#my goodbye

[bugbear55]

my goodbye, basically

thats how that song went right. its been a while

[elijasz]

My Goodbye - EPIC (The musical)

[smolandweirdwriter]

thinking about how odysseus says athena is "prideful", how how pride is something zeus says he will undress, make yield, how athena doesn't say she's hoping to save "the life of one who is far from home" but a "friendship with one who is far from home", how friendship is something so uniquely human, how it makes us desperate, how it makes us forget ourselves and our place because we care for each other, how perhaps the bond of community gives us the greatest pride of all, the pride of knowing we are together and stronger for it, the pride of our shared humanity, and gods cannot be human, and how maybe athena was not punished for being too proud but for being too human

[app1es0uce]

Everyone talking about how Odysseus and Scylla match riffs at the end of Scylla like Athena and Odysseus match riffs in Warrior of the Mind and My Goodbye

I’m over here talking about how Athena has to match Odysseus’s riff because they’re vibing and learning and slowing growing together, BUT ODYSSEUS AND SCYLLA MATCH RIFFS ON THE FIRST GO BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SAME!!!

[lovely-p-issues]

Athena: You're not looking for a mentor, I'm not looking for a friend

Telemachus: hi

Athena:

Athena: second thought-

[mer-acle]

Nothing, just Athena using Quick Thought as an escape from stressful situations, giving herself a breather when she's upset, and Odysseus not knowing she does so, because around him, she basically never did so.

She even parted ways with him from inside Quick Thought, which is the most intimate way possible to do so, and when he hits her where it really hurts she has to take a literal pause. Like idk if this makes sense but it feels so genuine, he gets her true reactions rather than those she might have curated after careful consideration in Quick Thought

[fiprobably]

The song (and the musical) slaps

Also hi I'm trying to post more than just Sambucky so um. Consider this a follower filter I guess?

My initial intention for this blog was to post art in general, so if you want Sambucky content only, thanks for sticking with me for a while! If you're still staying, thanks for being around still!

[somereaderinblue]

Ares's Goodbye

NOTE: Prequel to We'll Be Fine, God Games and Odysseus's Challenge.

[ARES]

That was pointless, cowardice at its best

That's not a teaching of mine

You've grown dull, your dead friends can attest

[PENELOPE]

Hey!

[ARES]

Put all that weakness aside

You're a warrior meant to lead the rest

I don't know where I went wrong!

But I warned ya', and you failed the test

So now I'm gone

This way, you'll know what your place is

This way, you can't cross the line

This way, when all is over you'll keep yours and I'll keep mine

This way, you won't disappoint me

This way, you won't waste my time

This way, I'll close the door

Consider this as my goodbye

[PENELOPE]

That’s just like you, why am I still surprised?

Brutish and prideful and vain

You still don’t know everytime someone dies

I'm left to deal with the strain

What's a title all the bloodshed could grant if I won’t have peace at night?

I'll remind you I saw you as a friend

But now we're done

This way, you're out of my life now

This way, you won't taint my hands

This way, when all is done, you're out of sight and out of mind

This way, you get what you wanted

This way, you can save your time

This way, you close the door and have your damn goodbye

[ARES]

You’re not looking for a mentor

I'm not looking for a friend

I mistook you for a general

What a waste of effort spent!

[PENELOPE]

At least I know what I'm fighting for

While you're fighting to be known

Sure, you claim you're so much stronger

Then why’ve you got nothing to lose?

Cause you're alone!

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[ARES]

One day, you'll get what I'm saying

One day, you might see my way

One day, but not today, for after all you're-

[ENSEMBLE]

Just mortal

[ARES & ENSEMBLE]

This day, you sever your own head

This day, you spark the pyre

This day, you lost it all

Consider this as my goodbye

Oh

Consider this as my goodbye

Oh

This is my goodbye

Oh

Consider this as my goodbye

Oh

This is my goodbye!

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Everytime Ares departed, a scattering of vulture feathers, the scent of burning torches and carrion and a slight ringing through one’s bones, precise like a blade sliding across a whetstone rather than a deafening thunderclap would be all that remained of his presence.

This time, the only thing that rang over and over in Penelope’s ears were Ares’s final words. Goodbye.

[incogcheetah]

Athena, you beautiful optimist. Your family tried to beat it out of you, and at first you flew away so you didn't get hurt again. But meeting these two loyal and honorable to a fault mortals makes you persist, you ask for Odysseus's freedom anyway just so he can make it home to his son and wife, just so he can spend his remaining years with them.

[cynthiav06]

I have been living with this headcanon/brainrot about Athena (both from Epic the Musical and pjo) for a long while and a warning for the faint of heart, you know what read it anyway cause it haunts me , so everyone else has to be haunted by it too, cause I am petty like that.

Most people might be aware of the myth that Athena sprung from Zeus's head fully formed and in battle armor, but a few might not know the preceding myth, so here's a quick recap:

Zeus married the titaness Metis, who was the titaness of wise counsel, wisdom, and planning. She was also Athena's mother. Metis was his advisor, both an indispensable aid and threat to him, given her power and cunning. But it's no Greek mythology without a son overthrowing the father archetype haunting the narrative. There was a similar prophecy about Metis's second child being so powerful that he would overthrow Zeus. Mind you Metis was pregnant with Athena when the following events transpire:

Zeus being Zeus, paranoid and power hungry, the King of the Gods and the God of "Justice" manipulates Metis into playing a shape-shifting game and when Metis turned into a fly , he swallowed her whole. [I know Greek patriarchs have a thing for eating their children or spouses pregnant with said children. Runs in the family, apparently]

Mind you in Greek myths, swallowed children, or in this case, swallowed wife pregnant with said child stay alive for a good amount of time even inside someone else's organs. So Metis gives birth to Athena inside Zeus's head and raises her there. She teaches her warfare and strategy until Metis herself eventually dies, i.e., her essence fades. Knowing what she must do to not meet the same fate, Athena hammers on Zeus's skull from the inside to escape. Everyone knows the rest of the myth.

But imagine Athena's first lesson being that the man she calls her father is the one who killed her mother and almost killed Athena herself by swallowing Metis so she must do everything in her power to survive and avoid that fate by staying on his good side. To try and fit in this twisted family of immortals, half of who hate her existence and half who are indifferent to him. So she does exactly that.

Think of Athena asking to be a Virgin Goddess from learning of what comes of marriage with gods.

Now, the continuation of Athena's myth is that she goes to Atlantis to train with the sea nymphs. There she makes her first ever friend and someone she comes to dearly love, Pallas. Greek myths being allergic to happy endings, one day when Pallas and Athena are sparring as they do a bit more seriously this time; Zeus being a nosy bastard decides to spy in just when Pallas is about to land a finishing blow on Athena. Thinking she might kill his daughter, he kills Pallas by blasting her with his lightning. Athena, being heartbroken , Zeus gave her Aegis as an apology. The continuation of this is that Athena adopts the namesake Pallas Athena and even carves a statue in likeness of her friend called Palladium and then more.

But think of Athena heartbroken and bitter as the Goddess of Wisdom learns her second lesson, then she must abandon all personal relations and sentiment before her father ends it for her in one way or another. For Pallas was the first true relation in her life after her mother.

Keep in mind that Pallas is Poseidon's granddaughter through his firstborn son and heir Triton. This is the point that sparks eternal enmity between Athena and Poseidon, and all those who come after will suffer in the wake of this tragedy.

So Athena chooses to remain alone and without a friend to avoid such a situation. Imagine Athena being hurt, especially brutally, when Odysseus says: "Since you claim you are so much wiser, why's your life spent all alone? You're alone!"

Because that's exactly it. Athena is wise. She knows the consequence of endearing herself to someone again so she stays alone to avoid such a thing and yet coming from someone who is so close to being her first friend in a long time, hurt and enraged she leaves.

Now, when finally Athena comes to terms with her friendship with Odysseus she finds yet again that her father Zeus struck him and his crew in a similar fashion to Pallas , yet again ripping her only friend away from her .

He is not dead yet, and Athena isn't about to let that happen. This time, she fights against Zeus, risks her life and position of being the favorite, and her survival method all because she can't bear to see Odysseus die.

Think of the agonizing fate of Athena, repeatedly being traumatized by her father yet having to do his bidding and stay on his good side to survive and live not for herself for she lives in misery but for the people who suffered for died for their association with her. In her eyes, she must suffer tenfold for letting this happen thrice, for all eternity under the man who so wretchedly ruined her life.

[magicalstevengames]

ODYSSEUS: makes even the smallest important decision

EURYLOCHUS: fuck I can already hear the boss music. which god is it this time? is it Zeus' turn? Ares? fuck man, I do not get paid enough for this

[herbatahleb]

I listened to My Goodbye - EPIC: The Musicalc and oh my God

[shebeafancyflapjack]

Athena, in My Goodbye: I'm not looking for a friend!

Athena, in God Games: His son's my friend!

[aimiesposts]

How much aura did I lose for belting my goodbye in the hall and then turning around and seeing a cute guy behind me

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

Something I just noticed about EPIC the Musical: Every saga closer song has been sung by one of Odysseus' foes.

Athena's "Warrior of the Mind" and "My Goodbye." (although she started as his mentor and is now royally mad at him)

Poseidon's "Ruthlessness."

Circe's "There Are Other Ways."

But the Underworld and Act 1 closer is sung by Odysseus. Guys. GUYS. HE'S HIS OWN WORST ENEMY I CAN'T-

[mer-acle]

On the topic of the owl necklace

Odysseus made a wooden owl for Athena way back when. She was a bit confused about the gift, but it was on a string, and he looked sad when he thought she didn't like it, so she put it around her neck... And it just kinda stayed.

I'm thinking, it would ofc be super heartbreaking if she ripped off the necklace after my goodbye, but it also would be if she didn't. If for a while, she doesn't even think of it as something he gave her bc she's worn it for twenty years now, and it's so familiar and when she remembers the initial anger has passed and she gets really sad about it (no I'm not sad, I don't CARE, he's just a mortal, it's just force of habit) and she can't bring herself to take it off then.

Just... It would symbolize how deeply he's already changed her, that she'd consider something he made a part of herself 😭😭