(Incoming Long winded Lucio Reverse Route brain thoughts. It's like, hella late and that late night creative high is at a rampant level so. You've been warned.)
I recently had a slight tone shift in vibe for the way I kind of see Lucio's reverse ending and I am all for it. All my favorite words came flying at me at once when I started thinking...
Ugh my writer nerves are tingling.
Originally I kind of had it pinned in my brain under a, dark fantasy kind of villain origin epic ya know (I'm a hoe for dramatic and dark so bare with me if you stick around my writing/ideas gets drama lmao). Violins and chello music, maybe some organ?, kind of playlists, dark vocals and gothic cathedral kind of vibe. Doing some sketching for the reverse route for my MC though had me thinking.
Changed my playlist as a test and OOF.
While I'm not giving up the dramatic, instrumental villain vibe, I've a got a whole new thing to play with and man am I feeling it right now.
Can I tempt you instead with the thought:
Of an outcome set with the tone of lonely, slow music boxes. A haunting, solo chello. Tragedy only the outside can see, and an shared, selfish, all-consuming obsession that tangles the soul(s). Where the rot sets in so subtle, and so deep, the affected cant see it. When the mere thought of speration is a more agonizing than a physical blow. The vision becomes nothing more than the other tangled in the black vines with you. Decent so deep you don't even see it happening. Corruption gained through a love tainted by desperation and devotion. Blind loyalty soaked in unchallenged obsession; unwilling to even entertain the idea of letting go. Death do you part forced away at the cost of any, and every, one else...
Can you breathe without the oxygen they give you.
Can you live without the heart they grew in you.
Can you survive without the soul they renewed in you.
A villain origin born of a tangled, writhing mess of faults and insecurities cured only by the one who remained and endured along side you.... Villains only able to be undone, if, one were to finally break from the other...
