All rights reserved to Red Candle Studios Nine Sols Original Soundtrack by FFXX, Im Baek Hun, Troy Lin, Vincent Yang Including game's main theme song: 'Nine Sols' composed by Collage
Not to be a that guy, but Lady Ethereal entire plotline revolves around Zhuang-zi's butterfly dream. I think you could see people telling about it, but in sci-fi setting it becomes really scarier, then hypothetical paradox stated by Zhuang-zi, because it feels a lot closer to the reality.
Lady etheral's original name is "Hu Die"--basically means butterfly. It's an allusion to Taoist philosopher Zhuang-zi's theory "the butterfly dream", which states that a man cannot distinguish between reality and a dream, and we might be living in a dream all the time. As for why the translation does not follow that...maybe the devs don't want her to be mixed with the "Lady Butterfly/Maboroshi no Ocho" from Sekiro. And all Lady etheral's test subjects are likely based on Baxian/Eight Immortals, Taoist devinities from different Dynasties. The three subject's names you can find in their dialogues ("He", "Cao", "Li") heavily implied that.
I absolutely love how they give it a dream vibe but the way it's portrayed with the broken vocals and broken background instrumentals and the screams gives it a nightmarish dream style which matches the story tbh I love it
Those screams aaaargh, I can see WHY she went mad too, CURSED indeed. Abolutely fantastic theme and presentation of the character anyway! Even that starting "peaceful" illusion was unsetling.
It's even evident in her own theme. You can hear that her singing has multiple meanings to it: Her vocals could be considered the concept of her own kindness that she had never truly lost, despite how cruel the world is. However, you can hear countless times that the voice often stutters, which can be a sign that she is truly broken free of the naive paradise that she placed herself in to not face the guilt, and the fact that said guilt is literally tearing her apart. Her stun animation proves this, when her own visage is almost a shaking haze as she tries to collect herself. Not only that, but you can hear the screams of the damned in the background in the second verse of the loop, condemning her for her own naive mistakes. I like to interpret that the melodious tone is a reflection of how perfect, how serene the Eternal Cauldron Project's Soulscape is meant to be, forming a duality with the discordant themes of the music. A song fitting for a woman who tried to do her best to help others, but ended up damning herself and countless others out of a desire to save people. That is why her Seal is Benevolence , because she truly sought to help people, and she was baying for punishment when her illusions stopped hiding her from the cruel truth that wasn't even truly her own fault. Unlike all of the other Sols, she is literally seen crying in her own Soulscape, filled with self-loathing and misery.
absolute favorite boss and soundtrack, the music is such perfect description of the character's state of mind, the grief and guilt so heavy it drives her insane.
Not yet done with Nine Sols, but I felt sad for Jiequan, Goumang, and Lady Ethereal. Especially Lady Ethereal... Also gosh, I love this theme, and the aesthetics of her VR. The horror roots of Red Candle Games is quite revealing from her segment of the game! I love how her section has been teased early on with a jumpscare! and I love how we get to see things unfold! I was left wondering why there was that.. and it now all makes sense! I believe that was a nice use of a jumpscare!
I feel really bad for her, and her colleagues knew the risks there doing but either not trying or dying to the virus. If it work (which it did but bad side effects) any vonateers that didn't make it their sacrifice would be meaningful, unfortunately the death of her colleagues, the virus and the pressure from the other Sol Lords, she had no choice but to go forward and she was hoping the cure for the virus is made before 30 days.
@@selka1661 It's the first track on the soundtrack, im uploading them now, here you go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YDpJzpqzUlc.html
