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Can't wait to join!

Here's my prompt list for this MerMay. My followers voted I do @wendylianmartin's Castle Swimmer this year, I'm gonna be doing a character (or two) a day. Please feel free to join! I tried to cover all of the named*, speaking, characters, in order of appearance (roughly) , but you can always adapt the list to your preference. Good luck guys!

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Ody was late to get his flat coloring done cause he got lost!

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My Fandoms

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when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

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Pages 1 and 2 of Odyssefish

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Odysseus is smart, y'all

One thing I feel like EPIC fans don't realise nearly enough is how terrifying of an enemy Odysseus actually is

He's so smart, intelligent and cunning, always a mile ahead from everyone else

Like... even if he gets defeated, he always, ALWAYS manages to get the upperhand and win against his enemies. He survived Zeus!!!!!!

A collection of examples of his intelligence and of his warrior abilities:

- Military strategy (creation of the wooden horse and sack of Troy as illustrated in The Horse and The Infant, defeating Polyphemus in Survive and Remember Them)

- Maritime knowledge (knowing to follow birds to land in Full Speed Ahead, knowing about Scylla when the siren gives him instruction in Suffering, ability to sail in Dangerous and Charybdis)

- Acting and lying (Warrior of the Mind in which he slyly deceived Athena into revealing herself, Suffering in which he played along and tricked the siren into revealing maritime routes. And let's be honest he lies all the time lol, he is cunning and a liar and a trickster and we love him for it)

- Fighting prowess (beating 107 suitors in Odysseus, beating Poseidon in Six Hundred Strikes) and strength coupled with skill (The Challenge and Hold Them Down both mention the bow that is impossible to string and the difficulty of shooting through twelve axes, meaning that at the very least Odysseus is a master archer. Even better than that we only see him using a bow in Odysseus!)

- Analytical and quick thinking (deducing that something is wrong with the lotus in Open Arms, noticing that there has to be reason the lotus eaters are not eating from the cave in Polyphemus)

- Adaptability (using the holy moly in Wouldn't You Like and Done For, using the wind bag in Ruthlessness and Get In The Water)

- Premeditated strategies (he drugged the wine in advance in Polyphemus, made the crew use beeswax in their ears before Suffering and Different Beast, made the crew use 6 torches in Scylla)

- Excellent memory (remembering the layout of a palace he built more than twenty years ago in Odysseus, recognising the cattle as Helios' friends in Mutiny)

And we know he's being this from a very young age as well! (He defeated the boar in Warrior of the Mind)

Of course his talents are not just witnessed by us but also mentioned by other characters (Telemachus mentions Odysseus' past prowess in Legendary, Athena argues to Ares in God Games that Odysseus will deliver on a bloodshed, the suitors become quickly more and more afraid of him in Odysseus. I would also argue that his adaptability is sung by Tiresias is No Longer You, since we now know that he does get to make it home alive, even if he is the only one. It has been prophecised.)

His worst enemy has always been his pride and hubris however, never a lack of intelligence (Remember Them, Mutiny) and his extremely egotistical point of view (Scylla). Which is why it's so fascinating that this ends up being what saves him (Thunder Bringer). I would argue, him revealing his full name to Polyphemus is not him bring stupid: it's him being so confident and full of pride, so absorbed in his own ego that he believes himself more wise than Athena (mercy is a skill more of us should use). Because he is objectively extremely intelligent and talented, he has a tendency to overestimate his abilities (and why wouldn't he, when it ends up working so well most of the time?) and to commit the sin of hubris: thinking he knows better than divine beings. This is why it's also very interesting to me that Circe ends up almost beating him by using emotions (There Are Other Ways); and why it's even more interesting to see that for once, Odysseus won by being honest and not using any tricks. No intelligence or supernatural power is required to love your wife!

It is, after all, pretty fucking difficult for a mortal to win against a god without divine help (Love In Paradise....... Not Sorry For Loving You........ Thank you so much Hermes........)

To quote Athena, "My life has one mission: create the greatest warrior." Well........... I would say Odysseus certainly comes close to it. Especially now that he has learnt to be ruthless (Monster).

And it is why it is such a natural conclusion to see Odysseus become the final boss in Odysseus. He has beaten all his enemies now, and the only monster left standing is himself.

How is this new monster defeated? By using his own tricks :) (Penelope tricks him by asking him to move their wedding bed in Would You Fall In Love With Me Again)

I don't know I just really love how well he is depicted as an intelligent character. Because it's not just that the narrative tells us that he is a genius, it is also shown in very discrete manners and not commented on, which is a breather! (Just compare it to BBC Sherlock or something lol)

So yeah. Thank you Jay for this fantastic take on the myth!

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something about Dazai being comfortable enough around Chuuya to be vulnerable and let him see his genuine reactions (especially his genuine shock) as he processes out loud is SO SO IMPORTANT TO ME

plus Chuuya not being shocked to see the genius at work tells us this isn’t the first time he’s seen Dazai actively figuring things out in real time…

the way Chuuya knows Dazai's nervous habits— noticing that Dazai is worried, and subtly checking on him. the way Dazai drops his facade in favor of putting all of his focus into the mental game at hand is such an obvious sign of trust & closeness for someone like Dazai, whose facade is his main form of defense

how they interact with each other in the downtimes when there’s nobody watching…

all i can think is, look how far they’ve come since they were 16 when Dazai couldn’t trust anyone with his plans. how even now, Dazai is always putting up his “all according to plan” front, even with the agency. how Chuuya is the one person we’ve seen him truly drop the mask around, and Chuuya doesn’t bat an eye. even their banter is ongoing, but subdued.

soukoku and their subtle displays of intimacy will be the death of me 💔

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Good to know Chuuya is Dazai's personal rubber duck

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Poseidon and his horses :]

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Very very very experimental doodle of a possible Poseidon design for those in my ask box requesting to see my take wahaha

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been messing about in photoshop again and my current wallpaper looks sew gud. proud of myself!!! typography sucks but i've always been shit at that sigh

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happy au i don't know her

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sometimes you just have to elbow drop your sister

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You dip out, and the whole world flips over...

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I found a guide for a no tape, easy to unwrap wrapping tutorial to make Christmas a little more accessible, wish I just found it sooner

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Part 1 of my Bree’s scars Backstory comics I’ve been having fun making >> See my page for part 2!