heeeeeyyyyyyyyyy so we all know i'm so good at giving consistent updates about my ybc fangame..... very very very little progress has been made (NOT my fault) so fuuuck it i'll share my character art for the fobabois LOL
do these perhaps suck ass? yes! fortunately it will not be seen in the game
after multiple attempts at sprite arts all of which made me consider smashing my drawing tablet and never drawing again i thiiink i'm gonna do these in my normal art style. somewhat less consistent but i'll be happier with it LOL so not whatever i was trying to do here
okay so (pre rat a tat) patricks evil/possessed/brainwashed state can ONLY be triggered with music (as shown in the mighty fall-- his eyes glow when the music starts but stop when The Herald turns the boom box off)
then how come patrick is still evil in Where Did the Party Go?
there's no possible way that he can hear the music from Foxes car all the way in the hospital. even with any special/heightened abilities (which I don't think he has at least pre rat a tat. and even then maybe just enhanced stamina/endurance to keep up with Pete) there's physically no way for Patrick to hear the music inside the hospital.
my theory: during his hallucination, he can hear music -- with the song being Where Did The Party Go.
(I first read about the "Patrick hearing music during his hallucination in the wdtpg music video" in this long analysis of the youngblood chronicles)
I think he is hearing the song that we, the audience, hear during the music video simply because of how Patrick sings along to the music. we see him do this in almost every music video for the youngblood chronicles.
- there's two instances of the audience being directly addressed during the lyrics (Once by Tommy Lee/The Prince in Death Valley and second by Elton John/God in Save Rock and Roll) so it's not completely out of left field to say that the songs have been in-universe acknowledged. -
but before wdtpg I don't think there's been an in-universe presence of the music. I think this video is where the music is first acknowledged by a character.
there's two sides to the wdtpg video: reality (shown by the blue hue of the hospital) and Patrick's hallucination (shown by other neon colors/the presence of the zombie hospital partygoers/the disco ball).
the ONLY time Patrick is singing along to the lyrics is when it is shown that he is hallucinating-- the first/easier example is near the beginning of the song, when he first sings the prechorus "and all the boys are smoking menthols/girls are getting backrubs". we know this is a hallucination because the color of the hallway changes from blue to neon yellow and he is walking much faster (as well as Patrick is stumbling around almost zombie like-- in fact, the zombies in this video seem more alive than he is). when the scene cuts back to reality it shows that Patrick isn't singing at all and is instead wandering around, searching. the next hallucination scene when he's with the nurse, he's singing along to the chorus
unlike the other videos where it's kind of random when Patrick is singing along, the singing in wdtpg feels intentional. Patrick is never shown singing in reality/while hunting the other band members. But while he's hallucinating that party, he IS singing along, oftentimes he's singing TO some other person (the girl in the wheelchair in the hallway, and the nurse in the next scene).
when the singing in the video ends, Patrick snaps back into reality (RIGHT after the last "na na na" part, Patrick's eyes fade back to blue) and sees what he's done. it can't be because he killed Joe that he snaps back-- Joe is dead before Pete and Andy get there (judging by where Patrick is when Pete enters the room). in fact, Patrick starts walking over to them as if he's going to try and kill them next. In Miss Missing You-- the only other time we see Patrick possessed for a long period of time-- the death of Pete (and his own death) isn't enough to stop his evil state. (however, that is post rat a tat, where his brainwashing/possession has been fully completed so take that bit with a grain of salt).
I think this is the first instance we see (and one out of very few) where a character in universe acknowledges the music (and the only other two characters are literally The Devil and God so. add that with the metaphor that Patrick is a messiah type/Jesus figure in the ybc and it creates some interesting parallels between the three).
