[ Library Of Ruina ] Children of the City

Library Of Ruina _ Boss Theme

Music - @ProjectMili

[luckylaniang]

Was bopping to this song until red mist popped her ego and i died of laughter because i didnt know it would have overwritten the song

[kitsu]

i can now recite exactly 62 digits of e with ease
thanks mili

[mrs_trains_]

I wish there were more songs like this, the synthy echo is such a vibe that I just can't find anywhere else.

[calamaty]

I love this song. Between its Cyberpunk feeling to the lyrics which describe Yan's futile attempt to ascend in the system to change it, only to realize in the end he was the one being played from the start. And realizing too late that an in omnipresent system as the City you can't change it from within.

[orangejuice]

The longer I let this one settle, the more I realize how much it's grown on me. It's probably my favorite song in the game right now.

[nui-hari]

※(2)は『Don't ask me why I desperately wish to be "known despite the city is

(1)
1日で合計800時間寝なさい

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ほら、また復讐の時間だよ
本棚で選んだ、誰かに書かれた人格を身に着ける
都市の子供たちはネオンの星を見る
濁った排水溝の空に反射するきらめき


(2)

400, 000メートル先、右折です

ナイフを手に取り、親しい誰かの暖かい肉体を刺す
愛とコーヒーの苦みを知る前に、僕は戦いを知った
ちょきちょきと糸を切り、僕は自由になった


僕らは9mmのおしゃぶりを吸いながら
殖えること以外に存在意義がないという事実を呑み込む
浮かびたいと叫ぶ燃える意思が逆火になった頃


都市のリボンを辿って
誰も聞いてくれないココロの所まで
何度も何度も　心臓が粉々にされた後
やっと気づいた　終わらない苦しみの原因は僕にあった

ほら、また復讐の時間だよ
本棚で選んだ、誰かに書かれた人格を身に着ける
都市の子供たちはネオンの星を見る
濁った排水溝の空に反射するきらめき


e値を読み終わるまで家に帰ってはならない

2.71 8281 8284 5904
5235 3602 8747 1352
6624 9775 7247 0936
9995 9574 9669 6762

[rubbertheduck]

"I desperately wish to be included in the city's night."
I love this line, but noticed it could be taken in two ways. One, wanting to be a star of the city, not by distortion classification, but as someone who shines brightly above all. Someone with influence to change the city for the better.
However, the city's true nights are full of bloodshed, and by the morning, they're forgotten as sweepers eat and sweep the remains of the night.
One one hand, it's a wish to have power and be a catalyst for change, while on the other, it's the person's death wish.

[cordyceps]

Euler's number (e) is an important constant in mathematics that is frequently used in practically every field. It is
Because it is an irrational number, it has no ending.
The joke is that the singer is never going home.

[Jhugbhbiybiub]

低い音程でラップ風に言葉並べていくの好きすぎる
こういう低い声でつらつらと歌うのめっちゃ良い。

[galaxytrackrider]

e는 자연로그의 밑, 무리수이자 초월수.
가사에서도 나왔다시피 매우 길고 끝이 없는 소수입니다.
'e를 끝까지 읊기 전까지는 집에 들어가지 않는다.' 라는 지령을 받은 사람은 결국 집에 돌아가지도 못하는 상황이 되었군요

[張皓鈞-lv]

Must be sad for Angela to see Yan fall like this, seeing how they are not so different, wanting to deviate from the script given to them. RIP Yan, your kindness will always be remembered

[ahu]

마지막에 수를 처보니 자연로그의 밑이라는게 나오고 똑같은 수가 나왔다 e를 말하기 전까지라는것과 e라는 기호도 같으며 무리수이다.=끝없다=집에 못들어간다.

[cyz]

Library of Ruina distortion themes

Love Town: Creepy sad
The Crying Children: Sad sad
Iron Lotus: Awesome sad
Children of the City: *Jazzy sad*

*Edit: Mili themes
*Edit 2: Gone Angels - _Maximum Depression_

[NIHIL_EGO]

The flower on the lock and the Index symbol is a myosotis, also called "forget-me-not".

In flower's language, it represent exactly what you think it represents.

[artistic]

솔직히 이제와서 느끼는거지만..밀리만큼 라오루 세게관과 어울리는 아티스트 그룹은 없는것 같네요...정말 밀리 특유의 목소리 를 들으니 라오루 도시의 감정과 분위기가 정말 생생히 느껴져요..♥♥

[chainchomp]

Outside of the game's angle of this song, you could consider this a song about not being able to cope with failure and falling into a spiral of depression. Staying comfortable with the person you used to see as worthless through the desire to persist and live for the sake of it, hurting/disappointing those close to you, "setting yourself free" only to realize everything you did was for someone else up to that point, so you have no real desire of your own, the mundanity of life and the repetition that comes with it, the expectations of marriage and having a stable life, realizing you're suffering and trapped in this cycle because of your own actions but unable to stop it, and the whole angle of how children see only the neon stars, while the sky is murky but you still want to be a part of it, instead of being stuck trapped in your worthless situation.
And reading the irrational number stopping you from ever "reaching" home and find peace for yourself, since you've lost your way already.

[LilacAsteria]

*"…. Pack a lunchbox and consume it on top of a trash can in the streets of District 11 at 1 PM today."*
*"…. Bake dacquoise while the hour hand rests between 7 and 8, and eat it while watching a movie."*
*"…. Initiate a game of Never Have I Ever with the first five people you encounter. When one folds a finger, break it."*
*"…. Neatly clip the nails of the sixty-second person you come across."*
*"…. Pet quadrupedal animals five times."*
*"…. Spin a wheel and throw a cake at the person determined by the result."*
*"…. Consume eight crabs stored at room temperature and ripe persimmon at once."*
*"…. At the railing on the roof of a building, shout out the name of the person you dislike, then jump off. The height of the building does not matter."*
*"…. After a meal, discard all dishes that were used to serve it."*
*"…. On the morning after receiving the Prescript, drink three cups of water as soon as you get up."*
*"…. Race against residents that live in the same building as you to District 7. Measure the distance every twenty-three minutes and disqualify the one farthest away from the destination."*
*"…. Within three days, knit a scarf with a butterfly pattern."*
*"…. Dial any number. Give a New Year’s greetings and words of blessing to whoever receives the call."*
*"…. See green from a white wall."*
*"…. When hungry, consume a Cheeki’s cheeseburger with added onion."*
*"…. Fold thirty-nine paper cranes and throw them from the rooftop."*
*"…. At work, cut the ear of the first person to fulminate against you."*
*"…. When your eyes meet another person’s, nod at them."*
*"…. Return to your home this instant. You may leave once a dog barks in front of your house one time."*
*"…. Wear light green clothing and take 10 steps in a triangle-shaped alley."*

[michaellatner]

Poor Yan, dude was really cool trying to break the cycle, it's sad he instead became part of it.

[tix]

So the numbers at the end are Euler's constant, basically symbolizing that Yan will never get to go home since the numbers go on forever... b r u h

[sukamii]

By the time I got to Yan today I honestly felt like my eyes had fully glazed over, doing several gimmicky abnormalities, reading and watching build guides to tackle them, farming for pages to get in attempts I could feel my mind slowly slipping into a blank state as I finally overcame the anxiety of undertaking his fight. I think that this song, because of the state I was in going into this fight (being so frayed thin by the trials of this game and long days that feel like they drag on and on as I find less of myself to be reflected in the mirror) struck such an absolute chord with me. Yan is wildly alone in this world, he is the bringer of misfortune and death- even if only as a messenger that doesn't have any real bearing in the prescripts he delivers, is stranded and alone in this world. In the blink of an eye he has become that of a messenger of the Index, his power is relative to that of a Star, but in truth he was no more than a man in the eyes of the city. Straddled between the desire to shatter his own shackles and prove that he has his own will, some semblance of self in a city that grinds the individual into dust- no more than a semi-autonomous cog in the ever unknowable machine of this wish granting city, and the ever crushing reality that he, much like everyone else in the city, is nothing. Merely an individual part within the machine of the city, that which reflects the wills and desire of the individual back onto themselves. His breakdown into a distortion of the city, as he is unable to withstand the burden of trying to fight against the overwhelming nature of the city, he's distorted and acquires his "true" form. A machine that enacts the cities will, at least what he believes the cities will, and his own will to be. Free-will? Desire? None of that matters. His future is cast aside for the immediate future, to receive orders from a force incomprehensible by him and carry them out blindly. His story is very clearly meant to analog that of Angela's, someone who is actively and despite the nature of her own existence, the job she was given, and even the will of the city, trying to assert herself as a legitimate being worthy of existing, acquiring her humanity and sense of free will. Yan is the side of the coin that has conceded, one who is unable to continue fighting with the stress of living and choosing for the self even when it seems like all of those choices are the machinations of an impossible machine, whereas Angela (while constantly having her desires to be a true human challenged, and even causing her reflect on the choices she's had to make, truly questioning the worth of herself and why she wants to be a human, if everything she's done, all the death and pain she's inadvertently and directly responsible for is even worth it) continues to progress despite the near constant blows she must undertake in order to acquire her dream, to face all the consequences of her actions directly and accept the blows that come with them. I relate too personally to Yan's story, and even his conclusion. The easy route is to accept it, to give in to the nature of the world, lower ones head and trudge through life until it ultimate crushes you within it's gnashing teeth; instead of choosing for your self what you seek and desire, to be told who you are, and the life you should live instead. To adhere to the heart of the world, bow your head to it's cruelty and enact that cruelty with the false supposition that because we as people don't really have our own wills, and that because reality is cruel there's no reason to consider what he's doing is wrong, because if one does- then they must accept that they themselves are cruel, and have committed unforgivable and damming actions against other innocent individuals; or frankly even consider the fact that we've done anything wrong. I think Yan, as a character, instantly became so memorable, tragic, and wonderful because of this track and the culmination of his story in a single fell swoop. Ruinas music has always been phenomenal and very enjoyable, but much of it (to me) has always fallen into the background of the fights or moments while I focused more intently on the story or stressing over the gameplay; but Children of the City jettisoned me from this state and I just sat there, listening. Yan desires to be a star of the city, to become a person who can enact their own will, but he doesn't. Instead he falls to cruel machinations, and becomes a monstrous amalgam of his notions of the star, to his desires of the city. I adore this track for so many reasons, especially because it's just infectious, but more so because of what it represents. Frankly, that can be extrapolated to every character that enters into the library, especially the rats who we encounter at the very beginning of the game. One may wish to be included in the cities night, but to do so one must acknowledge what the city truly is, who the self truly is, and what the desires the city reflects back onto the self truly are. I feel like I could keep writing and writing about this song in particular, but I'd rather just keep listening to it at this point as Yan's tragedy, and every one that fate cascades into the library, listlessly plays through my mind.