History Music / SkiesForeverBlue

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njgcjGojRKk "Skies Forever Blue"]], released in 2022, is the second collaborative single by American video game developer and composer Creator/TobyFox and J-pop musician Itoki Hana. The song revolves around a hero and his sidekick in a handheld RolePlayingGame just after finishing their journey, as the sidekick contemplates their adventure and muses over her feelings for him. The song was accompanied by an AnimatedMusicVideo by ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' director Omocat, one of Fox's other prior collaborators.

!!This song provides examples of:

** The game depicted in the music video is a handheld UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor game, with the graphics to match.

* AspectRatioSwitch: The first half of the video is in 1:1, matching the aspect ratio of the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor and tying in with the 8-bit handheld game setting. When the player turns off the game, the footage zooms out to a 16:9 display and stays that way until the closing credits, which return to the 1:1 format.

* HeroicMime: The boy protagonist doesn't say much. The conversations with the girl protagonist has all his dialogue omitted and inferred from the girl's reactions. By the lyric's statement, he goes long lengths of time without saying much of anything, only "Yes" or "No".

* RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:When the player wipes their save file to start a new game, the girl casts a spell that allows her to remember the events of the previous run, allowing her to turn it into a NewGamePlus file and take greater initiative in her and the hero's journey rather than being a passive observer.]]

* FramingDevice: The video takes place in a handheld RPG being played by a kid in the real world.
* FutileHandReach: The boy protagonist to the girl as the [[spoiler:game restarts.]]

* LoveConfession: The core of the song focuses on the girl's attempts to tell the hero that she loves him. [[spoiler:She succeeds in the end.]]

* NewGamePlus: [[spoiler:Years after the game is completed, the player of the game the protagonists are in decides to start a new game. The girl protagonist displays awareness of it, and manages to do things a bit differently the second time around.]].

* ShoutOut: The title is likely taken from a lyric of "Pollyanna", a song from ''VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings''.

* ShoutOut: The title is likely taken from a lyric of "Pollyanna", a song from ''[[VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings]]''.

* HeroicMime: The boy protagonist doesn't say much. The conversations to had with the girl protagonist has all his dialogue omitted and inferred from the girl's reactions. By the lyric's statement, he goes long lengths of time saying only "Yes" or "No".

* FutileHandReach: The boy protagonist to the girl as the [[spoiler: game restarts.]]

* PunnyName: The Iwunder fish's name is a less-than-subtle play on the phrase "I wonder," tying in with the introspective tone of the lyrics.

* CallOfTheWildBlueYonder: As the two protagonists stare into the ocean. The girl protagonists dreams of swimming like the Iwunder fish. [[spoiler:During NewGamePlus, the two dive into the ocean to do so.]]

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: We never know how exactly the world was threatened by the villain, and its not important. All that is important about the villain is that, by being defeated, the protagonists' journey is now over.

"Skies Forever Blue", released in 2022, is the second collaborative single by American video game developer and composer Creator/TobyFox and J-pop musician Itoki Hana. The song revolves around a hero and his sidekick in a handheld RolePlayingGame just after finishing their journey, as the sidekick contemplates their adventure and muses over her feelings for him. The song was accompanied by an AnimatedMusicVideo by ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' director Omocat, one of Fox's other prior collaborators.

* CallOfTheWildBlueYonder: As the two protagonists stare into the ocean. The girl protagonists dreams of swimming like the Iwunder fish.

* MinimalisticCoverArt: The artwork for the single simply depicts the boy and girls' simplistic overworld sprites and the song title in plain text atop a solid, sky-blue backdrop.

* {{Retraux}}: The game depicted is a handheld Gameboy Color-like game, with the graphics to match.

"Skies Forever Blue" is a song created by [[{{Creator/TobyFox}} Toby Fox]], [[{{VideoGame/Omori}} OMOCAT]], and Itoki Hana. It depicts the story of two [=RPG=] Protagonists at the end of their journey. The girl has something to say, but hesitates to say it.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: We never know how exactly the world was threatened by the villain, and its not important. All that is important about the villain is that,by being defeated, the protagonists' journey is now over.

* {{Retraux}}: The game depicted is a handheld Gameboy Color-like game, with the graphics to match.

* [[spoiler:DreamApocalypse: the player of the game the protagonists are in starts a new game. This is depicted as a cataclysmic event.]]

* [[spoiler:NewGamePlus: Years after the game is completed, the player of the game the protagonists are in decides to start a new game. The girl protagonist displays awareness of it, and manages to do things a bit differently the second time around.]].
* [[spoiler:PeggySue: In the New Game Plus, the girl's awareness allows her the confidence to take charge of her own feelings. Instead of being led by the boy protagonist, she leads. Instead of fantasizing about swimming the ocean, they jump right in.]]

* PinkGirlBlueBoy: The protagonists are blue and pink, and are gender-coded as male and female.

* [[spoiler:PeggySue: In the New Game Plus, the girl's awareness allows her the confidence to take charge of her own feelings. Instead of being led by the boy protagonist, she leads. Instead of fantasizing about swimming the ocean, they jump right in.]]