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Odysseus: WHO?!?!?!

Tiresias, just vibing: I see a song of past romance~

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made this in a haze

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Captain. Save me captain. Captain save me. Your music is ruining my mental state. Captain.

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greek mythology musicals my beloved

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Ever seen someone lipsync an entire song underwater?

Edit: I should have added more context. This is Rose the Mermaid performing at Blue Zoo Aquariums.

The song is from Morgan Clae, who is just as beautifully intense out of the water as Rose is in it. She's performing a part for Epic: The Musical, which is about Odysseus.

Jorge Rivera-Harrans has been crowdsourcing the cast for a while now by asking them to sing along to the backing tracks. Wild way to audition; hundreds of people will see you regardless.

The song involving Athena was also pretty popular a while back, so it's been pretty fun.

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You want me to introduce myself? The thing that almost killed Odysseus?

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I keep thinking about how Eurylochus does not appear (at least not with any solo lines) in the Underworld Saga. At the start of the Circe Saga, Eurylochus was about to confess something to Odysseus, but because Odysseus is distracted and brushes Eurylochus aside, we never get to see what it is that Eurylochus meant to say. We have also seen Eurylochus defy Odysseus twice now; first when he questions Odysseus before they go to the island of the wind god (this is more doubt than defiance, but it is the start of Eurylochus's departure), and secondly, when Eurylochus says "No we don't!" and chides Odysseus for wanting to go back and rescue the men Circe has cursed. So, we know that Eurylochus has been doubting Odysseus's ability to lead them home to safety more and more since Odysseus's departure from Athena.

(Notably, Eurylochus does not question Odysseus throughout the first two sagas, even during the attack with Polyphemus. He only begins to question Odysseus after "My Goodbye".)

The events in the Underworld in both the Odyssey, and from what we know about Act II from the lyrics we have so far, so this lack of lines becomes particularly chilling. Song IV in Act II, "Mutiny", details Eurylochus's turning away from Odysseus and taking a stand against him as Captain. Eurylochus blames the deaths of their men on Odysseus; on his cowardice, his mercy, and on Odysseus's selfish obsession with getting himself home over the lives of his crew.

In the lyrics we have from "Mutiny", Eurylochus says this to Odysseus:

"When we fought the cyclops,

you were quick to hatch a plan

And when we fought with Circe,

it was you who left behind no man

But when we saw this monster,

we didn't take a stand

We just ran"

"You miss your wife so bad,

you'd trade the lives of your own crew"

"If you want all the power you must carry all the blame!"

These are interesting to me, because when they cross through the Underworld in the Odyssey, Odysseus makes two deliberate choices that endanger the crew in order to save more lives than he would have lost if he did not. Circe and Tiresias give him two bits of advice in this area;

Do not touch the cattle of Helios. They are sacred to the Sun god, and the crew will pay dearly for touching the cattle (Tiresias).

Cross closer to Scylla when they pass her and her sister Charybdis in a strait in the Underworld. Both of them are monstrous creatures that sit on either side of the river; if you stray too far from one, you are pushed into the arms of the other. Circe advices to pass by Scylla because she will kill "only six" men, whereas Charybdis will kill the entire crew and drown the ship.

In The Odyssey, Eurylochus disobeys command number one by persuading some of the starving and mutinous crew to kill and eat a few of the cattle. This leads to Eurylochus and the remainder of the crew - except for Odysseus - to be killed in a storm by Zeus. Their ship is also destroyed, and Odysseus is stranded on Calypso's island.

Now, in context of all of this, Eurylochus's silence in The Underworld Saga is extremely loud to me. Eurylochus is already doubting his devotion to Odysseus, and has already outright challenged Odysseus's actions that lead to the deaths of their men. So now, when the souls of those same men are confronting Odysseus in the Underworld and Odysseus is actively choosing to become a monster? Eurylochus is suddenly silent.

I can only picture him standing on the deck of their ship with the rest of the crew, watching Odysseus see their crew, see the prophet, and be turned more by the threat of another man with his wife than the crews' sacrifice. Odysseus is more disturbed by his wife's (theoretical) moving on than he is the deaths he has caused, and he actively states he is willing and going to become a monster.

Maybe Eurylochus says nothing because he already saw a monster standing where Odysseus stood.

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I’m like, personally offended that achilles wasnt in the underworld saga at all. the conversation he has with odysseus is really fun.

this segment from the odyssey is really cool, this is the first thing Achilles says to Odysseus in the underworld. He characterizes Odysseus by his wits, and simultaneously refers to him as “Incorrigible”.

from here

Achilles and Odysseus are parallels. Achilles knew from the beginning he was never going to return home, and Odysseus’s journey home is literally Fucking Cursed to be deadly and dangerous. They are the mortal parallels to Ares and Athena, Wrath and Strategy. They are one in the same, and all too different.

here is another screenshot from that website describing odysseus and achilles’ conversation.

Yeah i just really like them.

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Epic: The Dog

Totally not wondering if they'll include the bit with the dog in the Ithaca Saga.

You know, Odysseus finally making it home, passes through the gates of his palace in disguise, yet his faithful dog Argos recognizes him because he's a good pupper.

Yet almost immediately after seeing him, Argos dies of old age because he was such a good pupper that he waited twenty years for his master to come home and not minute more.

Ithaca Saga...don't do this. The fans won't survive.

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odysseus: i keep thinking of the infant from that night

polites: that's so sad alexa play open arms

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The Underworld

Monster

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Rough design for Tiresias

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*percy coming out of the bathroom in a towel, grinning, with a freshly shaved mustache*

percy: what do you think? i’m gonna be a firefighter, should i look the part too?

annabeth (sitting in their bed): you know… i actually kinda dig it

percy: *stops smiling*

percy: what?

annabeth: i usually hate mustaches, but you actually pull it off, seaweed brain

percy: wise girl, this looks ridiculous. i’m not keeping it. i was joking

annabeth: well i’m not! and why are you shaving your beard in the first place?

percy: the fire department said i have to shave off the facial hair

annabeth: *makes sad face*

percy: really? you have no issues with me running into burning buildings, but the beard being shaved is where you draw the line?

annabeth: i like the stubble

percy: oh i know you do, but it’s gotta go. plus, don’t you think it makes me look way too much like my dad?

annabeth: posedion is a very handsome god

percy:

annabeth: *starts giggling*

percy: i can’t even look at you right now

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Sally names Percy for the happy ending she hopes he’ll get. she spends hours researching demigods and their ends. Heracles, poisoned and given immortality as a leash. Bellerophon, revered for his deeds and killed for his hubris. Achilles, feared by all yet slain in battle. none of those would be her boy. She names him Perseus, for his successes and his long life, and she hopes it will help protect him, this name.

Percy is thirteen, recently returned from his first week at Camp, when Sally calls him by his full name. what had caused it, she can't remember. all she can remember is her strict, "Perseus Jackson––" and her son's poorly hidden, full-bodied flinch.

Sally knew––gods, she knew––that he would face hardships. she knew he would have to learn to fight, to protect himself, to kill––but that knowledge hadn't been enough to dim her hope. it was that flinch, that fear that he'd quickly cleared from his eyes at hearing his own name, that started to eat away at her hope like rot.

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