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My Roman Empire is the “Nothing” Awesamdream song because it fits so perfectly and I really can’t explain it in words. You’d just have to listen to it
Full disclosure that I wasn’t terribly familiar with this musical and that at first I thought you were referencing A Chorus Line and got confused. Further disclaimer that this opinion is based on me reading a plot summary and listening to one song.
But tbh to me this song seems not super close to the c!awesamdream dynamic? Dr. Stockill hates women and so experiments on many of them to purge their weakness or what have you, and seems fascinated that Emily is an exception, is not weak. He’s trying in some ways to convince himself that she is like the rest. Their connection, such as he feels it, is based on a routine attempt to break her that has become something other than routine because it doesn’t seem to be succeeding. He’s cold and jaded because he’s tortured and killed so many victims, and he feels a glimmer of something with this particular person because she’s not going down as easily as the rest. I don’t get a sense that he thinks she’s, like—threatening, so much as interesting.
Whereas I’d argue the situation with c!Sam and c!Dream is in some senses an inverse: c!Sam’s only prisoner is c!Dream. c!Sam’s only responsibility is breaking c!Dream, not for his belief in c!Dream’s fundamental inferiority as a person, but because of the near opposite: because he thinks Dream is too strong, too powerful, and needs to be subdued. Sam has never believed Dream is like any others—Dream is uniquely evil and uniquely capable, which has always been the crux of how he relates to Dream in the prison. Sam’s fascination with Dream doesn’t necessarily stem from Dream’s obstinance so much as it does from his abiding belief in Dream’s power.
Sorry to be a contrarian haha.
#that being said this song kinda slaps#c!awesamdream#i think someone’s sent me an ask about this song before#it’s not that I think every song needs to fit one to one#like hellfire certainly doesn’t either#but I do think it’s pretty important to the dynamic that a) Dream is Sam’s chief/near-only victim and#b) Sam believes in the inherent power of Dream’s wickedness#if that makes sense
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