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Sharing my favorite parts of the Vengeance Saga from EPIC: The Musical because it just released and it was so good, the reasons of why these parts are my favorites vary, some are here just because I like how they sound, others because they’re funny, but most are here because of the ✨emotional✨ effect they had.

Haven’t listened to EPIC yet? You should go do that now, it’s great, and if you watch the livestream version it’ll include art, animatics and animations all commissioned from different artists in the community, just saying because having the extra visuals is nice. Obviously you don’t HAVE to listen to this 2 hour musical ( it’s going to be a little over 2 hours after the last saga comes out- but right now it’s 2 hours long ) but I definitely suggest giving it a chance.

( !Violence warning for the last part! Nothing is too graphically described but better safe than sorry! )

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—Odysseus—

Calypso-

—Calypso—

Let me speak!

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—Calypso—

For once, I wish you would lie and say-

—Odysseus—

-I love you

—Calypso—

…You do?

—Odysseus—

But not in the way you want me to

*literally just turns around and starts walking away*

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—Odysseus—

Six hundred men.

Six hundred deaths under my command.

‘Cause I had one goal in mind…

*dead silence for a few seconds*

( This one doesn’t really make sense if you haven’t heard the rest of the musical lmao )

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—Odysseus—

If your plan’s so great, then why’d you wait to say it?

—Hermes—

…

WELL IT’S A LITTLE BIT ✨DANGEROUS✨, MY FRIEND-

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—Odysseus—

Don’t you know that danger is my friend?

My whole life I have trained for this,

I cannot tell you how much I have paid for this!

I have to get home, put it all-all on the line!

I’m gonna use ruthlessness,

every trick every skill put to use for this!

I plan to put an end to all the foolishness.

I have to get home, put it all-all on the line!

I’ll be dangerous!

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—Odysseus—

Hermes, thank you

—Hermes—

Don’t thank me friend, I’m not the one who fought for you

—Odysseus—

Then who?

—Hermes—

*small giggle*

Good luck~

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—Odysseus—

There, I see it

The island I’ve been searching for!

Home, I’ve reached it

My wife and son are past these shores

Holding on,

I am almost there, my love don’t be scared

Hold on,

I am on my way, I’ll be there today!

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—Odysseus—

What…?

…No-

NOOOO!!!

( it looks goofy in writing but I swear it was a really good song transition guys )

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—Odysseus—

Aren’t you tired, Poseidon?

It’s been ten years, how long will this go?

We’re both hurting from losses,

so why not leave this here, and just go home?

—Poseidon—

…I can’t

—Odysseus—

Maybe you could learn to forgive…

—Poseidon—

…No.

RUTHLESSNESS IS…

MERCY UPON…

OURSELVES!

DIE!!

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—Polites—

You can relax my friend

I can tell you’re getting nervous

—Eurylochus—

Look at all we’ve lost and all we’ve learned

—Anticlea—

I’ll stay in your heart

—Crew—

Oh-woah-oh-oh, Odysseus!

—Polites/Eurylochus/Anticlea/Crew—

Waiting!

Waiting!

Waiting!

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—Odysseus—

I don’t think you seem to get it!

I can’t afford to die!

‘Cause I WILL get back to my son!

And I WILL get back to my WIFE!!!

( bro sounds like he was taken straight from an anime battle here it’s great )

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—Odysseus—

For every comrade,

every one of my friends,

almost all of whom were slaughter by your hands!

SIX HUNDRED STRIKE!!!

( again, he sounds like he’s in an anime battle I love it )

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—Poseidon—

You idiot.

Can’t you see?

You sealed your fate…

just to beat me.

You released my storm

when you opened that bag.

Blocked your one way home!

Now you’ll never get back.

—Odysseus—

You’re going to call off that storm.

—Poseidon—

Or what? You can’t kill me.

—Odysseus—

Exactly.

*picks up Poseidon’s trident*

—Poseidon—

Wait…

WAIT!!

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon with the trident*

AURGH-

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

—Odysseus—

How does it feel to be HELPLESS!?

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon*

How does it feel to know PAIN!?

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

I watched my friends die in HORROR!

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon*

CRYING as they were all SLAIN!

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

I heard their final MOMENTS!

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon*

Calling their captain in vain!

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

LOOK WHAT YOU’VE TURNED ME INTO!!

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon*

Look what we’ve become!

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

—Poseidon—

Enough…

—Odysseus—

All of the pain that I’ve been through!

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon*

—Poseidon—

Stop!

—Odysseus—

Haven’t I SUFFERED enough!?

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

—Poseidon—

STOP!!!

—Odysseus—

You didn’t stop when I BEGGED you!

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon in the throat*

Told me to close my heart!

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

—Poseidon—

You…

—Odysseus—

You said the world was dark!

*Odysseus stabs Poseidon*

—Poseidon—

MONSTER!!!

—Odysseus—

*Odysseus pulls the trident back*

Didn’t you say that RUTHLESSNESS IS MERCY UPON OUR-

—Poseidon—

Alright!

Please…

*Odysseus drops the trident and starts walking away*

After everything you’ve done… how will you sleep at night?

—Odysseus—

Next to my wife.

( Poseidon was screaming or making other pained noises every time he was stabbed I just didn’t know how to write that down lmao- fun fact, this part was fully animated, mostly just silhouettes but still I was SHOCKED watching the livestream )

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Anyways, question for any Epic the musical fans who are seeing this, what was your favorite part of this saga ( or what’s your favorite out of the musical as a whole so far )

And if you haven’t listened to or watched this musical yet and you read all of this, let me know what your first reaction to this is, is it what you were expecting from a musical based on the odyssey or not lmao

Enjoy this doodle I made recreating what’s going to happen when Odysseus finally starts getting close to Ithaca

Polites better show up in this saga he’s been haunting the narrative far too long to stop now

Anyways I’m so excited- songs for both Poseidon AND Hermes???

If you haven’t you should totally go listen to EPIC: The Musical, it’s awesome and at least one song will be stuck in your head for awhile ( Fun fact, this musical is where the “but when does a man become a monster” audio comes from )

It’s based on the Odyssey but has some original takes on certain things :D definitely recommend for Greek mythology fans or people who just like musicals that tell a story

The way I draw Macaque slightly changed again believe me I wish I was consistent with my art lmao

Bonus little messy doodle of the season 3 villains that I did when I wanted to draw but didn’t feel like putting effort in

You guys also get this pair of Red Son sketches because I think I posted one but not the other

Comments are greatly appreciated 👍

Anyone else here watch Agatha All Along yet because it’s pretty good- definitely one of the best things marvel has made in the last few years and I absolutely recommend watching it if you haven’t

I think it’s nice that you don’t really need to know a ton about other marvel stuff to understand what’s happening- a few parts might be confusing if you didn’t watch Wandavision but not terribly so

All the characters are great, fun occasional horror elements and a pretty good story- also, canonically gay witches

Anyways yeah really good show if anyone here has seen it can we talk about it because I’m not okay after episode 7 /hj

In my defense, I had a stupid idea, and you can blame Dark for said stupid idea, you can also blame Dark for saying I should post it /j

Anyways happy Ace week

The power of ace week was strong enough to do what I thought was impossible, get me to finish something /j

There’s definitely some things I don’t like about this drawing/things I think I could’ve done better with but honestly I’m just proud I finished something past the sketch

Feedback is always appreciated and happy ace week!

It’s Ace week wooooo

Little Macaque sketch for the occasion ( because I headcanon him as ace )

I may finish this we’ll see

Feedback is greatly appreciated 👍

I stg the design changes every time I draw him