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Whos your favorite Epic animator? 👀

Ill also take a list of people and the specifics you like in character designs; animation choices, story portayl choices, fav animatic for each song etc etc etc whatever you want to share 👉👈

Mmmh I think I might disappoint you with this one because I don't really watch animatics rip

I do think that they are glorious and amazing and mesmerizing but I just never ended up watching any for epic I guess

BUT I did happen to watch an animatic of keep your friends closer by Gigi and I ADORED IT

The way Aeolus was just being playful and floating around on her little cloud kakskkssn and also Ody in general, his expressions and his face I just really really liked his design

( I feel like you might know a bit more than me about animatics so can I ask you what I should watch ? I feel like I'm missing out now hahha )

Every time I listen to the lyric ‘man made monster’ I have a little nerd flail because it can be read two ways: man made-monster, AKA a man made into a monster, or man-made monster, a monster sculpted by man. Both of those are so tragic and appropriate I adore it

I do have an heart shaped locket necklace that it's currently empty bc I don't know what to put in there

Should I ....? Naaah I shouldn't

Unless...

i keep a printed out picture of an ancient statue of odysseus in my locket and i call it my good luck charm. which is funny because you know. he's famously the unluckiest guy like, ever

I can't print it and I don't have a picture, do you think a drawing of a sad stickman with curls and sad eyes could still work?

i keep a printed out picture of an ancient statue of odysseus in my locket and i call it my good luck charm. which is funny because you know. he's famously the unluckiest guy like, ever

“im a boy” “im a girl” okay???? im the reigning king of ithaca i am neither man nor mythical i am your darkest moment i am the infamous odysseus

I think the siren was convinced Ody was a shitty-ass husband bc after years of not seeing his wife, this sad excuse for a sailor (who is apparently scared of the water? what??) not only doesn't run to her but he immediately also tries to get her to solve his problems?? "Babe I've missed you so much or whatever, can you tell me how to avoid poseidon real quick?"

She probably thought he was a complete idiot who couldn't do anything without his wife , and I like to believe there's a little tiny bit of truth in that

Oh you think I'm insane ?? You think I'm nuts?? You think I'm a nerd who's waaaay too obsessed with random things?

WELL JOKES ON YOU BECAUSE IF I WAS INSANE BEFORE NOW THAT I'VE LISTENED TO THE WISDOM SAGA I'M DERANGED

WISDOM SAGA SPOILERS

Hey gang :)! Do we think that "I see you on the brink of death" was about Ody being half dead when he gets to Calypso's Island or about him almost committing suicide because he's so tired and haunted and helpless? :)) *goes to sob in a corner*

Athena’s journey from the cold-blooded warrior who only worked with the best of the best and refused to admit she had a friend, to the defender who saved a young man from an uneven fight, to the goddess who laid down her pride and ultimately begged for Odysseus’ life and freedom… just… (screams into pillow)

No one:

Athena in God games when Ares insults her new friend:

Brain mush is over LET'S GOOOO

Telemachus is my baby I adore him this is the first time we ever hear from him, his first song and what is it about? IT'S ABOUT HIS FAMILY THAT HE LOVES DEARLY ( even the pieces of it that are missing ) AND ABOUT HOW HE JUST WANTS TO BE STRONG AND BRAVE AND DEFEND THE PEOPLE HE LOVES WHAT THE FUCK HOW CAN I NOT LOVE HIM??? *sobs so much*

I love love love how much he adores and looks up to his dad ? He only knows him through stories ( that penelole told him with so much love AAAHHH) and yet he wants to be like him, he's sure he was the bravest and strongest ever , every day he imagines talking to him and telling him what's happening in the castle , he wants to be legendary so his dad will be proud and because maybe , just maybe , in being great and fighting big monsters like his dad he will find him ? Maybe going on big adventures is what he needs to feel a connection with him ?? Or maybe , just maybe, there's this hope inside of him that his father is alive and chasing after the biggest monsters is the way to find him too ?? Bc he's such a great hero so he must be after the most terrible of monsters, right?? I don't even know what I'm saying I'm so emotional

( ALSO what if he becomes legendary and his dad hears about his great tales and those tales lead him back to Telemachus?? What if what if what IF *explodes*)

But he can't do it , he doesn't know how , and he's praying for help and he needs his dad but he gets the closest thing to that, ATHENA HIS DAD'S MENTOR i'm crying again

Also he's a 100% naming every monster he can think of he's such a nerd I adore him more than words can say

When he says l-l-l-l-legendary it makes me feel like he's so small, just this young adult wanting to be big but he's still a little silly and akskjsjsbAAAAHHH

You're right he's probably so scared with all these bastards in his home "taking up space" , there's so many and they call him small and he's scared and there probably isn't a place in his own house where he is safe from them aaaaahhhhahsjsjhd and yeah , you're so right he probably has to sneak around and hide all the timeee aaaaakskskksns

"he's a mommy's boy " fr ,him and Ody could bond about how much they love peneloleeeee

PENELOPE OUR QUEEN waiting for his husband and taking no shit from the suitors FOR 20 YEARS ( her and Ody deserve each other for real they'd do anything to be back together!!!)

The suitors "oooOOooh" SLAPS SO HARD but not as hard as I would SLAP ANTONOUS IN HIS UGLY FACE ( his voice is amazing he's so scary he's a bitch I love him I want him to burn he called pen a tramp and "whatcha gonna do about it champ" aaaAAAAH)

Also also back to " I know life and fate are scary " and I know it deep in my bones that he actually doesn't bc he idolizes the myth of fighting monsters and going on adventures so much but he actually has no idea how bad it can get , just ... the parallel between him being young and naive and wanting an adventure so bad and his father losing his youth to an adventure that changed him so much and he is surviving it only bc the thought of home carries him forward... I'm not okay

( I'm aware this is mostly keysmashes and screams and I apologize for that, this saga made me even more insane that I was before)

I didnt get an ask for this BUT WE'RE BACK

my Wisdom saga reaction/analysis!!!!!

26. Legendary

TELEMACHUS MY BOYYYY

THE MELODY AT THE BEGINNING OF LEGENDARY IS SO COOL

the instruments aaah, lowkey obssessed

"its jus tme myself and i" perimedes would like u

"living in this world you left behind".........this song makes oyu think so much about what life has been in Ithica in those years since Odysseus had to leave, he was loved, he is *King*, AH

"dreaming of all these monster, that ill never to get to fight" better this way, u dont wanna end up like your daddy

"but boy i wish i could so i could bring the world some light" BABY BOY

"Cause I'm stuck with your stories, but no clue who you are And no idea if you're dead or just too far" his mother wouldve told him so many stories :aniTears:

"Somebody tell me, come and give me a sign if I fight those monsters, is it you I'll find?" PLS HE jusT WANTS TO FIND HIS DAD GIVE THIS MAN HIS FATHER

"If so, then give me sirens and a cyclops Give me giants and a hydra" hes just naming every monster he can think of of the myths he grew up with

"I know life and fate are scary but I wanna be legendary" U GO BOY; I LOVE YOU, also such a mood

"I'll fight the harpies and chimeras, the Minotaur, even Cerberus I know life and fate are scary but I wanna be l-l-l-l-legendary"....yea same like the two parts before, any monster he can think of, he gotta be one of us kids who read a lot

THEN The droppp in his voice, HE SOUNDS SO SCARED

"There are strangers in our halls" That must be TERRIFYING, just imagine that, dozens of men in your home just prying on your mother and youre too young to do anything rly

"Trying to win the heart of my mom, but she is standing tall" THAT VOCAL PERFORMANCE, W FOR PENELOPE; GIRLBOSS

"108 old faces of men who call me small" EW; 108 IS SO MANY BRO; SO MANY????? Also "old faces" ISJGSEIGJ "who call me small" boy, i feel so bad for you

"They keep taking space and it's not much longer we can stall" !!!! HES WORKING WITH HIS MOTHER TRYING TO HOLD THEM OFF; AH AAAAH, also fuck them, leave their home alone, god he must feel so unsafe in his own home :screams:

"'Cause they're getting impatient, dangerous too" oh no :( so scared lil boy

"And I would fight them if I was half as strong as you" HE LOOKS UP TO HIM SO MUCH AH

"Somebody help me, come and give me the strength Can I do whatever it takes to keep my mom safe?" HES ALSO A MOMMY BOY; AND HONESTLY GOOD FOR HIM; STAND BY HER SIDE; U GO BOY, 🥹

Chrous SLAPs

"Where is he? Where is the man who'll have you to wife? " bitch stay away (also cut song reference!)

"Where is he? Where is the man with whom you'll spend your life?" HE IS ON His WAY HOme SO STAY THE FUCK AWAYYYYYYYY ARGG ILL FIGHT U

"Cause it's been 20 years, 20 years" 20 FUCKING YEARS??? THATS AS OLD AS I AM (and telemachus for that measure, same age, yay!) BUT BRO IMAGINE WAITING FOR YOUR HUSBAND TO COME HOME FOR 20 YEARS; PENELOPE X ODY OTP; PENELOPE FIGHTING OFF 108 SUITORS FOR 20 YEARS AND ODY FIGHTING OF *GODS* Trying TO TRAP AND USE AND KEEP HIM, THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER

"And we still have no king" >:) >:) imagine an island without leader for 20 years oh boy h boy, the power vacuum, 108 people who want to take his place

"Give me a chance, a single opportunity and I'll overcome these obstacles and scrutiny and-" HE WANTS TO SO BADLY he juST DOESNT KNOW HOW AND WHEre TO START BC AH, also the music sounds like he just tries to sneak around his palace, to not get caught by the suitors, dodging and on guard, i can just imagine him ducking his head and looking at every corner for smth danger-

"Boy".......that slapped hard, FUCK YOU ANTINOUS (hi perimedes :) )

"When's your tramp of a mother gonna choose a new husband?" FUCK YOU STAY AWAY (the dELIVERY)

"OoooOOoh" we have a new choir! the crew is ded but we have the suitors now hah, ill take it, love me some choir responses

"Why don't you open her room so we can have fun with her?" THE AUDACITY? WHORE FUCKING BASTARD STAY THE FUCK AWAY

"Dont you dare, call my mother a tramp" U GO BOY; TELL HIM (be careful, dont get hurt) THE VOCAL DELIVERY OF THAT LINE IS SO gOOD

"OoooOOoh" chiorr

" I just did, Whatchu gonna do about it, champ?" FUCK OFF ANTINOUS, DONT BE SO SMUG FUCK U

"Somebody tell me, Come and give me a sign, If I fight this monster, Is it you I'll find?" u desrve your dad so much, he'll come home, promise...promise....hold on, be stronk, u got this boy, also "this monster" its none from your stories, no this is real, its worse its right infront of you AH

Sorry for the swearing :") AH I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH, ONE OF MY FAVS FOR SURE (...we'll come back after recency bias but i dont think itll change)

EDIT: DANGER MOTIF WHEN ANTINOUNS JOINS IN!!!!! (are there more? im new to this PLS TELL ME)

@lorethebookworm

Me to Telemachus after listening to little wolf non-stop for two days: hey there handsome :)) are you tired? No because YOU HAVE BEEN FIGHTING MONSTERS FOR HOURS IN MY MIND and you're doing a great job sweetie :))

Yeah sleep would be nice but I can't when my brain keeps playing over and over " hell no I could kill you where you stand " and do you see it? Do you see how Ody has been through so much and he's so exhausted that upon meeting this random delusional woman who stands in his way his first response is murder? You see how he doesn't even try to reason with her? He hears "I'll keep you here" and he's immediately FUCK NO, GET OUT OF MY WAY OR FUCKING DIE I DON'T HAVE THE PATIENCE FOR THIS

... and then after seven years all the fight in him is gone and he just wants to give up. Seven years. SEVEN. Can you imagine how many things he tried ? How he slowly lost hope and the strength to fight and now he just... he can't anymore

yeah, I'm totally okay about this

*drowns in her sorrows, chokes on her tears*

Are we talking about the terrible terrible irony of " if I fight these monsters , is it your I'll find " said with the certainty that your dad is the greatest hero who ever lived and by fighting monsters you'll surely feel a connection to him vs the fact that now the monster is Ody, so yeah ,maybe while fighting monsters you might find him too among them ?

No?

Alright

Ah yes my favorite musical epic , or as I like to call it "the musical that no matter how perfectly you know the songs, each time you listen you'll find something new to cry about"

Hey @stargazing-enby :DD , what the fuck :D

WISDOM SAGA SPOILERS

Hey gang :)! Do we think that "I see you on the brink of death" was about Ody being half dead when he gets to Calypso's Island or about him almost committing suicide because he's so tired and haunted and helpless? :)) *goes to sob in a corner*

the family

now, am i an epic the musical or an odyssey fan? this remains to be seen

liking a character from greek mythology so much you accidentally become genderfluid just to be a little more like them

guys i listened to the most beautiful sad and romantic song today!!! (yes it's from epic how'd you guess?!) and it's from the Vengeance Saga and im in love with it it's "Not Sorry for Loving You" and it's sung by mainly Calypso (i love her name) and Odysseus - lyric video below!

“Men don’t cry”

WRONG

Odysseus cried every morning of his 7 year stay with Calypso. He sobbed on he beach for 2555 days in a row. Do you know how much of a commitment that is?

And do you know how MANLY Odysseus is? The man who was a soldier for ten years, killing for his family. The man who fought giants. The man with muscles so impressive the author had to describe his ‘boxers build’ and ‘rippling thighs’ constantly? The man who easily strung a bow with a 300 pound draw weight, then shot it perfectly? And then proceeded to easily slaughter 100+ grown men?

Never say men don’t cry. Be like Odysseus.