Mmv Oleander - Mother Mother

*wheezes in front of laptop* Two years...in the making...

I actually started on this mid 2019, but placed it on the backburner after completing about two thirds of the animation. I hoped to complete it last year before my birthday, but schoolwork and other commitments came first. This was my favourite song at the time, and portrays a toxic relationship (Oleander is a poisonous flower).

STORYLINE (Sorry this a long one to understand the dialogue-less video)

Rowan (Red haired boy) and Ash (Black haired girl) are both lonely and feel misunderstood, only finding company in each other. Though the love in their relationship has burned out ages ago, they refuse to acknowledge this and hold on to the other person for the sake of feeling needed or loved. Both have their own extreme, unhealthy tendencies, particularly if they think their partner is going to leave them. They each have destructive measures that both alienate and guilt trip the other into staying with them. Despite this, they are ignorant of the increasing toxicity of their relationship - shown by the illusions and past memories that show them genuinely happy with each other.

On an umpteenth anniversary of their first date, the tension escalates into a harsh argument which ends with Rowan lashing out at Ash and storming out of the house. He ends up going to a bar nearby and gets himself completely drunk as night falls. Fern(Green haired girl) happens to be at the same bar and takes notice of Rowan, and due to his drunken state, she is able to make her advances. Ash, who had come looking for Rowan, arrives outside the bar to see them kissing. She becomes angry and fears that Rowan is going to end the relationship, leading her to strangle Fern and leave the girl unconscious behind the bar. In the confrontation with Rowan once he is sober, Ash threatens to shoot herself in front of him but cannot go through with it.

The following day, Rowan wakes Ash and brings her to the garden where they had their first date. As a way to prove his love for her, Rowan poisons himself in front of her. To ensure they will be 'together forever', Ash allows him to kiss her, working the poison into her system as well.

The last scene shows the memories/illusions of Rowan and Ash when they still loved each other before showing both of them now dead in the garden.

...I guess these types of storylines are my thing now...

CREDITS
Song - Oleander by Mother Mother
Sony Vegas Pro 13
Bannedstory 3
Paint.NET
Ash's Hair - Me
Rowan's Hair - GreenieX (Deviantart)
Fern's Hair - MisturLemonade (Deviantart)
Backgrounds - Bathtoys, Rainiaka, Soar Designs, SaturnCheese, xRoyalRebel, butterclumpz, inspirationalmonster, DJskittz, animeloverbibi, Enchantedgal-Stock, Akarituturu, bboki, M-i-i, BrokenHappiness, EightQueens, Shirouu-kun, LuvKaffeine, ixRawrmarshmallow, PokePoffin (Deviantart)
Custom Tears - JaimieNyan (Deviantart)
Red iphone - xgocool3 (Deviantart)
Cigarette - DEAD-PR0MlSES (Deviantart)

[youabsolutesock.]

omg! The ending part gave me shivers! I love everything from the storyline to the animation :D

[Averqa]

That’s a beautiful finish, a little bittersweet xP Suppose you’re into the stories with some sadness or uncertainty interwoven into the ending now :D Damn, what a relationship o, o