with an empty head and a hungry knife, Rune is a violent attack dog of a man and i love him and his weird ideas of affection very much.
What does it mean when the knife & the hand are your own?
this song fits very nicely with the whole dark urge memory loss deal
You're chewing with an open mouth, raw meat / Your blood drool attracts the flies
Rune is not, shall we say, a particularly civlised boy
But they say the wretched get their kingdom
this is partly here because of Rune's dog-coding, and partly because he is a wretched thing
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo
all of this song ties in with his violence and murderous nature
I wanted to dress a blade up in red with both our of necks
this one is more the tendencies he had (in my head) early game to try and smother his urges with sex, with having his blood drained out of him (thanks astarion) and other such overindulgences. he had no idea wtf was going on with him at any given time and anything that drowned it was good
Now I wanna be your dog
All this running around / Well it's getting me down / Just give me a pain that I'm used to
Rune had some difficulties acclimating to his new existence - pain and blood were old, familiar friends that were much easier to deal with than things like 'loyalty' and 'friendship' and 'romance'.
In this place it seems like such a shame / Though it all looks different now, I know it's still the same / Everywhere I look you're all I see / Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be
act 3, baybee. everywhere he goes is something almost-familiar - and then of course there's Gortash, with whom Rune did used to have a rather more intimate relationship.
I have never learnt to compromise / I need to feel alive
the aggro of this song is Rune and Astarion vibes. to Me. they bring out some good in each other but they also will spiral each other into ridiculous, reckless behaviours. not evil, necessarily. just the kind of thing that has the rest of the party going 'bitch why???'
Violence is just an incomplete thought / Coming to a complete stop
i love this entire song for Rune; tonally it fits well just the sound of it, then this fucking line is fantastic - plus there's all the lines about a father and a sister and the word slayer is also in it, so what more can a Bhaalspawn ask for, really?
Old habits dig their roots in / Dark slivers of past everywhere / I remember I've been hiding something / But seems I forgot how to share
hear me out that this song (this verse) is peak dark urge. old habits (murder), slivers of past (random flashbacks, strange enjoyments). you know something's going on but you don't know what and if it doesn't kill you, it's going to kill everyone else
I'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired / Reset my patient violence along both lines of a pathway higher / Grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire
at this point it isn't a playlist if i don't have at least one ST song on it, but in my defence, this fits Rune so fucking well it's not even funny.
Your head will collapse, if there's nothing in it / And you ask yourself? / Where is my mind? Where is my mind?
traumatic head injury inflicted memory loss and illithid tadpole brainrot leave local half elf with a brain full of holes and significant mental problems