If Devil Town was a TV show what would it's soundtrack be like? explanation under the cut
for @rebelpeas
warning : it's long and also SPOILERS
The soundtrack for any show is meant to be an extension of the story itself; Because it's one of the main senses we rely on if it doesn't fit the immersiveness is significantly impacted.
So i tried to compile a list of songs i felt were most suited to Devil Town's central themes. First thing to keep in mind was that Devil Town is a small town horror AU but it also doubles as a sort of family drama where a clean break reveals all the other fault lines running across the bone.
So i divided the playlist into two parts-one is reserved for the human v/s human interaction whereas the other is reserved for human v/s inhuman interaction
All the Sinister OST tracks are for human v/s inhuman interaction (the forest mainly). A friend once told me that it's score was the most terrifying they ever heard in a horror movie and yk what? they were right
After i heard it i couldn't really use any other OST to represent the corruption that had spread through the town. It's just so distinctly unnerving and hey if it fits it sits!
Of course life is never that easy (if you got my ask yk) and so halfway through the track Mr. Boogie we suddenly go from something's-crawling-up-my-spine to a weird EDM jam that you could probably dance to.
it ruins the vibe so just pretend the tracks end before that part of the song comes on.
All the Shiva baby OSTs are for human v/s human interaction-mainly the sbi. You have relationships that hit the brakes abruptly so everyone is tense around each other. They don't know how to react now that they're all back together minus one and so their conversations in the beginning are clipped and filled with resentment.
Shiva baby really fits that. Shiva baby was actually made for that! (you should check out amanda the jedi's video to get a better understanding of what i mean)
The Chernobyl OSTs are for the church and the mine, Ludor for the former and 'The bridge of death' and 'waiting for the engineer' being for the latter. They're creepy as hell and fit pretty well because they aren't very on the nose. There's something wrong with these places, something rotten below the surface. And with the ones for the mine it just...gives the feel of being all alone in this giant empty space.
Except you're not alone :)
The DARK OSTs are meant for the search for tommy; Anthracite also falls under this category. DARK actually shares a lot of key thematic elements with Devil Town but it being sci-fi makes most of it's soundtrack unusable
This is because sci-fi horror and supernatural horror are distinctly different in their scores. Sci-fi horror is distortion heavy-Annihilation's main theme being a very very good example of this while Supernatural horror is dominated by string instruments-cellos and violins and the like.
The songs with lyrics are meant for exposition and montages and such, some diegetic (can be heard by the characters) and others not. You know how shows do this thing where they use a song that starts in universe but slowly turns non-diegetic or the opposite where you think it's in the background but it's actually diegetic? That's pretty cool imo
i imagine wilbur and quackity sitting in the diner while 'My body is a cage plays over the speakers'. Or when sapnap makes hot chocolate for karl and big Q after their stint in the woods; i imagine him turning on the radio to lighten up the mood and 'It's happening again' plays (rip sapnap the radio doesn't seem to like him very much)
(a fave of mine is when they use music as a memory gateway. Imagine that scene where sapnap and quackity go to get ice cream and he turns the radio on and that music transitions to a flashback with the feral boys when they were younger like ohhhh that's the good shit bro)
Devil town is a fic that i think i'll cherish forever. It's just so wonderfully written. I wish you all the best in your future endeavours and i hope writing always makes you happy
@rebelpeas devil town on the brain with the reread so have some doodles of an overwhelmed Techno, schrodinger's brother, and a totally not blushing Quackity yep totally not
thinking about devil town by hoorayy on ao3 again. that fic hasnt left my brain for one second since i finished it, it's like now it's over there is just a devil town shaped hole where it used to be
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The town is fucking cursed, and Wilbur knows it. It infects everything and everyone it touches, including himself, keeping them tied to unhallowed ground and doomed to repeat unending, meaningless cycles, ad naúseum, forever. Time is a circle and the boundary between the perimeter of his town and the rest of the world is an ever-expanding, greedy mouth that needs to be restricted with a bloody chain link fence, and wardens, and sirens. The whole enchilada.
He knows this. He knows pursuing this thing with Sally is a bad idea. He knew it from the start.
