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SONG "Novacaine" by Fall Out Boy

Gradients and Other effects applied in Photoshop CS5

Made in Adobe Photoshop CS5

WARNING: Long Description is Long and may contain some spoilers from the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V

I decided to make another entry for the Let the Music Move You wallpaper challenge. I have been listening to the new Fall Out Boy album “American Beauty/American Psycho” like crazy. Pretty much every time I’ve been on the computer and making a wallpaper.

All the songs are so good. But this wallpaper focuses on one of those songs. The song focus for this wallpaper is “Novocaine” by Fall Out Boy from the “American Beauty/American Psycho” album.
When I first started listening to these songs “Novocaine” was one that stood out to me. Mostly because of its dark lyrics and I relate to them in my own way.

The song tells a dark tale of how his love is numb for this person and he doesn’t feel anything after leaving them. I don’t know who they are specifically targeting in this song. But it weaves a dark tale with its lyrics that is both spellbinding and terrifying.

How I relate to this song is that I’ve been through my fair share of hell over the years. Mostly stuff dealing with my dad and turmoil that’s too personal to share here. Point is this song and making this wallpaper was sort of a release for some of those dark feelings of anger I’ve held inside all these years. Cause like Reiji, I too am angry with my dad for never being there for me.
To be honest I originally wasn’t going to make a wallpaper featuring Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V again but I found this great image and I had to make it into some kind of wallpaper. I tried to use the lyrics to sort of tell the story of the picture. His father (Akaba Leo) left Reji and his mother when he was young. In the anime of Arc-V, they are heading into a part where there are 4 dimensions based on the different summoning methods in the various Yu-Gi-Oh series. The “dimensions” and styles of summoning are Fusion, Synchro, XYZ (aka exceeds), and “Standard” which I think is our dimension where all different styles come together. Don’t ask me about this part because it doesn’t make much sense to me either.

But what is the point is how there seems to be this war and I wanted to sort of portray that here. The part especially “Take this sideshow and all of its freaks” was most particularly fitting here because of them (the Fusion dimension) invaded other dimensions under the command of Reiji’s evil father. And of course there’s Serena. And I’m not exactly sure what role she plays in all of this yet, other than she is a dimensional counterpart to Yuzu Hiragi
If the above information about the anime plot didn’t make sense, I understand. I was just trying to sort of explain why I used the set of lyrics that I did. And how they relate to the overall wallpaper.

How I made the wallpaper was using a few textures combined with a few key gradients to give it this apocalyptic look that I had in mind. This process took at least an hour to do. Overall completion of the wallpaper probably was about 2 hours. Overall I’m happy with how it came out. And Fall Out Boy is an epic band.

And I know this wallpaper is different than what I usually do. But I felt it was time to add a darker themed wallpaper to the mix, for personal reasons.

I hope everybody enjoys the wallpaper.

Dedicated to ElementalNinja (name is corrected in the dedication line. Sorry about that. I was tired when I wrote this description)
~Judai

Created
02/21/15
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Yu-Gi-Oh Wallpapers
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akaba leo, akaba reiji, American beauty/American psycho, apocalyptic, brothers, evil, fall out boy, father, fire, fusion dimension, good vs evil, ice, minions, novacaine, reiji akaba, reira akaba, serena, son, yu-gi-oh, yu-gi-oh arc-v
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