Okay hear me out:
This song gives me Big Janus-Centric Animatic Vibes
What do you see happening in the animatic?
I have a general concept of it being a bit of a view into how Janus views his function as Self Preservation then overtime becoming ‘Deciet’ vs the Backlash he gets for it as Thomas grows up,
how he starts off with herochromia(aka just two dif colored eyes) to represent his godly namesake’s ‘sight of the past and future’ but follows with how, in time as they grow, Patton’s religious moral influence(intentional or not) forces Janus into developing his scaled armor, further othering him from the other sides, as this is when he’s first fully forced into the namesake of ‘Deceit’ and is no longer just ‘Self Preservation.’
and his bittersweet acceptance of how this is simply how things were meant to be, even if he never wanted to be ‘Deceit’ in the first place.
The last part of the song probably glosses over scenes of SVS and the SVS Aftermath and his frustrations with how it’s always out of his control, how he’s trying to connect with the others again in a way that shows he *can* work with them if they’d only just be willing to, and it once again backfiring.. like it always does.
I wanna make an amendment on this and actually change the latter portion of the animatic overview.
My new take is that the animatic solely covers Janus as his aspect changes from Self Preservation to Deceit, the bittersweet note of patches of scales beginning to appear with every time he successfully gets Thomas to lie as he tries in vein to hide it under clothes, first his cape, then hat, then gloves,
until it reaches the final chunk of the song where it cycles through all the lies he told and shows the viewpoint of the others lashing back at him for succeeding, until it ends on a close up of a desk with a mirror, showing Janus's reflection as snake scales finally adorn the whole half of his face and his eye has changed as well.
The last two lines are spoken by Remus, who is standing behind him and placing a comforting hand on his shoulder. The final panel is Janus looking up at Remus, looking exhausted but a little hopeful/thankful for Remus's comfort.
The entire animatic is kind of framed as Janus telling the story of how he got his scales.
It would show frames of Janus when thomas was a kid, starting out in shorts and a t-shirt and slowly covering more and more skin as they all grow up, and each outfit would offer context in how old they all were with each pictured backlash against janus.
I feel like that would just fit the songs wording/story telling better yknow?? ;;
