🎶 Select a piece of music to relate to your ship. What themes or ideas about your ships does this piece of music share or highlight? (Sorry I’d send more but I’m at work rn!)
It’s okay, we’ve got plenty to handle anyway LOL
Song: Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Ship: Sabretooth (😼🔪) and Mystique
Essay outline
- Time period– X-Factor era (90s)
- Broad idea: during this time, Mystique and Sabretooth are technically broken up, and even marginally enemies, but neither is over the other one.
- (headcanon) Sabretooth loves annoying Mystique with mushy, goofy music, and would sing it at her at karaoke
- The song highlights a staple of their relationship; being very compatible together, but lacking the emotional maturity and communication skills to really connect
- More literally, the song focuses on escape and freedom, which is something neither of them have during the X-Factor era, both of them implanted with bomb collars and forced to work for the group.
- Sabretooth of course repeatedly tries to get Mystique to run away with him, but she fears what will happen if they do.
- Though it takes a while, they both eventually come back to the spark that they had, and get back together, just like the couple in the song.
- “And she said, oh its you”. Despite looking everywhere else for love, sometimes it’s in the person you least want it to be.
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