I can't believe I haven't seen this thread before, honestly!
A lot of us have associated theme songs or playlists for our characters, relationships, or stories-- show off your favorites here!
How do you choose songs? Do you pick songs whose lyrics fit the character, songs the character might listen to, songs whose feel reminds you of them-- or other reasons? I'd love to hear your thought process!
Threads that can help you find songs for your characters:
Because I suck at finding new music on my own I have playlists for groups of characters rather than individuals, otherwise the lists would be super short. As for what actually goes on them, I mainly go for songs that I feel fit each of the characters' aesthetics.
Currently I have this one for Aluminum, Tin, Magnesium, and Titanium, and this one for Sulfur, Mercury and Fluorine.
I have a BIIIG collective YouTube Playlist for ALL of my OCs! Which characters the songs belong to are in the notes on the videos!
Oh I really like this idea, I think of a few songs that might fit well for my characters.
Victor I feel like I'm Still Standing by Elton John would really work well. He's the kind of hero who would bounce back from any trouble.
Bella would go great with Don't Go Breaking my Heart cause I feel she would be sensitive to love, but still want it. She's determined to be the best and find someone who likes her for her.
Vixie would be perfect with Footloose since he's very sporadic, energetic and just loves to be a party animal.
Valin (Hyena) would probably be Never Gonna Give You Up because I feel he's rather shy admitting his true feelings, but would sing about wanting love despite the fact it might make him look a bit foolish.
Valin (Human) would be perfect with Karma Chameleon because he can be a bit unpredictable.
Ginger would be perfect with We Got the Beat since it's very energetic and somewhat rebellious
Bullrazor would be It's the End of the World since despite the worst incident, he be willing to fight till his death.
Kate I think would have Walk Like an Egyptian not sure why but I feel like it really fits with her.
Clarissa would be Girl's Just Want to Have Fun because she just wants to have excitement, something new but enjoy herself.
Diego would have I'm Bad because well, He's a bad guy plus he would love to dance to this while committing crimes.
Perish and Jezabelle could be I'm The Bad Guy to show how vindictive they could really be.
If I didn't have you! would be the song of Trim-Trum and Trum-Trim because i'm sure they would argue a lot.
I think I Put a Spell on You! would work rather well for Mauve, Especially around Valin.
Vendetta would be It's Terror Time Again more Zombies based, but Vendetta just loves scaring people.
Prince Hasani would be The Ugly Truth due to him being both a bad guy and just thinking he's better then everyone else.
i made playlists for almost all of my main ocs jsnfjfas
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Bn0s43iy4tlY9PmKQXS2f?si=AGugnz3tQLSuxIkXo46J-Q
when chosing songs for oc playlists i dont care at all what genre they are or how they sound as long as the lyrics or premise of the song fits them
ive got playlists for each of my main ocs and id like them to have a sort of equal amount of songs but its kinda hard to find some that i think fit them. i listen to sooo much music (my main playlist on spotify even after whittling it down is 13 hours long 0_0) but i'm very very picky with oc playlists so theres not much in the playlists unfortunately :/
ximena // forrest // junko // mortimer
ive thought of also making playlists of what kinda music theyd listen to but i think that would be way too hard for me lol
a few of my OCs have playlists and they're linked on their profiles!
Almeri // "what am i willing to put up with today? not fucking this!"
Koro // the void screamed back
Solas // arcane & wolfsbane
Otto // inventing new mental illnesses
Not // "my name? oh, it's..."