☼ this is not the greatest song in the world

[deviances]

Who: Eithan + YOU!
Broadcast: Yup - fleetwide
Action: if you want, hit me up!
When: Right the heck now

Pretty sure every world's got folk songs. Ballads. Songs that tell stories. The kind you feel like pretty much everyone knows for one reason or another. That kind of thing. Whatever you wanna call em.

So hey everyone, what are your favorites from home? Happy, sad, scary, epic, funny, whatever. I'm curious.

Bonus points if you hum a few bars. Bonus bonus points if you sing it. Or something.

[ Give him an excuse to play something new on his guitar, won't you? He's boreddddd ]

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[deviances]

Oh hey, an instrument I've actually heard of! [ Snrk. ] Unfortunately, I don't think we have one. Or, well, if someone does, I don't know about it.

Maybe there's a weird alien version on this planet somewhere? I mean, I've got weird alien versions of some other instruments in the music room on the Iskaulit.

[necromanswers]

Aww, butts. I'll have a look around, see what I can dig up. Maybe I'll get lucky.

Songs, though... most of the funny ones I remember are from, like, over a hundred years ago? So I might be kinda iffy on the words. Got a preference for theme at this exact moment in time, or should I flip a coin?

[deviances]

Good luck! And hey, if you end up with a broken one, we can always figure out how to fix it, yeah?

Eh, flip a coin. I'm up for anything, especially funny.

[necromanswers]

Coin is officially being flipped.

[Literally, there is a jingle in the background, followed by a thoughtful sound.]

Alright, try this on for size. I think it was called, like... "The Bard of the Bush"? Yeah, that sounds right.

[She hums a couple of bars of music, clumsily at first - hands tapping to remember the melody - and then recites a handful of verses of a silly, raunchy tale of a bard conquering a series of forest-dwelling monsters. As the song progresses it becomes increasingly obvious that these "monsters" are most definitely women he's sleeping with, who by the end of the song band together to get the best of him.]

[deviances]

[ Yeah Eithan catches on pretty quick, hums along for a little bit of it... but he eventually has to stop that because he's laughing by the end of it. He applauds when she finishes. ]

Ah, bards. Good to know some stereotypes are universal. ... Multiversal? Whatever.

[necromanswers]

Some stereotypes definitely exist for a reason. I've met some bards who were more on the level, but I can count 'em on one hand and that's not a great ratio after a few hundred years.

[Bunch of horny pervs. Though she can sympathize a little; one super-romantic song from Barry in the right kind of scenario was what finally pushed her into jumping his bones.]