PRO-TIP: Listen with headphones, for surround sound goodness. Thank you to all you wonderful ponies out there for 500 subscribers! This is a little Pre-Everfree treat before I can wrap up my next song. (You’ll have to be patient with me, because I’ve got a lot going on right now) This is a concept I’ve actually wanted to do for a long time. The opening cinematics of the Fallout games have always been so captivating, pulling you into the emotions and setting so immediately. That’s what I tried to do with the song, but since I’m still at level 0 in terms of animation, this title card will have to do for visuals. At the same time, I’ve been wanting to parody this song since I first heard it on David Crowder’s “A Collision” album. I figure, if he can repurpose it, so can I. I always thought it would make a great intro to a Fallout game… My dream is that Bethesda gives us this game for Fallout 4. (You know that’d be awesome)… But, since that probably won’t happen, here’s how this song actually figures into the story (because I’ve been trying to stay canon). Among her many exploits through the wasteland, LittlePip came across the particularly in-tact ruins of an opera house. The only thing notably missing was the stadium-sized glass ceiling that once arched over the theatre. Within those ruins, she found six adult size skeletons circled around a single microphone pole at the center of the stage. A hatch at the bottom of the pole was slightly inched open. She lifted it up completely to find a small, working terminal. On it was a single recording, by the Manehattan Royal Stallion Ensemble. The male choir group had been touring the country when the megaspell went off in Manehattan. They watched helplessly as their friends and family were consumed by the unearthly fire in the distance. A quiet acceptance settled over them as the sirens began to sound, they gathered on the vacant stage for one last recording… It was finally time to record the song they’d hid away, the one they hoped wouldn’t ever have to play. This is that recording. (P.S. – This doesn’t count as one of the four Fallout: Equestria songs I mentioned in the “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” parody, it’s a bonus… ;D ) “Soon I Will Be Done With the Troubles of the World” by Mahalia Jackson Balefire Art by: havebkyourway.deviantart.com
