#;;paradise lost || Calypso

[odysseus-crewmate-number38]

IT JUST ENDED OH MY GOD I CANT PROCESS ANYTHING

I WAS SCREENSHOTTING RAPIDLY OHHH

the theories on apollos level were crazy we thought he’d talk about troy or the cows but he just went “i knoww the sirens tried killing his men butttt, i really liked their singy songys :(“ ALSO HIM HAVING DARK HAIR EYYY

i LOVEE @anniflamma’s animatic for hera the disco vibes were SHFHBSB

all of the animators were so good 😭😭😭

ZEUS’S BEAST MODE?! ATHENA GETTING STRUCK?! WHAT THE TOA?! THAT FINAL SHOT!?.?););!

IM GOING INSNABR BFF

[quilllightly]

FUN FACT: Driving while listening to the wisdom saga for the first time is a VERY bad idea. Especially if your trying not to cry during the end of love in paradise.

[anotherlongstoryshort]

Things about the Wisdom Saga that have plagued me all damn day

Legendary

Whether intentional or not, Miguel's Telemachus really sounds like a younger version of Jorge's Odysseus. And that hurts.

"If I fight those monsters, is it you I'll find?" The layers. Could he go out and hunt for his father? Could he find his 'legendary' strength within himself? Or will Odysseus be the 'monster' he finds?

"Somebody help me, come and give me the strength" And his call is answered T_T

20 years.

Antinous fully interrupts this bop. Rude.

Ayron sounds legitimately scary and Telemachus taking a stand is so O.O

Little Wolf

I wanna fight this guy. Love that Athena agrees. (The beat of the song and sharp bursts of vocals really emulate blows.)

The quaver on "I don't know how".

Athena is immediately charmed by Telemachus' enthusiasm. She sounds so fond.

The fact she sees heart in him as an advantage when it was Odysseus choosing heart over mind that drove them apart. Guh.

Did she tell him to bite Antinous? XD

"Oh, maybe I pushed you a bit too hard." The change in her perspective is already so apparent - she wouldn't have admitted a mistake or miscalculation to Odysseus.

We'll Be Fine

"I had a friend before..." A FRIEND? FRIEND?!?!

An admission that she didn't fully appreciate what Odysseus was going through, that she feels guilty for having "missed it all".

It's unclear to begin with if she's come to Telemachus for Odysseus, or to try and replace him. Both are equally heart-breaking.

"I don't know who your friend is, I don't know what he's like" UNKNOWINGLY ECHOING HIS OWN THOUGHTS IN 'LEGENDARY'. NO IT'S FINE I'M FINE.

"The best day of my life because I got in a fight and I didn't die! :D" Telemachus, child, please.

"We'll be fine" using the same run as "this is my goodbye" T_T

Him immediately offering up friendship to Athena, like Odysseus once did, must hit her so hard. "You're a good kid." Yes he is - because he's more like his dad than he knows.

Love in Paradise

"Old friend..." FRRRRRIIIIEEEENNNNNDDDDD!!!!!

10 years.

The memory fragments sounding so fraught and chaotic together, hitting harder because they're hitting Athena all at once. She missed a lot.

"She's my wife." "Anyways..." Calypso, girl, please.

Love that they're singing completely different melodies through the first half of this song for two reasons: because Odysseus is revisiting previous motifs, once more trying to hold onto the man he was, and also because it shows Calypso is not willing to compromise on what she wants.

"Last I checked goddesses can't die." We'll come back to this later.

Then Odysseus realises he is truly trapped and he sings along to Calypso's melody in muted horror.

POLITIES OUT HERE STILL HAUNTING THE NARRATIVE.

Just the words "open arms" are enough to confront Odysseus (again) with all he's lost. All he hears are screams.

And the one he screams out for is Athena.

"He needs my help." NO KIDDING GO GET YOUR BOY.

God Games

"Father, God, King..." There's a lot to unpack in that fun family dynamic.

"To untie apprehensions that were placed on that Greek?" Zeus is like, nobody likes that guy, why do you care?

The gods being called out like X Factor finalists is everything.

So there's a great contrast against the previous song - unlike Calypso, Athena is matching each of her singing partners with their tone and beat as she convinces them. She isn't winning by 'imposing her will', she's meeting them where they are.

Rational arguments work until Aphrodite, where Athena says "please" for the first time. She softens to appeal to Aphrodite, which is why Ares has to step in.

The way she says his name XD

Ares' lines sound like as much of a fighting chant as 'Little Wolf' did, which makes it all the better that the mention of Telemachus is what gets her to 'fight back'.

"His son's my friend!" YES HE IS. And Athena of all people declaring "a broken heart can mend" is fascinating. Can't help but wonder if she's talking about herself coming around to forgiving Odysseus.

"Never once has he cheated on his wife." Handwaving the source material is worth it for this line ALONE.

Zeus is so pressed by everyone openly knowing he cheats on Hera. Stop doing it then my dude.

Ares sounding genuinely concerned for Athena is doing things to me. Goddesses can't die, huh?

Her time motif flitting in and out like a weak heartbeat.

The soft piano of 'Warrior of the Mind', touching on a whisper of 'Legendary', then rising to a triumphant crescendo as Athena regains herself. I will be forever haunted by visions of Odysseus and Telemachus helping her to her feet.

And then, finally, she faces her own father and begs. Because Odysseus and Telemachus deserve a chance to be father and child.

The parallel, by the way, of Athena entering this saga to help an outnumbered Telemachus, and now closing it with him/Odysseus unknowingly helping her win her own battle too. JORGE HOW DARE YOU T_T

[thegremlininmyhead]

So the snippets that Athena hears/sees during the time dive are very specific to where she finds Odysessus after all their time apart

Aeolus' "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" and then Eurylochus leads a mutiny AND he is held captive by Calypso

Poseidon's "ruthlessness is mercy" and then Odysessus finally acts with that ruthlessness as a mercy on himself

Circe's "one wrong move and you're done for" and then Odysessus watches his crew make a fatal mistake by slaughtering the cow

Tiresias' "song of past romance" and then Odysessus is confronted with a siren taking Penelope's form

Scylla's "drown in your sorrows and fears" and then Odysessus finds himself on the edge of a cliff

These clips were chosen so specifically to make Love in Paradise even more devastating because they just reminding how much Ody has been through and how much he's lost 💔

[babushka-of-chaossss]

Something my sister pointed out to me

ok so in love in paradise while Ody is trying to jump off the cliff Calypso says something, she says...

"Stay in my open arms"

and then Polities starts singing Open Arms like in the Underworld Saga, then Anticlea, and then Eurylocus which made me cry. But the whole point was that Calypso said something that reminded Ody of everyone he lost...that made me cry today.

[lily-s-world]

I was listening to the Wisdom Saga for the millionth time like a regular fan, and I noticed something that, while it is pretty obvious now, I didn't catch it the first time.

In The Underworld song and Saga of the same name, the first chorus that Odysseus sings is the following:

They are literally traveling in the Underworld, which we can say is the Greek representation of what we commonly know as Hell. And Odysseus is tormented by the screams of his lost comrades.

Now, in Love in Paradise, Odysseus repeats a part of this chorus to himself:

While he is no longer physically in the Underworld, his mind is so tormented that we could say that he is going through Hell on his own. Odysseus tried to greet the world with mercy, and it cost him over 500 of his men. Then, he tried to become a monster, and that made him lose the rest of his crew and is now stuck in an island with no options to get out. This is the worst-case scenario. This is his personal hell. He feels as if he is traveling the Underworld again, only that this time it won't end because he can't physically move from where he is.

Also, when Calypso finds Odysseus on the ledge, she isn't the playful goddess we saw at the beginning of the song, and she doesn't ask him what he is doing there. Calypso is legit worried about what Odysseus could do, and she is trying to calm him down and convince him to go back to her:

This isn't the reaction of someone who is seeing that type of behavior for the first time. The calming tone, the assurance that everything is better because he is alive... Calypso has done this before with him. They had been in this situation before, probably more than once. Which means that Odysseus has been stuck in hell for months, probably years now. With only Calypso as his anchor.

If Odysseus has been going to that ledge for a time now, it is possible that the prayers to Athena started at some point and not when Athena heard him for the first time. From Odysseus point of view, his prayers had always been unanswered.

That scream for Athena at the end of the song, which was heartbreaking, by the way, for Odysseus is just another plead without response. He doesn't know what Athena is doing for him, what Athena is sacrificing for him... and he probably won't know it until he gets out of the island. Until he can get out of his personal hell.

[decapitatedsnake]

My little (to no) context reaction to the wisdom saga 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

(I couldn't stay up to watch the live so I'm just listening to the music = no animatics)

[30th of august 14:58]

Legendary

. I mean I've already heard legendary but I'm excited

. Gorgeous music, I feel transported into like ancient greece

. This sounds amazing

. The guy who voices Telemachus (MICO?) is adorable

. I don't like the riffs but he sounds good

. Telemachus deserves the world

. "L-l-l-l egendary"

. 108??!

. Isn't he like 13 here? (anywhere from 12-15 i feel like)

. I don't think we got a snippet of the ending

. MAN OF THE HOUSE

. AHHHA

. 20 YEARS?? WHAT

. I can't tell if they said 12 or 20

."BOY" Lowkey scared me

. EXCUSE YOU SIR TRAMP?? WHO DOES HE THINK-

. Antinous didn't come to play DAYUM

. This is insane

. "Whatcha gonna do about it champ?" Jorge was totally right Ayron is such a good Antinous

. Awwww he can't do anything :<

. Wait?

Little wolf

. GET HIM TELEY

. I love Antinous's voice

. I really loved the snippets for this one

. "I'll teach you all the lessons your daddy never could" it's on sight actually

. And little wolf is just so ughh I wanna punch him

. ATHENA

. FIGHT BACK

. BAHAHAHA UPPERCUT?

. QUICK THOUGHT

. And he👏is👏a 👏bully👏

. SHOW HIM

. ATHENA IS SO COOL

. OMG OMG

. Her voice is stunning

. The animatics are gonna go so hard

. Awww

. Oh he lost??

. Telemachus:((

. I mean yeah why did she come to your aid?

We'll be fine

. We only got Teleys bit so I'm excited

. Oo start with Athena

. FRIEND??

. Don't make me cry

. "He was a lot like you" gee I wonder why

. GREW APART :((

. HIS LIGHT!!

. GLORIOUS VOICE

. WAITT THEY CHANGED IT

. "Or if hes worth the hype but" > " I don't know what he's like"

. Fair enough

. And they changed "Cuz I got in a fight, sailed to an island when I've never left home shores"

. Okay it's been less than 5 minutes please refrain on the whole "friend" thing rn lol

. God telemachus voice (I can't shut up they're such good singers"

. DUET!!!!

. YOU WILL BE FINE

. Kid? Is he twenty or 12 I can't tell

Love in paradise

. FUCK YES

. WAIT THE INTRO?

. THEY WERE AT SEA FOR 10 YEARS, damn

. THE MUSIC SOARING, IT'S SO COOL, ouch

. CALYPSO MY LOVE (only the epic version though) [Ik it's up to interpretation but for me she doesn't sa him in this version]

. She's my wife 🙂 anyway 🤨

. HELL NO

. Oh shit love in paradise is athena watching, not Odysseus's experience

. Like this is when they first met and Calypso and Odysseus have been together for 7 years

. 7 YEARS

. YEAH I SAID THAT, before the song did

. ODYSSEUS!!

. WHAT > THE LEDGE

. ODYSSEUS 😭😭😭😭

. Wtf I am not emotionally stable enough for this

. Open..... arms.. BRO

. HIS MUM, POLITES AND EURY AND PENELOPE AND ATHENA??? BROO 😢

. YEAH I THINK HE DOES NEED HELP UGH

God games

. Ooo very grand

. Athena get him PLEASE

. She's about that business

. YES GOD GAMES INTRO OMGG

. WAIT WERE GONNA HEAR APOLLO AND HEAPHESTUS I'M SO EXCITED

. THE LITTLE MUSIC CHANEGS ARE SO GOOD

. ZEUS VOICE IS SO AMASZNIGN

. "and me" 😎

. That is not how I thought Apollo would sound

. He's batting for the sirens?? Um Ig that makes sense

. Oh Heaphestus I totally thought that aphrodite was next

. Well she's level 3 anyway

. BRO HIS DAD VOICES HEAPHESTUS I LOVE THAT

. Wait Apollo and Heaphestus are very reasonable, good for them

. NOW THE ONE WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR (excluding Hera)

. OMG IT'S THE SNIPPET THAT'S THE FINAL

. Athena's voice is new?

. Hmm she rerecorded but they didn't

. DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO KILL HER

. Don't fuck with Telemachus in front of Athena

. "Ughh release him"

. HERA

. OH FUCK SHE'S PERFECT CMON

. RELEASE HIM

. ZEUS YOU DICKHEAD SHE'S THE GODESS OF WISDOM LITERALLY ONLY HER COULD BEAT YOUR GAME

. WHAT WHAT

. NO

. WHAT???

. WHAT'S going on

. The music is telling me she like survived whatever his ambush was

. Zeus....

.THATS THE END WHATT

[sarnai4]

Mount Olympus Urges

Okay, I'm gonna need Greek gods and goddess to stop raping or trying rape everyone they see. Of course, Zeus and Poseidon are famous examples of this (seriously, the latter is the god of horses for a horrible reason), but I always thought Calypso was an underrated culprit too. Major kudos to The Odyssey for existing centuries ago and somehow still having such a progressive message about anyone being capable of being a victim. Just like with Zeus and Poseidon, you have an immortal, powerful being abusing that and using it to force themselves onto those weaker than they are. It's heartbreaking because you know there's really nothing the mortals can do. What can someone do to hide from Zeus's lust? Is there any hope of escaping Poseidon's desire? How could Odysseus escape from Calypso? Jorge (no shock here) did another amazing job, especially with this.

"Love In Paradise" was something I was extra looking forward to because of this. It's such a different tone from the regular songs. Normally, we're sad over lost ones or hopeful for a bright future or depressed because that future looks dim. Not here. Now, the tone is just the fear and despair of learning that you're in a hopeless situation where a sadistic person has full control over you. It's honestly terrifying and crushing to hear Odysseus singing at the end of it. He sounds so destroyed. Think about it. This is the same man who would do ANYTHING to survive and get back to his wife and son. Now, he's so destroyed by the abuse he's suffering at a goddess's hands that he's ready to end his own life just to end that too in the process. My heart hurts and I sort of blame Jorge, but I know I'd have done the same in his place, so I mostly just commend him and the crew for making an amazing musical that I love.

[diiambee]

So like. Love in paradise!! Rambling and me dissecting the lyrics ahead! Prepare for a long post lol

Going to ramble more about the ending because god. It's Calypso's wording in particular that gets me.

It's no secret that the entire time she's been singing in Love in Paradise she was very insistent of sellung her Island to Odysseus, down right ignoring him when he says he has a wife and insisting even with his continued refusal—

For reference I won't mention on the matter of her SA of Odysseus due to never reading the odyssey on full myself, and i feel thar based off past songs and how Jay seems to plan to take this she'd be more a sympathetic villain than an outright evil one.

— Going back to my main point, people habe already pointed out her use of calling back to earlier character's phrases as if she's attempting to make herself more comforting for Odysseus, the use of open arms for polites, in your heart for hisother, and perhaps even the use of Ody for eurycholus.. but I want to ramble more on her phrasing for the earlier lyrics as Odysseus sings his heart out in agony.

Whether or not this was intentional— I can't help but be so scandalized (/pos) at how cleverly Jay seems to write a toxic conversations between the two. Perhaps it's more one-sided, as it seems neither of the parties are even listening to one another!

I especially want to highlight how Calypso deflects or downplay all of Odysseus' pleas here. Even if arguably you could say she cared for him and loved him, that's why she's begging him not to hurt himself— her love is so obviously not genuine, its superficial. She loves what he can give her, not who he is.

It's evident with how surface level her words of comfort are. He's screaming about agony, about all of those he's lost and how much he wants to just end it all but all her response to it are either shallow or with selfish (whether she realizes it or not, they're still selfish)

"It will be fine dear, come back inside dear, love of my life come back to paradise—" isn't really bad, its definitely comfort and a show that she cares, but it's the lyrics after that definitely highlight just how superficial her love is for odysseus, how it's not right.

"I know your life's been hard—" only time shes acknowled his troubles (in this song). "I'll stay inside your heart." Following it up with a call back to his mother.

"I love you, my dear.

I love our time here,

Life would be so much worse if you had died."

It's these lyrics in particular that truly cements, for me, how dark love in paradise really is even with a song with an upbeat middle. Jorge's a freaking genius being able to portray the sense of something is wrong even when the music tries to tell you otherwise— similar to how Calypso tries, and tries again to convince Odysseus to stay in paradise after everything he's been through, but Ody refusing because he knows this isn't the place for him.

She doesn't listen to him as he begs, and begs. She continues to speak, to try to comfort him with surface level comfort that truly doesn't help him or his state at all.. and it's with these lyrics you can really see her comfort with selfish intentions (note: I say selfishness not in a way to demean her, just to say that her words of comfort definitely come from a place of where she isn't thinking of Odysseus. She may or may not realize it, but it's still what I've observed regardless).

Yes. She truly did wish to ensure Odysseus wouldn't hurt himself, but take note of the reasons and what she says when she tries to do so— She only mentions herself, in which I mean she paints it as she's the only person Odysseus can rely on right now. She's the only person for him now. And yes.. that is quite literally true, it's just odd to me as it's as if she didn't truly understand odysseus within those 7 years. Like he hadn't with her, if you may.

Finishing this off with my belief again, I don't hate Calypso, but I don't like her either. She's a good antagonist and a good test of someone's (mine) media literacy LMFAO.. and again. This isn't me saying she didn't care at all or loved Odysseus within those 7 years, just that her love wasn't right. It never was and I doubt it was ever painted to BE right.

[matchabirb]

Thinking about EPIC the Musical Odysseus... [spoilers to wisdom saga, mentions of ptsd, trauma, etc]

like okay we all know about how Ody had TONS of ptsd throughout the musical (and the Odyssey itself), like how he spiraled in Love in Paradise because Calypso's words reminded him of Eurylochus, Polites, and Anticlea.

Do you think like, about after what happened in Polyphemus, or maybe it was during Ruthlessness, the word "captain" may have become sort of a trigger word too? Like, the sheer amount of times the crewmates have called out that "Captain! Captain! Captain!" right before or while they're dying should definitely be traumatizing in its own right, yeah?

(I rant a bit more abt this utc)

And then ig it sort of all crashed down during The Underworld because the souls of the crewmates were just screaming for him, "Captain! Captain! Captain!" And ever since that song, maybe Ody's fight/flight response gets activated with just that word. Like, maybe before, it simply activated a sense of duty, since it reminds him of his responsibility over so many people. But then all the death and suffering that clung onto that word just associated it with something wrong going on.

And then during Mutiny, when Eurylochus says "Look me in the eyes and tell me, captain," I can't help but imagine Ody flinching and getting a small spiral in that moment. Because it's always captain, captain, captain; he has to be the one they call out to when times are tough, when times are terrible, because he's their captain. And the weight of all those lives lost. Around 564 people calling out to him, crying out to their captain for help, and he couldn't help them. No matter what he tried to do, he couldn't help them. He couldn't help those men who relied on him, who turned to him first.

And then later on, after Eury kills Helios's cattle, the first thing he says when he realizes just what he did was call, "Captain?" Because he needs their captain, he needs Odysseus. Like, there's no blame to any of the other crew members for calling Ody 'captain' cuz that's natural for them; it's a sign that they still trust him despite everything that's happened previously. But does Odysseus still even trust himself to lead them?

heh i might write a oneshot or drabble about this the thought is rotting in my brain too much

[xxtani15]

THE WISDOM SAGA SPOILERS

Needed to specify, because this one is kinda more specific.

Ok, a lot of people already mentioned how insensitive Calypso was when trying to get Odysseus off of that cliff. But can we mention how egotistical she was, too? I mean...

It will be fine, dear

Come back inside, dear

Love of my life, come back to paradise

I know your life's been hard

I'll stay inside your heart

I love you my dear

I love our time here

Life would be so much worse

If you had died

Please stay from away from harm

Stay in my open arms

She not only reminds him of all the friends and family he lost, which, admittedly, might have been just out of ignorance.

But look at how many times she repeats the word I.

She is not reminding Odysseus life is worth living, nor is she actually addressing his problems. What she IS telling him is that she, SHE loves the life they have, a life Odysseus had been forced into very much unwilling, and does not want to lose it.

The problem is not that, you know, Odysseus is about to throw himself off of a cliff because he is completely broken, to her, but that he is going to leave her.

Who cares if he is in his own personal version of Hell, as long as she can keep him? (using hell because Hades has not nearly enough of a bad connotation)

[keefessketchbook]

WISDOM SAGA THOUGHTS 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Guys, this saga had me in shambles. I had to wait til the morning of the 30th to listen so listening to it before breakfast WRECKED me.

Legendary 🐕

The instrumentals go so hard like it's so chill

In the first verse, Telemachus reminds me so much of Polites. like bring the world so light? open arms who?

the pre chorus has some of my favorite lyrics jay has ever written. like 'Cause I'm stuck with your stories/But no clue who you are/And no idea if you're dead or just too far/Somebody tell me, come and give me a sign/If I fight those monsters, is it you I'll find?

ALSO THIS SONG HAVING THE MELODY FROM FULL SPEED AHEAD THE "polites gear up, you and i'll go ahead" PART

the chorus i love because it references all the monsters Ody has had to fight

The second verse is so like real. like Telemachus is just singing his heart out about his problems

The suitors sound so much like the sailors, which hurts my heart. like these are the voices of the men that were friends with ody. now they are tryin to get his wife

Telemachus' last line is sending me like "If I fight this monster/Is it you I'll find?" like bro you find his old bestie, badass senorita

Little wolf 🐺

So this song sounds really good musically. I can see the evil sutiors from the "dark" and "evil" sounds jay uses

The chorus/ what the suitors are chanting is really cool

Athena coming to his rescue has my whole heart like its so cute

Telemachus is just a little baby like he's my little boy

love Love LOVE how athena turned the suitors chant into her own like she's in his corner rooting for him

Also Teagan's riff is so prettyyyyy

We'll be fine 👍

This is my favorite song in this saga. I just wish it was longerrr

Like Athena literally describing Ody and comparing him to Telemachus is just so sweet

Also the lyrics call back to my goodbye because ody said "What's a title that a goddess could lend/ If I'll never sleep at night?" and in this song Athena says "Maybe, if I helped you reach your goal/Life could be that bright/I could sleep at night"

Telemachus is just so gentle with Athena, I think that is what she needs because i guess she thought Telemachus would hate her because of what she did to his dad but Telemachus just has so much Polites energy like bro is precious

THIS LINE SPECIFICALLY "I don't think he'll mind/If not his friend, then mine" 😭😭😭😭😭

Both of their voices blend so well together like its so cute

"You're a good kid" AHHHHHHHHHH

Love in Paradise 🏝

Athena calling him old friend has my heart

The callbacks to the other songs is just amazing. they blend so well together, i kinda want to make it my ringtone

Calypso's beat is so good like its so beachy and calm

the "did you know you talk in your sleep?" line reminds me of the scene from PJO from the 4th book when Percy wakes up on Calypso's island

the silence after "she's my wife" is soooo funny to me

Calypso's verse is so good like the notes and beat are so pretty

the goddess can't die line beat is soo good like her laugh is so pretty

THE TIME JUMP !!!!!!

Ody calling back to the underworld lyrics is amazing to me

THE STAY IN MY OPEN ARMS LINE HAS ME DEAD LIKE DON'T DISRESPECT MY POLITES POOKIE

I literally was thinking last night, 'if i hear polites in the wisdom saga, i will be losing my shit' can confirm, have lost my shit

Polites, Eury, and Ody's mom's voices all blend together so well like OMG it hurts

and Ody calling out for Athena is so cute like for once he's admitting he needs help

So, this saga is officially my favorite. I'll post god games soon. That one has a lot more to unpack. I love this community sm. Kinda sad that we didn't get to hear any Penelope tho.

Stay weird, guys

[beurkivol]

JORGE CANT HURT US MORE ISNT ? [WISDOM SAGA EDITION | SPOILERS]

at the end of the thunder saga I was crying my eyes out. But hey, I said to myself, as an unquestioning optimist. Now that all the crew are dead, no one's going to die, so no more emotional damage, it's DONE, and he can't do the pancake thing again, Jay! Ahhhh. I was optimistic and naive. I'd forgotten that Mr Jay was as crazy as I was. Or worse. So here we go, rewinding the traumas!

Legendary :

legendary spared us quite a bit at the beginning, at least all the sweet stuff with Telemachus playing Disney princesses. Only argos got me, but then argos is ‘only’ in the animatics. well, I'm going to count the animatics because I was at the livestream.

And then antinous. It's not so much the trauma as the distress of telemachus that was touching. And I jumped up when I heard antinous' words. I was expecting threats, vulgarity, in short, for him to be hurtful, but I wasn't expecting that.

little wolf

Little Wolf was also quite calm. What I mean by that is that the trio of songs shared by Athena and Telemachus can be touching, that Antinous is worrying, the songs aren't bathed in the same dark, worrying and pessimistic atmosphere as those in Thunder Saga. Athena brings light and hope to Telemachus and you think ‘that's it, a goddess against all this rubbish, it'll be over in no time’. Even if telemachus takes a beating against antinous, he's got an impressive level up and with just a little more help from athena he'll be able to beat everyone.

We'il be fine

when we'il be fine, i screamed, because ATHENA CHARACTER ARC. Because she calls odysseus her friend, she calls telemachus good kid, because you feel the chemistry between the two and it's incredible. you feel all the hope in this song, and telemachus is definitely the reincarnation of polites. And the reference to your light is sublime.

Love in paradise

the little recap at the beginning of love in paradise is nice, especially in animatic, I was riveted. I have to admit that for Love in Paradise I was really waiting for a slightly comic song where Calypso acts like a 2 year old fangirl. I totally underestimated Jay. Already. 1. the music grabbed me right in the heart. And…. sorry but the depressive part of the song? ‘ody, get away from the lenge’. I thought polites couldn't fool me any more. LOST. JUST LET ME CLOSE MY EYES, MY OPENS ARMS. odysseus's howl at the end broke my heart. You could really feel his despair. I couldn't even see ‘im a monster now’ (not the raw raw raw version the edgy version), I just saw a depressed, borderline suicidal guy. heartbreaking.

God games

god games. i was expecting a punchy, catchy, song. A great song. But i was not expecting the end. (i do a little post about, and 2 other about athena)

in other words, ZEUS STAGGERING HIS OWN DAUGHTER, HIS FAVORITE DAUGHTER. AND HER, WALKING IN THE LIGHTNING, MOTIVED BY A VISION OF THE FAMILY SHE IS FIGHTING FOR, FALLING ON THE FLOOR IN HER OWN BLOOD AND BEGGING HIS FATHER (WHO TRIED TO KILL HER) TO LET GO HIS FRIEND AND PASSED OUT OR DYING WE DONT KNOW.

do i really need to said more ? NO.

but im going to analyse all that more i swear...

Jorge, im watching you. If athena dies, im going to do something bad.

[dkmbookworm]

Seeing the man that Odysseus becomes in the thunder saga for me really cements the importance of his arc with calypso coming up. While like a lot of people I latched onto the Eurylochus hate train. But seeing some further analysis on it there’s a lot of points to be made that make you understand his actions and why Odysseus’s decision is such a betrayal to him. He sacrificed his crew and kept them completely in the dark, unable to make choices on their own fates. You have the element that these men have been unable to eat for quite a while and the hunger is driving them to madness and stoking their anger and resentment. They are tired of their days at sea and they have lost hope of seeing their families again.

The actions Odysseus takes to see his wife make it so he doesn’t deserve to see her after what he’s done. The sacrifices he took, the monster he’s become. It is a punishment for him to be trapped on calypso’s island, to be made immortal for as long as he’s on it. Left to ponder his own faults and mistakes and imagining the lapse in time between him, Penelope and Telemachus. Looking out at the water and how Poseidon awaits for him to enter. To have calypso nearby waiting for him to give into her affections and forget his family, tempting him with a paradise he does not desire, a gilded cage for the both of them

[midnight-drip]

okay so I was trying to write a little drabble about love in paradise, and I literally never write in the present tense but quite honestly I think I may have cooked? I dunno, lmk your thoughts.

slight spoilers for the wisdom saga? maybe? also warning for themes of suicide.

alright so imagine.

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odysseus is taking a nap and he feels a hand on his shoulder. hears a voice calling out to him.

"ody? ody, come on, you gotta wake up." and he sort of stirs but doesn't open his eyes yet. the hand is warm and small, but not small enough to be penelope, so he assumes it's polites. he swats at the hand, mumbles softly, telling polites to leave him alone. he'll wake up soon, just give him a few more minutes.

the hand shakes him gently and he turns, opening his eyes just a little bit, not enough to see clearly. but staring with bleary eyes at the figure looming above him, he can tell immediately that it's not polites. it must be eurylochus, then, he figures. that's good, odysseus has been wanting to see him— wait, what was it he'd wanted to talk about? he can't recall.

then, he sits up and his eyes focus fully, and he recognizes the face in front of him as belonging to calypso. she smiles at him, and begins to lean in closer, but he pushes her away.

everything comes crashing back to him all at once. they're gone. eurylochus, polites, and the five hundred ninety-seven others. his comrades, his friends, his brothers. and not to mention his mother, and athena— gods, if athena could see him now..

"you're alone." his own words echo in his mind, ringing. the irony is almost funny.

he stands up and walks away, his heels kicking up sand. he doesn't say a word to calypso. he tries to get away from her. as far away as he can on this gods-forsaken island.

his shoulder burns where she touched him, infected with that same feeling of wrongness that he feels every time she looks at him, every time she says his name, or touches him, or gives him a compliment. she's not penelope, and she never will be. it's been seven years. he's given in to reality. given in to the fact that he's never going to get to make it home.

that night, he finds himself on a rocky ledge. he stares into the water, stares at the waves crashing around him. in the water, he thinks he can make out faces.

polites. eurylochus. his mom. the more he thinks about it, they're not lost, really. they're all in the underworld, somewhere. he thinks about what they'd do when he joined them. would they greet him with open arms, embrace him? or maybe they'd blame him for everything he's done. he wouldn't put it past them. either way, it would be better than staying here.

so he's decided.

he'll see them soon.

[w3w]

ID Pack for the Deity of Love and Justice

With themes of retribution, non-sexual carnal lust, paradise and forests.

Names

akroma, alecto, amadeus, amanda, amor, apollo, artemis, calypso, carita, carwyn, charmy, cordula, cupid, destiny, diana, elucia, elwood, eroda, eros, forrest, freyja, gaia, harmonia, ione, jasmine, jezebel, justine, laodice, lilith, lulu, noa, paradis, passeri, satinbird, silverius, sonnet, sorin, triana, valantis, valentin(e/a/o), venus, viper, willow

Pronouns

adore / adoration, affect / affection, atone / atonement, bal / balance, bless / blessed, bli / bliss, bo / bones, cha / charm, correct / correction, crave / cravings, den / dendro, des / desire, dev / devour, ether / ethereal, for / forage, for / forestry, hea / heart, inhu / inhuman, just / justice, ki / kiss, la / lace, lo / love, lux / luxury, moral / morality, over / growth, passion / passionate, punish / punishment, re / revenge, sca / scale, ser / serene, sweet / sweetheart, ta / taste, ven / vengeance, wi / wish, wo / wood

Titles

deity of love and justice, [x] who dishes out criminal's just deserts, the punishment one deserves, [x] who listens to the birds chirp after an act of revenge, the love-filled punisher, [x] who holds more than meets the eye, [x] with the help of the forest, [x] who watches a criminal's punishment from paradise, [x] who rips the loveless heart from evil's chest, [x] who's lost in paradise, [x] who can be trusted to correct the justice system's mistakes, [x] who longs for retribution, [x] who takes respite in the forest, [x] who holds the kiss of retribution, [x] who sends letters of revenge, [x] who basks in the forests of love, [x] who brings flowers to [x] enemy's trial, [x] who watches [x]self in the forest's lakes, first love, [x] who tends to the overgrowth of [x] enemy's grave, the heart of the forest, [x] who carries out the forest's desires, [x] who craves retribution, [x] blinded by [x] lust for retribution, [x] who won't forgive your sins, [x] who scars the tissue of [x] target's [social] life

Genders

affectiondeitic, amoncitte, amouseic, canilovin, deitoram, deityadored, divibunlovedollic, entiforestic, foresrotmoth, forleafian, godsmercyquoteic, holyboy/holygirl, holyutopic, justicedeic, loveripped, naturapurgic