Epic The Underworld Saga - Tumblr Posts
Orpheus: *sings about missing his wife and doing anything to get her back*
Hades: Fine. Here.
Orpheus: *looked back, lost his wife, then died later on*
Hades: Well, too bad. At least we got rid of the singer husband.
Hades: Wait-
Hades: Who's that man over the-
Odysseus: I MUST GET TO SEE PENELOPE AND TELEMACHUS... AND IF I HAVE TO THROW ANOTHER INFANT FROM THE WALL IN AN INSTANT... THEN I'LL BECOME THE MONSTER!!!!!
I find it funny how Hades had to deal with a singer who wants to see his wife.
Then later see a man bring in a whole choir to sing about how he needs to see his wife.
I saw this vid on tiktok a while ago...
And I feel personally attacked
Hades after Hadestown: Finally
Alecto: Sir, you have been invited to another greek mythology musical.
Hades: Yeah, I can do another one. As long as it's not-
Alecto: It's about a man wanting to see his wife again.
Hades:...
Alecto: This also includes his son.
Hades:...
Alecto: This time, there will be an entire crew singing with him
Hades:...
Hades:...
Hades:...
Hades: Bye
Me: Nothing can hurt me.
Jorge Herrans:
"Ody"
"I'll stay inside your heart"
"Just let me close my eyes"
"This life is amazing when you greet it with open arms"
"Waiting"
Me on a Monday
(Credit to @nothing-impt for the crispy Athena, THIS IS NOT MY ART)
T minus eight days
OK guys, we have eight days to wait, after the first day of non sleeping doing t he Odysseus challenge I can tell you I start seeing large weird fish in the water, will update later.
imagine Odysseus finally getting home, and poseidon greets him to itheca. Imagine Odysseus wanting yo give up on meeting Penelope and Telemachus after all those years. Imagine poseidon singing that he has been waiting...waiting...waiting in the same melody Odysseus knows so well from his mom. Imagine Odysseus filled with rage, he had spent about a half of his life away from home, his mother died singing that melody and know his enemy is mocking him with it. Now imagine Penelope singing for Odysseus her love yo return. Imagine Odysseus hearing her singing.
He has been waiting. Waiting. Waiting for way to long .
And now imagine 600 strike.
Every single thing u find matching between EPIC and hamilton
-written by a Puerto-riccan man who read a book and thought "this has to be a musical" discovered it is not and wrote a musical and casted himself in the main role.
-both have a character that says good luck and has a crazy laugh
-having a timeskip of 5-10 years in it.
-the fourth song after saud timeskip is a song where a woman tries to make the main character cheet
-in the second song we hear the main character's son in he fails in a duel
EPIC THE MUSICAL: SONG RANKING :]
I saw some people and my favourite artists ranking songs from EPIC the musical and, as I am a huge fan of this musical myself, I thought I could share my own personal favorites :] Here are top 10 EPIC songs for me (the numbers aren't representing hierarchy, all of them tickle my brain in different ways): 1. Wouldn't you like 2. Dangerous (can you tell Hermes is my favourite? XD) 3. Open Arms 4. Just a Man 5. Ruthlessness 6. Get in the Water (ik it's not released yet, I just love it sm) 7. Luck Runs Out 8. Monster 9. Different Beast 10. Thunder Bringer/Scylla (I cannot choose haha)
Personally, I think all of the songs included in the musical and also the scrapped ones are a work of a genius/geniuses for both the lyrics and the sound compositions and I appreciate all the work that both Jay and all of his people put in into this masterpiece of a musical <3 These are just the ones that I think about/listen to more frequently ^^
Okay so, personally, I think that in some way it could be true that he figured it out and that Ody knew before Eury confessed it to him.
But also in the "Scylla" song as Eury says "I've opened the windbag while you were asleep" we can hear like a sudden "dun" sound, as if this information hit Ody in some way
Still, it could be like the person wrote that he could knew, but it just hurts to hear it outloud.
Anyway, what I think is interesting in this is that is that I don't think Ody would be as shocked. We can hear it in his voice as he commands Eury to light up the torches. Like.. this unbotherness in it is kinda.. eerie. Also his lack of response to Eury's apology- I don't think it's caused by the shock of finding out. I think it's caused by shame.
Here Eury is apologising to him, not aware of what's about to come. Imagine the kind of pressure and shame, the stress inside Ody's head that he's bottling up, trying to numb himself out to be able to complete his sacrificial plan. "Leaving them feeling betrayed" doesn't point to Eury's mistake. It points to Ody's secret plan and the guilt that he's feeling deep down yet repressing 'cause "what if I'm the one who killed you, every time I caved to guilt" and also "If I became a monster and threw that guilt away" (Monster song)
Which is kinda ironic because in this song it indicates that Ody is willing to change his ways and become less remorseful/merciful to save his men and himself ("If I became the monster to everyone but us") yet as the time passes he becomes more and more desperete to get HIMSELF back home, to his wife and son. (" Please don't do this (...) I need to get home"- Mutiny)
He's so desperate that he's willing to even turn against his own crew members, sacrificing few for the "greater good". ("You miss your wife so bad, you trade the lives of your own crew" and "I am not letting you get in my way" - also Mutiny)
Tbh I have a lot more to talk about here but it would be going off topic haha
I just love analysing lyrics of the songs in this musical as it's so fascinating to see these seemingly harmless phrases starting to make a whole picture as you put them together- like a puzzle! The way the lyrics are so open for many many interpretations is such a cool thing. Jorge is a lyrics genius <3
Personally I think Ody already knew Eury opened the wind bag, initially bc there's just something about his tone and the way Ody cut him off in the beginning of Puppeteer that felt... deliberate? But it's also mirrored in Scylla and Mutiny
It's just a little thing in Scylla but when Eury first tries to confess in Puppeteer Ody gives him a task instead "go check out the island" vs "light up six torches" instead of talking about it, like he's avoiding it
But more prominently is "whatever you have to say can wait some more of this I'm sure" sounds to me like "don't tell me. If you don't tell me we can pretend I don't know and I don't have to do anything about it. Lie to me (by omission)" vs Eury's "tell me you did not know that would happen" and "then you have forced my hand" while said in anger can also totally be ready similarly. I've already seen others talk about how he was basically begging Ody to lie to him so like, "lie to me so I don't have to do anything about it" again
(whether or not Eury would've been able to play along, assuming he did want that, I don't know, and ig we'll never know)
Also Ody's total lack of reaction. Sure Scylla had "leaving them feeling betrayed" but having it said out loud could still sting. It could also be a "I thought we had a deal to not talking about that" type betrayal.
Anyway many thoughts head full
the underworld in a nutshell
The pain this song brings 😔😢
This life is amazing...
He just wants to get home lol
Finished Commission for @zigadoodle !!!
I just realized smth heartbreaking- also to everyone who is hasn't listened to Epic the musical...go listen to it all in order then read this...
EUROLYCHUS WAS SO UPSET AT ODYSSEUS IN MUTINY BECAUSE HE THOUGHT ODYSSEUS WAS THE MAN HE WASNT. ODYSSEUS ROUTINELY MAKES THE RIGHT CALLS AND EUROLYCHUS OFTEN DOUBTS HIM OR FUCKS IT UP. EUROLYCHUS EVEN SUGGESTS ABANDONING THE MEN WITH CIRCE, AND ODYSSEUS INSISTS ON GETTING THEM BACK. SO WHEN ODYSSEUS WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE 6 MEN AND DID SO IN SECRET, EUROLYCHUS'S PERCEPTION OF HIS 'BROTHER' WAS SHATTERED. AND THAT'S WHY HE WAS WILLING TO TURN ON HIM. THE MAN LEADING THEM WASNT THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN HIS 'BROTHER'. STOP IT I AM IN AGONY-
Assigning my friends epic characters with little explanation. (Not totally accurate just for funnies)
J- Odysseus (traumatized simp)
E- Polites (Optimistic animal fan)
Ab- Perimedes (sassy stabby)
Ash- Penelope (chill but struggle bussing)
V- Eurolychus (Dramatic and funny)