Finally finished Briar's song, enjoy, lol
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Song: The Beer by Kimya Dawson
(With slight changes to better suit characters)
Characters:
Briar, Moiraine, Destry, Viar, and Cam
Context:
Uh, well, this song mostly highlights the relationship between Briar and some of the gang members that their "closest" to as well as showing some of the ways the gang generally interacts with each other. It also pokes at the fact that drugs and alcohol are very important within the gang, and how that impacts Briar (aka, addiction isn't fun :D)
Oh, right, there's some TW's for this one, it's dark
Hints at body dysphoria, mentions at self-harm and attempted suicide, transphobia, and alcoholism
Enjoy!
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(Revenge in particular is very important within the gang system. Especially within lower ranks, it's every man for himself, and if you poke me, I'll punch you in retaliation. Briar picked up on all of this as a means of survival.)
Briar: "The beer I had for breakfast was a bottle of Mad Dog, and my twenty-twenty vision was fifty percent off. You said,"
Destry (a fellow creature): "Punch buggy red!"
Briar: "And punched me right in my left eye. I said, "Don't you mean pediddle? and I lit your bed on fire."
(A little few years after joining the gang, Briar became close with Moiraine, who was a fellow creature and a genuine friend. After a while, Briar coaxed Moiraine into living in an old shack a little away from the house they shared with their father rather than sleeping at the gangs base, which is very dangerous. They were genuinely good for each other, but as Briar's mental health continued to spiral, there wasn't much Moiraine could do, even though he really did try)
Briar, about Moiraine: "He came home on acid, I was holding his shotgun, I was dressed like Tina Turner in Beyond Thunderdome. He said,"
Moiraine, panicked: "Don't shoot!"
Briar, smiling sadly: "I said, "I won't, I love you, you're my friend." I handed him my wig and shot myself in the head. Then I stuffed a box of tissues in the hole in my skull, I got in my Mazda and I drove to the mall, I got a Big Johnson shirt and some silicone tits. When I pulled out the tissues, they were covered with shit."
(Slight timeline shift. It's even later and Moiraine and Briar are sitting on the floor of the old shack and eating and talking together. They don't have much, but they share what they do have. It's relatively calm with just the two of them)
Briar: "And the beer I had for breakfast was a box of cheap white wine, and the boombox on my shoulder was a box of clementines. I ate every single one without noticing the mold. You said,"
Moiraine, playfully: "You're gross, my darling."
Briar, grinning back: "I said, "No, I'm rock and roll!"
(Once again, I'll just mention the fact that the gang was overall very transphobic)
Briar, grimacing: "Even though they said I could never, ever disobey, I introduced myself by my actual name, and the recruiters gave me beatings as if I would be scared of burning in hell while I was already there."
Briar: "And the beer I had for breakfast, silver bullet in the brain, and the beer I had for lunch was a bottle of Night Train, and the beer I had for dinner was my crazy neighbor's pills. We had to sit down on skateboards just to make it down the hill."
(Slight timeline change, going back in time now to when Moiraine and Briar had recently met and Moiraine just moved closer. Briar's coming back after a particularly hard task.)
Briar: "Then I peed my pants and you stole the groom's cigar, and some old man made me watch him masturbate, locked in his car. When I got back to the apartment, you were face down on the floor. You said,"
Moiraine, trying to cheer up an obviously exaughsted Briar: "Don't go to bed yet, let's go get a 64."
(Another timeline change. This is later on. On occasion, higher ranks would pressure the lower ranks into somewhat destructive "games" for entertainment. Much of the time, these were kinds of drinking games, but usually the drinks were laced with something or other.)
Briar: "And the beer I had for breakfast was a pint of Jim Beam, and a fifth of peach Schnapps, and some warm SunnyD, and you said,"
Viar, grinning: "Bottoms up!"
Briar: "Just as I bottomed out. I tried to scream, "Fuck you, " but blood was pouring out my mouth."
(Shift in the timeline. A little earlier on, Briar had only joined the gang a couple of months ago and still had a sense of humanity)
Briar, snapping at Marco: "And Viar never planned on telling you the truth, and your recuruiter I.D. card is your fountain of youth. You can be a teenager for your whole fucking life, just find some pretty sucker and make that bitch your wife!"
(Timeline skip. Much farther on in the timeline, only a few months before the start of the RP)
Briar, sadly, laying on a bed: "I guess by now you all know my friend Moiraine broke his neck. He was fighting Viar for our freedom, and he lost himself instead. First, I cried for him, and then I cried for me, haunted by the ghost of who I used to be."
Briar, gripping the blade side of a knife: "But the rocks with holes are warm in my hands, and I buried my toes in the hot, hot sand."
Cam and Moiraine, watching from the afterlife: "You've come a long, long way and you deserve to be really happy."
Winter 
Night 
Clear Moon: 
