Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-26423188-20160628165223/@comment-3991308-20160810105940

Omg, the Postal Service and the Killers are super good. I’m still bummed that the Postal Service has broken up, but at least there’s still Death Cab for Cutie. Mr Brightside is such a #jam but I love the other stuff by the Killers, too. Battleborn is probably my favourite album of theirs? And I fell in love with Bastille with their mythological and biblical references~ <3

My music taste is a cross between mainstream & popular alternative, so the songs I put on my playlists & attribute to my characters are of a super limited genre. :( Basically, that means the music my OCs listen to and the music on their playlists are sometimes super different.

Airmid listens to metal, especially the kind where the singer screams so loud that you can’t hear the words. But I’m clueless about bands like that so the songs I’m adding onto her playlist wouldn’t be stuff they listen to frequently. Their aesthetic in bands I listen to would definitely be late Fall Out Boy (SRAR and AB/AP) and late Twenty One Pilots (post-Blurryface, I’ll say? Maybe Vessel).

Icarus would listen to literally anything. Classical music comes naturally to him since he’s classically trained on piano, but he knows a bunch of acoustic versions of popular songs off the back of his hand, and if you mention a band, no matter how obscure, he will have probably heard of it. His aesthetic is hard to pin down, but if I had to pick something, I would say early-era Twenty One Pilots. It just has a "everything is happening so fast and i regret growing up and growing older" sort of feeling. And “Johnny Boy” is just so him. At one point I used to associate him with Bastille, but that was just because of that one song Icarus (which is very him).

Bastion, like Icarus, is classically trained and an orchestra member, so he’s fairly well-versed in his symphonies and sonatas. In his spare time though, he does listen to more alternative stuff, particularly songs with soulful singers who vocalise well. His aesthetic in music would be artists like Halsey, Marina, Lana, Arctic Monkeys. Basically singers who sing about dysfunctional relationships? The type of music tumblr people will make grunge and pastel edits to. He probably listens to those bands/singers as well, I bet.

I’ve already mentioned Avian. He is truly representative of (almost) everything Blink-182. He skateboards, he’s sick of school, still mentally stuck in the 90s, he has this lost feeling of needing to grow up and also too stuck in nostalgia… He’s flannel shirts and Chuck Taylors and awkward conversations. And always surrounded by cooler friends and feeling inadequate.

Sage is a huge, huge piece of musical theatre trash. The biggest musical theatre trash. All he knows is musical theatre. Unfortunately, I’m lacking in my musical theatre knowledge so I can’t even pin one musical to him. Maybe Heathers. He probably likes Heathers. Anyway, if I had to pick an artist that captures his aesthetic, oddly enough, I would pick Owl City. There’s a sense of forlornness and loneliness that just perfectly fits with Sage.