"The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen...."
-August Rush
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♪♫ August Rush
He goes by August or Rush. Other beans rarely call him by his full name.
-I named him August Rush after a beautiful movie about a musically talented boy named Evan. He was put in an adoption home by his Grandfather, spending eleven years without a family. Eventually, though, he ran away and went on this journey that lead him to his true parents. All of it happened due to his love of music and amazing gift. I thought the name August Rush would fit this bean perfectly because it was his stage name. It was the name that led the boy to his own family.
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♪♫ Male
-I decided this boy would be male due to the origins of his name. Admittedly, though, I believe I would have still referred to him as male even with a different name.
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♪♫ I admit I don't really know the song name and if this is really the whole song, but this scene was just so fitting for August i had to use it. I know its not a violin song, but you said other string instruments were fine as well. I figured a song from the movie I've based him off would suit him well.
I have a better reason for choosing this music though. When I listen to this music, I feel energy, something that only someone with a true passion for music could really produce. Everything else is silent and all you hear is this wonderful melody. This ideal, this complete silence that helps everyone truly appreciate the music, is something I feel August would believe in. As a bean, despite his love of music and melodies, he would appreciate the need for silence in order to hear something wonderful. I feel that this music, left alone to play its own tune with barely anything else disturbing it...I feel that it fits this Bean's personality perfectly. I know its no violin, but it is a string instrument and August would appreciate any string instrument's melodies.
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♪♫ -Shy-
August is actually very shy around other beans, finding it hard to socialize at times. He rarely ever starts a conversation himself unless he has to. -Quiet-
Despite his love for music and tunes, August is actually quiet. His voice is very soft and it can be very difficult to hear him at times. He actually likes his voice this way though, as he prefers to hear the sound of music over his own voice. He believes in the universal instrument that is silence, allowing music to go undisturbed. He feels that one does not need words to convey their feelings; only music.
-Peaceful-
August enjoys the tranquility of nature and dislikes any form of violence. Even raising your voice can disturb him, as he cannot hear the sounds of nature when other beans are yelling. He especially dislikes when people interrupt his music sessions with loud arguments or rough housing.
Stubborn
Despite his peaceful nature, August is actually very stubborn about his ideals. He can be very difficult to sway to the other side of any argument, especially considering he tends to leave the moment it seems like an argument is brewing. He likes to stick with what he believes in and refuses to change, though he can be wrong at times. -Old-fashioned-
August tends to do things in a way that newer generations have long since forgotten about. He dislikes most of the new things that other beans have, preferring to stick with his older trinkets. He especially dislikes modified instruments. He feels that modifying instruments takes away their "voice", something that he feels is a betrayal to the instrument. He prefers his instruments in their original condition without any kind of addons.
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♪♫ This isn't apart of the story, but I just wanted to explain why I wrote it the way I did. This story isn't about August himself, but more about his ideals and believes about music.
"Can you hear it?"
"Just listen."
Your bones seem to rattle in harmony within your skin; your heart beating to the rhythm and your blood rushing to the melody. Your hair dances to the unspoken and unseen sound of the universe, the foundation of your very existence. Everything around you seems to slow to a halt, though the music never stops. Flying high in the sky, the birds slow to a crawl, though their melodies linger in the air without missing a beat. In comparison, the few humans around you are effectively silenced, frozen in the midst of performing whatever activities they had previously been engaged in. Time normally stops for nobody, but in this case, it seems to have stopped for you. You are alone in a world without movement, the sounds of nature your only companion.
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You pause, confused by the obvious lack of humanity's song. You can, quite literally, feel the melodies of nature around you, yet humanity seems silent. Humanity's melodies and songs had always overtook the voices of nature, yet in this frozen world, it was nature that was dominant. The lack of what felt natural to you as a species was certainly frightening, though oddly satisfying. For the first time in your life, you could listen to the music of nature. It was spectacular.
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You could move. Stuck in a trance of unknown origins, you had failed to attempt movement this entire time. Snapping back in to reality was certainly no easy task, though somehow you had managed. Yet, despite your returned mobility, the world lingered in its frozen state. Fear had quietly dissolved in to confusion, your mind currently a puddle as it began to register everything that had happened. Loneliness was your enemy with nature as your savior. You felt safe as nature's melody continued to play on, chasing away the loneliness and despair that threatened to overtake you with every breath.
Despite this, the whereabouts of humanity's tunes still troubled you. Why was only nature represented in this world without motion? Humanity certainly graced the world with its own songs; its own melodies and musical masterpieces. Was there a reason why humanity had no place in this world of music? Your own presence in this world, while still a mystery you wished to solve, paled in comparison to the mystery that is humanity's absence. Would it not be logical for the songs of the dominant species to have some form of representation in the world's masterpiece? Confusion withered away, replaced by a sense of abandonment as you found yourself on the ground. Why were you being ignored?
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The world was ending. Well, not literally, but you could feel this world's time coming to an end. The faint presence of wind, of motion, signaled the end of the silence. The loneliness would be gone, something you desperately craved. Yet, at the same time, you felt as if you needed more time. You would be left in a world of motion, with the world's masterpiece hidden within the sounds of humanity. At the same time, mysteries and questions would cling to your mind forever, haunting you with the knowledge that you would never have. The beating of wings, loud in this slowly dying world, signaled the end of your time here. Nature's melody was finally broken, slowly washing away in a sea of sounds as movement returned. With that, the truth of your exclusion for the song finally sunk in as you returned to true reality.
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Humanity had never been excluded from the song. The song of humanity was silence, a part that was necessary in every song. Without silence, music would never be heard and the songs we loved so much might never exist. Humanity was never one to play its role in the world, instead paving its own path with an array of sounds that silenced the world's melody. While the songs of today are quite beautiful, if you took one moment and stood in silence, you might very well hear your one true song. If you just stop and listen, you will forever be apart of one of the most enchanting and breathtaking orchestras in the world
Nature.