Annotated 40-3
Been WAVed and confused for so long, it’s not true
They wanted a berserker, never bargained for you
Lots of cultists chantin’, few of them dig
The soul they enchanted was my lady Frigg (Alice Macher)
WAV’s song (“If you went back to the person you were before”) seems to refer to his own situation more directly than Frigg’s, but there’s another way one might read it. Even though we’d eventually debunk the idea that Frigg simply “used to be” a gamer who won a contest, it was still fun to tease it now and then until we did.
The person that WAV more arguably used to be, Payet Best, once defeated a berserker rage by playing a soothing melody. But Best, weirdly enough, understood Byron a lot better than WAV understands Frigg. He knew what words would reach that troubled soul. WAV, for all his charm, is still somewhat foreign to the emotions that so flustered him the last time he and Frigg really talked.
In the end, it doesn’t even matter.
(I am so sorry, I can’t read that first bit of Best’s song without that getting stuck in my head.)
But could WAV handle a rockoff against Beelzeboss?
For Tectonicus’ sake, Frigg! Stop forcing that man to take off his helmet!
I can’t help it, but anytime this comic features music, my imagination fails to supply an appropriate melody to the words, and it ends up sounding really amateurish and crappy in my head. And then I wonder how such a badly made song would have any effect at all, other than everyone shouting at Best/Wav to knock it off already.
That did not happen when WAV battled the Corruptor beast, without lyrics. The music in my head absolutely sounded like Daft Punk, without the lyrics/words/voice stuff. Curiously enough, I usually hate Daft Punk — but removing the words made it so much better, and the context of the story made it awesome.
Nowadays, I get Steven Universe stuff :D