#Open arms

[randomhuman45]

Polites: Great the world with open arms

Circe: Maybe showing one act of kindness, leads to kinder souls down the road

Prophet: I see a man with your wife

Odysseus: Omg! We need to get home NOW, kill ANYONE in our path! I'll kill another infant if I have to!

Prophet: He knows it's him right? It's him.... with his own wife. He knows right??? Right???

Eurylochus: Let him have this, he needs it.

[finemeal]

Got sent an image in my head about something that would be tragic.

In WolfyTheWitch’s animatics, Polites wears a bandana on his head and then he ... ya know. So now I have this image that every time Odysseus embraces Polites' "Open Arms" ideology, he looks down at the bandana of his friend (at this point he's wrapped it around his wrist/arm as a reminder to remember them, prolly during ... Remember Them)

Then? During "Monster" he tears off the bandana as a symbolic showing that he will be embracing the "Ruthlessness is Mercy" ideology instead of "Open Arms" ideology he's been trying to hold onto

[sayruq]

There are thousands of trucks waiting at the Egyptian border

[i-live-in-your-vents]

So, as I was listening to the Underworld saga today again (specifically Monster) I realized something. In Monster there is an instrument that sounds a lot like the one used to show that Polites is there/singing (I specifically kept checking Open Arms, since it has the most Polites) it just sounds… more somber, a sad resignation. Where the ones in Open Arms sound lively and full of joy the ones in Monster just sound tired and defeated. I checked to make sure it wasn’t a Poseidon thing, what with him embracing Ruthlessness, and it’s not.

Now, this might be completely wrong, they might not even be the same instrument, I’m no musician, but with how much of a genius Jorge is, I wouldn’t put it past him.

All I can imagine now is Polites watching Odysseus through Monster, begging him to reconsider, to greet the world with open arms, only to realize that Odysseus can’t hear him over the sounds of his own grief and anger. Even if he could hear him, he wouldn’t listen to him. He throws away Polites’ ideology, throws away the part of himself that believed in Polites’ ideology, and all he can do is watch. Watch as his best friend abandons kindness and embraces ruthlessness, watch as he turns himself into a monster, watch as he leaves him in the Underworld, forever changed. The Odysseus he knew, the Odysseus he grew up with (if we’re going by Let Me Be Your Light) is gone. Dead. And all he could do is watch.

[too-much-flynnolium]

[epicthemusicalstuff]

Best Troy Saga Song

Remember them has won in the best Cyclops Saga Song, and so now we move onto the Troy saga! The best song from this saga will move on to the final round, where it will face off against No Longer You, Wouldn’t You Like, Ruthlessness, and Remember them!

[shani-adar]

Growing up is realizing that if a story refers to two ancient Greek men as "good friends" it usually means they hooked up.

[reallydifferentcaptain]

Monster's orchestration is the inverted minor version of Open Arms. Odysseus is undoing what Polites taught him. 🥲

[sluggoonthestreet]

Nadine embraces life on the edge

[morgannotlefay]

Reminder to check up on your friends who said their favorite song from the Troy Saga was “Open Arms”

Just see how they’re holdin’ up, ya know, with the new release and all.

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Maybe they need a tissue or two...or six hundred

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[usuallyobsessedtmblr]

Polites is so dead wife core

[enviousidiot]

Put my Epic playlist on shuffle and that mf played Open Arms, Survive, then The Underworld in order. I am devastated.

[twomanyfandomshelp]

If you haven’t listened to the Underworld Saga yet, here’s your spoiler warning.

@thekingofworems @jarondont @aaronofithaca05 @nyx-of-darkness-1620 did y’all get a chance to listen yet? I need people to talk about this with!

Apologies in advance for all the capslock you’re about to see.

Y’ALL

I CAN’T

MR. JORGE, MR. JALAPEÑO

WHY MUST YOU BREAK MY HEART LIKE THIS

THE UNDERWORLD

POLITES?!?! THE EMOTION IN ODYSSEUS’ VOICE WHEN HE HEARD POLITES?!?! QUIETLY SAYING HIS NAME AS THEY SAIL AWAY LIKE HE’S APOLOGIZING?!?!?! DJFNSISYDJSUDB

ODYSSEUS’ MOM?!?!?! I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT!!!! “Even if you’re the last thing I see I’ll be waiting” “I’m right here mom, can’t you see me?” OH MY FUCKING GOD SIR!!!! JORGE!!!! “I took too long and ventured too far” SIR MY HEART IS BREAKING!!!! “I’ll always love you, I’ll stay in your heart” SIR YOU’RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE!!!! THE SOFT LITTLE “bye mom” AS THEY SAILED AWAY?!?! FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY JORGE JUST BELTING HIS HEART OUT?!?! *HIGH PITCHED SCREAMING* ALSO, THE NAMES LISTED ON THE SONG INCLUDE WANDA HERRANS, ARE YOU TELLING ME JORGE’S MOM VOICES ODYSSEUS’ MOM?!

NO LONGER YOU

MASON OLSHAVSKY’S VOICE IS SO GOOD!!THIS WHOLE SONG IS PERFECTION!! “This can’t be, we’ve suffered and sailed through the toughest of hells, now you tell us our efforts for nothing” EXCUSE ME MR. HERRANS WHAT THE HECK! “I see your palace covered in red, faces of men who had long believed you dead, I see your wife with a man who is haunting, and man with a trail of bodies” THE FORESHADOWING?! THE WAY ODYSSEUS REACTED WHEN TIRESIAS SAID HE SAW PENELOPE WITH A MAN WITH A LINE OF BODIES?! HIS OUTRAGED “WHO!!!”SIR?!?!?!?! THAT’S YOU MY GUY!!! YOU’RE THE HAUNTING GUY WITH A TRAIL OF BODIES!!!

MONSTER

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SONG SINCE I HEARD THE FIRST SNIPPET AND IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT!!! OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL I HAVE NO WORDS!!! THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE EPIC SONG!!! I kinda knew that was gonna happen but shh 🤫

I’m not gonna talk about this song because if I do it will end up being an essay. Might make a separate post about it though.

I WILL BE LISTENING TO THIS SAGA ON REPEAT ALL DAY AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!!

[carolinediaries]

thank you for the tag @cursemyexistences !! ❤︎

here are 5 songs i've recently had on repeat :

Open Arms - SZA

Linger - The Cranberries

Tumblr Girls - GEazy

Christmas Waltz - Laufey

INC. - Dori Valentine

tagging ~ @tyin-cherry-knots @urfriendash @gazestrz @zooxanthellae @coffeesigh sorry, i don't have very many moots yet! 😣

[socialbutterfly19]

Such a great night… seeing journey was on my bucket list. Mark it off. Loved it!!!