Disclaimer: Don't own Music, Don't own Ideas. Do own particular arrangement of words, and the Idea of making an Irish Drinking Song(tm) about Slayers.
Background: In the Slayers Universe, powerful Magicians are titled by the color of their robes. Rezo the Red is the only example in the Anime, but in the Novels, Halciform and Lina (among others) are also given colors: White and Pink, respectively. Now Lina doesn't like being called 'Lina the Pink,' but I don't care, since on this side of the fourth wall* there is very little danger of her being able to hit me with a Dragu Slave.
My father likes Irish Folk Music (dunno what else to call it), which makes sense, since his side of the family has a significant amount of Irish Heritage. Anyway, there's a song on one of his CDs called 'Lily the Pink;' It shouldn't take a genius to figure out what connections got made and where.
So, without further ado, in [slightly belated] honor of St Patrick's Day:
Lina the Pink
(To the tune of 'Lily the Pink,' as performed by The Irish Rovers)
We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lina the Pink the Pink the Pink
The terror of the Human Race
She fought villains and monsters
With her terrible powers
And was victorious in every case!
Well here's a story
That can never be boring,
It's a little bit silly and a little bit sad
Of Lina the Pink and
Her great magical powers
And how she drove the whole world mad.
There was once a Black Dragon
Who got out of its wagon
And it terrorized the town;
So the town called on Lina,
And, though she beat the monster,
Nothing's left but a hole in the ground!
We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lina the Pink the Pink the Pink
The terror of the Human Race
She fought villains and monsters
With her terrible powers
And was victorious in every case!
The Red Priest Rezo
Was supposed to be dead, though
He was in truth alive and well,
But he revived the Dark Lord
Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo,
So Lina sent them both to hell!
Now Rezo's Copy
Was made a little bit sloppy
So it was totally insane;
So to try and beat Lina
It freed Zanaffar's power
But Lina sealed them up again!
We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lina the Pink the Pink the Pink
The terror of the Human Race
She fought villains and monsters
With her terrible powers
And was victorious in every case!
Well Phibrizzo Hellmaster
He told Lina to cast her
Most deadly spell, the Giga Slave;
He hoped that it would plunge
The whole world into Chaos,
But it just sent him to his grave!
For parts unknown
Lina then departed,
In all the towns the bells did ring;
Away with her she took her
Fearsome magical powers,
Listen, hear the people sing!
We'll... we'll... we'll...
Drink a drink a drink
To Lina the Pink the Pink the Pink
The terror of the Human Race
She fought villains and monsters
With her terrible powers
And was victorious in every case!
* The fourth wall, for any who don't know, is the intangible barrier between characters in a story (I first saw it used in reference to an online comic strip) and the readers/viewers. It is referred to as being 'broken' every time a character addresses the audience directly (in apparent knowledge that they are there, soliloquies probably don't count) and sometimes when they mention being in a comic/ story /cartoon / movie/ play.