Darling Dolorosa is an unreleased track by Toby "Radiation" Fox. It is featured in the Homestuck interactive page (S) ACT 6 INTERMISSION 3 (part 1 of Openbound).
(S) ACT 6 INTERMISSION 3 (MS Paint Adventures page 007163) was posted on August 31, 2012. Radiation posted the track to his Tumblr on the same day.
In Homestuck[]
Darling Dolorosa is the walkabout theme music when the player controls Porrim Maryam. The name is a reference to an earlier track, Darling Kanaya, which played when the player controlled Kanaya Maryam in (S) Past Karkat: Wake up (also known as Alterniabound). The Dolorosa is Porrim's post-scratch self, and a character the readers were already familiar with when Openbound was released.
Although it is featured in the comic itself, Darling Dolorosa was never released on an album.
Production and Composition[]
Radiation writes:
"My goal with this track was to create an alternate version of Darling Kanaya, except more reverent and mature.
"The first few notes the track are similar to the first few notes of Kanaya’s theme, but the songs quickly differentiate from there. Two people that are initially the same… I like that concept."[1]