been thinking about More Gun from tf2 lately and how well it represents engineer’s personality. more specifically, his mental state. even more specifically, how absolutely dog water it is. because the first half of the song is your typical texan campfire song, likely to represent the kind and humble persona engie puts up in front of others. but then the tone completely shifts with this electric guitar and then these backing string come in and it’s just ooogh. it’s so sadistic and like viscerally unhinged that it’s unlike anything i’ve ever heard before. but the worst part about it is that people dont really explore this side of engineer that much in fanworks cuz they have this idea that since he’s so put together most of the time, they tend to label him as “the sane one.” which we’ve all heard time and time again as to why this isn’t true. but i just want more fanworks of engie just being a crazy little freak BECAUSE HES A FREAK GOOOD I NEED MY FREAK 😭😭
So, I recently went to see a Little Shop production done by the school my sister teaches at. It was really good ! But one thing caught me off guard…
Arthur Denton…having a whole SONG?!!? And it looks like it was meant to take place a few songs after Orin died…
Sadly, though, the song was never performed (and Arthur never even appeared in the production) despite this being in the playbill. I was a bit disappointed, but thought “surely this is on the internet, at the very least there’s a reddit post about it or something, right?”
Nope!
Absolutely nothing!!! I couldn’t find any videos or posts that had anything to do with this song.
If any of you out there know ANYTHING about this, please tell! Until then…this shall remain a mystery…
This idea literally just occurred to me (by that I mean a few hours from when it's being queued, ignore the fact that it was queued for 7 in the morning) but what if Orin was reworked slightly to be Audrey's shitty abusive father and by killing him Seymour achieved the dream of every queer person ever to kill their best friend's shitty parents? I'm imagining that he left to get the milk when she was a kid like she describes in Suddenly Seymour and then took advantage of her kind nature and societally mandated obligation towards him to be able to crash at her apartment after she became an adult and not have to pay rent after his crimes as a dentist finally caught up to him and ruined his career and sent him looking for the solution to the suite of problems he now has at the bottoms of beer bottles. And his abuse towards her still has a sexual component because he sucks. And he 'justifies' it to himself by telling himself and her that her mom probably cheated on him anyway (and therefore she wouldn't be genetically his but is still apparently obligated to let him crash at her apartment and put up with his treatment of her for... reasons?)
Also the parallelism of Seymour killing Audrey's abusive father and his abusive father is nice. It'd be even better if she was the one to kill his abusive father, but I can't think of a way to make that work without significantly restructuring the plot. There could also be some parallelism with Seymour x Twoey considering that there are some jokes based on the premise that Seymour is a father figure of sorts to him (he gets mad at him when he curses and tries to sneak out on him with suitcases like a deadbeat dad and does midnight feedings with blood.) I would probably introduce Audrey's past at The Gutter through her saying (in very different words than the ones I'm using) that her very creation cursed her to be awful and not worthy of a good life (because her mom was a sex worker at The Gutter who Orin solicited the services of), which honestly sounds cooler than her having met him there and plays into the theme of the characters' lack of agency under capitalism that is explored throughout the movie.
Can you imagine lol
I mean we know mister “I was an overlord once”drops earth-shattering lore in casual conversation
since the old version of this post was flagged for 'adult content'...
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Since Orin is a workaholic for his job that doesn’t involve much strenuous physical activity, he is ironically not that strong. Audrey is probably stronger than him (I can back up the idea of her being physically strong with the fact that she canonically pushed his motorcycle while he was on it.)
(they/them)|goo goo gaga baby ver. 2836| im not expecting much from this lmao
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