(as performed by Diodato for the cancelled ESC 2020; representing Italy)

Sai che cosa penso?
Che non dovrei pensare
che se poi penso sono un animale
e se ti penso tu sei un’anima

Ma forse è questo temporale
che mi porta da te
e lo so, non dovrei farmi trovare
senza un ombrello, anche se

Ho capito che
per quanto io fugga
torno sempre a te

Che fai rumore qui
e non lo so se mi fa bene
se il tuo rumore mi conviene

Ma fai rumore, sì
che non lo posso sopportare
questo silenzio innaturale tra me e te

E me ne vado in giro senza parlare
senza un posto a cui arrivare
consumo le mie scarpe
e forse le mie scarpe
sanno bene dove andare

Che mi ritrovo negli stessi posti
proprio quei posti che dovevo evitare
e faccio finta di non ricordare
e faccio finta di dimenticare

Ma capisco che
per quanto io fugga
torno sempre a te

Che fai rumore qui
e non lo so se mi fa bene
se il tuo rumore mi conviene

Ma fai rumore, sì
che non lo posso sopportare
questo silenzio innaturale tra me e te

Ma fai rumore, sì
che non lo posso sopportare
questo silenzio innaturale

E non ne voglio fare a meno oramai
di quel bellissimo rumore che fai

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You know what I think?
That I shouldn’t be thinking,
that if I think about it then, I’m an animal
and if I think about you, you’re a soul

But maybe it’s this storm
that brings me to you
And I know I shouldn’t be found
without an umbrella, even though

I realized that
as far as I run away
I always come back to you

Who make noise, here
and I don’t know if it’s good for me
if your noise suits me

But you make noise, yes
and I can’t stand
this unnatural silence between you and me

And I’m walking without talking
with nowhere to go
I’m wearing down my shoes
and perhaps my shoes
know where to go

That I find myself in the same places again,
exactly those places that I should have avoided
and I pretend I don’t remember
and I pretend to forget

But I realize that
as far as I run away
I always come back to you

Who make noise, here
and I don’t know if it’s good for me
if your noise suits me

But you make noise, yes
and I can’t stand
this unnatural silence between you and me

But you make noise, yes
and I can’t stand
this unnatural silence

And now I don’t want to do without
that beautiful noise you make

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In the aftermath of him traveling to another ‘reality’, his voice has changed, and he has no idea that it’s happened. His VA (speaking / singing) is now this guy, Diodato.

(as performed by Il Volo for ESC 2015; representing Italy)

Chiudo gli occhi e penso a lei
Il profumo dolce della pelle sua
E una voce dentro che mi sta portando dove nasce il sole
Sole sono le parole
Me se vanno scritte tutto può cambiare
Senza più timore te lo voglio urlare questo grande amore
Amore, solo amore è quello che sento

Dimmi perché quando penso, penso solo a te
Dimmi perché quando vedo, vedo solo a te
Dimmi perché quando credo, credo solo in te
Grande amore

Dimmi che mai
Che non lascerai mai
Dimmi che sei
Respiro dei giorni miei d’amore

Dimmi che sai
Che solo me sceglierai
Ora lo sai
Tu sei il mio unico grande amore

Passeranno primavere
Giorni freddi e stupidi da ricordare
Maledette notti perse a non dormire
Altre a far l’amore

Amore, sei il mio amore
Per sempre, per me

Dimmi perché quando penso, penso solo a te
Dimmi perché quando amo, amo solo a te
Dimmi perché quando vivo, vivo solo in te
Grande amore

Dimmi che mai
Che non lascerai mai
Dimmi che sei
Respiro dei giorni miei d’amore

Dimmi che sai
Che non mi sbaglierei mai
Dimmi chi sei
Che sei il mio unico grande amore
Che sei il mio unico grande amore

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I close my eyes and think of her (you)
The sweet scent of her skin (your)
It’s a voice inside, taking me where the sun rises
Alone are the words
But if written, everything can change
With no more fear, I’ll want to shout this great love
Love, only love, is what I feel

Tell me why when I think, I only think of you
Tell me why when I see, I only see you
Tell me why when I believe, I only believe in you
Great love

Tell me that you never,
That you will never leave me
Tell me who you are
Breath of my days of love

Tell me you know
That it’s only me you’ll choose
Now you know
You are my only great love

Springs go by
Cold and stupid days to remember
Cursed nights without sleep
Others make love

Love, you are my love
Forever, for me

Tell me why when I think, I only think of you
Tell me why when I love, I only love you
Tell me why when I live, I only live in you
Great love

Tell me that you never,
That you will never leave me
Tell me who you are
Breath of my days of love

Tell me what you know
I could never get it wrong
Tell me that you are
That you’re my only great love
That you’re my only great love

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Fun fact: Lars’s current speaking / singing voice is Piero Barone, one of the three members of Il Volo (the one wearing the red-framed glasses) (no longer applicable as of the end of AA PT 2)

(this will always be his good ending AU!verse voice, though, like here)

(that unmentioned nightmare sequence in Staircase Schisms.)

Awash in the darkness, the first thing he heard—it was laughter.

But it wasn’t the old man’s laughter—it was something else entirely.

He thought—he would never hear that voice again.

Blinking, he saw her—in the flesh. It was her. Their mother.

Alive and whole. Like nothing had ever happened.

How was this possible? How could it be?

He looked down at his hands—not the same size they were now, but much smaller. Younger, then. As he turned to follow the sound of her voice, the laughter changed to pleading. To anger.

And then, to shouting.

The sound was too much—he remembered the last few nights he’d seen her alive, arguing with the deadbeat her better half. Oh, even if majority of it was in Alto Marean, he could pick up words here and there—

A singular scream then pierced the darkness.

Black was then stained with red.

Before the biting cold brought him back into reality.

(as performed by Diodato)

Sai
questa vita mi confonde
coi suoi baci e le sue onde
sbatte forte su di me
vita che ogni giorno mi divori
mi seduci mi abbandoni
nelle stanze di un hotel

Tra le cose non fatte per poi non doversi pentire
le promesse lasciate sfuggire soltanto a metà
mentre pensi che questo non vivere sia già morire
chiudi gli occhi lasciando un sospiro alla notte che va

Ah che vita meravigliosa
questa vita dolorosa, seducente, miracolosa
vita che mi spingi in mezzo al mare
mi fai piangere e ballare come un pazzo insieme a te

Sì avrei potuto andare al trove
non dar fuoco a ogni emozione
affezionarmi ad un cliché
ma sei la vita che ora ho scelto
e di questo non mi pento
anche quando si alza il vento

E mi perdo nel vortice di ogni tua folle passione
tra i profumi dei fiori che posi qui dento di me
mi fai bere i tuoi baci affinchè io poi possa arrivare
dentro l'ultima notte d'estate ubriaco ad urlare

Ah che vita meravigliosa
questa vita dolorosa, seducente, miracolosa
vita che mi spingi in mezzo al mare
mi fai piangere e ballare come un pazzo insieme a te

Ah che vita meravigliosa
questa vita dolorosa, seducente, miracolosa
vita che mi spingi in mezzo al mare
mi fai piangere e ballare come un pazzo insieme a te

E non vorrei mai lasciarti finire
no non vorrei mai lasciarti finire

Ah che vita meravigliosa
ah che vita meravigliosa
ah che vita meravigliosa
ah che vita meravigliosa
ah che vita meravigliosa
questa vita dolorosa, seducente, miracolosa
vita che mi spingi in mezzo al mare
mi fai piangere e ballare come un pazzo insieme a te

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You know
This life confuses me
With its kisses and its waves
It hits me hard
Life you devour me every day
You seduce me and abandon me
In the rooms of a hotel

Among all the things that weren't done in order not to regret them
The promises that weren't kept but just an half of them
While you think that this not-living feels a bit like dying
You close your eyes letting a sigh out in the night

Ah what a wonderful life
This painful, tempting, miraculous life
Life pushing me in the midst of the sea
You make me cry and dance as a madman with you

Yes I could have gone somewhere else
Not set fire to every emotion
Grow fond of a cliché
But you're the life that I've now chosen
And I don't regret this
Even when the wind rises

And I get lost in the vortex of each of your crazy passions
In the smell of the flowers that you lay here inside of me
You make me drink your kisses in order for me to get
In the last summer night drunk and screaming

Ah what a wonderful life
This painful, tempting, miraculous life
Life pushing me in the midst of the sea
You make me cry and dance as a madman with you

Ah what a wonderful life
This painful, tempting, miraculous life
Life pushing me in the midst of the sea
You make me cry and dance as a madman with you

And I'd never want to let you end
No I'd never want to let you end

Ah what a wonderful life
Ah what a wonderful life
Ah what a wonderful life
Ah what a wonderful life
Ah what a wonderful life
This painful, tempting, miraculous life
Life pushing me in the midst of the sea
You make me cry and dance as a madman with you

(the full-length fight between Lars and his doppelganger; AQUA PT 2 basically the entire post if it wasn’t chopped up for length)

[bgm: with Mila’s Divine Protection]

pt 1 / pt 2

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“Your point being?” he drawled, and just to be a cheeky little shit he rummaged around in the pockets of his suit and pulled out the vape, before flipping the switch open and just outright giving his other ‘self’ the most deadpan stare he could manage.

“I fucking vape, vaffanculo,” he growled as he took the deepest drag he could, relishing the vanilla-flavored vapor as long as he could before releasing the single largest cloud he’d ever ‘conjured’ up.

Talk about fucking cheeky.

The ‘other’ Articuno let out a guttural screeching noise, and even the deity raised their ‘brows’ at the show of aggression.

‘Forgive the Kalosian again, but that’s completely and totally fucked up.’

‘Get ready!’

The deity with him also let out a battle cry, before the two iceborne mirages unleashed their own respective Hail storm attacks.

At the same time their respective deities moved, both Lars and his other ‘self’ clapped their hands together and began unleashing their own frosty projectiles.

Having slid the vape back into the inner pocket of his ‘suit’, the pelting ice across their location would made it difficult for others to see what exactly was going on inside the ‘space’; what with two instances of Hail having gone off earlier.

It was actually the perfect cover for them. But there was something else that Lars himself had noticed—since his doppelganger was made of water, wasn’t it going to work against the other?

That was his hypothesis anyway.

“Cazzo, this is fucked up,” he grumbled as he grabbed one of the falling chunks of ice and flash-froze it, changing its bulky shape into something that resembled the survival knife he currently carried with him. Across the way, his other!self had conjured up a swarm of frozen icicle shards, before sending those hurtling across the space.

Above in the sky, both iceborne mirages circled each other, one of the two screaming bloody fucking murder, while the original version merely stared the other down.

‘Getting really loud and annoying up here, you know!’

‘I can hear!’

‘Make it quick, will you?’

‘I’m trying!’

As the shards started pelting across the space and began striking him, the best that Lars could do at the moment was to parry as many of the frozen shards as he could. Which was rather difficult because the shards just kept on coming, without stopping!

“Not a chatty one, are you,” he growled as he bit the bullet and closed the distance. Clearly the other was more experienced with wielding the ice-based magic—this put him at a slight disadvantage.

Why?

Because most of the times he would conjure up said magic were only in dire situations, and not on an everyday whim!

‘Not much of a talker, unlike you.’

‘I heard that!’

‘Well, more experienced than you are with magic, that’s for sure!’

‘Whose side are you on?!’

Lars had to roll his eyes for a few moments while riding through the relentless wave of shards raining down and around him. Some of said shards were sharp enough, he could hear the wind whistling as they flew dangerously close to his face—and his hair.

With his own flash-frozen shard of ice, he continued to parry as many pieces as he could away from his face—thank the hell he was immune to the cold…

The other!deity was still screaming bloody murder and had decided to drop a Blizzard around the area, and for a few moments the conditions within the space had gone from ‘rather fine’ to ‘almost fucking zero visibility’ because of the incoming attack!

Maybe it was a boon that Lars was immune to the cold, after all…

“What was that supposed to be?” he retorted as he continued to parry the frozen projectiles, before looking up at his own deity.

‘Now!’

‘What?’

‘I need you to drop that!’

‘What, that?!’

‘Yes, that!’

Suddenly backing away, Lars then attempted to maneuver through the ‘snow storm’ before the Articuno flying above him began to glow rather—ominously—with a frigid blue aura before the temperatures around the localized area continued to drop.

Just as he’d maneuvered out of the way (and more projectiles came blasting in his direction) he had unleashed the Z-Move, aptly (and ironically) called ‘The End of the World’.

“You’re made of water… guess what happens to water when it gets frozen.”

The beginnings of a shit-eating grin formed on Lars’s face as the Articuno came forward, dropping the powerful attack meant to be used only in last-minute or extremely dire situations—

Like now!

Of course, little did he realize, though, that the more he kept moving around the more the ice he’d flash-frozen over where he’d gotten stabbed was getting dislodged, the clear blue slowly turning a muddy red…

(as performed by Diodato)

Sembrava evidente che
Non c'era più niente da fare
Ma tu amavi insistere
Col tuo accanimento morale
E perdevamo tutto anche la dignità
Dio mio, che male che fa
Pensare a quel giorno in cui
Ci siamo dovuti lasciare
Che quando hai pianto mentre te ne andavi via
Ti sei portata anche me

E ora lo vedi, con il tempo tutto sembra avere un senso
Anche il nostro ritornare a innamorarsi in questo altrove
Fino a farsi scomparire
Fino a farci scomparire

È stato il silenzio che
Abbiamo sentito arrivare
Ad essere complice
Di ogni accadimento immorale
Ci siamo tolti tutto anche la nostalgia
Dio mio, che pena che fa
Mischiarsi a un estraneo che
Vorrebbe sentirsi speciale
Ma quando eri in silenzio mentre andavi via
Ti sei portata anche me

E ora lo vedi, con il tempo tutto sembra avere un senso
Anche il nostro ritornare a innamorarsi in questo altrove
Fino a farsi scomparire
Fino a farci scomparire

E come vedi il mondo adesso
Ti sembra lo stesso
Come vedi quei due pazzi che si sono tolti tutto
Tutto, tutto, tutto

Ma non lo vedi con il tempo tutto sembra avere un senso?
Anche il nostro ritornare a innamorarsi in questo altrove
Fino a farsi scomparire
Fino a farci scomparire

Fino a farci scomparire
Fino a farci scomparire

Fino a farci scomparire

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It seemed obvious that
There was nothing left to do
But you loved to insist
With your moral doggedness
And we also lost all our dignity
My god, what a pain
Think about the day when
We had to break up
That when you cried as you walked away
You brought me along too

And now you see with time it all starts to makes sense
Even our falling in love again in this elsewhere
Until he disappears
Until we disappear

It was the silence that
We’ve been hearing
To be an accomplice of
Every immoral happening
We’ve taken all the nostalgia away too
My god, what a pain it is
Mixing with a stranger that
Would like to feel special
But when you were silent on the way out
You brought me along with you too

And now you see with time it all starts to make sense
Even our falling in love again in this elsewhere
Until he disappears
Until we disappear

And as you see the world now
Does it look the same to you
How do you see those two lunatics who removed everything
Everything, everything, everything

But don’t you see with time everything starts to make sense
Even our falling in love again in this elsewhere
Until he disappears
Until we disappear

Until we disappear
Until we disappear

Until we disappear