The Way Back Home 200
└ posted on Tuesday, 12 February 2019, by Novil
Lyrics taken with minor adjustments from the song Life by Fools Garden, one of my top 3 favorite songs.
- Lilith: Could I find it out there
If I could fall asleep now
Would you stay and ease my pain?
- Viviana: Could you see me running?
And would you come to my dreams?
Would you hold me just a while?
And…
- Lilith and Viviana: Give me life
Give me peace
Give me space in your protection
- Lilith and Viviana: Give me light
Give me love
Give me hope inside your arms
… Whenever I get lost
- Lilith: Could you give me shelter?
And would you stay at my side?
Would you try to stop the rain?
- Viviana: Would you hold me out there?
If I could reach you somehow?
Would you save me one last time?
And…
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Sorry, Ilias, but Vivi is clearly the better man for Lilith 😉
So close together, so close to where the tree just stood. Time to unlock the powers of fate!
@ Arent: Lilith is single now, and Vivi seams open minded, she might go for the poly.
So nice to see these two trusting each other so much.
Somehow that final panel worries me…
Are we about to go Rock and Rule?
Looking like Bahamut is attacking the base of the tower? The results can’t be very good…
Where inconsistent art gets inconsistent.
a Disney moment during the apocalypse lmao
That song sounds like a prayer.
When the evil dragon is destroying the city, but you’re just a bard
and this is where they learn they can fuse into a dragon
“I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things.”
Zach wrote:
Wait, wait, wait – Sandril is not dead yet! He is only ~2 minutes off & Lilith is already single? Shesshh.
I only said that because Ilias had a crush on Lilith in the beginning of the story – & Vivianna is slowly becoming the hidden hero of gaia. Ilias is more of a sidekick/love interest of the hero, namely Vivi.
Something similar happened in one of my own stories. A minor character (called Lily 😉 ) completely unintended by me slowly developed to be some kind of hidden hero. It’s interesting how stories evolve while you write them.
. . . will you come with me?
@ Bookwyrm:
And well – you cant get out of shield which likely because it is smaller has far less exploitable flaws compared to one that protected whole building.
plus San is likely drained with no tree to replenish her anymore, Arty is doing his best, but well – he seems to be prime example of a battlemage…
and well – what can you do about the dragon… it already wiped the floor with two dragons attempting to intercept and third one realized it would just delay inevitable,
Massive barrage of virtually every spellcaster on the ground pounding it was ignored completly.
One weapon that could damage is is contained within the shield and cant get out… and the second – assuming Eldor did not take it away – is there too.
Overall – Olrik should arrive in the evening but I doubt he will come with like 20 dragons as reinforcements, and his army was pounded by revolution.
Midgard forces are dispersed protecting own land… and I really suspect San humiliating the dragon will come to bite her into her (albeit perfect) ass since she likely will be weaker after Eldor removed something off her, and the tree is gone.
@ Fairportfan:
“I am the very model of a scientist Salari-“
If the tree can no longer refill Lilith’s powers, I bet Vivi can. They are close enough, always knowing where the other is/if the other is hurting, that I wouldn’t be surprised if Lilith gets a refuel just from singing with Vivi.
Arent wrote:
That sounds pretty cool 😀 I love when my characters develop “on their own”, unintentionally to my creation 🙂
Kitsune wrote:
But it adds more work! If you notice you become more interested in a minor character, you have to rewrite parts of your story to accomodate for that.
I think Novil said something similar, if I remember correctly, he was even referring to Vivianna. I think he somewhere said that in the beginning she was just a minor character but then somehow became more and more important.
Stop. Making. Me. Ship it. >/
Viviana is queen, it’s basically expectet of her to have a harem => my ships don’t need to fight for dominition, I’m pro harem ending^^
@ Fox:
To the butterflies and bees
Arent wrote:
When your bf is taken over by an ambiguously evil dude who did just try to kill your friend, it’s considered a breakup for now. Also, she’s been emotionally cheating on him with her training so yeah.
Okay, SONG TUNING time! We need to post videos of tunes that this song goes to.
Scratch that, the syllables are such that they seem to go all over the place.
Samantha wrote:
There is a little link to fools garden’s life beneath the comic.
@ Bookwyrm:
JAJAJAJAJAJA!!!, nice one!
Situation is almost hopeless, but not such a extreme they give all a miss. Maybe singing is anxiolytic, but this is too much. Anyway, is far more elegant than splitting after making another mega-mess, vulgar threats, and leaving your corpse behind.
This plot wouldn’t be called “Gaia” but “Eldor the disasters maker” or “Road (highway) to shambles with Eldor, the taxi driver”. At the end, the chosen ones are singing in a bubble except the furious one (now considerably calmer), who surely sings very poorly.
@ Fairportfan:
I think Vivi’s taking Lili’s hand to put it on the shield and try breaking it again, now that she’s focussed.
Peter wrote:
They are obviously dancing. That’s at least my impression.
They do make a good couple..
By Gaia, I’m calling it: This song is actually a spell, and Lili is casting it (not alone, though).
I am predicting right now that the next line is going to be “Will you come along?” and there is going to be some freaky time/magic event occurring along with it!
#TheRedHall039
Klorix wrote:
Zakalwe wrote:
Well, they did say that Lilith would cast a spell to change the world. Until now, she hasn’t cast a spell, and it was Eldor, who called the dragon and destroyed in effect the tree.
So, yes, we are still waiting for that great spell that changes the world – for better or worse.
This is a beautiful moment, especially while they’ve got a depressing balcony-eye view of an entire town’s worth of everything they’ve planned becoming flaming death in the streets.
The Way- started in February 2017. Was Oliver sitting on this idea, this scene, for two years?
Of course they can get out of the shield. The Avaril’s in the hallway. Lilly never uses her mana. It would have been hilarious for them to have been doing a Disney song number while hefting Eldor’s body on their shoulders and throwing it magic-sword-first over the side of the tower. (Of course if he lands on his back the sword might very well pop out, and the body’s still fresh…)
@ Visvires: That is an awesome movie.
@ Bookwyrm: Excellent point, but the LAST guy called Bard shot down the dragon.
This reminds me of this:
“For the dancing and the dreaming
Through all life’s sorrows
And delights
I’ll keep your laugh inside me.”
Uh-oh. Things didn’t end quite well for the couple that sang this rhyme.
@ Zakalwe:
That’s where I was going with my comment. I just mistyped the quote as doing it from memory.
Is it just me, or is there an AT series finale kinda vibe here?
I’m getting a very bad feeling about this.
Now, what is the solution? San able to break barrier?
I remember when Wendy Pini tried having her characters sing on a few pages of Elfquest. It was a storytelling disaster.
This singing too is a storytelling disaster of broken pacing, and reaffirms me in the belief that singing never works in comics.
However, by blocking out the speech/singing bubbles and just looking at the art, there is a great storytelling moment. Lillith gradually getting pulled back together, focussed and revitalized.
That is some quality art and pacing right there.
Mister Zipangu wrote:
Tolkien did pretty good though. I’ve done it too. The key to it is to (1) have a clear plot context where it goes in, (2) clear sense of meter or practice saying and singing the song while writing and plan the lines by break (you have to had read CD song sheets and not simply fill in for line like some artists do, which is why this is failing to even be hummed), and (3) it’s best if you give a tune that people can look up (Land of Rest for example).
My example:
The party builds a bamboo water system for purifying the water of an ambiguous desert people. No more poo water and no sandy water either. They sing (There Can Be Miracles) When You Believe. And I describe their language as having the written language of Hindi but spoken language of Hebrew, Aramaic, Persian, and Amharic (basically it’s a post-apocalypse, so some cultures mixed in odd ways). It’s actually written out in another alphabet so unless you are a polyglot, you probably can’t do it. But if you’re familiar with the song or look it up, you can basically sing the song. The context is put in again, as the person speaking is miffed that they call it a miracle instead of giving them some credit.
As for how this song does, well it establishes context, but as we don’t really have a key (try making a MIDI on AnvilStudio) we can’t actually sing it, and the song is hard to follow where the breaks are especially around the chorus.
Samantha wrote:
Next lines of the song offer enough context to think about what could happen …
the choosen Ones have their talents.
Novil will have reasons for the pagination and what lyrics he choose to alter …
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However, I have to agree:
Signing in comics never works. Never.
(I’ve seen it in famous manga – and it was a fail and everybody was happy when it was over.)
Singing* not signing.
Nobody wrote:
I wouldn’t say never though.You have to basically treat it like a different language though, and have an interpretation system. Either you have attached tune (in this era of links, that’s possible to pull off), or you have the way the song is sung exactly by line (no cramming lines in because space constraints, you have to extend the picture as necessary) or use commas or / for breaks and – to note sustained music in order that even the average reader can puzzle out how to sing this. You would also need to note the general tune (which to be fair, they sort of did the page before this).
With one set of notes (last page), I was able to improvise an “intro” and the first line based on perceived rhythm.
(Use AnvilStudio to work with midi files)
https://alterupload.com/?sgdm9sjpo436dkfstifw
Anyone actually good at composing here?
@ Arent:
Just gals being pals!!
So Gaia is a musical now?
This is almost word-for-word the original song. Forgive me for my nervousness, but do you have permission from the artist, or some sort of Free Usage or tribute or whatever legalese?