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@Krawald

Day One Rewrite: Within the Twisting Crescendo

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Hidden in the Crescendo
Within twisting winds
Quiet joy and protection
Flying up through the air
Lost on your way to somewhere
You stumble into this place
Hearing a quiet hum that you find odd
You slowly follow the sound
The masked Coatl greets you
Sitting with a small Fae
And you softly think to yourself
"Weren't grey Coatls a sign of ill luck?"
A Mirror growled at you
Still she shows you around
There were voices floating through the breeze
You thought you heard them say

"Good day here at the Clan of Odds and Ends
Such a lovely face (Such a lovely face)
In this quiet space
Feel free to drop by at the Clan of Odds and Ends
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find us here

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I noticed that some of you misunderstood one of the judging criteria (will update the rules in a minute). When I say "Bonus points for sticking to the original rhyme scheme", I mean stuff like AABB or ABAB, I did not mean actually rhyming with the original song. I will still add extra points to those that understood it that way today, because that must have been so much extra work! But I'm not gonna do it for the next entries.

@Krawald
Day 2: For Ouranos
(from Neptune)

So this is odd
Knowing that you don't belong
You're such a mystery
And nobody cares but the sea
And nobody cares but the sea

So you danced alone upon the shore
And every step called forth a storm
But it didn't make it any better
Did it make it any better?
And the thunder beat just like a drum
And the water made your talons numb
You were never meant to touch it, but you did

So this is strange
You've led my heart towards yours in
A brilliant dance
Where nobody leads but the sea
Where nobody leads but the sea

And the heat and static burn my skin
But I want to tell you where I've been
And let my words like waves rock you to sleep
There were sirens, serpents, so much more
And like a charm I washed ashore
And I want to show it all to you
Once I get my ship fixed

Well, this is incredible
Starving, insatiable
Yes, this is love for the first time
And here in your arms I'm invincible
Yeah, now let's run off
Run off and get lost for the first time
And maybe the last time

@Medievalredragon I'm sorry I missed your question in the middle of all the entries. It was indeed meant to end with "here", but I see that that's what you went with anyway. I'll try to pay more attention in the future!

...There's more kinds of love than romance (aka I can't do romance)


Day 2 theme: love story - opposites attract

The Brilliant Dance parody

Noodlet, why
do you strain your eyes up
when you're burrowed
How can an earthwyrm fly
How can an earthwyrm fly

Don't you notice when the ground is soft
you slither as your feet push off
The earth touches back when you reach
The earth hugs you back when you reach
When you scrabble through the cracks in stone
The speed you achieve is not yours alone
It's friction that feeds your momentum

So noodlet, try
Grab the air like it's solid
Climb the wind like a wall
How does an earthwyrm fly
How does an earthwyrm fly

Are wind dragons hollow, spun from feathers and reeds
That they can waft in the sky like dandelion seeds
Were they blessed in the nest to never come down
Gravity must not enfold
What's the secret to escape its hold
Does it take throwing yourself upward
and forgetting to fall

This feeling is glorious
freeing, notorious
Climbing with no upper reach
And you'll be the one that will go on forever
Riding to meet the horizon
As long as your wings carry you
Until your feet carry you

"The Brilliant Dance" rewrite

Siren

It’s not his fault
Millions have before us
Made such a mistake
To think that we could have been
To think what we could have been

We had argued by the trading post
You’d told me who you’d loved the most
And just what would give your life a purpose
What will give my life a purpose?
Then you promised me that you would write
And I couldn’t change your mind that night
I know that it won’t ever be the same

It’s not your fault
I only want to tell you that
The siren that calls
Won’t even be there for you
I would have been here for you

And I’d wished that we could stay afloat
But my pearl has gained a nice new coat
The storm has come and lightning’s struck us down
Your training week went by too fast
Those last few days just couldn’t last
So the one who sees the future
Has now left us in the past

Love’s never run logically
Rather ironically
Hoarded but now mine is vaulted
We were wrong and then we failed and so cosmically
But, I know you’re not wrong
To rise up among the exalted
No one has been faulted.

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Honestly, kudos if you manage to get every FR reference in there! Some of them are pretty subtle.
This isn't a story of any dragon in my clan, but after writing this, I feel like I should give it to one of them!

Oi. This is much easier if you know the songs. But anyway, here's a song from the point of view of my stoic, serious Wind Rep/warrior Phaedra, talking to/about her mate Whiffle, the bouncy, happy-go-lucky optimist goofball. The arrows and cannons and survival refer to the numerous Hunger Games that they have participated in (separately).


"Are you sure you wanna do this?"
Yes that is what Whiffle said.
"Is that really what you want?"
I know you want for me to stay and never go
But there are things that I, I still need to do and so

"I will survive for you
I will survive this time
No warrior gonna take my life," I said
"I will survive for you."

Dodge a million arrows and teeth and claws
Holding on to the thought that you're out there because
Wait for all the cannon shots
Holding on to nothing else but you, you, you, you, you

"I will survive for you
I will survive this time
No warrior gonna take my life," I said
"I will survive for you."

Waiting on the outside, waiting on tomorrow
Waiting on some better news
You take away all those trappings that you put on in jest
But can you get rid of that foolish optimism too?

"I will survive for you
I will survive this time
No warrior gonna take my life," I said
"I will survive for you."

No, you're not a prince charming; No, you're not my type,
All those things I thought I wanted
But you still show me my happy ending
And I could never say goodbye...

Theme: Love Story – opposites attract
Song: either "The Brilliant Dance" by Dashboard Confessional

The Day We Met
So do you still
Recall the day
The day that we met
And nothing mattered at all
And nothing mattered at all

So you left the Sanctuary one day
And under the night sky I lay
But it didn't make it any better
Did it make it any better?
And the day you finally return
In the light of blue flowers that burn
Reminds me of the first day we had met

So do you still
Recall the isles
Icefield and stars
Where my eyes fell upon yours
Where my eyes fell upon yours

Your fiesty soul, racing to the post
As I stay in the text of scrolls, lost
We're so different, we're polar opposites
But I still remember your light
Emerging from the trees and night
Wandering among the dark ruins
From the day we had first met

Well, is this reality?
Why am I full of glee?
Is this really love at first sight?
Yes, this is love for my first time
Do you feel loss in the dark
In the shadows of the barren trees?
Well I'm here, once we're free