her expense, and leading her astray?

(Shakespeare really puts it best, though I'm working more from folklore than from A Midsummer Night's Dream:
"that shrewd and knavish sprite
Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern
And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;
And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;
Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?")

(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

I really don't know which novel I'm going to be writing, so let's go with Mekhora. He's a prince who doesn't want to go to war, so he seeks out a witch to help him. She listens to him and turns him into a woman so he can join a nunnery.

Mekhora is a bit of a coward, which spirals with his self-loathing because he doesn't fit in, and his older male relatives overshadow him by being good at all the "manly" activities. Mekhora prefers taking care of his younger siblings, and is more nurturing than creative, so he doesn't feel he is really that good at anything. He is also jealous of the witch's magical talent, though he knows he shouldn't because magic is a woman's art. Closer to the end of the novel, he faces his fears of dying and using his nurturing talents help out on the battlefield as a nurse. And that's all I have for him so far.

@Khitty I have no idea why, but Feel So Numb by Rob Zombie really pops in to my mind when I read that. I wish I could explain it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK16w_Esrno

Max is stubborn, dependable, brave and outspoken. An only child of parents who really only paid attention when she reached an academic achievement, she learnt early on in her teenage years that she was the only one she could depend on. At 23, she lives on her own, has a history of partying [drugs & alcohol], playing video games until sunrise and holding down a well paying but horrible work enviroment job at a local movie theatre. Her friends are her life, and she would do anything for them. When the undead begin to walk the earth, she is inadvertently made the leader of the small group of survivors trying to make their way out of Detroit and to a safer, more out of the way area. ... and that is all I have so far.

@Windowniche: I think I might suggest 'First Dive' and "On The Island" from the soundtrack 'Dolphins'.



Alright, onto Brentilyr. Brentilyr is a 250-year-old mountain-dwelling elf (See a slight mixture of Legolas and the night elves from World of Warcraft) with the body of a twenty-something. He's loud and unrefined, with a peppering of brash and impertinent. But on the flip side, he can be thoughtful, gentle, and kind. He just doesn't want to be. In my story, he wields the element of 'ice', so he is rather cold. No pun intended.

For some reason I am really thinking of 'One' by Apocalyptica. It kind of has all those elements. Plus strings, so what better for a mountain-dwelling elf?

Okay, my character is a desperately boring accountant who is stuck in a strange place far away from home (he doesn't have a name yet haha). He just really longs to be back home in his routine, with his slightly crazy girlfriend and his boring job. But a part of him is thrilled, secretly, for the possibility of adventure.

Somehow I'm thinking Weezer -- nerd rock, ya know. "The Good Life" might be perfect for the darker side of your accountant!

My character is a 16 year old girl named Rachel who has no hopes or plans for her life and is alone away from the village where she has always lived, trying to create a new life. (Ugh -- it sounds terrible!! Hopefully I'll be feeling better about this novel soon!)

@Mandi; Let's see here... Ah! What do you think about this? ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arm2EelcIIU ) It has the elements you're looking for, a boring life, but some longing for adventure.

Let's see what you've got for me. My character is wandering throughout time and space in a near future of the earth, he wanders, if he stops or if he isn't careful, his destiny will get him, and he is trying to fight against that destiny, using really complicated timetravel that varies each time he uses it, and from person to person that uses it. Have at it, fellas!

@Dreamgor this is the first song I thought of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHDKi-MXw8 Hope you like it!

My character is your average teenage girl but during a history project she discovers her family's dark Nazi past. She spends the rest of the story trying to come to grips with the fact that her great grandfather was a Nazi, even though she has vague loving memories of him from when she was younger. She eventually ends up visiting Germany and traveling to Kaliningrad Oblast to visit where her family originally came from.She begins questioning who she is and what she stands for before coming to grips with her family's past but still loving her heritage and who she is.

@ Delta_Zeta, Beirut instantly came to mind because he's music is beautiful and strikes up many different emotions. This one is especially good for the tone of your character & the challenges she faces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbGiDxg8kwM

June is a woman that creates imaginary worlds for herself as a coping mechanism and an escape from her abusive reality. She embarks on a journey to find a man who was the only one that kept her from drifting completely into the void of her own imagination. However, while on this journey she struggles with knowing whether or not he actually exists.

@astoryof - I don't know why, but this immediately popped into my head. I think it's because it's dreamy and haunting. The lyrics suit her quest for the man who helped her: "Did you lie for me, to keep me safe?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kew62gpNTn0

Janine is sixteen and all that goes with it. She's snarky, crass, and over-confident when it comes to sex. After all, how many girls her age can boast that they get to knock boots with a hot college boy? It all goes south when her beau realizes he could get in trouble with the law, her too-perfect step-sister moves in, and her father gets religion and goes on a crusade to rid the world of teen sex. She thought she had a handle on this stuff. WTF, world?

causticgit
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqbintjuruo
I don't know why, it just made me think of this Janine trying to get the attention of her 'friend' while this is all going on.

Christian is a boy who thinks very little of the world (worlds, in this case). His people are hunted and forced into deadly work protecting who they hate the most or worse, killed on the spot. He practically killed his parents by accident when he caused the raging fire that burnt down his house. He's rebelling against the people who hunt his people down for their blood, along with his two best friends. But he can't help but feel more alone then ever, since his parents died. He stumbles upon a girl who is basically the enemy, and his goal is to sway her away from the safety of her home into rebellion. Amidst this all happening, he's beginning to lose faith in what little he had to begin with. Add a little snark, a little bit of saving the world and a little bit of controlling fire with his mind and you've got Christian.