Samstag, 29. Oktober 2011

Our Third (and downloadable) Album!

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What's the third album about?
Born from a wish is an Album in 2 parts. Part one is regular "Tears Of A Child"-Plot. 
To be precise, the first part is the finale of the story of Annarchy and her kids.
Their journey will finally come to an end and hopefully with an ending, everyone can be happy with.
The second part of the album is a tribute to all those great works of art that inspired me to do this, or rather "to do anything at all". 
There where way too many to do them all. But I can promise that there will be some more after this album.

What does the title of the third album mean?
Born From A Wish was the name of the "expansion" of Silent Hill 2. 
Silent Hill was one of the biggest influences in my work and my thinking. This album started out as a tribute project to the Silent Hill Lore, but as soon as I realised that I can do everything I want with my Tears, the idea of creating a second project aside the "Tears Of  A Child" became obsolete. The thought of a tribute album was an thought I really liked. So the whole third album was literally born from a wish to say "thank you" to all this franchises and works that inspired me and kept me alive.  
The title fits also very well with the last part of the "Tears Of A Child"-Story. I won't spoiler it now, so please read the cascade of words underneath.

Why do they call themself "Tears"?
The name origins from Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
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...and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It’s not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to ‘dear, kind God’! It’s not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for.
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But it's also some kind of wordplay:
Since I (The guy behind this) has problems in living out his emotions (except in having really bad nervous breakdowns xD), the things I do have to serve as some kind of psychic-therapy. So I decided to call my band "Tears".
The tears of a really childlike person.
The Tears Of A Child. 

Also: There is nothing more emotional than the tears of a child,
wether they origin from crying or laughing.


What does the cover show?
The Cover shows the demon-tear-eye-logo of the Tears. Anna designed it with Rabbit long, long time ago, as some kind of logo for their togetherness. In the time the two were the only ones left in the supermarketkomplex they were trying to survive the aftermath in. They found the power to do a parody of the evil they were facing each day, this parody is the logo. The kinship with rabbit gave Anna finally the power to destroy this evil that was threatening their world. Sadly, Rabbit didn't survive this fight. Anna finally left the komplex and her dead friends behind to search the destroyed world for other survivers and after months of search she finally found Gally and Ian, with them she started the whole Tears-thing. The colorstorm in the blackness should symbolize the "home", "life" and "sanctuary" they are searching for. It should also stand for change. Many of the colors in the coverart didn't appear in the twisted world they are living in, till now...

The Story / Track By Track 

Tribute Part:
1. Bramble Blast (Donkey Kong Country 2)
2. Mortal Kombat (Mortal Kombat)
3. Mononoke (Mononoke)
4. 7 Years (Silent Hill)
5. Where Ash Fell Like Rain (Silent Hill)
6. Born From A Wish (Silent Hill)
7. Cara Mia (Portal)
8. Shatter The Sky (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
9. Pokémon (Pokemon)
10. Skull Kid - Intro (The Legend Of Zelda)
11. Skull Kid (The Legend Of Zelda)
12. The Children Of Hinamizawa (Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni)
13. Never Stop Dreaming (Pen And Paper)
14. Komm Süßer Tod (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
15. Geheimer Song



 
Plot Part:
War
A few weeks passed since Anna had declared war to longing Island. 
Since then, nothing really interesting happend. 
The kids lived in the Asyl-Researchcomplex, the one, they've found Jesse in.
Everything went fine, but Anna had a bad feeling, she was expecting something. 

One afternoon, the Tears wandered around the Island as a thick Fog began to sorround them. They get seperated and Anna knew, that this was planned. It was the same garbage the island pulled of with her, it was this goddamned labyrinth where it confronted her with her past... 
Anna screamed the names of her Kids, but they were gone.
Jesse tried hard not to burst out into tears. Everyone was gone, only she remained. 
"Where is everyone?!" She asked herself. 
Jesse set down, she looked at her small hands and rub her eyes. 
"Ohhh Jess, all alone out in the misty depths of this forsaken Island."
Jesse got scared, she new this voice... But it couldn't be possible.
Very slow she turned her head arround.
...Her body ached.
It was him.
The Jester.
He stood there, with his red hair, the burned face hidden under the white porcelain mask and his breathing mask with the tube that leads direct into his chest. He held a bonesaw in his hand while he was wildly gesticulate towards Jesse. 
"You were a bad, bad girl... You knew I would survive your foolish trickery to come back and take whats mine... Your perfectly built but awfully ugly body... You know it's mine... SO GIVE IT TO ME!"
Jesse ran for her life, again. Memories returned to her blackened mind. She remembered the day she got into the tank. She killed the Jester and was awfully wounded in this fight. Then with the last strenght her body was able to mobilize, she crawled into the tank to regenerate her body. 
She thought the nightmare she lived in was finally over, but somehow he survived and now he was going to kill her!
She was in panic as she ran aimlessly through the fog. 
It didn't take long till she surrendered, she didn't want to run away anymore, it should just end... 
What could she do, so weak and alone as she was?

"Finally... You seem to realize how foolish your trys to escape me are."
He was a few steps away, and readied his saw, while he began to laugh manically.

Jesse didn't knew what to do, the desperation took control of her and she began to cry.
As soon as the first tear hit the ground Ham broke through the wall of mist. With his synthesized and distorted voice he shouted something that sounded like: 
"NO ONE WILL HARM MY SISTER!". 
He took the Jester on the neck, lifted him up and started to strangle him. 
He rattled: "What are you doing? Don't you remember?! It's me Ham... 
Your Dad!"
Ham answered: "I have no Dad."
"No Ham, no... Don't you, she... I...!" 
"I am a clone and clones don't have Dads!"
With this words Hams grip killed the Jester.

"Everyone was gone... It's the Island. That thing Anna was talking about..." Gally thought.
She clenched one of her fists. The pulsating energy in the palm of her hand felt ready to destroy the abberations the Island was going to throw against her. 
"I am ready, so bring it on demon!" She shouted into the mist.
A figure tumbled out of the mist. 
Gally got ready to strike, but as soon as she realized who this was, she hesitated. 
Memories came back to her as she recognized her mother. 
"Elizabeth? Is that you? Oh my god! It is you! Henry, over here!!! I've found her!"
A second figure arrived at the scene... It was Gallys father, Henry.
"Eli my dear, oh god, thank you!" 
Both came near her, trying to hug her. 
Gally made a step back. 
"You, you are both dead..." She hesitated again.
"I killed you!" Her voice became broken. 
"No, no my dear... You didn't do that, it was just one of your bad dreams."
"You ran away, after doctor Goodman came. And now we find you here, in the middle of nowhere, in the swamp. Look at you, ruining your beautiful dress."
Gally looked down and realized that she was wearing that ugly dress again. Where were her gloves? Where were the long sleeved shirt, on which she removed one sleeve to feel this funny feeling, she gets everytime one of her arms has to freeze while the other has it warm?   
"I... I, whats going on here...?..." Gally was unable to coap.
"We take you home. Doctor Goodman is waiting for you honey, he will make you healthy again, turn you back in the little princess you were long ago, the monster-Elizabeth we see today will be gone tomorrow, promised."
"I... am no monster."
"What do you say Darling? Of course you are not a monster, we are talking about that thing inside of you, how do you call it? Pazuzu? Pazuzu will be gone tomorrow."
"He isn't the monster either."
"Oh Henry, It think she has fever again, she is speaking things." 
"Yes my dear, whe should bring her back home now."
"You... Are the sluging monsters..."
 Then she releases the energy she gathered in her fist for so long and destroys the Shadows of her past with only one blow.

"Damnit! Where's Ian..." Heather thought while she wandered arround this thick mist. 
"...What's going on here?..." 
There was movement in front of her, it had to be Ian, she ran towards the shadow. 
"Heather, are you home?!"
She stopped... 
Memories returned, she had totally forgotten about him, about everything he had done to her, or did she block it out on purpose?
Now she realized the real reason she was playing "Shadows Of Uskaja" so excessevly, why Ian was so special to her and why she now has this body. 
"Heather?!" He came into her direction. 
"I know you are there. Open the door!"
Heather sits on the floor and panics. 
Suddenly she reminds something Anna told her, not long ago.
"Don't forget fierce Catgirl: We are what we are, what we were and what will happen to us. Everything that happened to us, if it was good or bad, it had an impact and made us to what we are today. Maybe you got scars, maybe they are as deep as the Mariana Trench, but hey, it made you also stronger... And it also made you to that awesome person you are today.
Don't suffer when you look at your life, be proud of it and wear your scars with a smile.
This is you Heather and "this you" is definitly a woman everyone can be proud of." 
Heather stood up, she bit unto her lip and let the claws out. 
"Ah here you are sweetheart."
"I am not your sweetheart."
"What did you say? I can't hear you! TALK TO ME IN A TONE, I CAN UNDERSTAND!"
"I AM NOT YOUR SWEETHEART YOU UGLY PIECE OF CRAP!"
Heathers father appalled. 
Blood was tripping down heathers lips, the yarn of her sewn together mouth ripped into her lips. 
"I SAID, I AM NOT YOUR SWEETHEART!"
"I..."
"You are weak. Hitting a woman and her daughter only to get this little rush of power! Drinking until you get uncuncious... Having sex with prostitutes only because you are not grown up enough to work out the relationship with my mother, a person two thousand times better than you! You are garbage, you are even worse. Touching your own daughter, pushing her over the edge. Destroying her selfconfidence one by one and driving her into suicide..."
But this time, I am not running away. 
I am not hiding in a virtual reality, and I am not seeking help in others!
"You gave me these..." Heather lifts up her claws. 
"No, no, you can't! You!"
"And I won't use them."
"...What?"
"I am not you, I am nothing like you, and I despise you, but nevertheless I guess I have to thank you for the insights I got. Violence and revenge is no solution. I won't fed the spiral... Cause I am strong enough to resist. Not like you." 
While Heather talks the phantom disentigrates slowly. 

Alex got seperated from the others, he searches the Island, but the mist is to thick. 
After running arround a while he hears something he hasn't heard for a very long time. 
"Is it?... It has to be!"
He turns arround and there she was. The little girl with her walkman and headscarf, whipping arround. 
"Your new outfit is kinda cool, dig the scarf, but the nose is still kinda stupid" She nods toward Alex. 
He falls to the ground, his eyes not looking at her.
"You should be dead..."
"Hey, don't mess with the partner of Paliaci, huh?" She comes near him an punches Alex into the shoulder. 
"I said I won't go before our comicbook is finished. Remember? 
"I remember..."
"So is it finish?"
Alex shakes his head and takes the storyboard of their comic out of his breastpocket. 
"So...Who wins? Humanimal or Pixie?" 
Cat examines the comicbook.
Alex smiles while he looks to the ground.
"The comic isn't finished because there is more to come..."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"None of them wins the fight, they team up against I.s.Star because they realize that they are merely the same person."
Cat stays still, her eyes widen, her words left. 
"........That's... that's ingenious Alex!"
He starts to cry.
"I wanted to tell you about it for so long...
BUT YOU DIED AND I NEVER WILL!"
In that moment the comic book fell to the floor. The phantom of Catherine was gone. Alex cried heavily, as the mist disappeared. Somehow the Tears were right around eachother. Anna ran to Alex to give him solace.

"Everything okay?!"
Yeah, just a phantom of the past.



 
Longing
The Tears return back home, everyones pretty exhausted and Anna decides to take the watch. 
This wasn't over yet. 
The Island hasn't got what it wanted and so the kids were still in danger.
Anna was sitting outside, watching over the island. She was happy that everyone was fine, after that attack in the morning. She asked herself if the Island was coming to her again... 
"What are you looking at Sweets?"
Anna rose around, her Baseballbat ready to strike.
"What do you want!" 
Rabbit leaning against the wall stated.
"I just want to talk with you."
"And why are you wearing my Ex-Girlfriend as outfit to this date?!" 
Annas left eye twitched.
Rabbit didn't respond on that. 
"Your Family is doing pretty good in our little game..."
"Again, what do you want..."
"Listen to me Laura... As long as you are on this Island, I have to do this, there is no chance not to threaten your kind."
"And why are you telling me this?" Anna asked.
"I don't want to harm you."
"You don't want to harm us?! Why are you doing it anyway?! What's this all about?!"
"See..." 
"I cannot exist without wishes. I have to fed on anything that is given to me. If its a positive wish, or a negative, it is the same to me, I have to respond. And before you ask, memories and wishes are merely the same, only that "wishes" are quantumexisting possibilities of things. Memories that happend, where therefore one of many possibilities... You see, it's the same for me. The problem is, the negative ones are the more persisting." 
"So if there are many parallel worlds and possibilities, why don't you feed on your own possibilities?" 
Rabbit turns arround and looks irritated against Annarchy.
"What is your wish, longing Island?" Anna asks with a grin.
Rabbit shakes her head, no, you mustn't do that, it will kill you all!
But Anna stood silently there, forming the wish, Longing Island has to feed on. 
"What is your wish? I wish to give you the chance to have a wish. Be free for one possibility."
Rabbit fell down, with a hellish scream the life left her body. She started to disintigrate. And while this happened, the whole Island started to change. The other Tears ran out of the building. Earthquakes, the vulcan erupted and the color faded of every flower and plant on longing Island.
The Island was dying.
But with the death of one, another being could be created.

An hour later, the tears find an unconscious boy on the shore of longing Island. 
...Through the wish of this omnidimensional being, the Island was, a boy was born...
Longing.
The last Tear.




End Of Days
A few hours later Longing awakes. 
He is irritated and afraid of the Tears. 
Anna tries to talk to him and calm him down, the others are sceptical about the strange person.
"So that's it? I am as you now?"
"Seems so, that was your wish?" Anna smiles calmly.
Longing didn't respond.

"Thanks for taking care of me, I am not used to being vulnerable."
"No problem Whitey. Say... What exactly is happening with your Island?"
"It's not my Island... I was the Island. Without me, no Island."
"Good I got that, but, heck... What's happening with this world?! First the desert, then the bloodshore, now this Island? Everything is going nuts!"
"You still don't know what is going on here?"
"What? Do you!?"
"I was one of the entitys that built this world, of course do I know whats "going on here."" 
"Built this world?! What are you talking about? You mean the end of the "human empire-world"?"
"No, I mean the beginning of yours."
"I don't get a single sluging word of your talking, Whitey. Start with the beginning."
"You do know an entity, you think it is called Xerxas."
"Yeah I've killed him 1 year ago."
"You can't kill him."
"You mean he is alive?!"
"Of course. After you killed "Xerxas" I got the chance to settle in this world. I built Longing Island to continue the work Xerxas has done."
"And what did he do?" 
"He built a world that was born from a wish, his wish. The wish to never live in fear again. 
We, your kind used to call us "demons", are just existing because of the emotions you Humans have. If we don't find enough of these energy we cease to exist. So he tried to ensure that he will never have to be afraid of ceasing. He built this little world to torture you and your friends into eternity, to absorb the negative emotions coming from you. That's the reason why there are just a few Humans around here"
"You say..."
"Yeah, your world isn't real, Annarchy."
"That cannot be true! It's... that's...it's explaining everything."
"But it's much more complex then you think. You humans have so low understanding of how the omniverse works, it's a pity." 
"What do you wanna say?"
"This world is as real as every other world. We are all existing thoughts in a greater system."
"I don't understand."
"Of course you don't... You think you are the one this story is about, don't you?"
"Get to the point!"
"You... Are nothing... Nothing but a thought in the brain of another person, Annarchy.
The "God" of this world, he is the one deciding what will happen to you and your friends, what will happen to me, to everyone in this world."
"Why do you know all that?"
"Because he wants me to."
"That's sick, it can't be true!"
"Denial, thats the first thing you humans do... so predictable, I haven't thought you would be so predictable Annarchy."
"Okay, okay, let me get this straight. You tell me, that I am, that Gally, Ham, Heather and the others are all thoughts existing in the brain of one "god" character who has invented this universe of thoughts?"
"Exactly."
"That means, everything he thinks of will become reality for us?"
"Exactly."
Anna grabs his bat, and stands up.
"What do you wanna do Annarchy?"
"She wants to go to this Godguy!" Gally shouts from behind.
"Exactly." Anna responds. 


As Anna leaves the room with the other Tears, Longing is surprised. He had never even thought about that... This human is fascinating, he now understands why his bodyless form wished to be with her.

While Anna prepares for her next journey, she talks to Longing who walks besides her.
"What you want to do is just not possible"
"Don't tell me whats impossible "whiteskindudewithspiralsonchest", I will find a way to safe my friends, I will find a way to bring Rabbit back and I know I can do it, nothing will stop me. Not even you."
Until now everything was just a huge mess, now you show up and tell me how the ""omniverse works"", what have you thought am I going to do?! I have a chance to change everything and I will grab it."
"What are you doing A.? Packing up? Should we start too?" 
Gally was hanging upside down from the ceiling, watching her carrying stuff around.
"I have to tell you something, please gather everyone in the conference Hall." 
"Got it" 
Gally changes direction and crawls out of the garage to gather the whole crew.

A few minutes later in the conference Hall:
"And that's why I will leave you."
"That's stupid!" Heather throws in, her mouth finally opened, the yarn didn't appear again, after she cutted it off the last time. 
"You really shouldn't do that." Says Ian, who got much more lively, after his encounter with Stanley. 
"We will find another place to live! Don't leave!" Gally shouted.
"You don't understand... This Island is dying and every other place is under the control of Xerxas, we can't live in peace without a huge change. A revolution, a new beginning."
"Wait, wait... does that mean I am just a thought too?!!" Metatron was calling over the prd. Ham carried it - the radiotronik device streamed through his amplifiers.
"Sorry Met!" Anna stated.
Jesse grabbed Annas foot and asked anxious. 
"But will you come again?"

"Sure, as soon as I'll have changed the world, I will return to you and we will live peacefully together ever after." Anna smiled and tousled Jesses hair. 
Longing wanted to say something, but he knew that it won't help the situation. 

If this world are gods thoughts, as Longing stated, there had to be a place that wasn't finished yet. Annas plan was to get there, to get the possibility to interact with the subconsious of the god.









Memories:
On the day of the departure Anna set outside the base, the same place she talked with Rabbit; no Longing. Everything she ever experienced was just a sick thought inside someones brain. She couldn't really believe it. In retrospective she thought about all this emotions, all the tears she cried. Does this knowledge make the experiences less important? 
Why is someone doing such cruel and sick things to us? Only because we are thoughts to him?
What is everything around us? Why is everything happening like it is? Why do we want to answer this question, when we know the answer could be hurtful?.
Oracle, you hadn't forseen that, had you? And Spider, you would be really pissed if you had known that everything we experienced was just a thought of another guy. She remembers the days she was trying to survive with the kids of the aftermath. 
Josh.
Spider.
Oracle.
Freckle.
Tiny.
Rabbit.
She sighs. 
Even though it explains all, nothing got easier.




Goodbye.
"Do you really think it's a good Idea?" Alex took Anna out of her memories. 
He took a seat aside from her and looks down the dying Island. 
"Do you really think any Idea this head had in the past few years was a good Idea?"
"Yes I do. You are a great person Annarchy and you helped all of your friends more than we could ever pay back."
Anna smiles, but looks away.
"I am sorry Alex."
"For?" 
"That nothing of the things will happen, that could have happened with us."
"What do you mean?" He looks to her and she kisses him suprisingly but kindly on the lips. 
Silence.
"I am really sorry" Annas voice sounds broken. 
Alex whispers soft. "Are you crying?"
"I am afraid." She cuddles him. 
He lays his arms arround her.
"You don't have to do that for us, we will survive, somehow."
"... You Guys don't know what you are up against.
I do and I don't want you to get into danger.
I just love you too much" 
"We love you too."
Silence again.
"So this is the last day, we have with you for a long time?
I say, let it be a great one! So, what should we do, Leader?"
Anna looks up to him and grins.

An hour later, everything is ready. Anna had written this song for Alex, she wanted to finally say Goodbye to Rabbit, to open up for new adventures. She knew Rabbit would be proud and happy with that. It's ironic that it's the goodbye for Annarchy now. She will leave the Tears with Longing to sail across the seas, to reach somehow the god of this world. No one, even longing didn't knew if that was even possible at all.

"I am leaving the tears, this is the last song we will do together. Let it be a great one! To new, better frontiers!"
Goodbye






This song should be a retrospective to everything Anna has done and experienced with the Tears. It should inhabit every feeling the Tears gave her, it should be the best song of them. 

6:21 should symbolize the very last goodbye. 
They are standing on the beach of longing Island, ready leave with a boat they've built.
Anna and Longing are ready to go. Everyone of the tears says goodbye to Anna, and finally... 
Alex kisses her in front of everyone.




At The End Of My Imagination
After weeks of traveling the sea, Longing and Anna are finally somewhere in the subconciousness of the "god". 
It looks very freaky and strange. Watertornados, spores, extreme winds, everything looks a bit organic. Soon the ship wont swim through the ground, that became hard with the time. Longing tells Anna to stay with him, cause every small thought of the god can manifest here. It's a very dangerous place, but it could be the only way to get into his real consciousness, the end of their journy.
The further they come, the harsher the weather gets, it's dark and the ambience is dangerous. 
On the horizon they see a building, a metal-clockwork-citadel shaped thing.
"I think that's it... Do you see that tower that's piercing the heavens? We have to get there."
"Then let's do it." 
As soon as they arrive at the citadel some of the twisted thoughts of the God manifest and attack them both. They are pretty dangerous crazy looking creatures, with a long toung, lizard like features, but with completely black skin. Anna tries to fight them, but they are too strong, too dangerous. 

"Ann run! They are too strong, you can't kill them!"


They run into the citadel, with the monsters on their track.
The inside of the citadel is very beautiful, great colors everywhere, everything looks pretty nice. Only the dead, ugly world outside seems depressing now. 

It get's quiet.

They arrive in the chapel.
"What's this?" Anna whispers.
"I don't know, I seriously don't know... Maybe the god is locking up everything beautiful his mind has to offer." Longing seems nervous too.
"It's some kind of metaphor for his life, isn't it?!" 
"Sure, this part of the world feds on his life, it's his subconscious after all."
"Do you think the monsters can exist in here?" 
"We shouldn't risk anything."
"Yeah, good Idea."



They move silently across the room in search for the tower entrance.

"It has to be this one." Longing states.
"Allrighty, then... Let's go?"
"Are you sure you wanna do that?"
"It's far too late to do a draw back, isn't it?"
"Of course it is..."
"Thanks for everything Longing." Anna grabs him on his shoulder, he looks down.
"Do you wanna know my wish?"
Longing asks whispering.
"Of course not! You are not allowed to tell me your wish just now, you will tell me and the others when we are back."
In that moment the monsters crush through the chapel windows. 
"Run Anna!" Longing hustles Anna towards the tower entry. 
"What's with you?!"
"I'll give you the time you need for changing this world, don't let me have a point!"
"Never!" Anna turns arround and runs.
...Go now! Safe your family, safe this world, give everything a second chance, make everything better, you are the only one who can do this... 

While Longing fights these monsters his thoughts are merely dominated by a feeling of releef, he can do something for the person that mattered to him, he is happy, he had finally a purpose in life he determined himself. While he gets killed by the monsters of the subconsious, he grins pacific.

Anna, runs across the stairs. Endlessly...
The next time she looks up everythings black around her. 
Enormous feelings of selfpity are comming to her mind.
The stair ends.
Arround here darkness.
Above her she can sense the ending, the finish... But how is she supposed to get up there? No stairs are leading there. There is no chance... She can't do that, she is just a thought... A.... She couldn't... fail now! She hast to do it, this is a subconscious, isn't it! Than feel this thoughts, feel this feelings! 
"I AM NOT GONNA LOSE!"

With her irrepressible will she somehow manages to synchronise her subconsciousness with gods. 
She screams and the darkness gets enlightend by the explosion of her thoughts.
Everythings shaking.
Out of her back spread giant colorfoul wings.
"Now I get the rules of this game" She grins malicious. 


She jumps and flies with an irresistable speed  towards the end. 
Nothing can stop her now. 
Absolutely nothing. 
She will change everything. 

She will save everyone.
Maybe she is just a thought...
But just one thought can change the world!

And with an explosion she shattered the fourth Wall.
  

...Whiteness...

"Where the slug am I?" 
She looks up. 
She realizes that she isn't herself anymore.
She runs to the mirror. 
She sees a male face, washy hair, a colorful streak, black clothes and everything else, that could describe myself.
From now on, no one in the world of my thoughts had to suffer again.



The End

Samstag, 22. Oktober 2011

Another Trailer!

Here comes an extra long trailer for the tribute part of the 3. album. =D


I hope you like it!


The album is finally finished and I am currently working on the blog post to upload it. I look forward to the release. Then I am finally free to write on my book again. I really like the album however, don't think I 've wasted time working on it. =)
Yeah, so...
Have a great time, Born from a wish is coming very soon!

Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011

Born From An Update!



Random stuff:
I am still working on the new album "Born from a wish", but have also started an other project. I am writing on a book based on a dark-fantasy world I've created. I am putting much effort in this world and really hope to finish it in a way I can live with it. After this is done, I'll start on writing a book based on the storys of my tears, since I've completed the storyline today and I am really looking forward to it. Uskaja is a huuuuuuuge project and I really love it, but I hope that I'll get enough experience in writing from it, to do the Annarchy Story in a proper way. If somebody is asking himself why somone like me, whos not capable of writing a single sentence in english without an mistake or grammar error, is writing a book, here's the answer: 
I am writing it in my first language! =p


Back to topic:
I've finished the tribute part of my third album and will now emerge in writing stuff for plot! :>
The Tribute part lasts an hour and the plot thingy will be at least 45 minutes long. 
I've uploaded the full version of bramble blast, the song that I've used for my trailer, hope you like it. =)
I've also designed the last tear, looking forward to show him to the world. 

*Update for the update:
A new trailer appeared!
Welcome the last Tear!

Have fun, don't hurt yourself and see youuu.
 

Mittwoch, 31. August 2011

Lifesigns!

Heyja!

Here we are again, with News!
The next big thing in the "Tears Of A Child" chronicle started out as a side project, until I realized that Anna would be very pissed, if I did this without her and the kids. So here we have the first signs of the new TEARS album.


The Idea is to create some sort of tribute to all the games, books, films and whatever else is out there and plays a big role in my life. The list is long and I think I won't finish the album soon, but I can promise one thing... I do my best in creating this tributes. A lot of time was invested in this project and it will be... not everyone's taste, (as ever) but it will be my best work till now.




Here is the list of Songs I've started till now:
  • Bramble Blast (Donkey Kong Country 2)
  • Cara Mia (Portal 2)
  • Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke)
  • Mortal Kombat (Mortal Kombat)
  • Shatter The Sky (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
  • 7 Years (Silent Hill Tribute)
  • Where Ash Fell Like Rain (Silent Hill Tribute)
  • Born From A Wish (Silent Hill Tribute)
  • Sarias Song (The Legend Of Zelda)
  • Skull Kid (The Legend Of Zelda)
  • The Children Of Hinamizawa (Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni)
  • Rei I Theme (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
  • Komm Süßer Tod (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

But that's not all, there will also be a few Tears (Plot) Songs on the Album:
  • End Of Days
  • The Day Alex Found His Cat
  • Goodbye

Dienstag, 19. Juli 2011

Our Second (and downloadable) Album!



-At The End Of Your World-
(Click to download)

At the end of your world? Isn't it a bit arrogant to say "at the end of your world"? You have no Idea what I am like so don't tell me you are "at the end of my world"!
Yes it would be arrogant, but that's not the point. The title has almost nothing to do with the listeners world.
It's a quote from Annarchy's past (She has to go to the end of her world and above before she's allowed to die), it's the location of "Longing Island" (In the middle of nowhere) and it's of course the end of my creative landscape, so please, don't feel offended because of the title.

So what's the story behind the whole "Tears Of A Child"-Project?
The Tears are a bunch of Kids, who are living in a post apocalyptic, dark and surreal world.

  Here is what happened until now:
  • One day, Annarchy arrived at the Bloodshore. 
  • Under the leadership of her, the children of this forsaken place (Gally and Ian) gathered to become this group/band. The Tears.
  • Annarchy is the only one who remembers her past and how everything became such a mess.  
  • They soon find a deactivated robot (Ham) in the trash of the Scrapland and reactivate him.
  •  He leads them to an secret underground-research lab, where they get access to many strange machines.
  •  Ham's dad, a mad scientist, who was called "The Jester", worked there on a plan to recover from a strange illness, which seems to have killed him before he finished his plan.  
  • One of the machines they've found - the "portable radiotronik device" - gives them the ability to send messages into the past. 
  • Someone in this past is receiving those messages in his head. He begins to hear everything they send through the prd and is able to even communicate with the Kids trough his thoughts.
  • Anna wants this guy to spread their work and words. She will call him the "Metatron".  
  • A new kid arrives at the Bloodshore, she is called Heather and joins the Tears after some dissensions.  
  • Heather (The new Tear) remembers fragments of her past; Ian seems to be a big role in that.  
  • Anna wants her new family to be happy, so she plans to leave the Bloodshore behind and manages to build a boat to do so.
  • Now they are ready to leave, in hope of finding a new and more lively place to call their home, they set sail... 

Why do they call themself "Tears"?
The name origins from Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
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...and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It’s not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to ‘dear, kind God’! It’s not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for.
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But it's also some kind of wordplay:
Since I (The guy behind this) has problems in living out his emotions (except in having really bad nervous breakdowns xD), the things I do have to serve as some kind of psychic-therapy. So I decided to call my band "Tears".
The tears of a really childlike person.
The Tears Of A Child. 

Also: There is nothing more emotional than the tears of a child,
wether they origin from crying or laughing.

What does the cover show?
The Cover of this album shows "Longing Island" an Island in the middle of nowhere. Something like the Neverland of J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan". The plants there are purple and pink, the sand is white and the sea arround is reflecting the everlasting starry sky above it. Every minute at least one falling star can be seen on the sky and echoes of whispered wishes are traveling with the wind. If you look closely enough you can see (young) Anna in the upper-left corner of the cover. With her is a very important person of her past, somebody who becomes very important in the story of the second album.
She called her "Rabbit".




The Story / Track By Track 

Through the Waves Of The Bloodshore
Anna reads her goodbye-letter to Metatron, because she doesn't know if the PRD will work at other places than the Bloodshore. Metatron gets really depressed after their depature and as he loses contact with the Tears. The Song symbolizes 1. Metatron feelings and 2. the journey mood of the tears, who are building and launching their boat to travel to new horizons. 

Annarchy Rising 
After some days at sea the tears get into a storm. They are fighting against the crushing waves and the unpredictable weather. The boat gets destroyed in a fierce storm and Annarchy falls overboard and nearly drowns. In an inner monolouge she recaps the last months and remembers the promise she gave Rabbit those long gone days.
"You have to go to the end of your world and above!!! You are not allowed to die, can you hear me?! Not allowed, until... until... you........ hah! Until you  find a flower exactly looking like the one I've tattooed ya!
promised?"  
Annas will to survive is stronger than the raging sea and she rises from the deep. After she saves an unconscious Gally; Heather, Ham and Ian - now on some plankets - swim to them. They fight against the storm but soon even Annarchy loses her strenght and passes out.

Longing Island   
The Tears awake on an white and lonely beach. Ham watched over them and waited till they all came back to consciousness. Ham was surprised, even Ian (who never sleeps) got unconscious...   
They start to explore the Island. 
The purple plants, the disembodied voices and the surreal environment are disturbing Anna...
Anna get's the impression of being watched, she turns around and sees something moving behind the purple plants and tries to hunt it down. 
It gets away, maybe she was just imagining things again... 

Rabbit Land 
Heather finds the flag, they've created for their new home on the stoney and cliffy part of the Island.
In an discussion the Tears decide to stay on the Island for a while.
With the rest of them, Anna starts climbing on the mountain of the Island to get a good view. 

"In the name of the tears, This place will soon be known as Rabbit Land!"

Anna remembers the days she spend with Rabbit... 
She misses her badly, a silent but very strong wish leaves her lips.

Alex
Same time, different place...  Pagliacci the superhero-clown wanders a desert of broken glass in search of his beloved "Cat", the 7 year old girl he used to know, before he got into this twisted world. He wanders for an eternity and at the moment he finally remembers his real identity, he gets unconscious. As he awakes he finds himself on Longing Island. He got washed up and the tears cared about him, the time he was uncunscious. 

As the days go by, Alex tries to become acquainted to the kids and even starts  remembering more about his past. He was a nurse in a cancer-hospital and tried to amuse the ill children with his clown performances. One of the girls told him that she hates clowns, but loves heroes...

"...You are both of them, so I don't really know what to think of you..." 

That girl was Cat and that conversatíon was the beginning of the best friendship Alex ever had. He asks himself if Cat could be on this island too...

Uskaja Intro
In Alex's stories about the past he also mentions that online game he played. "Memories of Uskaja"...
Ian and Heather react to this. Heather tried to tell them about this game, but was disabled by her stitched together mouth. With the help of Alex, they realize that this online game was the place where Ian and Heather got to know each other and that Heathers current appearance resembles the "Chimaira" Race of the game very much.  

Uskaja Calling
Even though populated by many strange races, the world of Uskaja is ruled by one deity and her empire. Aiosophe, the one living in the Tower of Ember, in the heart of her Isskel empire. The tower of Aiosophe is the birthplace of every race, except the cruel and harsh Darok Khan, a babarian empire of bloodthirsty mutating vampire-like people. Many other races are an important force in the world of Uskaja too: the cunning Faykin, the plantlike Kafun, the undead Lich and the Chimaira, a race of hybrids, who are expulsed by the other races to die in the waves of the sea... But many Chimaira survived this treatment and settled on the islands of the green seas, seeking for revenge on the Isskel empire. 

...Uskaja is an exotic and beautiful world from the outside, but behind this fancy curtain lingers a rotten place of slavery, brutality and unfairness...

At The End Of Your World
A few days later Ian dissappears. The Tears start to search him on the whole island.
On the stoney cliffs, on the giant shipwreck on the north side, and in the purple jungle. There they finally find something. A strange research facility, which they start to explore. They enter and search for clues of their zombie-friend. Ham's surprised, he finds the Asyl logo, the one he has on his chest everywhere in this lab. Due to generators, this facility still has electric energy to offer and Anna starts to search the pcs, for information. She isn't able to find anything helpfull except a very cryptic digital diary of some workers.
She begins to read it....

Meanwhile Heather finds Ian in the garden of the research lab, with a giant stranger. It seems that this glasshouse garden tries to simulate an autumn like state. Under the big golden Oak Heather sees Ian smiling, while he is talking to the weirdo. The stranger, which hands are in fact giant red claws, creeps her out and she tries to convince Ian of comming back to the other Tears... But she fails. The stranger introduces himself kindly as Stanley and leaves with Ian, who's stating in an incredible bold and lively way that they are long time friends and there is no reason to worry. As they leave, the other Tears finally come along and Heather tries to tell them about Stanley. (As good as she's able to) Anna gets angry, equips herself with her baseball bat and wants to talk with that Stanley-Guy...

But where have they gone to?
Heather runs ahead, searching for Ian!
In the moment she leaves, Alex and Ham show up.
They've found some strange looking robots, helicopterlike spy-drones which they wanna try out.
Anna bites her thumb.
Perfect.
A few minutes later 10 little spy-robot-drones fly around the whole Island to search for Ian and his creepy companion.
Finally one of them spots them... And they are building a boat?
Anna is irritated, she thinks a minute about it and runs off shocked.
The others, except Gally, who is controlling the robots, wait for a second, look at each other and follow her in hurry!

"If the diary is right... This Island is going to do it again... Hrm, at least I finally know what happened to Ian."
Anna runs as fast as she can.
She comes to late, Ian and Stanley are a few meters away floating in the water...

Anna starts to swim.

Meanwhile Stanley and Ian are talking in their boat:
"I don't wanna move to Brisbane... This sucks."  Ian says
"..."
"As soon as I find somone I like in this dirthole I have to move away... It's so unfair."
"..."
"Man, this drink tastes like garbage... Why are you so quiet Stan?"
Stanley sighs
"You don't know what it's like to be alone Ian, you really have no idea.
You don't know what it's like to stay up everyday, go to a job you don't like, serving people you hate, only to return into your ugly lonely world..."
"What are you talking about Stan?"
"You don't know what it's like to have no childhood, to have no friends, to get bullied by everyone around you and get screwed by life!
It's funny, Life always comes and shows me what it could be,
only to take it away in the next moment!
Hell... I am done with it..."

"Stan?"
Ian has problems holding his eyes open, his strength vanishes.

"This time...
I will take it away from her."
Stanley's diabolical grin is the last thing Ian sees before he passes out.
...

05.07.1996  Entry #19:  This Island...
It seems crazy but this Island... I think it feeds on the memories of people. This Island: Longing Island. We are here, shipwrecked at the end of the world. Everyday things get washed up, things people have left behind, have forgotten or blocked out... 2 people of our team are dead, 3 are in an catatonic state and I? I've seen Carren again. She stared at me... Oh this eyes, I am so sorry for what I've done to you, so incredible sorry. I want to forget, again... But this Island don't want me to, this Island don't allows me to.

Anna fights the waves, she isn't allowed to fail.
"Rabbit, I've found a new family here, you were right, there are things in this dead world, worth living and fighting for... I won't allow anyone to take this away from me again!"
Just as Anna climbs up the boat, Stanley wanted to throw the passed out Ian overboard.
Soaked, Anna clenches her fist.

"Give him to me and you won't be harmed..." She says calmly.
"He is mine! No one will take him away from me! Not his parents, not you, no one!"
"That's it? You want to kill him, because you don't want him to leave?!"
"Why do you think they are moving away?! I'll tell you why, because it's not normal that such an young boy hangs around with an old "sick bastard" like me! People are speaking things around our backs. I am not allowed to see him anymore, the whole world goes crazy because I am not allowed to have a friend."
"And so you are giving them the reason why they were right in having such worries?"
"...What?"
"I've said, you are giving them the ultimate reason why somone like you should not be around Ian!
You have become the reason yourself and you didn't even notice it..."

"You..."
Stanley looks at his giant red hand-claws.
"...Are right?"

"I've, I've become the beast myself..."
He starts to giggle.
"That's the best irony she's given me so far."
He starts to laugh.
"This is a sick dream, when am I'm going to wake up?"

"This is not a dream... This is reality, and you have finally woken up Stanley"

He sits down.
Tears roll down his face.
He looks at his bloody claw-hands soullessly.
Ian and Stanley

One of the spy robots arrive.
Anna carries Ian to the robot, she ties him on and holds on herself.
Gallys voice appears through the Drone.
"What's with him?"
Anna takes a last look at the disgusting figure that was born from Ian memories.
Memories about his best friend and murderer, the 36 year old Stanley Tompson.

"We are done here..."

The robot flies back to Longing Island.
In the distance the boat Stanley is catatonically sitting in, dissappears in the fog, which sorrounds "Longing Island" now and then.
Anna knows, that this was only the beginning.
The Island had spoken and will do it again.

Jesse
A few days later... 
The Tears have moved into the "Asyl"-Facility.
They want to explore the giant lab entirely.
After a few hours they find a door which requires some keycards to open it, luckily Anna has gathered everything that resembles an important object in this place.
The door opens. 
Ham is shocked, there are many of this tanklike things in it, which he has also has in his chest.
Heather climbs up one of these thing and looks inside the small glass-slit. 
"Empty!" She tries to shout and jumps over to the next.
"Empty!" again.
While Heathers "Empty!" cascade continues, Anna walks trough the hallway only to find something spectatcular at the end of the long room. 
At the end of this hallway lies one transparent tank filled with turquoise water and... a little Girl.
"Jesse #01" is written on the tank.

"Do you think she is still alive?!" Gally asks agitated.
...
They open it

...
Jesse

Under the care of Gally and Ham, Jesse recovers from her long sleep a few days later.
She is not able to speak, but learns very quick.
In the room they've found her, another message of Hams Father, "The Jester", was found.
The melodramatic and cryptic film delivers information about Jester and Jesses relationship.

After the failure of project "Jes.2" (Ham). Jester realized that the Virus in his body is only attacking the y-chromosomes. So the misogynic mastermind started a program of creating a female clone of himself, because surviving was way over his hatred towards women. Many trials failed, but finally he created "Jesse #1" a genetic masterpiece.

...The day, she's seasoned I will transfer my consciousness into her body *cough* I, "The Jester"  will return to show you ignorant and pathetic idiots what a human without any ethical boundaries can achieve, while you are building castles in your cute little sandboxes. I will become a god amongst men! *cough, cough* The Jester is becoming king again!

Hearts Of Darkness
Even though, or maybe because Jesse keeps them on their toes, Anna starts to become more and more melancholic. She sits on a cliff of longing Island, her favorite spot; the place she had put the "Rabbit Land flag" in. Everything has changed so much in the last year, she doesn't know if this is supposed to be right. 
Everyday, her memories seems to fade more and more into the nothingness and she get's afraid of loosing her last memories of Rabbit. 
She misses her so badly...
But what is she supposed to do?
Surviving another year in this world, in which everything can change every second? Is she supposed to live in this viscious circle of forgetting forever?  She's desperate and starts to cry. 
Alex is hearing it and walks towards her... She pretends to be okay and takes the bottle he brought with. 
Alex don't know what to say, he keeps quiet.  
...Silence for a few minutes...
After a while Anna rests her head on his shoulder, he's irritated but pretends to be okay.
She smiles and a rain of falling stars can be seen on the horizon... 

Same time, a few meters away.
Gally, Jesse and Ham are screaming and dancing around a fire while Heather is resting her head on Ians thighs. She smiles, even though the twine of her stitched mouth tries to prevent it.  

Home Is Where...?
A few hours later, Anna awakes.
Alex sleeps on her side, they've both fallen asleep on this cliff.
She smiles and walks to the flag.
The dark memories of her past come back and she asks herself if this island is the right place for her and her horde.
Is this the home she was searching for?
She walks to the others.
Everyone, except Ham is asleep now.
On her walk she finally realizes that searching a home is irrelevant, as long as you are with your family...
"Home... As long as we're all together, we are already at home".

Her eyes expand.
She seperates from the group and runs back to the shore.
"What have I done?!
...Metatron, please forgive me!..."

Labyrinth
Anna gets lost in the purple jungle of Longing Island.
Something is behind her, or is she imagining things again?
She has no time to get crazy now.

She runs for an eternity, but don't seem to make progress, what's going on here?!
Anna gets exhausted.
She hears a voice.
"It can't be..."
As she lift her head, she can't believe her eyes....
"Rabbit?! Is that you!?"
"Yep."
"But... but... you are de..."
"Psscht, Sweets" She puts a finger on Anna's lips to silence her.
"Stop talking such rabbish. I am fine, and here, only for you. Didn't you wished for me to return?"
Almost voiceless she replies:
"Nothing more..."
Anna grabs her hand and waits a few seconds.
With her voice returning, she says:


"But I've realized something. Even though I am somewhat grateful for the offering you are giving to me, Longing Island... I am not buying it any second longer! I am what I am, and I AM the gathering of events in my past, I am, what happenes, happened and will happen to me. I am what I am doing and what is done to me, no matter how painful, unfair or twisted it was. I am not one of your Puppets, you can't control me any longer and you won't control anyone of my family!
I!
Annarchy, will find a way to take you down, down as I've done it with Xerxas a year ago.
Listen to me you demons, spirits, angels and pancakefaces of this twisted world...
You are no match for me!



While the Illusion shatters, Rabbit smiles.

Anna walks her by, without looking back.

"I am accepting your challenge, Sweets."

Anna leaves the Labyrinth.

Tears Of A Child
On the shore of Longing Island, Anna finds the PRD.
She reactivates it and........... It's still working!

Bursting into tears, Anna excuses her stubborn actions.
"I am so sorry Met, I've finally realized how important you have become and that you are part of our family...
I was so dumb in leaving you behind like this!
...
I won't leave you behind anymore, never again!"
...
"Promised!"
...
"please talk to me..."
...

I can't stand that silence, please... say anything!

....Silence...
And then?

"Anything."

Anna gasps for a moment and then starts to giggle.
She's so glad, tears roll down her cheek and she even hugs the PRD.
The other Tears finally arrive at the shore. As soon as Gally and Ham realize that Anna is talking over the PRD to Metatron they run toward it, only to shout their happiness of his return.
Even Ian smiles and moves towards the machine.

"Have you at least found a new home?"
"Yep." Anna grins while she starts a grouphug.

The only ones left behind are Alex, Jesse and Heather.
Jesse looks questioning, while Alex asks Heather:
"Who are they talking to?"
Heather cuts the strings on her mouth with her sharp claw to grin.
"The 8th Tear of course."
And starts pushing them both towards the group hug.

In The Sand Of Longing Island
With the machines of the Asyl-Facility the Tears manage it to build a big radio antenna. Their first show and message for Messy-World (That's how Gally calls it) is:

"This Message is for everyone out there. 
Every lost soul. 
My name is Annarchy
I am the leader of the Tears
and we are hear at longing Island. 

If we are ready for life? 
Ask different: 
Is life ready for us?"

BONUS SONGS
The 1. Messy-World Radio Show 

Surface Of The Sun
Since Sunshine was one of Rabbits favorite movies and Anna loves the main theme, they've covered it in their first Radioshow. 

Battle Angel
Anna has frequently stated that "Battle Angel Alita" is one of her absolute favorite Comics/Manga. So she  decided to do a new Alita song for the first radioshow... The song "Battle Angel" was born. 

Dark Days Are Coming
This one is the first Song Alex has contributet in.
It's about a villain he created for the comicbook he was working on. 
The Villain is called: 
The Humanimal
and it's story is kinda tragic:

Doctor Ewan Dolsen, a genius on the field of genetic research, receives frequently harsh critic. His theory on how insects are able to use a parallel dimension to teleport from one place to another has made him a laughingstock under the scientists. Dolsen thinks that the "fairy myth", origins from butterflies who are using this dimension which mythological name soon became the "fairy realm". While Dolsens work on the so called "Humanimal Project" for the bioweapon company I.s.Star is going fine, a more sinister and egocentric plan  of proving his butterfly theories arises in his mind. As soon as the "Huminamal Field Generator" is finished, he uses his own daughter to participate as guinea pig. The humanimal project was called into life for mixing human characteristics with those of animals to create something like a supersoldier. However Dolsen thought the field would mix the characteristics of the butterfly with the beauty of his daughter and give her the ability to change into the parralelldimension. It didn't turn out that well. Humanimal was an abberation, a monster from the outside. And a twisted young woman on the inside. She was inprisoned in the facility as test subject for the next weeks, but freed herself soon with her abilities. She wanted to go home and as soon as she arrived there, she realized that she never was Eva, the daughter of  Dolsen. Dolsen cloned his daughter for the first test with the "humanimal field". In anger, Humanimal killed everyone at home, even the original Eva. Since then the Humanimal is making the town a more dangerous place.

Notes from Alex: 
Humanimal: Eva Dolsen + Blue Pansy (Junonia orithya)
Fights with: A Butterlfy knive
Collects "beatiful" stuff like: ears and jewelry...


Dark Days 


That's it.
I hope you like it!

Thanks for the read, the support and everything else.
Metatron over.