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"Essential Identity" -- a virtual music video for Drunkard's Walk V/Oh! My Brother Book II
Featuring characters from "Oh! My Goddess" and "Oh! My Brother"
Music: "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks.
(BLANK WHITE SCREEN. AS MUSIC COMES UP, WE REALIZE THIS IS THE RESULT OF OVEREXPOSURE, OF MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF LIGHT, AS THE BRIGHTNESS CRANKS DOWN AND A SILHOUETTED FIGURE MATERIALIZES. WE SEE HER FROM THE BACK -- BLACK LEATHER AND BLONDE HAIR. SHE TURNS, AND WE SEE THAT IT IS MARA, COMPLETE WITH BLAZING CRIMSON DEMON MARKS. CAMERA COMES IN TO A HEAD-AND-SHOULDERS SHOT ON HER AND THE BACKGROUND DIALS DOWN TO A FAINTLY LUMINESCENT WHITE AS SHE SINGS.)
MARA
I hate the world today.
(MARA MORPHS INTO BELLDANDY. UNTIL NOTED OTHERWISE BELOW, EACH CHANGE OF SINGER IS A MORPH AGAINST THE BLANK WHITE BACKGROUND.)
BELLDANDY
You're so good to me,
I know, but I can't change.
URD
Tried to tell you but you
Look at me like maybe
I'm an angel underneath,
SKULD
Innocent and sweet.
BELLDANDY
Yesterday I cried.
MARA
You must have been relieved
To see the softer side.
SKULD
I can understand
How you'd be so confused.
I don't envy you.
URD
I'm a little bit of everything
All rolled into one.
MARA
I'm a bitch
URD
I'm a lover
SKULD
I'm a child
BELLDANDY
I'm a mother
MARA
I'm a sinner
BELLDANDY
I'm a saint
URD
I do not feel ashamed
MARA
I'm your hell
BELLDANDY
I'm your dream
URD
I'm nothing in between
SKULD
You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
BELLDANDY
So take me as I am.
URD
This may mean you'll have
To be a stronger man.
MARA
Rest assured that when I
Start to make you nervous
And I'm going to extremes
SKULD
Tomorrow I will change
BELLDANDY
And today won't mean a thing.
MARA
I'm a bitch
URD
I'm a lover
SKULD
I'm a child
BELLDANDY
I'm a mother
MARA
I'm a sinner
BELLDANDY
I'm a saint
URD
I do not feel ashamed
MARA
I'm your hell
BELLDANDY
I'm your dream
URD
I'm nothing in between
SKULD
You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
(MUSICAL BRIDGE)
BELLDANDY
Just when you think
You got me figured out
URD
The season's already changing.
SKULD
I think it's cool,
You do what you do
MARA
And don't try to save me.
BELLDANDY
I'm a bitch
SKULD
I'm a lover
MARA
I'm a child
URD
I'm a mother
BELLDANDY
I'm a sinner
MARA
I'm a saint
SKULD
I do not feel ashamed
BELLDANDY
I'm your hell
MARA
I'm your dream
SKULD
I'm nothing in between
URD
You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
SKULD
I'm a bitch
BELLDANDY
I'm a tease
MARA
I'm a goddess on my knees
URD
When you hurt, when you suffer
SKULD
I'm your angel undercover
BELLDANDY
I've been numb
MARA
I'm revived
(THE CAMERA PULLS BACK AND WE SEE URD, SKULD, BELLDANDY AND MARA, STANDING TOGETHER IN A ROW, SWAYING TO THE MUSIC.)
ALL
Can't say I'm not alive
You know I wouldn't want it any other way
(MUSIC BEGINS OUTRO.
ENTER PARADOX FROM RIGHT, LOOKING CONFUSED AND PUZZLED.
AS SONG GOES THROUGH INSTRUMENTAL ENDING, THEY SLINK PAST PARADOX ONE BY ONE AND EXIT RIGHT, TRAILING THEIR FINGERTIPS ACROSS HIS ARM, CHEST OR FACE.
PARADOX NODS AND SMILES, OBVIOUSLY HAVING NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON.
LAST TO LEAVE IS MARA, WHO GRINS AND PATS HIS CHEEK BEFORE SHE LEAVES THE FRAME.
MUSIC ENDS.
PARADOX TAKES A MOMENT MORE TO CATCH ON, THEN WHIRLS AND STARES OFF RIGHT.)
PARADOX
(Yelling)
Hey! What's she doing here?
(BLACKOUT)