character theme songs

[Esthalia]

Recently, I joined Jack Shade's Western (Ransom), but I had a hard time coming up with a character that really stood out to me.

Because it was a western, I turned on a local country station to see if there was anything to inspire me to create a fun, flighty type character.
what I ended up hearing was Miranda Lambert's: Fastest Girl in Town :)

The song mused a character that I am so happy with, and I feel like I wouldn't have been able to come up with her without hearing it!

Have you ever used a song or Cd to inspire something unexpected?

 

[Mordred Pendragon]

If i would give my character a them song, it would be something like... Well depends, if i can take a game song, it would be "frog's theme" from chrono trigger. If it's a normal song, it surely is "Mordred's song" from blind guardian.

 

[The Fox and The Spider]

The original "Mighty Morphin Power rangers theme." Why?

Cause it reminds me of my childhood and helps unlock oddly enough my creative juices. Even though none of my characters resemble a power ranger what so ever...

 

[Mordred Pendragon]

Hahahaha that brings back memories. Power rangers and teenage mutant ninja turtle must be the first two things i rolplayed when i was a kid with my friends. That was the start of my roleplay career and will always remember that power ranger story i had in junior school, it lasted all my 5th grade. Was simply awsome. :)

 

[Diana]

Recently this video struck me as the perfect song for one of my vague character concepts. 8D It is now that character's theme!



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[Hecatoncheires]

I don't always use character theme songs, but when I do it's Johnny Cash.

This is Grant's theme from Dark Reign; bounty hunter on a downward moral spiral out for blood against a man he killed in another life.

 

[Cicatrix]

Almost anything Hans Zimmer has ever composed has inspired me to write something. Recently I found a song via a theme song challenge that I'm debating making a character's theme... We shall see. I write best with music, usually <3

 

[October Knight]

This song is basically my fantasy genre character anthem. All of them, it works every time, on basically every level for any post. I think it is something to do with the simplicity in the beginning that gives way to a very heavy and loud song throughout the track. It is textured and changes dramatically, helping me to add depth to my character in the post.

I have other songs that work well for modern/sci-fi/horror/whatever, but that song just hits the mark for me and writing fantasy posts IC.

 

[Villamvihar]

I do not have music that inspires characters. I only have music that gives me inspiration for whatever I need for the moment. Characters seem to come just spontaneously for me. However, there have been cases where a piece of music inspired a character. For example, this piece of music inspired a horror-themed character that I did not end up using in the end. But generally, I do not rely on music to help me generate characters, just to help me generate ideas. Which is not all that far apart, really.