>>20763585Sure I guess
>>20763702I mean, I could sum up the whole thing by just saying it's a whole album about how weird it is to be a Live2D anime grill, but why she loves it enough to not graduate anytime soon. But that would require meds, and if that's all it took for deadbeats to believe Mori's got a story, they would have just gotten it from the lyrics in a listen or three. So 200% schizo mode it is.
>>20763067Maybe the best crystallization of what I see in HUGE W is here:
>What I’ve got here is a guillotine and bags made of plastic>Mori feeling kinda mean but damn this feels fantasticThis is a blatant reference to her ASMR streams, where she intentionally breaks all the rules of one of the most sacrosanct stream styles out there, and instead of trying to limit all the weird shitty noises that intruded on previous attempts, she makes that the goal. She's gonna be an idol, but she's gonna find her OWN way to be an idol, damn it, and it's gonna grow on you just the same way this stupid song seems to be growing on /here/beats.
>>20763743>>20763907>>20763374>7. Resting Power>Resting Power is another really great introspective one that has a deeper meaning if you listen to the lyrics but I will NEVER, ever really talk about it completely 100%. It's one of those things that you'll have to listen to and come up with your fan theories in regards to, just because I can't really touch it. But I think you guys will have a fun time debunking that one.Well fuck. This is the one I'm the least confident on by far, and it just so happens to be the one she'll never confirm or deny. Go big or go home, I guess:
So right after overwhelming everybody with the high-effort shitpost and completely upending the first half of the album, the listener's worn out, they need a rest, and they need some time to gather their thoughts.
The one thing I'm sure of is that this is a song from Mori, to Mori.
>So I’ll take a solid look in the mirror>Should I give her all of it, should I fear her?>Now you’re>Part of meIt's referring back to her split soul from UnAlive, playing with perspective in the same way that her other slow somber song did.
>Bird brained and clumsy, she numbs me, Yet she beCOMES me>Nobody ever really SEES the differenceThat's not a reference to Kiara, it's a side of herself that she's struggled to accept until now. Whether it's a reconciliation with the dark side she fought. There's a good chance that it ties into songs and story arcs beyond the scope of this split that I'm not willing to eat a ban over right now, and maybe that's the conclusion Calli came to as well. But if I had to narrow it down to just one thing, I'd say:
If End of a Life was a requiem for her old soul, Resting Power is a serenade for her new body.
It's a song pointed at her Persona, both in the theatrical/Jungian sense of a public-facing "alter-ego", AND in the Atlus Videogame Company sense of an evil version of yourself that can never be exorcised, only tamed by admitting that she's actually just you deep down, and once you learn to love her you can use her as your stand and change the world.
It reminds me of something Pekora mentioned on stream before - where the longer she does this job, the harder it gets in her daily life to not say "peko", or to behave like a rascally anime blob in contexts that no longer fit it. Calli has continually been shocked at just how much streaming calms her down, just how much she likes doing girly shit for deadbeats that used to (and to some extent, still kinda does) disgust her. How she keeps getting shocked at how much longer she can stream and how much harder it is to stop and--OH WAIT
>Part of me, every>Hour, feels like the beginning>It’s nothing like the beginning>I think we just might be winning>I’m thinking you must be kiddingShe's shocked, and terrified, at how much this act now means to her, and how it's taken on a life of its own that is neither just her relabeled psyche nor an embodiment of ghostlings' wishes, but something in between the two that she's still getting to know.
>…So tell me just how far we gonna take this?>Work until the fires of the clientele break us?>You smile well, reside in hell and never give in>But maybe I can’t survive an environment like thisDeep down, the soul inhabiting Mori Calliope's body knows she's just a human. Just because she can't go back to normal now doesn't make her any more capable of living up to this gestalt ideal. Like us, she knows it's a fantasy, that she can't actually marry us or fix us. But that doesn't make her any less committed to being the best host for Our Mori.
>Tired and anxious, her advice is>“We are their light, sis.”>And so I fight this>The brightness, in my crisis, she saved my fuckin life, risk it allShe's a deadbeat too. And nothing's more "deadbeat' than accidentally falling for Calliope Mori and figuring out what that means for your life moving forward.
>But I’m really thinking you and I could start something new 