Daydream Believers script

Finished Mosaic:


(There are handy links to YouTube vids in the deviation for those of you who haven't heard the songs in question before.)

Whoo! Another one of my scripts in the queue finally gets to see the light of day.

It's funny, this one started out quite differently. It originally was a dialogue-less piece with Skids alone, driving around having various daydreams blending Earth elements with a Cybertron at peace, before being brought back to reality just in time to avoid a collision or traffic ticket or the like.

But eh, I was having trouble thinking up enough good ideas for daydreams, and it felt a bit too repetitive in my head since it was a rather one-note concept being copied to several panels.

So then I decided to add in Charlene, and turned it into a sort of sharing of daydreams between them, which let me have more of a progression/variety going on. But then I felt the idea might be a little empty without dialogue after all.

That made me have to think about what dialogue would fit without breaking the mood of the daydreaming. Which eventually led to me hitting on using song lyrics, since song lyrics have always had something of an inherently daydreamy quality to me.

...and then I looked at the result that had formed in my head, realized that I had gone and written a (somewhat) romantic songfic with complete seriousness, and threw it in my mind's rubbish bin in embarrassment.

And there it might have stayed if a discussion with ~pietrestan about another project hadn't led to me mentioning this idea, and he ended up liking it after all and asked to try and draw it. How could I say no?

I still feel faintly embarrassed/silly about the whole thing, but I can't argue with how pretty Pietre made the end result look. He really knocked it out of the park for me, and I think his style is about the most perfect match for this kind of idea that I could find. I love all the little easter eggs and details he added too, even if I had to give him special forgiveness for a New York Yankees hat.

Trying to find suitable lyrics was interesting; I wanted to have it where both the sound bite I picked and the whole song were appropriate to each panel. I decided while plotting out the Mosaic to make the very last bit of it use "real world" dialogue to make it more clear that most of the Mosaic was daydreams. But if I'd made the last panel lyrics after all, I probably would have used: "If you're going my way, I want to drive it all night long..."