#you killed my sheep :(

[the-mori-arty]

Epictober Day 6: Polyphemus

“You killed my sheep… my favorite sheep…”

HOW IRONIC I FINISHED THIS JUST AS JORGE RELEASED THE VENGEANCE SAGA TRAILER

If anyone is curious, I wanted to make sure my epic monsters actually looked… well… monstruous. I didnt want to do the tradicional cyclop: big man with one eye. I wanted something animalistic, and being Polyphemus a son of Poseidon I thought “why not a marine animal?”

And then it hit me: SEA TURTLES. Big sea turtle with cyclopy (common in turtles actually). Hell yeah.

[sibmakesart]

do you have polyphemus from epic :the musical on repeat in your head or are you normal

[darkheart1018]

What I like most about Polythemus' song is how much it tells you about Poseidon's philosophy during his song. Especially considering the cyclops are children of Poseidon.

Polythemus wanted to kill Odysseus and his crew not only because they killed his favorite sheep, but also so that his pain could be over.

Polythemus is ruthless to have mercy upon himself. To avenge his good sheep and to end his own pain.

If Odysseus would have met him in kind no one would have blamed him. Polythemus probably would have preferred to die as well then be left disabled the rest of his life.

So you can see Poseidon's view point showing through long before Ruthlessness.

[sorchasolas]

Szeth having a Polyphemus moment in his flash backs

[hehearse]

a shepherd dog comforted by his sheep

[howlsnteeth]

and are you really okay? are you really okay?

[grave-ghost-account]

for those in the comments pointing out how big i drew the one who waits, love you all here's more

[itriedwritingandhereiam]

I have beef with Odyseus because what do you mean you're smart enough to escape a God's wrath but you can't fucking keep your trap shut.

Half his problems wouldn't exist if he hadn't given Polyphemus is name and address like bro, ever heard of stranger danger?

[churmandurr]

no im NOT crying about some dumb guy in a musical that doesn't even exist!!!! they were literally best friends and he got his best friend in his war and then inadvertently got him killed by being a dumbass and now the best friend haunts the whole fucking narrative!!!!!

[raayllum]

He has nightmares, afterwards.

Callum has always been a night owl, staying up too late in his office, and he'd been better at actually going to sleep on purpose once Rayla had come back, uncertainly settling in Ezran's old room across the way, but...

He wakes her up one night crying and sticks to the cot in the high mage study after that, neck damp from chilled sweat as he stares at where the mirror used to sit. She doesn't need this, and he knows if he tells her about the dreams, he'll have to tell her why they're happening, and how much she'll blame herself right when she was starting to get better, and—

Half the nightmares are about being possessed again, the snakes from Finnegrin's office ensnaring his wrists and hissing in his ears. Biting his neck with sharp pointy fangs and injecting poison in his blood. Turning him to nothing more than Aaravos' puppet all over again, but by his own hand.

You knew the risk you were taking, Aaravos' voice mocks, cold and deep, his upper lip curling in a sneer. The irony isn't lost on either of them. By setting yourself free.

The worst of those dreams is a carousel of his loved ones — Soren, Ezran, Rayla — strangled, bloody, him helpless to stop it, to stop any of it, the primal stone like prison smashed at his feet, the glassy shards piercing his eyes. He's played right into Aaravos' hands and lost everything, and—

The other half — the worst better half is when Aaravos doesn't need to possess him to get what he wants. There's the same fear, the violence, the same pool of blood collecting at his knees, the same result — Aaravos, out — and yet...

If you want her to live, little mage, you'll do as I tell you.

When he wakes up from those dreams, it's still with a cold sweat, but with a steadier heart. And he hates it — hates how it reminds him of all the parts of himself he doesn't want, the parts of himself that he doesn't like, that scare him. How could he possibly be that selfish? And yet, he knows... he knows—

The tides are true as the ocean is deep.

The ocean arcanum thrums alongside the beating of his heart. He wakes and looks towards the window Rayla had climbed through, haloed in light, and him unaware of the dark creature he'd found in the mirror. He swallows hard.

He knows which nightmares he'd choose to have come true, his fingers folding over his knees.

I would do anything for you.

He knows exactly what he'd choose, because at least he'd still have her.

And the worst part of it all is that he knows, somehow, in his bones, that Aaravos knows it too. Has known it for much longer than Callum has, anyway.

It's almost what scares him the most.

"Your bedhead's getting worse," Rayla says cheerily at breakfast, combing her fingers through it, a butter knife clasped in her other hand.

That's the best response I could think of to your stupid request. I'm not going to kill you!

Almost.

[ask-zedaph]

[Cub sneaks up behind you without making a sound]

Hey Zed, you got a moment? I need some help with the moss experiments.

-@ask-cubfan

*Zed shrieks and drops a Petri dish*

AAAaAaaAaAaAaAaAaAaA

Oh hi Cub! Ya I got time now that that’s broken!

*Zed points at the broken Petri dish and some thing definitely alive slithers out*

That was the third one I lost…..

[sol-thorne]

A trade, you see

Take from you like you took from me.

I cannot begin to explain the absolute CHOKEHOLD Epic: the Musical has on me. Had it on repeat for weeks. Know all the lyrics by heart. Obsessing over songs that aren't even released yet. Save me.

The urge to draw fanart has become impossible to suppress, so here we go. And be warned: there will be more.

[sysig]

I have an idea for the requesttober, could you make Scriabin like an endermen? I feel that Scriabin would be an endermen if he were in Minecraft's world

Day 11 - No eye contact >:(

[restinslices]

Ody: Okay I know I killed your favorite sheep, but can you chill if I give you this wine?

Me if I was Polyphemus: DO I LOOK LIKE I WANT THAT FUNKY ASS WINE?!

[charlottedabookworm]

i think as a fandom we tend to assume that if ody had chosen differently in thunderbringer, the rest of the crew would have made it home just fine. and while i compeltely understand the urge of making them look penelope in the face and tell her her husband is dead lol i actually really don't think that's likely tbh

cos here's the thing. the crew, odys crew, helped to blind polythemos. it was ody's plan, definitely, but they all held the club, they all stabbed it deep, they all left him screaming. the crew escaped from poseidon when he tried to kill them. they killed the sun gods cows

when ody lived, the buck stopped with him. he was their captain and their king, the authority over them, and of course the gods anger was focused upon him (both for the things that were his fault (polythemos) adn the things that really weren't (the cows))

ody was their king when they maimed poseidons son, but the others were there, helping. ody was their captain when they escaped from poseidon and humilated him in the process, but euryloclus was the one who helped him close the wind bag and the rest of the crew escaped unharmed. ody was their leader when they killed helios' cows, but he wasn't the one strike the blow

do you really think poseidon would have let them live? truly?

poseidon waited for ten years for odysseus to come home so he could kill him to maintain his reputation

nah, the crew was never making it home, even if odysseus' guilt weighed heavier than his need to be with his family and he'd chosen his crew in thunderbringer

by zeus' lightning or poseidon's waves, they were never making it back to ithaca

[perdvivly]

Imagine you’re an Ithacan, after ten years in this miserable war, you’re finally heading home. Your best buddies who didn’t die in the war immediately go and get addicted to heroin and the king has you literally drag them back to the ship so you can get going again. And then pretty much immediately you stop at this big guy with one eye’s house and he starts fucking eating your remaining friends. Luckily your king has the good sense to lie to this guy about who you are, and thanks to him doing a “who’s on first” bit you somehow manage to get out with your skin in tact. And then *as you’re leaving* your king turns around and gives this guy his full name and address. And you’re like, “what the fuck?” But he *did* manage to get you out of there so you’re still pretty grateful.

And then you get back to going home and on your way the king decides to stop off at this wind Lord guy “Aeolus” house for a few days to get his bearings and recover from the massive shitstorm you just went through. And your king goes off into a secret room with this guy and comes back with a bag and you’re like “what’s in the bag?” And he’s all like “oh, it’s the wind. Yeah, we should just be able to head back now” and you’re pretty sure he’s lying because he’s got a bit of a reputation for it at this point and also you know how bags work, they do NOT contain all of the wind. And this guy keeps on bragging about how he’s the best in the world at lying and you think maybe it’s a bit of a compulsion for him at this point. But, whatever, you figure he’ll tell you in a couple of days.

And then you get back to going home again and the king doesn’t tell you what’s in the bag. And at this point you convince yourself it’s probably something really valuable and he’s lying about it so that he can keep it all for himself and like, fuck that noise. You just spent 10 years in a war for this guy, the least he could do is share some of his treasure with you. So just as you’re arriving back on the shores of Ithaca you decide to open the bag. And what’s inside? The fucking wind. And it blows you all the way back to Aeolus.

It be so mad.

(And then Aeolus decides not to help you out again because he heard about what you did to the big one eyed guy who *literally ate your fucking friends* and he’s decided that somehow you’re the asshole in that interaction)