Quote:It's funny that you should cite that particular song, as that's the one I was talking about. Except the video's more clearly about crossing into and out of comic books -- which I thought would be a great hook for a kind of teleportation.
Yeah, like the video for Aha's "Take On Me" leads me to visions of mirror dimensions than whatever the song is actually about.
Oh, hell, I might as well tell what I had in mind. This is intended for the Sailor Moon Step, although I really don't have anywhere in its skimpy plot to place it. Basic set up: crisis brews up, but Usagi's home sleeping off something, won't respond to communicators or phones. Doug has noticed she and Rei have the same issue of the "Ranma 1/2" tankouban; he uses "Take On Me" to dive into the copy in Rei's room, and pops out of the copy in Usagi's (in the process, he has to run through a scene inside the manga, disturbing the Ranma characters when he "pardon me"s his way past them and jumps into the front window of Ucchan's). He wakes up Usagi, gets her to transform, and then drags her back into the book (the song's still playing). As they run across the scene again, Usagi recognizes where she is, and Akane recognizes Usagi from her manga. Usagi breaks away from Doug and does about 30 seconds' worth of Self-Insert Engineering ("He loves you. She loves you. Oh, and Ryouga is P-chan.") and then runs off with Doug into another window and out into Rei's room.
Quote:There's a part where they sing stuff like, "Did you love? Did you dream?"... about four or five different things like that.
Hmmm, I haven't listened to it in a while, but the version I listen to mostly has the background singers follow the lead singer.
Quote:Oh, certainly -- you've seen it in the story -- he has the lyrics for everything in his helmet in a database that he can search and project on his HUD. Most songs do follow their lyrics (or at least key parts of them) for their powers, so this is useful to him. It's only a few oddballs that are seriously disjointed from their literal meaning.
Idle curiosity; does he look at lyrics at all?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.