Comic/novel pick theme songs for your characters and promote your story

hjpetersonauthor 2021-03-20 17:51:55 UTC #9

Lol I literally have individual spotify playlists for each of my projects for this very thing

Here's a couple for "Project: Achilles".

Dutch: I have two songs that I use for Dutch, but the one that fits him the best is "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash. I think it shows his main motivation pretty well.

Alex: Alex hasn't really been introduced yet (he'll be in my next update on Monday, though), but his theme song is "Waving Through a Window" from Dear Evan Hansen. He's a really shy, really nervous kid, who's trying to gather the courage to be more like his older brother Wyatt, whom he idolizes.

Col. Aldridge: Col. Aldridge's theme song is "Devil's Right Hand" by Johnny Cash. I don't have any real specific reason for picking it for him - just kind of sounds like him, I guess.

Franz Teudt: For Teudt, I picked "Mvt. 4: Marsch" from Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis. Feels like him, and I think it's something he would jam out to. As much as you can jam out to classical music lol.

And here's a couple links to read "Project: Achilles"

FafasMcMelt 2021-03-20 17:58:34 UTC #10

oliveoly 2021-03-20 18:19:51 UTC #11

Ooh that's interesting! I wonder if I have songs in common with other people XD

R.n.P 2021-03-20 18:31:46 UTC #12

For my main character I'm pretty sure its this theme that would fit him

djourner 2021-03-20 19:10:10 UTC #13

I see Johnny Cash... You imediatelly get a sub!
Also loved what I read so far ^^

djourner 2021-03-20 19:14:14 UTC #14

Powerwolf is an easy way too hook me too!
Also that style is gorgeous!

JoshRaid 2021-03-20 19:24:16 UTC #15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzJ8U8OtEsE Because I tried to make a bad video game about them using this as the theme song 4 years ago.

FafasMcMelt 2021-03-20 19:27:38 UTC #16

thank you very much!
and their stuff is just too damn good!

mrtoontastic 2021-03-20 19:49:21 UTC #17

If I were to boil down theme songs to one particular series, I'd go with this:

The Adventures of Jean-Luc & Joey

Theme Song Choice:

samiluu 2021-03-20 21:03:05 UTC #18

I always think a lot about music themes that define my characters, scenes and I have even have a song that could be the opening and another that could be the ending hahahah but I'm gonna put my seven princes of Hell yeah, I kind of like glam rock and nintendo XDD

Lucifer:
No doubt he's sympathy for the devil hahaha

Beelzebub:
Bohemian Rhapsody is her favourite, they mention her and that makes her proud haha! Queen is her favourite band

Asmodeus:
Mad Donna from T.Rex cause he's a foxy man

Satan:

It has to be the Runaways cause Lita Ford on that era had big Satan vibes

Leviathan:

Please they is a problem child... plus this kind of punk-hard rock sounds a lot like them somehow

Mammon:
It may look weird for a cold-hearted greedy man like him but in the end he loves cute things, specially cats, and I chosed this song for his Animal Crossing room because I have him as one of my human characters in the game

Belphegor:

This is a song from a place from the 5th gen of pokemon related to dreams, and since Belphegor is the demon of sloth I think it reflects her vibes a lot.

bulletcrucifixion 2021-03-20 23:07:09 UTC #19

Petra theme ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2o0CuATeJc
https://tapas.io/series/Sniflheim-civil-war

Vikthetoonaddict 2021-03-21 05:59:51 UTC #20

Oh, this sounds cool!

Well, here's my main character, a goofy detective in a gritty noir world. Crystal Jackson, A.K.A. The Blue Fedora

I feel like her song would be this:

And This is her partner, Otto Schlussel, German driver/Exotic Dancer (lol).

His song is definitely this:

Elysee 2021-03-21 09:02:35 UTC #21

Edgar
At the start it would be Don't start now by Dua Lipa and change to Stay Tonight by Chungha

Augustin
FXXK it by BIGBANG especially the first few lines sung by Taeyong and slowly turning into War of hearts by Ruelle

I have to say I love topics like that, music can just express the last piece words can't. And that makes theses comics and Novel even better.

djourner 2021-03-21 15:08:18 UTC #22

That first song is a banger, and I had never heard it before.
Thank you for sharing ^^

kaetana 2021-03-21 20:00:23 UTC #23

I definitely love finding theme songs for my comic characters, although some always end up easier to find good matches for than others.

I have a couple songs that fit for Rowan at various points in the story, but this is the one I like for especially at the beginning where he is essentially forced to fight in a war despite hating conflict.

I haven't found many songs with lyrics that match up for Bree, but this instrumental song absolutely nails her energy.

Finally, Raul tends to be the hardest for me to find good songs for, but this is the one I like the most for him that I've come across.

sarahmassey998 2021-03-21 21:44:53 UTC #24

Some Korn for Mr. Lovecraft, he's the personification of my teenage angst and anxiety.

For Mr. Gears he's a bit of an optimist and kinda adorable, I think he deserves one of my feel good songs.

Mr. Graves is Mr. Gears foil, he's pessimistic and is over pretending to be human. If Mr. Lovecraft is my teenage sadness then Mr. Graves is my suppressed rage.

harlyboy59 2021-03-22 01:27:50 UTC #25

Hello everyone. I will be honest here. If we new creators want to grow in this platform we have to help each other. So I propose we do this:
1. Read a minimum of a two chapters from each of our work
2. Leave a comment saying what we liked or not
3. If possible then sub to that work. I am a slow reader but will definitely read everyone's work (Those who replies) I will also sub back to those who sub to me

The song would be

chichiawu8 2021-03-22 09:23:01 UTC #26

I kinda already did this but here is my novel

And this amazing song

Pony_wearing_a_hat 2021-03-22 14:48:16 UTC #27

Agony just oozes 90s punk rock energy. She's boisterous and rude, taking breaks from her smoking habit to cuss people out.

Thesis definitely has to be something with traditional instruments. He acts like a stuffy old man (which he is) but he also has an edge to him, and and the kind of miserable old b*stard energy to fit a Nigel Burch song.

Duenna needs something grandiose and sweeping, but also powerful, she doesn't back down (for better or worse.) Also, she gets a villain song because she's not exactly done baking yet development-wise

Motif is, out of all of them the most silly and quippy, fitting a comedy song, but he also satirizes and jabs at himself in the same way that a this kind of song jabs at the topic being parodied.

Sequel is pretty broken. He's entirely wrapped up in his own past, which resembles the song and fits the epic quality to it, it's an epic to him. Also, songs about the movie industry!

djourner 2021-03-22 15:34:53 UTC #28

Strangely enough, some of the songs you picked made me interested in searching for songs to my villains cast.