DE: Bee Whop

[bjornwilde]

 Sorry for the late DE, had dishes from last night.

What is your pup's relationship with music like? Do they love it but have no clue how to make it? Have they mastered any instruments? Do they have a great singing voice? Do they know the mechanics? Or are they ambivalent about it?

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[yakalskovich]

Teja and Hannibal both make music - canonically. Father Harman quite likes it, and can sing quite well, but doesn't make it a priority - Milli!canonically. Tamara enchants and is enchanted by means of music. Lorenzo plays the lute and sings unexpectedly well.

The rest don't really care.-

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Gordon used to play music now and again on the glass armonica or glass bowls with various amounts of water in them, because when you are a not-very-social theoretical physics major you get some weird ideas about good musical instruments to learn. He does not have much of a singing voice and wouldn't try to sing anyway if he could avoid it. He also harbors a largely secret fondness for country music; it is a sign of extreme trust in you if he lets you know this.

Adrian has a surprisingly okay singing voice- he's a baritone and he can handle himself okay in the local church choir. He's not great, but he can sing without disgracing himself most of the time. As a kid he wanted to learn the violin, but the instrument and the lessons were too expensive and his mother did not want a beginner on the violin loose in her house. He got an old set of drums instead and wound up being really freaking good at them. His music of choice is metal; he's fond of Metallica, AC/DC, and Motorhead, among others, and would probably like Sabaton if he ever heard them.

Medic plays the violin largely for his own amusement and enjoys attending public music performances, but would not play for anyone else unless they asked several times.

Varric is not a big music person.

Santo likes music as much as the next man, but it is not a part of his life with any real significance.

Pentecost has an absolutely amazing singing voice and does not see where this fact is relevant to anything or anyone else. I am not sure of his preferred genres but I suspect a fondness for Bach and an interest in ambient and/or 'space' music (e.g., Steve Roach's album The Magnificent Void) in his off hours. I do not think he plays instruments. I'm pretty sure he can sight-read music with the best of them.

Edward Kenway has an okay singing voice only in that he is surrounded by men who tend to sing while drunk as much as while sober- that is to say, he can sing okay but only by comparison with a three-sheets-to-the-wind drunken pirate. He appreciates other people's ability to perform music, though.

Ellen grew up with the music that was taken into Vault 101 and the various other pieces that were composed over two hundred years of relative isolation. Vault 101's PA system only ever plays smooth jazz but I am firmly convinced they have an amazing blues tradition. She's memorized a lot of songs and could probably recite them off or write out the lyrics without having to stop to think about it, but she can't sing for beans and she's lucky to remember the difference between treble clef and bass clef. She is, however, deeply impressed by Agatha's violin playing, because Agatha has immense skill and the last freaking Stradivarius violin on Earth. So Ellen's no real good at music, but she appreciates the good stuff when she hears it. I suspect she turns off the radio when Three Dog plays "Civilization", too.

[bjornwilde]

Jess doesn't know much about music. She loves to listen to it but I can't imagine music theory was part of HYDRA assassin training. Still, she has a good voice and a talent for mimicry, so kills at karaoke.

Hank has a deep appreciation for music, it is math made physical, but he doesn't know how to sing or play any instruments. I do have some head canon that in the future, when his hands turn more paw-like, he will pick up the guitar to reteach himself manual dexterity.

Mulan seems a flute player. I am sure she can sing traditional ballads of her culture as well, though she is certainly out of practice.

Given the faux-Victorian culture she comes from, I am sure Isabella/Lady Trent will learn to play the piano at the least; likely singing as well. Whether she is any good at them remains to be seen. Actually, I seem to recall a bit in canon stating that her singing voice is best used with others to drown it out.

Sam loves music but I'm not getting anything beyond his enjoyment of it. I can't tell if he sings or plays any instruments but he definitely sees it as being important.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

I need to hook Bossuet up with a concertina. No canon basis for it, he just seems like a concertina kind of guy.

[death_gone_mad]

There's nothing in canon or my headcanon that says Amascut makes any kind of music. IIRC, I responded that she may be really into ballads in a previous DE. She doesn't sing them, though. If anything, she knows how to use percussive instruments such as bells and chimes. They are good for distracting or annoying certain monsters (cats included) but they do annoy her a bit too. But that's why earplugs are useful.

I haven't thought much about Fairy Fixit and music. I think I need to play her more. But... she probably has carved out a bone flute for herself which, given her size, plays at high frequencies halfway inaudible to even teenaged humans. I should note that most of the music written for fairy areas of the game focuses on bells and strings with piano thrown in to the mix.

[theoldfirm]

*Sneaks back in, slowly*

I'd say Barbossa has the perfect voice and attitude for dirty sea shanties and all sorts of sailor songs. He probably remembers some traditional peasant music from his childhood but I doubt he ever sings one of those. He's a man who seems like he'd be completely cut off from his past before the sea.

Tarik has a great voice, as any inspiring hero is bound to but I don't really see him singing much, if at all. He probably enjoys music as part of wind-down time, but he doesn't strike me as much of a music lover.

According to TV canon Bronn can sing and I love what they've done with the character in the TV series so he keeps that talent. He also seems to enjoy himself quite a bit when we see him singing which isn't all that strange with charismatic fictional soldiers.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

*opens mouth*

*just smiles*

[bjornwilde]

OK, I lol'd. =D

[singthesong]

Well his name is the Balladeer

And he literally has no straight dialogue in his canon

So

[genarti]

*snickering*

[genarti]

Enjolras seems the kind of guy to not much care about music unless it's a revolutionary anthem, and not even sing those very much at all... but to have a fantastic singing voice anyway because of course he would. Also, you know, he's mostly book-canon but just enough borrowed from a through-sung musical that it seems obligatory. Let's say his voice sounds (just coincidentally of course) very much like Aaron Tveit's! I don't think he has any idea how to play any instruments, though. If someone tried to teach him in childhood, he resented it deeply and never practiced, unless they managed to somehow tie it to Saint-Just or Robespierre or something I guess.

Cosette is in the same camp as Enjolras in that she seems like she ought to have a lovely singing voice because meta, and she's just a little bit from a through-sung musical too. So she's a soprano! Not particularly trained, except from singing hymns, but with natural talent. She likes music better than Enjolras, though; she loves listening to somebody talented sing or play. I don't think she knows how to play any instruments, but she'd enjoy learning.

Thor is GREAT with the exuberant drinking songs! He doesn't have the patience -- or, rather, the right focus to make him have patience -- for any instruments or for proper vocal training or music theory. He appreciates music to listen to, and growing up in a palace means he's used to very good musicians being around. For him it's more background than something to sit down and listen to a concert of, though. (Unless it's the kind of concert where you can crowd-surf or at least dance around a lot.) He will be interested to learn more about Earth styles of music, but not deeply invested in it.

Clare doesn't really understand it. There's probably a song or two that she knows, though -- a few lullabies she can sing without any clear memory of learning them, that kind of thing. And it seems like the kind of thing the organization might do to teach its warriors how to play an instrument or two, as part of being able to mimic various social roles.

Trowa plays flute, quite well. There's a lot of nostalgic memory in this -- he learned it from one of the other soldiers when he was quite young, and she gave him a flute which has enough sentimental value that he's actually hung onto it. For Trowa, that's very significant. And playing a flute/violin duet was his first real point of friendship and communication (and... anime sparkles) with Quatre, back during the war. He brings it along whenever he visits, and I suspect that impromptu duets happen reasonably often.

River likes listening to music, and especially dancing to it. Her ear for it is pretty trained, but it's all a dancer's ear, not a musician's. She doesn't know how to play any instruments beyond some basics, and her singing voice is nothing special and not all that reliably on-key. (So she refuses to sing, because River hates being mediocre at things and doesn't care enough to try to get good at this one.)

Regan likes listening to music, and enjoys concerts a lot. She sings to herself, sometimes, but mostly just in the house when not many people are around to overhear; she can more or less carry a tune but her voice is nothing special. She probably tried to learn a few instruments at various points and got frustrated and gave up.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine: Loves music, fancies herself a songstress, would be the lead singer of a trashy hair metal band if she could.

Dixie: Entertainer and music-writer extraordinaire. Loves it, writes it.

Juliet: Loves new wave and pop.

Eponine: Has a fondness for old sailor songs.

Pinkie: One woman band and on-the-spot songstress. Plays a mean everything. Unclassically trained.