Carve your name soft across my lungs - A Rictor/Shatterstar & Dazzler fanmix

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Title: Carve your name soft across my lungs - A Rictor/Shatterstar & Dazzler fanmix
Fandom: Marvel comics
Characters/Pairings: Rictor/Shatterstar, Dazzler & Shatterstar
Notes: This trio is waaaaayy to complex for me to accurately describe, especially as I no longer read comics. But there's a short summary of 'Star and Dazzler's connection on Marvel Fandom and a lovely write up of Ric and 'Star's relationship (sadly sans pictures) on LJ comm Ship Manifesto.

Playlist is on YouTube. Fuck spotify.



Future Mixtape for the Art Kids - Beach Slang
An overarching song for Rictor/Shatterstar, especially their early days in X-Force. Actually, Quiet Slang's whole album Everything Matters But No One Is Listening encompasses this ship for me and is an amazing album to boot. Strongly recommended.

A generation waits to bleed
For broken kids no one needs
There is heaven in these streets
There is heaven in these streets
I'm with you
Are you with me?

We're not lost, we are dying in style
We're not fucked, we are fucking alive

Come Undone - Robbie Williams
Rictor's relationship with himself and with pseudo-absent father figure Cable, leader of his first mutant team.

I'm contemplating, thinking about thinking
It's overrated, just get another drink and

Watch me come undone
They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
I pray that when I'm coming down you'll be asleep
If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet
Because I'm scum
And I'm your son

Filthy Luck - Beach Slang
Ric and 'Star falling in love in those early X-Force days, Ric filled with internalised homophobia and self-loathing and 'Star filled with utter confusion at realising he's more than just a weapon that can bleed.

I’m a slave to always fucking up
It’s not okay, but maybe it’s enough
Kids like us are weird, and more, we’re brave
We tie our tongues and turn them into rage

And the night’s still young
And we’re dumb enough to fall

Stars - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
The breakup song, from Ric's POV. Which breakup? Doesn't matter. No relationship lasts for more than 20 seconds in comics, because comics. Ric and 'Star are always coming together and falling apart (or getting killed/abducted/mind controlled/etc).

I lit a fire with the love you left behind
And it burned wild and crept up the mountainside
I followed your ashes into outer space
I can't look out the window, I can't look at this place

I can't look at the stars
They make me wonder where you are
Stars, up on Heaven's boulevard
And if I know you at all, I know you've gone too far
So I, I can't look at the stars

Run - Leona Lewis (cover)
Dazzler's song mourning her lost child, but more than that the lost years and lost relationship she could have had with him, and her yearning for what will never be.

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you, dear
Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak, I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say