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• Pearl, Titled Aeolus, the whimsical Ruler of the Winds: As friendly as she is to visitors, she does have a rather hard time resisting causing some trouble now and then.

• Fwhip, the unpredictable Messenger God of travel, luck, & speed: He's considered unpredictable at best and borderline maniacal at worst. He falls far past the line of a "trouble-maker" but can't help himself in becoming a close companion of Sausage's (at least, as "close" as the Gods can be considered).

• Gemini, the dangerous & protective Goddess & Sorceress: She's shrouded in warnings of her power & her silver-tongue. While stories will call her a "Witch" or "Temptress," she considers herself a guardian who who will do whatever it takes to protect the one's she loves.

•[Gods of "The God Games"]•

-> when they're properly & fully revealed in the musical, I'll be able to give proper descriptions/character to them all. These are more-or-less base concepts of them <-

• Oli, the God of the Sun, music, & archery

• Pixl, the God of the Forge, fire, & craft

• Lady Katherine, the righteous Goddess of Love, beauty, & war

• Shrub, the combative God of War & bravery

• Joey, the spiteful God of marriage & family

Round 2 of the characters complied!

I look forward to fleshing out some of these characters more as they're revealed but, as of now, these are gonna be the concepts for The God.

While it doesn't fully effect how the characters are going to be portrayed, I'm more than open to getting information or stories on the Greek Gods equivalents of these characters.

I'm not fully versed in the stories & representations of the Gods aside from some Google searches now and the. I also love learning mythology and all that comes with it so. Feel free lmao.

I do believe there will be One more character post after this before i start working on penning & story-line art.

In the meantime, feel free to continue asking whatever your hearts desire.

Do enjoy your time here.

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Good news and bad news

Good news is I'm gonna post pt. 2 of the Epic Au's characters tomorrow.

Bad news is I think I hate Sausages design again smh smh

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My inability to draw symmetrical eyes will, in fact, be the death of me

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𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅, 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅

𝑨𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒌𝒚

𝑨𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒌.

𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 �� 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂

𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 & 𝒅𝒂𝒚'𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒑

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Inktober Day 23: Celestial

This one got ahead of me but I adore it so much.

I can't wait until I'm free from the shackles of Inktober you've no idea the content I have for you

[I'll still procrastinate it lmao]

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hi it's me the kuervo lore anon back back again with a WALL OF TEXT and also pirates spoilers but those are pretty obvious.

starting with his Tragic Backstory™ everything about him makes so much more sense when you realize he's just shadow the hedgehog spanish dub. ie raised as the specialest child soldier ever, idolized older sibling got killed by the government, now he's on an epic bloody revenge quest and there's these blue guys trying to teach him about the power of friendship but he doesn't care. said revenge quest is also where he lost his eye btw, and his eyepatch and rings are sort of fucked up trophies.

his self image is Messed Up bc of all that. he hypes himself up in his mind like he's some amazing folk hero (in-universe he literally calls chat his "adoring fans". which. ya got me.) and then you realize that's absolutely a front so he doesn't have to think about the murders. he's paranoid as fuck about the other pirates finding out his whole deal but such a horrible liar that he seriously considers yet another murder. but he's just a silly little guy he's done nothing wrong ever in his life why would you even think about him like that.

characterization wise kuervo's got a strong sense of justice which got him in this mess in the first place. he's quick to jump to insults or casual threats and even quicker to just laugh it off (ignore the sword it's just a joke bro!!). he's not super vain but definitely cares about his appearance. there's a very good chance all that eyeliner hides some impressive eyebags. he doesn't talk much but hangs around on the edge of conversations listening to gossip like he's at the movies with a metaphorical bucket of popcorn. he's an insanely good shot but refuses to touch guns (except in life or death situations) to the point of getting jumpy when other pirates pull guns for whatever reasons. he's the type of guy to keep a knife under his pillow (that isn't canon but it's close enough). despite being in the murder faction he doesn't take bounties (one of his only trips to the bounty guild ended with eret killing a guy and getting exiled bc of his bad advice). there's actually so few kites toward the end of the server that he just hangs out with the nightingales despite calling them a bunch of losers once.

one time he crashed bek's ship on a deserted island. he's the only pirate to get away with swearing in front of owen bc he does it in spanish. he's made peace with the fact his epic revenge quest's probably going to end with him dead, but he refuses to die on any other terms than his own. he's lonely as hell but he keeps everybody at arm's length bc he knows he'll have to leave someday soon. he got kidnapped once and immediately resorted to talking to a bunch of fish. he's even aroace

Obsessed actually.

I'm. Honestly pretty hyped that I got the right vibe around him and I'm even more hyped to be able to read about him.

If there's more solid-stuff about Kuervo's background, I'd love to hear. Unless it's like. Purposely a bit shrouded I just loved reading all this.

I'm probably gonna re-read this about 20 times honestly. Thank you for the Lore Dump, I'll be eating it all promptly

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uhh hi i was just passing through the pirates smp tag and your au caught my eye? it looks sick however! i know you don't know much about kuervo's character but to me he's one of The Guys Ever. i would absolutely love to infodump to you if you're interested

I'd honestly love you to infodump about him to me.

Maybe I'd get a more accurate read on his character asides from my own interpretations and headcanons lol.

Go for it, id love to know more about he :>!!

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Captian Sausage and his two most trusted crewmates, Krow & Will. Sure hope nothing tragic happens to this close trio

The Regent Monarch Joel & his son, Hermes. 10 years into waiting for Sausage to return, they hold steady on the Isles, rebuilding and keeping steady.

Two of our biggest gods of the story, Aeor & Exor. Aeor, the cold & powerful. The one that will see things through the way he sees fit. Exor, the strategic & brutal. The one to hold their Champion close but will not hesitate to put one in their place.

The "Cyclopes" Codfather Jimmy & the Goddess Ocean Queen Lizzie. After an attack of desperation causing a tidal wave of a ripple effect, the Ocean Queen is unhesitant to show careless "travelers" just how ruthless she can be.

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Here we have our first round of characters. Some of the most or first shown, here and ready for whatever totally not-tragic tale awaits them.

The next round will be gods-focused (unfortunately Pearl didn't make it in this post but she'll be here promise).

I can't wait to post the penning, it's going well & looks loads cleaner

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Boy howdy do I love when I spend 30 minutes setting up a post only for it to yeet itself out of existence

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Hello hello!! Absolutely pumped for the Myth’s Voyage AU :DD!!

What made you pick certain characters for certain roles? I’m particularly interested by Owen as Antinous 👀👀

Bare with me this is gonna be a doozy

I'll be honest. It all started with me being real emotionally attached to p!Will & me falling down a rabbit hole of associating the song "Open Arms" with him because- even if I'm not fully read on p!Will's story & character- the way I've come to view him is a relatively forgiving and optimistic type of person. So him as Polities came natually.

I also have a frequent habit of doing a thing where when I associate one character to one song/character of a musical, I start to try and figure if there's way to fit in other characters.

I believe what came next was Sausage and if I recall correctly, that was due to 1. Me just liking Sausage all together and 2. Me seeing him as the most "Captian-Like" guy in pirates. Also revolving around headcanons, others' interpretations, and maybe an artist or two's ways of drawing him. After that, Joel & Hermes as Penelope and Telemachus came pretty easy. I've also played around with previous ideas of "What if Joel was in Pirates SMP" and added in my constant Empires Brainrot ™️, that all just fell into place.

I believe Lizzie was my first established God cos. Giant fish/ocean associated person, yk. And then Jimmy as Polyphemus due to fishy relations and then I think Fwhip was actually my next one due to the "silly & unhinged" vibes I got from Epic Hermes. Then with a lot more stubborn brain storming, more and more gods fell into place as I started following an Empires Season 1 pattern with the Gods

Krow was also a fun one to workshop in cos I also don't know much about his Canon character but what I do know & just the fascination I've gotten with him, I thought he fit the role of Eurylochus pretty well. Mostly on the side of more of a survivor when it comes down to a "You vs Me" mentality & leaning more on aggressive tactics when it comes to handling certain situations. He is one of the ones I'm certain doesn't fall into complete Canon-type of personality, but I like how my au's Krow is a lot.

Now. The fun situation with the suitors and Ithica in general.

I can explain a bit further if anyone's interested, but the way my storyline worked out is that there's actually no Herons that are part of Sausage's crew in the story. They're either still on the Faction Isles or traveling elsewhere. Having said that, when I came around to figuring out Antinous, it was right when I was finding out very bare-bones about him. And given that the Heron characters will ideally be characters shown on "Ithica" I was working to see if anyone would fit that roll.

Having said that, Antinous was noted down in my "Working-Out" list with the note of "Mr. Steal your wife and kill your son" and while discussing my character plans with my partner, we started to joke about Antinous being Owen. Given her more player-esque personality, at the time I figured it'd be a decent fit- or at least a place holder- for a character who I started to think was just someone wanting to court "Penelope".

However, thinking more on it & finding out better how Antinous plays in this story, I started getting more invested in the idea of Owen still being him. The idea of Owen becoming a villain, manipulative with his charm and almost vindictive in her motives just started to appeal more and more to me.

When this takes place, it's 20 years since the rough-end of Pirates SMP, following Epic the Musical's timeline. A lot can change in a person in 20 years. Seeing the Factions fall, loves in your life die or disappear, people coming into power that you feel either don't deserve it or are strangers who don't understand all that's happened here or you feel are too weak irresponsible to handle it. It can grate on a person, certainly.

P!Owen is, once again, another character I'm unfortunately not fully familiar with, though that may change if i have a chance to watch his pov in the future. And who knows, maybe I'll workshop the story, change e!Owen's personality or motives, maybe even choose someone else entirely to fit the role.

But as it stands, the idea of e!Owen, 20 years in the future with heavens knows how much baggage and pent up anger and frustrations left on his shoulders starting to get desperate or almost hungry even for some sort of control or power or just even a sense of stability in her life just seems to be a very interesting & fun-to-work-with storyline to me.

Thinking about seeing Owen getting aggressive and animalistic and breaking that carefully-crafted facade of charm and control when it comes to fighting and trying to kill someone just. It's so interesting and fascinating in my mind, you've no idea.

And, again, I'm awfully weak to villain Owen nonesense so that certainly doesn't help.

There you have it. My essay & a half summary over some of my reasonings.

Again, things are always subject to change and sometimes I get a little Silly with my trains of thoughts but, hey, it'll be fun either way. If you're interested in me trying to explain my through process for more characters, feel free to ask, I just figured I'd keep this as short as i can physically manage. If it comes off as a bit rambling or you want me to clear anything up, you're always welcome to ask. It's technically super late for me so my writing compression might be a bit off.

Tl;Dr, I zone out to music and play "Song Association Games" too much & Owen as Antinous started off as a silly joke but now it's eating my brain whole so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Some quick, probably important notes for how I'm going about the Voyage AU btw:

• it's relatively loose on the Pirates SMP Canon

-> my knowledge of Pirates comes mostly from what I've been able to gather from Tumblr posts and whatever Scott & Apokuna have on YouTube so. It's not perfect by any means

• I'm going to be testing out new posting style in that I'm not going to be fully coloring in order to post.

-> I'll be posting both the Sketches & Penning of whatever I make and maybe some coloring but focusing on the first two will let me post more often so. Fun.

• Character Designs are up to change; the concepts will be posted soon but they may chance as I continue

• Characters from Sagas of Epic that have not been released are up to change technically. As its currently listed, they'll probably stay, but if i find characters that fit the roles better, then things will change.

I think that's all for now, just figured I'd have a couple of added notes in place.

I'm hoping to post some of the characters tomorrow. See ya.

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Alrighty everyone so here's what's going to be my "Master Post" for my new brainroting AU.

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Welcome to "A Myth's Voyage AU"

Essentially this is a Pirates SMP & Empires SMP x Epic The Musical AU. It follows a loose Canon of Pirates, the storyline of Epic, and nonesense and shenanigans thrown into the mix.

~•~•Behold our lovely Cast & Crew•~•~

『•Fully Established/Solidified•』

• Sausage Mythos as Odysseus 「#Odysseus!Sausage」

• Joel Beans as Penelope 「#Penelope!Joel」

• Hermes Mythos-Beans as Telemachus 「#Telemachus!Hermes」

• Will Renais as Polites 「#Polites!Will」

• Kuervo Fang as Eurylochus 「#Eurylochus!Kuervo」

• Kyle Eef as Permides 「#Permides!Kyle」

• Red D. Doons as Elpenor 「#Elpenor!Redd」

• Aeor as Zeus 「#Zeus!Aeor」

• Exor as Athena 「#Athena!Exor」

• Codfather Jimmy as Polyphemus 「#Polyphemus!Jimmy」

• Ocean Queen Lizzie as Poseidon 「#Poseidon!Lizzie」

• Pearl Moon as Aeolus 「#Aeolus!Pearl」

• Fwhip Grim as Hermes 「#Hermes!Fwhip」

• Gemini Tay Grim as Circe 「#Circe!Gem」

『•Likely Established/Not Featured Yet•』

• Acho Denholm as Tiresias 「#Tiresias!Acho」

• Oli Orion as Apollo 「#Apollo!Oli」

• Pixlriffs as Hephaestus 「#Hephaestus!Pix」

• Katherine Elizabeth as Aphrodite 「#Aphrodite!Katherine」

• Shrub Berry as Ares 「#Ares!Shrub」

• Joey Graceffa as Hera 「#Hera!Joey」

• Scott Major as Calypso 「#Calypso!Scott」

• Owen Orange as Antinous 「#Antinous!Owen」

〔Relevant Tags〕

• #AMyth'sVoyageAU -> Main tag for the AU

• #VoyageQueries -> Tag for questions about the AU

• #VoyageTapestries -> Tag for art related to the AU

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I'm not sure what all should be included here honestly but I can add on as we go.

Some names may end up being placeholders if I think of something better but this is what we're working with right now.

My ask box is always open for those who have curiosities or perhaps scene requests

/nudgenudge/

Enjoy your time & enjoy the story

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I just want to say I frikin LOVE your art style and I may or may not have gone through your art tag… <3

Oh my gosh?? Thank you so much I'm super hyped to hear you like my art ^♡^

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I can't believe my silly au is being the reason I draw Oli TheOrionSound for the first time smh smh

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I might call it "A Myth's Voyage AU"

Just for that extra spice yk?

I'll sleep on it.

Hey chat, how would you guys feel about an Empires SMP/Pirates SMP x Epic the Musical combined AU thing that I'm making?

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The bane of my existence is ever hitting "Unfollow/Unsubscribe" to someone and having to re-follow like

That's so embarrassing

GoSH

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Hey chat, how would you guys feel about an Empires SMP/Pirates SMP x Epic the Musical combined AU thing that I'm making?