By Mathias Ramalho friendlycoy Bandcamp friendly-coy SoundCloud.
Cover art by Cratmang CRatmanG Twitter.
Released 4/13/2020.
Art released 6/1/2020.
Duration: 3:15.

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Artist commentary:

Mathias Ramalho: (SoundCloud)

My track from the album "Beyond Canon", by the Homestuck^2 Music Team. So he-hey I got to the big leagues! don't know how I got here but I gotta tell ya, it feels awesome.

Cratmang: (art anthology commentary)

I was hoping to hear some commentary from the original artist about what this piece was about, but that never happened, so I just went with my initial concept of, "John Egbert casually walking down the street whilst reflecting on his now-distant past as the Heir of Breath." Since this was a chiptune track, doing pixel art made the most sense (nevermind that I planned on doing pixel art anyway). Most everything in the picture came out naturally, with a few tweaks here and there. I had John looking looking sad in one iteration, but I felt it didn't match up with the more upbeat nature of the song, so I changed it. I did sort of trip at the finish line when adding details to the buildings in the background. Ah well, no one will care, right?

Cratmang: (art anthology WIPs)