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i. Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire
ii. Live, Die, Kill
Consider this question
Look deep inside
Deliver a true confession
What are you willing to live for
Consider this question
Open your eyes
Examine your own reflection
What are you willing to die for
When your backs’ against the wall
And the times uncertain
Consider this question
No standing by
When flesh and blood are threatened
What are you willing to kill for
We seek
To understand
We cry
With hand in hand
The bridges we build to connect
The distance that makes us forget
Hate dividing us
Love reminding us of our shared humanity
Hope can be a shadow fleeting
I would rather die believing
Capture it all in a final act of faith
We seek
To understand
We cry
With hand in hand
A story that needs to be told
An answer that begs to be found
The beauty we wish to behold Is never too far away
iii. The Embracing Circle
iv. The Pursuit of Truth
Mothers for their children
Husbands for their wives
Martyrs for the kingdom
Fighting for your life
A soldier for his country
A junkie for the high
Teachers for their students
Vengeance for a crime
Rebels for their freedom
A tyrant for the praise
Cowards for salvation
Money, love, and fame
Noble embrace
We lay down our lives for the cause
Death over shame
Grace before glory
v. Surrender, Trust & Passion
To really feel the joy in life
You must suffer through the pain
When you surrender to the light
You can face the darkest days
If you open up your eyes
And you put your trust in love
On those cold and endless nights
You will never be alone
Passion glows within your heart
Like a furnace burning bright
Until you struggle through the dark
You'll never know that you're alive
Now, my first thought was either something to induce meditation on self-knowledge, or perhaps a mild compulsion to think about what things truly matter and what does not, such as might be useful during a negotiation perhaps (especially given how super-long the whole track is, at over twenty minutes) but then it occurred to me that this might be the song to call an Usagi Tsukino simulacrum, as both the "look inside for what really matters" and "put your trust in love" messages do fit the over-arching themes of her series, and the extreme length would give his power time to build up to pull off some pale imitation of the silly bullshit she can do by the end, if it starts with her on her rookie outing form at first and progresses as she did while Doug knew her through the duration rather than being a snapshot or composite impression of her most recent abilities. Still not up to the level of the actual Silver Crystal, but even just calling on his own capacity and whatever environmental resources might be available Doug's power should be able to do quite a bit with 20min of charge time.
He's got an actual imprint of Usagi in princess-form keeping watch over the memory packet holding his time with them IIRC, so the simulacrum might be more than just his impressions of her - or might even manifest from listening to the song to see what it does, while those memories are still locked away. That might be a new one even for him, to create a sim of a person he doesn't know he knows.
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noli esse culus
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