#Epic the musical post canon

[iwritelmao]

Shovel Talk?

(there’s one suitor left in the the palace, but he’s not there for the Queen of Ithaca)

Penelope had long since fallen asleep as Telemachus sat silently outside her door, not quite able to break the habit yet. Odysseus had crept out of the room as soon as his wife had fallen asleep despite his intense want to stay near her. Still, he had to make sure the palace had been cleansed of the suitors.

Suddenly he heard heavy breathing coming from Telemachus’s chambers. Telemachus’s chambers that were supposed to be empty. He tightly gripped his sword and threw the door open, watching as an unfamiliar young man stumbled back, looking up at him with wide eyes.

“Are you a suitor?” Odysseus asked flatly, adjusting his hold on the sword.

“Yes,” the young man said. “But it’s not what you think, I’m not-”

“Stop.” He said. “What’s your name?”

The young man sputtered a bit before finally saying, “Nausicaas.”

“Nausicaas… you should have lied.”

“No…” Nausicaas took a few steps back as the king walked towards him with a raised sword. “No, it’s- it’s not what you think! I’m here for Telemachus!”

“You idiot…” Odysseus shook his head. “Did you see what happened to the rest of the suitors who tried to hurt my son?” He pressed the sword against the young man’s neck. “This is where it ends. With your death, my family is safe. Do you understand that?”

His eyes widened as he stared right into the king’s burning red eyes, alight. In what Nausicaas assumed would be his last moment, he squeezed his eyes shut and yelled, “Sir, I’m in love with your son!”

There was no pain, no sharpness of the blade, but the feeling of it against his neck didn’t leave. Nausicaas didn’t dare open his eyes.

“What?”

He opened one eye, catching sight of Odysseus’s confusion. “I am a suitor… for your son. I- I arrived here this morning to… to ask the Queen for her blessing to marry the prince… a-and now that you’re here I can, well… would it be okay if I proposed to your son?”

Odysseus stepped back, letting his sword fall to his side. He looked like he was sizing the young man up. “Where did you come from?”

“Sparta, sir. The Queen’s family in Sparta is close friends with my own.”

The king seemed to contemplate this for a moment. “You say you love my son?” Nausicaas nodded eagerly. It was almost endearing. “How much?”

The young man’s expression finally hardened into something a lot more Spartan than it had looked before. “I would end worlds for him, sir. I would renounce my name, my rank, my home—I would be of Ithaca only, Sparta be damned.” His eyes suddenly wandered to a spot over Odysseus’s shoulder, softening as a smile tugged his lips.

The king turned around to see his son in the doorway. “Telemachus.”

“Mother woke up,” he said, his voice distracted. “She had a fit when you weren’t next to her.”

Odysseus smiled, then turned back to look at Nausicaas. He held his arms out, warm and inviting, and enveloped the young man. “Thank you,” Nausicaas uttered, returning the hug as if it were a handshake, strong and unwavering.

“Be true.” Odysseus said, then lowered his voice. “And if you even think about hurting my family, I will dismember you and feed what’s left of you to what little sirens managed to escape my crew and I.” The boy tensed up in his arms and Odysseus smiled. “That is, if Penelope doesn’t get to you first.”

He felt the young man nod and let go, stepping back. The king stood in wait. Nausicaas’s lips formed a small “oh,” then walked past him to face Telemachus. “Telemachus, Prince of Ithaca…”

“Nausicaas,” the prince said, grabbing the young warrior’s hand and pulling him closer with a grin Odysseus recognized from his days trying his hardest to win Penelope’s attention. “Why so formal?”

A grin tugged at his lips. “Because this is important. I love you, Telemachus. I will always love you. If there is a life after this one, I will love you in that one too. Would you join me in declaring this love to the gods?"

Telemachus smiled and leaned forward to kiss Nausicass. "It only took you three years to ask."

"Is..." He said tentatively, "Is that a yes?"

Odysseus shook his head and made for the doorway, patting Nausicaas on the back before leaving. "Welcome to the family."

[backpackingspace]

Penelope: Hey husband I need you to pretend to be dead for a little bit okay?

Odysseus: What why?

Penelope: Well there's a guy out there who wants to give me free stuff so...

Odysseus: ohhh you're scamming someone. Of course I'll pretend to be dead my love! Want me to kill him afterwards?

[ghosttheif]

im so normal about them I promise

[saixria]

I’m so happy guys you won’t even believe

[anonimea1y]

telemachus, neoptolemus, orestes, and peisistratus as a friend group. DO YOU SEE THE VISION?? SON OF ODYSSEUS, SON OF ACHILLES, SON OF AGAMEMNON, SON OF NESTOR??? DO YOU SEE IT????

[themysterioustaria]

Ekhem...

Excuse me, what the fuck is the manwhore au.

[ghostmaggie]

i am sooo setting myself up for hate with this but like...damn! y'all really hate epic calypso and i...really don't? i don't know if it's lack of background knowledge on one (or both) of our parts or just knowledge of different versions of the myth/character or different interpretations of love in paradise/not sorry for loving you but like...

calypso hurts odysseus. but not maliciously? he's a victim, and so is she.

i think possibly the lyric "under my spell we're stuck" is making people think she's the one keeping them on the island? she's not. she's a prisoner, too. hopefully the next saga makes that clearer? i think from the clips we've got of not sorry it might.

i don't think she's using the words of his dead friends to mock or trigger or harm him or even to try to manipulate him. it's possible she doesn't even realize what she's saying - how would she know the origins of those phrases? If she's hearing them as he talks in his sleep, even odds they sound like affirmations. they sound positive - i'll stay in your heart! greet the world with open arms! in the best possibility, she's trying to comfort him.

that is of course an optimistic view. call me polites, i guess. but even as she is hurting odysseus - and she is, i don't deny that! - i can't see it as because she's another example of an evil god. i think for better or worse - she doesn't know any better. it doesn't excuse her violations of boundaries, but she has a childlike, self-centered perspective because for so long she HAS just been herself. the world DOES revolve around her. it doesn't make it right. but it doesn't make her a villain.

i've already seen people complaining about how she refuses to apologize in not sorry for loving you. but she does. she apologizes for everything (say too little too late, fine, but she does) EXCEPT loving him. and her love has never been the thing causing harm. her actions have. she shouldn't apologize for loving him.

also also - within epic canon, as of what we know now, i don't think those aforementioned actions include sexual assault. there are differences between epic and the odyssey. that has been made abundantly clear. and other incidents of violence and sexual assault within epic are clearly articulated. if these aren't, i don't think we can assume they're there.

epic calypso isn't odyssey calypso. or pjo calypso. or any other calypso except: epic calypso.

[gummysunnybear]

I wish to...RATE YOUR SHIPS!!! :3

Warning! I may come off as rude when I rate ships and I deeply apologize!!! I don't wish to come off as rude!!!! And if I do I'm really really sorry!!!!! :(

[theproverbialpen]

HEY, YOU! PERSON WHO KEEPS LISTENING TO RUTHLESSNESS ON REPEAT:

Do you sometimes skip through Epic just to hear any song Poseidon is in in? Is Steven Rodriguez’s “Like You Mean It” probably going to be on your Spotify wrapped this year? Have @neal-illustrator’s animatics permanently altered your brain chemistry?

First of all, let me recommend “Devil Wears Lace” by Steven Rodriguez cause damn that song is good.

Second of all, let me also shamelessly plug my fanfic for those of you who have also found yourself with a carnal need for the Dark-Haired King himself:

“No, my lord—I beg your mercy, please.” Gods, it was one mistake! One stupid, stupid decision made in the throes of lust. To think your kingdom, your home, would be punished for your one lecherous act had you spiraling all over again, chest constricting like a vice. Why, oh why did you have to anger the most mercurial of all the gods?!

Poseidon did not respond immediately, the stillness bordering on pensive. You dared not breathe, lest your wheezing further enrage him. When the silence stretched onward, you were just about ready to start begging for your life again. You opened your mouth, prepared to let epithets and apologies flow forth like libations, when he finally answered you.

“Fine,” came his stern concession. “You want mercy? Why don’t you prove to me you deserve it?”

“How would I do so, my lord?” you quickly inquired.

“Well, I believe you were in the middle of something, weren’t you?”

So yeah! If that sounded somewhat appealing to you, you can read the whole thing on AO3. This will be a threeshot with a follow up story (or two) because man the hyperfixation has been activated. Hope y’all enjoy, and thank you for taking the time to read :)

[deusfoundry]

kinda insane how odysseus insists hes not a kind and gentle man anymore, but everything he's done in the five minutes hes been reunited with telemachus proves otherwise

[raayllum]

I'm just a man Whose fighting for his life Deep down I would trade the world To see my son and wife I'm just a man But when does a comet become a meteor? When does a candle become a blaze? When does a man become a monster? When does a ripple become a tidal wave? When does the reason become the blame? When does a man become a monster?

[backpackingspace]

Penelope: cupping odysseus's face: I would gut us both and entangled our intentions. I will stitch our skins together and tie us into knots you will never be able to unravel

Odysseus: peppering kisses across her face tearing up: that's the sweetest thing anybody has ever said to me

The rest of court watching them: uM

[witless-winion1]

considering (in my fix-it fic where nobody dies) to give Polities a spouse a while after he get home

I don’t have a lot of plans for this spouse, I don’t even know if they’re a man or woman

but I DO know that it will be a grizzled warrior, many scars and healed injuries. Including missing an eye.

[minlicious]

i hate it when someone says “if you read this retelling you can skip homer” because no matter how good the retelling is, there is always some kind of interpretation or bias towards or against certain characters from the author’s side which means you may totally misinterpret the character’s reasons for doing something. one of my favourite examples for this is menelaus, as he is almost always depicted as really brutal and evil, also when it comes to his relationship to helen, which definitely cannot be seen to that extent in the iliad or the odyssey. i’m not saying that you HAVE to read the odyssey and the iliad to enjoy for example epic or paris the musical or song of achilles or any retelling but please please please do not equalize retellings of these books with the actual books

[onewhobringsvictory]

[out of character]

blog introduction!!

this is a roleplay, story-progressive and interactive blog from @anincurabledisease. this intro may not be the shortest.

this blog is dedicated to my greek mythology/epic the musical oc! and since i wanted to have a little bit of fun, i wanted to make it interactive

what i mean by that is each asks given by anons or other roleplayers (please interact!) reveals a part of the character, it can be silly or serious, I don't mind, but basically the whole point is to try and figure out the oc's name, gender, story, etc.

more stuff [information from the surface, the progress of the blog, the blog rules and about emoji-anons] under cut !

all the information I'm willing to give is that

they look like an adult man

they're with Odysseus and his men [before they..uh, yeah]

they're relatively quiet and keeps to theirselves most of the time

gets mad a little too easy, but they show they care

and is skilled in fighting, like a long-lasting warrior; even if they're just a seemingly young looking adult.

it isn't strictly accurate to greek, especially as the story goes on. so, I'm sorry about that T_T

they just look youthful but aren't young-young [like early twenty-ish is what I'm referring to]

they're a person with an air of mystery, and it's up to you to decide to figure it out or not

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the progress for the time being

White silk anon has found out their ''name''.

Nicholas is believed to be a man.

The soldier's name is believed to be Nicholas.

(A little too realistic) heart anon has found out their ''gender''

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oc x canon [specifically hermes, ahem] , oc x oc , oc & canon, and oc & oc interactions/discussions from other roleplayers/askers are more than a-okay with me!! :)

feel free to dm me for more information!

and i do block freely, i also delete asks/comments, especially if they're not only harmful to me, but the people who interacts with this blog

emoji anons seem hella fun and I don't mind having them in my blog!! as long as they somehow fit the whole greek mythology/epic the musical theme ‹3

already claimed emojis !

🌻 — sunflower anon

🏳️ — white silk anon

🫀 — (a little too realistic) heart anon

[sidecharactersdomatter]

I wrote my very first Epic fic after the latest livestream and it was totes worth it!