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No thoughts behind those eyes
My Calypso with Miss @gigizetz 's background. I'll put my thought process below the art bc I don't wanna type out a whole paragraph above the art. Also there are spoilers, so yeah
I'm basically just copying what I explained to my friends and put on my instagram post so bear with it.
To celebrate Epic: The Musical's Wisdom Saga coming out I drew my version of Calypso. I went through a couple different ideas before settling on her because what her design was to me, is right up my alley. I used Miss Gigi's background shot, so by NO means is it mine.
She has 7 eyes bc she trapped Ody for 7 yrs and it's the 7th saga. Her 4 arms show literally holding Odysseus hostage. More than 2 eyes show that she always has her eyes on him. The chains are like what's keeping him trapped yk. She's wearing traditional Trinidadian clothes so not much on that. Her hairstyle I always pictures half up so I did that and I based the braids on a hairstyle I've had multiple times. Her nose is also based off of me bc I am an Island girlie. Her earrings are the first earrings me and my cousins and the rest of us have gotten and that's like the trini default earrings. The ripples are vaguely like waves since she lives on an island.
About the design I have some notes but there are a couple things I wanted to say. Basically since the creator of Epic: The Musical, Mr. Jorge Rivera-Herrans, used calypso music for the Calypso character, I based her heavily off of my culture, Trinidad and Tobago culture. I figured calypso music was from the islands but was too scared to claim it in case it wasn't from my country specifically, but knowing that made the design process a lot more relaxed. I wasn't grown up with traditional Trinidadian clothing, save for when I participated in Carnival as a kid, so I had to do research on the dresses and stuff. Drawing non-human characters, even if humanoid, is something I've been trying recently and I'm starting to enjoy it.
Side note: I imagine if I were to animate this, Odysseus' confusion at Calypso being a goddess would dissipate when she opens the 5 other eyes she has.
Please go listen to Epic, it's been consuming me whole since 2020 or so
love in paradise
I know people really like disheveled Odysseus but like, wouldn't it be worse if during his stay at calypso's island he's the most cleaned up and groomed he's ever been during his voyage. His hair is long and silky smooth, his beard is trimmed, his clothes are pristine and hang nicely from his body. Calypso treats him like a prized possession, and how could she possibly let it (her pet? her toy?) get unkempt and scruffy? Idk something about him having a complete lack of agency and no choice in even the way he looks and his stay in a supposed paradise reflecting on his person
😭🔫
(Amazing art op)
...Teehee
calypso when a sopping wet half dead 45 year old man washed up on her shores. For some fucking reason
SOMETIME THE POST BUTTON IS AN OPTION YOU KNOW
SHARING AINT ALWAYS CARING
Wait...now that i think about it....
You remember that Jorge Said that the Gods/Godesses can bring the voices of mortals if they please? Like Athena did in My Goodbye with the voices of the members of the crew that died bc of the Cyclops?
What if Calypso actually bring the voices of Polites, Eurylochus and Anticlea to prevent Odysseus from jumping the legde? But only trigger all of His traumas TOGHETHER.
I'm not fine guys....
Percy's fatal flawy isn't hubris, it's loyalty, hubris is Annabeth's fatal flaw, but otherwise I agree with both of you yes.
I have been informed by two people, one of them being my trusted friend and ally, that the idea that Calypso is cursed to be stuck on her island and fall for any man that lands on it... is from fucking Percy Jackson.
I already suspected so because whenever I saw people claiming she was totally cursed and couldn't be held accountable for her trespasses against Odysseus and likely countless other men, none of them cited a line that stated that. There is also no mention of it on her Wikipedia page either, and I knew that it would have been mentioned if anything was backing it. Like how any potential children of Odysseus with Circe and Calypso aren't technically canon because stories about them were written after the original poem and by different people but they were still mentioned in sources about Circe and Calypso.
Some of y'all are exonerating a fictional rapist because of a depiction of her you found in a children's book.
Goddammit Rick.
"Your tunes do not bring me joy, Calypso"
Calypso I hate you but I love you but I hate you but I love you but I hate you but i love you but I hate you but I love you but I hate you
everyone thinking love in paradise would be like the snippet and then being hit over the hit with a steel chair by "the ledge" part
Calypso is honestly the ultimate pick me. I can practically see her singing ‘you belong with me’ to poor Odysseus.
Ody fashions himself a hut opposite hers so they don’t have to share a bed, and every time he looks up she’s at the window with a sign.
“You ok?” You trapped me on an island what do you think the answer is Calypso??
Scenery is my passion (this was such a pain ohmygods--)
Inktober 2024 Day 4: Exotic
Paradise island </3
Close Ups:
Sketch & Lining
I care Epic Calypso specifically.
Calypso, dear, you're not really helping the situation right now
...Teehee
Well, now i'm sad
...Teehee
WISDOM SAGA IS FINALY OUT
-legendary
-little Wolf
-we'll be fine
-Love in paradice
-god games