Some Quick, Probably Important Notes For How I'm Going About The Voyage AU Btw:

Some quick, probably important notes for how I'm going about the Voyage AU btw:

• it's relatively loose on the Pirates SMP Canon

-> my knowledge of Pirates comes mostly from what I've been able to gather from Tumblr posts and whatever Scott & Apokuna have on YouTube so. It's not perfect by any means

• I'm going to be testing out new posting style in that I'm not going to be fully coloring in order to post.

-> I'll be posting both the Sketches & Penning of whatever I make and maybe some coloring but focusing on the first two will let me post more often so. Fun.

• Character Designs are up to change; the concepts will be posted soon but they may chance as I continue

• Characters from Sagas of Epic that have not been released are up to change technically. As its currently listed, they'll probably stay, but if i find characters that fit the roles better, then things will change.

I think that's all for now, just figured I'd have a couple of added notes in place.

I'm hoping to post some of the characters tomorrow. See ya.

Boy howdy do I love when I spend 30 minutes setting up a post only for it to yeet itself out of existence

I can't believe my silly au is being the reason I draw Oli TheOrionSound for the first time smh smh

Captian Sausage and his two most trusted crewmates, Krow & Will. Sure hope nothing tragic happens to this close trio

The Regent Monarch Joel & his son, Hermes. 10 years into waiting for Sausage to return, they hold steady on the Isles, rebuilding and keeping steady.

Two of our biggest gods of the story, Aeor & Exor. Aeor, the cold & powerful. The one that will see things through the way he sees fit. Exor, the strategic & brutal. The one to hold their Champion close but will not hesitate to put one in their place.

The "Cyclopes" Codfather Jimmy & the Goddess Ocean Queen Lizzie. After an attack of desperation causing a tidal wave of a ripple effect, the Ocean Queen is unhesitant to show careless "travelers" just how ruthless she can be.

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Pt. 1 [Here] || Pt. 2 || Pt. 3 || Pt.4 || Pt. 5

Here we have our first round of characters. Some of the most or first shown, here and ready for whatever totally not-tragic tale awaits them.

The next round will be gods-focused (unfortunately Pearl didn't make it in this post but she'll be here promise).

I can't wait to post the penning, it's going well & looks loads cleaner

I might call it "A Myth's Voyage AU"

Just for that extra spice yk?

I'll sleep on it.

Hey chat, how would you guys feel about an Empires SMP/Pirates SMP x Epic the Musical combined AU thing that I'm making?

Hello hello!! Absolutely pumped for the Myth’s Voyage AU :DD!!

What made you pick certain characters for certain roles? I’m particularly interested by Owen as Antinous 👀👀

Bare with me this is gonna be a doozy

I'll be honest. It all started with me being real emotionally attached to p!Will & me falling down a rabbit hole of associating the song "Open Arms" with him because- even if I'm not fully read on p!Will's story & character- the way I've come to view him is a relatively forgiving and optimistic type of person. So him as Polities came natually.

I also have a frequent habit of doing a thing where when I associate one character to one song/character of a musical, I start to try and figure if there's way to fit in other characters.

I believe what came next was Sausage and if I recall correctly, that was due to 1. Me just liking Sausage all together and 2. Me seeing him as the most "Captian-Like" guy in pirates. Also revolving around headcanons, others' interpretations, and maybe an artist or two's ways of drawing him. After that, Joel & Hermes as Penelope and Telemachus came pretty easy. I've also played around with previous ideas of "What if Joel was in Pirates SMP" and added in my constant Empires Brainrot ™️, that all just fell into place.

I believe Lizzie was my first established God cos. Giant fish/ocean associated person, yk. And then Jimmy as Polyphemus due to fishy relations and then I think Fwhip was actually my next one due to the "silly & unhinged" vibes I got from Epic Hermes. Then with a lot more stubborn brain storming, more and more gods fell into place as I started following an Empires Season 1 pattern with the Gods

Krow was also a fun one to workshop in cos I also don't know much about his Canon character but what I do know & just the fascination I've gotten with him, I thought he fit the role of Eurylochus pretty well. Mostly on the side of more of a survivor when it comes down to a "You vs Me" mentality & leaning more on aggressive tactics when it comes to handling certain situations. He is one of the ones I'm certain doesn't fall into complete Canon-type of personality, but I like how my au's Krow is a lot.

Now. The fun situation with the suitors and Ithica in general.

I can explain a bit further if anyone's interested, but the way my storyline worked out is that there's actually no Herons that are part of Sausage's crew in the story. They're either still on the Faction Isles or traveling elsewhere. Having said that, when I came around to figuring out Antinous, it was right when I was finding out very bare-bones about him. And given that the Heron characters will ideally be characters shown on "Ithica" I was working to see if anyone would fit that roll.

Having said that, Antinous was noted down in my "Working-Out" list with the note of "Mr. Steal your wife and kill your son" and while discussing my character plans with my partner, we started to joke about Antinous being Owen. Given her more player-esque personality, at the time I figured it'd be a decent fit- or at least a place holder- for a character who I started to think was just someone wanting to court "Penelope".

However, thinking more on it & finding out better how Antinous plays in this story, I started getting more invested in the idea of Owen still being him. The idea of Owen becoming a villain, manipulative with his charm and almost vindictive in her motives just started to appeal more and more to me.

When this takes place, it's 20 years since the rough-end of Pirates SMP, following Epic the Musical's timeline. A lot can change in a person in 20 years. Seeing the Factions fall, loves in your life die or disappear, people coming into power that you feel either don't deserve it or are strangers who don't understand all that's happened here or you feel are too weak irresponsible to handle it. It can grate on a person, certainly.

P!Owen is, once again, another character I'm unfortunately not fully familiar with, though that may change if i have a chance to watch his pov in the future. And who knows, maybe I'll workshop the story, change e!Owen's personality or motives, maybe even choose someone else entirely to fit the role.

But as it stands, the idea of e!Owen, 20 years in the future with heavens knows how much baggage and pent up anger and frustrations left on his shoulders starting to get desperate or almost hungry even for some sort of control or power or just even a sense of stability in her life just seems to be a very interesting & fun-to-work-with storyline to me.

Thinking about seeing Owen getting aggressive and animalistic and breaking that carefully-crafted facade of charm and control when it comes to fighting and trying to kill someone just. It's so interesting and fascinating in my mind, you've no idea.

And, again, I'm awfully weak to villain Owen nonesense so that certainly doesn't help.

There you have it. My essay & a half summary over some of my reasonings.

Again, things are always subject to change and sometimes I get a little Silly with my trains of thoughts but, hey, it'll be fun either way. If you're interested in me trying to explain my through process for more characters, feel free to ask, I just figured I'd keep this as short as i can physically manage. If it comes off as a bit rambling or you want me to clear anything up, you're always welcome to ask. It's technically super late for me so my writing compression might be a bit off.

Tl;Dr, I zone out to music and play "Song Association Games" too much & Owen as Antinous started off as a silly joke but now it's eating my brain whole so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯