Sound Horizon - Elysion / ABYSS

 Sound Horizon - Elysion / ABYSS

Ark

Story:

A little girl, Soror, better known as Experimental Subject #1096, was taken together with her brother, Frater, by a group of scientists, to a research institude where their living bodies and minds had experiments being performed on. Those experiments buried all memories about their sibling relationship.

Soror fell in love with her brother (not remembering he was her brother). However Frater's reaction was cold, and eventually Soror discovered the truth that they were related by blood, and that they were nothing but experimental subjects. She was driven mad, and wished for an Ark (a ship that brings salvation to mankind, i.e. Noah's Ark) that would set free her anguish soul and lead her to Heaven. And she found her Ark in the form of a silver knife.

She then stabbed her brother to death, and was imprisoned. The Watcher, a man who lost his left hand's ring finger, had started these very experiments, in an attempt to become a proud God and reverse the natural process of his love's death. Watcher gazed at the monitor and saw the Masked Man, behind Soror, taking her away to Abyss. for having killed her brother.

Baroque

Story: 

This song is told in form of a young Catholic Sister, Baroque, repenting to God. She was not repenting in seek for forgiveness, because she knew that not even God could forgive the sin she had committed. She was not praying in seek for sympathy, but rather she was sympathizing for herself.

During her childhood days she was rejected by the other children in her village, because she was "different" from the others. But one day, a little girl became her friend. She was enchanted in happiness, and fell in love with the little girl. But when Baroque confessed her love, the little girl refused her because homosexual love was a forbidden subject in Catholic. In sexual deviancy, Baroque beat the little girl to death, and cut off the girl's head. She brought the head to God, and repented that this would be the only way for them both to be together. That was when Masked Man appeared and took Baroque away to Abyss.

Yield

Story:

This song is about a girl, Yield, living in a little farmer's family with her father and her mother. And the entire song revolves around a line in the lyrics: "3-1+1-2" which is how Yield expressed her endless love to her family.

"3" is the number of the family members (Yield, her father, her mother).

"-1" is when Yield killed her father by cutting off his head with a sickle. The sound of his head rolling on the ground was like the sound of a ripen sweet fruit falling from the branch.

"+1" is when Yield discovered that her mother was pregnant - she was bearing a boy, who would be Yield's little brother.

"-2" is when Yield killed both her mother and brother at once.

And in the end, even when alone, Yield still loved her family so much, she wanted to love, to become happiness, and Masked Man appeared to take her to the barren land of Abyss.

Sacrifice

Story:

There lived two girls who were sisters. The little sister was beautiful and pure like an angel, while the elder sister envied her sister and even said "That wretched girl had better died..."

Maybe God heard her prayer, maybe not, but one day the little sister caught a very high fever. It was then that the elder sister realized that she never truly wanted her sister to die, and again she repented to God. In return for her sister becoming well again, their mother was stricken by diseased, and before passing away, she told the elder sister to take care of the innocent little sister. After their mother had died, the two of them began living a tough but happy life.

One day the little sister was found pregnant. It was plain obvious that the men in the village had raped and impregnated her, but instead of admitting, those men blamed that the little girl was nothing but a witch. The women, instead of protecting the poor girl, actually cursed her for charming their husbands. Thus the little girl was nailed onto a crucifix, and burned to death, like how people had been executing witches.

The elder sister was extremely angry. She knew the truth, and once again said to God "Those evil people must die!" In the end, she lured all villagers, from men to women, from children to elders, into the village church, trapped them inside, and burned everyone, as well as the statue of God inside, to ashes. It was then that Masked Man appeared and took her into Abyss.

Stardust

Story:

A young actress was on her way to becoming a famous star, and was fallen in love with a man. However that man was going to marry another more successful girl. Entwined in jealousy, she started falling on her career, not being able to notice the eyes of other men who are deeply falling in love with her.

One day she found her lover together with the other girl. Unable to stay still anymore, she shot her lover to death, soaking his white shirt in deep red blood. The "Star" on the sky was broken into "Stardust" that would lead her way to Heaven. However even if she extended her arm, she still couldn't reach them, and in the end Masked Man appeared and took her to Abyss instead.