#that would've been epic

[shinedoitsulikeabright]

Manwhore AU headcanon

I like to believe Manwhore Ody got home shortly after the war ended because he didn't have to deal with any of the bullshit that canon Ody has to deal with.

Like imagine: if only he seduced his way out of the whole Polyphemus situation, he wouldn't have pissed off Poseidon, meaning he would've got home pretty much immediately.

I'm not even saying he had to fuck Poly (he'd die), but he could've used his babygirl looks or something. Be like "I'm sorry about your sheep, pookie *bats eyelashes*", but no. He just had to abandon all reason and blind the cyclops before telling him his full legal name and address.

[buttercupshands]

crk sketchbook sketches wave

I don't want to post allll of them one by one so you get a full post of them alllll in one place with latest one being first

some Truthless Recluse bc he won the test sketch poll out of some of the Pure Vanilla's outfits

some of Mystic Flour cookie studies, I don't make the rules she's beautiful

some Awakened Pure Vanilla bc I was listening to the lecture about morals, history... religion all that stuff and was getting bored after 2 hours of sitting in one place

one of many Sage of Truth sketches I did, this one ALSO from the same class, but one I enjoyed so much I drew this guy while discussing good and evil in society and its norms

aaand Shadow Milk in the Fount of Knowledge outfit

I wish we had SOMETHING with this period Shadow Milk bc in the end all we have are the part in the gacha animation and a couple of statues, which are great,,, but not exactly telling anything

and since this post is long enough so not many will actually look for too long here's a wip for you I did today for fun

[dootznbootz]

Epic the Musical fans, I'm gripping you by the shoulders to tell you that Penelope has a sister who she is very very close with in the Odyssey who was named Iphitimene.

Not only a sister, but in each myth she is in, she has a lot of brothers. At least around 4 or 5.

The Potential for Eldest daughter Pen, Middle child Pen, and/or baby sister Pen is ENDLESS!!!

She is also half-naiad at the very least (in most myths) with her mother being a river nymph named Periboea. She can even be 3/4th naiad if you go with the myth of her father, Icarius, being the son of Bateia, another naiad.

[kizykoolors]

They should've atleast dropped ONE "Epic" into the songs, i'm just saying /j

[the-dragon-hearted]

How Athena could've fixed everything:

Athena: Finish it.

Odysseus: No... What good would it do, when mercy is a skill more of this world could learn to use -

Athena: No, no, no, stfu. You want to be merciful? Do that with literally anyone else. That's my cousin and you need to fucking obliterate him before he calls his Dad to pick him up.

Ody: sorry.. come again?

Athena: Did. I. Stutter? You want Uncle Poseidon, God of the fucking SEA on your ass while you SAIL HOME? You wanna fuck with that Odysseus? Huh?? No? Then hurry your ass up.

Ody: ... Change of plans! Eury, gimme that spear -

Athena: *muttering to herself as she ascends and murder is committed* Dumbass. Sure let's show mercy for shits and giggles, oh I'm sure that won't come back to haunt me like my dead comrades. What does he think this is? A musical??

[pirateshippotato]

My take on a polites lives au

I've seen a bunch of polites lives aus, so here's a way I think that could go down

During the Cyclops attack polites is spared. There's a chance that Odysseus does kill the Cyclops here because he's not trying to honor polites, then Poseidon never comes up and they make it home easily, but we're gonna say that he does so this is longer than two sagas. So the fight goes the same except that polites lives. Afterwards polites would probably be like "I'm proud of you Captain, any other man wouldn't have shown mercy to the Cyclops" and ody would be like "any man besides you, my friend"

The storm hits and they see the floating island all the same. I feel like luck runs out might turn into an argument between ody and eury with polites moderating. Polites would go with Odysseus up to aeolus, so he would know the bag isn't treasure. I've seen versions of this where the bag never gets opened so, again, no Poseidon, but then this is only three sagas so we're gonna do something different. Polites tells Odysseus to put his faith in the crew, so ody and him go to bed, but the bag gets opened. I don't think it was eurylochus in this au, cause if Odysseus AND Polites are telling him it's not treasure I think he'd believe them, so some other random crew member opened it. Ody would be mad at polites for letting him go to sleep. Poseidon still happens, but he has to change the lyrics of ruthlessness a bit cause "47 left under your command" doesn't fit as well. Maybe polites could also get a verse in this song arguing with Poseidon about their very different views on mercy.

They end up on Circe's Island and ody is still a bit mad at polites. Eurylochus goes off, and polites probably goes somewhere else on the island. Ody and Circe still have their battle all the same. Polites meanwhile saves Elpenor (cause I'm just trying to save as many crew members as I can at this point). At the end of the Circe saga ody and polites make up (maybe in a reprise of open arms or something? I know there aren't really reprises, but some song that uses the same melody. It would be called 'my friend' or something).

They go to the underworld still, but obviously polites didn't die so that doesn't happen. It's also only "556 men, who died under your command!" Polites is there to support ody when he sees his mom and the rest of the crew. They meet up with the prophet, and that's probably pretty similar, but maybe there's some lines about how polites (who's standing there too) "wasn't supposed to make it this far" (cause, y'know, polites actually dies). Odyssey doesn't have Monster, and instead maybe just talks to polites about how they're gonna get home.

When dealing with the sirens polites probably encourages ody to not kill the sirens, and maybe they realize they should keep some to feed to scylla. No casualties happen during scylla, and cause eury didn't open the wind bag there's no fight that happens between ody and eury. Because of that no cow stabbing would happen, so no Zeus happens either. They make it home 7 years earlier, and I think there's 48 of them, so that's pretty good. Ody beats up the suitors (there's probably less of them than in the wisdom saga) and they all live happily ever after.

@cr4zy-cycl0n3 made good points about the scylla encounter in the reblogs

[sleeping-at-sea]

“Captin, let’s go to that cave over there!”

“No, we can hold it together a bit longer. I believe more up ahead there is a place we can get food.”

and then the end credits roll

[diskusaurus]

My biggest issue in Epic the Musical is Odysseus, actually. In this essay, I will....

[wonderlandsakura]

The gods won't make the same mistake twice

There's one hero Percy Jackson is similar to, someone the gods broke, and they regretted it

Someone kind, that they made ruthless

Someone loving, that they made brutal:

Odysseus

[maxmemer]

Well well well

Who woulda thought I was this much of a nerd

[brainrotcharacters]

Headcanon Hermes ordered Calypso to give Odysseus what he needs to build a raft and Hermes didn't tell her it wasn't a part of the pantheon's command :>

Calypso lashed out by passive aggressively singing to Odysseus as she gives him the materials

The best part? Odysseus still walks away

[caremonaire]

tears in my odypen eyes

[amethyst-8xm]

i know they're mostly side characters but like so much of lapis' character arc revolves around her being roommates with peridot that it's pretty lame we didn't get to see more of it

[vindicated-truth]

“Here you go, Lee Dongsik-ssi."

Dongsik looks up and smiles sunnily at Joowon, who has returned to their table with their order.

"Thank you, Joowon-ah,” he tells him earnestly as he gratefully accepts the bowl of fresh noodles and fish soup that Joowon has handed to him.

Joowon merely inclines his head, but there’s a soft upturning of the corners of his lips that Dongsik doesn’t miss.

He then watches as Joowon turns to their other companion at their table.

“Hyung.”

Hyeok beams as Joowon hands him his own meal. “Thanks, Joowon-ah.”

Dongsik scowls as Hyeok digs into his pretentious plate of steak and fries. He’s pretty sure Jaeyi serves better quality meat than that.

Joowon sits beside his precious hyung across from Dongsik with his own meal of rice topped with stewed pork and vegetables—a sort of middle ground between Dongsik’s traditional Korean cuisine and Hyeok’s Western fare.

“I can’t believe you,” Dongsik grumbles at Joowon, who daintily starts eating. “You’re ‘Joowon-ah’ to both of us, but he’s already your ‘hyung’.”

He juts his chin towards Hyeok, who merely smirks as he pops a fry into his mouth.

“Why am I still honest to god ‘Lee Dongsik-ssi’?”

“Of course you are,” Joowon says airily as Dongsik’s scowl deepens. “You will never be hyung to me.”

Hyeok grins, and Dongsik wants to punch him. “‘Cause that’s always gonna be me.”

“But why?” Dongsik all but whines. “What makes him so special?”

“Yeah, Joowon-ah.” Hyeok dabs at his mouth with a napkin and turns to Joowon; Dongsik swears the prat is preening. “What makes me so special?”

Joowon chews his food thoughtfully and swallows before answering with a completely straight face: “Because no one else in my life is more annoying than you.”

It’s Hyeok’s turn to scowl as Dongsik lets out a big belly laugh. “Yah,” Hyeok grouses, “isn’t the old man more annoying than me?”

“I’m only six years older than you, punk,” Dongsik smiles winningly, grinning when Hyeok all but sticks his tongue out at him.

“Lee Dongsik-ssi is indeed also annoying,” Joowon cuts through the conversation sagely. Hyeok straightens, looking smug. “However, his type of annoyance is—of a different sort.”

“Oh?” Hyeok’s interest is piqued now. “What sort?”

At this point, as if by some unspoken connection, both Dongsik and Joowon turn to Hyeok in unison. Hyeok blinks when Joowon merely arches an eyebrow at him, as if wordlessly asking: ‘Do you really want to know?’

Hyeok then turns to Dongsik—who grins and waggles his eyebrows at him lasciviously.

“No,” Hyeok states in horror as realization abruptly dawns on him—why Joowon pulls out the chair for Dongsik’s seat and serves him, why Dongsik’s hand is always on the small of Joowon’s back.

Why the two of them had looked rumpled and out of breath when they reappeared after a “bathroom break”—together.

“No,” Hyeok repeats vehemently as he squeezes his eyes shut amidst Dongsik’s peal of laughter. “Don’t ever tell me. Not even on my deathbed.”

[zukoandtheoc]

poseidon to odysseus in the ocean saga: aren't you tired of being nice? don't you just want to go ape shit

odysseus to poseidon in the vengeance saga: aren't you tired ? don't you just want to go home

[superkooku]

Rn I'm watching Gwendy's video and... Athena bleeding red was on purpose !! That's NOT a mistake, but a visual symbol of her journey towards humanity (in contrast to Odysseus, who's becoming a monster) This isn't a nitpick anymore. I feel so relieved.

Source :

Towards the 19min mark