Line #39 Music/RegalPinion


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: She seems to have mastered the KubrickStare.]]
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4	Regal Pinion (Gwendolyn Ryan Rosengelb) is an American-born AlternativeHipHop artist. She is a trans woman. She has been releasing music as of 2014, yet has been active since 2010, performing freestyles. Regal Pinion's lyrics consist of extensive wordplay, paradoxes, themes of absurdism, identity, and stories using {{Villain Protagonist}}s
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8	!! Her discography:
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10	* ''Shadow Plays'' ('''2014''')
11	** Her debut ConceptAlbum full of songs ranging from BoastfulRap to stories that are often sad [[MoodWhiplash except one]]. She claims the theme of the album was "to see when people would decide at what point will someone become evil." (Making some of the songs HarsherInHindsight.)
12	* ''Lunatic Crossing'' ('''2015''')
13	** A ConceptAlbum about a small town entangled in a CosmicHorrorStory. Oddly this is known for having several songs sung in the first person from the point of view of different female characters.
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16	!! Tropes Associated With Her:
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18	* TheAntiNihilist: Regal herself is one. She's been quoted as to saying, "Just because life is meaningless doesn't mean it's not awesome." She often approaches projects with child-like excitement, but will often crack jokes about how it won't matter in the end.
19	* BerserkButton: Hates the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator. When asked what her MBTI expect a snarky response real quick.
20	** (Supposedly, she's ENTP.)
21	* DeadpanSnarker: She is notorious for this. A common critique is her sheer unwillingness to give a straight answer.
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24	!! Tropes Associated With Her Work:
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26	* AbusiveParents: Common theme in her poems.
27	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Sprinkled throughout his songs and poems often only being one line.
28	* AGodAmI: Used word for word in "Kafkaesque"
29	* BadassBoast: "Clockwork Seraph" and "Secret Keys" is this. The song, "Perfect Villain", has shades of this.
30	** The song, "More Grim Grimoire", may be a {{Deconstruction}} as Regal Pinion laments about not finding a WorthyOpponent. WordOfGod, says it was a [[TakeThatMe narcissistic rant]].
31	* BlasphemousBoast: Used several times.
32	** "Clockwork Seraph" is full of these to the point where she pulls a BaitAndSwitch, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it, and immediately makes another blasphemous bait and switch.
33	---> ''Cue the anointment meant for - the Force? Screw it, any myth will do: My words are Set to Isis like Osiris rose for you.''
34	* BloodKnight: Uses this word for word as a metaphor for freestyling just for the thrill.
35	* CosmicHorrorStory: Both [[DeconReconSwitch deconstructed and reconstructed]] in her concept album, Lunatic Crossing. Some of the human characters of the story spiral into a self-destructive oblivion once the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s appear. Only for them to take a stand for no other reason than to go out swinging.
36	* CuddleBug: The narrator's crush in "Kiss or the Mind" is one, going so far as to imply this being the reason feelings develop.
37	* DeathByMaterialism: Darkly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in "Changeling Girl". A young man feels that his lover has become too materialstic and devoid of feeling after he a botched surgery [[spoiler:so he {{mercy kill}}s her, unaware of his delusions.]]
38	* EasyEvangelism: Played with InUniverse - the song, "Zealot's Lament" is about a street preacher who is fully aware that he is possessed by the personification of blind faith, and tries to get people to convert out of fear he will be killed. [[spoiler: They find out he has a desire to rebel and kill him anyway.]]
39	* EvilIsHammy: This shows in Kafkaesque. Regal Pinion emphasizes this in her song "Perfect Villain".
40	* Franchise/FinalFantasy: Regal Pinion is known for mocking herself, calling herself a "franchise whore" when it comes to the series. She's even written a song about called "Fantastic Finale", which is about a few games in the series, and one called "Kafkaesque" which is about [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka Palazzo]].
41	* TheGadfly: Regal is known for pushing boundaries in conversations.
42	* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Neurotica" is this in spades.
43	* VisionaryVillain: It's heavily implied that the narrator of Perfect Villain was this before he snapped.
44	* WhatIsThisFeeling: The song "Kiss or the Mind?" is about this.

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