
I'll take a stab
Asterion - Gentle Giant
Luke - Free Bird
Kota - Dragon Attack
(these two are the achievement names when you get each character to run the lounge so might as well stick with it)
Argos - Dreamer Deceiver
Colbalts - Three of a Perfect Pair
Storm - The Passenger
P - Neutral Milk Hotel
Robert - Lemon Demon
Khenbish - Dire Straits
Themba - Elephant Talk
Wolf - Steppenwolf
Anime is gay but since nanoff jumped in I'll take this as a chance to drop in some songs I associate with some
Storm & P:
Luke (courtesy of Mani's Minotaur Hotel mixtape):
It's is an asset from the game. You can find a painting showing it while exploring the valley. It was made by GigaSaddle, based on Frederic Watts painting:
Also, here's another song for Asterion & the MC. We actually thought of licensing this one for the game (Chapter 13 specifically) but we wanted a version without vocals and couldn't find a satisfactory one.
An Oh Hello's song! Let me take this opportunity and dump some tracks relevant to the Minohotel:
Their 'seasonal winds' album has the themes of cycles, similar to recursion in the story. A recurring motif is "the wheel". This song in particular calls out the ignorant and/or misguided folk that keep horrible cycles in perpetuity.
Over and over, again
We keep that old wheel turning
We spin it around!
The song is about human greed and materialism, with a hint of divine folly and our ultimate fates. This one reminded me of Clement in particular. The first part is about human toil and suffering (Clement's scarred mental condition), contrasting this with the higher powers-- the gods and divine fate. Its chorus makes a statement about men's susceptibility to greed, which reminds me of Clement's downfall.
You can't take any gold or rings further than the grave
Nothing we make can we bring, but
Still the bait hanging from the string is calling my name
And like the wind it slips again
Out of my fingers
The first parts of the song really fits the Asterion-Master dynamic in the earlier parts of Minohotel. The song is about an epiphany that was known to the singer(?), and his efforts in relaying this realization to his partner. It's about seeing things that were always there for the first time. He deliberately takes a slow, gentle approach in doing this. Pardon my excitement, but that's literally(figuratively) getting Asterion to redeem himself and realize his self-worth. The song diverges in the latter part though; the last stanzas are about the singer expressing regret that he hasn't realized this sooner and remarking on how much this has changed his view.
'Cause the more I recite it
The more you wanna fight it
The more my language is sounding fabricated
So I'll keep half of my words in my mouth
Let the syllables fall out
At a steady trickling
I'll be your roof caving in
The song is about incremental, but achievable change. This one parallels the master's belief and efforts in reforming Asterion to be the proud bull that he ought to be. The lyrics even reassure the companion and tells him to not be scared of it. This is definitely the Master's mentality in dealing with our beloved bull.
It took forever and a day for the canyons and coasts to erode away
By the weight of the ocean's cyclical motion they swayed
And though the eons may pass as slow as the sands of an hourglass
Every grain that we've counted
Claims that even the mountains can change
To top it all off with something happy, Zephyrus is here to show the end of that undeserved atonement. This time, I feel that the whole song fits the story's subplot. The companion appears to have been convinced by the earlier efforts, and finally accepts absolution. This is Asterion finally standing up beside the Master and overcoming the self-imposed shackles. Wholesome, I tell you!
What do you find within the lines of
Distant suns
And their systems
Where I come up empty?
Are we not threaded by the same weave
Of the wind
Terra firma
And unparted sea?
So let me melt down like mountain glaciers
Break the bonds
I've been holding onto
Let 'em soften me
With permission from Rebyc, I uploaded this as an emote for Twitch on BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ for anyone to add to their channel for their audiences to use.
https://betterttv.com/emotes/6677070c3a045f6dc2dc80be
https://www.frankerfacez.com/emoticon/753594-HORNY
Well depending on how he actually went about it, Argos might not have actually lied as so much spread misinformation and some other snek didn't pay so much attention.
Like- Argos "Oh hey did you hear, it's taking longer than usual to set up, things could be delayed for an hour this year"
Other Snake- *Heads down to Chipole. *
Me when I witnessed our dear moo renovate his hotel.

Source https://twitter.com/CSMFHT/status/1476752452015714304?s=20
Thanks very much to all who attended! For those who missed it, you can watch the "I Make My Boyfriend Rank MinoHotel Characters Based Only On What He Can Glean From Memes" VoD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1469500666
I feel like this video is calling out Khenbish as the cause of the United States' inflation:

Context: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxorgO8ZA_37Fga3p6CkXpaZeRo8SVG_j4
well, it's from a betting game called "jogo do bicho"(animal game) in which numbers are correlated to animals. 24 is the number of the deer or "veado" in portuguese which also happens to be a pejorative brazilian slang for gay men. there's another theory in which 24 sounds like "coming in all fours" in portuguese. anyway, the origins are uncertain, but the symbolism is common knowledge around here.

I wanted to show out Lukes artistic side. He is usually misunderstood, at the start he was going into a cello/violin concert, but he realized as he got to the truck stop that he hasn't practiced enough, so he went in there, and he found these two good guys who were helping him tune the instrument. He didn't eat enough that day, and good thing that the other guy had a Snekers bar. What a good guy. However, Luke is a messy eater, so he splattered chocolate on him, so needs to switch a shirt.
(I did put it in Fanart too. But I think this is a fitting "repost")Been learning how to do digital charcoal art and been practicing cleaner lines and shading. Wanted to show love to one of my favourite VNs our there with a wholesome scene where Luke practices for important preformance. I know you guys don't really show this favourite past time of Luke in game. He loves the preforming arts and sucking on these candy bars since nuts are excellent source of protein, good way to keep up that muscle.
He is pretty good at bowing the cellos and instruments like that but sometimes he offers helpful demonstrations with hands on experience and isn't afraid of getting down and dirty with the details of the artforms.
Soon after seeing this post, https://itch.io/post/6004584 I ran into this Miles Davis album:
And just got to thinking...

Decided against making a fangame and instead made a shitpost instead. Proof of concept inspired by https://twitter.com/MinoHotel/status/1199119918563778561

This isn't worth starting a new thread for, but I was thinking if the translation of the hotel just auto-translated the etymologies of all the names as well-- and it made me laugh to think of.
Asterion gets literally called "Little Star" at all times.
Brash American Gryphon introduces himself: "Howdy y'all I'm Light! Not to be confused with the murdertwink with the book."
Got a huge imposing Grootslang accountant called... Faith. uwu
Khenbish has a Mitski song all about him...
Storm is... Storm...
(I dunno, it was funny to me, at least. Hahaha)
I know I can't be the only one that gets happier with Asterion. And hornier.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1580211861177266176
I would assume that this parody ad using Asterion's likeness would count as a shitpost.
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx0EaE5OJJswxlnyPVnUZvHzeicN-ExhU5
There is also a slightly different version that uses a different song and parodies a different ad. I love that thumbnail.

So there is a poll on tumblr that I only just thought should be posted here-- about selecting the ideal furry husband, and Asterion is on it! Today battling against Wolf O'Donnell from Starfox.
There's only 10 hours left to vote, if anyone here has a tumblr account!
https://www.tumblr.com/bestfurryhusband/741140663058448385/wolf-odonnell-star-fo...