#based on epic the musical

[hyacinthstears]

Mystic Odyssey - Underworld, Thunder Saga

Yuichi and Dysseus are almost out of the hidden city, but they have one more challenge to face before they are free.

One day I will figure out how many scars they have and where they are.

The Thunder Sage helped me figure what their outfits should look like. I guess that's what happens when some new songs from your favorite WIP musical are released and you spend a whole week pacing around your room making turtle based music videos in your head. and thanks to that I have come up with a new outfit and a character also I've had the idea of Dysseus losing an arm to match Leo for awhile but thanks to coming up with a cool shot in my brain while listening to to Different Beast.

tbh I love their designs in this drawing they really look so cool for depressed little fucked up boys in their 30s

Also I got rid of the scar on Dysseus's Plastron I once again changed something thanks to making music videos in my head 👍🏽

[ya-boi-haru]

Odysseus: "Mercy? Mercy!? My mercy has long since drowned, it died to bring me home, and as long as you're around, my family's fate is left unknown-"

Odysseus 15 minutes later: "Penelope would you still love me if I was a worm?🥺👉🏻👈🏻"

[mushyooms]

mini ithaca siblings

[cloudberrytroll]

Or did she learn to be colder when she got older and now she saves them the pain?

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

DUDE YOU GOT THE WHOLE EPIC CASTS CRYING

[awnrii]

this is a robbery give me your telemachus design if you have one now

of course! my favourite boy

[tagzpite]

Mmmmm I need to find the person who made the post about Ichor staining skin— except here it’s visible to everyone. An eternal reminder- that some might view as the mark of a mortal that managed to injure a god.

But he sees it as another show of his shame. Of how far he was willing to go as to harm a god he worshipped.

[pumpkinhrat]

how long has it been?

[lesbiamano]

FINEEE i'll draw your stupid greek mythology people

[gloomycheri]

Waiting...

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[xeverlee]

fun fact! up until around 2 months ago, i completely thought that Epic: The Musical was just a musical of this movie

and i was over here scratching my head about how the hell did cyclops fit into the story

[undercoverangell]

ithaca saga is gonna be so good guys

[ochiody]

telemachus rkgk based on @sloanslone’s winged tel art

[doctorsiren]

Day 1 of Sirentober / Doctober

Navigating / Blocks

Warrior of the Mine!

Available as a print on my Etsy shop

[ruthlessness69]

stupid god © Odysseus

[lyculuscaelus]

So lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts asking people to stop trying to make Odysseus look nice in their works cuz he’s a “messed-up person in the mythology”. Your opinion is valid however I have but one thing to point out:

You want to know who started all this? Who started to “make Odysseus look nice” in the first place?

It’s Homer. It’s nobody else but Homer himself.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would try to murder people out of his own interests. He’d murder Palamedes without remorse (and we’d be cheering over this but it’s a murder after all), he’d attempt to murder Diomedes just to get the Palladium himself, he’d volunteer to kill Astyanax…meanwhile you wouldn’t find any mention of either Palamedes or Nauplius in Homer’s poems, neither did he mention anything abt the Palladium heist (and Diomedes necessity did not happen until Conon’s version), the death of Astyanax, the distribution of war prizes, etc. And all the details in the Odyssey seemed to deny the existence of Nauplius’s vengeance at all, so Odysseus would not take any of the blame.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be depicted as “cruel, treacherous”, meanwhile in book 10 of the Iliad Odysseus was not mentioned to have killed anyone during the marauding, neither did he promise Dolan anything at all. The negative interpretations are denied by these details subtly put by Homer.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be widely known as a “coward” for only shooting arrows from afar. But Homer gave him a spear and had him absolutely slaying in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. That part of Ajax’s speech was invalid already.

Most importantly—a non-Homeric Odysseus would be having kids everywhere else, and the loyalty to his own wife as seen in the Odyssey is no where to be found. Meanwhile his lineage was a single-son line made by Zeus in the Odyssey, and his love for Penelope was one of his main drives, especially seen in book 5 of the Odyssey. He loved his family as a loving parent—something you don’t get to see in most of the non-Homeric writings—for most of the time they followed a different tradition indeed, in which Odysseus wasn’t half as nice as in the Odyssey.

TL;DR: in case you haven’t noticed, the characterization of the Homeric Odysseus was quite different from a non-Homeric version of Odysseus. It’s not that Homer didn’t know of the existence of other versions—he knew them too well, which is why in his version of the story, you don’t get to see any mention of them.