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Everybody gangsta until the power of friendship becomes a thing and takes your trident

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Seriously, I have this vision of hundreds of ghost hands pushing the trident in Odysseus' hands to help him defeat Poseidon

Also, do you know how well this fits with my vision of Hades throughout Epic which I made a joke about earlier in the post????

Like:

Poseidon: you want to explain to me.... why, out of nowhere... six hundred souls have come to his aid...

Poseidon: SOULS YOU WERE TASKED WITH KEEPING HERE

Hades: *calmly hides a friendship band from Polites in a drawer*

Hades: it's not like they asked or something

Poseidon:

Hades:

Hades: besides, what was I supposed to do. say no?

Or

Hades: oh no, aren't these the consequences of your own actions? How could this happen?

Poseidon:

Poseidon: are you finished?

Hades: just a moment more

OR

Poseidon: we talked about letting three of them go to encourage him to give up

Hades:

Poseidon: not his whole army

Hades: you know, I thought they might resent him for the way he ended things with Helios' cattle

Hades, spreading his hands: I underestimated how much you can unite people with hatred against you

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"Look what you turned me into.." -

Yo the new saga was SICK. It really got me to do something more detailed.

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YOU….MONSTER

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somewhere behind the scenes were left the shenanigans of aeolus making hermes capture the storm (because after last time, poseidon made aeolus promise to not touch his storms)

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Basically the vengeance saga

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Why was Poseidon even by the Land of the Giants if he wanted to kill Ody? Like sir, he was basically home and he would've made it had it not been for Eury opening the wind bag.

I know the explanation is that Poseidon probably knew what would happen and where they would end up, but my personal headcanon is that bro got lost and ended up in the wrong part of the sea.

Thankfully, the crew wasn't much brighter so they fell right into Poseidon's hands.

Anyway, I'm writing a small crackfic that kinda touches on that idea and is overall set after Ruthlessness.

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Poseidon: You can't kill me

Odysseus: That sucks because you'll wish you were dead since I'm fucking insane

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I’m going to *remembers that I swore to never make suicide jokes* make you learn how ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

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Get In The Water

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Percy: Yeah so basically I threatened a whole army of teens so they wouldn’t touch my not-girlfriend-but-kinda when she took a stab for me.

Odysseus: That’s great!

Percy: And what did you do?

Odysseus: Kill an infant, blind a cyclops, manipulate a witch, kill sirens, sacrifice six men and then sacrifice my whole crew, turn down an imortal goddess for seven years, sail through a very dangerous storm and through a sea monster that tried to swallow me whole, stab your father multiple times and then kill all the suitors that tried to wed my wife.

Percy *amazed*: Holy Shit dude, are you John Wick?

Odysseus: Is that a monster?

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I have connected the dots

SPOILERS FOR THE VENGEANCE SAGA!!!

So, that last sequence of Six Hundred Strike sure is something, huh?It's probably my favourite moment in the Vengeance Saga, if not the whole concept album thus far. And I noticed something

The song ends with Odysseus effectively torturing Poseidon by stabbing him repeatedly with his own trident, right? Right.

Now, look back at The Thunder Saga for just a second. The siren tells Odysseus to sail passed Scylla because Poseidon is afraid of Scylla, and thus won't chase him through there. More specifically "The one way [Ody]'ll get home is sailing where [Poseidon]'s scared to roam // It's through the lair of Scylla"

Fast forward a couple songs, after Ody and Co. (-6) make it through the channel, what does Scylla say about Odysseus?

We are the same, you and I.

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Epic the Musical AU where post-vengeance-saga Poseidon becomes mortal because he got tortured so hard that he lost his godhood temporarily (I imagine it lasts til Ody dies). And then he ends up in Iythica, and Odysseus is entirely too done with this shit and doesn't want to be dealing with this. Poseidon doesn't want to be dealing with this either, frankly, and Penelope isn't exactly delighted by the situation, but none of them really have other options at the moment.

There's multiple myths where various gods (including Poseidon) lose divinity and live a moral life, so I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility, and also it would be REALLY FUNNY. Or angsty, if you're more into that - I can see some really sad drama and hurt/comfort from Odysseus having Poseidon even more at his mercy than ever before, and also from Poseidon being lowkey forced into having open arms.

This also could totally be ship or not, I don't really have a preference either way. On one hand, the drama works well without romance and Poseidon being forced to third wheel Ody and Penelope is hilarious, but on the other hand... god made mortal and the canonical torture and the reversal of power dynamics is REALLY HOT.

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Epic headcanan that since reputation and standing is so important to Poseidon, after losing to Ody, he goes around telling people that he’s no “ordinary mortal”.

Points he brings up about Ody to defend himself:

- Ody’s lifelong mentor is literally the goddes of War and Strategic Warfare

- Ody defeated him using the windbag which had HIS OWN power inside it

- Without his trident, Ody couldn’t have beaten him (glossing over 600 strike casually)

- Ody’s no “ordinary” mortal

- Ody spent 7 years in Ogigiya with a goddess who was imprisoned by the Olympians. She must have taught him tricks and trained him (nobody could see or tell what was going on in Ogigiya)

- He took it easy on Ody

(Nobody believes him)

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i hope you guys know i'm forever ill about get in the water and six hundred strike like im literally not normal about it

like literally poseidon uses "ruthlessness is mercy" as a coping mechanism he uses it to defend himself and as away to avoid getting hurt and it was USED AGAINST HIM all because he had too much hubris!!(JUST LIKE ODY!!)

like poseidon wasn't just getting revenge no that was obsession at that point do you hear me that was an OBSESSION

he could not handle that someone got away from him that someone SURVIVED his wrath

his ego was bruised and he COULDN'T HANDLE THAT

DO YOU HEAR ME. HEAR MY CRIES.

and in the end his hubris ending up getting him TORTURED!!

do you think he was terrified? scared out of his mind upon realizing a mortal could hurt him just like that? that he wasn't as powerful as he thought? that he wasn't in control???

personally i think after that he became even more of a control freak because he was so TERRIFIED of getting hurt like that again

DO WE HEAR MY FUCKING CRIES

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She has created the greatest warrior

Alternatively:

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horse..

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Is water binding too much?

There will be one more sketch about this moment and I'll calm down (maybe)