Notes: Thanks to Singles month at fst, where you make 'Fan Soundtracks' to various subjects- I decided to challenge myself in doing one for this series using only Led Zeppelin music.
Above is the link to check it out on the fst community, which is a friends only community (but you can always join then unjoin.) If you want to comment there, that would be great. For those not wanting to hassle with it, here it is in all it's unlocked glory:
From Eroica With Love, by Yasuko Aoike, is a shoujo manga mixing the hi-jinks of an flamboyant English art thief and an uptight German Major as they take on KGB, Neo-Nazis and whatever else missions and heists might throw their way.
The focus of this Single lies with those two leads: Dorian Red Gloria, the Earl of Gloria who is also the international art thief Eroica and Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, the NATO major known to many as 'Iron Klaus' for his tough nature. The two are constantly mucking up each other's missions, tormenting each other and, in Dorian's case, shamelessly flirting with Klaus just to get a rise out of him. And Klaus, for all his showy yelling and hatred, finds himself caught many a times off guard by Dorian; leaving the reader to wonder just how the man feels about his sometimes adversary, sometimes ally.
The challenge of this single was in restricting my music choice to only one artist: Led Zeppelin. This was done due to the fact that Dorian (and three of his gang members: James, Bonham and John Paul) are tributes to the four band members of Led Zeppelin with Dorian himself stylized after lead singer, Robert Plant.
And since Plant, Dorian's visual inspiration, is the lead singer on these songs, consider this FST to be from Dorian's perspective on things.
You've been coolin', baby, I've been droolin', All the good times I've been misusin', Way, way down inside, I'm gonna give you my love, I'm gonna give you every inch of my love, Gonna give you my love.
You got me rockin' when I ought to be a-rollin' Darlin', tell me, darlin', which way to go You keep me rockin', baby, then you keep me stolen Won't you tell me, darlin', which way to go... that's right
Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry and I would dearly like to know I've all this wonder of earthly plunder will it leave us anything to show
And our time is flyin' see the candle burnin' low Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old
If we could just join hands.
*** I tried my best to avoid them when picking songs but, as I'm sure with many FSTs devoted to male/male pairings, just mentally switch all female pronouns to masculine ones. ^^;