#Ares being god of war is painfully underutilizied in most media
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Can you... Can you guys imagine. Get in the Water. Poseidon is MAD happy to finally get Odysseus. Get in the Water, Odysseus. Or I will DROWN your Ithaca, or I will GOUGE your son's eyes. Odysseus answers, begs. What else can he do? It's Been Ten Years, they are both hurting from loses. Why can't they stop and just... go home. Finally, finally get to the home that is so close.
But No. The god says "Die". The god sends waves, sends him under. Ruthlessness is Mercy, he said before. He will not let Odysseus get away again. There is no escaping god of the sea now, not so deep in the ocean. Odysseus can hear Polites, can hear Eurylochous, can hear his mother. All of his comrades are Waiting, Waiting, Waiting. He can't let go but he must. They are Waiting. But then something unlike the sound of trumpets - crashing waves - resonates within him. A beat like his heart but getting stronger, getting more powerful. His chest is vibrating with it when he finally hears the tick-ticking, so familiar yet foreign. Then, a voice shakes his very being. "I was promised blood." Godly wrath fills him and suddenly Ares' instruments are all he can hear, followed closely by his soldiers' vengeful cry.
#epic the musical#epic vengeance saga#epic what if#odysseus#ares#athena#CAN YOU IMAGINE#Ares being god of war is painfully underutilizied in most media#But if Athena is the goddes of tactical warfare#then Ares must be a god of a common soldier#Odysseus' men were far from tacticians#isn't it fitting if their restlessness and their capitan's rage would catch his attention#Odysseus in act 2 should be Ares'#you can't change my mind#but also just to be clear i do like Vengence a lot#I just need to make excuses and headcanons to enjoy it to the fullest as some things just feel way too immersion breaking for me#so there#that's my interpretation of Six Hundred Strikes and how it's possible#I guess also#Polites#Eurylochous#Yes i learned how to spell his name can someone be proud of me
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