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Zeus: If you beat my game I’ll let the man go

Athena: Bet

Zeus: >:( No. U lose.

Hera, hearing Odysseus didn’t cheat on his wife:

I haven't seen anyone talking about how great Hera's intro song it but like legit it's the best

Imagine a world where the Trojan war didn't happen until decades later

Telemachus is old enough to go fight with his father. He survives Troy.

But instead of Polites being the first to the cyclops it's Telemachus.

ok posted on twt and tt now for my tumblings eat up

Quick doodle of the sad soggy man!

Perfection, no words

Luck Runs Out but ANIMATED! It's finally doneeee

Here's the link to the full video:

I've seen plenty of Eury x Zeus, Poseidon x Ody x Zeus, Penelope x Ody x Sirenelope, Circe x Calypso, Eury x Ares.. I'm here to bring upon you my addition to this rise in ships. Lotus eater X Cloud Winion I call them white lotus.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk :D!

I used to set Ruthlessness as my alarm - nothing gets you out of bed quicker than hearing those waves and knowing you only have a few seconds before the POSEIDONs start

Fell asleep while listening to Epic. Woke up to "OOOOOOODYSSEUS OF ITHACA" was terrified.

Odysseus

Odysseus

Shoutout to whoever decided the 'land of the dead' has to be in france

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

I can't get over how (intentionally) brilliant the lines from God Games are.

Apollo [I]

Athena apeals both to his reason ("they tried to do him worse") and his personal priorities ("the'yll thread with caution first", "sing another verse") as the god of arts, giving him both a solid argument and a scapegoat so he doesn't seem to shallow

Hephaistos [II]

Hephaistos is bothered by Odysseus betrail, and one of the most popular story's he is involved in is the betrail through Aphrodite's infidelity (she's his wife, in some versions), and being thrown from the Olymp becourse he was too 'ugly', only regaining respect for his craftsmanship.

Plus the wordgames!! ('trust is forged' and 'build a future')

(((Also, his voicing(?) just perfect. He seems to heave, and the voice sound a little mechanic? which could be playing into the disabillity he is sometimes portrayed to have)))

Aphrodite [III]

She hold a grudge against Odysseus for breaking his mothers heart, showing both her petty side and portraying her as a godess of all love. Additionally, we can't forget that this was shortly after the Trojan war, which she technically started by winnig a competition against Athena and Hera, so there is definitly bad blood between the two. (Still, a little dissapointing)

Ares [IV]

Brilliant! Part!

Ares and Athena are both rivals as the god of war and the godess of (battle) strategie, and their connection is portrayed perfectly by her challenging chant of his name at the beginning of his part!

He also doesn't really cares a lot more about the 'cowordly' tactics of Odysseus (Athena), which lessen the brutality and bloodshed of war. The vocalisation of ["didn't even TRY TO KILL SKYLLA"] is just *chefs kiss* (Still, he is a god of the people, and of armies and rebellion as a whole, so it makes sense for him to rafe at Odysseus betrail rather than the groups.

[Hera] V

Hera just Rocked

The motherly vibes, the royal tone. (One person on Tumblr said Athena listed traits of Zeus ["He's kind of funny","Eh"] to make Hera think of him before delivering the last (and first) blow, which sound plausible, but idk) There is not much to say, so straight toooo

Zeus [+I]

I think it's safe to say Athena knew (or at least guessed) her father woudn't be satisfied if he won. Zeus is made to portray a King, and those are predictable and prideful. She must have known beforehand he would let her 'play a game' or challenge something of her, and that he would be able to take that hit to his pride.

I think she gambeled that, while he coudn't just balantly favour her, or let her hurt his pride, a begging, (maybe half dead) daughter would be enough for his role to allow him to take mercy on her.

(Especally when all the other important gods are present)

(Not saying that he knew what she was up to, that guy definitly shat on her when he fired that lightning.)

This has probably been posted already, but please,

Pleeeaaaasseeee,

animators of the Epic: the Musical fandom remember that Odysseus was naked when he killed the suitors? In canon?

Im sure thats something we can work with.

Before I got into Epic: the Musical, i read the Song of Achilles, and of course read all available fanfics on ao3 with half a good plot.

When i came to read the older fics however, I noticed how odd the characterisation of Odysseus seemed?

Before, he would be a friendly, smart but loving friend and boyfriend to penelope.

In the older versions however, he was portrayed as cunning and downright egoistic.

This confused me a lot, and I remember thinking; Wow, something must have happened to change peoples perception of that guy.

And two moths later, boom!

I discovered EPIC.

I love this and hate this at the same time.

Imagine if, in The Underworld, after Polites has his portion of the song, instead of saying his name again, Odysseus said "You can relax my friend". You know because he's DE-

Me to my friend’s hyper fixations:

Friend: rambling abt current hyper fixation

Me: listening patiently, even though I don’t care

My friend to my hyper fixations:

Me: speaks one word of the current hyper fixation

Friend: changes subject and completely ignores the fact that I want to talk about smthn that I love

Me:

Me: Bitch do I do this to you?

Let me ramble, please. I don’t have anyone else to talk abt it to, and it’s so fucking annoying when she does this, and it’s even MORE annoying when she says “you let me ramble abt *insert hyperfixation*, I let you ramble abt EPIC”. Like. No you don’t. You change the subject and you’re not even paying attention to me at all. At least I make eye contact, CONSTANTLY talk about it, unlike you. God just let me talk about it without getting shunned.

I have nothing but respect. Thank you for making me sob

Oh man, I’m scared for Mutiny 😬

I haven’t seen anyone else say this, so I guess I’ll be the first

Luck Runs Out is going to hurt so much after Mutiny :)

OH DEAR

I am so scared for this saga

I haven’t seen anyone else say this, so I guess I’ll be the first

Luck Runs Out is going to hurt so much after Mutiny :)