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   Songs for the Dead by JerseyDragons

   Fandom The Mechanisms (Band)

   • General Audiences, Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply, Major Character Death
   • Gen, F/F
   • Series in Progress

   25 Jun 2024

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Major Character Death
   • The Aurora/Nastya Rasputina
   • Ivy Alexandria
   • Raphaella la Cognizi
   • The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
   • Marius von Raum
   • Drumbot Brian (The Mechanisms)
   • Gunpowder Tim (The Mechanisms)
   • Nastya Rasputina
   • The Aurora (The Mechanisms)
   • Ashes O'Reilly
   • Ivy Alexandria Week (The Mechanisms)
   • I think I'm late for that but oh well
   • Ivy's Retirement
   • Family
   • We all know Ivy retired to a library
   • she's the only one who made the decision to go out without some traumatic event
   • everyone else was like
   • woe is me i have to die now
   • she was like
   • im old im retiring
   • so she gets a retirement song
   • and a celebration
   • cause the space pirates are bastards and they love each other
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Podfic
   • Podfic attached
   • Songfic
   • Sort Of
   • Inspired by emmiebee's headcanon that Tim would sing to his crew as he goes on his final rampage
   • Death to the Mechanisms Spoilers
   • Original Song
   • Tim has one last song
   • Sung by yours truly
   • As in: I wrote a song here are the lyrics
   • Link to Audio included
   • This is what Marius is thinking before the whole Octokitten thing
   • This is how he exits
   • dramatically
   • LOUDLY
   • not unkindly but with more than a hint of bitterness
   • The Mechanisms-Typical Violence
   • Past Character Death
   • i.e. most of the other Mechanisms
   • "He's just this guy"
   • -Me about actual Love of My Life Baron Doctor Marius Von Raum
   • Marius' Backstory
   • Again
   • i wrote a song
   • nastya goes out
   • Please imagine with me if you will that this is the five minutes before the Out fiction
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Angst
   • I wrote a song!
   • Mechtober 2022 (The Mechanisms)
   • This is me having MANY feelings about Quartermaster O'Reilly
   • and their grief
   • Drinking
   • Grief/Mourning
   • this is angst gUYS
   • Jonny died and everyone's really happy for him

   Summary

   I find it hard to believe that the Mechanisms, space pirates and musicians extraordinaire, would go out without a few slightly morbid but ultimately loving songs. So I wrote them!
   Some of these are fics with lyrics to a song in them, others are just the lyrics. All have links to Tumblr included, 'cause that's where I posted the audios I made. Some of the songs are completely original, some are modifications of pre-existing songs and shanties. (ex. Tim's song is completely original but Ivy's is similar to the Longest Johns 'Retirement Song')
   These also follow my personal headcanons for the orders in which everyone died, which mostly follows DTTM, but honestly DTTM left room for interpretation and also these guys don't do linear time well. So when this series is done it's gonna look like:
   Nastya
   Jonny
   Ashes
   Ivy
   Tim
   Raphaella
   Marius
   Brian
   The Toy Soldier
   Honestly, for someone who kinda hates that the Mechanisms die in canon, it's kinda funny that I'm doing this series but like....they spent their immortal lives singing and you're telling me they didn't go out with music? BULLSHIT.
   Important Note: Carmilla does not have a song because she is not dead.

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   24 Feb 2025

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   • Death songs

   Bookmarker's Notes

   JerseyDragons' death songs. Really good.