• Album: Dark Passion Play Artist: Nightwish Songs: The Poet and the Pendulum Eva Amaranth The Islander Meadows of Heaven That's my playlist for my new story (the order is important). I wanted to try and explain my idea here first. It all started when I got an assignment in English to write an essay on what we think the future will be like. I started writing the first thing I could think of, some complete crap on how I wanted the future to be. Naturally, I ran into a wall two paragraphs in, and it all just sucked completely. So I put on this album, which always seems to inspire me for some reason, and finally found why it always does this. It's been begging this whole time for this story I've found. Alright, here goes. It begins in the future, you pick a date that seems plausible. The government is corrupt, out waging wars and letting the people do whatever the hell they want. A girl lives with a group of people she calls her "family," because that's all she has. She doesn't even have a real name - they call her Poet, for reasons you can probably figure out. She's young at that point, probably around sixteen (I haven't decided yet). The group lives in one of the falling apart cities, with almost no money, fighting to survive. One day, one of the family members is caught in the crossfires of a shootout in the streets. Poet is perceptive enough to see that they have to try and move on, search for a safe place in vain, because they'll all die if they stay. That whole thing is basically how I see The Poet and the Pendulum. The next song, Eva, talks about the journey in desperate search. It gives a hint at what Poet's name will be changed to later in the story - Eva, obviously. She's young, but she's smart, and wise for her age, and something inside her that nobody can explain is telling her where to go. This inner sense leads her to stealing a boat and bringing the family, with an eerily calm passage, to an island that few others have been able to stumble upon. This is the song Amaranth, which talks about finding an untouched, immortal bit of beauty in the world. There are a few people living there, who found it before them, and they've found a way to live like people did back before industrialization existed. Nobody knows why the island is so perfectly preserved - I'm trying to paint it as a sort of Eden. The Islander is about how Poet meets one of the inhabitants (name ideas?), and he starts calling her Eva. This will be a vague reference to the Bible story of Adam and Eve - basically, once the rest of the world is gone, then the people there will have to rebuild it, starting the world over again. Basically, he tells her all about their life on the island - near the end of the song, where female vocals come in, it symbolizes how Eva agrees to join it and starts understanding how things are around there. It's also where the two start to fall in love (I couldn't resist). This is the most symbolic song in the story. Meadows of Heaven is really just an epilogue. Eva and ? have to be strong together, because they can sense the world outside taking its final breath more clearly than anybody else. They live in Eden, in heaven, and they have to carry on despite all the death outside, because it's just them and the other islanders left to be a part of the planet. The adventure ends, and it's time to let new life have it's time. Tell me what you think about it! This all took a TON of thought, and of course the perfect storm of a situation to even come up with it. It's probably the clearest vision of a story I've had in a long time.

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