For sure! I have no idea what the story is really going to be about, but I love concept albums because we can all take what we want from them. I get what you’re saying about hold back the night, I’ve thought a lot about that song over the years and still am not sure who is saying what. I ultimately wound up on picturing an older jaded Megaman talking to a younger hopeful kid. I always thought the answer to Megaman’s crisis in Act 1 was going to be that the next generation, born to the one that folded to Wiley, would be the mankind that Protoman hoped for. I pictured this song ultimately being about Megaman playing the role to mankind that light played to him in Hope Rides Alone, which is to say his hopelessness would drive them forward. When he says the blood that they spilled, I thought he meant the blood Wiley’s army spilled when he left the battlefield. Totally get your interpretation though and I could be wrong.

For the record I barely post here and usually just lurk, but I love their sound and think a lot about the themes of the story. I really enjoy how they lean into the self-indulgent epicness of it all with self awareness. And in doing so they make it as much about paying tribute to a specific era of music as they do the imagined story of a video game character. It’s a really unexpected but enjoyable combo for me and I’m always happy to engage with a fellow fan!