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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Aozora:--and that’s what makes it all the more mysterious. Especially in that opening shout. His wings…

O: They unfurled again ww

(This is a reference to the dorm songs interview, more here: bsky.app/profile/yuur... )

ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei (@yuurei20.bsky.social)

Today's Twst Radio is Ruggie's VA (🍩) interviewing Twst music composer Ozawa Takumi ( #roidual-takgintal.bsky.social‬ ) about the creation of the dorm songs and Aozora Ichika, who wrote the lyrics…

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

🍩: That combination of lyrics, melody, and vocal delivery really puts across who Malleus is. I thought it was an amazing solo song.

Aozora: 🐉-san’s voice is, of course, very mature. But in this song Malleus somehow sounds like he is crying like a child--

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

🍩: --having lived far longer than humans, gives weight to every word he speaks. That weight definitely comes through. But looking at it from a distance, you can hear how he’s saying immature things and talking about things he doesn’t quite understand.

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Aozora: The lyrics sound really childish in places, but when you listen to the song itself you start to believe him. Like, “Huh, maybe staying in a dream wouldn’t be so bad.”

🍩: I felt that! Listening to this song after Book 7 you really feel how Malleus--

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Aozora: During recording, 🐉 would actually change the way he sang the same melody depending on the line. He even intentionally broke his voice in some places. He gave us so many ideas, and I was so impressed at the sheer range of his vocal expression.

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Aozora: I wrote the lyrics imagining switching between the calm, composed Malleus that everyone imagines and the not-yet-fully-grown, immature Malleus. So the tone and language shifts depending on the section.

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Aozora: We got input from Toboso-sensei, and she said that she wanted to bring out things like how he will throw a tantrum but then swing back into calmness to show his emotional immaturity. So we were very intentional with the word choices and phrasing.

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Aozora: This applies to all the solo songs, but the lyrics change a lot depending on the character’s mental age. With Malleus, we really struggled with how to express his childishness, that immaturity.

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

🍩:-- from the perspective of other fae he’s still pretty young. That sense of immaturity comes through in the song’s odd tempo shifts, I think.

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Ozawa:--I think that slight off-beat feeling might feel kind of unsettling.

🍩：That subtle dissonance kind of reflects how Malleus is ultimately a fae, someone fundamentally different from humans. Even though he’s lived a very long time--

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Ozawa: Yeah, there was a sense of “What do we even do with this?” It was rough. The tempo changes suddenly, and it isn’t a clean double-time shift. It’s slightly off, and while it sounds okay when you listen to it, for the singer or musician performing it--

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Ozawa:--and that kind of emotional instability is reflected in the music. But it didn’t get finalized in one go. There were a lot of retakes and revisions.

Aozora: We might have struggled with this one the most, concerning what direction to go in and how to go about it.

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

Ozawa: The dorm song had a really solemn and heavy feel to it, I was given completely different instructions for the solo song as something like punk rock that mixes hysteria and childishness. It starts with a slower tempo, picks up in the middle, then drops again--

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 10h

August's episode of Twst Radio was Ruggie's VA (🍩) interviewing music composer Ozawa Takumi ( @/roidual-takgintal.bsky.social ) and lyricist Aozora Ichika about the solo songs created for the overblot characters.

(note: only a summary, not a direct translation)

Malleus' song:

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 21h

"--the people involved told me that it was 'too unexpected,' which made me happy. I had the thought that I would like it if the game’s players saw him and thought, 'He’s different from me. But I think we would get along well.'" 【Toboso】"

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 21h

From Yana:

"Yuuken...!! When creating the character of the prefect for Book 1, I never thought that things would turn out like this. Looking forward to seeing him in the anime! 【Toboso】"

"When I submitted Yuuken’s character design and details to Square Enix for the manga--"

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 22h

--and the Spelldrive Team being able to fulfill their magestone quotas for the day with Leona’s help (and he does get his nap).

Ruggie is the only person we’ve seen who has asked Leona directly about the scar over his eye. Leona claims he cannot remember where he got it.
5/5

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 22h

During Vargas Camp Ruggie sends a message to Leona via Epel about taking a nap in the mines.

While suspicious of Ruggie’s ulterior motive Leona does as he is told, leading to both Jack’s team--
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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 22h

--when they attempt to work around the rules for mystery bags during New Year’s, and a rare happening during Halloween where Leona allows Ruggie to use his unique magic on him (it seems likely that Leona could throw off Ruggie’s magic if he wished, but chooses not to).
3/5

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 22h

--follows with how Leona should really admit the truth: he just wanted to do something nice, and he had been worried about Jack.

We see Ruggie and Leona working well together multiple times, such as teaming up to destroy Azul’s contracts during Book 3,--
2/5

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 22h

Updated Ruggie Facts Part 36 of 58: Ruggie and Leona (pt8)

During Halloween we see Leona go out of his way to keep up the morale of the Savanaclaw students and, later, he welcomes Jack back to their group.

Leona downplays the situation both times and both times Ruggie--

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 1d

--during Tsumsted with the misunderstanding that Leona transformed into a tsum: “To think that lazy expression was the last look of his I'd ever see... Oh, it's too much!”

(Leona: “How stupid can you guys get?”)
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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 1d

"--gave me the strength to persevere. Now I can handle our toughest practices, no sweat! Leona makes every session worthwhile.”

Ruggie becomes distraught (along with the rest of Savanaclaw)--
7/8

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 1d

"--and I'm definitely not a born athlete. I was pretty inexperienced at first, but the way ! got on the roster... Well, that's all thanks to Leona, our captain. Doing all those absurd--*cough*—I mean, RIGOROUS assignments--"
6/8

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ツイステ豆知識の幽霊YuuRei @yuurei20.bsky.social · 1d

Ruggie says that “Savanaclaw couldn’t ask for a better pack leader” than Leona, as he is strong, smart and covers all his bases.

When asked how it is that he earned a spot on NRC’s spelldrive team roster Ruggie credits Leona, saying, “I didn't grow up playing Spelldrive--"
5/8

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