Thursday, September 25, 2014

Ballad of the Thief King

This didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to. Maybe I stretched the hyperbole too far, but this is how I'd set it up, taking the songs from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and rearranging them a bit in parody to tell the story of the man originally possessed by Zorc who became known as Thief King Bakura. Like my forum fan fics, I'm not going to re-upload it here but I will post this outline.

Act I:
(Prologue): The Narrator introduces the somber tale
(Any Dream Will Do): Bakura laments what happened to him and how it shaped his life
(Jacob & Sons): Narrator describes life in Bakura's village, Kul Elna
(Joseph's Coat): The scheming Aknadin gets the okay from his brother Pharaoh Aknamkanon to create the Millennium Items

Act II:
(Joseph's Dreams): Bakura has had dreams of what he thinks is his future glory, which doesn't sit too well with his fellow villagers
(Poor Poor Joseph): Aknadin sacrifices the people of Kul Elna but Bakura escapes
(Potiphar): Bakura becomes a scribe's apprentice, but he gets a rude reminder of his past
(Close Every Door): Bakura mourns his fate as he is led away in shackles

Act III, Part A:
(Poor Poor Pharaoh): Pharaoh Aknamkanon has had visions of what his brother has done
(Song of the King): Pharaoh Aknamkanon tells Mahad of these visions
(Pharaoh's Dreams Explained): Mahad confirms the visions as ominous and in need of correcting
(Pharaoh Story): Atem succeeds to the throne after his father's death

Act III, Part B:
(The Brothers Come to Egypt): The guards dragging Bakura along complain of missing the coronation, but then Zorc eliminates them and frees Bakura
(Who's the Thief?): Bakura storms into the palace and denounces Aknadin
(Benjamin Calypso): Atem and the other priests don't believe him, blindly jumping to Aknadin's defense
(Grovel Grovel): Mahad chooses to battle Bakura to the death and eliminates himself; Bakura feels bad afterward and flees the palace with the Millennium Ring
(One More Angel in Heaven): Atem and the others mourn Mahad's apparent death

Act IV:
(Stone the Crows): Atem rallies nearly everyone and they set off for Kul Elna to confront Bakura
(Those Canaan Days): Bakura sits among the ruins of his village and wishes everything was back to normal
(Go Go Go Joseph): The Pharaoh and his entourage have their final confrontation with Bakura
(Joseph All the Time): Aknamkanon's ghost stops the fighting and acknowledges what Bakura has been through
(Jacob in Egypt): Zorc eliminates Bakura
(Finale: Any Dream Will Do/Give Me My Colored Coat): Bakura's swan song

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