I caved and made yet another FST, and again for a novel! Nation, by Terry Pratchett...a book I didn't expect to love as much as I did, considering it's not Discworld. I grew to honestly care about the characters and it was pretty thought-provoking, even though (or perhaps because) it's a YA novel.

I intended this FST to be a general overview of the entire novel, but it ended up focusing a lot on Mau (Demon Boy) and Daphne (Ghost Girl). I just....really loved them. They were fantastic~

There are a few spoilers in this. It's best to read the book before this, anyway...please? <3

Just a quick summary for you:

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which can make fire.

Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She's certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship's parrot.

As it happens, they are not alone for long. Other survivors start to arrive to take refuge on the island they all call the Nation and then raiders accompanied by murderous mutineers from the Sweet Judy.

Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things - including how to milk a pig and why spitting in beer is a good thing - and start to forge a new Nation.

Eulogy
A Nation FST



























Death...

Hall of Spirits // Myst
[In the beginning, Imo made the world]

[Instrumental]

Here Comes the Flood // Peter Gabriel
[....and it washes Mau's world away]

Lord, here comes the flood
Well say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
In any still alive
Itll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, youre running dry.
When the flood calls,
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
Youre a thousand minds, within a flash.

Darkness // Myst
[Locaha has come to call and work must be done]

[Instrumental]

...and Rebirth.

Eulogy // Patrick Wolf
[The old Nation is dead; it's inhabitants became dolphins. But new Nation can rise from the remains.]

But all our love
And life
And song
Carries on
I carry it on
Now the lightships
Are guiding you
Over the sea

Great Spirits // Tina Turner
[Remember the past but reach out as the world widens]

Great Spirits of all who lived before,
Take our hands and lead us.
Fill our hearts and souls
With all you know.
Show us that in your eyes
We are all the same.
































Demon Boy...

Fairyland // Angelzoom
[No longer a boy, not yet a man, Mau forges a soul by himself in the ruins of his home.]

The World falls apart
Cold like a Stone
[...]
A world made of stone
Let tenderness freeze
Save the Fairyland we live in
Where all failings are forgiven
Feel like hunted by a Griffin
I fall down

Godless // Dandy Warhols
[No one can understand Mau's rejection of the Gods and they fear the demon they believe has replaced his soul.]

To hope that you could ever bend,
I swear you are, I swear you are,
I swear, that you are godless.
Hey I said you're godless,
Hey and you're a soulless friend.

Welcome to the Black Parade // My Chemical Romance
[Mau rages against the Gods, Locaha, himself, superstition....it keeps him going.]

A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams
Your misery and hate will kill us all.
So paint it black and take it back,
Let's shout it loud and clear.
Defiant to the end we hear the call
To carry on.
We'll carry on,
And though you're dead and gone believe me,
Your memory will carry on.
[...]
On and on we carry through the fears,
Disappointed faces of your peers.
Take a look at me cause I could not care at all.
Do or die, you'll never make me,
Because the world will never take my heart.

...meets...

Not As We // Alanis Morissette
[Both are lost, but they have the determination to carry on, away from the lives they knew.]

Day one day one start over again
Step one step one
I'm barely making sense for now
I'm faking it I'm pseudo making it
From scratch begin again but this time I as I
And not as we
[...]
If God's taking bets
I pray He wants to lose



...Ghost Girl.

Butterfly Fly Away // Miley Cyrus
[She was repressed, but now she's free to be who she wants - the girl that was buried beneath social expection.]

Caterpillar in the tree
How you wonder who you'll be
Can't go far but you can always dream
Wish you may and wish you might
Don't you worry, hold on tight
I promise you there will come a day
Butterfly fly away
Butterfly fly away (Butterfly fly away)
Got your wings, now you can't stay
Take those dreams and make them all come true

Flowers of Bermuda // Stan Rodgers
[Daphne's the sole survivor of the Sweet Judy. She had to bury the Captain and she'll always remember.]

Oh, there be flowers in Bermuda. Beauty lies on every and,
And there be laughter, ease and drink for every man,
But there is no joy for me;
For when we reached the wretched Nightingale what an awful sight was plain
The Captain, drowned, was tangled in the mizzen-chains
Smiling bravely beneath the sea.

Lift the Wings // Riverdance
[She puts her nation above herself, even if it pains her. She knows he will too.]

Where will the frail birds fly,
If their homes on high,
Have been torn down to the ground?
Lift the wings,
That carry me away from here and,
Fill the sail,
That breaks the line to home.
But when I'm miles and miles apart from you,
I'm beside you, when I think of you.

Together.

Stay //  Poets of the Fall
[They need eachother. Together, they can plow forward and forge a new Nation.]

Morning comes slow today
Memories push through from yesterday
Where will I be tomorrow
What do I have to show from my life
Stay
I need you here for a new day to break.

Kiri //  Monoral
[When Mau saved Daphne, he saved himself.]

You complete my fate
The world unwinds inside of me
[...]
Rewinding all we can
You refill my place
Come and save me
[...]
Believe in me and
Drink the wine and
Take my hand and
Fill me up