Riktov/Soundtrack

## BOOK 1 - WINDS OF CHANGE

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* Splendid Rick's Mystique
* Splendid Rick's Glamour

**ELECTRIC SIX - LOVE SONG FOR MYSELF**

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**PRISM - SPACESHIP SUPERSTAR**

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## BOOK 2 - REUNIONS

Known as Splendid Rick beforehand, he has entertained every form of debasement one can imagine. Cultivating a legacy of unreliability, drug abuse and sexual assault. In his drug addled state he made his opus, that gathered a cult like status among an eccentric group of individuals. When he came off the drugs everything he was running from caught with up him, symbolic of the way he crashed his planetary cruiser into a mountain. His followers gathered his broken body and rebuilt him as Mister Riktov. Now a visage of the Underworld of his own making, he leaves confines of his sanctum when circumstance calls for it hoping the opportunity to give him the redemption he so desperately craves. He seeks to find if he can either regain his humanity, transcend it or succumb to something far worse.

* Riktov's Dilemma
* Riktov's Lament
* Riktov's Stoicism
* Riktov's Rebirth
* Splendid Rick's Pain
* It was Hard to Watch You Do This To Yourself
* Men of Action Never Say Die

**JIMMY EAT WORLD - 555**

It is not easy playing the role as the central figure of a cult; strange and dark. Mister Riktov likely finds little satisfaction being the figurehead, while being tormented by feelings of regret. His desperation grows as he feels is stuck in place. Knowing that he won't find what is seeking for where he is at, he reaches out for help in finding the redemption and hope while he can still find the will to feel anything at all.

**DAVID BOWIE - QUICKSAND**

God, Monster, or Superman? A fallen star who has been rebuilt into the inner demon from his darkest imagination, Riktov has emerged from the darkness of his isolation to open his eyes on the new world that has blossomed around him. Surrounded by a cult that has high aspirations to change themselves so they can go on to change the universe, he wonders if he's really what they want him to be, or is he just leading them to folly. Should he abandon them to try to recover the man that he used to be or should he abandon his ego to become the god that he promised them he would be?

**DESTROYER - TINSELTOWN SWIMMING IN BLOOD**

There is a certain bittersweet callousness to this number where one can see Riktov reflecting on his past self with a numb and quiet sadness with the realization that Splendid Rick is effectively dead. By his own hands. Now only the dreamer remains, and he's moving on.

**GUNSHIP - BLACK SUN ON THE HORIZON**

Everything from the intro to the haunting lyrics seems to have a symmtery with Riktov's transformation not only physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. The intro speaking to volumes, "Peace at last, the opus laughs, when I tell it I'm ready." As Riktov sheds layers of old mask, to don a new one with open arms.

**NINE INCH HAILS - HURT**

The horrible of reality that no matter how hard Splendid Rick tried he could never quite escape who he was or what he had done. Looking into the mirror, he did not like what he saw. Pushing people away, he reflected on all that he had wrought. Of the lives he destroyed, chief among them was his own.

**GRIMES - DELETE FOREVER**

It is a difficult thing, watching someone you care about die a slow death from drug abuse. Despite Lolayelle reaching out, it still ended in tragedy. While Riktov remains, Splendid Rick is no more. This is that grief, and others she's cared about. Although, with her life spiraling out of control she now faces the very real possibility of her own addiction to grief from the loss of her shattered life. Something that Riktov understands all too well.

**QUEEN - PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE**

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