can we just picture soul as an angsty emo teenager who listens to panic at the disco or something
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ITS BACK.
THE SERIES FOR WHICH YOU'VE BEEN WAITING TO RETURN..
CCCC THE MUSICAL!!!
PRESENTING TO YOU NOW..
COSTUME CONCEPTS, Part One: Soul/Atlas/The Stars!
Costume for "Dream":
Grey coat, grey shirt, brown pants, yin-and-yang shoes.
Post-"Dream" coat:
Post-"Mucka Blucka" shoes:
He switches BACK into his gray coat for "Night", then back into the brown coat afterwards. He remains in the brown coat for the rest of the show! :)
Other Stuff/Accessories:
We have a yin-and-yang necklace... (inspired by @grapedemon!)
His crown...
A little star bracelet, since he's the Stars...
And little star socks!
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Analysing Soul’s character with animal behaviour
Something I’ve noticed about how Soul is treated by a portion of the fandom is that, to be honest, their character is extremely misunderstood by a lot of people. And that’s pretty sad! Because I think Soul is a very interesting and complex character. The main thing I’ve noticed is how Soul is often portrayed as the “big bad villain” because of a handful of lyrics throughout the cccc album. I’m not really going to go into the lyrics right now, but I feel like a lot of people are misunderstanding who Soul really is, and are more so looking for a character to pin all of the blame on for everything that goes down in the album.
Thinking about this made me realise that Soul reminds me of a wolf. Specifically, how a lot of people are quick to perceive a wolf’s social behaviour as “aggression” and them simply just being violent towards a “weaker” wolf.
The behaviour wolves display towards other pack mates (growling, nipping, etc) is almost always framed as them harming the other wolf. It may LOOK threatening, and the wolf’s teeth may seem intimidating, but in reality the wolf is being very gentle with its pack mate. It’s more so a corrective behaviour, or a way of showing social status, in most cases. I think Soul suffers from this misinterpretation when they’re lashing out within the lyrics of some of the songs. I believe the main reason it’s misconstrued is because of a general lack of understanding behaviours the viewer hasn’t personally experienced. Ofc this is a literal animal I’m comparing this to, but there’s still something to be said here regardless.
I’ve seen many people so far perceive Soul’s attitude towards Heart and Mind as pure evil and malicious, and barely cutting them any slack whatsoever. Soul isn’t a villain. They’re just exhausted. They’ve been stretched thin over the stress of feeling like a puppet to the other two. They’re what’s left when emotion and logic separates; a husk that’s struggling to survive. When you villainise them solely for how they act in the music, you’re also disregarding that both Heart and Mind are… just as bad. I mean Heart literally tried to kill Mind. None of these guys are evil, but they’re not good people either. The only way they’ll become whole is if they learn to get along, that’s what the album is about. Not one being more right than the other, but about them finally opening up to each other’s viewpoints and accepting one another, albeit hesitantly.
And yes, Soul’s behaviour in the album is ABSOLUTELY pretty toxic. But that’s what stress and depression does to a person!!! They’re very clearly tired of Heart and Mind fighting all the time. They don’t hate Heart OR Mind, but their patience with these two and their nonstop bickering is growing very thin. And that’s completely understandable. Every single one of these freaks start off with an unhealthy dynamic and difficult mindset. But they learn over time to get along until they’re eventually Whole again. There’s no “villain”, and none of them are completely innocent either. It’s just three really depressed guys who desperately want to see the light.
Anyways,
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Holy wow it’s been a while. I got hyperfixated on slay the princess and have yet to recover drawing 160 pieces of art for it. I won’t say I haven’t improved because of it though.
Anyway here’s CCCC if Heart, Mind, and Soul functioned like the Disco Elysium skills; weird abstract guys popping up to tell you to do things or just to be weird.
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