Okay, I just realised something INSANE… just hear me out for a second.
When I was about 12 years old I had an Alexa in my room. Stay with me here, there was thing called Sleep Sounds where you could ask her to play ambient noises like “River Sounds”, “Rainforest”, “Oscillating Fan”, etc. I had undiagnosed ADHD at the time so I often struggled to wind down at night, ergo I would use this feature quite frequently. A particular favourite of mine was “Beautiful Dream” which was a solo, mainly homophonic piano piece drenched in reverb. For about a month I would fall asleep to it pretty much every day.
Fast forward to when I first played this game last year, I remember arriving at Adastra after being kidnapped at the beginning of the game, entering the atrium with the marble statues for the first time, and hearing the song entitled “Reveal” from the OST. Immediately I was like “Why the f*ck does this sound so familiar?”, so I saved the song to my computer because I found it soothing and kinda nostalgic beyond just the harmony of the tune itself.
Fast forward to this year and I bring my Alexa back up into my room because A-Level exams are kicking my gay little ass and I needed to wind down. Asking her to open up Sleep Sounds again jogged my memory, and I realised that this was where I’d heard the song before. It seemed to have been removed from Alexa since I listened to it last, so I searched it up on YouTube. Lo and behold, the song “Beautiful Dream - Alexa Sleep Sounds” that I used to fall asleep to as a 12 year old is EXACTLY the same song that was used in that scene.
Here’s the only video I could find of Alexa’s version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoH5WKCFRlk&t=6s
And here’s Adastra OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuV668K-sb0
Can anybody shed some light on WHY TF lil’ 12 year old me was unknowingly falling asleep to the soundtrack of a gay furry VN? Cause the only other option I have here is that God himself predestined me to be a raging fluffy homosexual since my pre-pubescence.