#deh requiem

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

dear evan hansen is not a great show but DAMN i forgot how much requiem slaps

it’s a FUCKING GOOD song and it deserves respect because it makes me cry and all songs that make me cry deserve respect

is the show good? no. but the music is amazing so it almost redeems the show.

[hole34]

hey so i was just chilling to my playlist and then Requiem came up and i started sobbing so i wanna talk about something real quick.

as much as i love everything about Dear Evan Hansen i feel that there's not NEARLY enough recognition/discussion of Zoe's side of the story with Connor dying.

what I absolutely LOVE about DEH is that no character or 'side' is in the right and equally none in the wrong. there is no villain to the story (unless you want to argue it's evan in which you need to fully drop the emotional aspect, which, is kinda the whole play).

people have sympathy for the real connor who committed suicide and made bad decisions for himself, but at the same time understand that bullying evan was wrong. people have sympathy for evan who struggles so deeply with having no connections or communication ability, but at the same time understand that making up a persona for a dead kid that isn't true and telling everyone it is is wrong. jared understands evan wants to help the murphys, but he understands that evan "helping the murphys" isnt morally right.

but,

CAN. WE. TALK. ABOUT. ZOE?

zoe's character in the play is especially personal to me because of the real representation that is just as important as the representation evan is and comes with.

zoe has lived with an abusive brother ever since she can remember. now this isn't to say connor is a bad person - but you have to look at him from zoe's point of view - he was abusive towards her and that's undeniable.

when connor dies zoe gets a spotlight to share her grief of him, which is complicated and "wrong" but the REAL GRIEF is the fact she doesn't feel bad. zoe doesn't mourn connor's death because her whole life with him was an abused sibling. she doesn't miss connor and she grieves the fact that she doesn't - because it's "wrong" - that's what her spotlight in Requiem is about.

societally expected family values are FUCKING STUPID and this is the kind of thing that always gets swept under the rug for people who have to deal with it. people who lose a family member who was abusive to them, while everyone else in the world mourns the loss of that person, and you're deemed as the villain for not missing them.

i can very personally attest to this. it's so fucking isolating to have the whole world see you as the villain because you didn't like the abuse. internalising that expectation and that becoming your own internal conflict ("i'm a bad person because i don’t feel bad") on TOP of this is the icing on the fucking cake.

seeing this position shown in Dear Evan Hansen means MORE than the world to me, and whether people take understanding from it consciously or unconsciously doesn't matter, but the fact that this is zoe's character and it's IN the musical absolutely does.

[querido-eh-dump]

[heathersaddict]

Wait... I just accidently created something in my head, and I need to share it...

Okay, so basically, I was singing a solo version of Requiem from Dear Evan Hansen, and I thought, "oh, what if veronica sang this after J.D. 'exploded' " and HOLY CRAP IT FITS SO FUCKING WELL!

ANIMATORS/ARTISTS IN THE HEATHERS FANDOM, I NEED A VIDEO/COMIC/ANIMATIC OF VERONICA SINGING THIS!!! PLEASE WORK YOUR MAGIC!! I NEED TO SEE THIS BEFORE I DIE!!

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

OK but "Requiem" from DEH is very much a Soren song and now I'm sad 😢😭

[loser-freak-beheader]

I can’t believe Pasek and Paul had the audacity to write

‘Cause when the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep. No one lights a candle to remember. No, no one mourns at all when they lay them down to sleep, so don’t tell me that I didn’t have this right. Don’t tell me that it wasn’t black and white.

After all you put me through, don’t say it wasn’t true. That you were not the monster…that I knew’

Then made Zoe forgive Connor because of words that did not even belong to him, and in the Dear Evan Hansen novel made Zoe a liar about the abuse she faced.

[milfleeta]

truly one of the most diabolical things to come out of my brother dying is that i now have reason to relate to a fucking dear evan hanson song

[godofstupidsentences]

Yes, mom, weeping while thinking of Connor and Zoe Murphy is a fundamental part of the teenage years

[spookyc]

Okay so my character I care way too much about that no one else does in dead end/deadendia is Ana like. Totally she's an asshole and in the wrong for treating Norma the way that she did for all those years but like it's also deeper than her just being insensitive. Like she was abused by her father and watched her mother go through that same abuse and then her dad died before Norma even got to truly know him. Which was good! She didn't get to experience that same pain but it also feels so unfair in Ana's perspective because she never got to have that life and that hurts.

Again, it doesn't justify the way she treated Norma, absolutely not, but I think it's worth looking at how her trauma shaped her relationship with her family. She's a deeply flawed person but that's why she's so fascinating to me, and she's working on herself, from what I have read of the comics. Idk how they'd even fit it in but I'd love to see her in the show and what direction they would take her, especially if they do the same thing they did in the comics because it's a great message for kids and adults alike to learn.

Anyway. Her song is requiem from deh, I think about her a lot and she's a neat character, flawed, but super interesting character wise. So yeah.

[beetlepuff]

I’ll be auditioning for the role of Zoe Murphy and I will be singing ‘No one Mourns the Wicked’ from wicked

[charismatic-writer]

Looping requiem again bc depression is hitting again :) 🕺💃🕺💃

[xxshotgun-weddingxx]

Scream-singing ‘Requiem’ IS therapy and no one can tell me otherwise…well, maybe a therapist but-

[egregiouscrow]

Dear Evan Hansen is so good I wish Evan Hansen wasn't in it

[trvbblemaker]

so in Requiem, when zoe says “why should i have a heavy heart? why should i say i’ll keep you with me?” her dad sings “why should i have a heavy heart?” and her mom sings “i’ll keep you with me”

i realized this yesterday (at the same time as my mom lmao) and it’s just so genius idk

[wormonastringtheory]

Art sale moment!!!! If anyone wants one of these, they're pay what you can and shipping. All are one off except the prints, aka the flower piece and the cave piece. The black and red one and the one beside it are MCR inspired, using lyrics as a starting point. The house one is based on requiem from deh and praying by Kesha. The booklet is a poem zine! These are to help me as I don't have a job right now. Thank you beloveds. Reblog pls! DM me to claim.

[seeinganewlight]

not to talk about deh in the year of our lord 2024, but i'm listening to mallory bechtel's version of requiem and i have some things to say (that i've said multiple times before but will say again)

requiem is the best song in deh

the version that mallory sings that is just zoe is the superior version and this should've been a solo zoe song

the show as a whole would've been so much better (and interesting) if it had been from zoe's point of view