Theme Song and Closing Words

Fragments Supplement IV: Who We Are 

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The song really hit home with its design. It’s powerful. It’s a very, very powerful piece just by itself, but it feels right when coupled with the story. When I heard it a while ago writing Redemption from Sin, I knew this was going to be the theme of Who We Are. I just didn’t know how I was going to craft it back then. As I theorized and listened to it more, I figured it out and weaved it into the story appropriately. The biggest indicator of it was in Roman’s monologue.

“It’s in humanity’s hearts to be optimistic, yet scared of the unknown ahead,” he began firmly, as he prayed and wished he would hold on long enough just to voice those last words. To his relief, fate itself seemed to listen. “Our confidence can blind us of the real danger until it’s too late… Then we’re reminded how weak we can be as we desperately search for a way out. But it’s during the worst of times that we find we’re capable of far more than any of us could have dreamed!”

Even speaking made him winded now, but he hadn’t voiced it all. Everything he’d come to witness couldn’t be described without doing it true justice, but he still certainly tried. “It inspires others to act, even if they hold doubts of their own! It leads to unbelievable cooperation, all to make the seemingly impossible possible! It gives us the courage to defy what is expected of us, and sometimes above and beyond what anyone would have asked of another!”

Everything he’d witnessed had not been false. Humanity’s existence was brief in the grand scheme of the timeline, but it’s what they chose to do in that time that would define beauty itself. He raised his voice proudly with a smile. “Though our emotions may run rampant and push us into irrational action, it often leads to surprising results! Because even in those single instants like the blinking of a star, our hands still write our promising story just a little longer… a story of love and hope!”

Notice anything curious yet? How about if I removed everything but the dialogue and did this:

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Prologue: It’s in humanity’s hearts to be optimistic, yet scared of the unknown ahead.
Chapter 1: Our confidence can blind us of the real danger until it’s too late… 
Chapter 2: Then we’re reminded how weak we can be as we desperately search for a way out. 
Chapter 3: But it’s during the worst of times that we find we’re capable of far more than any of us could have dreamed!
Chapter 4: It inspires others to act, even if they hold doubts of their own! 
Chapter 5: It leads to unbelievable cooperation, all to make the seemingly impossible possible! 
Chapter 6: It gives us the courage to defy what is expected of us, and sometimes above and beyond what anyone would have asked of another!“
Chapter 7: Though our emotions may run rampant and push us into irrational action, it often leads to surprising results! 
Epilogue: Because even in those single instants like the blinking of a star, our hands still write our promising story just a little longer… a story of love and hope!”

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So while many will likely have read it understanding that this is what it means to be human, I wonder how many picked out that each of the entries actually had their own theme to depict that.

Roman’s epilogue was designed around every individual theme of the story’s nine entries. Each piece was tailored to represent the themes that summarize what it means to be human during the worst possible moments. Unlike the other stories, “Who We Are” wasn’t chosen with a hidden meaning. It was chosen because the story made a great example of the best mankind can offer in the darkest times.