Ma Survival

"Who will be the one left alive in the end?"

- the four candidates

Survival 'Ma' -Who Will Survive?- is a song released by Akuno-P on August 12, 2013 in the Original Sin Story -Act 2- album. It is the fourth song in the Original Sin Story.

Plot
Four very different women gather before a temple in Levianta; Irina Clockworker, Milky Eights, Ly Li, and Elluka Chirclatia. With the ongoing need for a "Mother" to birth the "Children of God" and that only one of them could become the "Mother" and ruler of Levianta, the four become cruel and begin secretly fighting each other in a game of survival, beginning to distrust everyone.

Ly is later said to have accidentally fallen off a cliff, though that may not have been the truth. As time goes on, the women left become increasingly cynical and resentful. Milky is said to have killed herself from heartache, though that was definitely not the truth.

Later, Irina approaches Elluka and asks that they stop fighting, telling her sister-in-law that she had her and Kiril's support to win the competition. After Elluka thanks Irina and promises to protect her, the girl stabs her in the back, tears in her eyes. After killing Elluka, Irina is told that she, the three women's murderer, was selected to become the new Ma; as she demonically smiles at the temple's altar, however, someone else is targeting her with a knife.

Composition
The song utilizes the voicebanks Megurine Luka, Nekomura Iroha, Lily, and SF-A2 miki with the VOCALOID2 program, each singing in alteration throughout the song with Iroha singing the ending verses. The song also makes use of a radio filter. Notable instruments include a piano, electric guitar, and synth drums as well as a sound effect for a stabbing.

The song begins with piano keys until the main instrumentals at 0.12, which give way to the first verse at 0.38. Iroha, Lily, miki, and Luka sing in alternation until a musical break from 0.56 to 1.10, when miki and Luka sing the second verse. A pre-chorus is sung by Lily from 1.31 to 1.42, and the chorus begins immediately after. A second instrumental break begins at 2.03, followed by a third verse.

The verse switches from miki, to Lily, Iroha, and finally Luka, and ends at 2.33, preceding the third pre-chorus. The third chorus starts at 2.45, followed by a bridge beginning at 3.07. The bridge begins as an instrumental, but vocals from Iroha are heard late before switching to Luka. The bridge drops to only a piano melody by 4.00. The sound of stabbing is heard at 4.12, followed by a quickened version of the opening instrumental. By 4.19, a single verse is sung by Iroha followed by the at 4.54, with a variation of the opening instrumental beginning  at 5.19. The song ends at 5.45.

Lyrics
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Project 'Ma'
Project 'Ma' recounts the first titular Project 'Ma' for which Eve Zvezda was selected as a candidate, as well as detailing the first project's failure leading to their own eventual selection.

Recollective Musicbox
Recollective Musicbox details Elluka and Irina's past as well as Kiril's.

Whereabouts of the Miracle -Catastrophe-
Whereabouts of the Miracle -Catastrophe- describes how Kiril was able to revive the dead Elluka by placing her into the ark 'Sin' located in the temple, involuntarily causing the Levianta Catastrophe and destroying everything she held dear.

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Conceptualization and Origin

 * The song's title is a reference to the competition between the Ma candidates and its victor, Irina.

Curiosities

 * Before the dialogue between Irina and Elluka, a melody very similar to Recollective Musicbox can be heard.