[ Eddie’s theatrics honestly only got more intense in that false lifetime. He’d really stopped holding himself back and brought every single one of his already-thin walls down, and there was something kind of nice and freeing about that, sort of like being a wild, rambunctious kid again. But at the same time, it is sort of exhausting for a normal, mortal Eddie to be turned up to eleven at all times. It’s true that he thrives on loud music and chaos, but he thrives equally as much in quieter moments like this.
Which is why he doesn’t choose a loud, wild song for River. Despite everything going on in the real world, he’s enjoying just…being, just existing beside the falls with someone he cares about and considers to be a good friend. ]
You better be. It would be sort of embarrassing if Goat Destroyer can’t draw in their biggest fan, so, uh…I will be holding you to that.
[ He puts on his most serious look, but fails to hold it and breaks out into a grin. He truly missed her so much in that span of false time, it still sort of aches as much as it would if it was real. And he would say he isn’t expecting any real strife or inner turmoil anytime soon but…yeah, he’s been dealing with a level of that since they got back to their real lives. But he doesn’t need to address that right now, not when he’s playing someone else’s song. So he takes a few moments to puts on a big show of pretending to agonize over which song to choose, despite already knowing exactly what he wants to play.
When he begins, it’s with a somewhat surreal tune, and sure, it’s probably technically about drugs, but it has a killer solo halfway through and he thinks River is probably just the right type of person to appreciate the bizarre picture being painted by the lyrics. And with lyrics like "asked us if we were happy, we said we don’t know" and "we thought we were lost but no matter how we tried, everyone was in peace of mind", Eddie may just be viewing it as an interesting reflection of what they recently went through.
When he closes out, he grins like a jackal and still manages to dip into a deep bow, despite being seated this entire time. ]
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Which is why he doesn’t choose a loud, wild song for River. Despite everything going on in the real world, he’s enjoying just…being, just existing beside the falls with someone he cares about and considers to be a good friend. ]
You better be. It would be sort of embarrassing if Goat Destroyer can’t draw in their biggest fan, so, uh…I will be holding you to that.
[ He puts on his most serious look, but fails to hold it and breaks out into a grin. He truly missed her so much in that span of false time, it still sort of aches as much as it would if it was real. And he would say he isn’t expecting any real strife or inner turmoil anytime soon but…yeah, he’s been dealing with a level of that since they got back to their real lives. But he doesn’t need to address that right now, not when he’s playing someone else’s song. So he takes a few moments to puts on a big show of pretending to agonize over which song to choose, despite already knowing exactly what he wants to play.
When he begins, it’s with a somewhat surreal tune, and sure, it’s probably technically about drugs, but it has a killer solo halfway through and he thinks River is probably just the right type of person to appreciate the bizarre picture being painted by the lyrics. And with lyrics like "asked us if we were happy, we said we don’t know" and "we thought we were lost but no matter how we tried, everyone was in peace of mind", Eddie may just be viewing it as an interesting reflection of what they recently went through.
When he closes out, he grins like a jackal and still manages to dip into a deep bow, despite being seated this entire time. ]
What says my captive audience?