OC Personality Playlist/Song Tag Game
Thanks to @davycoquette for the tag!
Instructions: share a song or songs that reminds you of an OC or that you associate with that OC in some fashion, then explain why.
This is the kind of thing where I could easily go balls-to-the-wall apeshit and write pages and pages, so I'm going to try to employ a little brevity (fingers crossed, and apologies in advance if I fail).
NOTE: Old music because I'm in an old-music/period piece headspace ATM.
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ELLIOT
Elliot is outgoing, personable and self-confident, and adores 1970s disco-pop. And adores singing it, loudly and with verve and somewhat off-key around the house and the shop to lovingly annoy his husband George. (George professes to find it intolerable and ear-shattering but has grown to love it; he misses it when Elliot's not around, although he's loath to admit it to anyone).
Another of Elliot's favorites, and the way he sees himself (the man has no issues with self-confidence). Also what he semi-jokingly calls himself -- Hot Chocolate -- when he's trying to be playfully flirty and seductive.
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GEORGE:
An old but great story song whose title character inspired both George and his name: short, sturdy, pugilistic, idealistic and weirdly, pointlessly gallant.
George, now, is middle-aged -- polite, somewhat prickly, reserved, a little stuffy and proper. But back in the day he was a badass: first a teenage gangbanger and street brawler, then a Golden-Gloves boxer and helicopter door gunner in the military (where he met his now-husband Elliot, a transport helicopter pilot). Can still be a holy terror when properly motivated, although most people who know him now have a difficult time imagining it. An overthinker, full of complicated thoughts and outdated notions about honor and chivalry that he has a hard time explaining to anyone.
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Reminds me of George in his speed-freak/street-punk/reform school youth.
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A song George loves even though it is absolutely NOT his kind of music. This is the song that was playing when Elliot proposed (on the dance floor, at the grand-opening party at the antique store he and George opened in North Carolina after retiring from the military). It's one of George's fondest memories.
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JAMES :
James, to a tee. Fun, hot in a sleazy kind of way, a little bit of a conman. JimJam is the guy you will 100% go drinking with and let talk you into bed, but will be kinda embarrassed to tell your friends about. (Also restores old muscle cars, so there's that as well.)
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Also James -- smooth-talker, often in some kind of trouble but usually manages to talk his way out of it.
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James is also still (pointlessly) carrying a little bit of a torch for his ex-wife, Ernie -- a dive-bar owner and former friend with benefits who foolishly agreed to marry James during a dirty weekend in Vegas, then instantly regretted it and divorced him.
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ERNIE:
Ernie in a nutshell. Owns/runs a dive bar. NB, kind of a slob, somewhat antisocial/snarky. Sex-positive but commitment-phobic -- show up at last call, bring Twinkies or another calorie-and-sugar-dense Hostess product, and you might get invited to the apartment upstairs. Do your thing, and GTFO before sunrise because Ernie likes their space and needs quiet time and a lot of caffeine to become human and civil in the mornings. Briefly married to James, against their better judgment.
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No-pressure tags: @loricasquamata, @bouncydragon, @morning-alfie, @lexywrite, @morganxduinn and anybody else who feels like jumping in
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