It's been a year and I still cannot get over Shouki no Kami's battle BGM. It's just... so good in every conceivable way??? But dude what gets to me the most is the singing. THE SINGING.
Initially the instrumental is a lot more contained, you could say - quiet but with a method to it, if it makes sense. You can hear the emotions brooding under the surface until eventually they come to light along with the chorus. The voices are so deep that they feel... mastodontic, which then creates a contrast with the lead voice - a tenor. In the first half, it's muffled, hidden away behind the helmet of Shouki no Kami, and the music growing in a crescendo as it progresses. The fact that it's muffled helps making it sound deeper than it actually is, but as the song progresses the lead becomes more and more clear: with that, the surface of all the feelings such as fury and desperation is scratched.
The build up of Rhapsodia Roscida is ESSENTIAL to the payoff in Polumnia Omnia, because that's when all the emotions explode.
Now free of the helment and of any pretenses, the lead can sing his heart out. It still starts off as relatively controlled and you can hear him try to keep some composure in some parts, but the mask is off and all the ugly truths laying within are on display for everyone to hear. It's so good that every time it gets to those parts (you know the ones) I clutch my chest as well because I want to sing out loud.
Yu Peng Chen's performance was phenomenal. Between all the voices Scaramouche is given in all the dubs, his is undoubtedly my favorite. He is how the character sounds like in universe as far as I'm concerned.
struggling to write chris is so real... he's too majestic for this world my brain can't function around him </3
i know!!! literally i don't even need sex w him i just want to exist in his presence !!! he has me in a chokehold NO WAIT I WISH HE DID THO W THOSE ARMS OMG PLS
and the re8 gloves! do not get me started on the gloves!!! (i'm writing a fic where the gloves stay on!!!)
sharing this here too but my friends & i are doing a powerpoint night and my chosen topic is gortash. purely because my yapping about him had made 2 of them think he played a bigger role in the game than he does
anyway i'm also dropping ruetash lore into this too. i have to. i cant talk about gortash without going "heres MY canon timeline with him" and then proceed to explain every interaction he and rue have had
i cant get over the ball being so CLEARLY all for crowley i can't get over aziraphale trying to woo him with a WHOLE FUCKING BALL because that's what he knows that's what romance IS for him because he's been wanting to dance with crowley ever since dancing was invented and he's so stuck in time with the way he dresses and talks and he still thinks a dance is the high of romance AND HE MADE A WHOLE ENTIRE FUCKING BALL FOR CROWLEY JUST SO HE COULD DANCE WITH HIM like now it's so fucking obvious he gave away his BOOKS without a second thought and it was all for crowley he organised a whole JANE AUSTEN THEME BALL just so he could have an excuse to finally dance with the love of his life and i can't get over this i'm shaking my fists and pacing up and down he did not give a single fuck about anything other than dancing with crowley and HE BARELY TOUCHED OTHER PEOPLE'S HANDS WHILE HIS WHOLE FUCKING PALM WAS PRESSED TO CROWLEY'S AND i need to lie down