#circe’s palace

[the-hyacinth-whisperer]

Open Starter 🪻

You were new to Circe’s palace. You had been led in by a 15-year-old girl with short, black coils of hair.

She had a white, long, Greek toga on, and then a see-through shirt with yellow fabric.

She had an eerie resemblance to Hyacinthus, Apollo’s dead boyfriend. She was, of course, more feminine though. You never caught her name, so you had asked while she was guiding you through the palace.

“Adelaide.” She answered.

“Full name?” You asked.

She sighed in annoyance. “Adelaide Hyacinthus Sawyer.”

Hyacinthus. That gave you goosebumps, and made it even more eerie.

“Do you got a godly parent, or are you a nymph..” you asked.

“Apollo. Apollo is my godly parent.”

Oh, no, that just made it weirder.

“I know what you’re about to say,” Adelaide said. “That I look like Hyacinthus, and that it’s really awkward that my dad is his ex-boyfriend.”

She smirked.

“How’d you know?” You asked.

She gave that remark no attention, and just waved you through a corridor, into another wing of the palace.

..what now?

tags: @penelope-is-waiting @ithacas-prince @green-child-of-aphrodite

[theballadoftimburton]

so, i’m changing the timeline in adelaides story JUST a bit. in TCA: Circe, adelaide serves both cupid and circe and gets caught by Penelope, THEN gets sent to circe. this is supposed to be after harrow is assumed to be “dead”, but i’ve decided to change it to the beginning of July. Harrow still dies on Adelaides birthday, just when she serves circe is a bit different <3

@the-hyacinth-whisperer

[leynaeithnea]

These cut songs in Epic have no right to be such bangers

[minimallycreative]

a list of media i like for when people ask what i'm into

Books

The Hunger Games

Red, White, and Royal Blue

The Song of Achilles

Pride and Prejudice

What If It's Us and Here's To Us

The Truly Devious Series

The Secret History

If We Were Villains

The Handmaids Tale

The Magnolia Palace and The Lions On Fifth Street

A Good Girls Guide To Murder

If This Gets Out

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Circe

One Last Stop

King Lear

TV Shows

Brooklyn 99

ATLA

TLOK

Young Royals (I haven't finished the third season because I know i'll cry and I haven't had the strength)

Good Omens

The Dragon Prince

She-Ra, the reboot

Call The Midwife

Dead Boy Detectives

Sweet Magnolias

School Spirits

Music

Paris Paloma

Hozier

Florence + The Machine

Ramblewood

Stevie Howie

Twenty One Pilots

Fall Out Boys

Ashnikko

Halsey

Miranda Lambert

Carrie Underwood

Erin Kinsey

Sleep Token

Conan Gray

[circumference-pie]

I would have liked to see Jiang Boyou’s FACE when told he’s getting Xie Wei for a son-in-law

[h-didanart]

GUYS—

GUYS HELP—

ITS TAKING OVER—

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anyways—

So I’ve been listening to the Circe Saga in Epic the Musical for a while, I actually got the idea of giving Bloody and Harvest magic out of it, but that wasn’t enough, I had to go further

So now they are the God of Sorcery or something, look I’m just having fun here—

K, so they have an island to themselves, and they have a lot of magic and are cool, and they look after nymphs and stuff, and they turn anyone who tries bothering them into pigs. I think the Ancient Greek setting would change their backstory a bit but not by much, they probably wouldn’t almost die, but y’know, they’ve still had to deal with shitty stuff, which would actually lead to even more motivation on their end to protect those they care for. They have flower tattoos around their legs because I kinda just felt like drawing flowers and I’m pretty sure that that flower in specific represents strength and healing, and it also helps with insomnia I think. As for the scorpion imagery I chose it because of a kinda joke that’s supposed to be in the au where they choose to have a different day as their birthday and Bloody wants to be a Scorpio because scorpions are cool, and I looked up the symbolism and there’s some rebirth and life//death and change stuff which I think fits them (I am actively choosing to ignore the other potential symbolism, please don’t look it up I’m so sorry my boys 😭) And I like to think they’d use shadow and ice magic because of 1) conquer your fears /literal and 2) as a treatment for their overheating problem

I really like this silly variant, they’re cool

Oh and, uh, about ‘There are other ways’, uhm

Yeah that’s how they were gonna deal with that, cool

[sigurdjarlson]

Why does no one but alleria care khadgar “died” tho

Like jaina was like “we’ll mourn him in time” and then no one but Alleria and Anduin mentioned it at all after that

[morigarden]

head in hands i dont want to do backgrounds why am I trying AHHHHHH

[shangdragonsthief]

So, this song wouldn't leave my head. Therefore, I created an AMV for Done For, using Dazai and Kouyou. Dazai is odysseus this time because it feels more like Dazai than Chuuya in this song. I think Full Speed Ahead will be next.

[shinrci]

Irony because their faceclaim is Fate's version of her, but the entire Circe Saga of Epic has been fueling the Ao Shuang muse lately

[the-hyacinth-whisperer]

Open Starter 🪻— From the Underworld and back

You had been sent on a mission to retrieve a demigod daughter of Apollo who had betrayed camp and was staying with the witch of Aeaea, Circe.

The daughter of Apollo had been thrown off of a high ledge by another demigod, a daughter of Ares. A child of Poseidon had managed to rescue them, but the daughter of Apollo was keen on not returning to Camp Half-Blood.

Last time they were seen, they were in the woods. A dark figure had approached them and covered their mouth.

The child of Apollo was gone for, say, two hours, but when she returned— the clothes she were in were in rags, her hair was disheveled, and her complexion was ghoulish.

She looked like she’d been to the Underworld and back. What had happened to her?

tags: (i apolgoize if you do not wish to be tagged)

@ithacas-prince , @green-child-of-aphrodite , @yourlocalshvt

that’s pretty much it, but even if you aren’t tagged, you are encouraged to interact. please interact. i am BEGGING you to interact.

[friendfromdsmp]

So I just had a weird but funny thought

Technoblade likes Greek mythology

There exists the idea that Technoblade can switch from human form to pig form at will

Can you imagine the absolute fucking power play it would be if he stumbled upon Circe’s palace and she threatened to turn him into a pig only for him to just??? Do it himself???

Like, where do you even go from there? What’s the plan anymore?

Or he gets turned into a pig and then looks her dead in the eye as he transforms himself back

[le-sapphic-artist]

Eurolychus: HOW COULD YOU SACRIFICE SIX OF OUR MEN? OUR FRIENDS

Odysseus:

Odysseus: BITCH YOU WERE READY TO LEAVE OUR ENTIRE CREW AT CIRCE’S PALACE—

[falconsandrainbows]

Jorge Rivera-Herrans: it's 558 men because in the original odyssey there was this man named Elpenor who died at Circe's palace, and it's also a reference to a cut song!

Also Jorge: TweLvE lOnG yeArS

[madrone33]

Number 1 Rule of adapting the Odyssey into EPIC is: if it can be more dramatic, it will be more dramatic.

The Greeks decide to throw the infant Trojan prince from the walls because they're scared he'll try to avenge his family? No, Zeus comes down to personally give Odysseus a vision of being killed and says his family WILL die. Kill the baby that reminds you of your son right now, it's the gods will.

Odysseus goes to greet the inhabitants of an island and gets trapped in a cave for two days by the cyclops that's eating his men one by one? Nope, we got BOSS BATTLE 30v1 in the Ithacans' favour until BAM fourteen pancakes are made by Polyphemus' club and oh shit Polites is DEAD-

Athena is just vaugely absent for the whole journey until the end? We got emotionally charged platonic breakups instead, with yelling and insults and "well I'm breaking up with you FIRST!"

Smooth sailing to Ithaca? STOOOORM-

Odysseus' great-great-great-grandfather giving him a speed boost to help him on his way home? Get ready for trickster wind gods, mischievous winions, and a game that was rigged from the start.

Random-ass suspicious and greedy crew mates open the bag? It's Eurylochus, his second in command, his brother-in-law, the man he trusted, Eurylochus WHYYY

Parking in the wrong harbour and getting boulders thrown at the fleet by angry man-eating giants while Odysseus backs away veeery slowly? Nah Poseidon himself pulls up to dunk on them, and Odysseus has to make a last minute getaway using the power of STOOORM to avoid being curbstomped like his fleet.

Odysseus gets some stronger drugs from a god to make him immune to the other drugs of a goddess? Well these drugs actually give him magic powers which he uses to engage in a Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh style BOSS BATTLE!

Get some closure with dead loved ones and acquaintances, and be the first interviewer of the fallen heroes of past ages? Nope, we just got TRAUMA and a whole boatload of guilt!

A neat outline of what the rest of the journey will look like, a warning against an island of cows that will slow him down, and the way to appease Poseidon? This Tiresias just says "Y'know there used to be a world where you made it home, BUT I DON'T SEE IT NO MORE. IT'S GONE. IT'S OVER. Also, your palace is fucked."

Sailing past the sirens while getting to be the first mortal to hear their song and live? M U R D E R

Sailing past Scylla to avoid Charybdis and accidentally getting six men eaten because he thought he could totally take Scylla, even though Circe said he couldn't, and then he realised he, in fact, cannot take Scylla? ... Eurylochus, light up six torches.

Eurylochus waits till Odysseus is out hunting and then goes behind his back to mutinously rally the crew and feast on some sacred cattle? Betrayal on both sides, stabby stab, K.O., and then Odysseus helplessly watches them make the greatest mistake of their lives as they ignore his pleas.

Quick clean and easy lightning-strike to the ship, leaving Odysseus to cling to some driftwood and paddle away? Zeus himself appears to the mortals, monologues, makes Odysseus be the one to choose, and then smites the whole ship leaving Odysseus to nearly drown anyway.

Telemachus gets advice from a disguised Athena to yell at the suitors and then sail away to look for news of his missing father? Telemachus gets into a full on beatdown with the suitors and gets FIGHT CLUB TRAINING from Athena!

Athena goes "dad I want my favourite mortal back? Did you forget about him? I think you forgot about him" and Zeus instantly replies "nonsense. How could I have forgotten that funny little mortal? Of course you can have him back my sweet favoured child <3" and then Athena skips off to Ithaca? "Father please-" "LIGHTNING BOLT! ANOTHER LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT TO THE FACE HOW DARE YOU ASK ME OF SUCH A THING!"

Poseidon does a double take "wait they let him go?? Oh hell nah!" and then sends a giant fuck off storm for Odysseus to swim through until he reaches the Phaeacians? No, Poseidon's just been there on Ithaca's shores, waiting for eight years, now get in the water BITCH- except Odysseus is just like "oh yeah? Fucking FIGHT ME"

You thought the suitors in the Odyssey were bad? Jorge really just said "dial that shit up to ELEVEN"

[circumference-pie]

i need to scream to someone about how xie wei is so mei changsu-coded