hi quince !!! if the pilots approached you to direct a brand new livestream experience, on any subject of your choosing, with unlimited budget and a lot of time to prepare everything, what would you do for it?
HAI ALASKA!! sorry for taking a while,, had to really think for this LOL
I'm gonna answer this ask twice, once as a what I would want as My Wish and then what i would in a particular livestream.
I'd love to see them perform the entirety of self-titled, RAB and vessel but as a preferably 3 hour small intimate concert film. with me in the audience. at barricade ^u^. A recoreded album with proper mixing would be great but I specifically want to see how they perform their oldest songs 16 years later, if not more. Which is important because Performance is what drives the pilots and is the central part to their passion and body of work as Twenty One Pilots. I wanna see what aspects and elements they'd change in the songs but also just see. idk 37 year old tyler joseph jump around to the songs he wrote when he was 17-23ish etc. I want to see what emotions they'd go through looking back on the rawness in their early days. It's clear that there was a lot of. pain during those early albums, and i kinda want to see what they think about it now, looking back on it. I really want to see this hypothetical concert film as an answer to the cry of help which are the first three albums. then I would like the concert film to be accompanied by a 3 hour long documentary about the concert film where they talk about why they made changes, how they planned to perform each song, and maybe some fun backstories to how each individual song came to be, it's purpose and origin. fumbs up. also they would bring back anathema jocals. #jocals
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For a a livestream I would love to see a clancy era clancy focused story (haha. musical.) set between The Outside and Intro to Paladin Strait. I want to see the deterioriation and conflict thats done so well in the SAI livestream but more in a introspective manner. There are two worlds, clancy's mind and the actual world where she's going from Voldsoy back to Dema. I'd put some crazy set changes, which is something I really love in the SAI livestream and would love to see in unlimited budget with no ecological damage. Like she's in the middle and the forest with the banditos and then there's broken down elements from GoodDayDema start appearing in the trees and bushes until shes back in the house (oh lawd she back in da house). As she weighs her options and choices, she has flashbacks and then there'll be some super insane cool Practical effects and actors and costume designs and changes. TB is gone and there's corpsebearer on the drums, a black stain in the pink, grim and dirty in the cleanliness. As a reminder of what is at stake, now that she's accepted her fate as clancy (whether it was willing or not is something else that can be explored) . I would keep the style pretty similar to SAI livestream bc i do really adore that medium of telling a story.
The main idea is that Clancy never got the time to process her trauma and the abuse she's been through in Dema, which is presented as the performances of the past lore songs and other relevant songs. she's forced to drag her dead weight forward by everyone around her. With the pressure of TB and the banditos, to those who see her as hope, she feels like she has no way out, crushed by the weight of how much she needs to breathe and simply live. So she chooses to become nova bishop. There'd be foreshadowing throughout the live stream, but it would end right at the intro of paladin strait where Torchbearer presents to Clancy her clothing and mask.
As much as I love being told things and have stories work out meticulously , the cliffhangers and vagueness of the canon lore is still very appealing to me, and I like how a lot of it is up to interpretation. We as the audience already know what happens, so the livestream is to somewhat explain how she came to The Decision. we know shes gonna die even after making it through the final fight. Regardless, I want to there to be enough elements suggest the plot is the 'hard journey towards the light and freedom' when it's just clancy being dragged further down and down towards something she doesn't want to do. The livestream stops there, then we die and explode in our theatre chairs. something like that.
TLDR : I torture the band for 6 hours, then I torture clancy for two hours
