Next, we have our next commission with live instruments, this one featuring cello and violin and I looooove that we got to work with cello, it's one of my favorite instruments! This theme is for the FFXIV character Rosalin Menoly.
The theme was meant to explore her story. When the Calamity took her life, her family, her home, that should have been that. But it wasn't. Shards that pierced her, embedded in her, pulsed with energy, awakening her...and this is the aftermath and after.
The cello pulses erratically, simulating the unstable energies bringing her back to life, the violin is the devastation of realizing that everything she knew and loved is gone and she's alone. Rosalin Menoly moves about as if not part of the realm, she's a ghost, lingering when she feels she shouldn't be. The theme goes on to explore her trying to discover what her second chance means, the slow and steady appreciation that there is still beauty left, and the shame and guilt of feeling she doesn't deserve it. The song resolves when she finally determines she is not a ghost, but a guardian and if she must go on it will be for selfless purposes, protecting what beauty and life is left after the Calamity. We wanted to convey a melancholy and haunted feeling in the sound yet keep elements of refinement and grace. Rosalin comes from a distinguished background and even though it's gone, that pride in her past lingers in her bearing, how she gracefully shoulders on despite how difficult it can be when she barely feels human or connected to the world around her. But there's warmth there, in what connections and beauty she finds.
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The theme was meant to explore her story. When the Calamity took her life, her family, her home, that should have been that. But it wasn't. Shards that pierced her, embedded in her, pulsed with energy, awakening her...and this is the aftermath and after.
The cello pulses erratically, simulating the unstable energies bringing her back to life, the violin is the devastation of realizing that everything she knew and loved is gone and she's alone. Rosalin Menoly moves about as if not part of the realm, she's a ghost, lingering when she feels she shouldn't be. The theme goes on to explore her trying to discover what her second chance means, the slow and steady appreciation that there is still beauty left, and the shame and guilt of feeling she doesn't deserve it. The song resolves when she finally determines she is not a ghost, but a guardian and if she must go on it will be for selfless purposes, protecting what beauty and life is left after the Calamity. We wanted to convey a melancholy and haunted feeling in the sound yet keep elements of refinement and grace. Rosalin comes from a distinguished background and even though it's gone, that pride in her past lingers in her bearing, how she gracefully shoulders on despite how difficult it can be when she barely feels human or connected to the world around her. But there's warmth there, in what connections and beauty she finds.
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