I've had "MODERN SWINGER" by the Pink Spiders stuck in my head for awhile. It was an old song I'd yoinked off the status-page of an artist I was inspired by growing up. I had to be about fifteen or so when I last heard it, but I was walking home from work and all of a sudden I was whistling it. It's funny how such things bubble up to the surface of your consciousness when you lest expect it, like when you find a picture you drew ages ago, or when you run into an old acquaintance walking to the grocery store. It was a pleasant sensation, and now can't get it off of me.
Similarly, I've had a sweet tooth for "ISLAND IN A VIDEO CASSETTE" by Nakai 'Chabo' Reichi. It's a soft, otherworldly track punctuated by the sound of the ocean and a starting VCR. It's pleasant and counter-intuitive in how nice it is on the ears.

Further on the topic of things I cannot get out of my head, I have been seized by this odd fixation with trying to play as a Goblin on some sort of media. Or at least a tribal, diminutive, cowardly something, with a propensity for simple clubs, hatchets, and kitchen-knives. Maybe I can make one in Elona or something; I'm contemplating picking up a wooden club and building out a speed-fighter duelist of some sort.

Characters and Ideas for Characters.

BIRDGETTE BINT MURAD AL-MOHDANI: Heiress to the Barony of Almsgwaren-Mohdani; a partnership solidified by the marriage of her parents, Cwlcalb and Murad, a foreign Heiress and an esteemed desert Warlord respectively. Birdgette was raised to be cultured and educated, groomed for an arranged marriage with an orcish magnate, but when she inherited more of her father's genes and grew large, strong, and boyish the marriage fell-through. The humiliation of being left at the altar both shamed her family and lead Birdgette to adopt a distaste for Orcs as well as Nobility and the Monarchies that allow them to thrive. Struggles with an addiction to izidor, a strong hallucinogenic plant. Cherishes her kettle-style izidor pipe and her red designer jacket and has a fondness for opera that was instilled by her Mother's tendency to sing. After coming into possession of an enslaved Unicorn robbed and subsequently freed from an Orc captor, Birdgette finds herself on the run from an industrial empire which has been capitalizing off the regenerative properties of unicorn biomatter. Birdgette's central theme is a sense of contradiction. She is criminal and an addict, but also cultured and noble. She is female, but exceedingly masculine. A heroine and a racist. A Gaelic-inspired Mother with a Pashtun-inspired Father.

SAINT LAFAYETTE OF ROUBITAILLE: A Low Angel or Petty Angelic hailing from a fictional corner of Bordeaux, France. Abandoned by his parents as the quintessential "French Orphan," he is adopted into the church operated by Abbot Gorbeaux as an altar-boy. Lafayette's life remains relatively peaceful until his brutal death at the hands of Marchosias and her brother Vual. Saint Lafayette remains unknowing of these events as he ascends to angelic-status. He is not physically-capable and suffers a perpetual naivete believing all people to be good at heart but this is offset by a genuine sense of bravery and an unpracticed ability to manipulate gravity. Assigned to guard a fragment of Longinus on display at a Bordeaux Cathedral Reliquary, Saint spends his afterlife quietly until ambushed by Zepar and Marchosias' children. A troubled romance with Marchosias, the use of Longinus to develop Angel-harming weaponry, and the rise of the Babylonian Empire which attempts to operate independently of all gods and monsters ultimately leads to a post-apocalyptic world where Heaven, Hell, and Earth all layer atop one-another.

EUPHRASIE SOVREMENNYY: A Jean Marat-inspired researcher and archivist. Under the nom-de-plume D.B. KRMMSTOPP she has contributed a dictionary of Heaven, Hell, and Mystical Beings called the Universal Almanac, as well as research toward cloning, dimensional travel, radiation-weaponry, and magic-nullification. Euphrasie is from a fictionalized portion of Kamchatka, Russia and suffers from a lifelong illness caused by the accidental awakening and subsequent nuclear death of the Seraphim Apsinthion. This illness causes labored breathing, weakened immune-system, and anemia and is partially managed by a bulky respirator. Lives with her love-interest and research-colleague Khivas Walspurgisnacht.

ZOSTER MASPIAN: A caprid little demon with curling ram's-horns and cloven two-toed hooves. A bard who began his career out of necessity when his mother's tailoring business began to flounder, and he subsequently became homeless. A childhood of modeling dresses for his mother to sew has left him with a penchant for cross-dressing, and an equal preference for colorful jester's outfits when performing. A skilled storyteller, fibber, and juggler. Admires a great hero and constantly measures his deeds against their's, and has a hard time restraining his stronger opinions on things. Likes wine, hookah-pipes, and old books about legends.