Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is an area theme I composed for the YIIK I.V story update around 2021. It got used in a rainy, dark, moody forest area in an experimental film directed by one of the game's characters. Please check it out if you at all love delightfully weird media that you have to spend a little time with and really dig into to appreciate.

When I wrote this song, I had just had a major health break, couldn't eat solid food, and as a result, got fired from a very stressful job and had to move back in with my parents. My entire life had slipped away from me, slowly at first, and then all at once. I was also starting to realize that dysphoria doesn't just go away if you ignore it forever.

Andrew and I talked about these things back then, and he recalled a time that his health failed when he was growing up, and how it felt, and it really helped me keep going. Despite all of these things haunting me, I still had a little spark of hope and knew that I would keep going, and maybe even bounce back stronger, and I think you can hear that in this song.

Soundtrack release: andrewallanson.bandcamp.com/album/y2k-ii-benevolent-psychosis-official-soundtrack
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