A Musical Note: "Trigger Situation", Dirge of Cerberus
Added 2019-01-02 02:50:24 +0000 UTCAs I've mentioned before, often I write scenes inspired by and to the background of a particular piece of music. Perhaps nowhere was this more absolutely true than in the scene in Grand Central Arena that I call "DuQuesne's Awakening", in which DuQuesne and Carl Edlund are cornered by Maizas of the Molothos and his troops. DuQuesne is told he will assist the Molothos in gaining entry to their Sphere, or the Molothos will kill Carl... as painfully as possible.
Trapped with no choice, DuQuesne finally releases the self-imposed bonds and restrictions he placed on himself fifty years ago, and Dr. Marc C. DuQuesne of Hyperion lives again -- and proceeds to destroy the aliens that, moments before, had him at their mercy.
"Your problem, you pea-brained, pompous, overbearing crayfish, is that you think you have the FAINTEST idea of what you're dealing with."
I imagined that scene IN DETAIL listening to that piece of music, months before I finally actually wrote it, and I cannot hear the music without literally SEEING the scene in my mind's eye, as I wrote the scene with that one short piece of music on repeat throughout the whole process.
Dirge of Cerberus is a strange follow-up/side story videogame focused on the popular side character Vincent in Final Fantasy VII. While I found the game to be one of the sort I was terrible at and thus couldn't finish, the music (by Masashi Hamauzu) was absolutely brilliant and I have found it inspiring for several scenes and images.
Give it a listen, and if you feel so inclined, read that scene with it.
