Two options for this one

[bmull]

I was listening to My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies and an Linda Eder's version of Man of La Mancha began playing (I must say this has become one of my favorite versions of this song.)
Title: Man of La Mancha
Artist: Linda Eder
Album: My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
Track: 9
Hear me now oh thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be
And a knight with his banner all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!
I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha
Destroyer of Evil am I
I will march to the sounds of the trumpets of glory
Forever to conquer or die
Hear me heathens and wizards and serpents of sin
All your dastardly doings are past
For a holy endeavor is now to begin
And virtue shall triumph at last!
I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha
A name all the world soon will know
And the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward
Oh whither so ever they blow
Whither so ever they blow
Onward, to Glory I go!
I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha
A name all the world soon will know
And the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward
Oh whither so ever they blow
Whither so ever they blow
Onward, to Glory I go!
I see two possible uses for this song:
1) A "gate" song that takes Doug to a world where he is needed or
2) A "helper" song; it starts out with winds blowing around and fading in to view as if from a distance comes
"a country squire, no longer young... bony, hollow-faced... eyes that burn with the fire of inner vision."
It's "Don Quixote de La Mancha" on his "skinny old horse" with banners unfurled, ready to do battle!
Don Quixote can be used as a serious helper for Doug or for comedy, depending upon what Bob thinks.

[Bob Schroeck]

Erm. Since I've long intended to do at least two side stories (one for Doug, one for the "Girls, Girls, Girls" crew) set in some version of Don Quixote, I'd be hesitant to also have a simulacrum song for it as well.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[robkelk]

Well, we've got three simulcra songs for Sailor Senshi on the list already (counting Cape-Boy as a Senshi).
Mind you, this could be a gate song to get Doug (& Maggie?) or the Girls to the Man of La Mancha timeline, the way I used Take Me Out to the Ball Game to get Doug to the Princess Nine world, instead...

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

The girls are using a different means to open gates, but yeah, Doug could use this that way. And you've made a good point about the simulacra songs.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...