Sent mine as well. I agree it was kind of difficult for me to put thoughts into words and stuff, but I did like the idea of the challenge. When I was like 90% done I suddenly had this idea for another character (Mindy Lahiri if anyone is a Mindy Project fan) but I figured I might as well just keep what I had done!
A fictional character from the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In this trinity, I’m showing the three stand-out characteristics that embodies my star for this round “The Little Prince”.
The Little Prince is one of the two protagonists of the story. The other one is the narrator. After leaving his home planet and his beloved rose, the prince started his journey around the universe, ending up on Earth. Frequently perplexed by the behaviour of grown-ups, the prince symbolizes the hope, love, innocence, and insight of childhood that lie dormant in all of us.
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Exploration: An Adventurer
The Little Prince is a pure and innocent traveller from outer space whom the narrator encounters in the Sahara desert. Before the little prince lands on Earth, Saint-Exupéry contrasts the prince’s childlike character with different adult characters by having the prince hop from one neighbouring planet to another. On each planet, the prince meets a different type of adult and reveals that character’s frivolities and weaknesses.
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
This song best fits the “adventurer” side of the little prince cause it tackles about the appreciation of beauty of the world. It may look positive in everything but it also reflects how balanced the world is. In comparison, the little prince travelled into different places, discovering how diverse the grown-ups are and how wonderful the earth is compared to the other planets.
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Knowledge: A Teacher, A Student
Once on Earth, however, the little prince becomes a student as well as a teacher. The little prince has few of the glaring flaws evident in the other characters, and he is immediately shown to be a character of high caliber by his ability to recognize the narrator’s Drawing Number One as a picture of a boa constrictor that has eaten its prey in which others failed to do so. His constant questioning also indicates that one’s search for answers can be more important than the answers themselves.
Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow
This song best fits the “teacher” and “student” side of the little prince. The song tackles about a place that you might want to see somewhere over the rainbow meaning to explore and to learn different things and places. In comparison, the little prince explores the earth and found ways to learn new things through the characters that he encountered. He also serves as a teacher to them as he did inspire them to appreciate even the small things we have in life.
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Love: A Friend, An Admirer
From his friend the fox, the little prince learns what love entails, and in turn he passes on those lessons to the narrator. Nevertheless, the prince’s fear as he prepares to be sent back to his planet by snakebite shows that he is susceptible to the same emotions as the rest of us. Most notably, the prince is bound by his love for the rose he has left on his home planet. Though the prince is sociable and meets a number of characters as he travels, he never stops loving and missing the rose on his home planet.
The Carpenters - Top Of The World
This song best fits the “friend” and “admirer” side of the little prince. The song is about how love affects one’s life and how it changed or strengthened their perceptions in life. They also learned to appreciate the beauty of the world through love. In comparison, the little prince’s undying love for his rose on his home planet has been regained through exploration after it was fade a bit due to the rose’s failed response for the love of the prince. Through love, which he earned from his friends, the prince finally found an unending happiness and appreciation to the things that he had especially for his rose on his home planet.
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The lesson that we learn from the little prince can be seen as the only way we can learn in our lives, is through experiencing it ourselves at first. We cannot rely on others telling us, teaching us, or trying to get a message across. Unless we are the one experiencing it ourselves, we will not be able to learn from what is true. Furthermore, the character teaches us the importance of friendship, being invisible, and responsibility.
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Prismatic
S A D N E S S
"Sadness? What's there to write about for this little blue blob other than her sobbing?", you may question.
Of course there's a lot to write about! Sadness is easily the most complex and multi-dimensional character in Inside Out. Throughout the movie, she experiences several emotional struggles and realizations of herself. In this trinity, we will be walking through Sadness' journey in the critically-acclaimed film.
go away, sadness
Sadness herself is one of 11-year-old Riley's five key emotions, but many forget that Sadness has her own emotions too. In the beginning of the film, Sadness is often mistreated by the other emotions, especially Joy. Although Sadness geniuinely wants the best for Riley, she struggles with finding her own idenity and purpose in Riley's mind. This is further established when Sadness changes Riley's core memory and makes Riley feel dejected in her first day of school. Joy wants the best for Riley too (just like any other emotion in Riley's mind) and feels that Sadness will ruin Riley's emotional state and prohibits her to take the wheel in headquarters. This made Sadness feel extremely useless and unwanted. In the song "Useless", Imogen Heap talks about feeling miserable and having no sense of direction. With lyrics like " My dying prayer sealed in a scream, unwelcome care and a conscious dream", the song undoubtedly speaks to Sadness in character because she does not feel her presence in Riley's mind at all.
self-discovery
"It just takes some time / Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride / Everything will be just fine."
Sadness is the little girl who is still in the process of finding her true self. Although she is shut out by her fellow emotions, there's a piece in her who longs to work together with them. After finding herself in Riley's long-term memory with Joy, Sadness starts to display her worth with her knowledge of the maze-like path. This enables Joy and Sadness to navigate their way through long-term memory quickly. Sadness also proves to be a compassionate being after she sympathized with Bing Bong and encourged him to open up his bottled up feelings and thoughts to her. This song epitomizes Sadness' journey throughout Riley's long-term memory. She wants the best for Riley but she does not know how she can play a part. With the help of Joy and Bing Bong, Sadness begins to understand her role in Riley's mind better.
a villain turned hero
Sadness and Joy find their way back to the headquarters. Sadness takes charge in the control room and prompts Riley to express her honest feelings. To everyone's amazement, Riley is finally happy again and this is when Sadness realizes her exact worth in Riley's mind all this while. We don't always need to be happy. It’s perfectly normal to feel sad. Sometimes, facing the truth and admitting your problems is the only way to find happiness again. It is important to learn how to appreciate and embrace sadness instead of opressing it. The Sadness everyone thought was worthless and detrimental proved everone wrong and turned out to be the most crucial emotion. Sadness is the key to happiness, a symbol of maturity and the wind behind our wings. The other emotions may form our wings and allow us to soar to new places, but the wind is what propels us to these places to begin with. All this while, Sadness has been blowing in the wrong direction in Riley's mind. After gaining more self-confidence, Sadness reorientates herself and is now working together with the other emotions to allow Riley to fly higher and faster than ever.
Chill Bill
He's gonna take you back to the past
To play the ****** games that suck ass
He'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear
He'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a roadkill skunk and down it with beer
He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd
He's the Angry Atari, Sega Nerd
He's the Angry Video Game Nerd
The Angry Video Game Nerd is an ongoing web series that’s been running for almost a decade. The titular Nerd, played by filmmaker James Rolfe, is an ornery, foul-mouthed, beer-guzzling, twenty-something basement dweller who can’t get over all of the horribly made retro games that plagued his childhood. Every episode has him review and agonize over a terrible game from the 80’s or 90’s, all while berating it with colorful metaphors about buffalo excrement and rancid skunk corpses.
Now, you may be wondering; how can a show with such a thin premise last for ten whole years? The answer is that there’s a lot more to the Nerd’s character than what I’ve just described.
The Hatred
Cut you down and give you lip
Being positive is so unhip
Cut you down, ‘cause I’m a fool
Being positive is so uncool
The Nerd thrives off of his negativity. As much as he claims to hate the trash put out by LJN, Wisdom Tree and other infamous gaming companies, he seems to get a perverse sort of pleasure out of hating them- even more pleasure than he does from playing games that are actually good.
In the Christmas episode, the Nerd is haunted with visions of himself as an old man, reviewing terrible Wii games and dying of a heart attack while playing Boogie. Upon waking up, he thanks his lucky stars that it was all just a dream, and vows to only play good games from now on, starting with the classic Super Mario World. After a few minutes with that game, the Nerd loses his smile, throws down the controller and says, “**** that, let’s play some ****** ones!”
There’s even a moment at the end of the 100th episode where he tearfully embraces his ****** NES games after saving them from a savage R.O.B. the Robot. Speaking of which...
The Madness
Trapped in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
In the 100th episode, R.O.B. comes to life and tries to destroy all of the Nerd’s games, except for Gyromite and Stack-Up. And that’s not even the most bizarre thing that has happened to the nerd on the show; if you’ve been lead to believe that the show is nothing but a basement dwelling nerd swearing at retro games, let me clarify that it’s not. Throughout the series, the Nerd gets kidnapped by cannibals, fights Freddy Krueger, beats up Bugs Bunny, travels through time, and even exorcises a possessed Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge (with the help of Super Mecha Death Christ, pictured above).
…or at least, that’s what appears to be happening. One episode of Game Theory offered a chillingly credible theory about the Nerd: namely, that all of the above characters are just vivid hallucinations, existing in the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic. This is particularly disturbing when you consider that we see several of those characters “forcing” the Nerd to play those awful games. The truth is, nobody’s making him play those games but himself, but his mind is tricking him into thinking that he’s being forced into it- that he doesn’t actually have any choice in the matter.
In other words, his mind has trapped him in a self-imposed hell; the four walls of his basement represent the only world he’ll ever know again. Can anyone help him? Can he help himself? Is there any way out?
…surprisingly, there is.
The Friendships
So no one told you life was gonna be this way
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year, but...
I'll be there for you
Throughout the Nerd’s ten-year run, the one silver lining to his miserable life has been his ability to share his pain with others. Most of the Nerd’s moments of genuine happiness come when he gets the opportunity to play alongside someone else, whether it’s his guitar player Kyle Justin (pictured above), his best friend Mother****er Mike, Lloyd Kaufman (of Troma fame), or his rival-turned-friend The Nostalgia Critic. His life may be a hopeless wreck, but at least, for a moment or two, he’ll be able to share his misery with someone else.
In the Angry Video Game Nerd Movie (yes, there was a movie), this trait of his plays out in a meta sense by developing the Nerd’s connection with his fans and viewers. In fact, his fans are the ones who convince him to face his fears and go after the one game he had never dared to play… E.T. for the Atari 2600.
This, ultimately, is what keeps the nerd from going completely insane: the knowledge that there’s always someone who will be there for him when the rain buffalo diarrhea starts to fall.
When Lilico is first introduced to us, she's easily the top diva in Japan's modelling world, and she damn well isn't afraid to acknowledge it. POP DIVA represents this exactly, the intro to the song alone represents the entirety of what Lilico thinks she is "the most beautiful, powerful, talented girl on the planet". "I hope you got it, that I'm somebody I need nobody" also represents Lilico. She's at the top and she doesn't care how she got there, she only cares she's the best.
Everytime I hear this song I almost immediately think of this film and it's central character Lilico, at least 85% of the lyrics are so relatable to her. Some of my personal favourites include "Longing to be loved all day and night, you've forgotten how originally adorable you are" which can be said to about how she constantly gets plastic surgery in order to get the perfect face to still be adored. "The dating itinerary looks like a work schedule, there are only a few hundred messages that have been read but not replied to" speaks about how she's constantly in demand by men but she doesn't want anything to do with them, unless it's advantageous to her. "Want to make everyone jealous, angelic heart with a devilish streak" she doesn't care who she screws or screws over in order to be on the top, she will do anything to be there. She's little miss trouble.
Lilico has been replaced, men don't find her desirable anymore, her beauty is beginning to fade, she's no longing the diva she once was. This song signifies the breakdown in her. "The girl that changes into a insect, a parasite in the strange grass that grows stems of sadness from her amber back" can refer to her breakdown and a reverse metamorphosis of sorts. Instead of becoming the beautiful butterfly (which she already was) she regenerated into a weak caterpillar. She's distraught, she's miserable, she's ruined.
Sexy
Bliss
When we are introduced to the character candy she is introduced as a free spirited and loving person she meets a poet named Dan who brings her on his heroin journey. Heroin usually gives the person taking it a sensation of euphoria and a warm feeling. The song strawberry fields by the Beatles is based on Paul’s childhood where he remembers the glory days of being on a strawberry field. the song also has a psychedelic feel to it with gives us a little sense of the feels candy is going through at the start of the relationship.
“we found the perfect place where the noise didn’t intrude
our world was so very complete” - Candy
This Quote by candy fits the songs perfectly candy feels blissfully in love at the start if the film as if she is a child in her own perfect little world “strawberry fields"
The Effects
Candy falls pregnant and by this time she vows to stop taking drugs whilst she is pregnant she starts to have withdrawn symptoms such as Nausea, Vomiting and hypothermia. during this moment in the film the atmosphere is bleak candy isn’t the vibrant girl we saw in the being of the film and we can see that because compare to the start of the film her skin has become more pale her body language is different she curls up rather than in the being when her body was more free and open
compared to the first song this song still remains psychedelic, but it’s more darker and retracts color and life to canote the life that is taken out of candy’s life.
Destruction
Despite candy not using heroine in the entirety of her pregnancy, she loses her baby at 23 weeks and delivers the still born baby in a hospital. one of the most haunting scenes in the movie her and Dan lay there on the bed holding the still born baby, this causes candy to become numb. in the beginning Heroin can make you feel warm but the end effects have you having extreme mental symptoms. candy starts to destruct and we have now forgotten about the sweet candy that was introduced almost as if we had never met her. She becomes more tense angry and unstable using edible food and make up to write on the walls, but towards the end we still see she is fragile.
A story for the ages. A sad one. Storm lost her parents. Let her ambition get in the way of saving them. Chasing waterfalls; traveling through treacherous rivers and storms she sought the answers to their death. She couldn’t find it. Why would she? The answer was simple: a fighter jet crashed into her parents’ house, killing them. End of story. End. Of- Professor X thought there was something deeper bothering her, that she was ignoring that she herself was the one that needed saving. Storm reacted negatively and stormed off.
A Storm
After fleeing the X-Men to Africa. Shielded herself in a storm she called in the middle of the Sahara. She questioned being a hero. Why is she one? She couldn’t even save her parents when she had the power to. Even a miniscule change in the weather pattern that day could has saved them. She didn’t do it. But maybe she wasn’t meant to be the hero of that day. Maybe she needed a hero to save her.
Amidst the very storm she called up, a brave hero approached. Black Panther was told by officials that Storm was destroying the Sahara. Black Panther did not believe this rumor. However seeing the wind storm in front of him, he was determined to reach out to Storm. With his own speed and physical prowess he survived rapid temperature changes and intense atmospheric pressure. Upon breaching the Wall of the storm, Storm was alerted to his presence and instantly ended the conjured storm. The two stood eye to eye. Black Panther had a message: “You wanted to save your parents? How about we try to change the world, so that no one will ever have to go through what you did.” Storm accepted his offer. They would work together for months with the Avengers until finally falling in love and arranging a marriage.
A Unity
Hmm… Peace at least. Marrying Black Panther is the best decision she made to date. She even invited her former allies, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to the ceremony. Their union more powerful than any superheroes would ever dream of. The unity of black essence whose ambition can stand against any tide, against any storm.
Mirrorwriting
Right now, i'm obsessed with the song "I'm Fine" by Grace (stream it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_jL5rRxW8) and immediately the sound made me think of a childhood character many of us might be familiar with - Bubbles.
Now, she is known for being a genuinely "good" character, who is innocent, kind-hearted, sweet, and adorable. For this trinity I chose three musical representations of Bubbles as a character (in terms of sound) also hoping to expand more on her personality traits.
IU - "Twenty Three"
Lyric translation: Here
In this song, IU talks about the dilemma that comes with growing older and balancing the idea of wanting to be "young forever" with the independence that comes with maturity. I think this can represent Bubbles' innocence because she is simultaneously a hero who is responsible for saving the town, while also wanting to be a child who loves colouring and cute things. Also the song sounds v. cute
Hannah Diamond - Attachment
I mean regardless of your thoughts on PC Music, its sound is perfect for Bubbles. This song is incredibly delicate and almost fairy-like in its production. Never mind the dumbed down lyrics, at its heart this song has the same kind of sensitive emotion that conveys what I mean about Bubbles' empathy and sensitivity. The song serves Platinum Hit lyrics lbr, but still it narrates an experience with an ex that isn't spiteful or hateful, rather reminiscent of the good times they once had.
Liz - When I Rule The World
Remember this? That infectious, colourful sound works perfectly with Bubbles' character. But it also has a cutesy approach to the "confident" ruling the world feeling that I think Bubbles represents so well. It has a hint of child-like naivety while also having a self-assured tone. Its unapologetically in your face and powerful, but still very cute and dream-like.
I have to say, personally I am very impressed! You all did really well with this challenge, it's very exciting!
continued rambling: It might be premature to say this but I feel like this is strongest top 8 in all the seasons I've hosted. Like of course it's a kii for me as a host when people submit comically horrible trinities but it's really nice to receive such well thought-out entries! That's kinda what I was going for with this season; a peaceful, more lowkey season with quality over drama. So I'm really glad it came to fruition!
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) and immediately the sound made me think of a childhood character many of us might be familiar with - Bubbles.
