home
no voice
Content warnings: Focus on Jason, but no explicit references to suicide.
No Voice, the thirty-sixth song of Bare and the final song, has the cast pondering a world without Jason and what he meant to them.
Trivia/Important Info:
In "Promise," the melody of "No Voice" begins playing towards the end, after Jason's been outed and Peter has refused to help him, implying that "Promise" was when Jason began considering suicide.Nadia says she "knew [Jason's] way," implying that she knew he was gay. This means that in "All Grown Up," when she said that Jason seeing Ivy broke her heart, it wasn't Jason was seeing Ivy that was upsetting--it was Jason seeing a girl, period, that was upsetting.After Peter's part, Claire (his mother) rushes out to hug him, symbolizing how she has accepted him.I focus on lyrics from this song in my "what bare means to me" page, though!
Home | Character Guide | what bare means to me
what bare means to me
Content warnings: Focus on Jason and his suicide.
As painful as it is (literally, it took me a week for me to not have a mood crash whenever I thought of Jason's suicide/listened to "No Voice"), Jason's suicide has taught me a lesson that is really, really close to my heart, and "No Voice" epitomizes it. To me, "No Voice" is about how Jason had "no voice" because he hid everything behind his mask, and because of that, he forfeited his right to "sound," "words," "song," and "heart." That's why he had to die--he was nothing but an empty shell living for others and suffering because of it. He could have never, ever been happy going down that path.
And, well, you only have "one voice, one love, one life," and "one truth." That's all we ever get. Jason forfeited his, like I said--not intentionally, of course. I'm not blaming him; he was absolutely pushed into it by all the factors affecting him, most of all his family. But, still, Jason lost all of those, and he only had one. So, to me, Bare is about... Bare is about living for yourself, not in the fear of others. Bare is about living unabashedly happily and unabashedly yourself and taking advantage of that "one life" you have, grabbing hold of it, and never letting it go to waste. Because that one life is all you're ever going to get, and you can do so, so much with it--even Jason, who only played an act, affected so many people and had so many people love him.
So, well, yeah. Bare, for me, is about living for yourself and letting yourself be happy. It's not easy, of course, but it's still... the best way to live. Bare's taught me a lot, and I hope it's taught you something, too, and that you've enjoyed it. Thank you so much for coming along this journey with me--Bare means a lot to me and has influenced me very much, and I'm really happy to share it with you. Thank you.
Please feel free to message me on twitter (@queeenmab), as always! I'm always open to conversation and meeting new people!