#aria cotnd

[girlkisserr]

women with half a heart

[suburbankittty]

I love this badass grandma

play crypt of the necrodancer

idk a lil sk3tch :3

[gingerdusk]

stares at you with the biggest possible eyes can u talk about crypt of the necrodancer more pls. theres no wiki am Storved of info

There's a wiki!!! It's fandom but it's here!

Okay but for real:

This is Cadence. At the time of the game, she's about 16. The story begins with her dying from a fall, her heart being stolen by the Necrodancer, which forces her to move to the beat of the Crypt just like all the monsters.

The story is revealed after the completion of each zone, so I'll tell you what I've got so far below the cut.

Cadence's Story

Her mom, Melody, died of an illness. At Melody's funeral, Cadence heard her father, Dorian, telling her uncle, Eli, that he had to go find the "gold and loot."

Dorian disappeared, abandoning his daughter to his brother's care. He's been gone for two years. Cadence decides to go after him, dies, gets her heart stolen, etc.

The boss of Zone 4, the final Zone, is named Dead Ringer. He's a guy with a bell on his head. When Cadence beats him, the bell breaks, and it turns out it's Dorian, semi-undead and cursed. You then team up against the Necrodancer (who has Dorian's heart too) and take the Golden Lute from him.

The Necrodancer's whole deal is that he was a bard named Octavian, who got ahold of the Golden Lute and became the Necrodancer, and all the monsters in the crypt dance to the tune of said lute. Cadence and Dorian are literally his captive audience—if you die in his fight, he says "Try again! Try again, my pets. I find this most amusing."

Melody's Story

So, they kill the Necrodancer, and get the lute, and bring it home. They use it to revive Melody. She has to keep playing the lute, or she dies.

Then you play Zones 1 through 4 again as her. The only weapon she can use is the lute, which deals damage whenever she moves next to something.

She's going into the crypt to revive the Necrodancer for answers on how to destroy the lute once and for all. Apparently the plague that killed her hit her town once before, and her house was near-mobbed by people looking for the lute, which her mother Aria had at the time.

Aria disappeared with the lute. Melody resented her for it.

So Melody revives the Necrodancer, who refuses to talk, so she kills him again. She then finds her revived mother with a knife in her chest. She and Aria had the same plan, to destroy the lute, and to revive the Necrodancer to get answers on how to do it—that's why the Necrodancer is alive and able to take Dorian when he does. Although in Aria's case, the Necrodancer won, and killed her.

Aria knows how to destroy the lute. She takes it and starts working her way OUT of the crypt. You start in Zone 4 and end in Zone 1.

That's as far as I've gotten. Aria is hard. She can only use the default weapon, and she dies if she's hit or if she misses the beat. I've beaten 4-1 a couple of times, but I have yet to beat 4-2 (there's always three levels and a boss). So I don't know the rest of Aria's story.

BUT I have a video for you that has all the cutscenes, so here you go!

[thatstupidlozfanacrossthestreet2]

avg. aria activities

[annalrk]

finally got that sub 15 on nocturna and at 13:08 to boot!!!!

[nbtelethia]

Guys come on we have to do it

[2ws2ls]

mutuals praise me for being awesome at video games i beat aria CotND

[soritang]

[girlkisserr]

humanized coda because i can btw

[rhythmmortis]

i did what i thought i had to... but i failed

I came back to destroy the lute

[voltswaltz]

decided to be self indulgent today

[yourfavisazombie]

Aria from Crypt of the Necrodancer is a Zombie!

[thatstupidlozfanacrossthestreet2]

I drew Aria during biology today lol

And AUGH I’m so mad at her bc I almost beat Zone 4 last night but the BLADEMASTERS during FORTISSIMOLE killed me >:(

im so bitter

anyway

Her story is by far my favourite ngl like

'Oh shit this instrument is cursed and there's a curse on my family so I’m gonna break it even though I literally just struggle to do anything' honestly badass and like 'oh i was stabbed with this dagger here hood on *removes dagger from chest* okay now i can kill things with the thing that killed me' W grandma

[onefey]

nintendo is just like, raiding my wallet this month huh

[some-shiny-art]

It is both COH DLC drop and LL anniversary so naturally I gotta mix them