#epic the musical ask meme

[promptling]

EPIC: THE VENGEANCE SAGA change pronouns as needed!

they're taking you away.

you're not mine to save.

i won't get to see your face.

you're unlike anyone i have ever known.

you're all i've ever known.

for that, i'll say i was wrong.

i am sorry my love's too much for you.

i'm not sorry for loving you.

i spent my whole life here.

i thought for sure that you were my dream come true.

i wish you would chase me.

i love you, but not in the way that you want me to.

i hate that i fell in love with you.

what do i do with this love for you?

why are you here?

consider this your one last chance.

it's a little bit dangerous.

put your whole brain in it.

you won't get another time to try.

i'd like to hurry up and end this.

i'm not dying here.

i already know your tactics.

i don't even have to kill you.

i just have to avoid you.

i am almost there.

there you are, coward.

i've been waiting for this moment.

i've got a reputation.

get in the water.

aren't you tired, _____?

it's been ten years, how long will this go?

why not leave this here and just go home?

i can't afford to die.

you sealed your fate.

you can't kill me.

how does it feel to be helpless?

how does it feel to know pain?

i watched my friends die in horror.

look what you've turned me into.

look what we've become.

haven't i suffered enough?

you didn't stop when i begged you.

how will you sleep at night?

[sloanslone]

didn't have enough art to give away for Halloween so have these divas in compensation

Separately:

I worked so hard on this my artwork files crashed 💀🙌

Bonus: I love these two so much 😭

[dootznbootz]

You know, most "fans" of Penelope usually aren't fans of Odysseus in solidarity with her. Have fun with your toxic unfaithful ship I guess. ✌

ANON!!! NO!!! ANON! YOU'RE TRYING TO GIRLBOSS HER AND NOT WANTING TO UNDERSTAND WHO AND WHAT PENELOPE WANTS! ANON! ANON! PENELOPE WANTS ODYSSEUS BACK IN HER ARMS!!! SHE MISSES AND LOVES HIM!!! ANON! YOU'RE ACTING LIKE ODYSSEUS HAD ANY CHOICE WITH THE GODDESSES!!! AS THOUGH HE DID NOT WEEP WHILE WITH THE GODDESSES! AS THOUGH HE DID NOT THINK OF PENELOPE EVERY DAY!!! ANON!!! EVEN THEN, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE EVEN HAD A CHOICE IN THE FIRST PLACE, PENELOPE CAN MAKE HER OWN CHOICES!!! AND HER CHOICE IS ODYSSEUS!!! ALWAYS WILL BE!!! JUST AS SHE IS HIS CHOICE ALWAYS!!! ANON! NO! THEY ARE LIKEMINDED AND BASICALLY SOULMATES!!! GET YOUR HEAD OUTTA YOUR ASS! ANON!!!

[messymoonmad]

Posidens eyelashes and eyeliner are top teir your art is amazing.

"GRWM to go traumatize an insolent lil king"

[insomniphic]

VENGENCE SAGA TRAILER IS OUT!!

SO EXCIITEEEEEEEDDDDDDD

Totally getting out of my hibernation with this one

[anniflamma]

saw these two posts next to each other and thought they were a comparison

[randomhuman45]

[pennysucks]

Imagine an ask series about the Greek gods

And that was my way to transition to this:

I wanna make an ask series about the Greek gods

Will anyone engage except for maybe my mutuals? Probably not

Do I have a story in mind? Nope

Will I possibly do it anyway? Absolutely yes , cuz I need to motivate myself to start drawing more and I don't have the mentality to make a comic

So ig ask if you're interested? Idk how this works WILL WORK ON IT 👮

P.S. working on redesigning the gods

2P.S. I came back from the underworld, Persephone says hi

[poppitron360]

I used to have a best friend who loved music theory more than anything else lol. It always went over my head personally, but there wasn't anything better than listening to him talk about it and trying to understand. I miss it sometimes.

In any case— What's your favorite detail about the music in Epic that's easy to miss, and that Jorge hasn't shared before?

That’s difficult bc often I notice something and then I see a video of Jorge talking about the same thing- but I have a few very small, inconsequential details that I noticed/things I liked- mostly to do with recurring motifs and instruments associated with each character.

“Please don’t make me do this, don’t make me do this” sung in his chest voice in the opening number vs in falsetto in “Thunder Bringer” asdjfjfngoinjksdngk

The “Survive” melody is first introduced in “The Horse and the infant”, when Zeus sings ��A vision, of what is to come, cannot be outrun…” and it’s last heard (so far) in “Mutiny” when Eurylochus sings about the cows.

At the start of “remember them”, Ody’s electric guitar plays the melody of “we’re up, we’re off, and away we go”

Jay has talked about how Eurylochus has no signature instrument except for the voice of the crew, which makes him a lot more versatile. I noticed how in “Luck runs out” there’s a piano running underneath his lines. A piano is Athena’s instrument. My interpretation is that Eurylochus is questioning Ody’s wisdom here- “you rely on wit, and people die on it”

Similarly, when Odysseus sings “I can’t have you planting seeds of doubt…” underneath his vocals is a Viola (I think), which shows how he’s thinking primarily of Penelope, and not the crew.

Aeolus’ theme doesn’t really conform to a set time signature, which shows how she’s very free flowing.

At the end of “Ruthlessness”, after Ody opens the bag, there’s this descending synth line as the storm carries them away and just… it only shows up once but I love it so, so much.

At the start of “Puppeteer”, when they land at the Island, the strings play the “hope” motif from “Full speed ahead”. (“Ithaca’s waiting, my kingdom is waiting, Penelope’s waiting for me.”)

The strings at the start of “Done For” are very reminiscent of a tango, which gives the feel of Ody and Circe going back and forth.

Ody’s nylon-string guitar (the symbol of his softer side) playing when he sees Polites in the underworld…

Okay so I’m pretty sure the choir sound in “The Underworld” and I think “No Longer You” is actually some sort of synth or sample or VST pack and not vocals that Jorge recorded, which gives the voices a rather unintelligible, artificial sound, which ties in to what Jorge has already established in Epic- the mythological factors being seemingly more electronic.

“Mutiny” contains SO MANY REPRISES. I love how it’s switched from Eury singing to Ody “Please don’t tell me you’re about to do what I think you’ll do” in “Luck runs out” to Ody singing to Eury

At the start of God Games, Athena sings “Father, God King”…”Now I’m knocking” to the tune of “Thunder bring her through the wringer”.

The sound of mechanical clanging playing alongside Hephaestus’ vocals changing into a brighter sounding chiming bell sound when Athena responds.

Both Polites and Calypso have tuned percussion as their instruments. Polites has a marimba, and I think Calypso’s is a steel drum. Not sure what that symbolises yet.

People have talked Calypso singing “stay in my open arms” triggering Ody, but she also sings “I’ll stay inside your heart”, which is what his mother sings to him.

I need to re-listen to the whole musical and compile a larger list but this is mostly what I thought of off the top of my head at 1 in the morning.

Sorry this isn’t more technobabble-heavy, but I’ve made some other posts talking about this that go full infodump mode. These are just little things I noticed (I love doing this. It feels like finding buried treasure).

[redrabbitguts]

Calypso: “for once just lie and say-“

Odysseus: “I love you”

Calypso: “you do? 🥺”

Odysseus: “ha! I was lying and you fell for my bluff!”

Okay but in all seriousness, the Vengeance saga was absolutely amazing. Insane bro. I love it!! I know I know I always say that but it’s true.

Get In The Water has to be my favorite in this saga. I mean I loved it since before it came out lol. The happy hand flaps when I first heard it in the livestream? 🥺 I was so haappy. Six Hundred Strike is sooo good too. Second favorite. Ooo that line at the end? Poseidon’s melodic screaming? Love love love it. Ughh I love the beginning instrumental of Charydbis. This sagas great. They all are.

[kindred-spirit-93]

Rhea: Harvey Fierstein

Demeter: Auntie Whispers

Persephone: Something shift and whispery, rarely speaks, if she does everyone is quiet to hear her.

Ares: Kronk

ares: kronk *nods*

[promptling]

EPIC: THE UNDERWORLD SAGA change pronouns as needed!

this land confuses your mind.

all i hear are screams.

i no longer dream.

nothing's what it seems.

the past seems close behind.

when you come home i'll be waiting.

i'm right here.

can't you see?

i took too long.

i will always love you.

i will stay in your heart.

i am the prophet with the answers you seek.

i've unlocked it.

i see past and future running free.

that's not a world i know.

i see you on the brink of death.

it's no longer you.

our effort's for nothing?

how has everything been turned against us?

how did suffering become so endless?

do i need to change?

i'm the only one whose line i haven't crossed.

what if the greatest threat we'll find is me?

what if i'm the monster?

what if i'm in the wrong?

is she going insane?

is he up in the middle of the night?

is he scared he's doing something wrong?

would that make us stronger?

who would care if we're unjust?

i'll become the monster.

i will deal the blow.

[antvnger]

So, I follow a musical based off of the Odyssey, and they just released the part where Odysseus goes through the Underworld. What got me sobbing is he meets the souls of those he lost during his journey down there. The 558 men that served under him until Poseidon unleashed his wrath, one of his best friends Polities, and his mother. And this is how he found out his mother passed away and I am not okay.

-Meme Lord

(The musical is called Epic the Musical btw 10/10 would recommend)

Oh ouch! What a way to find out your mom passed away…oh shit, that hurts me to think about. I’d cry too, Meme Lord.

Epic the Musical, huh? What, is that on YouTube or something?

[messymoonmad]

Please please please can you draw Poseidon giving us a hug?

I need to have my face smushed between his huge pecs-WOAH WHO SAID THAT?!

If that's how you decide to die then be it

[warcats-cat]

I only have $10 to my name but by God I would give that $10 to anyone who made even the scribbliest, sketchiest comic/animatic of that one vine with the owl offering people drugs and the lady being like "who invited you" except the owl is Hermes and the lady is Odysseus.

For legal purposes this is a joke but still

[anniflamma]

Here’s my Odysseus ballerina with Penelope crying in the back to help motivate you finish Thunder bringer!!!

THANK YOU FOR THE BALLERINA!ODYSSEUS!!! Its just the motivation I need!