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Cloudy with a chance of bitch.

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Zeus really went,

“You wanna see a magic trick? ABRAKADABRA!” (Kills his entire fleet.)

I just imagined this is how it went in the Olympus

“DAAAAAD! THEY KILLED MY FAVORITE COW!!!”

“Not now Apollo, I’m choosing a new maiden to deflower tonight”

“But daaaad! Odysseus crew can’t get away wi-“

“OOOH IT WAS THAT ODY BOY?! WHY DIDNT YOU SAY IT SOONER?! HHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE HILARIOUS”

I don’t know if he can be stopped. Bro is just going to be cackling and giggling like a madman on Olympus-

I just imagined this is how it went in the Olympus

“DAAAAAD! THEY KILLED MY FAVORITE COW!!!”

“Not now Apollo, I’m choosing a new maiden to deflower tonight”

“But daaaad! Odysseus crew can’t get away wi-“

“OOOH IT WAS THAT ODY BOY?! WHY DIDNT YOU SAY IT SOONER?! HHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE HILARIOUS”

You want to knock out Zeus? Um…wait. Tell Hera that Zeus got with *another* woman. That’ll get her hyped to do it.

Or, the most plausible option-

Start a bitch fight between the gods. Make them have a bitch fight. Like, in my not so humble opinion, Thunder Bringer is the yasified version of No Longer You, so…why not have Zeus in the middle of a bitch fight?

Have them pull each others’ hair, call each other petty names and shit. You know, bitch fight stuff.

I just imagined this is how it went in the Olympus

“DAAAAAD! THEY KILLED MY FAVORITE COW!!!”

“Not now Apollo, I’m choosing a new maiden to deflower tonight”

“But daaaad! Odysseus crew can’t get away wi-“

“OOOH IT WAS THAT ODY BOY?! WHY DIDNT YOU SAY IT SOONER?! HHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE HILARIOUS”

*hehehe* I know, right?

I just imagined this is how it went in the Olympus

“DAAAAAD! THEY KILLED MY FAVORITE COW!!!”

“Not now Apollo, I’m choosing a new maiden to deflower tonight”

“But daaaad! Odysseus crew can’t get away wi-“

“OOOH IT WAS THAT ODY BOY?! WHY DIDNT YOU SAY IT SOONER?! HHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE HILARIOUS”

So i was thinking. We still don't know what Song 21 and 22 will be about in Epic. BUT if we go by the Odyssey and google the list of Odyssesus's adventures (bc i can't force my braind to remember the order) there is exactly one thing between Scylla (and Charybdis) and the Underworld and that's the sirens. So if you ask me here and now i'm pretty sure that Song 21 and 22 are the sirens.

(Obviously whatever happens i'm happy to listen to it i'm just very excited.)

If there's more official information about it or stuff like that sorry for wasting your time and thankies for coming to my Ted talk.

Called it!

So i was thinking. We still don't know what Song 21 and 22 will be about in Epic. BUT if we go by the Odyssey and google the list of Odyssesus's adventures (bc i can't force my braind to remember the order) there is exactly one thing between Scylla (and Charybdis) and the Underworld and that's the sirens. So if you ask me here and now i'm pretty sure that Song 21 and 22 are the sirens.

(Obviously whatever happens i'm happy to listen to it i'm just very excited.)

If there's more official information about it or stuff like that sorry for wasting your time and thankies for coming to my Ted talk.

I have to stop listening to Scylla for a moment to write this so please enjoy what comes out of my brain.

I waited for this moment since i was six and finally practiced reading enough to read my first book (important because it was a mythology book).

So we had a little Epic party yesterday. It was really difficult not to spoil anything since the new saga was already out but we somehow did it and i would like to make it everybody else's problem. So here are my toughts.

I'm pretty sure even my neighbours know by now that we got the sirens. I may have been a bit loud when i realized.

The part where Odysseus says "I'd be suffering trying to float the whole time" and as an aswer comes "I'd take the suffering from you". It sounds so loveing and stuff until you realize what is happening and i would like to say THEY ARE NOT LYING!!! They would really take the suffering away, just not in a cute way.

I have a whole ppt about sirens boob sizes and how they breath and stuff. So it makes my mithology nerd brain so happy that now we know that they have lungs (at least in Epic) because othervise they wouldn't drown.

I fell like the first "Captain" in Mutiny was in a very mocking tone (Yesssss pls i love it) and later when Eurylochus compares Ody (yes from now on i feel like we all have the premission to call him Ody, not like Eurylochus or the other crew members can stop us) to the gods like i feel he did when he become the Monster (even more yessss) and i think it's just so perfect.

I guess the "Enlighten me" is hereditary.

But my favourite part is that based on the trailer i thought that Scylla using "we" is about, you know, maybe her and her six heads or something. Wouldn't be the first time i see something similar. But the fact that it's her and Ody. Omg i'm screaming. I did not expect the song to turn out like this. I did not expect the part i waited for to be at the end of it. It just turned out in a very different way than i expected. And it's so much better this way.

Also they need the six torches (like specifically six) so Scylla can see who to eat right? Like a sacrifice.

Also also (i am not done, please sit back) i really really really like that Scylla ended up being this Fey/Fiend vibe creature and less mindeless monster. Like you can go trough her lair, there will be price, but se will take no more than that price. Please give me ideas for my Scylla cosplay because after this saga i NEEd to make one.

Sorry for the wall of text. Will happen again.

“Hear ye, hear ye! Local bastard cat-dad bard has come out with an update on his next poem!”

artistic interpretation of every post you have

What's gonna happen to this blog after Epic ends?

I’m going to keep it and keep posting! Epic isn’t going to disappear after the sagas stop releasing, and I won’t stop being a fan of the musical either!! The blog just might not have as many new updates on stuff, but I believe there is always more to discover, and take note of! Plus I believe this musical has a long future outside of the concept sagas, in terms of future adaptations, and much more!! (In short I’m here to stay!)

Are you by any chance neurodivergent?

If not, I disagree /j

Scylla Analysis: How Odysseus And Eurylochus Are More Similar (And Different) Than We Realized

“deep down you hide a reason for shame”

Eurylochus shameful that he’s the one who opened the bag while Odysseus was asleep. Odysseus hiding the fact he knew what would happen in Scylla’s lair.

“deep down you know that we are the same”

Eurylochus wanting to escape Circe’s island with Odysseus and leave the rest of the crew behind, letting them die by being eaten as pigs. Odysseus leading six men to their deaths by intentionally handing out six torches. Scylla has six heads

“leaving them feeling betrayed, breaking the bonds that you’ve made”

Eurylochus betraying Odysseus as a second in command (and friend) by openly doubting him and opening the bag when expressly told not. Odysseus breaking Eurylochus’s trust as a captain by leading his crew to the lair and sacrificing six men, six friends, one of them being Eurylochus (until another member of the crew pushes him out of the way and sacrifices themself)

“there is no price we won’t pay”

Odysseus pays the price of Eurylochus choosing to mutinize (and kill the cow) in an attempt to save himself and the crew (the latter although reckless and basically an unintentional death sentence being done so they all wouldn’t starve). Eurylochus (and the crew) pays the price of Odysseus choosing to save himself when Zeus arrives.

“we both know what it takes to survive”

Interestingly, during the mutiny Eurylochus and the crew chose not to kill Odysseus (at least not in the moment) and even bandaged his wounds that they inflicted while he was unconscious to prevent him from bleeding out. In that moment, they chose to show mercy. However, there is no mercy on Odysseus’s end when Zeus tells him to make a choice. There is only ruthlessness done out of desperation, as the only person Odysseus chooses to show mercy to is himself.

Both know exactly what it takes to survive, as Odysseus voice shakes with despair knowing what he’s about to do while Eurylochus, soundly sadly resigned, accepts his fate. There is a brother’s final stand coming to its end and both know it. And they know only one of them will make it out alive

Canon-

I just imagined this is how it went in the Olympus

“DAAAAAD! THEY KILLED MY FAVORITE COW!!!”

“Not now Apollo, I’m choosing a new maiden to deflower tonight”

“But daaaad! Odysseus crew can’t get away wi-“

“OOOH IT WAS THAT ODY BOY?! WHY DIDNT YOU SAY IT SOONER?! HHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE HILARIOUS”

Why did I cry to The Thunder Saga?

Well, there are about a million intricate reasons. Let’s graze the hardest hitters by walking through the saga.

Suffering

Penelope is well-played by the sirens. I knew they were the sirens, I think we all did, but we have the advantage of dramatic irony.

Also, as someone who was told that the sirens weren’t going to be in the saga (but… aren’t they literally perfect? Why wouldn’t they be in it?), I was gaping at my screen in unadulterated excitement and glee.

We as listeners don’t yet know that Odysseus isn’t afraid of the water. It’s never mentioned. So, at the time, my heart ached, if you know about Get In The Water, upcoming. Without spoilers… I think you know why I gasped, though it was futile.

Different Beast

It is, entirely, a reflection of the previous song. Also, it shows how ruthless Odysseus is becoming.

Not just with the slicing and dicing of the sirens’ tails. But the fact that he begins the song by shooting his dear wife, when at first he couldn’t even kill a stranger’s baby, knowing the risks both times.

Also, might I add that the vocals of the sirens are perfect? Aquatic, musical, and monstrous. Very, very inhuman.

Scylla

This is the one that hurts quiiiiite a lot. Besides all of the beautiful cacophonies of the first deaths of our beloved comrades.

I was led to think that, in the beginning and throughout the song, Scylla was singing to Eurylochus just out of sight. She was.

And yet, she wasn’t. At all.

She is deep down. Eurylochus has a secret deep down. And Odysseus knows that deep down, he is doing a bad thing. A bad thing.

But hey, at least Eurylochus feels remorse for his selfish action, right?

Mutiny

This entire song is a callback. This saga was all a callback, and it hurts a ton.

Going from the genuine pain and mortification in Eurylochus’s voice, to Odysseus’s silence, to the usurping and loss of trust, to the large switch in the music after Odysseus is temporarily debilitated, and then the sad, whiny, “Please don’t tell me you’re about to do what I think you’ll do…”

Also, loved Eurylochus calling Odysseus “Ody”, because that shows the depth of their closeness.

Thunder Bringer

And here.

Here is the song that made me cry.

The beginning of the song throws in the crude characterization of Zeus, the lustiness. I love that addition, that largely focused detail.

I froze mid-pace when Zeus told Odysseus to make a choice.

What hurt was the silence. We all knew what was coming.

The slightly distorted, almost underwater or ghastly vocals from Eurylochus struck a nerve, and then reminded me of a child. As if his life were finished, and they all knew it. Odysseus saw a boy, not a man, and knew how this story would finish. Because heroes never get happy endings.

And, to boot, the animation was their final attempt to grab him, to kill him, in desperation. And then—

What hurts the most is that they saw him make the choice. They knew what would happen. But they didn’t want to believe it.

They were never going to make it home.

Eurylochus: *agonizing sigh as he realizes how much Polites has missed* sINCE WE LEFT HOME WE'VE FACED-

*meanwhile, in the Underworld* Polites: Eurylochus, back so soon? And...there's the rest of your crew. And by the gods, what happened to you? Eurylochus, who is sick of thematically-significant reprises: >:(

***EPIC THE MUSICAL SPOILER ALERT***

Random theory based on a random observation about the Thunder Saga that's been picking at my brain. Specifically in Mutiny.

After Odysseus yells at Eurylochus for killing the cow (and, effectively, THEM), Eurylochus just...

"... Captain?"

Something about the way that line is delivered, to me it sounds like Eurylochus is almost.. asking what happened? If that makes sense. Like he wasn't aware of what he was doing until that point. He also goes straight back to calling Odysseus "Captain" like he always has.

This leads me to think 2 things:

1) he was on auto pilot almost. He was so stricken by grief that he effectively shut off his brain to deal with it all (relatable content).

2) he wasn't in control. Or at least not fully.

And I know the second one is a bit of a stretch, but the way I'm thinking about it isn't like he was being controlled by a person, but a force. The Greeks believed heavily in fate, which could be seen as a force. Fate took the wheel, and Eurylochus was made to kill the cow. Because that's how fate designed it.

Either way, I don't think Eurylochus really knew what he was doing. And if he did, his judgement was heavily clouded. I'm not saying what he didn't wasn't wrong, he definitely did a lot of things he shouldn't have. But that part specifically intrigues me. Especially with how cautious and scared his character had been before.

But again, it's just a theory. I'd love to hear other takes on it.

Whole second verse is finished! Time for some Penelope shots!

Absolutely dying over all this.

The way they're all inherently flawed. The way everyone is selfish. The way everyone's a hypocrite. The way everyone judges a killer whilst being a killer themselves. Actually dying oh my stars-

GUYS THE THUNDER SAGA OMG

OMG OMG

I LOVE SCYLLA AND HER LEGEND

SCYLLA IS AMAZING

ODYSSEUS??? MUTINY.??? I'M IN LOVE????

EURYLOCHUS????

The twerking Winion is our sacred animal and must be protected at all costs

Different Beast has been playing in my head constantly since the release day, it's addicting. I am so in love with this musical, and this saga specifically

Is anyone else just like, in love with the girlies of EPIC: The Musical? Just me?