Moebius (music)

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Moebius is Disc 3, Track 9 on the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Original Soundtrack and Disc 14, Track 9 on the Xenoblade Chronicles Original Soundtrack Trinity Box.
It plays in the following cutscenes:
===Xenoblade Chronicles 3===
====Main story====
* Consul K confronts the party after the fight against in .
* Mechafriend protects Valdi from Consul Q during The Kind Right Hand.
* Consul J reveals his mudpuppet-creating power in .
* Consul O and Consul P show off their Interlink form in .
* Consul M reveals her power of bodily possession in .
* The Annihilator charges up to fire at the City in .
* Consul Y explains the violet Flame Clocks during Mio's Side Story.
* Consul D reveals his habits during his lives before he became Moebius in Chapter 6.
* Consul X confronts the party in Origin, if her conditions have been met.
* Consul Y confronts the party in Origin.
====Sidequests====
* Consul B transforms into his Moebius form during Where The Heart Is.
* Eunie lashes out at Consul X during Side Story: Eunie.
* Consul I reveals herself during Transparent Dreams.
* Triton appears during Doing It My Way, then challenges the party to a punch-up later in the same quest.
* Consul Q reveals how Alexandria assassinated her previous commander during Inescapable Past.
* Consul U reveals how she manipulated Colony Tau to be as it is during Survivors.
===Future Redeemed===
* and confront Matthew and A in Chapter 1.
==Motifs==
Moebius is composed of several melodies used as motifs in other tracks in the game's music.
* 0:05 to 0:24 (unofficially referred to as 'Moebius 1') is a leitmotif appearing in the following sections of the following tracks:
** Battlefield - The Scramble for Life (0:40)
** Young Warriors (0:30, 1:50)
** Suffocating Reverberation (0:07)
** Against the World (0:06, 2:55)
** Suspicion (2:21)
** Encroaching Malice (0:02)
** (0:00)
** (1:26, 4:32)
** Congregating Lives (0:17, 1:49, 2:08)
** Something's Beginning to Move (3:01)
* 0:35 to 0:54 (unofficially 'Moebius 2') plays in the following tracks:
** Battlefield - The Scramble for Life (2:06, 3:21)
** The Two Off-Seers (1:58)
** Suffocating Reverberation (0:50)
** Suspicion (0:58)
** Ferronis (1:43)
** Origin Ascending (1:58)
** Noah and N (0:18, 0:30)
** Congregating Lives (1:40)
** How the Future Endures (4:16)
* 1:15 to 1:55 (unofficially 'Moebius 3') is arguably the main melody of the piece. It plays in the following tracks:
** Battlefield - The Scramble for Life (1:09, 3:09)
** Young Warriors (1:05, 1:43, 2:34)
** Impending Crisis (1:13, 2:22)
** The Two Off-Seers (0:26, 1:06, 2:13)
** Suffocating Reverberation (1:42)
** Against the World (2:10)
** Encroaching Malice (0:51, 2:26)
** Ferronis (1:27, 2:25)
** Life's Fading Flame - Holding These Thoughts (3:10)
** Origin Ascending (1:27, 2:52)
** Origin (0:18, 3:24)
** Noah and N (1:14)
** Grand Theater of Life (0:40)
** Z - Harbinger of the End (1:22)
** Congregating Lives (0:00, 0:32)
** Showdown with Z (0:27)
** Something's Beginning to Move (3:16)
* 2:15 to 2:59 (unofficially 'Moebius 4') is a melody that continues from Moebius 3. It plays in the following tracks:
** Origin (2:22, 5:28)
** Noah and N (1:44)
** Congregating Lives (1:06)
** Showdown with Z (1:56)
** How the Future Endures (0:32)
The ostinato pattern at 0:25 is also significant according to the album notes: it represents the repetitive stagnation of the Endless Now. The same pattern appears in Moebius Battle at 1:58, although it is unclear whether or not this was an intentional reference.
The Moebius motifs are not to be confused with those of Ouroboros Awakening, which are similar but distinct.
==Album notes==
==Trivia==
* Moebius and its variations were sung by Lauren McGlynn of ANÚNA. Correspondingly, Ouroboros Awakening and its variations were sung by Aisling McGlynn, Lauren's sister.
Category:Music (XC3)Category:Music (FR)Category:Songs composed by Yasunori Mitsuda