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Darling Kanaya Darling Kanaya

Darling Kanaya Darling Kanaya

Artwork by Homestuck ← Beatdown (Raid Remix) Previous cover art by this artist → Black Next cover art by this artist
Album cover for Pesterquest Soundtrack

By Toby Fox tobyfox Bandcamp tobyfox Twitter toby.fangamer.com Other fwugradiation Tumblr ← Myths You Forgot Previous track by this artist → mIrAcLeS Next track by this artist.
Released 9/13/2021.
Duration: 2:03.

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Also released on AlterniaBoundabout 10 years, 6 months earlier.

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The following commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, AlterniaBound.

Toby Fox ✑ booklet commentary

(Kanaya Walkabout)

I didn't call it "Kanaya's Theme" because I didn't think that it was stylish enough for her. I originally wrote it as the theme just for walking around her house, but I think it turned out to fit her really well as a character despite my own doubts.

Like Terezi's theme, "Darling Kanaya" isn't a remix of her Alternia track (Virgin Orb), but it contains some similar stuff. There are heavily vibrato'd strings... wavering, luscious 7th chords... melodic piano... lots of arpeggios... and a general uplifting feeling of satisfying, calm emotion. She is one of the very few characters in Hivebent that I would categorize as "sane" by human standards, and thus actually one of my favorite trolls. And despite the semi-low quality of the instrumentation, this is one of my favorite tracks by myself.

It's all kind of ghostly and heartfelt, like a sad look out the window with a romance novel in your lap, and then a knowing, welcoming smile. I think that makes sense considering she's an undead vampire now! Or not.

Toby Fox ✑ toby fox portfolio page 2011 wip - "Finished Tracks"

In a world full of angry alien trolls (see: Karkat), Kanaya alone is caring, polite, and motherly. She lives in a tower out in the desert trying on different fashionable outfits in the normally deadly alien sunshine, which doesn't affect her for some reason. Instrumentation is kind of like a Playstation-era song.

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