Hannibal's office at the school, Monday afternoon

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal had a bit of extra work to do for class tomorrow, seeing as his coteacher was apparently stuck in Glacia. And a snake. So he was in his office today, his usual opera not playing, as he did his best to find modern rock music for the theme. He was mostly going by groups he remembered Jono mentioning, and so far wasn't having much luck.

Or at least, wasn't having much luck finding anything that didn't give him a headache.

He rather hoped a student would interrupt him.

[OOC: Waiting on one, but open!]

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[myownface]

"Why not start with what you know you like? The classical stuff sometimes bleeds into the newer stuff, you know? This is inspired by that, one person who listens to one thing might listen to something similar but different, and so on." Sparkle shrugged. "Everything lives on YouTube. Like, everything."

There was a pause, and then he gestured to Hannibal's computer.

"Can I? It's kind of like following Wikipedia links or going to TV Tropes and letting yourself fall down the rabbit hole, you know? You end up somewhere completely different, but there's nothing stopping you from backtracking if you make a wrong move or something."

[sharp_as_knives]

"Please." Hannibal slid his chair back and gestured Sparkle at the computer. "I'm curious to what you might find."

[myownface]

"Okay," Sparkle said, leaning over the desk and bringing up YouTube in the browser. "So, what's one song you really like? I'm going to need that for a starting point."

He could guess, but he didn't suspect that would end with the intended results.

[sharp_as_knives]

"Lucia di Lammermoor - 'Il dolce suono", her madness scene," he answered the first thing that came to him.

[myownface]

Sparkle took a moment to type that in, thankful that YouTube had that fancy feature that filled in the rest of a searchbox once you started typing. So help him, he wouldn't have stood a chance in hell of spelling that whole thing otherwise.

"Okay, so we have our search results, and I'll just take the top one on the list for now," he decided, clicking the top link in the list. "Now, we can clink other things that look really similar, like any one of the other dozen things with Italian opera-looking names, or we can try to find something that looks really different. See how much of a stretch we can make. Any preference?"

[sharp_as_knives]

"There doesn't seem much point in only going to a different version of this song," Hannibal noted as he scrolled down the list. "Nor in choosing something with little actual music in it."

He scrolled a little further and noted one odd-looking link. "I think I may have had this mentioned to me. A version from a movie?"

[myownface]

"Oh, oh, click it!" Sparkle grinned and leaned in closer for a better look. "I've actually seen that movie. It leans into weird kind of techno territory, but it's not bad."

By 'not bad,' Sparkle was actually kind of heaping praise on to it.

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal clicked and listened to it. The change from opera to electronic was a little jarring, but overall... "That isn't bad."

Because he liked to heap praise, too.

[myownface]

"I know, right? Totally tolerable."

Appreciate it a little less, guys. Seriously. Calm down.

"It's really different, but it's got a lot of similar sensibilities, you know? And if you can find something in the sidebar from there that isn't just movie interviews or clips or whatever, you might be pleasantly surprised by that, too."

[sharp_as_knives]

"Hm." Hannibal looked, but most things seemed to be movie-related or other versions of the same song. After a moment, he mentally shrugged and clicked one of the only things that wasn't.